Begin the day with a not to do list.

If the world will not go away, then the great discipline seems to be the ability to make an identity that can live in the midst of everything without feeling beset.

Being besieged asks us to begin the day not with a to do list but a not to do list.

A moment outside of the time-bound world in which it can be reordered and reprioritised.

In this space of undoing and silence we create a foundation from which to re-imagine our day and ourselves.

In this space, we give ourselves and our accomplishments, our ambitions and our over-described hopes away, in order to see in what form they return to us.

– From Consolations by David Whyte