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Favorite headline this morning: "Candy Dynamics Recalls Toxic Waste® brand Nuclear Sludge® Chew Bars"
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I sprang for _The Satisfaction Finder_ (digital booklet, couple hours of audio files, some random emails). She writes of the hounds of more more more, and i hear the echoes of my experience.
Just in that blog post she shares a few good techniques that i might find useful:
* acknowledging the alert, affirming the intent, but firmly turning the urge down: “Thank you for sharing. I know you are afraid I’m going to miss out on life by not doing enough and I will miss my life if I keep listening to you. Life is happening right here right now and you need to be quiet so I can live it,” and “Thank you for reminding me how vast and wonderful life is. And I’m only human so back off now.”
* romping: One of my favorites is to create a special “day book” where each of your desires gets as much room to play as it wants. Say you want to learn Sanskrit. You open to a fresh page, write Learn Sanskrit, and then go wild dreaming. “Study for a year in India, make a film about the history of the language, become a scholar in the schools, do a photo exhibit of images and poetry…” The Hounds love this kind of wild romp –you get some peace from them without having to actually do anything; plus you learn that you don’t have to follow up on each of your desires!
One of the most resonant comments in my initial experience of The Satisfaction Finder was reading, "Do not wait to read these emails until you have time. Waiting for enough time is a sign that the Hounds of more, more, more are after you. Resist!"
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Surely one place the "hounds of more, more, more" get out of control is in my reading materials. I think i'm doing reasonably well managing the flood of incoming. I don't feel compelled to catch up on the Facebook or Twitter or other blog floods (staying up to date on LiveJournal and DreamWidth is a priority for me, though). I do spend a great deal of time reading widely and not deeply, and i treat my entertainment lightly.
I wouldn't mind experimenting with tracking what i read, but i'd not found a good place to do so -- until yesterday it occurred to me i could use Evernote. (I am falling in love with both Yojimbo and Evernote, so similar, yet slightly different.) Yesterday during my unmotivated time at work, i created an Evernote notebook to keep my reading notes in. I've tracked the reading materials i acquired the last few days of 2010 and since. Acquisition seems to imply some sort of commitment, and i added some audio works. I won't track every podcast (not that i listen to that many) but that's yet another fuzzy line *and* because there's no way i can be a completist, it seems reasonable to do some tracking.
At the moment, there are 16 entries: six Kindle books (one in progress), two new Audibles (plus the third purchased in 2002, currently listening, an audio play of Henry V), three physical books (two of which i've started), three entries about the Escape Pod podcasts (one documenting my new commute play list, two documenting stories that stood out in the ride home of the past few weeks), and one about the new eBook. It's the 14th of January. There's a problem here.
I think it's good to see it, and, i'll admit: the kindle downloads were a sickday whim and the audiobooks were an investment against the February cross country flights. But accumulating these does create that sense of pressure to act.
(And there's the book on my bedside table -- right. I guess that goes on this list as well.)
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PS: if you're concerned about the national *internet* ID initiative, read http://www.fastcompany.com/1715659/national-identity-cyberspace-why-we-shouldnt-freak-out-about-nstic
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I sprang for _The Satisfaction Finder_ (digital booklet, couple hours of audio files, some random emails). She writes of the hounds of more more more, and i hear the echoes of my experience.
Just in that blog post she shares a few good techniques that i might find useful:
* acknowledging the alert, affirming the intent, but firmly turning the urge down: “Thank you for sharing. I know you are afraid I’m going to miss out on life by not doing enough and I will miss my life if I keep listening to you. Life is happening right here right now and you need to be quiet so I can live it,” and “Thank you for reminding me how vast and wonderful life is. And I’m only human so back off now.”
* romping: One of my favorites is to create a special “day book” where each of your desires gets as much room to play as it wants. Say you want to learn Sanskrit. You open to a fresh page, write Learn Sanskrit, and then go wild dreaming. “Study for a year in India, make a film about the history of the language, become a scholar in the schools, do a photo exhibit of images and poetry…” The Hounds love this kind of wild romp –you get some peace from them without having to actually do anything; plus you learn that you don’t have to follow up on each of your desires!
One of the most resonant comments in my initial experience of The Satisfaction Finder was reading, "Do not wait to read these emails until you have time. Waiting for enough time is a sign that the Hounds of more, more, more are after you. Resist!"
--==∞==--
Surely one place the "hounds of more, more, more" get out of control is in my reading materials. I think i'm doing reasonably well managing the flood of incoming. I don't feel compelled to catch up on the Facebook or Twitter or other blog floods (staying up to date on LiveJournal and DreamWidth is a priority for me, though). I do spend a great deal of time reading widely and not deeply, and i treat my entertainment lightly.
I wouldn't mind experimenting with tracking what i read, but i'd not found a good place to do so -- until yesterday it occurred to me i could use Evernote. (I am falling in love with both Yojimbo and Evernote, so similar, yet slightly different.) Yesterday during my unmotivated time at work, i created an Evernote notebook to keep my reading notes in. I've tracked the reading materials i acquired the last few days of 2010 and since. Acquisition seems to imply some sort of commitment, and i added some audio works. I won't track every podcast (not that i listen to that many) but that's yet another fuzzy line *and* because there's no way i can be a completist, it seems reasonable to do some tracking.
At the moment, there are 16 entries: six Kindle books (one in progress), two new Audibles (plus the third purchased in 2002, currently listening, an audio play of Henry V), three physical books (two of which i've started), three entries about the Escape Pod podcasts (one documenting my new commute play list, two documenting stories that stood out in the ride home of the past few weeks), and one about the new eBook. It's the 14th of January. There's a problem here.
I think it's good to see it, and, i'll admit: the kindle downloads were a sickday whim and the audiobooks were an investment against the February cross country flights. But accumulating these does create that sense of pressure to act.
(And there's the book on my bedside table -- right. I guess that goes on this list as well.)
--==∞==--
PS: if you're concerned about the national *internet* ID initiative, read http://www.fastcompany.com/1715659/national-identity-cyberspace-why-we-shouldnt-freak-out-about-nstic
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