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There’s a lot of ways to work with appreciation. You can pull out a pen and paper and list all the things you love, the things you need, the things you depend on. You can remember someone or something that is no longer in your life. There’s also that famous workshop exercise where you have to eat a raisin or a potato chip very, very slowly.
But then there’s just the simple checking in right where you are, wherever you are and discovering the appreciation that is already present.

Apartment Therapy The Kitchn | Weekend Meditation: Appreciation

The Life Hack Misnomer

I have been recently hacking my life. Changing the way I do things, taking risks and accepting the lessons learned by my "failures". This excellent post says a lot.

When it comes to life, you have to do it yourself. There is no other way. Family, friends, and community are wonderful, but ultimately no one can live your life for you. You’re in the driver’s seat, even if you’re following someone else’s map. That’s just the deal.

(Via The Growing Life-The Life Hack Misnomer.)

Stream of Consciousness

I have been reading a lot about lifestreaming. The idea is that content from all ( or most ) of the online aspects of my life are logged some place. The writers at chilibean defined it this way:

a stream of content from a variety of services in one location so your friends/followers can visit one site and see which photos you uploaded, what your Twitter updates are, your latest blog posts and more.

Based on that definition I have been life streaming since Plaxo launched Pulse and I discovered Twitter and Tumblr.

Like a lot of geeky professionals I use Twitter. I also use the social bookmarking site Ma.gnolia, photo sharing site Flickr, and Pownce. Every input into one of these services is fed into Tumblr ( see Jack of All Trades ) and Plaxo Pulse. I don't use Facebook for my life stream because it would require anyone wanting to stalk me to register an account.