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New Year’s Resolutions, 2014 : A Long Obedience in the Same Direction

Anita Mathias — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 17:40:03 +0000

“The essential thing “in heaven and in earth” is that there should be long OBEDIENCE in the same direction, there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living; for instance, virtue, art, music, dancing, reason, spirituality– anything whatever that is transfiguring, refined, foolish, or divine.” Nietzsche, […]

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A Very Long Pregnancy: Or, How to Live in the Land of Unfulfilled Promises and Deferred Dreams

Anita Mathias — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 10:23:55 +0000

The early chapters of Abraham’s story make painful reading. Again and again, through the decades God promises him a child: At the great oak of Moreh at Shechem, when he was 75; at Bethel, when he lets his nephew Lot have the more fertile land; and near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, […]

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7 Quick Takes: Kew Gardens, Wisley, Leighton House, Univ. Parks, Oxford,Daughters, Progress on NY Goals,

Anita Mathias — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 01:08:35 +0000

1 We are taking a walking course in London, with Joanna Hall of The Walking Diet. With her walking technique, I am walking faster—much faster—and, more importantly, really, really enjoying it. I am walking about 4 miles a day around London, when I am there, and Oxford. 2 Leighton House Frederick, Lord Leighton was a […]

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First Things First, Pomodoros, A Schedule and Progress on New Year’s Goals

Anita Mathias — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:40:38 +0000

C. S. Lewis famously said, “When first things are put first, second things don’t diminish, they increase. You can’t get second things by putting them first; you can get second things only by putting first things first.” Michael Hyatt spells this out this work-life balance. […]

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Pareto’s Law, The 80/20 Rule (and My Progress in New Year’s Goals)

Anita Mathias — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:00:42 +0000

I am reading Tim Ferriss’s The 4-Hour Work Week with absolute fascination, partly because Roy and I have independently stumbled upon and are practicing many of Ferriss’s ideas and principles. (I plan to review the book later.) Ferris discusses Pareto’s Law or the 80/20 principle. Pareto, an Italian economist (1848 to 1923), realized that, in […]

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