Comments on: On Peace and Quiet

By: How Reading a Newspaper Changed My Life – Suzemuse

How Reading a Newspaper Changed My Life – Suzemuse — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:01:15 +0000

[...] I mentioned in a previous post, I’d come through some struggles in the mid 1990’s with my health. Flash forward to [...]

By: Where and how @suzemuse does her best work | Thoughtwrestling

Where and how @suzemuse does her best work | Thoughtwrestling — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:42:28 +0000

[...] By the time I got around to focusing on this article, my creative brain was toast. My lack of Peace and Quiet yesterday zapped my ability to create. You see, if we are just “go-go-go” all the time, [...]

By: Amy Jussel, ShapingYouth

Amy Jussel, ShapingYouth — Mon, 31 May 2010 00:39:53 +0000

I am a living contradiction of this sometimes, as I sit here with 102 tabs open in Firefox, knowing full well that multitasking is a misnomer and saps productivity: http://j.mp/bzxDJm

That said, I've been VERY focused about finding (nay, DEMANDING) my peace and quiet from the media melee. I must. Truly. When email is now tipping six figures and the digital deluge has me wondering whether I'm managing my media or it's managing me, I NEED to cut loose for quiet time and process, despite pings and blips of "why aren't you answering my text!" and "pick up the freakin' phone!" and "how can you just tune out?"

Answer? The private sanctuary of the brain is where we replenish, reprocess, and filter out the noise to signal ratio...without that 'down time' we're simply in 'churn and burn' chatter, not really listening to ourselves, OR those around us. (imho anyway) Glad to have found you via @pattichurch A dear one who slips off my radar on occasion but is always close to my heart in spirit.

For my peace and quiet? (aside from a nightly lavender bubble bath ritual) "I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order." ~John Burroughs

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 30 May 2010 22:57:04 +0000

Two boys, 9 and 6, one is a red head, and comes from a “very similar” family as Suze describes. As I write this, both of them have run INTO the house with SuperSoakers screaming that the house is surrounded. There will be 2 hours of Peace and Quiet tonite after they go to bed at 8:30.

By: Jeff Wiedner

Jeff Wiedner — Sun, 30 May 2010 19:14:50 +0000

Nice post. Getting inside your own head is scary. Avoiding it doesn't make it go away. It comes out in other ways, whether as a snark at someone or even a lower self esteem if you repeatedly beat yourself up because you can't let something go. One quote I love is “Nothing does more damage than your own unwise thoughts.” That's prompted me to start journalling first thing in the AM to get all of that annoying stuff out. It's 30 min of quiet time and then the day starts with a clean slate.