More Being and Less Reading (89)

More on what I’m learning and how I am being as a result of consuming fewer books and less information. Conversation Highlights * Avoiding the Twitch (Anthony Ongaro) * Going through books and podcasts much slower and multiple times * Judgment, Acceptance and Freedom by Tara Brach * Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn * There is no where to get to * Convergence of three things * Consuming less information * Spending the weekend away with my wife * Feeling more present * The importance of going away alone with your spouse * Turn off your phone and the TV * Be present to the moment and each other * My book reading fast and road trip prepared me well for this weekend away * Concentrated times of being make the subsequent actions cleaner and more direct * Peace that comes from it * A book is just a book * It doesn’t matter how much or how little I read right now * Peace comes from a place of not needing to accomplish anything or finish a book * I don’t need to read another book to get to where I’m going right now * Seeing an increasing level of confidence of knowing when to be in being or doing mode * Skimming and scanning for interesting things doesn’t move thing forward in our lives * It’s like consuming junk food if I want a fit body * Personal Inquiry * Do you really need to read another book to do what you need to do? * Is getting more information simply a form of procrastination? * How much of what you’ve read and learned have you implemented? * What if you read fewer books this year and implemented more of what you learned in them? * Creating negative associations to avoid behaviors or consumption that doesn’t serve me * “Reading the news puts poison in my head” * “Sugar (candy) reduces my immunity and makes me sick” * When I don’t jam as much information into my head there is space * From that space comes great ideas or actions to take * Concluding Inquires * Why are you consuming information? * Is that information in service of something positive? * Is what you are consuming giving you the outcome you want? * What’s something valuable you have consumed or learned recently? * Go through it again * Implement it Credits * Hallon by Christian Bjoerklund * Cold Funk by Kevin MacLeod * Original photo source: Me All songs licensed under Creative Commons