Another from Nicholas Bate’s Tools of Excellence: “8: The Coffee Grinder & French Press Coffee should be smelt and seen as well as tasted. And it should be worked for: …”  

“A good way to rid one’s self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order; it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character. The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in […]

I will have style.  Whatever you wear. White tie? Gardening jumper and track-suit bottoms? Do it with style. I will not be labelled. Just when they think they can put a label around your neck (‘difficult’, ‘natural leader’), you’ve changed. Stay ahead of the crowd. … The rest, here.  Get inspired in your goal setting […]

“… give thanks that amid such stormy seas you have within you a mind at the helm.  If the waters overwhelm you, let them overwhelm flesh, breath, and all else, but they will never make shipwreck of the mind.” Marcus Aurelius (AD 120 – 180), Meditations

Another jagged insight from Nicholas Bate: “The digital interrupt is relentless, often trivial, sometimes insufferable, cunningly finding new channels…” The rest, here.

Nicholas Bate tenders the final eleven in his “Pause & Consider 101“. “94.  Out-think, out-plan, out-act your competitors. 101.  Pause and consider on a daily basis. In the park. Over tea. With someone nice.” The final few here (with links to the full list).

Nicholas Bate tenders the final eleven in his “Pause & Consider 101“. “94.  Out-think, out-plan, out-act your competitors. 101.  Pause and consider on a daily basis. In the park. Over tea. With someone nice.” The final few here (with links to the full list).

More balls in the air than the Parachute Regiment. Keeping track of concurrent projects can be a bit of a nightmare for freelancers.  Tom Albrighton of ABC Copywriting shares a simple project tracking spreadsheet, here.

Sometimes in the low velvet of Leonard Cohen’s voice, you can hear the welcoming rumble of the earth.  I remember first hearing The Songs of Leonard Cohen and becoming an instant fan.  It was the songs, the poetry, the novels and the image too; timelessly astride the rock and roll world that was my usual fare. The […]

Cultured Kurt offers some 4th of July quotes on the subject of freedom; from Aristotle to P.J. O’Rourke. I was particularly struck by O’Rourke railing against the conflation of “freedom” with “rights”: ““Freedom … [is] not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the ‘right’ to education, the ‘right’ to food and housing. That’s not freedom, […]