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Embracing limitation & getting around to what counts in bewildering times. 4000 Weeks / The Imperfectionist / MEDITATIONS FOR MORTALS out now in UK, US & Canada
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Anything Can Happen

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By Oliver Burkeman
| Experience Life Verified
Life-transition counselor and writer Sheryl Paul defines anxiety as “a feeling of dread, agitation, or foreboding associated with a danger that does not exist in the present moment.” I’m guessing you can relate; I certainly can.
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Quattromila settimane: gestione del tempo facile ed efficace

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By Oliver Burkeman
| illibraio.it
Un best seller che cambierà per sempre la nostra percezione dell’esistenza e ci insegnerà a «entrare del tutto nello spazio e nel tempo». Diciamo le cose come stanno: la durata media della vita umana è scandalosamente breve. Chi tra noi raggiungerà gli 80 anni avrà vissuto poco più di 4000 settimane. Com’è possibile formulare piani ambiziosi in un lasso di tempo così effimero?
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Just Do the Thing

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By Oliver Burkeman, Gregg Krech, Melanie Haiken
| Experience Life Verified
Back in 2001, when David Allen published the groundbreaking productivity book Getting Things Done, he coined the “two-minute rule”: If you encounter a task that would take under two minutes to complete, just do it now. He wasn’t recommending that you spend your days ricocheting between random little activities the moment they pop into your head.
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