Start with little habits that can grow into big habits.
Which came first? The chicken or the egg?
The rooster.
Getting rich
The easiest way to make money is to do what you are best at.
Procrastination
Put off procrastinating.
Simple trick to getting things done
Overwhelming to do list?
Put it aside and make a new one with just three things on it.
If you finish those three, write another three.
I say “if” because our priorities change daily, so you may not finish those three and the next day the three may need to be different. This can happen when any of the three are large ongoing tasks. For myself, these could be user support or coding an application.
If you want to tighten the list to goals achievable that day, you could qualify the items. e.g. Two hours of user support; Answer 10 support requests; Code feature X; etc
My development and design toolkit
Being a software junkie, this is always in a flux, but this is how it stands at the moment
Updated 9/3/2016
Incontinent
(adj) Involuntarily crap at some task, knowledge, talent, skill etc.
e.g. Despite my best efforts, I am incontinent at object oriented programming.
Love & sex
Is making love bad for your sex life?
The recursive paradoxical instruction
Don’t listen to anything I say.
Bite the hand
The dog that bites the hand that feeds it may have been mistreated.
The customer isn’t always right
The customer isn’t always right – or bright. But you’re not allowed to make them feel stupid for it.
If it ain’t broke
If it ain’t broke enough, don’t fix it
A victory for common cents
When the consumers boycott a retailer, forcing change, it is a victory for common cents.
Absence
Absence makes the mind grow wiser.
The world’s simplest diet
The world’s simplest diet: Stop eating EVERY time you feel hungry!
Relationship Pulse
Paraphrased wisdom of an 82yo: Want to know the true state of your relationship? Check its resting pulse rate. That is, see how it is when you’re not working it. If it’s weak, so is the relationship. If it’s strong, so is the relationship.
Relationships
I think I’m the “other woman” in my relationship.
Luck
Luck is for people who don’t know what they’re doing.
WordPress developer tip: Adding messages to content list and editor screens
Recently I learnt how to display messages on content list and content editor pages in admin, which has enabled me to put key info I kept getting asked bang in front of users (mainly what the screen is for and how to get more help).
Use one of these actions:
Content list: views_edit-{post type name}
Content editor: edit_form_after_title
The latter passes $post to your function (i.e. use myfunction($post)) , so grab that and use $post->post_type to check you’re on the right page before showing your message.
Epithet
Finally finished someth…