Tagged Again: Simply Successful Secrets
This tag has a couple of rules beyond the “Why Do I Blog” tag… Besides the courtesy link-back, I’m also being asked to link back to the originator of this tag, as it is part of a research project. Aaron of TodayIsThatDay.com is asking people to list five to ten things that they do almost every day, at least four to five times a week, that help you to be successful. Sania tagged me, and after reading her wonderful list, (which I highly recommend to everyone who sees this post) I accepted the tag.
So, here are my ten daily “secrets” for success.
1: Have a purpose. Any frequent visitor of this blog knows that my purpose is to bring peace to everybody. Having a purpose has helped me to make many of the tougher decisions, and has given me choices that I otherwise wouldn’t have known existed. My purpose has enriched my life in ways that I could never have imagined before.
B: Find humor in everything. Even if you have to create your own humor, if you can find something that is amusing in any situation, it will keep you motivated. One example of how I’m creating my own humor (for my own benefit, and for those who find such childish things amusing as well) is by changing up the numbering system on each of these bullet points.
III: Clean. Whether my current view of success is financial, emotional, spiritual, or any combination of those, taking the time out to clean up helps my to focus. Since cleaning is the task that I procrastinate at the most often, when I’m done cleaning, I have a very fresh reminder of how silly procrastination is, and I also have the relief of knowing that I won’t have to clean again right away.
Four: Journal. Whether it is private journaling or public blogging, writing down my thoughts helps me to stay focused.
- Meditate. This helps me to find new ideas and new insights into my subconscious, as well as my spiritual side.
6) Exercise. There are many, many benefits to exercising. My routine is to do ‘hard’ exercises, such as push-ups and sit-ups Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, with aerobic exercises Tuesdays and Thursdays. (Dance Dance Revolution is the best ‘game’ ever.)
G) Communicate. This is vitally important to my relationship with my wife. I try to spend at least an hour each day talking with her. Well, really, I spend most of that time listening, with a few extra-nerdy comments thrown in when it is funny.
VII) Do. Do something that you know you need to. This goes along with cleaning, but can be anything from paying bills to writing a proposed database structure, to putting gas in the car. Simply stop procrastinating, and get something done… That way, when you engage in the next item on this list, you don’t feel guilty.
Nine) Play. That’s right. Do something that has no meaning in the long term, but that you receive pleasure from. I like logic puzzles, and my wife and I go to a movie about once a week. I’ll also spend a few hours playing Final Fantasy when I’m completely caught up on my other responsibilities. Since I get more pleasure out of actively thinking than letting others think for me, I tend to avoid television, except for the occasional show in the Science Channel.
- Make and review lists. When I can’t get to something right away, I’ll write it down on a notebook that I keep in my pocket. When I get to a computer, I’ll put it on my list on my Google home page. As I go through the day, especially when I finish a task, I’ll review the list and pick my next task.
With all of these items down, I’d now like to tag a few other people, since I really want to know their secrets to success.
Jeff Lilly of DruidJournal.net. This happens to be a double tag, as Damian (below) has also tagged him.
Slade of Shift Your Spirits. Again, Damian has also made a tag, but I’m going to tag away anyways.
Jennifer Lynn of Broke-Ass Student
Ester Wilson, to be mixed in with one of her Daily Drawings
Patricia Müller with her eponymous site that she recently turned into a blog.
I would tag Damian of Be The Change, but Sania already tagged him, and he has already responded to it.
And finally, I would also tag Kara-Leah of KLMasina.co.nz, but sadly, she has already responded as well.
Adam,
You’ve got a great list here. Thank you so much for participating! The more responses that I get, the more excited I get about tallying it all up at the end. The master list is going to be a great resource!
Specific to what you wrote, you are right on the money about procrastination. I tend to procrastinate myself, but when I push through that barrier and do the things that I was procrastinating aboout, not only do I feel a lot better, but I feel SUCCESSFUL.
To me, when you know that something needs to be done that you don’t want to do, but you go ahead and do it anyway, that sends the message to your mind that no matter what life throws at you, you’ll be able to handle it.
That point alone has extreme value for readers, without even getting to the rest of your awesome list. Good stuff, Adam, and thanks again for playing along.
hey, thanks for the tag
I wasn’t expecting to go to your blog and see my name in there, that’s fun! I’ll see what I can do visually, that’s challenging!
I’m always glad to put a smile on your face, Ester. I’d love to see what you make of this challenge.
Great list Adam!
You made it look easy, too. I bombed on a couple of points with this tag - I did not know that I was supposed to link back to the originator, and I didn’t even create a simple list.
Why?
I couldn’t find anything SIMPLE about the idea of success. I would’ve been better off writing the 10 Simple Secrets to Quantum Physics…
For those interested in seeing the mess I made of this game:
http://1stpersonpress.com/shift-your-spirits/index.php?p=94
Just because something looks easy doesn’t mean that it is… While this post only took me half an hour of typing, it took about nine hours of thinking. The hardest part was trying to figure out what “success” was, before I realized that success is simply what I think is important at the time…
I probably should have deep-linked into the posts that I’ve already written along with the brief description of how each act brings me what I see as success at the time, because like you, this is the topic of my blog. I didn’t want to repeat myself, until I realized that sometimes, saying the same thing with different words gets just as good of results as saying something completely new. At least now people have the opportunity to look at my habits from a couple of my perspectives.
10 simple secrets of quantum physics…
Schroedinger’s cat is dead.
Schroedinger’s cat is not dead.
The more that you know of an object’s velocity, the less you know of its location, and vice-versa. (Despite what the author of Stalking the Wild Pendulum says, nothing actually stops moving, even for the briefest moment.)
A speck of dust, barely visible in the most direct sunlight, can maintain a quantum state for nearly a second, although the usefulness of that quantum state is negligible.
The largest electron shell of an atom is 7nm… Computer transistors are approaching that size (smaller = faster), which explains why CPU manufacturers are working on adding more processing cores to their chips, rather than continuing to shrink the size of the transistors. Any smaller, and the transistors will be in an unpredictable permanent quantum state.
Qubits, or “quantum bits,” are not a measure of storage, but a measure of processing power of quantum computers. It is a measure of how many separate quantum states can be measured at a time, with each qubit multiplying the measurable quantum states by four, rather than a binary computer’s measurement of two states per bit. Currently, there are quantum computers capable of measuring 16 qubits, or 4.2 billion states. (Note, that is the American billion, not the European billion.) One company has claimed that they will have a commercially viable quantum computer with 1024 qubits. Also, though binary computers are able to change the states of their bits billions of times per second, quantum computers are currently able to change their bits only at around once per second.
I can’t think of any more quantum secrets at the moment, except to point out that the existence of ghosted quarks does not explain telepathy, simply because of the shear smallness of a quark compared to how much power is generated to form a thought within the brain. Quantum mechanics does not allow for two people to think the same thought artificially… there is some other explanation for telepathy.
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