5 PRINCIPLES FOR

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FORGET productivity, time management,

efficiency, the bottom line.

What belong to an empty room?

EMPTYyour time and mind.

Does poetry and beauty matters?

Empty Your Mind …

In Silence and Solitude

Schedule is full, • No room

for change.

Day is full of noise, • No space

to think.

Empty your day

Clear your schedule

Fill it with anything.

Create something different.

Find silence and solitude.

Slow Down and Be Mindful …

Slow and Mindful

• leaves us with less time

Rushing • pay attention

Slow down

• of small or large activity

Be mindful • When you are done

• Move to the next …

Enjoy the motion

Start Each Day By Creating

Make a difference

• Use gift of your day – For mindfull creative tasks– Not mindless repetitive stuff.

• Start each day by creating.– End the day with something amazing.

• Make space at beginning of your day – Don’t get lost in emails, networking and reading.– Delight people

• Make people want to help you. – Make a difference.

Simplify

Keep Things Simple

Simplify• You will find emptiness,

solitude, silence, slowness, mindfulness

• What’s on your desk right now? – What are 3 items you

really need? – Remove everything else.

• What’s on your schedule? – What 3 tasks that would

make a difference in your life?

– Eliminate everything else that you can.

Be Flexible …

Allow Flexibility

Profoundness• Not within• Non external• In the space in between

• Change is natural flow of things.

• Be open to whatever happens

• Deal with change as it happens

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Antoine de Saint-ExuperyFrench writer (1900 - 1944)