take control of your life

seven simple, doable (!) steps:

1. Start to focus on what you're doing with your attention
2. Take a few minutes every day to define and write down the two or three most important things you want to accomplish tomorrow
3. Do the most important activity first in the morning
4. Eliminate as much "insecurity work" from your life as possible
5. Keep a running list of everything that's on your mind — in order to get it off your mind
6. Each time you go online to do anything, ask yourself "Is this best use of my time?"
7. Systematically, train your attention

more at the source - go read it!

evernote 2 and windows 8

there's a lot of people who prefer evernote 2 to the latest version 4. installing it on windows 8 turned out to be troublesome at first, but running the installer in compatibility mode for win xp sp3 made sure the installer worked. it's now running perfectly fine, and I can go back to tagging in peace!

update: just to be clear, you have to run the application in compatibility mode as well.

sad that #sweden went out of #euro2012

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Shrine of the Bab #bahai

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10 commandments of teaching

quite an interesting post from brain pickings:

Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate, might be set forth as follows:

1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.
3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.
6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.

love my walk up in the morning :)

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we should be like a fountain that is continually emptying itself of all that it possesses and is continually being resulted from an invisible source.

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stairs stairs stairs

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#tree with its own #shadow

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#salad #love

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