Even if you are not fond of yourself at a given moment, you are the living embodiment of everything that is right with the world. Even when you feel like crap and have made bad choices and performed poorly and done things that you wish you hadn’t, you are holy - because you cannot help [...]

Posted on April 10th, 2008 by James
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Colors blind the eye.
Sounds deafen the ear.
Flavors numb the taste.
Thoughts weaken the mind.
Desires wither the heart. (Mitchell, chapter 12)
I have a bad habit of allowing books to enter my life. No, I don’t mean to suggest that books are bad - quite the opposite. But I have a tendency to collect them, to let them [...]

Posted on March 30th, 2008 by James
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One of the most pivotal personal productivity habits I have developed is the practice of keeping my email inbox empty.
Now, I’m certainly not claiming to have invented this - scads of people both swear by this technique and try to preach it to their email-hording colleagues, most of whom usually find the idea ludicrous.
But for [...]

Posted on February 12th, 2008 by James
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One of the most inspirational concepts I’ve ever encountered is found in the book The Renaissance Soul by Margaret Lobenstine. The book is aimed at people with “too many passions to pick just one,” and includes the metaphor of an ice cream shop with hundreds of different flavors. It would be terribly unsatisfying if the [...]

Posted on October 22nd, 2007 by James
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