Today I am reminded of the message of Saint Josemaria Escriva. He believed we had all been called to evangelism. And that we could all serve God through our work. This message today is what we know as 'Opus Dei' the work of God. Our work can become an act of prayer.
I often teach the a few core principles of what makes ICU decision making different from treating what appears to be similar problems on the med-surg floors. Here are a few principles I emphasize, in no particular order...🧵
Let's create a thread of lines of poetry that we love. Maybe this will be something people can carry around and scroll through to find what they need. 🤍
I'll start with these words by Mark Strand: "where we disappear is where we are."
If you want to live the Ugandan dream, having a certification matters. You will probably get a decent job and live long enough to realize, like many old people I am meeting these days, it wasn’t worth it.
If you want to sit on tables where important decisions shaping people,
One of the best ways to bond with your kids is through reading books
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In the course of life, I have listened to many speeches, by the most immaculate of men and women. Yet it is this speech by a comedian (Tim Minchin) that I always refer to for lessons on life. Learn something 👇
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In 1986, Charlie Munger gave a commencement speech at Harvard.
He told the class he couldn't tell them how to be happy. But he could tell them how to guarantee misery.
Here are his 7 prescriptions:
Tomorrow Died Yesterday
The Kite Runner
Half of a Yellow Sun
A woman is no man
Six of Crows
It Ends With Us
Once Upon a Broken Heart
Verity
Stay With Me
Yellow Face
When We Were Fireflies
Purple Hibiscus
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
All Sidney Sheldon’s books.
You go and hurt someone, and then when it comes to apologising you help yourself to crying as well. She had seen it in films. Man cheats, man confesses to woman, man cries, and the betrayed woman is robbed of her right to tears. - The First Woman (Jennifer Makumbi)
From Robin Sharma ✍🏿
I’m thinking about habits as we start 2024. I’d like you to consider adopting these in the new year:
1. Rise with the sun and spend at least an hour praying, reading and running. Your days will never be the same!
2. Go complaint-free for a week. [You’ll
In another life, my mother will be my little bundle of joy, one I have looked forward to receiving. I will love her but mostly, push her dreams so that she never has to give up herself for children, may be she will become a surgeon like she has always desired.
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