I’ve been really physically active this summer, training Aikido nearly six days a week on average. One day, I trained for seven hours. This taught me that eating well and sleeping well make a huge difference. Vegetables make a big difference in stamina and recovery times. I feel best when when I eat lightly steamed [...]
One effect on me of living a life of leisure was that it made me reactive – not setting many goals, I just basically dealt with what came up. I did various things for fun and intellectual stimulation, like hypnosis sessions and business communications consulting, and while I gained skills from these, I didn’t have [...]
Our life is necessarily based on goals – they give us direction – almost any sort of activity that we do, for work or pleasure, has goals, from acheiving revenue goals in sales, to scoring points in tennis and soccer, to ascending ranks in Aikido. We invest an incredible amount of time toward acheiving goals [...]
Ten months into my sabbatical now, and I realize that life is so very simple. I feel like I used to have a very crowded mind, and now things are much more quieter… it is difficult for me to describe this… I can thoroughly enjoy things now – like when I went to a curry [...]
The last day of summer came the same day as the new year. A typhoon swept through last Wednesday on the 8th, and the rain stopped just before sunset, in time for Rosh Hashanah, the start of the Jewish new year. This summer’s heat felt especially oppressive. Some days, it was hard to move. But [...]
In Okinawa, there are high-speed ferries between the islands of the Yaeyama Archipelago. Between Ishigaki Island and Kohama Island, a strong north wind blows, kicking up large waves. On any trip, the captain keeps the ship on heading, but adjusts speed as necessary. Sometimes he would drive the ferry over a wave, and we would [...]
Enthusiasm: from Ancient Greek “enthousiasmos,” meaning the God “theos” within. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enthusiasm Yeah, baby.
