To affect the quality of the day; that is the art of life.
– Henry David Thoreau

My guide to a good life begins with the notion that time is our most precious inventory, and that the quality of our lives reflects how and where and with whom we spend it. The tragedy of modern life resides in the everyday Faustian exchange of time for false promises and trivial distractions — by the tens of thousands. As it turns out, free time in the Great Age of Addiction & Loss is the only meaningful measure of a free society.

Despite the sheer complexity of life in the Great Age of Addiction & Loss, there are simple things we can do to protect and improve the quality of our lives.  Among them is a set of fundamental Life Rules that I promote in myself and others, three Life Steps to take you from here to there and a suite of time-tested Life Tools to help you put them to work for yourself.  We can start right here right now, however, with a simple call to action:

Whatever your religion, or lack thereof, put your spirituality first. Doing so compels both humility and gratitude. Humility moderates excess, imposes perspective and compels patience, and gratitude is both the eternal and internal wellspring of all healing.

Over the coming weeks, months and (hopefully) years I’ll be expanding on many of the above guidelines.  For now, however, I’ll leave you with one more pithy quote to ponder, this one from no less than the legendary baseball star Satchel Paige, the very same Satchel Paige who once said, “Don’t look back.  Something may be gaining on you.”

Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common.
– Satchel Paige

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