Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.*
Bernard Malamud

Since the vast majority of our words and actions are unnecessary, corralling them will create an abundance of leisure and tranquility. As a result, we shouldn’t forget at each moment to ask, is this one of the necessary things … unnecessary thoughts, too, so needless acts don’t tag along after them.**
Marcus Aurelius

I was talking with my friend Andrew over the weekend
about the new directions his life was taking –
He’d come up with an excellent way of considering
his work and activity that he’s dubbed the 5 Cs:
Continue with those things that express your passion and skill, that
you make a difference through;
Cease those things that empty, deaden and reduce you, that may be
for someone else to do;
Change those things that hold promise, but perhaps need more learning or
a different audience or a different time investment;
Combine different ideas, or work with another’s skills, and
Create what is wanting to come into existence, your new horizon, the result
of all your years and all your experiences.^

Our aim is to avoid an unnecessary life –
To include in our four thousand weeks those things that are
life-fulfilling, -absorbing, -engaging, -expanding for
ourselves and for others.

What is the new horizon in you that wants to be seen?^^

*Mason Currey’s Daily Rituals;
**Ryan Holiday’s The Daily Stoic;
^These are my iterations of the 5Cs;
^^John O’Donohue’s Benedictus.