Wed 7 Mar 2007
“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials”. Lin Yutang. I love this quote. I’m sometimes so lousy at purging time-wasters from my life. Is it just me? I complain about being busy but spend a couple hours in front of the TV at night. I feel scattered and then notice that I have music or TV and other sources of noise around me all day. I procrastinate some task because it feels too big - when if I just shut up and took the first step, at least the first step would be done. So here’s to clearing out the time wasters, the noise and the busy-ness. Here’s to doing the important stuff. Here’s to making more space.
March 9th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
I wonder, now with three weeks all to myself, if I will get anything done or if I will just keep allowing myself to be distracted… I hope not. Here’s to doing the important stuff, indeed.
Thanks, Corilee…
March 13th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
Great post and you hit the nail on the head, especially in regards to watching TV!
March 14th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Thanks for this quote. I recently have been purging some things from my life — not by my choice, but now that they are gone, I can see that it wasn’t necessary to spend so much time agonizing over them, or over the fact that I wasn’t getting it done!
I also agree that TV is a big time waster. Also, (as a marriage counselor I can say this) a relationship buster…