LET's MAKE LIFE BEAUTIFUL

Leo Babauta van Zen habits heeft weer een stuk geplaatst om ons een burn-out te besparen: “…what’s the point of all this (work) obsession? It leads to burnout, stress, anxiety, unhappiness, greed, confusion, and no time for family, friends, and yourself…”.

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Wow! Dat wil Confabula niet. Dus zij dook meteen zijn blogstuk in.
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“… In this age of digital communication, we’re busier than ever. And yet, in all of our sound and fury, we seem to have no time for focus, for what’s important, for thinking. To find this focus, we will need to completely rethink the need for productivity. Think of our culture’s obsession with productivity: with the need for “hard work” and working long hours to get things done, with the need to be busy busy busy all the time, with the need to make lists and check them off, with the need to juggle countless projects and make more revenue and accomplish more and more.. (…) …What would happen if we threw all that out the door? What if we said, “I want to get important things done, but the rest can go to hell.”?

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"Let’s create a new creed: Simplicity, purpose, focus, silence, and joy.

Let’s make beautiful and useful things, and love doing it…”.

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Dat is een heerlijk voorstel.

Dat willen we. Maar… dilemma. Confabula vindt haar werk ook leuk. En die checklists... die maakt Confabula - excusez - best graag. Die ‘lists to check off’ houdt ze er lekker hysterisch in hoor. Dat afstrepen is gewoon fijn.

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Babauta geeft ons een Taoistische filosofie:
'The Master allows things to happen.
She shapes events as they come.
She steps out of the way
and lets the Tao speak for itself'.
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Dat klinkt relaxed. Daar kunnen we diverse kanten mee op.

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Lees het hele stukje van Zen Habits hier.

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Juni '10