Comments on: Living Contradiction

By: feather

feather — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:04:15 +0000

Hi Rob,

To what specifically are you referring?

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:11:08 +0000

http://www.accessibiliteweb.com/stuff/a11ySummit/Featherstone-Mobile-a11y.pdf

Talk about a “living contradiction” …

By: Jenn T

Jenn T — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:40:59 +0000

Nice post. Was inspired to include your sites in my own blog. (http://jeniontherun.blogspot.com/2010/01/smile-more.html) And clever idea of uncovering contradictions before they become dangerous habits that we simply ignore as rituals. Makes me need to run…

Jenn

By: TraderZed

TraderZed — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:45:21 +0000

Great post Derek.

Last summer a few people mentioned to me that after losing weight and running everyday that I was a huge inspiration to them.

Since around November, I stopped running everyday. In fact, I barely run at all these days. I’d like to tell myself that it’s because it’s the winter and that it’s cold etc., yet I ran every day last winter.. not really an effective excuse.

I still find myself telling people that they should be running everyday if they want to stay in shape, and that diet is extremely important.

I’m glad that you posted this… hopefully now that I’m confronting it I can deal with it.

Hurrah for 2010!

By: Stephen Collins

Stephen Collins — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:59:50 +0000

Understanding the values and frame I want for everything prompted me to mind map my work existence recently.

I probably need to do one for my life, and then mesh it with the work one, though I feel like my life itself is better. I’m fitter and stronger than I’ve been in a long time.

If you and I can both make it work, we’ll be doing well. I’m always here to be a sounding board.

By: Gary Barber

Gary Barber — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:11:32 +0000

Nice post Derek

Total agree, we need to stop procrastinating with words and act. Make those hard life style choices and change things for the better. I know personally I have been down this road in 2009. It’s not easy! However I took steps to slow things down and the like and I’m now taking it a step further, hopefully for the better.

We are sometimes strange beasts. We can with all the intent and passion of the world see what we are doing wrong and the solution we must undertake. And yet we are focused in the moment and blind to our path we are creating in that moment. Maybe we just need to stop and see it all and take stock.

By: ppk

ppk — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:08:25 +0000

My friend, just take a break from the conference circuit. That’ll help some. Also, don’t do every single volunteer job that comes your way. That’ll help some, too.

I’m going to do exactly that in 2010.

By: Mike Papageorge

Mike Papageorge — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:06:58 +0000

Nicely explained. I’ve never thought of it this way. I’ve taken to the “are my actions in line with my goals and values?” idea/question.

This feeling you describe hit me at the end of 2008 and I took a month off of work to get sorted out, hang out with my family and enjoy some outdoors.

I spent all of 2009 putting into practice answering that question above much more seriously then ever before (and found that asking myself “who are you going to be today” became a quick “put me in my place” sort of motivator – and a cool domain name http://whoareyougoingtobetoday.com :)

Good luck in 2010. As you say above, building and breaking habits is on the menu, but more importantly is deeply knowing which ones you want to act upon.