The Daily Boost #513
How do YOU live deliberately?
Kevin Kelly’s Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wished I’d Known Earlier is (as he puts it) “the result of 70 years of trying to live the good and right life.” Or (as Thoreau might have put it) “the result of trying to live deliberately.” The book contains more than 450 nuggets of personal wisdom for the reader’s consideration.
After mulling over these samples, maybe you’ll be inspired to jot down some of your own “excellent advice" for living:
Rule of 3 in conversation: To get to the real reason, ask a person to go deeper than what they just did. Then again, and then once more. The third time’s answer is the one closest to the truth.
If you are looking for something in your house and you finally find it, when you are done with it, don’t put it back where you found it. Put it back where you first looked for it.
Taking a break is not a sign of weakness but a sign of strength.
To succeed, get other people to pay you; to become wealthy, help other people to succeed.
Productivity is often a distraction. Don’t aim for better ways to get through your tasks as quickly as possible. Instead aim for better tasks that you never want to stop doing.
(My thanks to Kevin Kelly, via Recomendo.)
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