Septmeber/October Double Issue Volume 2 | Page 14

Motivational Even Superman has to take his cape to the cleaners Adventures in Awesome Living by Sunil Bali, Chief Energy Officer Quotes I do nothing and then I do something. But it’s taken years of investigating idleness in all its forms to be able to achieve this. My discipline is borne out of concerted study of idleness – Will Self You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet – Franz Kafka I was at a dinner party with some medics yesterday, when the conversation turned to stress in the work place. It transpires that the waiting rooms of doctor’s surgeries are overflowing with stressed out managers and executives who complain of too much work and too little time. Whether you’re Superman or Wonder Woman, there comes a time when you have to take your cape to the cleaners and slow down before putting it back on. 14 • Upscale Desires Magazine • www.upscaledesires.com To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world – Oscar Wilde An idle mind is a questioning, skeptical mind. Hence it is a mind not too bound up with ephemeral things, as the minds of workers are. The idler, then, is somebody who separates himself from his occupation: there are many people scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation – Robert Louis Stevenson