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In practical terms, three rules of thumb are especially useful for harnessing the power of patience as a creative force in daily life. The first is to develop a taste for having problems.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
Any strategy for limiting your work in progress will help here (here), but perhaps the simplest is to keep two to-do lists, one “open” and one “closed.” The open list is for everything that’s on your plate and will doubtless be nightmarishly long. Fortunately, it’s not your job to tackle it: instead, feed tasks from the open list to the closed one—that is, a list with a fixed number of entries, ten at most. The rule is that you can’t add a new task until one’s completed. (You may also require a third list, for tasks that are “on hold” until someone else gets back to you.)
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
Why is self-reflection important? Well, to begin with, self-reflection is one of the key ingredients of gratitude. The other key ingredient is attention. Attention and self-reflection provide the best conditions for us to cultivate an authentic sense of gratitude.
A Natural Approach to Mental Wellness
Gregg Krech
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