What I’ve Learned So Far

At some point, I’m sure I’ll resume blogging. For now, though, I’m shutting it down. Please feel free to wander around the archives & leave comments — I’ll be moderating the comments queue regularly.

But until I finish my Ph.D., its outrigger research projects, and some other pressing business, I need to take the blog off my radar. If I happen to owe you any of those projects, be sure that I’m working diligently to deliver them.

I’ve spent this day clearing a huge pile of cruft from my files and from my mind. Doing that helped me to see that until I get my main projects in order it doesn’t make sense to post here, even infrequently.

Y’all have fun while I go turn the corner in my writing career.

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(Picture by sdjupedal.)

In the course of my Twitter blatherations, I try to offer reminders to myself — and to any of my followers who happens to be tuned in — about how we can live and work better. Here are some samples from the past few days:

• Today could be as good a day as any to do the best work you’ve ever done. Just an observation.
• Cognitive dissonance is good for you. It shows you that something needs revision.
• Statements of the blindingly obvious: It’s amazing what you can do when you just stick with one task until it’s done.
• This whole “stress” thing I’ve been doing lately? Pointless & potentially lethal. I should heed my own advice: http://is.gd/7Zx
• Now is the time when I take thing off the To-do list and move them to either the Done list or the Not In This Lifetime list.
• And for my next trick, I will be removing stressors from my life one by one.
• I’m sucking wind in some areas of life. It doesn’t work to bear down harder - you have to think things through & get real about obligations.
• Trying to do things the thoughtful way. It’s hard.
• The quickest way to get through an unworthy project is to abandon it without remorse.
• An important piece of productivity wisdom I heed too seldom: “Slow the F__K down.”
• It’s becoming increasingly clear to me that I’m going to have to do much more of my work offline, or off the computer altogether.
• How would your life be different if you got yourself to stop worrying?

I find that 140 characters can be plenty for getting across a slice of wisdom.

What short-form insights would you suggest?

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