Difference Chinese New Year
It is terrible lo@@If all singers sing like this,die =.=|| What to say about culture and tradition.Really sweating about this kind of video.However,this was quite funny and made a difference between others.Maybe this was the Namewee style@@
Daily Beauty
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山下智久
藝人或藝術家
外文名 山下 智久
暱稱 山P、Pちゃん
國籍 日本 日本
出生 1985年4 月9日 (1985-04-09) （24歲）
日本 日本千葉縣船橋市
職業 演員、歌手
教育程度 明治大學商學部市埸系畢業
活躍年代 1996年9 月6日至今
經紀公司 傑尼斯事務所
相關團體 NEWS
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對你好 vs 為你好
對你好很簡單，但是為你好卻可以很辛苦。
對一個人好，單純就想要對他好，也不求任何feedback，見到對方因為自己的好而微笑就夠了。
但是為一個人好，你卻必須常常要做出很多令自己與對方都痛苦的決定，因為你是為了他好，你變的囉唆、嚴苛，而對方也被逼的喘不過氣。
其實很多狀況都是在為人好，拿了一個高標準的尺在衡量其他人，因為你會希望對方是自己心裡所想的完美的樣子，會覺得對方犯一點小錯都不容許。你知道自己是為了他好，他也希望自己可以更好，但是氣氛就是怎麼也好不起來。
***
聖經中有歌羅西書 3 章 23-24 節這樣說：「你們作僕人的，要凡事聽從你們肉身的主人，不要只在眼前事奉，像要討人歡喜的，總要存心誠實敬畏主。你們無論做什麼，總要從心裡做，像是給主做的，不是給人做的」
這節經文通常應用於打工仔工作態度上的反思，不過也值得深思「像是給主而做，不是給人而做」這句。英文對「給主」的翻譯原來是 「as to the Lord」，而不是 「because of the Load」，我們不是為主做什麼，而是向主做什麼，一個被動和主動的分別。
我為你好，因為我見到你成為我心目中的完美樣子，我就滿足。
我為神作工，因為神會給我獎賞，或因為神要我這樣作。
我為人負責，因為人人都說我應當為此而作。
這是一個被動的動機，若沒有預期的回報，這個動力終於會失去。
這樣，「為」會否包含著一些期望，或者有著私心，甚至是自己想強加於別人身上的價值觀？這會否使到大家都有壓力，有點吃力？
「對」是我主動的，甘心情願的，因為純粹我這樣做我就得到滿足。
我對你好，因為有機會讓我對你好，我就滿足。
我給神做，因為我想回應衪給我的一切。
我給人負責，因為我覺得這些人已和我生命結連，有了關係。
這裡好像有點咬文嚼字，但用字本身並非最大問題，用心本身才是要思想的地方。願我們禱告神，求神更新我們的意念，叫我們做任何事都是甘心情願地去作，無論是向主的，是向人的。使我們有清潔而單純的心思，帶有信心地依靠主去做
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對一個人好，單純就想要對他好，也不求任何feedback，見到對方因為自己的好而微笑就夠了。
但是為一個人好，你卻必須常常要做出很多令自己與對方都痛苦的決定，因為你是為了他好，你變的囉唆、嚴苛，而對方也被逼的喘不過氣。
其實很多狀況都是在為人好，拿了一個高標準的尺在衡量其他人，因為你會希望對方是自己心裡所想的完美的樣子，會覺得對方犯一點小錯都不容許。你知道自己是為了他好，他也希望自己可以更好，但是氣氛就是怎麼也好不起來。
***
聖經中有歌羅西書 3 章 23-24 節這樣說：「你們作僕人的，要凡事聽從你們肉身的主人，不要只在眼前事奉，像要討人歡喜的，總要存心誠實敬畏主。你們無論做什麼，總要從心裡做，像是給主做的，不是給人做的」
這節經文通常應用於打工仔工作態度上的反思，不過也值得深思「像是給主而做，不是給人而做」這句。英文對「給主」的翻譯原來是 「as to the Lord」，而不是 「because of the Load」，我們不是為主做什麼，而是向主做什麼，一個被動和主動的分別。
我為你好，因為我見到你成為我心目中的完美樣子，我就滿足。
我為神作工，因為神會給我獎賞，或因為神要我這樣作。
我為人負責，因為人人都說我應當為此而作。
這是一個被動的動機，若沒有預期的回報，這個動力終於會失去。
這樣，「為」會否包含著一些期望，或者有著私心，甚至是自己想強加於別人身上的價值觀？這會否使到大家都有壓力，有點吃力？
「對」是我主動的，甘心情願的，因為純粹我這樣做我就得到滿足。
我對你好，因為有機會讓我對你好，我就滿足。
我給神做，因為我想回應衪給我的一切。
我給人負責，因為我覺得這些人已和我生命結連，有了關係。
這裡好像有點咬文嚼字，但用字本身並非最大問題，用心本身才是要思想的地方。願我們禱告神，求神更新我們的意念，叫我們做任何事都是甘心情願地去作，無論是向主的，是向人的。使我們有清潔而單純的心思，帶有信心地依靠主去做
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Google tablet to give Apple a touch of its own medicine
Google is trying to one-up Apple, showing off designs for a new tablet computer based on its Chrome operating system that would be a direct rival to the iPad.
Just weeks after launching its own iPhone competitor in the US, the Nexus One, Google might soon extend its competition with Apple further as it seeks to push its search and other products on to as many devices as possible.
Google's user interface designer, Glen Murphy, published mock-ups of a Google tablet on the search giant's Chromium.org website, along with a video of how users would interact with the device.
Google's mockup designs for a Chrome OS-powered tablet computer.
Late last year Google announced Chrome OS, an operating system predominantly for small netbooks that would be based around the web browser, providing quick boot times and easy access to Google's array of online services.
The first Chrome OS netbooks are due to arrive this year, but Google is now considering extending the platform to other devices including tablets, desktops and even big screen TVs.
Chrome OS is a separate project to Google's Android platform for smartphones.
Google's tablet video shows the user interacting with the multi-touch touchscreen in a similar way to the iPad, using similar gestures to resize and interact with windows and launch applications. The device would include a five- to 10-inch screen and an on-screen keyboard.
On his blog, Murphy published an image showing the full range of hand gestures that would be supported by the tablet.
Google chief executive officer Eric Schmidt was on the board of Apple until August last year, when he resigned citing a conflict of interest over its Android phone platform and Chrome OS.
Now, the companies are increasingly at each other's throats.
Apple chief executive officer Steve Jobs reportedly told staff at a recent "Town Hall" meeting that Google was the one that began competing with Apple by entering the phone industry, labelling the company's "Don't be evil" corporate mantra "a load of crap".
Earlier, Google released an unofficial, browser-based version of its Google Voice app for the iPhone, which allows users to make cheap mobile calls using the internet. This effectively bypassed Apple, which had previously declined to allow Google Voice to be included in its App Store.
Microsoft has unsuccessfully tried to push tablet computers for the past decade, to no avail, perhaps because its designs were bulky and resembled regular laptops. The main difference was that the screens were touch-sensitive and could swivel to lie flat in a slate format.
But Microsoft also sees potential in the new iPad-style, multi-touch tablets, with some gadget sites late last year publishing images of a Microsoft "Courier" prototype. The images suggested it would include two touch screens that face each other in a book format.
Other manufacturers - including HP, Lenovo and Dell - are planning to launch tablet computers based on the Windows 7, Linux and Google Android operating systems.
TechCrunch reported today that, according to anonymous sources, Apple is working on a larger version of the iPad that would function more like a Mac than an iPhone.
Gartner analyst Robin Simpson said other companies including Google would have trouble competing with Apple's iPad because Apple had already developed a strong ecosystem around its products, allowing users to buy content from iTunes with one click.
"You can make great hardware, you can have a fantastic, easy-to-use operating system, but to make it commercially successful I think you need an ecosystem that encourages lots and lots of independent third party development and makes it really easy for users to discover content and buy content," Simpson said in a phone interview.
"It's easy to do hardware, it's really hard to create an ecosystem and Apple's got a head-start on everybody because they've been doing this for four to five years, based around iTunes."
Google would not say when or if it would start selling a tablet, saying, "Chrome OS is still in development and we are constantly experimenting with various user interfaces to determine what designs would produce the best user experience."
The tablet models would compete heavily with netbooks, which are small, lightweight laptops designed for accessing the web, editing documents or working on email while on the go.
To differentiate netbooks from the tablet competitors, PC makers are adding significantly more grunt to their netbook offerings, to such an extent that it's difficult to describe them as netbooks.
Dell today launched its Alienware M11x, which is an ultra-portable laptop with an 11-inch screen but includes a top-of-the-line graphics chip and processor. Dell described the machine as "the fastest sub-12 inch laptop in the universe".
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Just weeks after launching its own iPhone competitor in the US, the Nexus One, Google might soon extend its competition with Apple further as it seeks to push its search and other products on to as many devices as possible.
Google's user interface designer, Glen Murphy, published mock-ups of a Google tablet on the search giant's Chromium.org website, along with a video of how users would interact with the device.
Google's mockup designs for a Chrome OS-powered tablet computer.
Late last year Google announced Chrome OS, an operating system predominantly for small netbooks that would be based around the web browser, providing quick boot times and easy access to Google's array of online services.
The first Chrome OS netbooks are due to arrive this year, but Google is now considering extending the platform to other devices including tablets, desktops and even big screen TVs.
Chrome OS is a separate project to Google's Android platform for smartphones.
Google's tablet video shows the user interacting with the multi-touch touchscreen in a similar way to the iPad, using similar gestures to resize and interact with windows and launch applications. The device would include a five- to 10-inch screen and an on-screen keyboard.
On his blog, Murphy published an image showing the full range of hand gestures that would be supported by the tablet.
Google chief executive officer Eric Schmidt was on the board of Apple until August last year, when he resigned citing a conflict of interest over its Android phone platform and Chrome OS.
Now, the companies are increasingly at each other's throats.
Apple chief executive officer Steve Jobs reportedly told staff at a recent "Town Hall" meeting that Google was the one that began competing with Apple by entering the phone industry, labelling the company's "Don't be evil" corporate mantra "a load of crap".
Earlier, Google released an unofficial, browser-based version of its Google Voice app for the iPhone, which allows users to make cheap mobile calls using the internet. This effectively bypassed Apple, which had previously declined to allow Google Voice to be included in its App Store.
Microsoft has unsuccessfully tried to push tablet computers for the past decade, to no avail, perhaps because its designs were bulky and resembled regular laptops. The main difference was that the screens were touch-sensitive and could swivel to lie flat in a slate format.
But Microsoft also sees potential in the new iPad-style, multi-touch tablets, with some gadget sites late last year publishing images of a Microsoft "Courier" prototype. The images suggested it would include two touch screens that face each other in a book format.
Other manufacturers - including HP, Lenovo and Dell - are planning to launch tablet computers based on the Windows 7, Linux and Google Android operating systems.
TechCrunch reported today that, according to anonymous sources, Apple is working on a larger version of the iPad that would function more like a Mac than an iPhone.
Gartner analyst Robin Simpson said other companies including Google would have trouble competing with Apple's iPad because Apple had already developed a strong ecosystem around its products, allowing users to buy content from iTunes with one click.
"You can make great hardware, you can have a fantastic, easy-to-use operating system, but to make it commercially successful I think you need an ecosystem that encourages lots and lots of independent third party development and makes it really easy for users to discover content and buy content," Simpson said in a phone interview.
"It's easy to do hardware, it's really hard to create an ecosystem and Apple's got a head-start on everybody because they've been doing this for four to five years, based around iTunes."
Google would not say when or if it would start selling a tablet, saying, "Chrome OS is still in development and we are constantly experimenting with various user interfaces to determine what designs would produce the best user experience."
The tablet models would compete heavily with netbooks, which are small, lightweight laptops designed for accessing the web, editing documents or working on email while on the go.
To differentiate netbooks from the tablet competitors, PC makers are adding significantly more grunt to their netbook offerings, to such an extent that it's difficult to describe them as netbooks.
Dell today launched its Alienware M11x, which is an ultra-portable laptop with an 11-inch screen but includes a top-of-the-line graphics chip and processor. Dell described the machine as "the fastest sub-12 inch laptop in the universe".
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Touching In a Sudden
First
Second
Hmm,three weeks dint watch this until today@.@ Yesterday just finish my download and i watched it this morning.There is something touching and lovely that i want to share with you guys.It is love.In the above video,it starts from 5minutes in the first video until the end of second video.Suddenly,i felt it so touching and warm :-S Is that the power of love?Facing a problem that are not possible to solve? Anything else?What is the reason of it?
Love is just a curious feeling that you should feel it,touch it by yourself.In the video,we can see that the couple is come from two different world,but they have their attic faith that others do not have it.They are willing to wait each other and solve the problem together.They have faith in their relationship.This kind of love will stay longer ?Everyone will not know about it including about me.That is love!We do not know what happen in the next and the future.So,keep the faith and believe each others.Maybe that is the only way to keep the relationship.
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Perfect versus Better
We tend to define perfection as the absence of flaws, which is inherently wrong, since flaws are part of the reality. Too often, our perception of perfection as a flawless situation or individual proved to be not only difficult to learn, but plain wrong and deceivable. Striving for perfection causes more harm than good, leading into a land of frustration, weariness and misery.
Defining something by the absence of something else is a mindset of incompletion, a hedonistic and fearful approach. It’s hedonistic because we try to isolate only the “good” things from the whole, and it’s fearful because we do that by fear of the other, “bad” side. Choosing only one side of the coin is useless and ineffective. You can’t have a full coin if you chose only one side of it.
On the other hand, being just better assumes you know your flaws and accept them. You’re just getting better, not perfect. You’re embracing your whole structure. Not seldom, what you considered to be “flaws” are just violent pointers for a path you refuse to see or to take. What you may call “flaw” is in fact just an open window for another reality, usually much better than the current one.
Dry Future versus Rich Present
When you move your focus from your current reality and projecting it into a future, flawless reality in which you are perfect, you are depriving yourself from the only precious tool you have: your present time. When you step out of the living second and project yourself into a dry future you’re not actually living to the full. Whenever you strive for perfection you step out from the current time space continuum and try to insert into another, illusory one.
Whenever you strive for getting better, you’re in the present moment. You have to continuously assess your progress, you have to keep your focus on what you’re doing. If you had goals, you have to constantly check if you reached them. And if you did, you have to evaluate your options and set up the next goals. When you chose to become better, you never get out of your current time space continuum. Your present is real. And is rich.
Destination Oriented versus Traveling Oriented
When you strive for perfection you’re destination oriented: your goal is to attain a certain state, a flawless situation in which you are perfect. When you strive for being better you’re traveling oriented: your goal is not so much the destination, which changes continuously, but the travel itself.
I find much more joy by traveling than by arriving to a certain destination. As long as the current destination is also the departure point for my next trip, I can understand and I enjoy it. But if my final destination is reached, that means it’s the end of the travel. My trip has to stop. Which I simply don’t want to happen. I enjoy the trip much too much.
Focus On Bad vs Focus On Good
Striving for perfection is such a wearing attitude, it really drains you out. In fact, striving for perfection is quite a negativistic approach, if you look carefully. Since we define perfection as the absence of flaws, when we strive for perfection we focus on eliminating our flaws. Hence, we focus on flaws, instead of things we can improve.
Striving to be better is a fulfilling attitude, it fuel your body and mind. Striving for the better is focusing on the positive side. By accepting your flaws as part of your inherent nature, focusing on becoming better forces you to focus on your positive qualities and start enhancing what you already have an can grow.
The Dumbo Paradigm
I guess you all know by now the famous Dumbo cartoon. For those living on planet Mars in the last 50 years, Dumbo is the touching story of a baby elephant which had a big problem: huge ears. So huge that it actually had integration problems in his environment, a circus. His mother had to defend him from picky boys saying bad things about it, the other workers in the circus were also bothered by the little cub which only use seemed to be a very dangerous leap into a bucket filled with water, and nothing more. That little elephant with those incredibly big ears was no good even in a circus. Dumbo was tainted by his flaw: those huge and almost obscene ears.
But after the little elephant touches the bottom of his sorrow, with a little help from his friends, stumble upon a great discovery. His ears are so big that it can actually… fly! Right, those ears are so big that it can become a flying mammal just by flipping them. His biggest flaw has become the trampoline for his biggest success. The cartoon ends with a happy image of Dumbo flying all over the country above its personal tour train.
There is much to be learned from this story, and I do intend to write another blog post about it, but for now I’ll just say that Dumbo became better not because he tried to eliminate his flaw, but because he accepted it and made the best out of it. Dumbo focused on becoming better not perfect. If Dumbo would have been a perfect elephant, I really doubt that Disney would have made a cartoon about it.
Perfection is boring. Getting better is where all the fun is.
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Defining something by the absence of something else is a mindset of incompletion, a hedonistic and fearful approach. It’s hedonistic because we try to isolate only the “good” things from the whole, and it’s fearful because we do that by fear of the other, “bad” side. Choosing only one side of the coin is useless and ineffective. You can’t have a full coin if you chose only one side of it.
On the other hand, being just better assumes you know your flaws and accept them. You’re just getting better, not perfect. You’re embracing your whole structure. Not seldom, what you considered to be “flaws” are just violent pointers for a path you refuse to see or to take. What you may call “flaw” is in fact just an open window for another reality, usually much better than the current one.
Dry Future versus Rich Present
When you move your focus from your current reality and projecting it into a future, flawless reality in which you are perfect, you are depriving yourself from the only precious tool you have: your present time. When you step out of the living second and project yourself into a dry future you’re not actually living to the full. Whenever you strive for perfection you step out from the current time space continuum and try to insert into another, illusory one.
Whenever you strive for getting better, you’re in the present moment. You have to continuously assess your progress, you have to keep your focus on what you’re doing. If you had goals, you have to constantly check if you reached them. And if you did, you have to evaluate your options and set up the next goals. When you chose to become better, you never get out of your current time space continuum. Your present is real. And is rich.
Destination Oriented versus Traveling Oriented
When you strive for perfection you’re destination oriented: your goal is to attain a certain state, a flawless situation in which you are perfect. When you strive for being better you’re traveling oriented: your goal is not so much the destination, which changes continuously, but the travel itself.
I find much more joy by traveling than by arriving to a certain destination. As long as the current destination is also the departure point for my next trip, I can understand and I enjoy it. But if my final destination is reached, that means it’s the end of the travel. My trip has to stop. Which I simply don’t want to happen. I enjoy the trip much too much.
Focus On Bad vs Focus On Good
Striving for perfection is such a wearing attitude, it really drains you out. In fact, striving for perfection is quite a negativistic approach, if you look carefully. Since we define perfection as the absence of flaws, when we strive for perfection we focus on eliminating our flaws. Hence, we focus on flaws, instead of things we can improve.
Striving to be better is a fulfilling attitude, it fuel your body and mind. Striving for the better is focusing on the positive side. By accepting your flaws as part of your inherent nature, focusing on becoming better forces you to focus on your positive qualities and start enhancing what you already have an can grow.
The Dumbo Paradigm
I guess you all know by now the famous Dumbo cartoon. For those living on planet Mars in the last 50 years, Dumbo is the touching story of a baby elephant which had a big problem: huge ears. So huge that it actually had integration problems in his environment, a circus. His mother had to defend him from picky boys saying bad things about it, the other workers in the circus were also bothered by the little cub which only use seemed to be a very dangerous leap into a bucket filled with water, and nothing more. That little elephant with those incredibly big ears was no good even in a circus. Dumbo was tainted by his flaw: those huge and almost obscene ears.
But after the little elephant touches the bottom of his sorrow, with a little help from his friends, stumble upon a great discovery. His ears are so big that it can actually… fly! Right, those ears are so big that it can become a flying mammal just by flipping them. His biggest flaw has become the trampoline for his biggest success. The cartoon ends with a happy image of Dumbo flying all over the country above its personal tour train.
There is much to be learned from this story, and I do intend to write another blog post about it, but for now I’ll just say that Dumbo became better not because he tried to eliminate his flaw, but because he accepted it and made the best out of it. Dumbo focused on becoming better not perfect. If Dumbo would have been a perfect elephant, I really doubt that Disney would have made a cartoon about it.
Perfection is boring. Getting better is where all the fun is.
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Daily Beauty
小池徹平
男歌手
羅馬拼音 Koike Teppei
國籍 日本 日本
出生 1986年1月 5日 (1986-01-05) （24歲）
日本 日本大阪府大阪狹山市
職業 歌手、演員
音樂類型 J-POP
演奏樂器 吉他、口琴
出道日期 2002年
出道作品 天體觀測
唱片公司 環球唱片(日本)、A&M Records
經紀公司 Burning Production
網站 [1]
相關團體 WaT
姓名： 范冰冰
曾用名： 冰冰、宝宝
英文名： fanbingbing
性别： 女
职业： 演员 歌手 制片人
国家/地区： 中国
地域： 内地
出生日期： 1981-09-16
宗教信仰： 无
星座： 处女座
家乡： 山东省青岛市
身高： 168
体重： 50
血型： AB
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Tutorial:Easy Computing with Windows 7 : Keyboard Shortcuts
Many might be using the seventh generation of Windows operating system ' Windows 7 '. It makes our lives easier. To make it much more easier, some keyboard shortcuts will help you to make computing very easy. So, I have collected some keyboard shortcuts for Windows7.
Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows 7 :
* Win+UP Arrow : Maximize the current window
* Win+Down Arrow : If the current window is maximized, restore it; if the current window is restored, minimize it
* Win+Left Arrow : Dock the current window to the left half of the screen
* Win+Right Arrrow : Dock the current window to the right half of the screen
* Win+Home : Minimize all but the current window
* Win+Space : All windows become transparent so you can see through to the desktop.
* Win+P : Adjust presentation settings for your display.
* Alt+F4 : Close the active window
* Alt+Tab : Switch to previous active window
* Alt+Esc : Cycle through all open windows
* Win+Tab : Flip 3D
* Ctrl+Win+Tab : Persistent Flip 3D
* Win+T : Cycle through applications on taskbar (showing its live preview)
* Win+M : Minimize all open windows
* Win+Shift+M : Undo all window minimization
* Win+D : Toggle showing the desktop
* Win+(+/-): Zoom in/out.
* Win+G: Cycle between the Windows Gadgets on your screen.
* Shift+Win+Up arrow: Maximize the active window vertically.
* Shift+Win+Left/Right arrows: Move the window to the monitor on the left or right.
* Win+number (1-9): Starts the application pinned to the taskbar in that position, or switches to that program.
* Shift+Win+number (1-9): Starts a new instance of the application pinned to the taskbar in that position.
* Ctrl+Win+number (1-9): Cycles through open windows for the application pinned to the taskbar in that position.
* Alt+Win+number (1-9): Opens the Jump List for the application pinned to the taskbar.
* Win+T: Focus and scroll through items on the taskbar.
* Win+B: Focuses the System Tray icons
* Shift+Click on a taskbar button: Open a program or quickly open another instance of a program.
* Ctrl+Shift+Click on a taskbar button: Open a program as an administrator.
* Shift+Right-click on a taskbar button: Show the window menu for the program (like XP does).
* Shift+Right-click on a grouped taskbar button: Show the window menu for the group.
* Ctrl+Click on a grouped taskbar button: Cycle through the windows of the group.
* Ctrl+Shift+N: Creates a new folder in Windows Explorer.
* Alt+Up: Goes up a folder level in Windows Explorer.
* Alt+P: Toggles the preview pane in Windows Explorer.
* Shift+Right-Click on a file: Adds Copy as Path, which copies the path of a file to
the clipboard.
* Shift+Right-Click on a file: Adds extra hidden items to the Send To menu.
* Shift+Right-Click on a folder: Adds Command Prompt Here, which lets you easily open
a command prompt in that folder.
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Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows 7 :
* Win+UP Arrow : Maximize the current window
* Win+Down Arrow : If the current window is maximized, restore it; if the current window is restored, minimize it
* Win+Left Arrow : Dock the current window to the left half of the screen
* Win+Right Arrrow : Dock the current window to the right half of the screen
* Win+Home : Minimize all but the current window
* Win+Space : All windows become transparent so you can see through to the desktop.
* Win+P : Adjust presentation settings for your display.
* Alt+F4 : Close the active window
* Alt+Tab : Switch to previous active window
* Alt+Esc : Cycle through all open windows
* Win+Tab : Flip 3D
* Ctrl+Win+Tab : Persistent Flip 3D
* Win+T : Cycle through applications on taskbar (showing its live preview)
* Win+M : Minimize all open windows
* Win+Shift+M : Undo all window minimization
* Win+D : Toggle showing the desktop
* Win+(+/-): Zoom in/out.
* Win+G: Cycle between the Windows Gadgets on your screen.
* Shift+Win+Up arrow: Maximize the active window vertically.
* Shift+Win+Left/Right arrows: Move the window to the monitor on the left or right.
* Win+number (1-9): Starts the application pinned to the taskbar in that position, or switches to that program.
* Shift+Win+number (1-9): Starts a new instance of the application pinned to the taskbar in that position.
* Ctrl+Win+number (1-9): Cycles through open windows for the application pinned to the taskbar in that position.
* Alt+Win+number (1-9): Opens the Jump List for the application pinned to the taskbar.
* Win+T: Focus and scroll through items on the taskbar.
* Win+B: Focuses the System Tray icons
* Shift+Click on a taskbar button: Open a program or quickly open another instance of a program.
* Ctrl+Shift+Click on a taskbar button: Open a program as an administrator.
* Shift+Right-click on a taskbar button: Show the window menu for the program (like XP does).
* Shift+Right-click on a grouped taskbar button: Show the window menu for the group.
* Ctrl+Click on a grouped taskbar button: Cycle through the windows of the group.
* Ctrl+Shift+N: Creates a new folder in Windows Explorer.
* Alt+Up: Goes up a folder level in Windows Explorer.
* Alt+P: Toggles the preview pane in Windows Explorer.
* Shift+Right-Click on a file: Adds Copy as Path, which copies the path of a file to
the clipboard.
* Shift+Right-Click on a file: Adds extra hidden items to the Send To menu.
* Shift+Right-Click on a folder: Adds Command Prompt Here, which lets you easily open
a command prompt in that folder.
Nicholas End
Training Your Focus
How is your focus? Do you find it easy to concentrate for longer chunks of time or are you easily distracted? Do you enjoy doing the same thing at the same focus level over and over again, or are you easily bored?
I used to think that focus is a function of pleasure: I can concentrate on this because I like it. I do some stuff better than other because I like it. While loving what you do can keep your concentration high, at least in the beginning, maintaining a constant, high focus is not a function of pleasure at all. It’s a function of will.
Focus can be trained. It can be enhanced, it can be shaped the way you want. It can serve you well, if you treat it well. In today’s post I’ll share some of my observations regarding focus and how one can work this tool the same way you work your muscles in your daily workout.
Detach From Pleasure
To like something is a great “do” igniter. It really puts you on the road. Starting something you don’t like is usually slower and less energizing. But after the initial thrill, even if you do like what you’re doing, keeping yourself in the flow requires a lot of effort. Your focus will start to weaken.
The best way to ensure a constant flow of focus is to detach from pleasure. To treat every single task emotionally equal. Might sounds “robotish” and totally not fun, but in fact it’s just a way to trick your focus into a better approaching method.
If you’re constantly doing only things you like, your focus will develop a sort of addiction. It will unconsciously start looking for nice stuff, and will ignore difficult, or boring things. It will not discard it and put it aside for later, the boring stuff will simply disappear from the radar. You’ll end up as a hedonistic prisoner of “only nice stuff, please”.
Detaching from pleasure doesn’t mean you will refrain from enjoying what you’re doing. Detaching from pleasure means you’ll start doing things regardless of their niceness level. You’ll just do them. Detaching from pleasure means you’re also detaching from boredom. If you can observe yourself doing stuff, pleasure and boredom are just choices. You’re doing that thing anyway, so you can chose how you feel about it.
Assess Results
Whenever you keep your focus on something for longer chunks, take your time to assess results every once in a while. Take your time to see how were you at the beginning of the task and how are you now. Especially in difficult tasks, assessing results is a great focus enhancer.
It does this by progress showing. If you’re caught in solving a longer problem, you might forget where you started. You start circling and stumbling. You get caught in a pattern of “I’m getting nowhere with this” and your focus will start weaken. The hedonistic part of you will ask for something nice to hang on, and you’ll step away form the problem and go grab a cookie, for instance.
If after the cookie your focus will be higher, it would be great, but your focus is usually thinner. You didn’t assess any results, you just tried to escape a difficult task. Your focus will want again to the cookie.
Assessing results is easy, is a matter of saying: “I started this journey 15 minutes ago, and I’m doing ok, regardless of the fact I’ve done only one single step. I’m ok. I’m on it.”. Your focus will be forced to stay there until you solve the problem. You assessed your position, you acknowledged the fact that you’re making progress.
This works regardless of the focus time span. You can assess results of a 15 minutes cooking session, or of a 5 years goal. Maintaining your focus is equally important in both.
One More Second
I took this habit from my fitness session. Whenever I do pushups or abs, I establish some goal, let’s say 50 abs. When I’m close to 49, I stretch myself out and go over 50, usually 51, or 52. I do the this all the time. The goal is clear but I always try to stay in there for one more second.
I also did this in business. Whenever I was close to finish a project, I did something extra, a feature or an addition of some kind. It was not in the specs from the beginning but I felt the need to put it there.
Staying “one more second” in a project, in a workout, or in a relationship is a fantastic focus enhancer. I always know that I can do more abs after that second and I always know that my project will be a success, after that last feature. I am in there, I know it, I stay focused.
“One more second” is also good for assessing wrong paths. Even if you feel it’s wrong, take one more second to assess that and let your focus decide. If it’s a bad relationship, stay one more second in it and make sure it’s really bad for you. Next time, your focus will warn you from the beginning, and you won’t have to go through tough times again.
Balance Your Senses
Your focus is channeling the reality by using your senses. Each person have a specific distribution of these senses in their focus. Some are visual, some are functioning well by really touching stuff, some are reacting better to voices. Your senses are the gates and your focus is the gate opener.
Focus likes diversity. If you’re a visual guy, try using some sounds in the next working session. Put some music on, tap the table from time to time. If you’re doing something related to sounds (you’re a musician for instance, or working on a movie soundtrack) try to balance this by using some new lights around you. Change your seat, light a candle. It will instantly make you focus better.
Your focus will always appreciate a new balance in your senses. It’s not about boredom, we talked about that already. What you’re doing is sending a complementary signal that will make your focus trying to recompose the big picture. And that will keep it on the current task.
Your Focus Is Your Reality
Ok, I cheated a bit. I started with all those tips about focus enhancement and kept the focus definition aside. And I did this for a reason.
I strongly believe that your focus is in fact your reality. You cannot experience something outside your focus. Everything you do is driven by focus, it’s like a handle to keep and master your environment. It’s the only way you actively experience your life: whenever you’re not focused, you’re drifting away, whenever you’re focused you’re sailing.
Let’s make a short experiment now. Take a look at the wall in front of you. Yes, like right now. Take a look, I said, don’t cheat. :-) After several seconds come back here and read on.
Where was your focus while you looked at the wall? Outside this blog post, of course, what a silly question. But where was the blog post during this period? You’ll answer that it was there, right in front of you, waiting for your to get back. It was in your mind. But I will say this blog post was completely outside your reality.
You might have think it was there, but it was on a virtual space and time. Your real space and time was filled with the wall. You were focused on the wall, and the wall took precedence of everything else in your life, including your thoughts. You might have think you were thinking at the post, but instead you were focused on the wall.
Everything in your life works like this. You might think you’re doing something, but your real focus is somewhere else. You think you’re happy, but instead of real happiness, your focus is in useless, shallow thoughts. You give to your thinking mind the benefit of reality, instead to give this to your focus. You might spend your entire life thinking you’re doing just fine, but your focus will be on a wall. You’ll be in fact experiencing a wall, not a happy life.
This is why training your focus is far more than a productivity technique. At a certain level, focus mastering is a magical endeavor, is an esoteric, almost secret art.
The one who masters his focus will master his own world.
Are you with me here? Or are your drifting away?
Nicholas Read&Share
(A good article :-D)
I used to think that focus is a function of pleasure: I can concentrate on this because I like it. I do some stuff better than other because I like it. While loving what you do can keep your concentration high, at least in the beginning, maintaining a constant, high focus is not a function of pleasure at all. It’s a function of will.
Focus can be trained. It can be enhanced, it can be shaped the way you want. It can serve you well, if you treat it well. In today’s post I’ll share some of my observations regarding focus and how one can work this tool the same way you work your muscles in your daily workout.
Detach From Pleasure
To like something is a great “do” igniter. It really puts you on the road. Starting something you don’t like is usually slower and less energizing. But after the initial thrill, even if you do like what you’re doing, keeping yourself in the flow requires a lot of effort. Your focus will start to weaken.
The best way to ensure a constant flow of focus is to detach from pleasure. To treat every single task emotionally equal. Might sounds “robotish” and totally not fun, but in fact it’s just a way to trick your focus into a better approaching method.
If you’re constantly doing only things you like, your focus will develop a sort of addiction. It will unconsciously start looking for nice stuff, and will ignore difficult, or boring things. It will not discard it and put it aside for later, the boring stuff will simply disappear from the radar. You’ll end up as a hedonistic prisoner of “only nice stuff, please”.
Detaching from pleasure doesn’t mean you will refrain from enjoying what you’re doing. Detaching from pleasure means you’ll start doing things regardless of their niceness level. You’ll just do them. Detaching from pleasure means you’re also detaching from boredom. If you can observe yourself doing stuff, pleasure and boredom are just choices. You’re doing that thing anyway, so you can chose how you feel about it.
Assess Results
Whenever you keep your focus on something for longer chunks, take your time to assess results every once in a while. Take your time to see how were you at the beginning of the task and how are you now. Especially in difficult tasks, assessing results is a great focus enhancer.
It does this by progress showing. If you’re caught in solving a longer problem, you might forget where you started. You start circling and stumbling. You get caught in a pattern of “I’m getting nowhere with this” and your focus will start weaken. The hedonistic part of you will ask for something nice to hang on, and you’ll step away form the problem and go grab a cookie, for instance.
If after the cookie your focus will be higher, it would be great, but your focus is usually thinner. You didn’t assess any results, you just tried to escape a difficult task. Your focus will want again to the cookie.
Assessing results is easy, is a matter of saying: “I started this journey 15 minutes ago, and I’m doing ok, regardless of the fact I’ve done only one single step. I’m ok. I’m on it.”. Your focus will be forced to stay there until you solve the problem. You assessed your position, you acknowledged the fact that you’re making progress.
This works regardless of the focus time span. You can assess results of a 15 minutes cooking session, or of a 5 years goal. Maintaining your focus is equally important in both.
One More Second
I took this habit from my fitness session. Whenever I do pushups or abs, I establish some goal, let’s say 50 abs. When I’m close to 49, I stretch myself out and go over 50, usually 51, or 52. I do the this all the time. The goal is clear but I always try to stay in there for one more second.
I also did this in business. Whenever I was close to finish a project, I did something extra, a feature or an addition of some kind. It was not in the specs from the beginning but I felt the need to put it there.
Staying “one more second” in a project, in a workout, or in a relationship is a fantastic focus enhancer. I always know that I can do more abs after that second and I always know that my project will be a success, after that last feature. I am in there, I know it, I stay focused.
“One more second” is also good for assessing wrong paths. Even if you feel it’s wrong, take one more second to assess that and let your focus decide. If it’s a bad relationship, stay one more second in it and make sure it’s really bad for you. Next time, your focus will warn you from the beginning, and you won’t have to go through tough times again.
Balance Your Senses
Your focus is channeling the reality by using your senses. Each person have a specific distribution of these senses in their focus. Some are visual, some are functioning well by really touching stuff, some are reacting better to voices. Your senses are the gates and your focus is the gate opener.
Focus likes diversity. If you’re a visual guy, try using some sounds in the next working session. Put some music on, tap the table from time to time. If you’re doing something related to sounds (you’re a musician for instance, or working on a movie soundtrack) try to balance this by using some new lights around you. Change your seat, light a candle. It will instantly make you focus better.
Your focus will always appreciate a new balance in your senses. It’s not about boredom, we talked about that already. What you’re doing is sending a complementary signal that will make your focus trying to recompose the big picture. And that will keep it on the current task.
Your Focus Is Your Reality
Ok, I cheated a bit. I started with all those tips about focus enhancement and kept the focus definition aside. And I did this for a reason.
I strongly believe that your focus is in fact your reality. You cannot experience something outside your focus. Everything you do is driven by focus, it’s like a handle to keep and master your environment. It’s the only way you actively experience your life: whenever you’re not focused, you’re drifting away, whenever you’re focused you’re sailing.
Let’s make a short experiment now. Take a look at the wall in front of you. Yes, like right now. Take a look, I said, don’t cheat. :-) After several seconds come back here and read on.
Where was your focus while you looked at the wall? Outside this blog post, of course, what a silly question. But where was the blog post during this period? You’ll answer that it was there, right in front of you, waiting for your to get back. It was in your mind. But I will say this blog post was completely outside your reality.
You might have think it was there, but it was on a virtual space and time. Your real space and time was filled with the wall. You were focused on the wall, and the wall took precedence of everything else in your life, including your thoughts. You might have think you were thinking at the post, but instead you were focused on the wall.
Everything in your life works like this. You might think you’re doing something, but your real focus is somewhere else. You think you’re happy, but instead of real happiness, your focus is in useless, shallow thoughts. You give to your thinking mind the benefit of reality, instead to give this to your focus. You might spend your entire life thinking you’re doing just fine, but your focus will be on a wall. You’ll be in fact experiencing a wall, not a happy life.
This is why training your focus is far more than a productivity technique. At a certain level, focus mastering is a magical endeavor, is an esoteric, almost secret art.
The one who masters his focus will master his own world.
Are you with me here? Or are your drifting away?
Nicholas Read&Share
(A good article :-D)
Daily Beauty
* Name: 유노윤호 / U-Know
* Real name: 정윤호 / Jung Yun Ho
* Profession: Singer and actor
* Birthdate: 1986-Feb-06
* Birthplace: Gwangju, South Korea
* Height: 184cm
* Weight: 66kg
* Star sign: Aquarius
* Blood type: A
* Talent agency: SM Entertainment
* Family: Younger sister
Also known as SNSD (So Nyeo Shi Dae or So Nyuh Shi Dae), SoShi
Origin South Korea Seoul, South Korea
Genres Pop, dance-pop, teen-pop
Years active 2007–present
Labels SM Entertainment
Associated acts
Nicholas End
How To Defrag Your Mind In 5 Easy Steps
How To Defrag Your Mind In 5 Easy Steps
This is a follow up to my post: “Are You The Best Version Of Yourself?”. Specifically, that article used a geeky metaphor, comparing our own being with a computer. In order to be sure you run the best version of yourself, a certain number of maintenance tasks have to be performed, such as “updating your drivers” or “stay virus free”. In this post I’m going to detail on “Defrag your mind”.
Defrag Your Mind? What Exactly Is That?
For the non-geeky versions of my readers, I will briefly outline what a defragmentation is. Although it sounds pretty harsh, it’s nothing but an optimization process. The data on your computer hard-disk is not written and read in sequential order. It’s broken down into smaller pieces and written at arbitrary locations. Now, after a certain period, the effort for retrieving that information, scattered around your entire hard-disk, could become really time consuming.
This is where defragmentation comes in: it re-arranges the data on your hard-disk so it would be much more easier to access. The expected result of such a process is an increase in speed and a higher reliability of your equipment. In other words: you’re going to work not only faster, but also much safer.
Now, how can you do this to your mind? Here is my take on it, in 5 easy steps:
1. Chose Your Dominant Setup
Maybe you’ll be in travel mood for the next couple of weeks. Or maybe you’ll have to deliver something big at your job. Or maybe you’ll want to learn something new. Whatever the case, you’ll have to identify your major focus in the next few days or weeks. This is what I call your “dominant” setup. It will be your main concern, your essential duty.
Similarly, there are computer setups for video processing or for games. There are setups for text or image processing. Depending on these setups, your hard-disk algorithms may change. This is why it’s important to do an assessment first and understand what are you going to perform in the next few weeks. You’re going to setup your mind exactly for that.
Based on this initial assessment, when you’ll chose a dominant configuration for the next period. try to identify it with a single word or a small sentence: “finish project”, “workout” or “visit Rocky Mountains”. Your whole defragmentation process will target this dominant setup.
2. Identify Necessary Information
Once you correctly identified the main concern for the next period, start to identify related areas. What information do you need to succeed? Are there any important actions you need to perform on a regular basis? Are there any specific attitudes you need to adopt? Any habits you need to implement? All these items are part of your main setup.
Identifying your necessary information should be done rather slowly but thoroughly, than quickly and fuzzy. If you’re going to establish a new algorithm for your main central unit, you’d better make sure you won’t let out something important. That will only make the whole process slow if you’d have to go back and re-start it again.
One tip in this step would be to make a log of it. If it’s something about holiday, just write down the “cloud” of necessary information, actions and habits in a list format. Next time you go on a holiday, you’ll have the info available and spend less time on assessing it. Another tip that could significantly shorten this step is to use mind-mapping. A non-linear document would be more appropriate for this process than a sequential one.
3. Establish Priorities
You know the setup, you have the tools, now all you have to do is to establish priorities. If you ever witnessed a defragmentation, you saw that the most frequently accessed information is usually moved in the first sectors of your hard-disk. That would make it easier and faster to be accessed. And you’re going to do exactly that: make things easier to manage.
Identifying priorities is obviously closely related to the dominant setup. If you’re going to work more than usual, then one of your priorities would probably be to have your laptop charged as often as possible. If your main setup would be traveling related, maybe the tool which should be constantly charged is your mobile phone.
The easiest way to assess the priority is to use a scale from 1 to 5, 1 being the higher point of the scale. Take the previously gathered information and run it through this filter. Ok, this is a laptop, on a scale from 1 to 5 how important is that for my dominant setup? Ok, will give it a 2. Just start practicing and in time you’ll get better at it.
4. Ignore The Unimportant
One of the biggest clutter sources in our lives is the excess luggage we’re carrying around because we think it’s necessary. Or because somebody else has already decided for us it’s necessary. Or simply because we didn’t do any assessment whatsoever and we’re still carrying around those lose ends. Our focus is too loaded with too many lenses.
The 4th stage of your mind defragmentation should address exactly this question. If you moved all the important stuff closer to your core in the previous step, now you’re going to take the unnecessary bits and pieces and move them far away from your reach. Don’t get rid of them, of course, just offer them a well deserved break. :-)
For instance, if you’re going to travel, you may totally ignore your office suits. Push them away, ignore. If you’re going to learn something new, decide you’re going to cut on your distractions: ignore watching TV or social activities. The most important function of this step is to actually write down what are you going to ignore. Don’t expect it to happen naturally.
5. Run A Dry Test
Once your dominant new setup is in place, try to run a dry test. It won’t have the benefits of actually implementing the whole things, but it will still be useful. Take 15 minutes to imagine a whole day, from the moment you wake up to the moment you get to bed. Every information you need is in place? Are your priorities well balanced? Is the clutter properly stowed away?
If you’re satisfied, congrats, you just had your first mind defragmentation.
A Real Life Example
1. The Dominant Setup
I do a little bit of defragmentation every time I enter a new milestone for my blog. One of the dominant setups this year would be “monetize my blog”. These are at least 3 main functions I should perform under this new setup:
* create new products
* identify markets for the products
* promote my new products
* increase blog traffic
2. Necessary Information, Actions and Habits
* focus on creating extra products (text, audio and video)
* focus on promoting my blog via social media
* allocate at least 2 extra hours each day for new products
* evaluate the promotion and generated income
3. Establish Priorities
* the most important thing: create products (priority 1)
* the second most important thing: promote the products (priority 1)
* the third most important thing: increase blog traffic (priority 2)
4. What To Ignore
* spend less time reading other blogs
* spend less time on other projects (workshops, for instance)
* ignore alternative monetization like display advertising
5. Run A Dry Test
As you may already know I already have 5 books published on Amazon and things are going pretty well on this direction. The dry-test started on early January and just finished a few days ago when my 5th book was approved. I know how my dominant setup will look like for the next few months. :-)
Well this is how a basic mind defragmentation process looks like. This is really sketchy but I hope you got the idea.
How Often To Defrag?
Similar concepts in productivity metodologies (like GTD), suggests that a thorough review should be done weekly. In my experience, there’s no need for a weekly review in order to keep your mind defragged. It’s more about how often you will change your dominant setup, or your goals. This is also closely related to your own lifestyle.
For instance, I do think you should do a defrag every time you leave on holiday, but only if a holiday will mean a major shift in your regular lifestyle. If your current lifestyle is a nomadic one, living location independent, maybe you should do a defrag every time you check in to a new country.
Nicholas Read&Share
This is a follow up to my post: “Are You The Best Version Of Yourself?”. Specifically, that article used a geeky metaphor, comparing our own being with a computer. In order to be sure you run the best version of yourself, a certain number of maintenance tasks have to be performed, such as “updating your drivers” or “stay virus free”. In this post I’m going to detail on “Defrag your mind”.
Defrag Your Mind? What Exactly Is That?
For the non-geeky versions of my readers, I will briefly outline what a defragmentation is. Although it sounds pretty harsh, it’s nothing but an optimization process. The data on your computer hard-disk is not written and read in sequential order. It’s broken down into smaller pieces and written at arbitrary locations. Now, after a certain period, the effort for retrieving that information, scattered around your entire hard-disk, could become really time consuming.
This is where defragmentation comes in: it re-arranges the data on your hard-disk so it would be much more easier to access. The expected result of such a process is an increase in speed and a higher reliability of your equipment. In other words: you’re going to work not only faster, but also much safer.
Now, how can you do this to your mind? Here is my take on it, in 5 easy steps:
1. Chose Your Dominant Setup
Maybe you’ll be in travel mood for the next couple of weeks. Or maybe you’ll have to deliver something big at your job. Or maybe you’ll want to learn something new. Whatever the case, you’ll have to identify your major focus in the next few days or weeks. This is what I call your “dominant” setup. It will be your main concern, your essential duty.
Similarly, there are computer setups for video processing or for games. There are setups for text or image processing. Depending on these setups, your hard-disk algorithms may change. This is why it’s important to do an assessment first and understand what are you going to perform in the next few weeks. You’re going to setup your mind exactly for that.
Based on this initial assessment, when you’ll chose a dominant configuration for the next period. try to identify it with a single word or a small sentence: “finish project”, “workout” or “visit Rocky Mountains”. Your whole defragmentation process will target this dominant setup.
2. Identify Necessary Information
Once you correctly identified the main concern for the next period, start to identify related areas. What information do you need to succeed? Are there any important actions you need to perform on a regular basis? Are there any specific attitudes you need to adopt? Any habits you need to implement? All these items are part of your main setup.
Identifying your necessary information should be done rather slowly but thoroughly, than quickly and fuzzy. If you’re going to establish a new algorithm for your main central unit, you’d better make sure you won’t let out something important. That will only make the whole process slow if you’d have to go back and re-start it again.
One tip in this step would be to make a log of it. If it’s something about holiday, just write down the “cloud” of necessary information, actions and habits in a list format. Next time you go on a holiday, you’ll have the info available and spend less time on assessing it. Another tip that could significantly shorten this step is to use mind-mapping. A non-linear document would be more appropriate for this process than a sequential one.
3. Establish Priorities
You know the setup, you have the tools, now all you have to do is to establish priorities. If you ever witnessed a defragmentation, you saw that the most frequently accessed information is usually moved in the first sectors of your hard-disk. That would make it easier and faster to be accessed. And you’re going to do exactly that: make things easier to manage.
Identifying priorities is obviously closely related to the dominant setup. If you’re going to work more than usual, then one of your priorities would probably be to have your laptop charged as often as possible. If your main setup would be traveling related, maybe the tool which should be constantly charged is your mobile phone.
The easiest way to assess the priority is to use a scale from 1 to 5, 1 being the higher point of the scale. Take the previously gathered information and run it through this filter. Ok, this is a laptop, on a scale from 1 to 5 how important is that for my dominant setup? Ok, will give it a 2. Just start practicing and in time you’ll get better at it.
4. Ignore The Unimportant
One of the biggest clutter sources in our lives is the excess luggage we’re carrying around because we think it’s necessary. Or because somebody else has already decided for us it’s necessary. Or simply because we didn’t do any assessment whatsoever and we’re still carrying around those lose ends. Our focus is too loaded with too many lenses.
The 4th stage of your mind defragmentation should address exactly this question. If you moved all the important stuff closer to your core in the previous step, now you’re going to take the unnecessary bits and pieces and move them far away from your reach. Don’t get rid of them, of course, just offer them a well deserved break. :-)
For instance, if you’re going to travel, you may totally ignore your office suits. Push them away, ignore. If you’re going to learn something new, decide you’re going to cut on your distractions: ignore watching TV or social activities. The most important function of this step is to actually write down what are you going to ignore. Don’t expect it to happen naturally.
5. Run A Dry Test
Once your dominant new setup is in place, try to run a dry test. It won’t have the benefits of actually implementing the whole things, but it will still be useful. Take 15 minutes to imagine a whole day, from the moment you wake up to the moment you get to bed. Every information you need is in place? Are your priorities well balanced? Is the clutter properly stowed away?
If you’re satisfied, congrats, you just had your first mind defragmentation.
A Real Life Example
1. The Dominant Setup
I do a little bit of defragmentation every time I enter a new milestone for my blog. One of the dominant setups this year would be “monetize my blog”. These are at least 3 main functions I should perform under this new setup:
* create new products
* identify markets for the products
* promote my new products
* increase blog traffic
2. Necessary Information, Actions and Habits
* focus on creating extra products (text, audio and video)
* focus on promoting my blog via social media
* allocate at least 2 extra hours each day for new products
* evaluate the promotion and generated income
3. Establish Priorities
* the most important thing: create products (priority 1)
* the second most important thing: promote the products (priority 1)
* the third most important thing: increase blog traffic (priority 2)
4. What To Ignore
* spend less time reading other blogs
* spend less time on other projects (workshops, for instance)
* ignore alternative monetization like display advertising
5. Run A Dry Test
As you may already know I already have 5 books published on Amazon and things are going pretty well on this direction. The dry-test started on early January and just finished a few days ago when my 5th book was approved. I know how my dominant setup will look like for the next few months. :-)
Well this is how a basic mind defragmentation process looks like. This is really sketchy but I hope you got the idea.
How Often To Defrag?
Similar concepts in productivity metodologies (like GTD), suggests that a thorough review should be done weekly. In my experience, there’s no need for a weekly review in order to keep your mind defragged. It’s more about how often you will change your dominant setup, or your goals. This is also closely related to your own lifestyle.
For instance, I do think you should do a defrag every time you leave on holiday, but only if a holiday will mean a major shift in your regular lifestyle. If your current lifestyle is a nomadic one, living location independent, maybe you should do a defrag every time you check in to a new country.
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David Blaine: How I held my breath for 17 min
In this highly personal talk from TEDMED, magician and stuntman David Blaine describes what it took to hold his breath underwater for 17 minutes -- a world record (only two minutes shorter than this entire talk!) -- and what his often death-defying work means to him. Warning: do NOT try this at home.
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8种快速恢复精力的方法 Way to recover your energy
主题：8种快速恢复精力的方法
1.做深呼吸。
深呼吸可以减慢心跳的速度，减少神经张力，降低血压。每天做10～15的深呼吸练习，另外，任何时候，当你感觉紧张或压力很大时，就做做深呼吸。让空气充满你的胸部和腹部，然后再慢慢地呼出。迈克尔·施密德特著有《厌倦疲劳》一书，建议每分钟呼吸12～16次。
2.沉思。
人们常常通过沉思来放松自己，而沉思确实可以帮助人们解除疲劳。找一个安静的地方，然后舒舒服服地坐着、放松，闭上眼睛，想象一个像“一”那样简单的字。当其他想法侵入时，集中精力，再去想先前的那个字。
3. 慢慢地做一些伸展运动。
做伸展运动的效果跟做深呼吸差不多。它可以减轻肌肉张力，加速血液在体内的循环，以及帮助把氧气输送到大脑等。
每天开始时都来一次和缓的、适度的、给身体增加活力的伸展。弯曲脊柱可加速体内的循环。最好的伸展运动是：双手和膝盖着地，然后慢慢地、用劲地把背弯成弓形。保持这种姿势10秒钟，然后慢慢地放松。或双脚以肩宽分开，身体略微向前倾斜、曲膝，把你的手放在大腿中部，然后轻轻地弯腰，保持10秒钟，再放松。再重复做。
4.尊重你的生物钟。
我们中的有些人早晨时精力最旺盛，而其他人晚上精力最好。“如果你起床后，需要喝三到四杯咖啡才能提起精神，那你很可能不是一个“早上精力旺”的人。”查尔斯·昆兹勒曼如是说，他著有《如何让你的能量和生产能力最大化》一书。找出你的 “黄金时间”，把你最重要的工作留到你“高能量的时间段”。比如，如果你是一个“云雀”，那就在上午安排一天中最重要的事，而不要安排在下午。因为下午时，你的精力已经衰退了。
5.少吃多餐。
吃饭时，血液将跑到肠道，离开大脑，所以我们会变得迟钝，不想动。有部分专家，相信每天吃5到6顿，一顿吃一点点，那么你的血糖将保持稳定。为了能量起见，不要吃富含脂肪的食物，比如肥肉、冰淇淋等。消化这些事物，需要的时间长，因而血液离开大脑的时间也长。但是不要忽略那些带有基本的脂肪酸的食物，比如鱼和坚果。它们是很重要的营养滋补品。
6.多晒阳光
阳光能抑制身体中褪黑激素的生长。没有充足的阳光，尤其是冬天里的那几个月，有些人就会患季节性的“情感性精神病”，一种可能引起疲劳的抑郁症。
7.注意站姿。
当你没精打采地走时，你把你的重量从身体的中心处移开。因而你得耗费更多的气力来保持身体的平衡，约瑟夫·斯威尔解释说。“我们一天中搬运的物体就是我们自己的身体，”斯威尔说，“只要我们保持它在我们支撑点的中心，我们就不会那么疲劳。下面是一些保持平衡的简单方法：保持你的头在骨盆上方，耳朵在肩膀上方，腰背部向前倾。如果你坐在计算机前，你的眼睛应该与屏幕的中间在同一水平线上。女人们，脱下高跟鞋，把沉重的手袋留在家里——因为这两样东西都会使你的体重偏离重心。
8.检查你的睡眠习惯.
睡多久才够？人与人不同。可以这样测量：如果你在不想瞌睡的时候瞌睡，或者周末时睡到很晚，那说明你没有得到充足的睡眠，马克·马霍活尔德说。争取在以后的几个星期里每晚多睡一个小时，然后看看你感觉如何
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1.做深呼吸。
深呼吸可以减慢心跳的速度，减少神经张力，降低血压。每天做10～15的深呼吸练习，另外，任何时候，当你感觉紧张或压力很大时，就做做深呼吸。让空气充满你的胸部和腹部，然后再慢慢地呼出。迈克尔·施密德特著有《厌倦疲劳》一书，建议每分钟呼吸12～16次。
2.沉思。
人们常常通过沉思来放松自己，而沉思确实可以帮助人们解除疲劳。找一个安静的地方，然后舒舒服服地坐着、放松，闭上眼睛，想象一个像“一”那样简单的字。当其他想法侵入时，集中精力，再去想先前的那个字。
3. 慢慢地做一些伸展运动。
做伸展运动的效果跟做深呼吸差不多。它可以减轻肌肉张力，加速血液在体内的循环，以及帮助把氧气输送到大脑等。
每天开始时都来一次和缓的、适度的、给身体增加活力的伸展。弯曲脊柱可加速体内的循环。最好的伸展运动是：双手和膝盖着地，然后慢慢地、用劲地把背弯成弓形。保持这种姿势10秒钟，然后慢慢地放松。或双脚以肩宽分开，身体略微向前倾斜、曲膝，把你的手放在大腿中部，然后轻轻地弯腰，保持10秒钟，再放松。再重复做。
4.尊重你的生物钟。
我们中的有些人早晨时精力最旺盛，而其他人晚上精力最好。“如果你起床后，需要喝三到四杯咖啡才能提起精神，那你很可能不是一个“早上精力旺”的人。”查尔斯·昆兹勒曼如是说，他著有《如何让你的能量和生产能力最大化》一书。找出你的 “黄金时间”，把你最重要的工作留到你“高能量的时间段”。比如，如果你是一个“云雀”，那就在上午安排一天中最重要的事，而不要安排在下午。因为下午时，你的精力已经衰退了。
5.少吃多餐。
吃饭时，血液将跑到肠道，离开大脑，所以我们会变得迟钝，不想动。有部分专家，相信每天吃5到6顿，一顿吃一点点，那么你的血糖将保持稳定。为了能量起见，不要吃富含脂肪的食物，比如肥肉、冰淇淋等。消化这些事物，需要的时间长，因而血液离开大脑的时间也长。但是不要忽略那些带有基本的脂肪酸的食物，比如鱼和坚果。它们是很重要的营养滋补品。
6.多晒阳光
阳光能抑制身体中褪黑激素的生长。没有充足的阳光，尤其是冬天里的那几个月，有些人就会患季节性的“情感性精神病”，一种可能引起疲劳的抑郁症。
7.注意站姿。
当你没精打采地走时，你把你的重量从身体的中心处移开。因而你得耗费更多的气力来保持身体的平衡，约瑟夫·斯威尔解释说。“我们一天中搬运的物体就是我们自己的身体，”斯威尔说，“只要我们保持它在我们支撑点的中心，我们就不会那么疲劳。下面是一些保持平衡的简单方法：保持你的头在骨盆上方，耳朵在肩膀上方，腰背部向前倾。如果你坐在计算机前，你的眼睛应该与屏幕的中间在同一水平线上。女人们，脱下高跟鞋，把沉重的手袋留在家里——因为这两样东西都会使你的体重偏离重心。
8.检查你的睡眠习惯.
睡多久才够？人与人不同。可以这样测量：如果你在不想瞌睡的时候瞌睡，或者周末时睡到很晚，那说明你没有得到充足的睡眠，马克·马霍活尔德说。争取在以后的几个星期里每晚多睡一个小时，然后看看你感觉如何
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Daily Beauty
中文名： 李准基(李俊基)
外文名： 이준기
国籍： 韩国
出生地： 釜山昌原
出生日期： 1982年04月17日
职业： 演员
毕业院校： 首尔综合艺术大学电影系
網路正妹TOP5+無名相簿美女 Top 4. 彤彤
http://www.wretch.cc/album/vividuck29
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New Semester
O.O This is the new semester again XD The difference is this is the third semester and Im going to degree soon !! If not mistaken,i will intake in June :-D I hope this is not a tough semester to pass through @@
This is my new semester timetable.It is quite free and not really pack at all .Unfortunately ,there has a class on Friday !!What a bad day :-S However,we still have a chance to change our time to another days.Then,we can have a rest on friday :D
Today ,we had our class and met our lecturers.So far,we just meet up Mathematics lecturer :-D (Lecturer that always has her sweet smile) and a new lecturer for our Statistics.Our statistics lecturer is a new lecturer.He had his first class with us in MMU.Furthermore,he is quite funny person and speak english very well :S He graduated at MMU with software engineering course.I heard my friend said that he had a allienware laptop :S (rich guy XD).In the first class,he showed us a video clip about Oxford professor.It is really a genius lecturer!!! Amazing..Watch it !!
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This is my new semester timetable.It is quite free and not really pack at all .Unfortunately ,there has a class on Friday !!What a bad day :-S However,we still have a chance to change our time to another days.Then,we can have a rest on friday :D
Today ,we had our class and met our lecturers.So far,we just meet up Mathematics lecturer :-D (Lecturer that always has her sweet smile) and a new lecturer for our Statistics.Our statistics lecturer is a new lecturer.He had his first class with us in MMU.Furthermore,he is quite funny person and speak english very well :S He graduated at MMU with software engineering course.I heard my friend said that he had a allienware laptop :S (rich guy XD).In the first class,he showed us a video clip about Oxford professor.It is really a genius lecturer!!! Amazing..Watch it !!
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