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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One of the sad experience in blogging is the time we lose our readers. Seasons come and go, and sadly readers come and go as well. This blog has the same experience, but the art is really how we can stay positive when that happens. Losing readers is unavoidable as a part of your growth as a blogger or a people of influence. You can take it as a failure, or you can take it as a success. It’s really about perspective.
If you ask me, then these are some of the reasons why you can smile and stay positive, even when you lose readership…
1. Your readers are growing…
Scott H. Young recently wrote a mind-boggling article in his blog, The Purpose of This Website is to Lose Its Readers. It really opened my eyes on the experience, more than a reason to smile, he put losing his readers as a goal or purpose to achieve. Isn’t that like school graduation? Imagine what will happen if school doesn’t want to lose its students. The students will never be graduated and they will never step into another phase of their life.
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Have you learned cycling when you are below 15 years old?
If you do, then you are very fortunate. As I shared earlier I learned cycling only about few weeks ago, and I still need to improve my cycling a lot. But the lesson taught me something, the lesson taught me to start living my life.
Today is the Blog Action Day, the day where a lot of bloggers and podcasters around the world talk about the same topic, and it’s all about Poverty this year. I won’t share with you about physical poverty, but I want to share about mental poverty, the poverty mindset, one that often steals your reasons for smile.
The first lesson: Riding BMW
Yes, I got poverty, it’s the poverty of confidence, and the very first reason I can remember is because of the fact that I could not cycle. For some it might not be a big deal, but I was growing up in the place where many people are cycling, and it’s kind of awkward for not being able to cycle. While I couldn’t cycle, I was commuting with my BMW. And no, it’s not the rich man’s BMW; it was the poverty’s BMW: bitching, moaning and whining.
Have you have ever been caned when you were small before?
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I’m getting older. It was my second birthday in this year. As the human, I celebrated my 26th birthday last August. As the blogger, I celebrated my birthday again last September.
I started blogging 2 years ago. My first post is published on the 28th September 2006. It was a desperate moment and the blog was born with a quote that really touched me…
When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.
-Unknown
And then… I stopped blogging for one full year. Only at the end of September 2007, I’m inspired by a friend, Darryl, to continue my own blog. I took a Wordpress account and even, in the month of October 2007, I made the commitment to blog everyday. I managed to do it, with hard work. Most of the posts are short and as the blog grows, my post is getting longer.
November 2007, I moved my blog from Wordpress.com to my own domain. To be exact it is 12 November 2007, the day when I got into the ‘corridor’. It will be the day that I will consider as the birthday of Reason-4-Smile Weblog.
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When should you quit? And when should you stick?
This is the second book from Seth Godin that I read after The Meatball Sundae. This time it shared about whether we should quit or not. It’s great if we can become whoever we want, but to be the best at something, we need to quit something.
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Should you fake it before you make it?
Mary Jacksh wrote the danger of faking it in her article, “Why Faking It Can be Soul-destroying“. Some people agreed and some are not. It’s an interesting discussion and I would like to share more about my opinion here.
How often have you heard the quote “faking it before you make it”? In some degree the quote reflects some concepts in growth. But it is not always effective if it stays alone. Let me share with you more on what you can and cannot fake.
The danger of faking your confidence
Mary shared about the danger of faking your confidence. One of them is on affirmation. You may have told your overweight self in the mirror “slim and beautiful.” Or that person in the mirror who was struggling to make ends meet “a millionaire”. As Mary put it, those are the times “we are trying to brainwash ourselves.”
Yet, someone is not seen in the mirror, one little voice that will not accept that. It keeps on saying, “you are not that slim”, “you are not that rich”, “you are not that great”, and so on. It’s our subconscious mind, one that usually controls us.
It’s one that will not let you delusion yourself. By force, you may have changed what you believe consciously, but things will not change unless you deal with much bigger part that controls you. Your subconscious mind. And affirmation is hardly able to change your subconscious mind.
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Have you ever fought your heart?
Nervous… I have no idea why, but that was what I felt last weekend. Maybe it’s worry of the project that I have to complete in The Courage to Create program. Maybe it’s a worry as I was working on the new theme on my blog. Will it show indecisiveness? Or instability? Will anyone unsubscribe? And so on. Maybe it’s a fear of failure, or maybe… it’s also a fear of success.
“When you cease doubting, you have stopped moving forward”
~Paulo Coelho (Brida)
The fact is… it is a part of success journey, a journey towards your dream. It should have happened to you, unless you have stopped following your dream. And it was something that Paulo Coelho also shared in his book, The Alchemist.
One boy, a shepherd, gave up all his sheep to pursue his dream to find his treasure. He found his dream girl in the journey, but he also decided to leave her for a moment to pursue his dream to find the treasure accompanied by the Alchemist.
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