"Yes, but what are your goals?" But, a crucial addendum: don't just focus on your goals, pay close attention to the systems (the process, the routines, the environmental cues, the habits) that support them. Check out James Clear's Atomic Habits for an elaboration of the importance of system in supporting goals. “You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.” He converses about all this with Sam Harris here...
Today's dawn post: The end is near...
Im a little scatterbrained over this semester, Are 8 posts due for this week and next week? Or is it just 8 this week?
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DeleteI know you saw Margaret Renkl's column this week, in which she made a comment about different bird species showing up. Well, a couple of days ago there appeared on the garden feeder some very lovely birds I'd never seen before. Turns out they are rose-breasted grosbeaks. And on the habitation map, they aren't in Tennessee. Very cool. Total posts: January, 11; February, 25, March, 17; April, 24. As the song goes, see you (hopefully) in September.
ReplyDeleteI never thought I'd have the patience to be a birder but now might be the time, with climate change disrupting habitats and dispersing species. Hitchcock's birds are hard to shake from mind these days, though.
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