Just let it go.
Category: Doug’s Mantras
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Doug’s Mantras
Move forward.
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Doug’s Mantras
You have two ears and one mouth so that you can listen twice as much as you talk.
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On Time Management/Organizational Tools
I’m a huge fan of Jott. I don’t know how Siri (recently acquired by Apple) slipped through my radar. I now have Siri and am very excited. SpringPad and I have this oddly tenuous relationship which I’ll explain in another post. I think SpringPad has incredible potential and should be appreciated by fans of Evernote.
Like Stephen R Covey’s First Things First and David Allen’s Getting Things Done, none of these tools do any good if you don’t use them. And by use them, I mean fully. For instance, in Gmail I frequently flag emails to review later but then I may not review them. The same thing can happen with any of the tools above. I fill Jott with voice notes and text memos daily. Like sharpening the saw, a review is critical. One of my mantras is "15 minutes a day for proficiency." It comes from preparing for juggling shows. If I wait until the day before a performance and try to cram several hours of practice in, I don’t perform well. If I spent 15 minutes a day for those same number of hours, I perform very well! That 15 minute mantra applies to all things in life be it learning a skill like guitar, a language like Spanish, losing that extra weight, reading a book, writing a business plan, or just keeping your life in check.
Trying to get organized while living our crazy lives often feels a bit like trying to balance your checkbook while going down a water slide. You can’t do it and your checkbook gets really soggy. Feels like a catch-22; too busy to organize, must organize to not be so busy. That’s were 15 minutes a day comes in. We can spend 15 minutes just staring into space. Even exhausted, we can muster 15 minutes. And now, I will spend 15 minutes reviewing my notes in Jott.
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Doug’s Mantras
File this under things I thought I’d never say.
Clothing belongs in one of three places: on your body, the laundry, or folded up and put away.
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Of Being Dad – Do what you say
One of my mantras is "Say what you are going to do then do what you say." A child never forgets. If you promise a child you will do something, do it! Our calendars says that the movie Up is released on DVD today. When we saw Up in the theaters, I promised Amy she and I would go see the 3-D version as a father/daughter date. Life got in the way. The movie came and went. And today, she reminded me that I failed to deliver on that promise. Not a good feeling.
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Doug’s Mantras
Live with purpose.
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Doug’s Mantras
Today I am calm.
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Doug’s Mantras
Quit thinking about how impossible the task is and just do it!
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Doug’s Mantras
If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.
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Doug’s Mantras
McCaughan’s Law of Solutions:
Ask five different programmers the same thing and you will get five different answers…and they will all be correct.
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Doug’s Mantras
Juggling is not a sobriety test.
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Doug’s Mantras
To be bored is a choice.
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Doug’s Mantras
So many eons ago when the No Fear t-shirts first hit the streets, I became an instant fan. One of my favorites:
Everybody who lives dies, but not everybody who dies has lived. -No Fear
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Doug’s Mantras
The end is fear.