Fellow traveler,
One of the books I recently bought is Oliver Burkeman's Four Thousand Weeks from where he shared the problem with today’s time management techniques. Like I shared recently, our experience of being alive consists of nothing other than the sum of everything to which you pay attention. Time is measured in attention.
Everyone knows it is a new week. However, what does that mean to you, in particular? What is this week for? Does it bring along with it the time to learn forgiveness, to practice gratitude or are you going to be existentially busy?
It’s worth thinking about.
Enjoy this week’s dispatch of The Joy List.
With joy,
Damola
PS: We just released a new book titled The Daily Joy! It is a daily non-religious meditation on love, hope, peace, and what it can mean to be human. You can check it out here.
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