Health and Wellbeing
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Sleep apnoea, A success story
Interesting article in The Magazine about sleep apnoea experiences. I blogged previously about my own experiences with this disorder - fortunately, my case is less severe than the authors'.
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Depression and getting help
This article was linked by Macdrifter overnight and, as is often the case, Gabe has come up with gem. It's by Rob Delaney a US comedian, reflecting on his depression and the importance of getting help.
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How to accomplish more by doing less
Rings true to my own experience. It's not just the number of hours we sit at a desk in that determines the value we generate. It's the energy we bring to the hours we work.
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The innovators secret weapon
Six practical habits of innovative thinkers — keeping an idea journal, cultivating hobbies, reading widely, taking long walks, volunteering, and helping others create. A timely reminder that innovation grows from a richly lived life, not just focused work.
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Maintaining physical social and mental fitness
Since I subscribed to the Harvard Business Review blog posts I have seen a steady stream of sharply observed and well thought out pieces. Many are aimed at corporate efficiency however a good smattering challenge the existing order and some are just timely good advice like this one.
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The Apple of zen
Few people knew that Steve Jobs had a serious Zen practice, or that his teacher was Kobun Chino Otogawa. A dharma talk by teacher Peg Syverson considers what Jobs' life and death can teach the rest of us about attention, creativity and impermanence.
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This precious life
A luminous passage from Paul Bowles on the finitude of experience — how many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless. A quiet call to pay attention to the life you are actually living.
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Top 5 death bed regrets
Palliative nurse Bronnie Ware recorded the most common regrets of the dying — and the most frequent of all was not having had the courage to live a life true to oneself. A sobering and clarifying reminder of what actually matters.
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Putting things off
A pointer to a piece on changing the way we work — slowing down, being more deliberate, and questioning the assumption that constant availability and busyness are virtues worth cultivating.
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Whats lurking under the lid
Michael Pollan's In Defence of Food offers simple, memorable rules for eating well.
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Healing power of chooks
This post has been in my mind since I saw a wonderful program ABC TV. The program 'Rare Chicken Rescue' has two themes, one is depression and the other is about rescuing rare chicken breeds.
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Managing information overload
Saw this great cartoon over at Devon-Technologies which I have been visiting lately as I start to tackle my own information overload.
