"While jobs are sustenance, careers are altars upon which all else is sacrificed." - Cassady Rosenblum, 'Work is a False Idol', NYTimes, 22 August 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/22/opinion/lying-flat-work-rest.html (accessed 23 August 2021)
"I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?"
—Mary Oliver
https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/poet-laureate-projects/poetry-180/all-poems/item/poetry-180-133/the-summer-day/ (accessed 22 August 2021)
"Atelic activities are done for their own sake, not in order to achieve a particular end." - https://medium.com/swlh/telic-vs-atelic-activities-and-the-meaning-of-life-abf5ac035599
Hacking the life hack: To find what’s most meaningful to us, we have to learn which things to neglect. by Mia Levitin, August 18, 2021, Financial Times, https://www.ft.com/content/f85bb484-7433-46c4-80e1-4c97d50440ce (accessed 22 August 2021)
"#'Work'(less), #'Earn'(more), #Enjoy(more)" - Poh-Sun Goh, 23 August 2021, 0812am, Singapore Time
[note: aim is for Work to not feel like 'Work'; and note that what is 'Earned' includes a sense of satisfaction, joy and happiness; from being good, doing good, giving back, and adding value] - Poh-Sun Goh, 23 August 2021, 0818am, Singapore Time
Reflection on re-reading, again, Chapter 11, from The 80/20 Principle: The Secret of Achieving More with Less" by Richard Koch, first edition, 1998, A Currency Book, published by Doubleday
quote from above book (Chapter 11) - "Most of us don't work out what we want. And most of us end up with lopsided lives as a result" - Richard Koch
"at the end of a (your, my) life, at the funeral, we can (visibly) see and feel the final accounting of a (your, my) life - by who comes (turns up, attends the funeral), what is said (and written) .. or unsaid, who and what is left behind ... these four observations, and outcomes are basically it (all there is) in the final accounting of a (your, my) life ... so be good, and do good ..." - Poh-Sun Goh, 22 August 2021, 0858am (first expressed when conversing with my cousin when I delivered the eulogy for my father in 2018; my uncle then passed away one week later; and most recently recalled at the funeral/cremation of the father of a very close a friend on Friday)
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