self-improvement Archive
Polyphasic Sleep - Day 1
1 Comment Published by Jim June 19th, 2006 in health, polyphasic sleep, self-improvement, sleepToday, being Monday, found me at work during the day. I work a traditional cubicle dwelling 8 to 5 job as a Software Engineer.
I actually woke up later then I planned, but I still got to work at a good time and took two 15 minute naps at work. The first was in the [...]
Polyphasic Sleep
1 Comment Published by Jim June 17th, 2006 in health, mind, polyphasic sleep, self-improvement, sleep, thoughtThere are two types of sleep: Monophasic and Polyphasic. By about 7 years old most people in the United States practice Monophasic sleep, or sleeping for one solid chunk of time from 6 to 9 hours, usually at night.
Interestingly, we are all born practicing Polyphasic sleep - rotating through a cycle of sleep and [...]
Never fear the want of business. . . .
0 Comments Published by Jim April 29th, 2006 in quote, self-improvement, success“Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.”
-Thomas Jefferson
If we want success we must first qualify ourselves for our callings. Often times we think we just need a lucky break to get started, but in fact we just need to grow ourselves. [...]
More on Consciousness
0 Comments Published by Jim April 13th, 2006 in quote, self-improvement, thoughtTalk about finding what you are looking for. I caught this quote on a quote of the day list I am on. It is really relevant to what I was saying yesterday on Choosing Thoughts.
Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.
-Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Choose Your Thoughts Carefully
4 Comments Published by Jim April 13th, 2006 in health, mind, religion, self-improvement, thoughtI previously discussed the chain from thoughts to actions to habits to character. Now I would really like to re-iterate a point: The importance of choosing the thoughts you give time on the stage of your mind.
Sometimes it may feel like we are bombarded with random thoughts - they just keep coming with no [...]
Thoughts, Actions, Habits, and Character
6 Comments Published by Jim April 7th, 2006 in health, quote, religion, self-improvementFor some reason on my my most memorable Sunday School lessons as a teen ager was when we can into the classroom and the teacher had written on the board something like:
_____ become _____
______ create _____
______ build ______
Then the words: Thoughts, Actions, Habits, and Character. Now as I try to recall this I realize [...]