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Work Alone Won’t Ever Fulfill You
Close your eyes.
Take a few deep breaths, inhaling through your mouth and exhaling through your nose. Expand your belly as you inhale, then notice it fall as you breathe out.
As you continue breathing deeply, feel the sensations inside your body — first in your toes, then your feet, and up your legs, back, and neck.
What do you sense with your body?
Note the textures around you. Perhaps you feel a leather couch or a smooth table. What do you smell when you breathe in?
Now, pause to listen. What sounds do you hear?
Try to engage your senses fully and quiet your mind as you continue to breathe, without judging or analyzing your surroundings. Just exist, right where you are, accompanied only by your breath and your five senses.
This is the present moment: your secret weapon in finding inspiration, living creatively, and cultivating a meaningful, fulfilling life.
The myth of productivity
In many ways, productivity is an illusion. And we’re buying it.
It’s an easy trap. Hustle culture dangles a carrot before our eyes, always tempting us with more: more money, more happiness, more success — if only we succumb to its demands.
