Do you regret on the mistakes you made? Did you forget about what you have to do? Are you making lots of assumption and decision you need to keep track of? Or do you need a place to put the information you need?
If you’ve never had any place to put all those things, most likely you will put it in your brain. Let’s see what David Allen said about that…
It’s a waste of time and energy to keep thinking about something that you make no progress on. And it only adds to your anxieties about what you should be doing and aren’t.
~David Allen (Getting Things Done)
David Allen emphasized the need of a system to get things done. We need it to track all the things we need to remember. With a reliable system, we can let go our mind to focus only on one thing at a time, which is the next action of what we can do now.
Journaling To Done, or I call it JTD, is a system that I implement to work effectively as a software developer. It helps me to my day-to-day progress. It’s a tool for me to record the assumptions, the thinking process, the decisions, things I have to do, and things I learned all in one journal.
Today, I want to share with you in this article. It is also my tips on personal excellence, a contribution to Luciano’s Personal Excellence Project.
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How can you turn your work into calling?
Yes, this book is targeted to help certain category of people, which is called the Highly Sensitive Person, or referred as HSP. Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D. has written another book that describes fully on the definition. On the contrary, this book shares the perspective of working to the HSP. Continue Reading →
Today is the one year of smile, one year of Reason-4-Smile Weblog. One year ago, I posted my first article in this blog. I got into the corridor when I’m moving from reason2smile.wordpress.com to this blog. And it has been a year of new and exciting experience to me.
I’m really thankful for all the friends that I have met in blogosphere. So I really hope that this will be an opportunity for me to give back and share some thankful notes. Especially to the following people, that in one moment or so has contributed to this blog, through comments, links, and friendship.
And here is the list…
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Who is Team Hoyt? It’s a team of a father (Dick Hoyt) and a son (Rick Hoyt). And here is some introduction of them, taken from Wikipedia.
Team Hoyt is a father (Dick Hoyt) and son (Rick Hoyt, b. 1962) in Massachusetts who compete together in marathons, triathlons, and other athletic endeavors. Rick has cerebral palsy, caused by loss of oxygen to his brain at birth because his umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck. Dick pulls him in a special boat as they swim, carries him in a special seat up front as they bike, and pushes him in a special wheelchair as they run.
~Team Hoyt @ Wikipedia
If the story is not touching enough, you may want to watch the video below.
What is your first impression you have after watching the video? Are you inspired by their courage, persistence, belief, or love?
It was envy for me.
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