All entries tagged "lifeimprovement".
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From Conan O'Brien's final Tonight Show monologue:
Please do not be cynical. I hate cynicism. For the record, it's my least favorite quality. It doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.
I just did the Jung Typology Test and ended up as an ENFP (Extraversion, iNtuition, Feeling, Perception; more here and here). They say that's like Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Stephen Spielberg or Joan Baez – all of which are/were great computer scientists. The outcome is not a big surprise if you think about it, but I'm kind of surprised nonetheless. Not that I care about this kind of stuff, but GO TAKE THE TEST, it's awesome. (Sorry, trying to stay in character or something.)
From the essay »Ten Things I Have Learned« by Milton Glaser (via lonegunman):
Everyone always talks about confidence in believing what you do. I remember once going to a class in yoga where the teacher said that, spirituality speaking, if you believed that you had achieved enlightenment you have merely arrived at your limitation. I think that is also true in a practical sense. Deeply held beliefs of any kind prevent you from being open to experience, which is why I find all firmly held ideological positions questionable.
Lloyd Morgan of Lone Gunman cites an interesting passage from an old article by Joel Spolsky on the topic of procrastination. The main idea:
An object at rest tends to remain at rest. There's something incredible heavy in my brain that is extremely hard to get up to speed, but once it's rolling at full speed, it takes no effort to keep it going.
There are four beautiful shots of rural landscapes in Shaun Sundholm's »you probably came here to see this« photo set on flickr. Higher resolution versions would make great wallpapers. (Preferably without the writing. Slogans on desktop's get old really fast.) (probably via tat)
Four minutes of flickr browsing later: Okay, never mind.
From Bre Pettis' and Kio Stark's list on how to get things done:
4. Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.
(via lonegunman)
1001 rules for my unborn son. Very good. This should be converted to a PDF or something when it's finished. (via kottke)
For a start, I (actually, I hope it's we) will follow the Bible Companion guide. That would be Genesis 1-2, Psalms 1-2 and Matthew 1-2 for today. Let's get this started!
(Expect more coverage on this later. As I've been out cold for the most part of the day, I need to do a bit of catch-up right now.)
Starting on New Year, I am going to read the Bible within 12 months, following one of the numerous Bible reading plans. I like the concept of the Bible Companion, but I am not sure yet.
Doing this is not meant to be a New Year's resolution. It is just neat to start at the beginning of a year. But then again, that is the whole point about resolutions too, I guess. I should have started on Advent Sunday. Never mind.