How To Live on 24 Hours a Day →

Published December 11, 2014  ·  All posts on Dec 11  ·  , ,

This entry is part 9 of 72 in the series My Journey

As you look back on the year that has just past, do you feel as though you spent another 12 months merely existing instead of truly living? Do you often go to bed at night with an anxious, sinking feeling that you wasted away another precious day of your limited time here on earth? One of my all-time favorite old books addressed this very concern better than anything else I’ve ever read.

~ Brett McKay from, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

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104 years old, still readable, and totally apropos of our lives today.

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great morning for a walk! →

Published December 11, 2014  ·  All posts on Dec 11  ·  

great morning for a walk!

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DevOps →

Published December 10, 2014  ·  All posts on Dec 10

It’s been said by a number of smart people that DevOps is largely founded in an organization’s skillful collaboration and communication, and the culture that results. I agree with that idea, and I also think that it’s one of the reasons why the term DevOps is sometimes difficult to explain, because these are ‘soft’ skills we’re talking about. These aren’t things you can graph or alert on, they only manifest in the resulting product and environment.

~ John Allspaw from, DevOps

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Getting ready for Québec in January! →

Published December 8, 2014  ·  All posts on Dec 8  ·  

Getting ready for Québec in January!

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What is Character? →

Published December 8, 2014  ·  All posts on Dec 8

Character. Like honor, it’s a word we take for granted and probably have an affinity for, but likely have never really had to define and may struggle to do so when pressed. It’s a word most men desire to have ascribed to them, and yet the standards of its attainment remain rather vague in our modern age.

~ Brett McKay from, What Is Character? Its 3 True Qualities and How to Develop It

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Where transformation happens →

Published December 7, 2014  ·  All posts on Dec 7  ·  ,

It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort. And when you implement that into your life… every single day, that’s where transformation happens. That’s how change occurs. Keep Going. Remember why you started.

~ Jillian Michaels

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Love is all you need? →

Published December 6, 2014  ·  All posts on Dec 6

Nothing quite like the Grant Study has ever been attempted; as Vaillant puts it, this research represents “one of the first vantage points the world has ever had on which to stand and look prospectively at a man’s life from eighteen to ninety.” The mountains of data collected over more than seven decades has become a rich trove for examining what factors present in a man’s younger years best predict whether he will be successful and happy into old age. The study’s researchers have continually sifted through the results and reports in an attempt to ferret out these promising elements. As Vaillant details in The Triumphs of Experience, some of the researchers’ original hypotheses did not pan out, and the job of untangling issues of causation and correlation goes on. Yet several insights have emerged very strongly and prominently from the data, offering brightly marked guideposts to a life well lived.

~ Brett McKay from, Love Is All You Need

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If you start, go all the way →

Published December 5, 2014  ·  All posts on Dec 5  ·  

For some reason, we hold back – almost as if it’s preferred to actually going ALL IN on something. Why? Because if we’ve given our all, and we still fail…what is left? If we go all in and fail, we tell ourselves that we are failures. We aren’t good enough.

In reality, giving our all and then failing is one of the best things that could possibly happen to us. When we give max effort and we fail, we’re only setting ourselves to level up.

~ Steve Kamb from, If You Start, Go All The Way

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Bit of a backlog, sorry →

Published December 4, 2014  ·  All posts on Dec 4

Just in case anyone is actually consciously paying attention to what I post: I’ve a bit of a backlog of things to post, and I’m making an effort to catch up. So there’s going to be something like a post a day, for like, well, 150 days or so…

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History of Parkour →

Published December 3, 2014  ·  All posts on Dec 3  ·  

Truth is, there is no consensus on this. And – which really hefts a giant spanner into the works – you can’t just go and ask the founding father because this great movement is pretty damn far from being a nuclear family, 2.4 kids and all the rest. No. This child has had a whole host of surrogate step-parents influencing its development down through the years, the centuries, indeed even through the millennia. It has drawn on many sources, supped on inspiration from all over, and drunk from a hundred different cups as it has evolved – and by no means is this process over.

~ From, History of ADD / Parkour / Freerunning

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I’ve heard a mind-boggling number or ridiculous things about Parkour. If you EVER have the opportunity to talk about Parkour, please go read this. If this doesn’t fit with your view of history… great! Now you know.

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