Wednesday, October 30
Deep Work : Cal Newport
My lessons:
1. Work deeply.
The Rhythmic philosophy of deep work scheduling.
People play differently when they are keeping score.
I recommend the habit of a weekly review in which you make a plan for the workweek ahead.
2. Getting the most out of your deep work habit requires training, and this training must address two goals: improving your ability to concentrate intensely and overcoming your desire for distraction.
Scheduling internet use at home as well as at work can improve your concentration training.
3. Put more thought into your leisure time.
4. A deep work habit requires you to treat your time with respect.
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Deep Work
(Updated: Oct '19)
1. Work deeply.
The Rhythmic philosophy of deep work scheduling.
People play differently when they are keeping score.
I recommend the habit of a weekly review in which you make a plan for the workweek ahead.
2. Getting the most out of your deep work habit requires training, and this training must address two goals: improving your ability to concentrate intensely and overcoming your desire for distraction.
Scheduling internet use at home as well as at work can improve your concentration training.
3. Put more thought into your leisure time.
4. A deep work habit requires you to treat your time with respect.
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Deep Work
(Updated: Oct '19)
The Four Agreements : Don Miguel Ruiz
1. Don't take anything personally.
Nothing people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.
Whatever people do, feel, think, or say, don't take it personally.
(Updated: Oct '19)
Nothing people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.
Whatever people do, feel, think, or say, don't take it personally.
(Updated: Oct '19)
The Secret : Rhonda Byrne
1. Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.
(chapter-3)
2. A thought has a frequency.
Your life is a mirror of the dominant thoughts you think.
One way to master your mind is to learn to quiet your mind. Meditation quiets your mind, helps you control your thoughts, and revitalizes your body.
(chapter-1)
3. You want to become aware of how you're feeling, and get in tune with how you're feeling, because it is the fastest way for you to know what you're thinking.
Your thoughts determine you frequency, and your feelings tell you immediately what frequency you are on.
Your feelings are your frequency feedback mechanism.
One way is to close your eyes, focus on your feelings inside, and smile for one minute.
Different things will shift you at different times, so if one doesn't work, go to another. It only takes a minute or two of changing focus to shift yourself and shift your frequency.
(chapter-2)
(Updated: Dec '19)
(chapter-3)
2. A thought has a frequency.
Your life is a mirror of the dominant thoughts you think.
One way to master your mind is to learn to quiet your mind. Meditation quiets your mind, helps you control your thoughts, and revitalizes your body.
(chapter-1)
3. You want to become aware of how you're feeling, and get in tune with how you're feeling, because it is the fastest way for you to know what you're thinking.
Your thoughts determine you frequency, and your feelings tell you immediately what frequency you are on.
Your feelings are your frequency feedback mechanism.
One way is to close your eyes, focus on your feelings inside, and smile for one minute.
Different things will shift you at different times, so if one doesn't work, go to another. It only takes a minute or two of changing focus to shift yourself and shift your frequency.
(chapter-2)
(Updated: Dec '19)
Tuesday, October 29
Tough time never last, but tough people do : Robert Schuller
My three lessons:
1. Leadership.
Don't surrender leadership to outside forces.
Don't surrender leadership to fears.
2. Brownouts do not have to be burnouts.
Those who wait on God shall renew their strength.
Wait on God. Remain in touch with God through prayer.
3. Yield your life and your problems to God.
Once you've given God control of your life, it won't be free from difficulty. God has not promised that our skies will always be blue, but He has promised to see us through.
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Every problem holds positive possibilities.
Every problem contains secret ingredients of some creative potential either for yourself or someone else.
(Updated: Oct '19)
1. Leadership.
Don't surrender leadership to outside forces.
Don't surrender leadership to fears.
2. Brownouts do not have to be burnouts.
Those who wait on God shall renew their strength.
Wait on God. Remain in touch with God through prayer.
3. Yield your life and your problems to God.
Once you've given God control of your life, it won't be free from difficulty. God has not promised that our skies will always be blue, but He has promised to see us through.
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Every problem holds positive possibilities.
Every problem contains secret ingredients of some creative potential either for yourself or someone else.
(Updated: Oct '19)
Better Than Before : Gretchen Rubin
My three lessons:
1. Safeguards
1. Safeguards
"What I do most days matters more than what I do once in a while." That kind of self-encouragement is a greater safeguard than self-blame.
Try thinking of each day as a set of four quarters: morning, midday, afternoon, evening. If you blow one quarter, you get back on track for the next quarter. Fail small, not big.
2. Convenience
We should pay close attention to the convenience of any activity we want to make into a habit.
Identifying exactly why something feels inconvenient helps to reveal possible solutions. Identify the problem.
Make it easy to do right, hard to go wrong.
3. First Steps
2. Convenience
We should pay close attention to the convenience of any activity we want to make into a habit.
Identifying exactly why something feels inconvenient helps to reveal possible solutions. Identify the problem.
Make it easy to do right, hard to go wrong.
3. First Steps
If I dread starting a task, just making a plan for beginning -- jotting down a to-do list, finding the right link, locating the instructions -- helps me start. This first step almost feels like cheating, because I'm not actually doing the task I'm avoiding. But taking this first step makes taking the second and third steps much easier, because I've already started.
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Clarity
When we push ourselves to get clarity, when we identify the problem, sometimes we spot new solutions.
It's easier to stick to a habit when we see, with clarity, the connection between the habit and the value it serves.
Treats
Because forming good habits can be draining, treats can play an important role.
If I give more to myself, I can ask more from myself. Self-regard isn't selfish.
Foundation
Self-command breeds self-command, and change fosters change. The reverse is true too: undesirable habits often cluster together and reinforce each other.
Monitoring
Self-measurement bring self-awareness, and self-awareness strengthens our self-control.
(Updated: Oct '19)
Friday, October 25
The Alchemist : Paulo Coelho
My three lessons:
1. When you really want something, all the Universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
2. We need to be aware of our personal calling. What is personal calling? It is God's blessing, it is the path that God chose for you here on Earth. Whenever we do something that fills us with enthusiasm, we are following our legend.
3. If you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.
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We must be prepared to have patience in difficult times and to know that the Universe is conspiring in our favour, even though we may not understand how.
To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation.
The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.
(Updated: Oct '19)
1. When you really want something, all the Universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
2. We need to be aware of our personal calling. What is personal calling? It is God's blessing, it is the path that God chose for you here on Earth. Whenever we do something that fills us with enthusiasm, we are following our legend.
3. If you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.
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We must be prepared to have patience in difficult times and to know that the Universe is conspiring in our favour, even though we may not understand how.
To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation.
The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.
(Updated: Oct '19)
Thursday, October 24
Essentialism : Greg McKeown
My three lessons:
1. Progress
We can ask ourselves, "What is the smallest amount of progress that will be useful and valuable to the essential task we are trying to get done?".
"Early and small" means starting at the earliest possible moment with the minimal possible time investment.
2. Focus
Get present in the moment and ask yourself what is most important this very second - not what's most important tomorrow or even an hour from now.
3. Trade-off
Instead of asking, "What do I have to give up?" they ask, "What do I want to go big on?". The cumulative impact of this change in thinking can be profound.
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Clarity
If we could be truly excellent at only one thing, what would it be?
Sleep
Consider how many benefits of sleep - greater creativity, enhanced productivity, even lower health care costs - have the potential to directly affect the bottom line.
Buffer
One way to protect against this is simply to add a 50 per cent buffer to the amount of time we estimate it will take to complete a task or project.
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Essentialism
(Updated: Oct '19)
1. Progress
We can ask ourselves, "What is the smallest amount of progress that will be useful and valuable to the essential task we are trying to get done?".
"Early and small" means starting at the earliest possible moment with the minimal possible time investment.
2. Focus
Get present in the moment and ask yourself what is most important this very second - not what's most important tomorrow or even an hour from now.
3. Trade-off
Instead of asking, "What do I have to give up?" they ask, "What do I want to go big on?". The cumulative impact of this change in thinking can be profound.
______________________________________________________________
Clarity
If we could be truly excellent at only one thing, what would it be?
Sleep
Consider how many benefits of sleep - greater creativity, enhanced productivity, even lower health care costs - have the potential to directly affect the bottom line.
Buffer
One way to protect against this is simply to add a 50 per cent buffer to the amount of time we estimate it will take to complete a task or project.
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Essentialism
(Updated: Oct '19)
Tuesday, October 22
Why You Don't Feel Good Enough : Terri
How to believe in yourself a little more?
God doesn't call the qualified; He qualifies the called.
Don't shrink your dream... enlarge your faith.
Be it unto you, according to your faith.
-Bible
Domino?
It's your identity. It's the way you see yourself.
You have to change the way you see yourself. You have to believe in yourself a little more. This one thing effects everything you become.
How do you increase your self-worth? How do you enlarge your Faith to believe for bigger things, and believe that you are good enough to achieve these big dreams?
Deliberately choose your input. Your input shapes your outlook, and your outlook shapes your behaviour.
Add associations to your life who live in the areas you want to grow in.
Your KEY is Keep Educating Yourself.
You are good enough.
Thank you! Needed to hear this today!
Monday, October 21
Work - Android Development
1. Start early and small.
(for eg. 10 mins, or one UI element, or 2 lines of code)
2. Reward yourself.
(There are times when things go smoothly, and there are times we experience friction.)
(for eg. 10 mins, or one UI element, or 2 lines of code)
2. Reward yourself.
(There are times when things go smoothly, and there are times we experience friction.)
Saturday, October 19
Friday, October 18
Work (Boundaries)
Effective workers do two things:
1. they strive to do excellent work, and
2. they spend their time on the most important things.
-Boundaries (Pg 201)
1. they strive to do excellent work, and
2. they spend their time on the most important things.
-Boundaries (Pg 201)
Thursday, October 17
When People Want to Help but Just Make Things Worse : tiny buddha
When People Want to Help but Just Make Things Worse
Because at the root of every relationship is love.
So, even during times when things aren’t as good, it’s important to separate the actions other people do to help with the intention that’s behind it all: love for you.
Thank you!
Because at the root of every relationship is love.
So, even during times when things aren’t as good, it’s important to separate the actions other people do to help with the intention that’s behind it all: love for you.
Thank you!
Wednesday, October 16
Sunday, October 13
Modern Family
Bloopers
Modern Family Season 1 Gag Reel/Bloopers
Modern family season 2 gag reel
Modern Family bloopers/gag reels SEASON 3
Modern family gag reel/ bloopers Season 4.
Modern family gag reel/bloopers Season 5.
Modern family gag reel/ bloopers Season 6.
Phil Dunphy
Phil Dunphy funniest moments season 1
Phil Dunphy’s funniest moments season 2
Phil Dunphy’s funniest moments season 3
Phil Dunphy’s funniest moments season 4
Phil Dunphy’s funniest moments season 5
Best of Phil Dunphy(Season 7) Part 1
Gloria
Gloria's Best Moments in Season 2
Cam
Modern Family Cam Moments Part: 1
Mitch & Cam
Best Mitch and Cam Moments (Season 1)
Best Mitch and Cam Moments (Season 2)
Claire
Claire's Best Moments in Season 1
Claire's Best Moments in Season 2
Best Gloria and Jay Moments + Bloopers (Season 2)
Luke
Best Luke Dunphy Moments (Season 1)
Joe
Joe Pritchett - Part 4
Manny
Best Manny Delgado Moments (Season 1)
Best Manny Delgado Moments (Season 2)
Lily
Lily's Sassiest/Mean moments 2
Modern Family Season 1 Gag Reel/Bloopers
Modern family season 2 gag reel
Modern Family bloopers/gag reels SEASON 3
Modern family gag reel/ bloopers Season 4.
Modern family gag reel/bloopers Season 5.
Modern family gag reel/ bloopers Season 6.
Phil Dunphy
Phil Dunphy funniest moments season 1
Phil Dunphy’s funniest moments season 2
Phil Dunphy’s funniest moments season 3
Phil Dunphy’s funniest moments season 4
Phil Dunphy’s funniest moments season 5
Best of Phil Dunphy(Season 7) Part 1
Gloria
Gloria's Best Moments in Season 2
Cam
Mitch & Cam
Best Mitch and Cam Moments (Season 1)
Best Mitch and Cam Moments (Season 2)
Claire
Claire's Best Moments in Season 1
Claire's Best Moments in Season 2
Gloria & Jay
Luke
Best Luke Dunphy Moments (Season 1)
Joe
Joe Pritchett - Part 4
Manny
Best Manny Delgado Moments (Season 1)
Best Manny Delgado Moments (Season 2)
Lily
Lily's Sassiest/Mean moments 2
Saturday, October 12
Taking It One Day at a Time
I'm taking it one day at a time.
One-day-at-a-time thinking reminds us that, in many cases, our greatest enemy is that otherwise critical nectar: hope and the perplexing emotion it tends to bring with it, impatience.
By limiting our horizons to tonight, we are girding ourselves for the long haul and remembering that an improvement may best be achieved when we manage not to await it too ardently.
It means recognising that we have no serious capacity to exercise our will on a span of years and should not therefore disdain a chance to secure one or two minor wins in the hours ahead of us.
We might look with fresh energy at a cloud, a duck, a butterfly, or a flower.
I needed to hear this, today. Thank you :)
Friday, October 11
Saturday, October 5
Friday, October 4
HABITS OF EFFECTIVE PEOPLE : Pick Up Limes
HABITS OF EFFECTIVE PEOPLE
1. Being Proactive.
2. Giving time to quadrant two.
3. Using downtime wisely.
4. Knowing when you're the most productive.
5. Planning your time.
6. Sharpening the saw.
Breaks, and self-care.
7. Focusing on one task at a time.
Thank you!
Pick Up Limes
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