Time Alone & Life Lessons

Growingfree SimpleLife Morning Musings;

It's a cloudy Fall day, a great time to read, write, cook some good food, and maybe take a nap. This GrowingFREE Simple LifeStyle yields Wisdom for me. Things are just more clear, partially because there is an Abundance of Time, one of the most overlooked assets in our life.

It Happens to Those Who Live Alone; David Whyte

It happens to those

who live alone

that they feel sure

of visitors

when no one else

is there,

until the one day

and the one

particular

hour

working in the

quiet garden,

when they realize

at once

that all along

they have been

an invitation

to everything

and every kind

of trouble

and that life

happens by

to those who

inhabit

silence

like the bees

visiting

the tall mallow

on their legs of gold,

or the wasps

going from door to door

in those tall forests

made

so easily

by the daisies.

I have my freedom

today

because nothing

really happened

and nobody came

to see me,

only the slow

growing of the garden

in the summer heat

and the silence of that

unborn life

making itself

known at my desk,

my hands

still

dark

with the crumbling

soil

as I write

and watch

the first lines

of a new poem

like flowers

of scarlet fire

coming to fullness

in a clear light.

Life Lessons; Chip Conley

Our painful life lessons are the raw material for our future wisdom so one way to determine your wisdom fingerprints is to consider some life experiences that you’ve metabolized into wisdom.

What did you learn from your first job or first marriage or having your first child?

If I was asked this question, my answer would depend upon the day I was asked. Today, I might offer the following:

-Anticipated regret is a form of wisdom.

The regret of the thing you didn’t do is twice as painful as the regret of the thing you wish you hadn’t done. I still regret not taking a whole summer to travel Europe after spending my spring quarter of my junior year overseas in England. My favorite MEA question is “Ten years from now, what will you regret if you don’t learn it or do it now?” This is how I catalyzed myself to learn Spanish and to surf at 56 even though I thought I was too old.

-The cosmic bellhop delivers your reputation before you arrive. While you can’t control what others will say about you, you can influence their perspective of you based upon your actions. As hotel real estate developer, I’ve encountered riled-up activists at community meetings who were worried about our plans to build or renovate a hotel, but I’ve never experienced being voted down for our proposal primarily because there were always good people out there speaking positively about us based upon our commitment to “karmic capitalism,” what goes around comes around.

-As we age, time is more important than money.

What’s scarce is valuable and as we age, we have less time. This is particularly important with how we invest our time into relationships with our family and friends. If you’re rich, you have money. If you’re affluent, you have time.

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