Tag Archives: Personal Development

Sydney: Why What & How

As I said in an earlier post, I’m saying goodbye to Chicago and starting a journey to Sydney starting June 4th.

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Why

I need to break out of my comfort cocoon. The idea of giving up my comfortable life here in Chicago terrifies me. And that is the point. It’s far too easy to become a prisoner to familiarity, so I’m consciously breaking routine to pursue growth – to have new experiences. I’m an experience junky that Continue reading

Book Notes – Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

I just finished reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Below are some of the the phrases and sentences that caught my attention. Buy it on amazon.com

  • Seductive bloom
  • Focused throught, deliberate action
  • Sins of desire vs sins of passion
  • Concept of continual mutation
  • Accept without either complacency or compunction materal comforts
  • No one can lose what is already past, nor what is still to come
  • Impressions > Assent > Conviction > Knowledge
  • Take no action haphazardly or without regards to the principles governing its proper execution
  • Retire within myself
  • Nothing is made better or worse by praise
  • Transient nature of life
  • What is no good for the hive is no good for the bee
  • Same show, different actors