I am going to see him speak tomorrow night so I’ll let you know how he comes across.

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What is the use of planning to be able to eat next week unless I can really enjoy the meals when they come ? If I am so busy planning how to eat next week that I cannot fully enjoy what I am eating now, I will be in the same predicament when next week’s meals become “now.”

If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still be dimly aware of the present when the good things that I have been expecting come to pass. For I shall have formed a habit of looking behind and ahead, making it difficult for me to attend to the here and now. If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

– The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts.

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A business where everyone blogs. Everyone thinks about what they are doing and writes about what they are doing. From the top to the bottom, the edges to the middle. Everyone awake and bouncing off each other intellectually as they get more and more effective at whatever they do.

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I love words. I love sucking them in and I love spewing them out. I am currently reading three “real” books, a couple of Kindle books, and Audible books and podcasts. I can’t cram the things in fast enough.

Some of the books I am reading are also about how I can spew them out better too. I’ve learned to touch type and, using The Pomodoro Technique to focus, I can turn out 1000 words every half an hour or so.

I am turning into a lean, mean, writing machine and just loving it!

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It just dawned on me that my big problem with “follow Jesus” is the “follow” bit. Same goes for Buddha or Mohammed. Why do so many people cloud the potential, that everyone has, to take themselves to a whole different level of existence by tying themselves to the way someone else did it – and thousands of years ago at that!

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Very poignant to see several shrines to those who have jumped off Beachy Head as I enjoy one of those days that “makes you glad to be alive”

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People often accuse blogs of being vanity publishing so here are two recently published books in which I am quoted – does that count?

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I am currently romping my way through my preview copy of Hugh Macleod’s new book Evil Plans. As with his previous book. Ignore Everybody it is a collection of stimulating and thought provoking short items. I find this format much more rewarding to read than your standard “good idea padded out with case studies” business book of which there are too many these days.

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