On Chasing the Right “Zero”
Yesterday, Merlin Mann shared his most recent thinking on ‘Inbox Zero’. You should read the whole post, but I wanted to share this bit in particular… Put to best use, Inbox Zero is merely a philosophical practice of learning to…
Why the rush?
Stop what you are doing. Close your eyes and listen. Listen to yourself breathe. — Do you hear it? Keep listening. Listen for two whole minutes. — What happened? Your breathing slowed, and so did your heart rate. It returned…
Absence, Priorities, Focus and Reflection
Some of you will have noticed that my presence online, both here and on Twitter, has been significantly sporadic since September last year. This extended absence (for want of a better word) has been a choice. One that was predicated…
Housekeeping: The Value of Less
While my digital-self has been quiet over the last few months, I have not been entirely inactive. Having instigated a cleanup of my web footprint (I shared the initial stages in this post), I have continued this process alongside a…
Taking a month off from blogging…
This is the first post I have published here since the 26th August. A week prior to the start of the new school year I decided to take a short break from blogging. This is not to say I wasn’t…