{"id":2337,"date":"2021-06-10T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/?p=2337"},"modified":"2025-10-30T11:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T10:21:13","slug":"remember-to-touch-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/10\/remember-to-touch-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember to touch base"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A few months ago, picking up an old-new notebook from my stock of pillaged office stationery, I was surprised by my own handwritten quotation on the first page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Remember to touch base. Base is where you were before you became lost. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I copied it onto a Post-It that is now stuck on my monitor, but I didn’t look for its source until today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It actually comes from The Rules of Life<\/em><\/a> by Richard Templar. I read this book in 2004 during a phase of self-improvement although I don’t remember being impressed by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe it was prescient that I wrote dwon this particular ‘rule’ then only for me to find it now when the advice seems much needed. Coincidentally, last week whilst rummaging through boxes in the attic, I held the book in my hands, considering whether to read it again before putting it back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few months ago, picking up an old-new notebook from my stock of pillaged office stationery, I was surprised by my own handwritten quotation on the first page. Remember to touch base. Base is where you were before you became lost. 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