work day

Finish today’s work today. More work will arrive tomorrow.

standing

The leaves depend on the branch as much as the branch depends on the leaves.

margin

A little bit of empty space in your surroundings allows for a more fluid approach in life.

even flow

You don’t need to have a history of stability to create stability. Stability emerges out of vision and decisions.

panorama

Being in balance includes being able to spend time preparing for things that are coming up and reflecting on things that have completed.

automatic

Set things up so that they will succeed even when you are not paying close attention.

gear

When you slow down your shopping, you can slow down your clutter clearing. Then maybe you can get more sleep.

burn rate

You might need to have a quantity of something on hand, so look at the rate of movement. How much of something do you use in a day or a year? How long will it take until you use up what you have?

low profile

If you have decided to keep things that are obstacles to someone, look for ways to make the thing less of an obstacle. Consider whether the thing can be moved, made smaller, or minimized in some other way.

free to fix

When you approach a task without time pressure, it gives you the freedom to go off on tangents to solve other problems you discover in your work. You get more done even if a to-do list doesn’t show it.

chips

If you are willing to do the things that seem almost too small to matter, that will lead quickly to the bigger things that you really want to do. But if you object to the work in front of you, complaining that it is too small to bother with, you will remain blocked from the big things in life.

take it

Knowing where you can take things is as important as knowing where you can get things.

next reader

If you are raving about a book you have read, you make a good case for passing the book along to someone else who might benefit from reading it.

unboxing

You don’t always get what you wish for, but you always get something.

iso Cinderella

If the shoes don’t fit you, they may fit someone. Pass them along.

abracadabra day

It makes no sense to postpone tasks to a day that will be busier than today.

cite

Original work will be imitated.

no un

It takes a measure of silence to write effectively, but that doesn’t mean you can write the silence.

stock

Eat the leftovers first.

no storage space

Sometimes the things you need show up just in time.