In 2009, Beyonce released her hit song called ‘Halo’. In the song Beyonce is singing about her love for a person with this magical Halo, about how this Halo is her saving grace.
Halo’s are also associated with Angels and religious figures. A Halo being that little circle on an a head indicated that it that thing is somehow sacred or divine.
“Life is a journey, not a destination.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
So often we look forward to the weekend. Look forward to the day that we will finally have X item.
“Excellence/Perfection is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.” ― Brian Tracy
I’m constantly running in to vegans who claim that meat is horrible for you and that a nice steak is going to send you to an early grave!
Fortunately for us meat-eaters out there, there is actually nothing wrong with some meat, and there’s science to back it up.
Most people aren’t very happy.
They get mad easily.
They get ‘road rage’. Someone pulling in front of them is enough to ruin their day.
They go to the supermarket and yell at the workers.
They always find something to be annoyed or angry about.
I see people doing great things.
They set the bar higher.
Do the impossible.
But is this due to actual skill? or just dumb luck?
Someone could buy a lottery ticket and win $1 Million on their first try. Is that an act of genius?
I read a lot of books last year. 52 to be exact.
Some people might ask, why on earth would you read that many? Surely you can’t use knowledge from all of them? Surely they haven’t helped you do anything?
This is a short post reviewing the lessons that I learnt during 2020.
wanting things too much will push them away This happened to me a few times this year.
I wanted things to happen so bad. Too bad.
So much of goal setting this new year is about what THING you want to achieve. Rarely do we ask what we must become in order to get those things that we want.
The reality is, that if we were the kind of person that could get what we want, then we would already have it. Changing you habits and fundemental personality traits to attain your goals is the only way to achieve your goals.
This year is a big one. 2021.
This year I have structured my goals according to the following plan. If you haven’t done something similar already, I highly recommend it.
Step One # Pick 3 goals.
View my 2020 Reading challenge on Goodreads here.
Here are my top 5 books that I read this year (in no particular order):
High Performance Habits by Brendon Burchard The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger Range by David Epstein The Alter Ego Effect by Todd Herman The Dictator’s Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita A Year of Books # This year was an incredible year. For the first time in my life, I managed to get through 52 books in a single year. On average, one book per week.
At Christmas we played a fun game.
If you could have 3 people over for dinner, who would you choose?
There are plenty of good options here.
I chose:
Steve Jobs. Apple is such an outstanding company and Steve was such an extraordinary man. I think learning from him and hearing his stories would be incredible.
Lately I’ve been thinking about this concept of getting more than you deserve.
Sometimes we get things that we don’t feel like we deserve, and we ‘self-sabotage’ to return back to our original state.
Today I was investigating how to run cron jobs on my mac laptop. I wanted to automate the upgrade of my homebrew packages.
The process is extremely easy.
First run crontab -e and press enter.
Inside this file you place your bash commands with a little trick.
There are so many different things to learn, and not enough time.
With all this information around us, there is always something new to learn, something more interesting to master.
It’s difficult to dedicate time to completely finishing something when there is so much out there that hasn’t been started yet.
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker is a great book, and contains many gems about sleep and it’s affect on us.
While Walker has come under some criticism for some of the claims in the book, the idea that sleep is incredibly important is something that most people miss.
I was watching this video yesterday.
Something was said that really resonated with me.
Say you’re going into a new partnership, maybe a romantic partner or a business partner for example.
Ask them what they think of their previous partners, and what they rate their life out of 10.
You know that feeling.
Your alarm goes off. You feel sluggish as you reach to stop that annoying sound.
It’s another poor start to the day.
The reality is that simple alarm clocks suck at waking you up.
Fasting is the process of not eating food.
For example, someone may choose to undertake what is called One Meal A Day (OMAD). This is where a person only eats one large meal per day, and does not consume any calories at any other point in the day.
An Operating Systems is system software that manages computer hardware, software resources, and provides common services for computer programs. -Wikipedia
An operating system provides applications access to hardware devices.
I’m taking Introduction to Operating Systems on Udacity at the moment. In the course they state the three purposes of an OS.