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12 Zen Things to Help You Step Off the Hamster Wheel of Life

Slow down and get more done

Randye S Spina, MBA
4 min readSep 5, 2020

There it was. This plain piece of white paper hanging crookedly by a broken pushpin on a colleague’s office wall.

I’d been in her office before, of course. Many times. Why was it this particular day that I noticed it?

“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear, “ Lao Tzu

It’s been several years, and this is the only explanation that still makes sense to me. I remember that I stood there reading it for a moment and she said “I’ll make a copy for you” and promptly walked over to the copy machine.

Later that night at home I took it out of my tote bag and decided this list of numbered sayings written in Times New Roman was worthy of a redesign.

I’m no artist, but I retyped the list and made it pretty.

I bought a frame for it that matched her office decor and surprised her with it as a thank you for sharing it with me.

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At home, there’s one taped to the inside of my medicine cabinet so I see it first thing in…

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Randye S Spina, MBA
Randye S Spina, MBA

Written by Randye S Spina, MBA

Non-fiction author, marketer, award-winning professor, 2x nonprofit board member. Hopelessly interested in everything https://linktr.ee/randyesspina

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