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October 15, 2013 / 0 Comments

Out My Mind, Just In Time

“Round and Round I seem to go.” – Erykah Badu, Out My Mind, Just in Time 

Some random thoughts that I need to get out of my head… 

Tiffany wrote a book called Jump Start HTML5 Basics that’s available for digital download. It’s the first in a series about the wonders of HTML5. I wasn’t allowed to read it before it was published so be like me and spend a few bucks to see what’s ticking in her mind.

I made a few updates to Louisville is for Lovers. Here’s a picture:


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I’ve become hooked on Rdio. A friend hipped me to a feature I wasn’t using (Play Later) which is simple yet awesome way to collect music for future listening without having to generate your own playlist like I had been doing. The music service also launched a recommendations feature recently that I’m already digging. Rdio is encouraging me to be more of an album listener than a shuffler. I still love my stations but I’m quicker to jump out of them and go listen to a full album than I have been in the past. I’m going to go broke buying albums that I’ve discovered there.

I’ve added red and burgundy into my closet for fall. I realized yesterday as I checked out my new henley in the mirror, that this is the first time I’ve worn red regularly in maybe 25 years. Old middle school fears about Crips and Bloods turn into habits that die hard. Even as I walked around Miracle Mile at lunch today, it lingered in the back of my head that maybe somebody would roll up on me and ask, “What set you claim?” Silly. (It probably didn’t help that I listened to Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City this morning, though).

TV. I don’t know if this is a fleeting feeling or representative of a meaningful shift in my life but, I’m tending towards turning the telly off and turning my kindle on more often this season. I still love my shows but, I’m loving fewer of them. Meanwhile, words—mine and yours—are proving endlessly interesting. If only there were enough time for them all.

Well, all of them, and Marvel Avengers Alliance on Facebook. I fear I’ll be on my death bed still trying to acquire the latest hero and complaining about PvP.

Add me. LVL 197.

 

September 23, 2013 / 0 Comments

Discipline

“I know where I’m going even when it’s dark.” – Rising Down, The Roots

What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.

–Gretchen Rubin

Establishing new routines is hard. I assume this is true for everyone but I know it is for me. A slight wrinkle in my schedule, like an early morning flight for a business trip, can throw me completely off my goals.

This is exactly what happened with my daily writing routine, which then infected my reading routine, my long established workout habits, and so on. For the last two weeks!

I’ve read several books on this subject over the last couple years—Nudge; The Power of Habit; Thinking, Fast and Slow—and still it’s a struggle.

But today is a new day and I’m here at 6:30 in the morning writing. Should I wake up healthy and coherent, I commit to doing the same tomorrow.

If you focus on changing or cultivating keystone habits, you can cause widespread shifts. However, identifying keystone habits is tricky. To find them, you have to know where to look. Detecting keystone habits means searching out certain characteristics. Keystone habits offer what is known within academic literature as “small wins.” They help other habits to flourish by creating new structures, and they establish cultures where change becomes contagious.

–The Power of Habit