Light-skinned-ed Girl

Don't Break the Chain: Help for Good Habit-Forming

I'm solidly on the good foot with my workout regimen.  Now, how to stay on course?  A friend of mine said that when he records what he does (running, yoga), he takes it more seriously.  I believe in that too.  Gold stars on a calendar work for me.  Thanks to Lifehacker I'm also trying this little web site called Don't Break the Chain.  The idea (based on Jerry Seinfeld's advice to a young comic) is to mark on a calendar each day you've accomplished your task.  "After a few days you'll have a chain.  Just keep at it and the chain will grow longer every day.  You'll like seeing that chain, especially when you get a few weeks under your belt.  Your only job next is to not break the chain."  It's free--and worth trying.  Photo by emdot.

Lifehacker Guide

I love this book Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to working smarter, faster and better.  I have been in an organizational frenzy the last couple of weeks.  This book has some wonderful tips and tricks.  I have already adopted qipit.com, a site that allows you to translate camera/digital phone images of text (like a wipeboard or book page) and translate them easily into pdf files.  Free.  I'm about to download the virtual desktop utility (www.dexpot.de) which will allow me to see several different windows open at once.  Free.  The author also recommends Remember the Milk for list-making.  It is an on-line program but has an off-line component usable through Mozilla.  Also, free.  I have been using Toodledo, but the fact that it doesn't have an off-line interface has made it less useful to me.  There are more than a hundred hacks--most of which I am finding useful.  Check it out.

I Am A Labeling Fool

Yes, it's true.  This lady who abhors racial pigeon-holing, and being forced to choose one box when many fit, has a new best friend in her P-Touch Labeler.