Do Not Avoid The Butterfly Effect - JUST DO IT!

Butterfly House, St. Louis
(Photo by Doc DeVore)

It's easy to keep doing the familiar every day. Admittedly, it does help maintain a certain level of sanity. If you are doing good things, then doing the familiar is, well, good. Unfortunately, maintaining a routine can also be unhealthy. When I was a fat 367 pounds, I had all kinds of reasons to stick to my routine. Truth be told, all I had was a large list of routine excuses. And fear of failure. Not that I said that out loud of course. Instead I could, and did, blame my schedule. Arrive at the office early. Get home late. Travel also took a lot of time; in the two years before I started my "eat right and exercise" transformation I visited 62 different cities on 79 trips covering more than 123,000 miles. During 2008 to 2010 I spent 248 nights in a hotel room. Flight attendants and airport gate agents and parking attendants would say, "welcome back." If I had known about the Journey Gym in those days it would not have made a difference.

Fortunately and finally I decided that I no longer wanted to be the guy that had to have a seat belt extender on the airplane. Today I am proud to say that I not only don't need the extra length, I don't even mind sitting in the middle seat. Because I have room to spare on both sides. All because I decided to take some small steps. Eat breakfast, lunch and a sensible dinner EVERY day. Go for a walk every night. It is that simple. But it does require action - the action of developing a "do habit." That's what Ciara Conlan calls it in her blog titled Avoiding The Butterfly Effect, The Supersaurus and Procrastination. I hope you enjoy her article as much as I did.

Ciara Conlon is a Personal Productivity Coach and author. Her mission is to help people achieve their best through working efficiently and being positive and present. “Through Productivity and Positivity I believe there is little we can’t achieve” go to Productivity & Positivity and get Free eBook called Clear the Clutter; Find Your Life

Be sure to get some breakfast, and take a Clif Bar with you.

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Eat Right. Exercise. Get Plenty of Rest.

Question for You About Hash Tags

Or are they called Labels? Maybe folders? Or are they only tags?

Should it be spelled #hash #tag #rants, or #hashtagrants?  (strike that - #HashTagRants in CamelCase?) Or, are they REmarks in some batch file? Or comments in C#? Perhaps they are just memo fields. Does Normal 3 have anything to do with this? And are they data, or meta-data? And how do the rules for XML from W3C apply?

(sidebar: the photo to the left is from  a post by SAI on Business Insider on Dec 26; we'll come back to why it applies in a future post).

Which rule is this anyway? The answer, of course, would depend on the scope of use. The programmers know the answer to this question, so I am asking you, which one do you think is best?

Oh, sorry, I forgot to insert a Header Block Comment when I changed scope for this new topic. But, I think Ms. Biddle would agree that I understood the rule for composition. Anyway, back to my question:  I am asking which nomenclature should be used in the scope of this blog? It occurred to me - during my #rant about #LittleBlackCarWithoutMuffler WHO NEEDS TO BE MORE QUIET! - that which one to use and how to use it depends on scope. There must be a rule about that! Is it #497 or #674? Is there a rule? (note to self: check my Gibbs folder to see which tag he would apply, and re-read David Allen's book to see if this is what he meant about @context).

While I ponder this question of the butterfly effect, a little voice suggested that one could be used to describe cliques, and another how to organize reminders, and another for place marks, and that you could even use one of them for the virtual construct of linear process.

And then it dawned on me - one of them describes the Butterfly Effect, or Chaos Theory! Yep, I think that's the best way to describe how life just kind of happens, and knowing the rules is not as important as understanding the theory, and that was really what Mr. Khonke was trying to teach Kip and me in 1969 during chemistry class in first hour at Powell High School.

Maybe. Still not sure. Might be a problem with my linear thinking. Yeah, that's probably it. I think I'll check with the author while you check out which GPS HRM is best.

PS: The picture is of a surprise present from my bride, the love of my life, who  knew that I wanted a BlueTooth device to use with my app "JogKeeper" (sometimes "Runkeeper). We'll come back to that someday. Have a great one mosey down Ramblewood Boulevard.