Another nice idea in Making a Big Change: a Case Study [How I Retired]":
Almost all of us fear change, and we look for excuse after excuse to put it off. Very often this works against us. So, if you are thinking about making a big change, you owe it to yourself to go ahead and start turning your thoughts into projects. Evaluate the feasibility, get some independent advice, and test what you can. [Author's emphasis]
The short piece shares a novel way of using the GTD methodology to work through complicated problems.
At Saturday's commencement, our speaker, Dr. David Russell, the new commissioner for higher education in Missouri, gave an address that included lots of goodies. He also lifted a story that we quite similar to a poem by Taylor Mali, so I thought I'd put this out there for people to enjoy:
Remember, teaching is the profession that makes all professions possible.
Ricky Gervais speaks to us this holiday season in "A Holiday Message from Ricky Gervais: Why I’m An Atheist", From Speakeasy of the Wall Street Journal.
Let’s be honest, if one person believed in God he would be considered pretty strange. But because it’s a very popular view it’s accepted. And why is it such a popular view? That’s obvious. It’s an attractive proposition. Believe in me and live forever. Again if it was just a case of spirituality this would be fine. “Do unto others…” is a good rule of thumb. I live by that. Forgiveness is probably the greatest virtue there is. Buts that’s exactly what it is - ‐ a virtue. Not just a Christian virtue. No one owns being good. I’m good. I just don’t believe I’ll be rewarded for it in heaven. My reward is here and now. It’s knowing that I try to do the right thing. That I lived a good life. And that’s where spirituality really lost its way. When it became a stick to beat people with. “Do this or you’ll burn in hell.”You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.
(Thanks to the Chairman.) This sounds like i came out of "Where Men Win Glory", John Krakauer's chronicle of Pat Tillman.
Good stuff. Worth thinking about.
