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Sunday, May 31, 2009
I'm moving on
Free Spirit.
I am moving on to wordpress because i'm annoyed at blogger's functinality inflexibility of posting to an ftp site (like nomadlife.org).
And if I were to switch off from nomadlife, it should be to a nicer system.
Follow me here: fheyder.wordpress.com ¶ 8:33 PM 0 Comments
I am moving on to wordpress because i'm annoyed at blogger's functinality inflexibility of posting to an ftp site (like nomadlife.org).
And if I were to switch off from nomadlife, it should be to a nicer system.
Follow me here: fheyder.wordpress.com ¶ 8:33 PM 0 Comments
Monday, May 18, 2009
100 Ways To Motivate Yourself
Amazon.com: 100 Ways To Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever: Steve Chandler: Books
In a standard 4 types of personality test, I am the influencer.
In the quirky dove-owl-peacock-eagle personality test, I am the peacock.
In the super complicated 9 types Enneagram test (my favorite), I am type 7: the Enthusiast.
What do they mean? Pretty much that I am a creative, outgoing, happy person. I also happen to be very inconsistent, having outbursts of i-want-it-this-instant things. Always starting, never finishing. (Well not always, but I that's my normal operating tendency that I will fall back to if I am not performing at my best)
It's true. I am that person. I have accepted it. So in my day to day living, I have to constantly struggle to identify these bad traits when they come up.
The conversation in my head will be something like this:
"Man I hate mondays, let's see what's on facebook"
"Warning!!"
"Just five minutes"
"five minutes is up!"
"But I have to see what my friend wrote, friendship is beyond work"
"it's been 10 minutes"
"Already 10? Well then another minute wouldn't hurt"
"It's been 30 minutes, I feel guilty"
"Hey... ads on glass blowing course, that sounds cool"
"No I don't need a glass blowing course"
"Maybe not, but live life without regrets rite?? What if I regret this later"
On times where my dark side is winning, I like to pull out one of my favorite book out of the drawer. 100 Ways To Motivate Yourself by Steve Chandler. It does what it says, giving many many tips to jolt myself back to motivation and back to my original task. (This is of course assuming that your original task had some kind of meaning for you, if it doesn't then maybe you need a bigger help!!)
Personally, I like to pick a random page whenever I open Steve's book. So I don't know if I've read them all, but even the old ones are still a good straight-to-the-point advice I could always rely on.
Some samples that have helped me overcome a snag during a dry day:
No. 23 - Kill your televison - Self explanatory and can also be applied to facebook
No. 5 - Push all your own buttons - Making note of simple things that lift you up like a great song and using all those to repeat the feeling when you are down.
No. 99 - Laugh with no reason - Hahaha my favorite tip.
No 38 - Learn to come from behind - Accepting the fact that the natural rhythm of things are sometimes about 1 step up and 2 step down. That's not a problem, just put in sometime to recharge and do it again.
And many others...
Usually after pondering one of Steve's tips which may or may not include a simple exercise, my heads all cleared up and things look better. I find my thoughts going back to:
"Monday's aren't so bad after all"
"You sure??"
"Yeah... let's do this one tiny step at a time. No biggie" ¶ 4:12 AM 0 Comments
In a standard 4 types of personality test, I am the influencer.
In the quirky dove-owl-peacock-eagle personality test, I am the peacock.
In the super complicated 9 types Enneagram test (my favorite), I am type 7: the Enthusiast.
What do they mean? Pretty much that I am a creative, outgoing, happy person. I also happen to be very inconsistent, having outbursts of i-want-it-this-instant things. Always starting, never finishing. (Well not always, but I that's my normal operating tendency that I will fall back to if I am not performing at my best)
It's true. I am that person. I have accepted it. So in my day to day living, I have to constantly struggle to identify these bad traits when they come up.
The conversation in my head will be something like this:
"Man I hate mondays, let's see what's on facebook"
"Warning!!"
"Just five minutes"
"five minutes is up!"
"But I have to see what my friend wrote, friendship is beyond work"
"it's been 10 minutes"
"Already 10? Well then another minute wouldn't hurt"
"It's been 30 minutes, I feel guilty"
"Hey... ads on glass blowing course, that sounds cool"
"No I don't need a glass blowing course"
"Maybe not, but live life without regrets rite?? What if I regret this later"
On times where my dark side is winning, I like to pull out one of my favorite book out of the drawer. 100 Ways To Motivate Yourself by Steve Chandler. It does what it says, giving many many tips to jolt myself back to motivation and back to my original task. (This is of course assuming that your original task had some kind of meaning for you, if it doesn't then maybe you need a bigger help!!)
Personally, I like to pick a random page whenever I open Steve's book. So I don't know if I've read them all, but even the old ones are still a good straight-to-the-point advice I could always rely on.
Some samples that have helped me overcome a snag during a dry day:
No. 23 - Kill your televison - Self explanatory and can also be applied to facebook
No. 5 - Push all your own buttons - Making note of simple things that lift you up like a great song and using all those to repeat the feeling when you are down.
No. 99 - Laugh with no reason - Hahaha my favorite tip.
No 38 - Learn to come from behind - Accepting the fact that the natural rhythm of things are sometimes about 1 step up and 2 step down. That's not a problem, just put in sometime to recharge and do it again.
And many others...
Usually after pondering one of Steve's tips which may or may not include a simple exercise, my heads all cleared up and things look better. I find my thoughts going back to:
"Monday's aren't so bad after all"
"You sure??"
"Yeah... let's do this one tiny step at a time. No biggie" ¶ 4:12 AM 0 Comments
Monday, May 04, 2009
Very cool
Using facebook status updates to write a story. Quite a good detail packed into 160 characters snapshots. hands up for dodysm!
dodysm: "Saturday, May 02, 2009
No Title Yet Part 1 - Murder of a Chechen Rebel
This is a snapshot of a fictional story written daily on my Facebook status, 160 characters at a time - two or three status updates a day. Each paragraph constitutes one Facebook status update. It is still ongoing and it is written without edit.
'Any last wish Yamadayev ?' The bound man on the floor looked up with his red swollen eyes, angry and resigned. He started to speak when the trigger was pulled. Job #151 was completed. Dubai, March 30, 2009." ¶ 7:38 PM 0 Comments
dodysm: "Saturday, May 02, 2009
No Title Yet Part 1 - Murder of a Chechen Rebel
This is a snapshot of a fictional story written daily on my Facebook status, 160 characters at a time - two or three status updates a day. Each paragraph constitutes one Facebook status update. It is still ongoing and it is written without edit.
'Any last wish Yamadayev ?' The bound man on the floor looked up with his red swollen eyes, angry and resigned. He started to speak when the trigger was pulled. Job #151 was completed. Dubai, March 30, 2009." ¶ 7:38 PM 0 Comments
Monday, February 04, 2008
I'm a convert
ps: Obviously I am only mentioning basic premises on which GTD is best. The book has lots of good handy tips and it has been drafted into my permanent best-books section on my shelf.
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7 Habits puts a lot of emphasis on saying no to small things and delegating them. After a few years I finally realized why it wasn't working for me, I don't have any power to say no to my boss nor do I have anyone to delegate to! The only person who is under me is the cleaning auntie, and even she has more powers than me!!! ("Auntie, I want green tea" "Mei You!!" sob sob!!)
The whole premise of Getting Things Done by David Allen is that until your mind knows that you will do a certain task (by writing it down in a trusted list) it will continually remind you randomly thus making your thoughts muddy. It also reminds you about the million scenarios attached to that task, making you overwhelmed and tempting you to forget about it all together. But your mind is also smart enough to prioritize things so you don't need to keep much than lists of "To Dos". Best thing is, you don't have to purchase any super expensive custom tailored organizer... in fact David Allen himself mentioned that he is very happy with his standard issued palm organizer.
Really really, I think this is the best for overly worked analyst (office low lives) with minimal budget for fancy organizers!
Really really, I think this is the best for overly worked analyst (office low lives) with minimal budget for fancy organizers!
ps: Obviously I am only mentioning basic premises on which GTD is best. The book has lots of good handy tips and it has been drafted into my permanent best-books section on my shelf.
Sunday, February 03, 2008
RDA Singapore
I don't have that many goals in life, it's bad, i know. But one thing I've always wanted was my own horse. Of course, I can't afford one yet... so I looked for ways to be around them for free.
That's how I got myself into volunteering at the Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA) every Saturday afternoon 3:45pm. The RDA provides free, therapeutic horse riding lessons to children and adults with disabilities.
Every week, I volunteer as a side walker for their beginners class. There are about 6 children in one class with 6 horses, 3 instructors, 6 leaders and 6-12 sidewalkers. The Instructor plans the lessons, the Leaders are responsible for the horses and the Sidewalkers communicates basic instruction to the riders. Each rider has a special condition. My rider, Ashwin, is Autistic.
Ashwin has a hard time concentrating and is frequently pre-occupied with his own thought. But slowly, through his RDA lessons, he learns to concentrate better with voice commands. On some days it's hard to get through to him, but on some days (like yesterday) he's such an angel that you wouldn't think there is anything wrong with him. Oh and he also likes to see himself in mirror which is always cute to watch.
To be honest, I volunteered because I can be around horses. But those little kids' smiles are fast becoming my Saturday afternoon miracles. ¶ 6:54 AM 1 Comments
That's how I got myself into volunteering at the Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA) every Saturday afternoon 3:45pm. The RDA provides free, therapeutic horse riding lessons to children and adults with disabilities.
Every week, I volunteer as a side walker for their beginners class. There are about 6 children in one class with 6 horses, 3 instructors, 6 leaders and 6-12 sidewalkers. The Instructor plans the lessons, the Leaders are responsible for the horses and the Sidewalkers communicates basic instruction to the riders. Each rider has a special condition. My rider, Ashwin, is Autistic.
Ashwin has a hard time concentrating and is frequently pre-occupied with his own thought. But slowly, through his RDA lessons, he learns to concentrate better with voice commands. On some days it's hard to get through to him, but on some days (like yesterday) he's such an angel that you wouldn't think there is anything wrong with him. Oh and he also likes to see himself in mirror which is always cute to watch.
To be honest, I volunteered because I can be around horses. But those little kids' smiles are fast becoming my Saturday afternoon miracles. ¶ 6:54 AM 1 Comments
Saturday, February 02, 2008
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Travel travel travel
8-14 July - Japan (Tokyo - Kyoto - Osaka)
21-29 July - Hong Kong
9 - 19 August - London
All using SQ... my my, fancy me...
weeheee...
Changing my job role was a good decision! ¶ 5:53 AM 8 Comments
21-29 July - Hong Kong
9 - 19 August - London
All using SQ... my my, fancy me...
weeheee...
Changing my job role was a good decision! ¶ 5:53 AM 8 Comments
