Are we making good use of our time? This is perhaps the question we ask ourselves most often. Here’s a different way to answer it. Rather than trying to make every second of your life a moment of optimization, just do one great thing every day. Why is that? Because the feeling that such an accomplishment produces radiates good vibes…
+Category: Productivity
Four years to become another
Quality requires a sustained effort that could be called quantity. Before you can produce quality, you must have produced a lot. Do you want to excel in a field? Do you want to devote a significant part of your time to it? Few are willing to do so simply because quantity is synonymous with repetitiveness, which is often associated with…
+Are you replaceable by a machine?
Fighting replaceability by fighting superficiality. The tools we have at our disposal to communicate serve us until the day we realize that we are at their service through the dependency we have created for ourselves. In his book, “The Shallows”, Nicholas G. Carr explains the cognitive harms of embracing a lifestyle in which the machine and artificial intelligence would have…
+Never confuse movement with action
Never confuse movement with action. Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway, born on 21 July 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, USA, and died on 2 July 1961 in Ketchum, Idaho, is an American writer, journalist and war correspondent. In the frenetic societies in which we live, it is customary to combine movement and action. Action exists when the body or mind is…
+Breathe and synchronize yourself
Our thoughts sometimes move faster than we do, they intermingle, disturb us and ultimately create confusion within us. Most of the time it is not possible to meditate in the workplace, so we look forward to the end of the day to have a moment of intimacy that would allow us to enter into a meditative state. It is not…
+How much of your day is spent just on maintenance?
We feel like we’re busy all day long, this feeling lets us say we’re productive. What is it really like? What do we really do with our days? Are we active, directing or even creative or just lethargic? Without us realising it, we spend a large part of our days “maintaining” ourselves, whether it is eating, washing, cooking, cleaning, dressing,…
+Take the time to “do nothing” every day.
Laziness or laziness is considered a sin in the Christian tradition. It is evaluated as such when inaction leads to negativity or pessimism. A truly active person cannot be truly active while being negative. This is why acedacy only applies to certain situations. For example, it is not laziness when it is in fact a life-saving rest which, among other…
+Thinking like an athlete
What is an athlete? What distinguishes them from ordinary people? What is the essential element that places him/her above others? The 3 characteristics of an athlete 1- The search for performance Consistency and constant improvement An athlete performs because he or she is able to deliver a result consistently. The main difference between an athlete and an amateur is the…
+Two daily forces to master
Each individual’s day is structured around two forces, rising and falling: yang and yin. It is advisable to organize one’s day according to these two energies. In general, the yang forces are more present in the morning: this is the time to create. Conversely, the evening is more conducive to yin energies, i.e. to receive, to learn to reflect. The…
+Set-aside: the new contemporary economic imperative?
How to apply a centuries-old principle to our lives Fallow land is part of the three-year crop rotation system. Rotation or “soil rotation” was widespread in medieval agricultural cropping systems. The principle was that the land was divided into three parts in order to allow both productivity and soil regeneration. The three pillars of this system were the production of…
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