I try to exercise daily, or every other day and can’t stress how much this has helped me emotionally (as well as physically, obviously). Lifehacker had a wonderful post about pushups a while back, and I believe it would be wonderful to include this in my daily routine, as well as create a daily, simple routine. For this, I’ve employed youtube, to search for pushup, ‘ab’ and other workout videos. I suggest the same!
Another quick tip attached to an hour or so of labour. Yesterday I received three credit card offers through the mail. Twas quite bothersome indeed as I realized the amount of wasted paper (snail mail) and wasted time (e-mail) have been spent on bulk mail and e-mail.
So I’m spending the day opting out of every mail service and e-mail service I do not fervently care about. Trying to keep a tidy inbox, you know!
Any suggestions are always greatly appreciated!
Its been three days since my last post. The expedition has grown weak and hungry. Yesterday we sacrificed William to make it another day. The last three days have been the most treacherous with little possible escape from the elements. My only hope now is to attempt to recount the last days of our journey so those following in our my footsteps know what lies ahead of them. If you don’t see me ever again, know that our attempt and its annals stand as a testiment to infamy.
These past three days have been spent restarting Del.icio.us usage, regrouping todo lists, and arranging life goals.
Delicious delicious… Del.icio.us?
For anyone reading this, del.icio.us is old news. However I feature it for its simpifying abilities. Del.icio.us addresses the need for social bookmarking as it does for personal bookmarking. I feature it as a simplifying utility partially for this blog, and partially for those of us who like (read:need) to reside on the bleeding edge of technology, or those with multiple computer stations (work, home?) Why have local bookmarks when you could just use Del.icio.us to stream your bookmarks to you?
I now use the RSS function in firefox to ’stream’ my bookmarks to the bookmark toolbar.
To do this, just go to your del.icio.us homepage, the one that lists all your links, then from there find the RSS feeds. There should be a tag, and raw feed. I put both of these in my firefox bookmarks bar, and now have no worries of my computer crashing, or have to worry about finding long lost bookmarks on different computers. What do you all think? Oh, and if you want to be my delicious friend, here’s my page!
ToDo lists
I know I’ve already talked about Rememberthemilk.com when it came to bills. I personally have just started using it for its primary purpose, todo lists! Within my blocks of the day, I’ll have different todo lists (for those blocks) and simply go through checking them off during their time blocks. It sounds pretty redundant, but having a system seems to break all of this down in a simple way.
Life Goals
Most important of these three days came the soul searching. I’ve come to realize you can only really focus on one major goal at a time. Multitasking makes everything take an impossibly long amount of time to do. So I asked myself the easiest (ha!) of questions:
What do I want out of this year? Where do I want to be in 10 years? Where do I want to be in 20 years?
If you take any suggestions of mine, take this: meditate on those questions, give it a day, a week, any amount of time you can devote to only thinking about the above questions. Have a think week for your life… Now what is the most simple way of getting there?
Saturdays may be lazidasical here at 0wn 1t, with the week devoted to more heavy handed simplification techniques. With this being said saturday, I propose a simple idea!
Drink Water!
Yeah, super simple. Instead of drinking beverages brimming in refined sugar and High Fructose Corn Syrup. I will insert a slight rant here though. <rant> Bottle water is frivolous.</rant> My plan from here on out can be described very simply; drink eight glasses of water a day and whenever I crave other beverages, you know… like Crystal Pepsi or Pepsi Blue or maybe some of that mad C2!
I’m already through week three? This is crazy. Anyway, video uploading is taking a bit of debugging, so for now, this regular post will have to do!
What I’ve been reading:
Day 17: What would you need to go Paperless?
Day 16: Social Networks and Privacy…
Day 15: How Massive is your Library?
Argued making bills easier to organize and pay.
FreeTalk:
Almost everything was digital this week, I think next week I should change that. I’ve been simplifying my digital life without looking into simplifying my physical life… stay tuned!
