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I spent my Memorial Day morning catching up on email and reading. The scope of “keeping up” overwhelms me at times. The only solution I found to not letting this stress me? Accepting the lack of a solution, and that I must choose my focus. So, most of the stuff that comes into my inbox gets deleted.

Here are a few things that caught my eye today:

• “My Dad and Henry Ford“, a comic on The Nib. There’s been a lot written lately about Ford’s antisemitism. I appreciated this story’s personal touch.
• As I’m committed to continuous self-improvement, I found “9 Questions That Will Help You Make the Most Out of Every Day” enlightening. I created a daily checklist in Evernote based on these questions.
• “Four Hard Facts That People Need To Swallow” provided a reminder to accept people, especially flawed people, as they are.
• I’ve long struggled with comparing myself to others, and to the inner misery that this can create. Sinem Gunel wrote this article over on Medium, “Happiness is Found on The Other Side of Comparison“.
• “A 3-Minute Hack for Focus You’ve Probably Never Heard Of“. I’ve long used music to create focus. Calm, tranquil music that is. There’s now a label for a specific type of focus music: “Binaural Beats”.
• Related to the above, I have yesterday’s Pacific Notions (via KEXP) playing this morning to help create focus. I’m unsure if this falls exactly under “binaural beats”, but it has a similar effect for me.

That’s where I find myself this morning. How about you? Anything inspiring and insightful come into view for you?