This is the first thing I’ve written on Office 2013 other
than email. Something about the movement
of the cursor looks weird to me. It
doesn’t have the mechanical snap that I’d expect out of a computer. Kind of creepy, but I guess I’ll have to deal
with it.
I’ve been thinking a lot about time management. Really, it’s a wonder of whether the time
being spent is worthwhile time. I was
listening to the Andy Andrews podcast (In the Loop #135, to be specific) and he
started talking about “as a man thinketh, so is he”. Thinking leads to choices which leads to
action which changes families which changes societies.
The other point he brought up is that when people don’t
know what to do, they do nothing. That
is a simple, but highly profound observation.
If you do nothing, you get nothing.
If you get nothing, you go
nowhere. So you end up stuck where you
are because you don’t spend any time doing anything that will get you out of
the rut.
Which based on all of this, it seems intelligent to pick
a direction to go, and go there. It may
be the wrong direction, but it is a direction nonetheless.
I don’t remember where I was going with this, but it
seemed important, so I’ll keep it.
Moving on to the current day… I’ve been reading The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. I’d recommend anyone and
everyone read this book. More than
anything else, I think his ideas on habit creation and formation are the necessary
things to transform lives. Habits are
what take us through life without thinking.
If those habits that lead you are going in the right direction, then you
will continue on in the right direction.
If they take you in the wrong direction, then the habits need to
change.
Either way, building habits to get you where you want to
go seems to be a good way to go. I’m
going to have to experiment with that…
I should get back in the habit of blogging more often. We shall see. We shall see.
