#Things to consider
- It’s precisely because you’ll never produce perfect work that you might as well get on with doing the best work you can.
- Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket.
- The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- Withdraw your attention from everything except the battles you’ve chosen to fight.
- What’s the life task here? Never mind what you want. What does life want?
- Doing something dailyish requires sacrificing your fantasies of perfection in favor of the uncomfortable experience of making concrete, imperfect progress, here and now.
- The point isn’t to spend your life serving rules. The point is for the rules to serve life. ‘Dailyish’ is one that does.
- Ringfence a 3–4 hour period each day, free from appointments or interruptions. And accept that your other hours will probably be characterized by the usual fragmentary chaos of life.
- It is surprising how much one can produce in a year, whether of buns or books or pots or pictures, if one works hard and professionally for three and a half hours every day for 330 days a year.
- Act on a generous impulse the moment it arises.
#Doing things on a “dailyish” basis
📚 Meditations for Mortals has been a nice treat over the last few days. It was shorter than I thought and with just under 200 pages I need to savor it a bit extra. Therefore I’m going slow, but each chapter has come with interesting tidbits. I especially liked the chapter about how enriching it is to actually finish things. It is energy giving to see things to the end. Something I realized big time yesterday when I finally booked the flight tickets for Sweden in Easter. Then it’s done and I can move on. Feels great. I also liked the routine of doing important things on a “Dailyish” basis. Instead of creating rules for life, you should let the rules support life. It was an important distinction that I will have to reflect some more on.