Benjamin Loschen

“Life teaches that the measure of the value of any human desire is in direct proportion to the risk involved in its pursuit. To live meaningfully is to be at perpetual risk.”
― Frank Forencich, Beautiful Practice: A Whole-Life Approach to Health, Performance and the Human Predicament

“Unfortunately, that’s often not the case: We must wait for tasks or information or other things to be completed before we can move on to the next step. And so we multitask, but not on the task level—we multitask only on the project level. While one project is on hold for an hour or a day or a few days, we can be working on another. I’ve found that three projects works best for this type of project-level multitasking—any more than three, and you begin to lose effectiveness. For this system to work, a project should take no more than a month to complete, and preferably only a week or two. If a project takes a year to complete (for example), then you will not be able to work on any other projects for a year. That’s too long to put the rest of your life on hold. Instead, break long-term projects into smaller projects that can be completed in a month or less. If you want to launch a magazine, for example, focus first on the project of coming up with a design, then on putting together a team, then on finding financial backing, and so on.”
― Leo Babauta, The Power Of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential

“the ultimate point of our practice is to live the journey of life more completely. The goal is to experience the Beautiful Adventure of life in all its richness and wonder, to develop an intimate relationship with the totality of the world, the universe, the cosmos.”
― Frank Forencich, Beautiful Practice: A Whole-Life Approach to Health, Performance and the Human Predicament

“Our brains are wired for a moderate number of human relationships, but today our social circles have shrunk to almost nothing and simultaneously expanded to include vast numbers of faceless individuals. To make matter worse, human communication is being degraded at a ferocious pace by electronic devices. The human brain and body evolved for social contact and communication in real time. In a normal, face-to-face human relationship, the entire mind-body participates in communication; posture, gesture and tone are vital for complete understanding. The actual words represent only a fraction of the total meaning. By disembodying the communication process, we make promote anxiety, confusion and alienation.”
― Frank Forencich, Beautiful Practice: A Whole-Life Approach to Health, Performance and the Human Predicament