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Friendly neighbours, AI assistants, time anxiety and Poorna
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Each Newsletter will include: 3 Ideas & 1 Person who has scripted a purposeful life. Do you have the patience to wait
Till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving Till the right action arises by itself? - Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
In response to challenges, the natural striver in us would usually push ahead, troubleshoot, hustle in the efforts to make it work. What if you took a moment to separate yourself from the challenge and be present? It might be worthwhile to see what comes up. Relax your mind and you shall receive.
...To feel happier, make close “close” friends.
Or improve your relationships with a few nearby friends.
But don’t expect them to make you happy. They need to be happier first, because when they are…that’s when you feel happier...
- Multigenerational Harvard Study on happiness (Source Article)
This business has taken the concept one step further by making co-living its main thing.
...Imagine having 1,000 analysts in your pocket, synthesizing market trends, competitive intelligence, and internal data in real time. With AI, you can make that a reality—one that allows you to spend less time gathering data and more time focusing on vision, innovation, and relationships. (Source Article) AI does not have to be the enemy, it can be a trusty assistant, helping you get through the grunt and mundane work, so that you can strengthen your analytical muscle, have the patience to lead, guide, manage and make decisions that you feel good about.
In a world obsessed with squeezing the most out of every moment, the fear of falling behind can trap us in a paralyzing stress cycle. Incomplete to-do lists, unanswered emails, and unmet life goals haunt our thoughts, leaving us overstimulated and exhausted. - Chris Guillebeau Author, Chris Guillebeau recommends building a tolerance for incomplete to-do lists and the inevitability of disappointing people, abandoning the goal of "catching up.” Ideally, we have to set our own limits because no one else will.
Have you seen Mindy Kaling's sitcom, Never have I ever? If you have, Poorna plays the main character's mother. She reappeared on my radar in a new crime sitcom, Deli Boys. While it may seem by her acting chops that Poorna has been acting for years, her back story might surprise you. Awakened to her emotions by a near death experience when she was 20, she reckoned that was the beginning of her acting journey. She didn't take the straightforward path towards being an actor. She would take acting classes after work. It wasn't a case of corporate malaise either - she thrived at her corporate job. She noticed acting filled her with life force whereas corporate America couldn't. Following her joy, she quit to focus on acting. It is and as an immigrant myself, it feels like a very Western concept. It’s not about money, I had none of that. It’s a hard one so I had to always juggle it with advertising, but it’s possible. I also think if you want to be an artist, you have to be happy with all levels of what form your art takes. Mine could have been just taking acting classes, doing something on the weekend, theater in New Jersey, TV, or film. You have to be okay with all forms of how your passion manifests.
THIS WEEK'S SCRIPT NOTES
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Script your Life
Do you enjoy pop culture references? Want to see how scrolling and reading can inspire you to action? Let this be your energy booster and idea bank for designing your intentional existence.
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