Five foot-weary salesmen have laid down their load. / All day they’ve raced round in the heat, at top speeds, / Unsuccessfully trying to sell Zizzer-Zoof Seeds / Which nobody wants because nobody needs.
Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book
You Rest, You Rust
(from the WSJ)
siminoff: “I’m selling it because it was purchased without proper consent of a loving wife.  Apparently “Do what ever the f*** you want” doesn’t mean what I thought!” As seen in Malibu today.

siminoff:

“I’m selling it because it was purchased without proper consent of a loving wife.  Apparently “Do what ever the f*** you want” doesn’t mean what I thought!”

As seen in Malibu today.

siminoff

…changing tasks more than 10 times in a day makes you dumber than being stoned.
http://www.inc.com/ilya-pozin/7-things-highly-productive-people-do.html
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Thomas Paine (via Hiten Shah)
Planning is the substitute of error for chaos
Anonymous

“Being really busy” is seductive – it has nothing to do with getting things done, or actually accomplishing your goals. But there’s something satisfying, or at least addictive, about being so busy that you don’t have time to think or reflect on what is going on around you. This is a big mistake long term as you’ll ultimately make crummy decisions.

Slow down to speed up.

Brad Feld

Digital Spring Cleaning - Twitter

I’ve read the negative impact of technology on my attention span from various levels of “experts” over the past few months. I brushed passed the notion without a second thought. The more informed, the better - right?  Until I developed (acknowledged) an Twitter addiction.  

Twitter was this great new place to where I could follow people I wanted to meet and learn from.  I started following a ton people in the tech and entrepreneurial world - and then following who they followed.  When I could dedicate the time, I learned incredible amount.  With life distractions, I’d get overwhelmed by the the feed.

I’ve I just ran through my Twitter account and reduced my Following number by ~25%.  And I still have more to do.  It is near impossible to completely digest my entire Twitter stream.  And more often than not, one account that I follow retweets a post from another account that I follow, taking up space and mental bandwidth. 

I realize this is only a small step - fair enough. The ultimate goal is to consistently get maximum benefit for my time on the internet. I have to unlearn/relearn how to use Twitter now…

One third taking care of business. One third taking care of the subtle and gross bodies–the inner you and the physical you. And one third for family, friends, community, the world at large.

In our vain effort to assuage the guilt of not being at the other end of work-life seesaw (regardless of which end we find ourselves on), we end up neither here nor there. Remember running back and forth on the seesaw trying to stand legs apart in the center, one foot in each world, getting both ends to balance? I remember the nasty bump I got in that vain effort.

Jerry Colonna