An alarmingly un-novel thought that hit me again today:
I don’t have to read everything.
Phew.
That’s one more (imaginary) burden off my shoulders.
Category: blog
happy procrastination
Continuing to set up and “optimise” my iPad Pro. What are your favorite iPad apps / tips & tricks?
RSS reader
Annoyed that I spent $$$ paying for Reeder 5 and the iCloud syncing between Mac and iOS simply doesn’t work. Does anyone know of a good RSS/news reader app that allows for iCloud syncing and that doesn’t cost a leg and an arm in subscription fees?
In other news… I just bought an 11” iPad Pro because I have fantasies of using it to read (with Kindle and Libby), to write all my French language notes and learn how to urban-sketch (the Apple Pencil is very attractive to me), and use it as a separate screen for when I want to type up notes from Youtube videos or online courses. And also because I’m an incorrigible Apple (hardware) fangirl.
what do you care about?
“In life we don’t have to strive to be hardworking. We just have to strive to care. Because it is only when we care about something that we are driven and motivated to put in the work needed to make it amazing… If you don’t care, you will feel very pressured and stressed, like you have to work hard but you don’t even know why, you just feel like you have to… George Bernard Shaw said, “I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live.” It is not about being hardworking, but that the true joy in life is when we are being thoroughly used for a purpose we believe in and care about.”
– Xandria Ooi
inside
Develop what’s inside first, because what’s inside is reflected outside.
a beautiful life
A beautiful picture of your life isn’t the same as a beautiful life.
A beautiful life isn’t about loving yourself or loving others but loving both yourself and others.
A beautiful life looks like a vase with scars on it because it was once broken but someone took time and effort to patch the pieces back together.
A beautiful life cannot be planned or executed perfectly but can be experienced fully.
A beautiful life is honest. But honesty isn’t possible until you learn to see and acknowledge and tear down all the walls you have built up in order to protect yourself.
A beautiful life is one lived awake, or one lived trying to be awake.
A beautiful life is full of “trying”.
A beautiful life is beautiful despite cancer, business failures, the loss of a marriage, financial mistakes.
A beautiful life is knowing you are nothing and everything.
A beautiful life is something you’re already living.
Enjoy every moment of it.
good news
do not believe
Today, choose not to believe every single one of your negative thoughts. Then watch your day become better.
special
I don’t know myself well enough. And I have hidden thoughts that I don’t always articulate or bring to the surface.
For example, I only recently realised I have this thought that I should be special.
But why should I be?
I know, because if I am special (if I am especially talented or especially brave, for example) then I can justify my self-worth. Because I somehow believe that my self-worth is tied up with being more successful or being more talented than other people. But of course, this is a terribly weak and flawed idea, because there will always be other people who are smarter and more talented and more successful than me.
The thing is, I’m really not more special than other people. And that’s perfectly fine and natural. No human being is more special than another human being. And no human being needs to be special in order to be loved.
This is part of my ongoing effort to rewrite the flawed scripts – such as this one – in my head.
