Loving living, marketing, and selling
Land needs time to replenish itself, so you periodically pull it from production. People are the same. I take a retreat. I fast from social media. I turn off the news. I look to my own soul and examine what I find there. And I don’t try to “develop” it.
The Buddha saw death and life as inseparable. If we were more mindful of this then perhaps we would waste less time in worry and spend more time in doing what matters.
Today in a Facebook Gardening group a member lamented the wanton removal of years of her landscaping and garden work by the purchasers of her home:
“That moment you drive by your house you just sold a few weeks earlier and everything you ever planted and loved is ripped out and gone!!!”
Trees, picket fence, roses, arbor… all gone.
“Hara hachi bu me” (eat until you are only 80% full)
~ Confucius
Several years ago I coached a very successful businessman (I’ll call him Robert) who shared a deeply telling comment from his wife.
“Just how much is enough, Robert?”
He had a great life, a fat bank account, a devoted family, extensive social circle, community respect, good health, and … never quite enough business. A classic American striver.
There are no small upsets. They are all equally disturbing to my peace of mind. ~ A Course In Miracles When you miss your goals hugely there can be a great temptation to sink to the ground in defeat. Every voice that ever whispered “failure” into your ear suddenly reasserts itself in some diabolical plot … Read more
