A positive attitude is the best thing you can do for yourself and others. Pursuing things you enjoy is not selfish…it will benefit all of those around you.
Start today on a path that brings you happiness and share it with those you love…after espresso.
-@dagosupremacy on x.com
Pareto x Pareto x Pareto
100% x 0.8 x 0.8 x 0.8 = 51%.
100% x 0.2 x 0.2 x 0.2 = 1%.
Rounded.
One percent of your efforts produce 51% of your results.
. . . because you might not want to pay the price.
And the true price is always hidden from you until you get what you ask for.
If you want something and you see nothing but the benefits, stop. Search carefully for the associated costs.
The easiest way to do this is to watch people who already have what you want. Especially watch quietly for those small sighs of tiny exasperation.
But there is always a price.
The church bells announce the beginning of a new day.
A bit of Emmet Fox with coffee focuses my thoughts—the Kingdom of God is within. Remember.
What you focus on, grows. Gentle focus, patient focus. Daily tasks yield to persistent attention and care, foundations are laid and astonishing towers are erected.
How did those circumstances come to be? The comfortable companionship of that wife of decades, those charming and pleasant children—now fully grown?
Chop wood, carry water—this would be the Buddhist answer, perhaps. For me, it is Emmet Fox speaking of the Sermon on the Mount. It is the Serenity Prayer, elegantly summarizing Marcus Aurelius. It is doing the next indicated thing, one day at a time. Sometimes willingly, sometimes grumpily and after much procrastination.
It is this: Be still, and know that I am God.
. . . you will start to find it.
The near-perfect digital nomad “office” has been located. It is a small wine store on via Vitani in Como.
I say near-perfect only because it is a wine store. I want a place with coffee, not wine.
But that’s the place. If you find it you will know why: get an outdoor table, bring a notebook and pen, and spend thirty minutes watching ideas arrive—some to be captured, some to be allowed to roam free. Fill a page or leave it blank. It’s all the same.
On a cold, rainy day go inside. Same experience: a place to let the brain sediment settle. Clear, slow mind. Something, nothing. It’s all the same.