I’ve started a new blog over at http://woodenzen.blogspot.com/. It is an experiment. My intent currently is to post about Zen, to make them short, personal, intimate, sort of like a bubble floating on top of a stream. Here we go… so join me if you dare!

Thanks to my twitter friend Patti Digh, I came across Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah and a couple sweet covers. Here are the relevant youtube links. Each about 6 minutes long.

I’ve come to see this as a sweet and sexy love song. Honest and intimate in a way that I aspire to. Thank you Jikan.

“Hallelujah” Leonard Cohen

Journal entry for today.
http://www.tompeters.com/entries.php?note=006635.php

Tom Peters on “The Single Most Important Thing” turns out to be two. Meditation and 4 item to-do list EVERY MORNING! Got the first part down, now on to the second.

Note to Will, start a 4 item todo list and put it in front of you each day. Things to include are important work commitments, blogging, relationship stuff, woodworking goals, technology, life work. Things to exclude, time wasters, shopping lists, frivolous Internet distractions, appointments, etc. Seems like two lists are called for. The 4 item “Single Most Important Thing” list and a combo appointment/shopping/errand list. Mixing these two list has been my method and now I see that may be my problem with consistency. If the list doesn’t have important things on it or too many items from the appointment/shopping/errand category, the list losses its power.

Even just the process of setting the todo list and setting the priorities will be skillful. As Tom Peters says, what is left off of the list list is just as important as what is included. That helps in understanding the importance of culling dead, negative and unhelpful activities from the list. Onward!