Daniel Jacobs

“The value of a future goal is the present change it fosters.”
― David Allen, Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done

“Perhaps the questions really should be these: Where is the balance between my shoulder-to-the-wheel hard work and my inner reflective process that nourishes and rekindles the flame of inspiration and expansive expression? Are my inner-focused and outer-focused activities in proper proportion and relation to each other? What type of action is optimal for me right now? Is it best to take time to breathe, refocus in a subtler place, and shift to a higher and healthier perspective? Or do I need to put my physical butt in gear and get moving, to keep my agreements with myself and expand my expression in the world with more gusto and conscious involvement? If”
― David Allen, Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done

“You are powerful all the time, by way of your attention and intention. The question is, Toward what are you pointing that power?”
― David Allen, Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done

“There was a sunny day. Cosimo, with a bowl in the tree, was making soap bubbles and blowing them in through the window toward the bed of the sick woman. Mama saw those colors of the rainbow flying and filling the room and said, “Oh, what games you play!”—as when we were boys and she always disapproved of our amusements as too silly and childish. But now, perhaps for the first time, she took pleasure in a game of ours. The soap bubbles reached her face and with her breath she burst them, and smiled. A bubble settled on her lips and remained intact. We leaned over her. Cosimo dropped the bowl. She was dead.”
― Italo Calvino, The Baron In The Trees