Day 20 8.29 YARD SALE

High Holy Days Journey with Amichai Lau-Lavie: 40 ways in 40 days to find your focus        DAY 20   On the drive back from the Catskills today – many more signs for yard sales than usual. End of summer rummage through what has to go. But the urge to stop and rummage was […]

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Day 19 8.28 THINKING THERAPY

High Holy Days Journey with Amichai Lau-Lavie: 40 ways in 40 days to find your focus       Thinking Therapy   Did the young Freud attend High Holiday Services in Vienna? Not that I heard of, but I like to imagine that he went with his grandparents, who were Orthodox Jews, and sat there, observing […]

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Day 18 8.27 THE DEAL WITH DEBT

High Holy Days Journey with Amichai Lau-Lavie: 40 ways in 40 days to find your focus       One of the items that came up for me on the shame list was debt.  Shame about letting fees pile up for not dealing with annoying debts. Just a stupid waste of money. Nothing major: Parking tickets, […]

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Day 17 8.26 WHAT A SHAME

High Holy Days Journey with Amichai Lau-Lavie: 40 ways in 40 days to find your focus     Shame   I walk into an office today and the person sitting there working at the computer hurriedly pulls down shut the laptop screen and turns to me, flushed. What was he ashamed of? What did he have […]

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Day 16 8.25 Make Time for Quality TIme

High Holy Days Journey with Amichai Lau-Lavie: 40 ways in 40 days to find your focus     DAY 16: Make Time For Quality Time    The ‘let’s do lunch’ cliché is well worn and familiar, even when it sometimes does manifest. What would it take to really plan ahead and plan carefully in the year […]

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