Mike Vardy

Poise is the personification of presence.

It’s what happens when your mind and body stop arguing about where they are.

"Attention without feeling... is only a report."

Mary Oliver on what attention really means – a gorgeous meditation nested into her gorgeous elegy for her soul-mate www.themarginalian.org/2015/01/20/m...

Watched the first episode of Pluribus. Can’t wait to watch the next, but kinda have to. I think each episode needs space to breathe a bit.

Black Friday tends to get noisy. This one’s quiet — intentional, even.

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Harry says “Manners maketh man” in the movie The Kingsman right before the room explodes into violence. A sharp reminder that polish isn’t presence.

In a world like ours, perhaps "method maketh man" — how you choose, not just how you appear.

Time doesn’t take orders. It just keeps moving. The trick isn’t control — it’s collaboration. => mikevardy.com/making-peac...

I’d say that everyone should look into cognitive behavioural therapy but that would mean I’ve fallen into a thinking trap.

Developmental edits just came back for my next book.

The “avoidant adapter” in me wants to do anything but look at them. But the “sustainable strategist” in me wants me to make sure that we keep making progress so that we stay on track.

The struggle is real.

We are a one car household, so I have to time it right. And often the stuff that’s available isn’t something that my picky teenage son will be interested in.

I keep tabs on things, but that’s usually the extent of it.

We try to use FoodHero and other apps like that, but it doesn’t always work out. So we just plan accordingly and do we do what we can.

I feel so much better when I go for a daily walk.

Our household has become more intentional about our grocery shopping over the past several years. Trying to buy more local, but yet balancing that by saving money on things that are incidental.

It’s not a perfect way to go, but we are perfecting it each and every week.

Pretty sure I’m gonna watch Coco again this weekend.

It’s a poutine with dinner kind of night, which is a step above a poutine for dinner kind of night.

“You never waste time. Time wastes you.” - Ty Lookwell

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The opening scene to Weapons is haunting. And the musical choice makes it all the more so.

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Instead of asking myself what I need to do every morning, I drink out of this mug and ask THIS question.

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Tonight was a “switch up the fountain pen rotation” kind of night.

I do for this book.

All things must pass… including the week. Going into the weekend with George as my guide.

Been more quiet lately.
Sometimes you have to live the story before you can write it.
Second draft: complete.

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Maybe starting revisions of my next book with the acknowledgments wasn’t my best idea.

Easy to write, sure—until I got halfway through and started tearing up mid-Focus Fix session.

TimeCrafting Trust members might’ve wondered if I was OK. (Technically yes. Emotionally… “in progress.”)

The problem is that I think people will shift permanently to daylight savings time instead of standard time.

I mean… We will get used to it, but I don’t think it’s the ideal time to settle on.

A wonderful way to end the day.