This is the first post in a new series that revisits some of our readers’ favorite posts from the past that still contain awesome and relevant information that you might find useful. This post was originally published on July 7, 2009.
The Day One CLI makes it possible for programs and scripts to interact with a Day One Journal from the command line.
Wake up early. Show up. Learn how to think. Be genuine, but appear nice. Use envy for motivation instead of destruction. Do what you say you’re going to do. Ensure balance in every area of your life. Confront repressed thoughts immediately. Surround yourself with people who are better than you (but remember the thing about envy). Work out every day. Be good at what you do. Make money doing what you love. Have good friends. Never settle.
This is my personal recipe for happiness and success.
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.
All my very best,
Jack Layton
Amazing slide guitar adaptation of Ravel’s Pavane:
Ravel’s “Pavane Pour Une Enfante Defunte” (Pavane for a Dead Princess) is here rendered gracefully heartbreaking, and Cole’s instrument lets out a sad cry that seems to remember every sweet gesture of the lost child.
excerpt from video interview
“poetry is the most precise way of using words…reading poetry, never mind trying to write, hones your wits when it comes to examining the true meaning of words, because it makes you recognize the emotional significance of a word not just the intellectual significance… and words have emotional significance…
dangerously so…
listen to politicians or preachers. They use one of the big dirty words like freedom, liberty, democracy, etc. and they get penny-in-the-slot responses… not thinking of the meaning of words, just having emotional responses…and it is an awful dangerous thing…I think it is the source of most problems in the world. Not just country to country but people to people, husband to wife… all these problems primarily due to an emotional response.
