This Week - Jan 10, 2014

Do you see the trend? My inclination towards purchasing and distraction are directly correlated with a deficiency in my emotional well-being: aka, I have been self-medicating. My purchasing has not been meaningless. It has a cause and an effect. The cause is the set of emotions that are felt due to stressors and variables felt in my life. The effect is that I am unable to deal with the cause because I am not aware of it due to the fullness of my mind in relation to purchasing. The emotional impulses are not satisfied, they are simply brushed aside.

— What I am Learning from a Self-Imposed, 6 Month Purchasing Freeze (Robert A. Murphy)

In the past few years I seem to have misplaced my creative inspiration and along the way I let ‘busyness’ take the wheel, a condition that opened up a certain amount of success, but also sometimes steered against my original desires.

— Remember. Let go. Move on. (Brad Smith)

The only way we will avoid being crushed by the weight of the hundreds or thousands of emails we receive every day is to free ourselves from the need to treat each one like it matters and like it merits a response.

— The Curse of Email (Tim Challies)