Andy Dooley sends out some great art/messages that are meant to inspire you, or at least get you thinking. Last week, I got this message in my inbox, from his blog:
A blueberry muffin is something that I don’t ever buy or eat. Even
though I think they are yummy, the sugar is too much for me.I visualized the muffin [...]
From Productive Flourishing, I was led to Seth Godin’s Blog: Chai Wallah, which says
It’s so tempting to do a little bit of everything. All the tools are there, a click away. You can be the designer, the copywriter, the head of customer service. Hey, you can even do the manufacturing or easily outsource it to [...]
As usual, I find the most remarkable insights following the trails that others leave for me. When I received the feed from Michael Bungay Stanier of Find Your Great Work regarding Chris Guillebeau of The Art of Nonconformity, I figured it would be an interesting path to follow (Michael rarely steers me wrong).
In Chris’s treatise [...]
“When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.”
“Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is no news that there are a lot of people looking for work. Even the people with jobs, are [...]
Henry David Thoreau had me question my work this morning. I am reading Walden. To write this book, he left behind modern conveniences and found life. In his chapter on Economy, he wrote
But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost. By a seeming [...]
I often ask clients to create an ideal week. What would be perfect for them to be spending their time doing? The reply is often, does it have to include work?
So often we hear that work is just something that someone fills eight hours with. Timothy Ferriss wrote a book called The Four Hour Work [...]
