10 Timeless Lessons From Dalai Lama. “This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.” - Dalai Lama What makes this man so interesting? Why do people around the world care about a simple Buddhist monk who heads an unrecognized government-in-exile and an unrecognized nation of 6 million Tibetans? As Robert A.F. 1. The Dalai Lama is the world’s greatest living exemplar of nonviolence and compassion, accessible to followers of all faiths. If you liked this article, please bookmark it on del.icio.us or vote for it on Digg. Unfinished business. The inbox on my desk is currently overflowing. I returned from traveling two weeks ago, dumped a stack of must-complete paperwork out of my briefcase and into the inbox, and immediately started to ignore the mess I’d made.
The inbox ceased to be an inbox and became a Black Hole of Forgotten Items. The situation with my inbox is similar to how most messes begin in our house and in my work. When a mess occurs it is usually because: I’m in the process of doing something and am interrupted before I can finish the action. Once a mess has started, I’ll either become immune to it (stepping over the unpacked luggage each time I go to the washing machine) or feel stress and anxiety about it (I have so much to do! Over the years, I’ve learned to deal with most of these messes before they happen. Limit interruptions. What do you do to prevent messes from starting in your home and office? Unclutterer: Daily tips on how to organize your home and office. 10 Ways History’s Finest Kept Their Focus at Work.
Post written by Albert van Zyl from the blog HeadSpace. The lives of great people give us interesting clues about how to organise our days. All of them attached great value to their daily routines. This is because they saw it as being part of ‘becoming who they are’, as Nietzsche puts it. For the same reason they were also highly individual in their routines. They had the courage to go against popular opinion and work out often strange daily plans that suited them. This is perhaps the first lesson that we can learn – that it takes courage and resolve to design and stick to a routine that suits you. There are at least 10 other lessons that the daily routines of the great can teach us: 1. Despite the modern obsession with physical presence at offices (also known as ‘presenteeism’), very few of the great worked long hours. Philosopher Michel Foucault would only work from 9am to 3pm. 2.
Even during these short days, the great took plenty of breaks. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Mandela. Productivity vs. Guilt and Self-Loathing. Frictionless | Do more. Better. Time Management | Frictionless. Time Management In order to master your life, you must master your week. In order to master your week, you must first master your day. It sounds a bit like something Yoda would say, I’ll give you that. But these are words to live by, trust me on this. If I was asked to boil down all of the success I encounter in my work and personal life into two or three key rules, this would be one of them: planning your day means planning to succeed. So what does that look like? Building Blocks Everything that happens between waking up and going to sleep is a block. There are also different kinds of blocks. Client work, however, is very fluid. Know Your Abilities & Limits Planning ahead, and building a tight, efficient schedule for your day requires having a solid grasp of your skills and ability.
I build this element into the capture process whenever a new task comes across my desk. Nothing is worse that ending your day with unfinished items on your list. Lifehacker, tips and downloads for getting things done. How to work - rodcorp. Michael McDonough (who wrote about a post-catastrophic bambootektured New York with Bruce Sterling in Wired) offers us his Top Ten Things They Never Taught Me in Design School: Talent is one-third of the success equation 95 percent of any creative profession is shit work If everything is equally important, then nothing is very important Don’t over-think a problem Start with what you know; then remove the unknowns Don’t forget your goal When you throw your weight around, you usually fall off balance The road to hell is paved with good intentions; or, no good deed goes unpunished It all comes down to output The rest of the world counts [via blackbelt jones] They're excellent (particularly the last two), and should be book-ended with graphic designer Milton Glaser's This Is What I Have Learned: What others?
How we work - rodcorp. Daily Routines. 43 Folders | Time, Attention, and Creative Work.