You know those times when you want to do something, like water the plants or eat a cupcake, some fellow comes along and advises you to do that exact same thing. Bam! You no longer want to do it anymore.
You just don't want to do that thing now because then that person will feel as though you did it BECAUSE he told you to. It's as if that person thinks we have no self capacity to think and act. Pretty annoying it becomes especially when it happens more than 3 times in an hour.
It's hard to be productive people. One can easily get lost in the onslaught on tasks to do and end up doing too much or too less. And most of us do.
I've realized that the key to successful productivity in balance. That is properly distributing ones tasks through out the day.
The most important time is the morning or just after one wakes up. Atleast for me, I tend to to be very sleepy and very off course early in the day but I gain momentum as the day progresses. My productive time is towards the end. I used to mange my tasks at the end of the day and update them at the end. But off late I've begun doing that first thing in the day. The review cycle in GTD. This gives me something to accomplish and keep in my mind as the day passes. And I make a sort of mini day tasks list and then make another 3 level priority list which contains the 3 next actions to do in order assuming that everything is going smoothly. That way I can reduce the load on having to decide what to do, which takes a lot of time for me considering I have 150+ next actions.
For non GTDers, I suggest
GTD on wikipedia
GTD on wikisummaries
Indian Mangoes @ Anil Dash
I found the above really amusing. If you didn't click the link, it's just some dude being really happy that the USA now allows India to import mangoes there, so now they get to eat them!
I just don't understand why people go all the way to Sammy, then struggle so much to be Indian. But that's the sad reality folks. People go to the USA, then pay $1 for a totally pathetic pani puri. We get awesome road side pani puri for Re 1 around here. And it's authentic too! And these Desis watch Hindi movies, go to temples(I swear!) and also wear sarees! If they like Indian things so much, just why go all the there? Maybe they prefer the 'higher standard' of life. But it doesn't seem very high to me. It's not cool to own a sports car in the US, but it is cool in India. See?
Why Men make better friends than woman
Friendship Between Women:
A woman didn’t come home one night. The next day she told her husband that she had slept over at a friend’s house. The man called his wife’s 10 best friends. None of them knew about it.
Friendship Between Men:
A man didn’t come home one night. The next day he told his wife that he had slept over at a friend’s house. The woman called her Husband’s 10 best friends. Eight of them confirmed that he had slept over, and two claimed that he was still there.
You know lately I've been wondering how important 'keeping one's health' really is. Now staying currently hale and healthy and strong is very important. It would suck to have a cold(esp. with such great B'lore weather now)!
But imagine when you're 70 yrs old, you're 'healthy' as in you are alive and not in the hospital but you can't really do anything. Being 70 yrs old and walking around laughing and playing table tennis(like my super cool grandfather) is awesome I can tell you that! That's the peak of health! But he middle ground is a sad place. You are stuck. One might as well be dead rather than alive and doing nothing.
So what's one to do with staying healthy? I've decided that there are only two options. Either stay VERY healthy which implies exercise everyday, eat your veggies, lower starch intake, drink water, rest, proper cycle etc etc. If you aren't doing everything properly, you properly should bunk it and wreck your health and freak out.
Note: I really have NO idea whether one is happy doing nothing when they are old. If this is possible then all is great. But I highly doubt this is my case.
Note 2: I think the title sucks.
Note 3: Wow, this note style is cool and convenient, though totally unhealthy.
It comes crawling slowly out of the dark, then quickly wriggles out of sight. A worm? What is it? It comes again but I pretend to not notice it. Again. Then again. I look at it, it's a horrible sight. How did it get in? I must do something. I must get rid of it. This is no place for…for…such things! I'm scared of hitting it. No this is my territory. I cannot be frightened here! I grab the nearest old book. Wham! I hit the thing. Carefully I lift it up to see what's happened to it. It lays still. Finally! What?! No! It's crawling away! I thought it was over! I hit it again. Then leave the book there. I walk around for a while…nervous. Then I lift up the book carefully. It's lost a few of its numerous legs. Haha! NONO!! It's running away again! What deceptive creature is this? I hit it once, twice, thrice…It continues crawling, enduring and fighting defeat. I keep hitting it. This is ridiculous! Won't it die? WON'T IT???
Inspired by this
I read a lot of stuff online and so I naturally use a feed reader.
After an unfortunate accident in Bloglines, I decided to change feed readers. I tested out Google Reader, Rojo, RSSOwl and RSSBandit, and Alertbear.
Web based readers
Google Reader: Very fast. Easy to organize. Has a nice 'Trends' feature. And also feed sharing. + Tags. But for me, it lost. It looks ugly(I really think so). And it's web based. Not a problem, but I've been using web based for a while now and I want a change to an desktop application.
Bloglines: It's fast and simple to use. Not as fast as Google Reader though. But again it's ugly. Has some cool features like Playlists, which let u 'play feeds'. And lots of other stuff.
Rojo: Looks neat, but not easy to use. Has strange controls and I don't like that it shows all the articles, even the read ones and I have no idea how to turn it off.
Desktop Readers
Alertbear: Desktop application. Quite neat. But I felt that it's a bit too 'bulky'. As in it occupies too much screen space. Too much empty space in buttons etc. But the desktop widget type thing is pretty neat. I'd use this if I didn't have so many feeds.
RSSBandit: Nice looking. But this one was slow. It took so long to load, it got annoying. Also organizing was a pain. I thought this was a dream, but it turned out really tiresome to use.
RSSOwl: Quite decent looking. Easy and fast(not as fast Greader/Bloglines/Rojo). It does all the basic stuff I'll ever need. It's perfect.
Winner: RSSOwl
Yay for me!
Knightly was a pretty little thing. Nice pair of legs I must say. Bloom was alright. He didn't Legolas this one though.
Glaringly pathetic was that something kept happening in the story and everyone seemed to be very riled up about it, although I never really could come to grasps to what was happening. And then when all seemed confusing, YET another new 'secret story BLAH' is unveiled.
"Oh! My! I really wanted to know about HIS/HER love/weapon/secret! Wow, that really builds the story and greatly impacts the course of the story!"
Battered by an insanely large number of nouns, I was forced to indulge in the comedy of the situation even though, I'm sure, the writers didn't intend it there. 3 hours of meaningless loaf. Blah.
In the end however, Sparrow comes to the rescue with his usual antics. All the time, one would sit hopefully waiting for the bitch to cover up her legs and let the slides move on the scenes with Jacky. Nothing else was really worth the torture. Not even the action.
5/10
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One thing I recently noticed is how often people tend to use the word 'cliché'. Actually, I'm starting to think that the word itself is becoming a cliché. Its really annoying to find someone point out every darned cliché on the planet. Plain, I'm guilty of this too!
I don't blame people. Cliché is a actually a 'cool word'! See:
○ It has a 'e' with an accent. How cool is that?
○ They secretly hope someone will gawk at them ununderstandingly so that one may knowingly say,"A chli-shey, not cli-chey..blah blah! You don't know?".
○ It makes them appear as if they're scholars and that they may go around knowing what actually is a cliché. Makes me mentally scarred for life
Which brings me to another cliché: Mentally scarred for life. I don’t know how but off late mentally scarred kept bouncing in my head and I realized how many darned women use it to adjectivise their sad reality. I wonder if they fantasize of being mentally scarred for life.
As if mentally scarred wasn't enough, they just had to add a 'for life' there for God's sake.
Which brings me to a dying cliché: for God's sake. For God's sake, has everyone lost faith in God? Its been a while since I've seen that one! Makes people seem like a clichéd lot.
For gods, I'm mentally scarred for life writing a blarmed essay with the word cliché being repeated over 10 times.
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