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01 Jul 09

39 Ways to Live, and Not Merely Exist - Dumb Little Man

# Love. Perhaps the most important. Fall in love, if you aren't already. If you have, fall in love with your partner all over again. Abandon caution and let your heart be broken. Or love family members, friends, anyone -- it doesn't have to be romantic love. Love all of humanity, one person at a time.

# Get outside. Don't let yourself be shut indoors. Go out when it's raining. Walk on the beach. Hike through the woods. Swim in a freezing lake. Bask in the sun. Play sports, or walk barefoot through grass. Pay close attention to nature.

# Savor food. Don't just eat your food, but really enjoy it. Feel the texture, the bursts of flavors. Savor every bite. If you limit your intake of sweets, it will make the small treats you give yourself (berries or dark chocolate are my favorites) even more enjoyable. And when you do have them, really, really savor them. Slowly.

# Create a morning ritual. Wake early and greet the day. Watch the sun rise. Out loud, tell yourself that you will not waste this day, which is a gift. You will be compassionate to your fellow human beings, and live every moment to its fullest. Stretch or meditate or exercise as part of your ritual. Enjoy some coffee.

# Take chances. We often live our lives too cautiously, worried about what might go wrong. Be bold, risk it all. Quit your job and go to business for yourself (plan it out first!), or go up to that girl you've liked for a long time and ask her out. What do you have to lose?

# Follow excitement. Try to find the things in life that excite you, and then go after them. Make life one exciting adventure after another (with perhaps some quiet times in between).

# Find your passion. Similar to the above tip, this one asks you to find your calling. Make your living by doing the thing you love to do. First, think about what you really love to do. There may be many things. Find out how you can make a living doing it. It may be difficult, but you only live once.

# Get out of your cubicle. Do you sit all day in front of computer, shuffling papers an

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01 Nov 08

15 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Working Another Day | Productive Flourishing

    • 15 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Working Another Day


      October 17th, 2008 | Flourishing



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      Are you in the right line of work? Should you be doing something else? Ask yourself the following questions:



      1. Do you get to do your work, or do you have to do your work?
      2. If you were guaranteed your current standard of living no matter what you did, would you still do what you’re doing?
      3. True or false: When you think about what you do, are you dreaming or dreading?
      4. Who decides when you work: you or your organization?
      5. Do you get through your day or are days a chance to advance your goals and projects?
      6. True or false: If you stopped liking what you’re doing, you would quit.
      7. Does your productivity keep you working or does it help you maintain productive motion?
      8. Do you like to talk about what you do, or would you rather people not ask about it?
      9. True or false: What you’re doing today helps build skills and achievements that help will help you do what you want to do 6 months to a year from now?
      10. Does doing what you do drain your energy or renew you?
      11. Do you make your To Do list or does somebody else?
      12. True or false: You would be proud if someone you loved did what you’re doing.
      13. You get up early or stay late because…1) you want to work on the project or 2) you want to get the project done.
      14. When you say what you do, do you say “I am a (_____) or I (_____). Example: I am a painter vs. I paint.
      15. Would you do what you’re doing if you weren’t getting paid for it?


        16. I recognize that some of the questions seem the same, but sometimes asking the question differently yields different answers. Please share some of your answers or thoughts if you’re up for it.

09 Jul 08

Top 10 Modern Life Survival Skills - Lifehacker Top 10

  • Avoid everyday problems and modern mini-calamities by arming yourself with the right know-how before you head out into the world. Locking yourself out of your apartment, losing your car in the Gargantu-Mart lot, standing lost on a city street corner—you can overcome almost any day-to-day disaster with some clever thinking and a bit of knowledge. We've compiled some of our favorite tricks that can make any Average Joe/Jane feel like a regular commando at work, at home, or on the go. Hit the link for a list of our top 10 non-computer modern life survival skills. Photo by *clarity*.
28 Jun 07

TED conference

  • Technology, Entertainment and Design - really energizing ideas - helaine on 2007-01-26

Getting more out of iCal

  • The truth is, iCal works great with kGTD (mostly of course), and once you make your peace with the perplexing stasis of its feature set, there are some not-bad hooks and affordances hiding in its pastel, roundy corners. Here’s a few I like. - helaine on 2007-01-26

Geek to Live: Choose (and remember) great passwords - Lifehacker

  • You don't need to remember 100 passwords if you have 1 rule set for generating them. One way to generate unique passwords is to choose a base password and then apply a rule that mashes in some form of the service name with it. For example, you may use you - helaine on 2007-01-26
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