2025-08-02 19:05:00
Having watched my fair share of David Attenborough narrated shows about oceans, I knew phytoplankton are the starting point in the marine food chain.
Here’s what I didn’t know – these tiny oceanic organisms produce over half the oxygen we breathe.
Even more remarkably, they absorb more carbon dioxide than all the trees on Earth combined.
Floating on the sunlit surface of the sea, phytoplankton not only sustain the marine food web, they regulate our planet’s climate – one breath at a time.
In his latest masterful 2025 documentary “Ocean,” Sir David Attenborough points out that these creatures might be what separate us from a climate catastrophe.
Once you internalize their impact on our lives, it is easier to understand why.
2025-08-01 19:40:00
“No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.”| Marilyn Ferguson
This is a beautiful visual – guarding a gate or change. It brought me right back to the Adlerian idea of “separation of tasks.”
Change happens only at that intersection of willingness and ability.
The teacher we seek will appear… when we’re ready.
2025-07-31 19:27:00
The only kind of conviction that really matters in the long run is the one that comes from within.
2025-07-31 19:21:00
Comparison and gratitude have an equally powerful effect on the joy we experience – just in opposite directions.
2025-07-30 19:12:00
“The way out of uncertainty isn’t certainty, it is clarity.”
Changing the uncertainty level in the environment around us is almost never in our control.
Getting to clarity on our response to it always is.
2025-07-29 19:25:00
One of the most nefarious tools the resistance within us employs is to get us to habitually speculate about the future rather than focus on taking action in the present.
Such speculation starts off interesting but soon simply succeeds in stopping all progress with analysis paralysis and worry. There’s no end to asking “what if” questions.
Speculation works like salt. A pinch is great. Too much spoils the dish.
Our energy is best focused on figuring out how to do the best with what we have right now.
The quality of the future isn’t determined by the quality of our speculation. It is determined by the quality of the action we take today.
