I have forgotten where I got this idea. But decade before I read about David Goggins cookie jar method, I have been collecting feedbacks. They live in the Accomplishments and Insults folder.
Feel defeated? Scroll the Accomplishments folder.
Not feeling to exercise? Scroll the Insults folder.
It’s a good reminder on what I’m capable of and who I can prove wrong.
Radio has become the staple for family meal time.
It’s an outdated, single purpose technology, but it reminds us to live in the moment, even if it’s imperfect or unpleasant.
We profile the company that we do business with. We might even profile the key contact person’s interest and birthday for gift. Why don’t we do that to our friends and family?
Recently while visiting an old friend, I added ‘cooks dinner for the kid’ and ‘enjoys noodle more than rice’ in to his profile in Google Doc. It felt weird doing so, but again, we’re all busy with our life. What would be a better way to find a gift for the holiday?
We should have more rational thoughts on people we love and care.
Spin caps are great for night journals, the seconds it takes to spin the cap off provides a time to recap the day. It enhances the ceremonial process.
Snap caps are great for work. The reality is, the time to spin the cap off and adjust the grip is enough to cost an idea or two. The length of the cap counts too, cap of Lamy Safari requires less travel than Pilot Elite; shorter is better.
At work, fountain pens are tools, the more brainless the better.
The feeling of running out of ink in a middle of a meeting and trying to touch the paper lightly to squeeze its last ink drop is disturbing.
That made Lamy Safari a fountain pen worth constant revisiting. It’s a bless not having to unscrew the pen and flip it upside down to check the ink level.
