How to keep time from moving so fast →

Published December 8, 2017  ·  All posts on Dec 8  ·  

Savoring what’s familiar does something similar. Instead of spending our time on autopilot mode, we notice the richness embedded in our familiar routines. Choose something familiar that you experience regularly—drinking your morning coffee, picking up your kids from daycare, or chatting with a coworker—and make a concerted effort to savor, and be grateful for that experience. I personally find meditation, more than almost anything else, helps me savor these small things every day.

~ Chris Bailey from, How to keep time from moving so fast

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Stop aspiring →

Published December 7, 2017  ·  All posts on Dec 7  ·  ,

But if aspiring was our true fulcrum, you’d be on your throne already. Here’s the truth: It’s not the heights we aspire to but the FLOOR WE PUT UP WITH that determines our place.

~ Bryan Ward from, Stop Aspiring

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A good friend recently said something to the effect of, “Life is full of compromises which you cannot avoid. So don’t compromise with yourself.”

I find both of these things are very useful for me to keep in mind.

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Here We Are →

Published December 6, 2017  ·  All posts on Dec 6

Forty years after the Voyager sailed into space, we seem to have lost sight of this beautiful and sobering perspective, drifting further and further into our divides, fragmenting our fragile home pixel into more and more warring factions, and forgetting that we are bound together by the improbable miracle of life on this Pale Blue Dot and a shared cosmic destiny.

~ Maria Popova from, Here We Are

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Also quoted in this piece is Carl Sagan’s original commentary on the “pale blue dot”. Gets me every time.

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Never predict →

Published December 3, 2017  ·  All posts on Dec 3  ·  

I’ve always been very careful never to predict anything that has not already happened.

~ Marshall McLuhan

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Happened to things →

Published November 27, 2017  ·  All posts on Nov 27  ·  

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

~ Leonardo da Vinci

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Upper west side →

Published November 26, 2017  ·  All posts on Nov 26

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What happens when men flee the wild →

Published November 23, 2017  ·  All posts on Nov 23

…as we flee the discomfort of the wild without, so we flee those of the wild within, estranging ourselves from the power and beauty of the uncharted life…

~ Bryan Ward from, What Happens When Men Flee The Wild

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The center of your being →

Published November 21, 2017  ·  All posts on Nov 21

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

~ Lao Tzu

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Sometimes everything just falls into place →

Published November 20, 2017  ·  All posts on Nov 20

So I went for a walk to shake off the aches from two solid days of training at the new LVPK Academy. And I got to the part where I normally loop back and I thought, “I’ve never actually walked up to that upper parking lot…” So I did. Above the lot, another level higher, is a wide open soccer/football field with brilliant green grass, and those 5-tier, ubiqitous, aluminum bleachers. I laid down on the top-most, narrow bleacher– just basking as the bright sun, and the cold wind argued back and forth about wether it was warm or cold weather. Just staring up at this gorgeous blue sky containing one of those new-fangled aeroplanes and one of those old-beaked vultures– the teeny tiny black speck near thebottom, just a bit to the right, …you thought it was a mark on your screen didn’t you? Ever do that yoga pose where you cross your legs and lay back on something alinged along your spine, put your hands behind your head, crack open your entire chest, pull your shoulder blads back and just streeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetch?

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You Need People →

Published November 20, 2017  ·  All posts on Nov 20

When you’re stuck in a black hole where it’s impossible for you to reach escape velocity, your only hope for escape is to find an even stronger gravitational field to pull you out. People act a lot like gravitational fields, and when you put enough of them together, all tugging at you in a consistent direction, you’re going to move.

~ Steve Pavlina from, You Need People

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This is a vastly better version of the old adage, “you are the average of your five closest friends.” I very intentionally use the people I find and train with in the Art du Dèplacement universe in this way. (Semantic detour: I may have you plotted in the ADD space even if you would say you are in some other.) If I’ve trained with you, you now know why I am sincerely appreciative of _your_ contribution to my journey.

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