One of the themes I keep coming back to is simplicity. Minimalism. Looked at minimalism of my physical possessions, the clutter that is around me, having clear, open space physically. And could also look at that in the clearness of time, having not too much clutter filling time, so that there’s open space in time, …
Minimalist knowledge: Life on a need-to-know basis Read More »
It’s now been three years since I started this channel, and one year of a video every day, one year of a video every week, one year of a video every month, and now going down to one video every quarter. So when I started this, I was motivated by this idea that I was …
Minimalist self-development: We don’t really need to “develop” Read More »
So I now find myself back in the old place, piles of stuff everywhere, as I move back in and try to improve the situation here, try to make this the best home, the best living environment, that I can. And there’s so many different pieces, so many different things, and the to-do list has …
A good state of mind is like fresh air, and a bad state of mind is like being stuck in a stuffy room. And I like this metaphor because we’ve all had that experience of being in a room where the air is very stuffy and still, closed windows, no circulation. And maybe we get …
As I go on, I find that I have less and less to talk about, because things really become simpler. And looking for a meaningful life seems to be not so much about adding new things, finding something to add to basic life, but really more about removing distractions. So a lot of things that …
It was while travelling around, doing a bit of a road trip around my home area, southern Ontario, got to near the furthest point away from my home, right down in the southwestern corner of Ontario, and I started to think about what really makes a home. What is it about home that makes it …
Welcome to Quest for a Meaningful Life in the park, down here by the Toronto waterfront, and today I’m thinking about what it means to think about time as if it’s space. If we think about the home that we live in, you can imagine a mental picture of what your house or apartment or …
Spacious time: How would your time look as a space? Read More »
Permanent daylight savings time. […] I find it very symbolic of the way that we interact with nature. […] Someone had a clever idea that we could actually pretend that the time is different than what it is. We could actually just change the clocks, completely arbitrarily. The sun isn’t changing. Still doing the same …
Permanent Daylight Saving Time: Disconnecting from the sun Read More »
When it comes to meaningful life, finding meaning in life, one of the themes that keeps coming back is this idea of connecting to something bigger, plugging into something that is bigger than ourselves and our everyday lives. And so this could be, of course, family, community, some sense of humanity, being plugged into some …
Down the news hole: Finding meaning in history and world events Read More »
Welcome to Quest for a Meaningful Life on the road here in Quebec City where I’ll be spending the winter, trying out this whole work from anywhere experience. Now that the lockdown of so much of organic real life has led to this opening up of working online, this idea of doing business through a …