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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 11:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Temporal Causality of “Go to Moon” Address and Landing…and Evolution of Relationsip to Heroes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 03:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Temporal Causality of &amp;#8220;Go to Moon&amp;#8221; Address and &amp;#8220;Landing on the Moon&amp;#8221; Exactly 51 years ago today, John F. Kennedy gave his &amp;#8220;Decision to go the Moon&amp;#8221; address to a special joint session of Congress.  Unfortunately, a lot of the motivations of the address were merely to win a &amp;#8220;space race&amp;#8221; instead of genuinely awesome good ol&amp;#8217; fashioned &amp;#8220;space exploration&amp;#8221;.  I touch on this concept on this earlier post.  Kennedy gave that speech 43 days after Russian Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space in April 12, 1961.  Note [...]
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	<itunes:subtitle>Temporal Causality of "Go to Moon" Address and "Landing on the Moon" Exactly 51 years ago today, John F. Kennedy gave his "Decision to go the Moon" address to a special joint session of Congress.  Unfortunately,</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Temporal Causality of "Go to Moon" Address and "Landing on the Moon"
Exactly 51 years ago today, John F. Kennedy gave his "Decision to go the Moon" address to a special joint session of Congress.  Unfortunately, a lot of the motivations of the address were merely to win a "space race" instead of genuinely awesome good ol' fashioned "space exploration".  I touch on this concept on this earlier post.  Kennedy gave that speech 43 days after Russian Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space in April 12, 1961.  Note the temporal causality that likely motivated the Decision-to-Moon speech.  Would such a speech even have been uttered if it weren't for the "push" from the Russians?  Likely, but who knows.  True, Alan Shepard did indeed enter space and manuveur a suborbital flight as the first American (and second human), but this was 18 days after Gagarin's full earth orbit.  Due note the temporal proximity of those astronomical feats.



Recently, "President Obama has also charged NASA with getting astronauts to the vicinity of Mars by the mid-2030s [*]".  If Obama's "charge" is &gt;= JFK, that's awesome for space exploration.  Unfortunately, that wasn't an address and the timescope is too broad to have much of an impact.  The time between Kennedy's address and the actual Apollo 11 1969/07/21 (at 2:56am UTC) landing was 8 years 57 days.  Obama's "charge" provides an 18-year deadline.  Because of it being horribly vague (merely "vicinity") and having a deadline over twice as long as Kennedy's address, it seems unlikely said charge will likely have much a positive impact on getting astronauts to the vicinity of Mars, but hey, at least it's encouraging space exploration.
Interested more in space exploration?  Superb link about some successful (and not as successful) Martian landings.

Huge Change of Content
This is where the post will have to seemingly merge.  I must post this today (because of the 51 years ago today reference) but the thing is I started writing two posts simultaneously.  There's this idea of heroes and evolving or outgrowing them that's been hovering around in my mind and this fascination with astronomy and astronautics.  I explain this in the audio voice journal.

Maybe what's going on is I was feeling overwhelmed with possibly changing or outgrowing a hero.   And then amidst that, this interest in astronautics seemed like a huge bit of peace and safety!

So here's the second bit of the post:
What Happens Your Relationship to "Looking up to a Hero" Changes
What happens when your interest in a hero changes or evolves? and this astronomy post)...if all goes okay...merge.

Okay, this is going to be challenging.

I simultaneously started writing the post about what to do when the relationship to one's hero evolves or changes.  I kind of made a synthesis of this in the audio version.

What is more frightening?  Not having a hero (after having many for many years)  Or having the "heroicism" of a hero...wane due to changes in their actions or changes in one's own interests?

When I was shooting hoops as a kid in elementary school, Michael Jordan was a hero, but so was any person who had a moderate interest in basketball!

When you look up to someone for a certain amount of time (months, years, or more) and then they suddenly become "less impressive" than they once were (or your interests change) you feel, well, a bit odd!  You feel like someone died sort of.

I've made it a point to deliberately have heroes for awhile.  When certain heroes (after a few years) became less interesting, I

	Thoreau - too reclusive, but great ideas
	Emerson - kewl ideas but meh
	Mick jagger - too random; like the britishness and stage performance "moves like jagger" though
	Dalai lama - pfft atheism
	Einstein - meh, tesla is more interesting

I then revised my heroes 2 years later (acknowledging the changes) to something like

	Richard Feynman - definitely replaced einstein; still like for physics
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		<title>Eight Reasons Why Soy Milk Rocks…and Dairy Milk is Fail</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 11:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>These eight reasons are listed below, two are preferential, but six are strictly factual.  If you&amp;#8217;re bored you can listen to me whooping for joy about how tasty soy milk is on the journal audio version. If something is italicized and red, that means you want less or none of it (like cholesterol and saturated fat, for example).  If something is underlined and green, that means you want more of it (like Omega-3 and good taste!) The following facts (and indicated preferences!) are for 1 cup of soy milk compared [...]
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		<itunes:summary>These eight reasons are listed below, two are preferential, but six are strictly factual.  If you're bored you can listen to me whooping for joy about how tasty soy milk is on the journal audio version.

If something is italicized and red, that means you want less or none of it (like cholesterol and saturated fat, for example).  If something is underlined and green, that means you want more of it (like Omega-3 and good taste!)

The following facts (and indicated preferences!) are for 1 cup of soy milk compared to 1 cup of dairy milk with the ratio of Dairy Milk : Soy Milk.  This colour-coding may seem a bit scientific but it allows you to eye-visually access the information more effectively.  Jolly good!
Synopsis (Dairy milk : Soy Milk (1cup))

	Preference: Taste - Taste is WAY better with Soy Milk!
	Preference: Physiological Feel - Feels WAY better than Dairy Milk
	FACT Saturated Fat - 3g : 0.5g
	FACT Fat - 5g : 3.5g
	FACT Cholesterol - 20mg : 0mg
	FACT Calcium - 30% : 45%
	FACT Vitamin D - 25% : 30%
	FACT ALA Omega-3 - 20mg : 270mg

Comparison in Detail
Preference: Taste - Taste is WAY better with Soy Milk!
Personally, the taste of Soy milk is sick awesome.  It tastes like a vanilla milk shake, imho, but without the gross/nasty..well...milk taste.   This is a preference and I have indicated it as such (and distinguished it from the six facts).  But I felt it important to list this because the taste was what made me want to do and share this post.  The taste of Vanilla (good ol' plain vanilla!) Soy Milk is awesome and superb, but then there's this stream of positive health physiological facts connected with it of less of the things you don't want and more of the things you do want! Sweet!
Preference: Physiological Feel - Feels WAY better than Dairy Milk

Again, this is the second and last non-fact preference, but I felt it was so crucial, it has to mentioned.  This is subjective, but personally, the physiological after-effect of soy milk is energizing.  In contrast, dairy milk makes a person feel bogged and unpleasantly, well...bloated.  Gas and gastro-intestinal problems are wrought and connected with dairy milk, too.  Dairy Milk often makes you feel sluggish and heavy and "bubbly" (not the pleasant bubbly-ness, the unpleasant kind!)
FACT Saturated Fat - 3g : 0.5g
Some fat is good.  You need some fat to survive.  Michael Jordan reputedly had around 2% body fat but a homo sapiens needs a smidgen of fat.  That said, saturated fat has only saturated fatty acids in the triglycerides, meaning that those (saturated) fatty acids lack double bonds between the carbon atoms because the carbon chain is "saturated" with hydrogen atoms on the molecule.  That may be too chemically technical, but just know this: "Saturated Fat is not good; it raises your cholesterol; is found in grossly fattening foods; and it's saturated with hydrogen.  While some naturally-saturated-fat foods exist naturally, they're usually pretty gross and unhealthy foods like cream, cheese, butter, lard, fatty meats, chocolate, coconut oil.  Notice that all the foods that make one feel unpleasant or are digestively kind of destructive, not to mention a high amount of dairy foods, have copious saturated fat.  Back to our Soy v Dairy milk discussion, Soy milk has practically zero saturated fat.  At 0.5g per cup, Soy milk has a sick awesome whoppingly low 1/6th the saturated fat of dairy milk!
FACT Fat - 5g : 3.5g
Again, this, unlike saturated fat, is the good fat.  But still too much fat (even if it is this healthy kind) is not ideal.  Again, soy milk wins over dairy milk having 1.5g less fat per cup.  Great article on different types of fat.
Health Department states the following on their site: A 1,600 calorie per day diet: 18 grams of saturated fat or less, 53 grams of fat or less. A 2,000 calorie per day diet: 20 grams of saturated fat or less, 65 grams of fat or less. A 2,200 calorie per day diet: 24 grams of saturated fat or less,</itunes:summary>
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		<title>How to Have More Productive Structure with Your Minimalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have had a problem recently deciding on titles for more splendid wordsmithied-up craftmanships of the pen&amp;#8230;or something like that.  So I wrote that title that you see above and will stick to it.  It will not change nor waver.  This post is about installing more structure in your life.  Not &amp;#8216;obedience structure&amp;#8217;, not the kind of structure one installs just to have the image of looking organized.  No, structure to basically code into a day or a week (or heck even a month) some regular habits, accomplishments.  Here&amp;#8217;s a [...]
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			<itunes:keywords>be productive soho,browsers,productivity,soho productivity,tips,tips for productivity,work areas,work zones</itunes:keywords>
	<itunes:subtitle>I have had a problem recently deciding on titles for more splendid wordsmithied-up craftmanships of the pen...or something like that.  So I wrote that title that you see above and will stick to it.  It will not change nor waver.</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>I have had a problem recently deciding on titles for more splendid wordsmithied-up craftmanships of the pen...or something like that.  So I wrote that title that you see above and will stick to it.  It will not change nor waver.  This post is about ins...</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
		<itunes:duration>19:05</itunes:duration>
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		<title>Rossini’s “William Tell Overture” (The Lone Ranger Song!): Classical Music Appreciation</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/fdjW7o3JHp4/</link>
		<comments>http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/2012/gioachino-rossini-the-lone-ranger-song-classical-music-appreciation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 16:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>I love classical music and if you tune back to validateyourlife.com on most every wednesdays you&amp;#8217;ll be reminded of how much I love classical music and you, yourself, may find yourself enjoying the complexity, intelligence, sophistication, and joy that one discovers from appreciating classical music.  I delightfully tear and chuckle when I hear some classical music.  Brings back great memories and is just one of the most elegant and aligning things for which you can utilize your ears!  To me, classical music makes things like &amp;#8216;wine&amp;#8217; seem like silly retarded [...]
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	<itunes:subtitle>I love classical music and if you tune back to validateyourlife.com on most every wednesdays you'll be reminded of how much I love classical music and you, yourself, may find yourself enjoying the complexity, intelligence, sophistication,</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>I love classical music and if you tune back to validateyourlife.com on most every wednesdays you'll be reminded of how much I love classical music and you, yourself, may find yourself enjoying the complexity, intelligence, sophistication, and joy that ...</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
		<itunes:duration>22:10</itunes:duration>
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		<title>Over-The-Counter Anti-Pain Anti-Inflammation Information – Differences and Similarities – What You Need to Know (Knowledge Mind Map!)</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/mv7rXr9Jg4g/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 11:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>I have written this post to have accessible quick-access information (hence the free mindmap! Download that. It&amp;#8217;s useful as heck!). I could have written this in a  quite windy and lengthy post, but I whittled it down to the core essentials (again check out the mind map for clutch-key information) so you can access the knowledge you need to make appropriate awesome decisions! Because of stress-related pain in my left trapezius and a corneal abrasion in May of 2012, I read-up and took the time to greatly research on OTC [...]
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			<itunes:keywords>advil,aleve,anatomy,aspirin,bayer,clarify,clarity 4.0,good decision otc painkiller,medical,nsaid,otc,otc painkillers</itunes:keywords>
	<itunes:subtitle>I have written this post to have accessible quick-access information (hence the free mindmap! Download that. It's useful as heck!). I could have written this in a  quite windy and lengthy post, but I whittled it down to the core essentials (again check...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>I have written this post to have accessible quick-access information (hence the free mindmap! Download that. It's useful as heck!). I could have written this in a  quite windy and lengthy post, but I whittled it down to the core essentials (again check...</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
		<itunes:duration>1:01:15</itunes:duration>
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		<title>Combine Contrasts = Sick Awesome Success: Have a ‘Leisure Zone’ to Increase Productivity</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/OkEPBsOB78w/</link>
		<comments>http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/2012/combine-contrasts-sick-awesome-success-have-a-leisure-zone-to-increase-productivity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 12:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>Why it&amp;#8217;s crucial to have a place/zone for relaxing and leisure.  The human body needs to go &amp;#8216;ying&amp;#8217;, to relax and recuperate at times.  Many times I have wanted to work non-stop, but that bodily urge leaks out.  I end up eating at my workspace or feeling exhausted and wanting to sit at standing desk or having to walk my bicycle because too drained.  The human body needs a place and zone that doesn&amp;#8217;t feel like constant hell or work or perseverance or stress.  Constant bombardment. I elaborate more about [...]
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			<itunes:keywords>leisure,productivity,workaholic,zone</itunes:keywords>
	<itunes:subtitle>Why it's crucial to have a place/zone for relaxing and leisure.  The human body needs to go 'ying', to relax and recuperate at times.  Many times I have wanted to work non-stop, but that bodily urge leaks out.</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Why it's crucial to have a place/zone for relaxing and leisure.  The human body needs to go 'ying', to relax and recuperate at times.  Many times I have wanted to work non-stop, but that bodily urge leaks out.  I end up eating at my workspace or feeling exhausted and wanting to sit at standing desk or having to walk my bicycle because too drained.  The human body needs a place and zone that doesn't feel like constant hell or work or perseverance or stress.  Constant bombardment.

I elaborate more about this in the audio blog but I like the distinction of:

	gnome - engineering, scientific, meticulous (often more relaxed)
	barbarian scottish crazy effort - rawrr! sweat, perseverance, effort

One of those without the other is useless.  Combined...whoa whoa whoa!  Sick awesome success.

More importantly, you need access to that leisure zone (which could be considered an 'engineering zone') frequently.  At least once per day.  Having access to a leisure zone makes you more productive because you get insight into your work and, most importantly, can recharge your emotional, mental, and physiological batteries.

I have lacked a leisure zone for many months during one time of my life and everything sludges together.  As said before I ate at desk, usually collapsed in a heap, never allowing myself to sleep at times even.  With a leisure/engineering zone you can provide your body and mind the recharge and relaxation it needs, so you can then be more productive!

What constitutes a leisure zone?  Could be a seat or chair.  Could be a peaceful walk you take (unfortunately, I am in a location where almost all walks involve the disgusting cacauphony of car sounds, rendering all walks not leisure zones, but in other areas some nature walks were a leisure zone).  It could be some activity like exercise.  Physiological exertion does recharge you but in a different way from a leisure or engineering zone.  Most people don't need to be reminded of this.  Most people need to be reminded of having and needing a 'work zone'!  But the workaholics need to reminded of the importance of a 'leisure zone' in order to counter-intuitively, be more productive!</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
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		<itunes:duration>14:47</itunes:duration>
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		<title>Voice Journal – 2012, April 30 – Yes, Back in Time….Corneal Abrasion and More…Bollocks….Optomoetrists…MinimalistFTW</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/GTOzQoc0q2o/</link>
		<comments>http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/2012/voice-journal-2012-april-30-yes-back-in-time-corneal-abrasion-and-more-bollocks-optomoetrists-minimalistftw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 04:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>&amp;#160; Welcome to another &amp;#8216;Voice Journal&amp;#8217;!  Be it exciting, boring, drab, offensive, ranty, randomly odd, peculiarly personal, interesting, stimulating, or blend these are more or less pretty candid and while I strive for quality, they often lack direction and are very casual.  They are decided a journal that is&amp;#8230;well..vocal, thus the appopriately-named voice journals! These are exquisitely different from the weekly Audio Blog Tuesday Post, which is based off a written, often-rewritten, proofread post recording. In contrast, these voice journals are just the auditory equivalent of whatever is one someone&amp;#8217;s [...]
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		<itunes:subtitle>  - Welcome to another 'Voice Journal'!  Be it exciting, boring, drab, offensive, ranty, randomly odd, peculiarly personal, interesting, stimulating, or blend these are more or less pretty candid and while I strive for quality,</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary> 

Welcome to another 'Voice Journal'!  Be it exciting, boring, drab, offensive, ranty, randomly odd, peculiarly personal, interesting, stimulating, or blend these are more or less pretty candid and while I strive for quality, they often lack direction and are very casual.  They are decided a journal that is...well..vocal, thus the appopriately-named voice journals!

These are exquisitely different from the weekly Audio Blog Tuesday Post, which is based off a written, often-rewritten, proofread post recording.

In contrast, these voice journals are just the auditory equivalent of whatever is one someone's mind that they would put in a journal.  If that itnerests you (and autobiographies and biographical journaly-stuff interests me) then read, but more accurately, listen on!

This Voice Journal encounters some turbulence but eventually wobbily arrives at a healthy destination.   Topics along the way are...


	Optometry - Day entirely different
	Bollocks


0430 notes

	Questioning Prescriptions of doctors when you're your own care-giver/healer!
	Doctor "Office Visits"
	Corneal Abrasions
	Eye medication should be free
	A Good ol' Fashioned Solid Gripefest for awhile!
	Want to do more accents. Wee bit o' scottish
	Preferences!! of Syrup of Painkillers Do we need so many preference options?!! Discussion of Preferences!
	QD on a presciption means "Every Day"!
	DIets are Unhealthy
	Food Cravings are Very Often Emotional Based
	Palate for Knowing Good Oranges
	Do I need a different server for these podcasts??  Bloody hell expensive, but I like these podcasts regularly ftw!!! Booya!!

	libsyn seems fail but I must do regular podcasts adn need good server for that. bloody hell</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
		<itunes:duration>1:30:50</itunes:duration>
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		<title>Classic Music Appreciation: Franz Schubert</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/fJPvXiM0w4E/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 15:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>List to the audio version for full details of the : 600 Lieder&amp;#8217;s written by the prolific composer, Schubert How could a man whom only lived to be 31 compose so much? How is Schubert and Mozart similar?! What nickname did Schubert&amp;#8217;s friend&amp;#8217;s call him? Was Schubert snooty or did he throw wild parties? Listen to the full recording to get all the important deets! Love this post?  Intrigued by classical music?  Want access to the most extensive mindmap on classical music including: all the eras all major composers color-coded [...]
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	<itunes:subtitle>List to the audio version for full details of the :   600 Lieder's written by the prolific composer, Schubert   How could a man whom only lived to be 31 compose so much?   How is Schubert and Mozart similar?! </itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>List to the audio version for full details of the :


	600 Lieder's written by the prolific composer, Schubert
	How could a man whom only lived to be 31 compose so much?
	How is Schubert and Mozart similar?!
	What nickname did Schubert's friend's call him?
	Was Schubert snooty or did he throw wild parties?

Listen to the full recording to get all the important deets!
Love this post?  Intrigued by classical music?  Want access to the most extensive mindmap on classical music including:


	all the eras
	all major composers
	color-coded
	and with factoids about instruments, composers, and major compositions?




Get the MindMap (aka Edification Diagram) for less than two bucks!
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		<title>Make Food Taste Better…Using Your Mind: “The Last Morsel” Effect</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/upuVZX4Sygw/</link>
		<comments>http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/2012/make-food-taste-better-using-your-mind-the-last-morsel-effect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 11:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>Great news!  Each podcast on Validate Your Life and LinuxGeekoid now undergo much more intensive editing and comprehensive polishing.  In short, what you download and listen to is worth your time and the quality of our podcasts have SUPERBLY improved.  Whoo-whoo! In this delightful discussion, you will learn about the &amp;#8220;Last Morsel, Improved Taste&amp;#8221; effect and more tasty, well, morsels I cooked up. I have a miniscule problem. I only enjoy food when there&amp;#8217;s barely any left. For example, I was overjoyed and it was tasty finding that one piece [...]
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	<itunes:subtitle>Great news!  Each podcast on Validate Your Life and LinuxGeekoid now undergo much more intensive editing and comprehensive polishing.  In short, what you download and listen to is worth your time and the quality of our podcasts have SUPERBLY improved.</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Great news!  Each podcast on Validate Your Life and LinuxGeekoid now undergo much more intensive editing and comprehensive polishing.  In short, what you download and listen to is worth your time and the quality of our podcasts have SUPERBLY improved. ...</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
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		<itunes:duration>8:58</itunes:duration>
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		<title>Voice Journal: 2012, May 01 – Preferences, Obesity-Challenged People, MMOs as Pure Awesomeness, and What happened today…</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/8OzDp6KFk9U/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 08:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>&amp;#160; Welcome to another &amp;#8216;Voice Journal&amp;#8217;!  Be it exciting, boring, drab, offensive, ranty, randomly odd, peculiarly personal, interesting, stimulating, or blend these are more or less pretty candid and while I strive for quality, they often lack direction and are very casual.  They are decided a journal that is&amp;#8230;well..vocal, thus the appopriately-named voice journals! These are exquisitely different from the weekly Audio Blog Tuesday Post, which is based off a written, often-rewritten, proofread post recording. In contrast, these voice journals are just the auditory equivalent of whatever is one someone&amp;#8217;s [...]
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	<itunes:subtitle>  - Welcome to another 'Voice Journal'!  Be it exciting, boring, drab, offensive, ranty, randomly odd, peculiarly personal, interesting, stimulating, or blend these are more or less pretty candid and while I strive for quality,</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary> 

Welcome to another 'Voice Journal'!  Be it exciting, boring, drab, offensive, ranty, randomly odd, peculiarly personal, interesting, stimulating, or blend these are more or less pretty candid and while I strive for quality, they often lack direction and are very casual.  They are decided a journal that is...well..vocal, thus the appopriately-named voice journals!

These are exquisitely different from the weekly Audio Blog Tuesday Post, which is based off a written, often-rewritten, proofread post recording.

In contrast, these voice journals are just the auditory equivalent of whatever is one someone's mind that they would put in a journal.  If that itnerests you (and autobiographies and biographical journaly-stuff interests me) then read, but more accurately, listen on!

This Voice Journal encounters some turbulence but eventually wobbily arrives at a healthy destination.   Topics along the way are...

	Eye medication should be FREE
	Preferences and what they mean to life, work, sex, awesomeness, people, living, whatever, c'est vrai, amis, bonne nuit.
	Saving oneself in survival mode - First Aid Shit
	MMOs as Pure Awesomeness
	MMOS - Starting with NOTHING and Acquiring EVERYTHING ON YOUR OWN
	Seafaring tendencies of spending heaps on shore and having to go back to sea to earn. Booya (that happens to me bollocks annoying).
	Heinously expensive Felis Catus Milk
	Loving podcasts, but wanting to Shut-Down Validate Your Life
	Fat obese blob of shit person in electric wheelchair in grocery store like in Bruges - Obesity-Challenged People
	Differences in produce fruit apples
	Cockney-Language
	Some word that starts with a "GR" that I can't think of</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
		<itunes:duration>1:01:47</itunes:duration>
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		<title>Voice Journal: 2012, May 02 – Rage About Not Publishing Book and Random People-Loathing Ramblings</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/AeTokUzvekk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/2012/voice-journal-2012-may-02-rage-about-not-publishing-book-and-random-people-loathing-ramblings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 02:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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	<itunes:subtitle>  - Welcome to another 'Voice Journal'!  Be it exciting, boring, drab, offensive, ranty, randomly odd, peculiarly personal, interesting, stimulating, or blend these are more or less pretty candid and while I strive for quality,</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary> 

Welcome to another 'Voice Journal'!  Be it exciting, boring, drab, offensive, ranty, randomly odd, peculiarly personal, interesting, stimulating, or blend these are more or less pretty candid and while I strive for quality, they often lack direction and are very casual.  They are decided a journal that is...well..vocal, thus the appopriately-named voice journals!

These are exquisitely different from the weekly Audio Blog Tuesday Post, which is based off a written, often-rewritten, proofread post recording.

In contrast, these voice journals are just the auditory equivalent of whatever is one someone's mind that they would put in a journal.  If that itnerests you (and autobiographies and biographical journaly-stuff interests me) then read, but more accurately, listen on!

This Voice Journal encounters some turbulence but eventually wobbily arrives at a healthy destination.   Topics along the way are...

	publishing, angst, infuriation, rage
	misanthropy
	orgasming with legs
	other random ramblings that no one should EVER waste their time listening to (seriously).</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
		<itunes:duration>1:04:18</itunes:duration>
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		<title>The Victory Trajectory: Use Logic and Transcend Competition like a Chess Grandmaster</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/iZlYieY11VY/</link>
		<comments>http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/2012/victorytrajectory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 11:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>This was originally entitled simply &amp;#8216;Logic and Paranoia&amp;#8217;, but that tit evolved into something a bit more interesting with the title &amp;#8220;Have a Victory Trajectory of a Chess Grandmaster&amp;#8221;, but realizing that behemoth of title might scare people off I changed it to its current heading, but it accomplishes the gestalt of all of those iterations.  I pen this not simply because of having just watched the quite good documentary &amp;#8220;Bobby Fischer Vs the World&amp;#8221; (there also now exists an interesting looking written version of the Fischer-Spassky coverage Bobby Fischer [...]
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	<itunes:subtitle>This was originally entitled simply 'Logic and Paranoia', but that tit evolved into something a bit more interesting with the title "Have a Victory Trajectory of a Chess Grandmaster", but realizing that behemoth of title might scare people off I change...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>This was originally entitled simply 'Logic and Paranoia', but that tit evolved into something a bit more interesting with the title "Have a Victory Trajectory of a Chess Grandmaster", but realizing that behemoth of title might scare people off I changed it to its current heading, but it accomplishes the gestalt of all of those iterations.  I pen this not simply because of having just watched the quite good documentary "Bobby Fischer Vs the World" (there also now exists an interesting looking written version of the Fischer-Spassky coverage Bobby Fischer vs. the Rest of the World: New Foreword and scores of all 25 games between Fischer and Spassky, but this article is about the documentary) and having immediate thoughts to that, but also because of having  ruminated on this occasionally occurring pattern I've noticed with logic and paranoia.  Some of the greatest minds and (ironically? strangely? relatedly?) indeed some of the sharpest and most logical minds -- minds that would slice through any scam or scandal and see through any gimmick or trap or evade practically any delusion -- have occasionally been quite paranoid.  I will list a few examples, as the occurrence of paranoia amongst some of the most logical minds is interesting, and then expound on healthy strategic ideas for success.

Paranoia
Kurt Godel.  Godel was an Austrian logician most well-known for his Incompleteness theorem.  He was known to take walks with Einstein.  Godel died because of starvation.  Was this related to maybe some fast out in the wilderness for clear thought?  No, pathetically Godel starved because he thought people were poisoning his food and, thus, (quite logically if you illogically thought people were poisoning your food!), he didn't eat, and died.  A profoundly logical mind that was also very paranoid.  In learning that fact about Godel, despite the man being incomprehensibly intelligent, my first reaction was 'What an idiot'.  Seriously.  Jeepers.

Moving on.

Bobby Fischer.  In the chess match against Spassky, Fischer was concerned that cameras were throwing off the match.  Spassky, whom I do quite like - the russians seem to have a knack for being logically great, but also reasonably sound and well-balanced in other areas of life - seemed to catch the paranoia contagion and thought something funky was going on with electrical waves or something or rather later in the tournament.  Fischer later voiced anti-semiticism paranoias.  Actually after watching the documentary, I realized Fischer wasn't so much as paranoid, but just hurt and a bit scared.  After beating Spassky he "disappeared", so to speak.  Not really, he didn't poof vanish.  My evaluation of it was he wasn't emotionally equipped for a victory of that magnitude and having trained in chess so many thousands of hours when he finally was, at that time, verifiably one of the best chessmasters in the world, he didn't know how to handle it!

Less Superficial Analysis of Bobby Fischer.  When I first saw the enraged, anti-semitic Fischer I was disgusted.  Indeed, most people who make a superficial analysis of the man write rubbish titled with things like "Bobby Fischer: Horrible Demise" or "Pathetic Endgame of Fischer's Life" and other dismal putridicity.  But I can't blame those people for their incorrect and superficial outlook, I thought Fischer was quite pathetic when I saw clips of him at later in life.  However, after watching that documentary I got more interested instead of disgusted.  I realized he wasn't pathetic.  I didn't have the same feeling of disgust that is merely caused by a superficial gander and puerile evaluation at the man, that, oh maybe this peurile post or this cheesy review had.  You can read those and hear the same stupifyingly typical, myopic outlook, which is useless, so you'd be best off not reading those actually haha!.  I think disgust at seeing Fischer in his later years is a typical (but again, superficial) reaction, and ultimately inaccurate.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
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		<title>AtheismFTW: The Study of What’s True</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/_3OgAxlhj2M/</link>
		<comments>http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/2012/atheismftw-the-study-of-whats-true/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atheismFTW!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sorites]]></category>

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		<description>The bulk of the post is in the podcast recording (voice journal).  Download it and pop it on your mp3 player if you so choose.  Highlights include: The fact that everyone who practices religion is a cult member.  People &amp;#8216;refer to&amp;#8217; religion as &amp;#8220;spirituality&amp;#8221; or &amp;#8220;connecting with a higher power&amp;#8221; or some other rubbish, but religion is (whatever you call it) a noxious, toxic cult and anyone who is religious is a cult member Atheism is the antithesis of religion of &amp;#8216;cults&amp;#8217;.  Atheism is choosing not to be inculcated.  Atheism doesn&amp;#8217;t [...]
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			<itunes:keywords>atheism,atheismFTW!,religion,sorites</itunes:keywords>
	<itunes:subtitle>The bulk of the post is in the podcast recording (voice journal).  Download it and pop it on your mp3 player if you so choose.  Highlights include:  The fact that everyone who practices religion is a cult member.</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>The bulk of the post is in the podcast recording (voice journal).  Download it and pop it on your mp3 player if you so choose.  Highlights include:

	The fact that everyone who practices religion is a cult member.  People 'refer to' religion as "spirituality" or "connecting with a higher power" or some other rubbish, but religion is (whatever you call it) a noxious, toxic cult and anyone who is religious is a cult member
	Atheism is the antithesis of religion of 'cults'.  Atheism is choosing not to be inculcated.  Atheism doesn't preach; it merely says 'Don't include me in fabricated preaching lies'
	Sorrites paradox
	The toxic downward spiral loop of how the fabricated lies that are religion will always tell a person to "Oh try praying this way instead of that way" and other rubbish that a safe atheist must simply avoid.
	How thinking that the 4.54 billion year-old earth planet is delusionally 10,000 years old is worse than genocide.
	How religious people are emotionally a "different species" from atheists, emotionally.  With biology, with dioxyribonucleic acid (with DNA) religious people are the same biological species as atheists, but the delusional beliefs of religious people make them emotionally a different species from atheists.
	How I always knew I was an atheist even while doing the horribly hoakey bread-wafer ritual in the boxy thing with stained glass.

Personal Side Ramble-Rant

	Personal rant and rambling about a theft that I had.  This led me to realize the only thing I own (really, being a minimalist) is my recordings and writings and code.
	Dislike for Tony Robbins

 

Audio Recording and written post by John K. Thomas aka John Thomas Kooz.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
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		<itunes:duration>9:10</itunes:duration>
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		<title>Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>Classical music appreciation day! This is a classical music masterpiece, often misattributed to Tchaikovsky, but Peter and the Wolf was composed by none other than Prokofiev.  Check out and download the audio recording for the full details of this classical music appreciation (with Prokofiev&amp;#8217;s classical music composition in the background!). The basic plot Peter, a Young Pioneer, lives at his grandfather&amp;#8217;s home in a forest clearing. One day, Peter goes out into the clearing, leaving the garden gate open, and the duck that lives in the yard takes the opportunity to go [...]
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		<itunes:summary>Classical music appreciation day!
This is a classical music masterpiece, often misattributed to Tchaikovsky, but Peter and the Wolf was composed by none other than Prokofiev.  Check out and download the audio recording for the full details of this classical music appreciation (with Prokofiev's classical music composition in the background!).

The basic plot
Peter, a Young Pioneer, lives at his grandfather's home in a forest clearing. One day, Peter goes out into the clearing, leaving the garden gate open, and the duck that lives in the yard takes the opportunity to go swimming in a pond nearby. The duck starts arguing with a little bird ("What kind of bird are you if you can't fly?" – "What kind of bird are you if you can't swim?"). Peter's pet cat stalks them quietly, and the bird —warned by Peter— flies to safety in a tall tree while the duck swims to safety in the middle of the pond.

Peter's grandfather scolds Peter for being outside in the meadow ("Suppose a wolf came out of the forest?"), and, when Peter defies him, saying that "Boys like me are not afraid of wolves", his grandfather takes him back into the house and locks the gate. Soon afterwards "a big, grey wolf" does indeed come out of the forest. The cat quickly climbs into a tree, but the duck, who has excitedly jumped out of the pond, is chased, overtaken and swallowed by the wolf.

Peter fetches a rope and climbs over the garden wall into the tree. He asks the bird to fly around the wolf's head to distract it, while he lowers a noose and catches the wolf by its tail. The wolf struggles to get free, but Peter ties the rope to the tree and the noose only gets tighter.

Some hunters, who have been tracking the wolf, come out of the forest ready to shoot, but Peter gets them to help him take the wolf to a zoo in a victory parade (the piece was first performed for an audience of Young Pioneers during May Day celebrations) that includes himself, the bird, the hunters leading the wolf, the cat and grumpy grumbling Grandfather ("What if Peter hadn't caught the wolf? What then?")

In the story's ending, the listener is told that "if you listen very carefully, you'd hear the duck quacking inside the wolf's belly, because the wolf in his hurry had swallowed her alive."

- wiki peter and the wolf
The Diseny Cartoon (Accompanying Narration and Story) of the Composition


 
A Superb Orchestral Recording (No Narration) of Peter and the Wolf (Part 1 of 3)


Detail of the instruments

Woodwinds: a flute, an oboe, a clarinet in A, and a bassoon
Brass: 3 horns in F, a trumpet in B-flat, and a trombone
Percussion: timpani, a triangle, a tambourine, cymbals, castanets, a snare drum, and a bass drum
Strings: first and second violins, violas, violoncellos, and double basses

-wiki peter and the wolf
The Leitmotif of the instrumetns and characters:

	Bird - Flute
	Cat - Clarinet
	Grandfather - bassoon
	Wolf - French horns
	Duck - oboe
	Hunters - woodwinds + gunshots via timpani and bass drum
	Peter - strings, fitting because the story is about peter and usually the string instruments make up the most of an orchestra's sound usually

 

I like this composition because it was one of my first introductions (at a very young age via the cartoon) to the joy and delight of classical music.  Sweet!
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 This work by John Thomas Kooz (aka John Kooz aka John K. Thomas) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>What is Home? (Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/j66y2Blvdyo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/2012/what-is-home-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>This the 2nd Part of a Voice Journal. It originally started (with Part 1) as a post on &amp;#8216;How computer mice function&amp;#8217;. (lol!). Maybe I was eventually getting to the possible personal truism, that for me, my computer is my home. Oath! Truth! However, I never got to that conclusion (although I do think that was the conclusion I was heading towards if I had done a third hour (yikes!)). Anyways, in this Voice Journal I ramble about Criteria of Home such as: a place to which you return connected [...]
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		<itunes:summary>This the 2nd Part of a Voice Journal. It originally started (with Part 1) as a post on 'How computer mice function'. (lol!). Maybe I was eventually getting to the possible personal truism, that for me, my computer is my home. Oath! Truth! However, I never got to that conclusion (although I do think that was the conclusion I was heading towards if I had done a third hour (yikes!)). Anyways, in this Voice Journal I ramble about Criteria of Home such as:

	a place to which you return
	connected with work
	shelter
	familiar
	safety
	welcoming quality people

I was astonished that I had never defined 'What The Heck HOME Is' to myself! I could have been home and not known it and thought I was home but may not have been! Bloody heck! So this was a very important post.

I discuss (a few highlights)

	Odd Homes! like McCandless's Bus in Alaskan Wilderness
	Survival Homes
	And more!

This wasn't what I intended to focus on, but was invaluable interesting! Jolly good!</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
		<itunes:duration>1:03:45</itunes:duration>
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		<title>What is Home?  (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/UWyWD65Gk9w/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 02:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<itunes:summary>This is a Voice Journal. It originally started as a post on 'How computer mice function'. (lol!). Maybe I was eventually getting to the possible personal truism, that for me, my computer is my home. Oath! Truth! However, I never got to that conclusion (although I do think that was the conclusion I was heading towards if I had done a third hour (yikes!)). Anyways, in this Voice Journal I ramble about Criteria of Home such as:

	a place to which you return
	connected with work
	shelter
	familiar
	safety
	welcoming quality people

I was astonished that I had never defined 'What The Heck HOME Is' to myself! I could have been home and not known it and thought I was home but may not have been! Bloody heck! So this was a very important post.

I discuss (a few highlights)

	Odd Homes! like McCandless's Bus in Alaskan Wilderness
	Survival Homes
	And more!

This wasn't what I intended to focus on, but was invaluable interesting! Jolly good!</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
		<itunes:duration>1:01:32</itunes:duration>
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		<title>The NLP Swish Pattern: Alternative Palette Procedure</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/cP6KP4LINc4/</link>
		<comments>http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/2012/the-nlp-swish-pattern-alternative-palette-procedure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 03:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>Because this technique is so monumentally significant, in the field of brain transformation technology, I am offering an alternate description of how to install this in your cognitive software set of mental applications.  The original 2-step process is not better or worse than this method; it’s simply an alternative installation process.  Ever go to download a file and the website provides a “mirror or alternate link”?  This is basically that.  Sometimes the primary install method is more focused and congruent with your learning style, but everyone has different emphases, so [...]
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			<itunes:keywords>alternative,clarity 4.0,clutter,gifts,investment volition,minimalism,NLP,palette,pattern,procedure,swish,swish pattern</itunes:keywords>
	<itunes:subtitle>Because this technique is so monumentally significant, in the field of brain transformation technology, I am offering an alternate description of how to install this in your cognitive software set of mental applications.</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Because this technique is so monumentally significant, in the field of brain transformation technology, I am offering an alternate description of how to install this in your cognitive software set of mental applications.  The original 2-step process is...</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
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		<itunes:duration>38:28</itunes:duration>
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		<title>Want to Actually Accomplish? Avoid Nebulous Lists!</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/k1lQbio10cs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/2012/want-to-actually-accomplish-avoid-nebulous-lists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 03:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>Listen to the audio journal for full details. This brief post is about keeping your productivity system streamlined. I have encountered two &amp;#8220;infections&amp;#8221; to productivity, but, alas, they are actual &amp;#8220;lists&amp;#8221; that people have been duped into thinking are effective! They are not effective. Do not be fooled. These two lists are counterproductive and I strongly discourage you from using them. I will present the two nebulous problem lists and then pose a solution that works. First off this is about what to do with things that might bleep up [...]
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	<itunes:subtitle>Listen to the audio journal for full details. - This brief post is about keeping your productivity system streamlined. I have encountered two "infections" to productivity, but, alas, they are actual "lists" that people have been duped into thinking ar...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Listen to the audio journal for full details.

This brief post is about keeping your productivity system streamlined. I have encountered two "infections" to productivity, but, alas, they are actual "lists" that people have been duped into thinking are effective! They are not effective. Do not be fooled. These two lists are counterproductive and I strongly discourage you from using them. I will present the two nebulous problem lists and then pose a solution that works.

First off this is about what to do with things that might bleep up on your radar of things to do, but are not important nor urgent nor relevant enough to put on an actual list.

Productivity Guru David Allen has a decent Getting Things Done system. Some components are very useful. However, he suggests, for this type of item, using a Maybe-Someday list. This is a horrible idea. Such a list breeds and spawns a conglomeration of random things that you will likely never do and indeed if you do do could wreak havoc in productivity. Maybe-Someday lists are by nature productivity. They attract random tasks that are irrelevant to your life, work, and career! Worse, having a Maybe-Someday list is like dumping a virus of nebulous tasks onto your productivity system. David Allen has some brilliant ideas like with projects and project materials and I experimented with his very popular system, but do not use Maybe-Someday lists. Of them, I do not approve. Don't be fooled. Don't infect your productivity lists with virii!

Moving on.

A very successful serial entrepreneur with whom I've spoke to suggests a "Night-Right-Now" List. Like the Maybe-Someday List the idea of such a list is alluring. However, it is horribly flawed and will make you feel (and become) less productive. It is a nebulous list of things so insignificant that you don't put them on a calendar, time-based list, or list related to a certain environment. That is broken.

The whole essence of productivity and something that you access at the Zen Elite level with my POPP Minimalism schematics is streamlining your lists and tasks. The two problematically flawed lists I've mentioned above actually invite discombobulation into productivity! They're inherently counter-productive! Don't use those!

What is a good solution for items that are so random that they don't go on your normal productivity work flow? How about not putting them on a list! Or, on "Abandoned" Items list. I call a list zabandoned (so it ends up at the bottom of a alpha-chronologically organized list). This way you don't feel compelled to look at that list. You can choose to not focus on something and put it on Abandoned items and then there's no guilt nor shame about never accomplishing it! The two above problematic lists dilude productivity and are, therefore, dangerous.

Finally, the purpose of this post is not bashing on those other productivity systems.  Some of the people who invented those are quite brilliant in ways.  However, the components I mentioned are horribly flawed.  I mention them because I want you to be productive and wanted to ensure you don't waste your time.  Jolly good!

Test out my "Abandoned" items list and other key schematics for productivity found in my book or in this site, but mainly focus on what you do want to accomplish. Jolly good!

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		<itunes:duration>11:55</itunes:duration>
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		<title>The NLP Swish Pattern: Normal Installation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 03:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>The &amp;#8220;swish pattern&amp;#8221; is the ultimate bread and butter NLP visualization technique.  If such a thing exists, the swish pattern is the classic NLP technique.  The &amp;#8220;Swish Pattern&amp;#8221; is a tried-true-and-tested technique.  It&amp;#8217;s simple.  It&amp;#8217;s easy.  It&amp;#8217;s potent.  After basic practice with intermediate-level mental imagery and visualization imagination, it&amp;#8217;s quite accessible, and it&amp;#8217;s remarkably effective for surprisingly fast change. When to Do a Swish Pattern When does one do a swish pattern technique?  It’s arguable that using this powerful technique for trivial things will diminish its potency, but such claims [...]
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	<itunes:subtitle>The "swish pattern" is the ultimate bread and butter NLP visualization technique.  If such a thing exists, the swish pattern is the classic NLP technique.  The "Swish Pattern" is a tried-true-and-tested technique.  It's simple.  It's easy.  It's potent.</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>The "swish pattern" is the ultimate bread and butter NLP visualization technique.  If such a thing exists, the swish pattern is the classic NLP technique.  The "Swish Pattern" is a tried-true-and-tested technique.  It's simple.  It's easy.  It's potent...</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
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		<itunes:duration>10:35</itunes:duration>
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		<title>Succeed with Three NLP Frames (and One Bonus Frame!)</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/lGQh_oQWdoc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/2012/succeed-with-three-nlp-frames-and-one-bonus-frame/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>This is an excerpt from the book NLP For the Win by John Thomas Kooz. Be sure to listen to the audio blog and subscribe to both the written blog and audio podcast! &amp;#160;There is much more information covered and knowledge shared in the audio portion of this post, which is the case with most all posts! Evidence Evidence frame is the aligning frame.&amp;#160; You should fully engage the left brain (logic, sequence, math) with this frame.&amp;#160; This is where you objectively scan what you currently have.&amp;#160; What have you [...]
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	<itunes:subtitle>This is an excerpt from the book NLP For the Win by John Thomas Kooz. Be sure to listen to the audio blog and subscribe to both the written blog and audio podcast!  There is much more information covered and knowledge shared in the audio portion of th...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>This is an excerpt from the book NLP For the Win by John Thomas Kooz.
Be sure to listen to the audio blog and subscribe to both the written blog and audio podcast!  There is much more information covered and knowledge shared in the audio portion of this post, which is the case with most all posts!
Evidence

Evidence frame is the aligning frame.  You should fully engage the left brain (logic, sequence, math) with this frame.  This is where you objectively scan what you currently have.  What have you achieved?  What data have you acquired?  What results have you achieved?  Be objective, be honest.  This isn’t the problem frame, you aren’t bickering about problems.  It’s also not the negotiation frame, where you’re trying to be optimistic or find compromises.  This frame should be called the honest frame (even though all frames work best and sometimes only work when you’re fully honest with yourself).  You scan the results, assess the data, and tally up what you’ve got, what evidence you have of achieving or not achieving certain steps.
Often this frame can unlock components that are very functional, but also illuminate the thing that’s not working.
Example: I wanted a decent place to live.  I was in a place that was sound proof (an outcome criteria), in nature, had hardwood floors, (was a little too big and a bit too old-fashioned).  Evidence.  But it was someone else’s house!  More evidence.  That seems obvious, but only the evidence frame can add modularity like that to your achievements!  I had achieved a large part of the outcome, all the criteria!  But like that genie who grants wishes that “always have a catch”, my criteria was achieved but it wasn’t compatible with my outcome.  Evidence frame applies a sieve to what you’ve got so you can objectively assess it.  Massively useful frame.  A classic one.
Key questions:

· What have I got? What works?
· What doesn’t work? What have I not got?
· When I do a quick run-down of “what data have I got”?  What is the result?

The beauty of the evidence frame is that it’s very low cognitive CPU, you don’t have to think that hard, just off the top of your head responses are what work best and what are honest if you’re honest with frames (which you should be!)

Problem

Problem frame is the cynical frame. Ed Bono (from the six thinking hats) would refer to this (if that author had been cognizant enough of NLP, which for the misfortune of his readers and himself, he was not) as the black judgment hat.
Here, you can go to town describing what’s wrong.

·      What’s wrong?
·      What sucks?
·      What absolutely intolerably doesn’t work?

Don’t hold back.  Don’t negotiate nor compromise.  The purpose of this frame is to not hold back and to not compromise and to not check your anger.
There’s a whole problem frame’s approach in logic, artificial intelligence and computers.  Helpful things extracted from that and plugged into an NLP context include looking at your body as a machine operating in a domain or environment.
What variables do you need to adjust within that application domain to create the output that is desired?
House Example

· I can’t let my cats roam around!
· I have people telling me to move!
· The house is full of old-fashioned old-people rubbish dismal-colored furniture!
· I don’t have a bike with panniers for transportation!

If something ever feels “too good to be true”, the problem frame is an invaluable asset in your arsenal of different lenses to chuck up.  It provides a helpful reality check. It’s not dismal nor bleak nor pessimistic. Don’t condone it as such either.  The problem frame will save you a lot of money (from buying problematic junk), time, and keep you sane and clear. It’s highly valuable and in the main core of classic frames (with ecology, evidence, contrast, and of course the main frame, outcome frame).

Contrast

Contrast Frame is a simple and mind-alterringly effective frame!</itunes:summary>
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		<title>The “It Just Gets Done” List</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 04:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>There are so many productivity techniques and tricks and tactics out there these days that it&amp;#8217;s almost assured that some incarnation of this list exists somewhere in some form or another.  But this is something I have been using for awhile and wanted to share this because of its efficacy, nifty-ness, and the fact that it is stripped of practically all discombobulating problematic techniques.  This is the Reduced Instruction Set, (Note: Reduced Instruction Set Computer, or RISC, was a clutch computer technology to advance the speed of chips and computer [...]
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	<itunes:subtitle>There are so many productivity techniques and tricks and tactics out there these days that it's almost assured that some incarnation of this list exists somewhere in some form or another.  But this is something I have been using for awhile and wanted t...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>There are so many productivity techniques and tricks and tactics out there these days that it's almost assured that some incarnation of this list exists somewhere in some form or another.  But this is something I have been using for awhile and wanted t...</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
		<itunes:duration>17:21</itunes:duration>
	<media:content url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~5/5jzbfTA2PjU/vylab_20120320_itjustgetsdonelist.mp3" fileSize="16663375" type="audio/mpeg" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/2012/the-it-just-gets-done-list/</feedburner:origLink><enclosure url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~5/5jzbfTA2PjU/vylab_20120320_itjustgetsdonelist.mp3" length="16663375" type="audio/mpeg" /><feedburner:origEnclosureLink>http://media.blubrry.com/vyl/validateyourlife.com/vylab/vylab_20120320_itjustgetsdonelist.mp3</feedburner:origEnclosureLink></item>
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		<title>3 Ways Constructive Anger Can Help You Achieve</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/4wpNAjrnUiA/</link>
		<comments>http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/2012/3-ways-constructive-anger-can-help-you-achieve/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>Especially in western society, anger is frowned upon and it is outright avoided at times.  Even being a little bit peeved can spark outrage in people who query &amp;#8220;Jeepers, what got into you?&amp;#8221; or &amp;#8220;Look who got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning!&amp;#8221;.  A lot of society, especially American society, downright fears, criticizes and shuns anger.  But it&amp;#8217;s a very normal and entirely valid emotion.  In fact, if used constructively, anger can be highly productive. This post shows you how constructive anger can actually accelerate focus, [...]
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			<itunes:keywords>anger,anger as productive,constructive anger,controversial,elkin,emotion,emotions,fury,productive,rage,results</itunes:keywords>
	<itunes:subtitle>Especially in western society, anger is frowned upon and it is outright avoided at times.  Even being a little bit peeved can spark outrage in people who query "Jeepers, what got into you?" or "Look who got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning!".</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Especially in western society, anger is frowned upon and it is outright avoided at times.  Even being a little bit peeved can spark outrage in people who query "Jeepers, what got into you?" or "Look who got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning!...</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
		<itunes:duration>12:44</itunes:duration>
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		<title>Minimalism and ‘Possibly Useful But Discardable’ Items</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/sGpO6ur4YsM/</link>
		<comments>http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/2012/minimalism-and-possibly-useful-but-discardable-items/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[minimalism]]></category>
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		<description>One thing I fear and that constantly haunts me is getting brand-spanking new awesome device and then having reluctance to discard my old device clutter, insidiously infect, and cognitively burden the new quality experience. This constantly happens. So instead of popping into this fresh, new clean good new item, mode. Old clutter junk I have been reluctant to discard often seeps back into my items and life, festering, producing a kind of organizational virus that thwarts productivity and stymies clarity. There has to be a remedy to that seeping-back-in virus [...]
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			<itunes:keywords>clutter,clutter elimination,elimination,items,minimalism,possibly useful,possibly useful but discardable,productivity,pubd</itunes:keywords>
	<itunes:subtitle>One thing I fear and that constantly haunts me is getting brand-spanking new awesome device and then having reluctance to discard my old device clutter, insidiously infect, and cognitively burden the new quality experience. This constantly happens.</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>One thing I fear and that constantly haunts me is getting brand-spanking new awesome device and then having reluctance to discard my old device clutter, insidiously infect, and cognitively burden the new quality experience. This constantly happens. So ...</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
		<itunes:duration>45:28</itunes:duration>
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		<title>Why I Dislike Cars</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/RQBMxCLApCg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>(Here are the rudimentary points.  Listen to the Audio blog for the full discussion!) I loathe, abhor, vehemently, dislike cars. Here&amp;#8217;s Why: 1. Tragic Calamity and Death injuries flipped defensive driving stress 2. Financial Scam, Hoax, and Crock tickets maintenance reg. fees dmv loops of hell parking fees petrol fees toll fees 3. Emotional Headache dmv loops defensive driving 4. Land-Locked can&amp;#8217;t travel 5. Image scam crap idiots judge you by car &amp;#160;
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	<itunes:subtitle>(Here are the rudimentary points.  Listen to the Audio blog for the full discussion!) - I loathe, abhor, vehemently, dislike cars. Here's Why: 1. Tragic Calamity and Death  injuries   flipped   defensive driving stress - 2. Financial Scam, Hoax,</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>(Here are the rudimentary points.  Listen to the Audio blog for the full discussion!)

I loathe, abhor, vehemently, dislike cars.
Here's Why:
1. Tragic Calamity and Death

	injuries
	flipped
	defensive driving stress

2. Financial Scam, Hoax, and Crock

	tickets
	maintenance
	reg. fees
	dmv loops of hell
	parking fees
	petrol fees
	toll fees

3. Emotional Headache

	dmv loops
	defensive driving

4. Land-Locked

	can't travel

5. Image scam crap

	idiots judge you by car

 </itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
		<itunes:duration>14:00</itunes:duration>
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		<title>12 Classical Music Masterpieces: Dvorak’s Cello Concerto –  Three Movements (Part 2 of 12)</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/gWXo0fGwVLU/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>Introduction All descriptions of the movements on this page are the sole property and work of John Thomas Kooz. Originally this page was simply a list of all the music that appeared in audio blog snippets (as intros or outros usually) around the Validate Your Life Network, but I have extended it so that it has more utility.  Now this page can be used for identifying classical music pieces! Ever since &amp;#8220;classical music&amp;#8221; replaced &amp;#8220;card and coin tricks&amp;#8221; of my Cs of hobbies it had been a major goal to [...]
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	<itunes:subtitle>Introduction All descriptions of the movements on this page are the sole property and work of John Thomas Kooz. Originally this page was simply a list of all the music that appeared in audio blog snippets (as intros or outros usually) around the Valid...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Introduction
All descriptions of the movements on this page are the sole property and work of John Thomas Kooz. Originally this page was simply a list of all the music that appeared in audio blog snippets (as intros or outros usually) around the Validate Your Life Network, but I have extended it so that it has more utility.  Now this page can be used for identifying classical music pieces! Ever since "classical music" replaced "card and coin tricks" of my Cs of hobbies it had been a major goal to identify a dozen or so quality, essential classical music pieces, and there movements, by ear.  A bit of backstory in the "Cs of hobbies" bit: I had three Hobbies that began with the letter C: Computers, Chess, and Card tricks; as you will see in the 10 Card, 10 Coin Tricks post, Computers became career, Chess remained a great hobby, and Card tricks was completely replaced (I outgrew it) with classical music. So the selections that I would like to identify by ear are what follows.  Quite usefully, links to the actual music are provided as well as some optional biographical or fact-based information about the composer and/or the piece. This page now has utility in my project of identifying specific classical music pieces by ear and serves me well in that regard.  If you have an interest in a similar project, I trust this page will serve your ears as well! I have dissected all twelve of the pieces I want to identify by ear and for each movement have scrupulously detailed acoustic patterns that can be used to "describe" a movement as to better mnemonically recall and then later identify each masterpiece. A rich vocabulary easily and naturally emerges when describing classical masterpieces, I have discovered. For shits and giggles I sequenced these in reverse-era sequence, meaning that the baroque pieces are last and the nationalist-modernist pieces are first.  They have been meticulously sequenced in reverse chronological order of premiere day of each piece. (Pieces we've already covered are in bold.  This list may change.)

	Nationalist (Czech): Smetana Moldau
	Nationalist (Czech): Dvorak Cello Concerto in B. (Written 1894. Premiered 1896.)
	Nationalist (English): Gustov Holst The Planets
	Nationalist (French): Debussy Dialog du la Vent et la Mer
	Nationalist (Russian): Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
	Romantic: Brahm's 4th Symphony
	Romantic: Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Ballet
	Classical/Romantic: Beethoven's 9th Symphony. 1824.
	Classical/Romantic: Beethoven's 5th Symphony
	Classical: Mozart's 31st Symphony "Paris"
	Classical: Mozart's 22nd Symphony
	Baroque: Bach amazing allegro

The Post's Covered thus far have been:

	Beethoven's 9th Symphony
	Dvorak's Cello Concerto in B (This Post)

Movement 1
This piece (and this movement) is challenging to describe. It never gets eerie, nor dreary. It's not particulary sad at times. At certain times it sounds like flickers of something Asian. It's almost jazz-like I think in that it's "behind the notes". It's very subtle. Compared to the loud boom, clash, electrifying explosions in Beethoven's 9, it is incredibly subtle and discrete. I notice at times a similarity to somethign fluid, like Smetana's Moldau, something river-like. It's possible, considering both Dvorak and Smetana are from the same Czech region that the "river flow" theme may be present in both of their work or it could just be something I discerned personally. This piece is soothing but with a slight edge. It never gets ominous and I think I'm realizing precisely what I'm "hearing" in this piece. In the first movement of Dvorak's Cello Concerto, the sound and the tension "just reaches" certain descriptions like it just becomes jazz-like or just almost becomes ominous or just almost becomes victorious or just almost becomes tranquil...but doesn't. Instead of this beign frustrating, it comes across as smooth and transitional and soothing. There are a few twirly moments of the cello, but it is never "happy",</itunes:summary>
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		<title>TIL (Today I Learned) About Pure Water</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/5yXS6IbZWN8/</link>
		<comments>http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/2012/til-today-i-learned-about-pure-water-future-tuesday-appropriately-schedule/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>(Actually, I researched this a few days ago, but still wanted to share). Why this is Important? We&amp;#8217;re 70% H20 (Hey roughly the same proportion of water as the earth!). Water is in all our cells, in our blood, in our brain, in our organs. The water we drink touches every cellular nuance of our body. Fuel in a car only touches the engine. The petrol people put into motors (for buses or trains or automobiles) (I don&amp;#8217;t use cars, obviously) touches the motor and the exhaust pipe. The petrol [...]
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	<itunes:subtitle>(Actually, I researched this a few days ago, but still wanted to share). Why this is Important? We're 70% H20 (Hey roughly the same proportion of water as the earth!). Water is in all our cells, in our blood, in our brain, in our organs.</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>(Actually, I researched this a few days ago, but still wanted to share).
Why this is Important?
We're 70% H20 (Hey roughly the same proportion of water as the earth!). Water is in all our cells, in our blood, in our brain, in our organs. The water we drink touches every cellular nuance of our body. Fuel in a car only touches the engine. The petrol people put into motors (for buses or trains or automobiles) (I don't use cars, obviously) touches the motor and the exhaust pipe. The petrol doesn't effect the seats, interior, chassis, wheels, axel nor any of the other parts of mechanical transportation. Water, however does. Whatever effects our feet, our skin, the vitreous fluid in our eyeballs has water in it; our blood-oxygen exchange components (capillaries) in our lungs contain and are immersed in water.  If you dent a car bumper or puncture a tire, the petrol put into the automobile is irrelevant.  Human bodies are not cars (obviously!).  When you cut yourself (like an epidermal minor laceration or abrasion) the blood platelets that rush to seal that and heal that gash and the blood and the skin and every component of your body contains and is effected by the quality of water you drink. Every miniscule or large component of our body has water in it. Therefore, the quality of water we drink effects every part of our body. The quality of water you drink seriously effects how efficiently your body physiologically functions. Toxic water can distort and discombobulate your physiology, whereas pure water can detoxify and is the best "fuel" possible for optimal clarity, productivity, success, fitness, energy, and focus.
The Types of "Pure" Water
There's only two types of "pure" (95-99% pure) water: reverse osmosis and distilled. "Spring" water may have trace impurities or minerals in it and charcoal filtered water has many particles that are small enough to pass through the filters.

Reverse osmosis pushes water through a membrane away from the solutes (water is the solvent). In normal osmosis, water (the solvent) moves towards the solutes to create equilibrium in the solution (i.e. water is dispersed around the solutes). Reverse osmosis works by using a lot of pressure to push the water through a membrane and most all solutes are left behind, resulting in 95-98% pure water.

Distilled water is purified through evaporation. The water turns to vapor and practically all solutes are left behind before the vapor condenses back into water. Distilled water is usually around 99% pure, but can occasionally have different types of minute impurities (that would not pass through a reverse osmosis membrane), and is very often more expensive than reverse osmosis water.

Overall, you can't go wrong with reverse osmosis nor distilled water.

This article was extremely well-written and clear, more clear than medical texts (which delusionally and incorrectly often suggest water "with minerals" is healthy. That's ridiculous. Water should be pure and clean. Take vitamins or eat minerals from healthy vegetables. Do not "get minerals" from water!"
Final Tips
It's strange. When people travel they say to "watch out for the bad water". I feel I am traveling in the United States because out of Costa Rica, Mexico, Australia, and France, I have encountered the most poisonous, toxic, dangerous, (and diarhea-causing) water in the United States. Maybe that means I'm at home in those other places and traveling in the States. Who knows, but what matters is clean water. After a toxic experience with rust-filled water I will aim to remember to carry a TDS Meter. With that you can measure the ppm (parts per million) of solutes in the water (water is the solvent, but drinking water shouldn't be a heterogenous/homogenous solution at all, just H20!).
Set a Threshold
Set a maximum TDS reading of what you will drink. It's your body. You should demand a maximum threshold of pollution you will physiologically allow!</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
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		<itunes:duration>10:12</itunes:duration>
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		<title>Money as Declining Marginal Utility</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/aKCJy2YDIxI/</link>
		<comments>http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/2012/money-as-declining-marginal-utility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>&amp;#8220;Economists explain that wealth has &amp;#8216;declining marginal utility,&amp;#8217; which is a fancy way of saying that it hurts to be hungry, cold, sick, tired, and scared, but once you&amp;#8217;ve brought your way out of these burdens the rest of your money is an increasingly useless pile of paper. &amp;#8221; (Gilbert 239). So my interpretation of Gilbert&amp;#8217;s interpretation of economical theory is that once money has helped you survive (i.e. not die). It&amp;#8217;s more or less fairly useless. I actually fully agree with and understand that. I agree with the necessity [...]
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	<itunes:subtitle>"Economists explain that wealth has 'declining marginal utility,' which is a fancy way of saying that it hurts to be hungry, cold, sick, tired, and scared, but once you've brought your way out of these burdens the rest of your money is an increasingly ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>"Economists explain that wealth has 'declining marginal utility,' which is a fancy way of saying that it hurts to be hungry, cold, sick, tired, and scared, but once you've brought your way out of these burdens the rest of your money is an increasingly useless pile of paper. " (Gilbert 239).
So my interpretation of Gilbert's interpretation of economical theory is that once money has helped you survive (i.e. not die). It's more or less fairly useless. I actually fully agree with and understand that. I agree with the necessity of money for survival and well-being, but then, in stark contrast, its total negligibility and uselessness after survival has been acquired and one has basic living essentials for survival , but genuinely just taken care of, resolved, and certain. Once the burden of being concerned about basic survivals has been resolved, the utility of money plummets and the hassle of it starts to increase!

I fear musing on this too much for "testing this theory out" like I did in france or something rubbish. of testing out survival I will never test that out again. wilderness hiking is NOT survival; that's enjoyment. As is work and computer work. Not knowing where will sleep is horridly scary in a city and not knowing if one will get food is also horrifying.  But once survival needs are met, it's good to know that money is a declining marginal utility!

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		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
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		<itunes:duration>9:03</itunes:duration>
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		<title>Every Webmaster Needs Success Data – How to Install Google Analytics Code On Your Site or Blog</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/qxu9yoj8QDA/</link>
		<comments>http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/2012/every-webmaster-needs-success-data-how-to-install-google-analytics-code-on-your-site-or-blog-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>Every Webmaster Needs Success Data Every webmaster eventually knows that he or she needs tracking. The ability to track visitors, clicks, and the browsers, geographical regions, and more data of each visitor to your site is invaluable information! Properly setting up tracking is like learning about your customer so you can better serve the &amp;#8220;guests&amp;#8221; that surf the pages of your site! With more information of your site &amp;#8220;guests&amp;#8221;, you can customize your posts, learn more about for what people were searching your site and write more material of those subjects [...]
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	<itunes:subtitle>Every Webmaster Needs Success Data Every webmaster eventually knows that he or she needs tracking. The ability to track visitors, clicks, and the browsers, geographical regions, and more data of each visitor to your site is invaluable information!</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Every Webmaster Needs Success Data
Every webmaster eventually knows that he or she needs tracking. The ability to track visitors, clicks, and the browsers, geographical regions, and more data of each visitor to your site is invaluable information! Properly setting up tracking is like learning about your customer so you can better serve the "guests" that surf the pages of your site! With more information of your site "guests", you can

customize your posts, learn more about for what people were searching your site and write more material of those subjects
track your success measured by visitors and more!

The best way to do gather that invaluable tracking information is through the the mother (and father) of the Netfootnote_of_awesomeness_1, Google. Their exist many tracking methods to accumulate quantifiable data for your website, blog, and presence on the net, but one of the best is Google Analytics. I'll show you how to setup and install that on your site (or blog).
Gather Your Essential Account Information
Implement the Tracking
There exist three main methods for getting the javascript that tracks every visitor and then outputs it to Google Analytics active on your site (or blog), copy and pasting the code, or using a plugin that utilizes your "web property id" or "google analytics uid", finally an advanced route is to utilize javascript and php to implement the tracking information with your own code. Here's how you accomplish both or either way.
Method 1: Copy and Paste the Code (Most Common Method)
How to access google analytics code:

 

Assess and make sure the tracking code is being picked up and transmitting to Google Analytics.


 

Filter out your own IP so you can distinguish page hits done by you.


Tracking Status: Analytics has been successfully installed and data is being gathered now."
That's what pops up in the yellow Tracking Status Information box that verifies Google Analytics is "set up" on your site!
Method 2: Use Plugins to Implement the Tracking Code
If you're using a blogging platform like a self-hosted wordpress (wahoo! great blogging platform!) blog, there are numerous exciting plugin options that take care of the pesky analytics copy-paste javascript code placement for you.  (Note: If you're using a wordpress.com blogging platform, their ".com" service uses wordpress statistics to track your visits and this post doesn't really apply to that.)

	Google Analyticator  - Adds javascript code; enables admin and user-specific filtering; #My personal favourite.
	Web Ninja Google Analytics - Adds the javascript code; has dashboard widget and analytics stats.
	Google Analytics Dashboard  - Adds javascript code; can share dashboard information with users and embed data.
	Google Analytics for WordPress - Adds javascript code; structured around wordpress specifically; uses metadata.

Personally, I like Google Analyticator as personal preference.  I like being able to filter out my clicks and visits and the clicks and visits of any other user (Admin, Editor, Author, Contributor, and the like).  Additionally, I have a way of not just eliminating that specific user type but filtering it into its own graph so I see unique non-admin visitors and my own visits and clicks, a useful bit of information to see because if I was doing a lot of testing or installing some new features or writing a lot of posts to a site, it can be useful to see your own visits at times.  In terms of interpreting and reading graphs and data there are entire books written on that, but I like the ability to see, for example, an increase of me visiting my sites (writing more, installing new pages, touching up on the appearance of the site, adding new features, and more) and then a lot of traffic after that!

Remember all those plugins are very similar and all they really do is an elaborate form of Method 1: Copy and Paste the code directly from Google Analytics into the template.  So if you have an aversion to using a plugin,</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
		<itunes:duration>9:49</itunes:duration>
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		<title>Remove the Label of the Product and Stop Being an Involuntary Consumer/Advertiser</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/9bsQePyeekY/</link>
		<comments>http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/2012/remove-the-label-of-the-product-and-stop-being-an-involuntary-consumeradvertiser/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>Something spectacular occurred to me after a few hours of meticulous frustration. I was touching up a portion of my material_items_all list and got stuck on a hygiene component. Specifically a hygiene-travel items. I looked up exactly what was the TSA aviation regulation for non-flammable fluids and, appealing to a precise side of me, was satisfied with the 100ml/3.4oz container limit. I then realized I had a bunch of empty unused bottles that after cleaning and removing their labels (5-hour energy, old Whiteboard spray bottle, and a few others like [...]
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			<itunes:keywords>adbusters,anti-marketing,clarity 3.0,minimalism alt,productivity</itunes:keywords>
	<itunes:subtitle>Something spectacular occurred to me after a few hours of meticulous frustration. I was touching up a portion of my material_items_all list and got stuck on a hygiene component. Specifically a hygiene-travel items.</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Something spectacular occurred to me after a few hours of meticulous frustration. I was touching up a portion of my material_items_all list and got stuck on a hygiene component. Specifically a hygiene-travel items. I looked up exactly what was the TSA aviation regulation for non-flammable fluids and, appealing to a precise side of me, was satisfied with the 100ml/3.4oz container limit. I then realized I had a bunch of empty unused bottles that after cleaning and removing their labels (5-hour energy, old Whiteboard spray bottle, and a few others like even an old spice container) I could now use for my hygiene travel needs (optionally for mouthwash, hand-sanitizer, lotion, aftershave, deodorant-fluid, hair gel, woah 6!).

I then had two huge realizations after struggling for two hours deciding if I should label each bottle's size (30ml/1oz for an old poison ivy bottle to be used for hand sanitizer, or like 60ml/2oz for the 5-hour energy bottles for mouthwash and lotion) and the proper label for each:

They are really big realizations.
When You Remove the Label from Products Magically Good Things Happen

	The items start to feel like video game items (that don't have tons of small print on them)
	You enjoy the products more. I've loved JIF peanut butter since I was a kid and tried a huge variety of highly expensive and exotic forms of peanut butter but just always like JIF creamy, boring, cheap, good. But when I took the label off the large jug, I was able to enjoy it more. This sounds preposterous but it psychologically-gustatorially "tasted better"! I think the psychology behind this is, quite simply is a small miniscule part of your brain sees that product (I'll continue with the peanut butter example) and instead of seeing JIF and getting confused on if it's supposed to be advertising that product (because after all, those flashy-colored product labels make advertising the product modular. In your own home it's like someone's pantry or fridge is a walking commercial advertisement with all the labels). So you stop advertising the product (in a very small, but centering and uplifting way) when you remove the labels from things. Try it. It's really cool.

The Actual Product(s) are Strange!

After cleaning and trying to accurately label the metric volume and identifying label of the containing substance of travel bottles, I realized that it was all just fluids. If I put all those fluids in identical bowels, I 'd have

	clear gelatinous plasma-like stuff (hair gel)
	soupier clear plasma-like stuff (hand-sanitizer)
	blue fluid (mouthwash)
	yellowish fluid (aftershave)
	white plasma-like substance (lotion)
	blue fluid (deodorant fluid, really after shave but I use it for spray)

They're just chemicals! They're just chemistry, chemicals, fluids. They're gelatinous or viscous or non-viscous or fluid. That was shocking to me because I'd always purchased and recognized "Listerine Cool Mint" in that recognizable bottle or "Crew Hair Gel in that Brown Bottle" and those advertising containers and labels was how I interacted with the product. This sounds preposterous (but hey it works for me!) when I put mouthwash in my cleaned-out clear cylinder mini (previously for spices) bottle, it tasted better and I remembered to use mouthwash when I needed, creating better dental hygiene, fresher breath, and increased "clean" enjoyment.

I think a small cognitive part of the brain feels enslaved using and looking at these products sometimes multiple times a day. When you remove the label, you realize that most of these are just substances, chemicals. This is fascinating. All those expensive ointments and chemicals, those companies just make a single mixture, a heterogenous or homogenous mixture solution sometimes with solvents and solutes but it's just a mixture!

It was just astounding to see how much of my life is working with these different colored, different textured mixtures or pastes (peanut butter is paste-like).

</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
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		<itunes:duration>11:00</itunes:duration>
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		<title>How ISBNs Work and Why You Do Not Need Them (ebooks ftw!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>First off, before you go about getting your treasure tome novel or thousand-paged tech manual or non-fiction masterpiece decorated with ISBN&amp;#8217;s and the like, you need to write it! I recommend self-publishing and this true gem of an article on formatting in Word&amp;#60;/a&amp;#62; is exquisitely well-written, concise, and comprehensively details how to properly format an entire book written in MS Word, but that said I would highly recommend Libre Office instead as the best word-processing software. Libre Office is cross-platform, it&amp;#8217;s free, it always works, and it&amp;#8217;s got a seamless [...]
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	<itunes:subtitle>First off, before you go about getting your treasure tome novel or thousand-paged tech manual or non-fiction masterpiece decorated with ISBN's and the like, you need to write it! I recommend self-publishing and this true gem of an article on formatting...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>First off, before you go about getting your treasure tome novel or thousand-paged tech manual or non-fiction masterpiece decorated with ISBN's and the like, you need to write it! I recommend self-publishing and this true gem of an article on formatting...</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
		<itunes:duration>14:57</itunes:duration>
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		<title>Every Webmaster Needs Success Data – How to Install Google Analytics Code On Your Site or Blog</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/IewMnH3Q3Xo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/2012/every-webmaster-needs-success-data-how-to-install-google-analytics-code-on-your-site-or-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 02:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>Every Webmaster Needs Success Data Every webmaster eventually knows that he or she needs tracking. The ability to track visitors, clicks, and the browsers, geographical regions, and more data of each visitor to your site is invaluable information! Properly setting up tracking is like learning about your customer so you can better serve the &amp;#8220;guests&amp;#8221; that surf the pages of your site! With more information of your site &amp;#8220;guests&amp;#8221;, you can customize your posts, learn more about for what people were searching your site and write more material of those subjects [...]
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	<itunes:subtitle>Every Webmaster Needs Success Data Every webmaster eventually knows that he or she needs tracking. The ability to track visitors, clicks, and the browsers, geographical regions, and more data of each visitor to your site is invaluable information!</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Every Webmaster Needs Success Data
Every webmaster eventually knows that he or she needs tracking. The ability to track visitors, clicks, and the browsers, geographical regions, and more data of each visitor to your site is invaluable information! Properly setting up tracking is like learning about your customer so you can better serve the "guests" that surf the pages of your site! With more information of your site "guests", you can

customize your posts, learn more about for what people were searching your site and write more material of those subjects
track your success measured by visitors and more!

The best way to do gather that invaluable tracking information is through the the mother (and father) of the Netfootnote_of_awesomeness_1, Google. Their exist many tracking methods to accumulate quantifiable data for your website, blog, and presence on the net, but one of the best is Google Analytics. I'll show you how to setup and install that on your site (or blog).
Gather Your Essential Account Information
Implement the Tracking
There exist three main methods for getting the javascript that tracks every visitor and then outputs it to Google Analytics active on your site (or blog), copy and pasting the code, or using a plugin that utilizes your "web property id" or "google analytics uid", finally an advanced route is to utilize javascript and php to implement the tracking information with your own code. Here's how you accomplish both or either way.
Method 1: Copy and Paste the Code (Most Common Method)
How to access google analytics code:

 

Assess and make sure the tracking code is being picked up and transmitting to Google Analytics.


 

Filter out your own IP so you can distinguish page hits done by you.


Tracking Status: Analytics has been successfully installed and data is being gathered now."
That's what pops up in the yellow Tracking Status Information box that verifies Google Analytics is "set up" on your site!
Method 2: Use Plugins to Implement the Tracking Code
If you're using a blogging platform like a self-hosted wordpress (wahoo! great blogging platform!) blog, there are numerous exciting plugin options that take care of the pesky analytics copy-paste javascript code placement for you.  (Note: If you're using a wordpress.com blogging platform, their ".com" service uses wordpress statistics to track your visits and this post doesn't really apply to that.)

	Google Analyticator  - Adds javascript code; enables admin and user-specific filtering; #My personal favourite.
	Web Ninja Google Analytics - Adds the javascript code; has dashboard widget and analytics stats.
	Google Analytics Dashboard  - Adds javascript code; can share dashboard information with users and embed data.
	Google Analytics for WordPress - Adds javascript code; structured around wordpress specifically; uses metadata.

Personally, I like Google Analyticator as personal preference.  I like being able to filter out my clicks and visits and the clicks and visits of any other user (Admin, Editor, Author, Contributor, and the like).  Additionally, I have a way of not just eliminating that specific user type but filtering it into its own graph so I see unique non-admin visitors and my own visits and clicks, a useful bit of information to see because if I was doing a lot of testing or installing some new features or writing a lot of posts to a site, it can be useful to see your own visits at times.  In terms of interpreting and reading graphs and data there are entire books written on that, but I like the ability to see, for example, an increase of me visiting my sites (writing more, installing new pages, touching up on the appearance of the site, adding new features, and more) and then a lot of traffic after that!

Remember all those plugins are very similar and all they really do is an elaborate form of Method 1: Copy and Paste the code directly from Google Analytics into the template.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
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		<itunes:duration>9:49</itunes:duration>
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		<title>How to Eradicate the Toxic Quicksand of Indecision</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>This is easily one of the most important posts (out of over 500) that I have ever written and recorded. As someone who has suffered from chronic indecision and the consequential doubt and incapacitation caused by indecision, this is one of my most personally helpful posts, but anyone will benefit from this. Even if you consider yourself freakishly decisive already, this will at the very least remind you of why it&amp;#8217;s so insanely essential to avoid indecision at all costs; never engage indecision. Indecision is worse than producing or &amp;#8220;finishing&amp;#8221; [...]
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	<itunes:subtitle>This is easily one of the most important posts (out of over 500) that I have ever written and recorded. As someone who has suffered from chronic indecision and the consequential doubt and incapacitation caused by indecision,</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>This is easily one of the most important posts (out of over 500) that I have ever written and recorded. As someone who has suffered from chronic indecision and the consequential doubt and incapacitation caused by indecision, this is one of my most personally helpful posts, but anyone will benefit from this. Even if you consider yourself freakishly decisive already, this will at the very least remind you of why it's so insanely essential to avoid indecision at all costs; never engage indecision. Indecision is worse than producing or "finishing" with something sub par. Indecision is worse than procrastination; it is more devastating than being over-critical or undisciplined; indecision is wretched.
"The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision."
- Maimonides quote (Spanish Philosopher, 1135-1204)
"Indecision is the seedling of fear." - Napoleon Hill
Havoc Caused by Indecision (for me Personally)

	Uncertainty on which paper-based books to discard, which led to clutter.
	Uncertainty on book drafts which caused me to scrap and overlook hundreds of pages of decent or quality writing.

I can't stand indecision! I can't afford to be indecisive! I loathe and hate how much time I've wasted with indecision. Can you relate to that?
Look at What Indecision Wrecks and Destroys
Future. Indecision prevents from occurring the good future resultant things caused by making the decision

Present. Indecision clogs the present with enervating, draining, infectious havoc.

So indecision annihilates the present and blockades you from the future! Indecision is wretched. It's "waiting". Indecision is toxic delay and waiting.

One great solution is let's use a previous NLP concept I invented, "PIVOT" to dissolve indecision.
Eradicate Indecision
Here's a few more insights into dissolving indecision.

Move Towards Decisiveness. Thing about all the uplifting awesome future privileges and abilities that are on pause by not having made that decision.

Move Away from Indecision. Indecision puts on pause your future. How much longer do you want to feel stuck, wallowing in the quicksand of indecision?

Transcend Decision. There's no decisions; just actions. Make calculated actions and get out of the "pros" and "cons" of decision-making loops. Recognize that you eventually take an action to get out of a decision, so just make calculated actions.

Deliberate Imperfection. Be imperfect! Make imperfect decisions! Perfection is a curse and striving for it is almost always inextricably related to indecision! So being imperfect deliberately, will accelerate you to experience actions and decision, then if you want, later you can improve quality but improving quality is not gut-wrenchingly incapacitating like indecision.

Cut and Slice Away. In many of the books I've written I mention decision. In one book I dissect that "decide" is literally (directly) from Latin "decidere" which literally (exactly) means "to cut off". So don't look at decisions as this absurdly idiotic, preposterous and useless stream of "evaluating" or "looking at options", or "looking at what's best?!", or ruminating on pros and cons. No, No, No. Bloody friction' hell, no! Decision is slicing. You have an outrageously sharp blade. Millions of times sharper than a japanese katana (some of the sharpest blades in the world). You use that to cut, to slice things away. There are no more decisions. There are no more evaluations of options. You no longer examine what's best. You cut, slice, and "cut away". You achieve. You experience the future and the present is uplifting.

 </itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
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		<itunes:duration>5:53</itunes:duration>
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		<title>12 Classical Music Masterpieces: Beethoven’s 9th Symphony – Four Movements</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>All descriptions of the movements on this page are the sole property and work of John Thomas Kooz. Originally this page was simply a list of all the music that appeared in audio blog snippets (as intros or outros usually) around the Validate Your Life Network, but I have extended it so that it has more utility.  Now this page can be used for identifying classical music pieces! Ever since &amp;#8220;classical music&amp;#8221; replaced &amp;#8220;card and coin tricks&amp;#8221; of my Cs of hobbies it had been a major goal to identify [...]
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	<itunes:subtitle>All descriptions of the movements on this page are the sole property and work of John Thomas Kooz. - Originally this page was simply a list of all the music that appeared in audio blog snippets (as intros or outros usually) around the Validate Your Li...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>All descriptions of the movements on this page are the sole property and work of John Thomas Kooz.

Originally this page was simply a list of all the music that appeared in audio blog snippets (as intros or outros usually) around the Validate Your Life Network, but I have extended it so that it has more utility.  Now this page can be used for identifying classical music pieces!

Ever since "classical music" replaced "card and coin tricks" of my Cs of hobbies it had been a major goal to identify a dozen or so quality, essential classical music pieces, and there movements, by ear.  A bit of backstory in the "Cs of hobbies" bit: I had three Hobbies that began with the letter C: Computers, Chess, and Card tricks; as you will see in the 10 Card, 10 Coin Tricks post, Computers became career, Chess remained a great hobby, and Card tricks was completely replaced (I outgrew it) with classical music.

So the selections that I would like to identify by ear are what follows.  Quite usefully, links to the actual music are provided as well as some optional biographical or fact-based information about the composer and/or the piece.

This page now has utility in my project of identifying specific classical music pieces by ear and serves me well in that regard.  If you have an interest in a similar project, I trust this page will serve your ears as well!

I have dissected all twelve of the pieces I want to identify by ear and for each movement have scrupulously detailed acoustic patterns that can be used to "describe" a movement as to better mnemonically recall and then later identify each masterpiece.

A rich vocabulary easily and naturally emerges when describing classical masterpieces, I have discovered.

For shits and giggles I sequenced these in reverse-era sequence, meaning that the baroque pieces are last and the nationalist-modernist pieces are first.  They have been meticulously sequenced in reverse chronological order of premiere day of each piece.
Nationalist (Czech): Smetana Moldau Nationalist (English): Gustov Holst The Planets Nationalist (French): Debussy Dialog du la Vent et la Mer Nationalist (Russian): Stravinsky's Rite of Spring Romantic: Brahm's 4th Symphony Romantic: Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Ballet Classical/Romantic: Beethoven's 9th Symphony. 1824. Classical/Romantic: Beethoven's 5th Symphony Classical: Mozart's 31st Symphony "Paris", K. 297/300a  Classical: Mozart's 22nd Symphony Baroque: Bach amazing allegro
Beethoven's 9th Symphony
9th - 1st Movement

Mnemonic How it Sounds:  Like a brewing, building, crescendoing simmer of an orchestra.

Reflection on the Video: The Conductor, Leonard Bernstein, looks like a seasoned musicman, like one of the ancient composers himself!  Wow the camera zooms on this were incredible.  Easily one of the best details of 9th Symphony Movement1!  You know it's difficult to tell which time period this was played in (it turns out to be 1989) because costumes, instruments, tones, and the like are basically invariants in classical music!  But I saw specs on one person and this looks like it was from a few decades ago.  I joyfully  chuckled whenever the camera showed Bernstein's mannerisms and facial expressions, which are a bit of an orchestra in themselves!
9th - 2nd Movement

Mnemonic How it Sounds: In the opening like an electric whiz-bang of sound, direct and abrupt compared to the first movement.  Throughout the piece there is a cheerful but kind of menacing twirly chime interrupted with bellows from a kettle drum on occasion and many loud erupting crescendos reminding you this is not a trivial piece.  In fact, the entire movement sounds a lot like a crescendo finale to an entire concert, but extended over an entire movement.
9th - 3rd Movement

Mnemonic How it Sounds: The piece commences with a smooth, gradual, gentle, peaceful lilting of the woodwinds. This is soon accompanied by a slow and gradual interlude of the strings.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>MindHacks: Clutter increases with Attachment and Attachment increases with Kinesthetic Touch</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>Ever set out to &amp;#8220;Really, seriously clean out this room,&amp;#8221; then find yourself, 20 minutes later, slowly sorting through photos and memorabilia, unable to toss a single thing? Erin Doland, editor of the Unclutterer blog, explained in a guest post why we can&amp;#8217;t help holding onto clutter. The more you touch things over a lifetime, but also in the last few minutes, the more attached you grow to those things. It&amp;#8217;s why every retailer worth their salt wants you to test, try, but most of all handle their sample goods, [...]
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	<itunes:subtitle>Ever set out to "Really, seriously clean out this room," then find yourself, 20 minutes later, slowly sorting through photos and memorabilia, unable to toss a single thing? Erin Doland, editor of the Unclutterer blog,</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Ever set out to "Really, seriously clean out this room," then find yourself, 20 minutes later, slowly sorting through photos and memorabilia, unable to toss a single thing? Erin Doland, editor of the Unclutterer blog, explained in a guest post why we can't help holding onto clutter. The more you touch things over a lifetime, but also in the last few minutes, the more attached you grow to those things. It's why every retailer worth their salt wants you to test, try, but most of all handle their sample goods, and it's why you find it hard to toss things that were once precious, but now totally useless. Have a friend or professional help you out by holding things up for you, rather than let your hands get all sentimental. Photo by Elsie esq..
-- Read more at lifehacker
Thought this was particularly clever, too.  Avoid HALT when considering purchasing anything:
Do you really need another 16 GB thumb drive to move files around, or are you just angry with all the tech problems you had at work? Are you really in need of a garage sale panini press, or are you just late on grabbing lunch? It's not such a stretch. As the Moolanomy personal finance blog points out, the role of HALT feelings--Hunger, Anger, Loneliness, Tiredness--are no small thing in the impulsive decisions we make. Step back from that thing you're about to open your wallet for, consider your HALT levels, and maybe you don't end up a bit more weighed down with the unnecessary.
--Read more from this amazing set of 10 productivity mindhacks at lifehacker.
Also this article discusses anchoring in a way that higher initial price makes lowered 'sale" price almost deceptively seem like a better bargain. Contrast effect at work and the sup-average article didn't include very much NLP (which I thought it would given the anchoring concept), but a decent article nevertheless.

The Stranger test is designed to minimize impulse purchases where you picture some stranger offering you the money or the product, most of time will take money, justifying not making the purchase.

A clever article on how product branding uses colors to sway purchasing decisions (in a distorted way) resulting in the good advice of reminding to purchase items based on nutrition and dietary preference instead of packaging!</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
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		<itunes:duration>8:53</itunes:duration>
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		<title>A Brilliant Atheist Post: Atheism 101</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/DMSaWPfAncY/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>Disclaimer: I felt it necessary to include this Disclaimer.  If you consider yourself to have a modicum of faith in any religion, there exists a high degree of certainty (almost a guarantee) that this and other &amp;#8220;Atheism For The Win&amp;#8221; posts will either decrease your faith or make you angry.  That is not my intention.  My intention in this post is simply to share what I know is true, and my intention in this disclaimer is simply to share viable consequences. Note: Naturally, the audio blog is much more informative and [...]
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			<itunes:keywords>anti-religion,atheism,clarity 2.0,dawkins,hitchens,Identity</itunes:keywords>
	<itunes:subtitle>Disclaimer: I felt it necessary to include this Disclaimer.  If you consider yourself to have a modicum of faith in any religion, there exists a high degree of certainty (almost a guarantee) that this and other "Atheism For The Win" posts will either d...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Disclaimer: I felt it necessary to include this Disclaimer.  If you consider yourself to have a modicum of faith in any religion, there exists a high degree of certainty (almost a guarantee) that this and other "Atheism For The Win" posts will either decrease your faith or make you angry.  That is not my intention.  My intention in this post is simply to share what I know is true, and my intention in this disclaimer is simply to share viable consequences.
Note: Naturally, the audio blog is much more informative and detailed than the written portion.  The audio  blog contains all the information in the written portion and about a half hour more of discussion on this post.
This is going to be brief because Richard Dawkins (one of my five british heroes, and one of the most enlightened and helpful people I can think of) has already prescribed, clarified, illustrated, and elucidated almost every point on atheist with incredible lucidity, cogency, humor, whit -- and well, just awesome, it's just awesome, put it that way -- in his books (like the God Delusion, the Blind Watchmaker, and on a more purely scientific level, The Greatest Show on Earth).

Dawkins has replaced Douglas Adams (who, in turn, replaced Roald Dhal -- all three mind you, British literary gents) in the author of whose nascent and emergent penned ideas are what I eagerly read upon each release. In short, I think it's great to have an author (and to choose this one wisely) whereby you read each of their books when they're released. I'm looking forward to the next Dawkins book and find his teachings, writing style, and clarity, as said before, just awesome.

So anyways, basically, Dawkins said this better than I am, but I wanted to share this condensed version of some ideas and pointers I had and picked up.

All Those Types of Gods

	Darrow: Mother Goose
	Mueller: two enormous green lobsters
	Invisible Inaudible, Unicrorn
	Flying spaghetti monster who people believe has touched them with his noddly appendage! BRILLIANT!

What's hysterically appealing to the enligthened and lucid mind is all of this idiotic fabrications of pure lunacy are all equally "plausible" gods! This leads us to the famous teapot example.

QUOTE

There could be a teapot orbitting the earth. Just like when all thoe imbeciles prayer to their skygod, that skygod could really be Mother Goose, or an invisible unicord, or, yes, the holy Flying Spaghetti Monster. I love the ridiculing touch of the FSM having "noodle appendages".
I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that hte questioner is also an atheist when considering Zeus, Apollo, Amon Ra, Mihtras, Baal, Thor, Wotan, the Golden Calf, and the Flying Spaghetti Monstoer" (Dawkins 76)
Sheer Brilliance of Stable Happiness
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." (dawkins Delusion 194).
That's amusing and very succinct but it's communicating a lot. That one sentence of Dawkins alludes to "the composition of happiness". It's like with food, you can eat 1000 calories of soggy, fried hamburger slop or 1000 calories of some tasty, healthy vegetarian, fresh indian dish and say that each person is both full, they've both had a meal. But the person who had the healthy food, via digestive, circulatory, and nervous system will consequentially emotionally be a lot better off than the person who ate slop. The same is true for happiness. If the source of happines is this delusional fabrication (religion), sure that provides some temporary feeble consolation, but in reality, it's fragile and unstable, wavering happiness. Happiness derived from things that are actually true like, I don't know, mathematics, astronomy (like the fact that some reasons earth is habitable are because of having a non-binary star system, the goldilocks effect of planetary placement,</itunes:summary>
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		<title>‘A Christmas Carol’ Free Audio Book Recording!  Stave 5: The End of It</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/TDaa2sh2d5g/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 16:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>Regardless of where you are in the world&amp;#8230;regardless of your purpose in life&amp;#8230;this literature written by English author Charles Dickens, first published by Chapman &amp;#38; Hall on December 17, 143 (168 years ago!)&amp;#8230; Is A C-L-A-S-S-I-C! Download the Stave. Put it on your mp3 player and Enjoy the Holiday Cheer.
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		<itunes:summary>Regardless of where you are in the world...regardless of your purpose in life...this literature written by English author Charles Dickens, first published by Chapman &amp; Hall on December 17, 143 (168 years ago!)...
Is A C-L-A-S-S-I-C!
Download the Stave. Put it on your mp3 player and
Enjoy the Holiday Cheer.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
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		<title>‘A Christmas Carol’ Free Audio Book Recording!  Stave 4: The Last of the Spirits</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/aaC5TPch1_Q/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 16:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>Regardless of where you are in the world&amp;#8230;regardless of your purpose in life&amp;#8230;this literature written by English author Charles Dickens, first published by Chapman &amp;#38; Hall on December 17, 143 (168 years ago!)&amp;#8230; Is A C-L-A-S-S-I-C! Download the Stave. Put it on your mp3 player and Enjoy the Holiday Cheer. Look forward to Stave 5 Tomorrow.
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		<itunes:summary>Regardless of where you are in the world...regardless of your purpose in life...this literature written by English author Charles Dickens, first published by Chapman &amp; Hall on December 17, 143 (168 years ago!)...
Is A C-L-A-S-S-I-C!
Download the Stave. Put it on your mp3 player and
Enjoy the Holiday Cheer.
Look forward to Stave 5 Tomorrow.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
		<itunes:duration>35:07</itunes:duration>
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		<title>‘A Christmas Carol’ Free Audio Book Recording!  Stave 3: The Second of the Three Spirits</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/1SGLOQZ75vg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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	<itunes:subtitle>Regardless of where you are in the world...regardless of your purpose in life...this literature written by English author Charles Dickens, first published by Chapman &amp; Hall on December 17, 143 (168 years ago!)... Is A C-L-A-S-S-I-C! Download the Stave.</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Regardless of where you are in the world...regardless of your purpose in life...this literature written by English author Charles Dickens, first published by Chapman &amp; Hall on December 17, 143 (168 years ago!)...
Is A C-L-A-S-S-I-C!
Download the Stave. Put it on your mp3 player and
Enjoy the Holiday Cheer.
Look forward to Stave 4 Tomorrow.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
		<itunes:duration>38:38</itunes:duration>
	<media:content url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~5/RKZa_hslteg/xmas_2011_dickens_stave3.mp3" fileSize="37081053" type="audio/mpeg" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/2011/a-christmas-carol-free-audio-book-recording-stave-3-the-second-of-the-three-spirits/</feedburner:origLink><enclosure url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~5/RKZa_hslteg/xmas_2011_dickens_stave3.mp3" length="37081053" type="audio/mpeg" /><feedburner:origEnclosureLink>http://media.blubrry.com/vyl/validateyourlife.com/vylab/xmas_2011_dickens_stave3.mp3</feedburner:origEnclosureLink></item>
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		<title>‘A Christmas Carol’ Free Audio Book Recording!  Stave 2: The First of the Three Spirits</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/w7VSltI6uxo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/2011/a-christmas-carol-free-audio-book-recording-stave-2-the-first-of-the-three-spirits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>Regardless of where you are in the world&amp;#8230;regardless of your purpose in life&amp;#8230;this literature written by English author Charles Dickens, first published by Chapman &amp;#38; Hall on December 17, 143 (168 years ago!)&amp;#8230; Is A C-L-A-S-S-I-C! Download the Stave. Put it on your mp3 player and Enjoy the Holiday Cheer. Look forward to Stave 3 Tomorrow.
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			<itunes:keywords>a christmas carol,accents,audio book,audiobook,british,charles,cratchitt,dickens,english,free,holiday,literature</itunes:keywords>
	<itunes:subtitle>Regardless of where you are in the world...regardless of your purpose in life...this literature written by English author Charles Dickens, first published by Chapman &amp; Hall on December 17, 143 (168 years ago!)... Is A C-L-A-S-S-I-C! Download the Stave.</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Regardless of where you are in the world...regardless of your purpose in life...this literature written by English author Charles Dickens, first published by Chapman &amp; Hall on December 17, 143 (168 years ago!)...
Is A C-L-A-S-S-I-C!
Download the Stave. Put it on your mp3 player and
Enjoy the Holiday Cheer.
Look forward to Stave 3 Tomorrow.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
		<itunes:duration>46:37</itunes:duration>
	<media:content url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~5/uA2qeI9e-kg/xmas_2011_dickens_stave2.mp3" fileSize="44750185" type="audio/mpeg" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/2011/a-christmas-carol-free-audio-book-recording-stave-2-the-first-of-the-three-spirits/</feedburner:origLink><enclosure url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~5/uA2qeI9e-kg/xmas_2011_dickens_stave2.mp3" length="44750185" type="audio/mpeg" /><feedburner:origEnclosureLink>http://media.blubrry.com/vyl/validateyourlife.com/vylab/xmas_2011_dickens_stave2.mp3</feedburner:origEnclosureLink></item>
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		<title>‘A Christmas Carol’ Free Audio Book Recording!  Stave 1: Marley’s Ghost</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/YeTPIRZ05lY/</link>
		<comments>http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/2011/a-christmas-carol-free-audio-book-recording-stave-1-marleys-ghost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>Regardless of where you are in the world&amp;#8230;regardless of your purpose in life&amp;#8230;this literature written by English author Charles Dickens, first published by Chapman &amp;#38; Hall on December 17, 143 (168 years ago!)&amp;#8230; Is A C-L-A-S-S-I-C! Download the Stave. Put it on your mp3 player and Enjoy the Holiday Cheer. Look forward to Stave 2 Tomorrow.
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			<itunes:keywords>a christmas carol,accents,audio book,audiobook,british,charles,cratchitt,dickens,english,free,holiday,literature</itunes:keywords>
	<itunes:subtitle>Regardless of where you are in the world...regardless of your purpose in life...this literature written by English author Charles Dickens, first published by Chapman &amp; Hall on December 17, 143 (168 years ago!)... Is A C-L-A-S-S-I-C! Download the Stave.</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Regardless of where you are in the world...regardless of your purpose in life...this literature written by English author Charles Dickens, first published by Chapman &amp; Hall on December 17, 143 (168 years ago!)...
Is A C-L-A-S-S-I-C!
Download the Stave. Put it on your mp3 player and
Enjoy the Holiday Cheer.
Look forward to Stave 2 Tomorrow.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
		<itunes:duration>55:50</itunes:duration>
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		<title>The Apex Productivity Item</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/vf84_qiB-18/</link>
		<comments>http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/2011/the-apex-productivity-item/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA["the tuesday post"]]></category>
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		<description>Stick With a Brand that Works Booth Oranges for Oranges. Sony for Audio Recording. Canon for digital photos and visual media (film). Spacepen for writing utensil. Cyberlite Swiss Army Knife Garmin or Magellan for gps devices. Just a few examples. I&amp;#8217;ve used those products for years. All of them are &amp;#8220;apex productivity items&amp;#8221; (an item that is so quality that all you need is that item and it replaces all other items in a said category; so in other word, with my sony recorder, I need no other recorders, with [...]
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			<itunes:keywords>apex,clutter removal,minimalism alt,productivity</itunes:keywords>
	<itunes:subtitle>Stick With a Brand that Works  Booth Oranges for Oranges.   Sony for Audio Recording.   Canon for digital photos and visual media (film).   Spacepen for writing utensil.   Cyberlite Swiss Army Knife   Garmin or Magellan for gps devices. - </itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Stick With a Brand that Works

	Booth Oranges for Oranges.
	Sony for Audio Recording.
	Canon for digital photos and visual media (film).
	Spacepen for writing utensil.
	Cyberlite Swiss Army Knife
	Garmin or Magellan for gps devices.

Just a few examples.

I've used those products for years. All of them are "apex productivity items" (an item that is so quality that all you need is that item and it replaces all other items in a said category; so in other word, with my sony recorder, I need no other recorders, with my spacepen, I genuinely do not need and do not have any other pen) I've had two sony audio recorders; both are apex productivity items. The booth oranges replace all other oranges. And I've tried sony and other products for visual media, but nothing matches up to canon. Those companies specialize in making great stuff in regards to oranges, audio recording, and visual recording products. I've tried deviating from them and doing so results in just gross items that don't work. I'm one of the last people to recommend brand-allegiance, but I'm not. I'm recommending continuing to use the same apex productivity items for a given category of item, that work. Experimenting with other items is rarely and almost never worth the time, cost, and hassle.

Personal experience: Just went to the grocery store and knew I wanted and needed booth oranges (I had tried others and knew those were the best). But a Sunkist bag looked bigger so I got two bags of Sunkist and two of booth. The Sunkist oranges were horrendous. It doesn't matter the quantity of something if it's rubbish. The oranges is a small malleable example that can be applied to more challenging things to discard. If you get a $200 camera that doesn't work, it would be wasteful to just throw it out, so most people continue to use things that are more or less malfunctioning. Sticking with a type of thing that you know works allows you to move forward without selective hassle.
So what draws us away from something we know that works?
With my oranges example, it was more quantity.

Maybe it's lower cost, supposed better value, an added bonus feature, or many of the other peripheral distractors, but what really matters is the core item. Is the core item quality? My goal is to only have apex productivity items. I've accomplished that with pens, swiss army knives, audio recording devices, gps devices and moving and still visual recording devices. I'd like to find the apex productivity item in regards to

computer monitors (dell or viewsonic are considerations)

	laptops (asus or dell seem the best)
	keyboards
	mice

Know this! Marketing and advertisements can work against you and be your enemy. Did I ever EVER see a single informerical or advertisement for my spacepen? No. Not a single one. But it's the only pen I have and only pen I will ever have. Often something that's highly advertised can often (not always, but often) mean inferior product or substane (from films to objects) because so much time and money went into advertising instead of proper design!

Certainly if some other company comes out with a better-made item in any category it might be ridiculous not to check that out, but it's also arguable that it might be ridiculous to abandon an item that works exceptionally well. I know that I'll never have another brand of audio recorder ever. There's no reason to. That's simplifying for me. That's eliminating one less thing to worry about.

One of the biggest rules of thumb I've noticed with minimalism, is if you find one apex productivity item, you can instanlty eliminate many (possibly dozens and dozens) of mediocre, malfunctioning or non-apex productivity items.

Enjoying minimalism (and all of its many, many, many rewards) is practically impossible without at least half a dozen (ideally ALL) apex productivity items.

So want to know a phenomenal trick for identifying apex-productivity items?
Go Green
Look for Green items.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
		<itunes:duration>9:32</itunes:duration>
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		<title>The Ultimate RWCO Productivity List</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/-I-l6c3WGd0/</link>
		<comments>http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/2011/the-ultimate-rwco-productivity-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>This is an installment for the POPP productivity series. Basically, I do most of my work at a computer and thus my runway list is usually Computers, Errands, Groceries, or Social. But the Runway-Computer list I noticed had different categories and, more importantly, dividing the RWCO list into the emergent categories massively produced productivity. So in the POPP Android App, this will all be naturally and automatically sub-divided, but I&amp;#8217;d recommend using a spreadsheet application (I use open office which rocks). Obviously, you can make your categories whatever you want, [...]
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			<itunes:keywords>POPP,productivity,runway lists,RWCO</itunes:keywords>
	<itunes:subtitle>This is an installment for the POPP productivity series. Basically, I do most of my work at a computer and thus my runway list is usually Computers, Errands, Groceries, or Social. But the Runway-Computer list I noticed had different categories and,</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>This is an installment for the POPP productivity series. Basically, I do most of my work at a computer and thus my runway list is usually Computers, Errands, Groceries, or Social. But the Runway-Computer list I noticed had different categories and, mor...</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
		<itunes:duration>8:41</itunes:duration>
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		<title>Survival Tips: How Flint and Steel Works and The Prusik Knot</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/XoyBcQXzDbc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/2011/survival-tips-how-flint-and-steel-works-and-the-prusik-knot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>I Have been interested in wilderness survival for, well, off and on 10 years (ever since I read Tom Brown&amp;#8217;s The Tracker in 2001, grand grand book that one and that guy is mean lean survivalist, but there are better like Bear Grylls). Anyways, I, thus, find, discover, and enjoy some great survival resources. This time I learned how flint and steel works and the prusik knot. How Does Flint and Steel Work (as a fire-starter)? First off, it&amp;#8217;s the steel NOT the flint that actually is so conducive to [...]
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			<itunes:keywords>firestarter,flint and steel,prusik,prusik knot,prussik,prussik knot,pyrophoric,pyrophorik,surface area,survival</itunes:keywords>
	<itunes:subtitle>I Have been interested in wilderness survival for, well, off and on 10 years (ever since I read Tom Brown's The Tracker in 2001, grand grand book that one and that guy is mean lean survivalist, but there are better like Bear Grylls). Anyways, I, thus,</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>I Have been interested in wilderness survival for, well, off and on 10 years (ever since I read Tom Brown's The Tracker in 2001, grand grand book that one and that guy is mean lean survivalist, but there are better like Bear Grylls). Anyways, I, thus, ...</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
		<itunes:duration>8:22</itunes:duration>
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		<title>The Faux Ticket Experiment and Stream-Lined Computer As-if About to Reinstall or Migrate</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/BCkLB0201fw/</link>
		<comments>http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/2011/stream-lined-computer-as-if-about-to-reinstall-or-migrate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>This is a massive massive productivity tip I just realized.  It&amp;#8217;s to keep the computer (and hard-drives) STREAM-LINED.  COMPUTER work AND FOLDERS! ONE OF MOST MONUMENTAL OF YEAR SO FAR. PRODUCTIVITY. CLOSURE, NON-SPRAWL. CONTAINED. MODULAR.  Use computer as-if I am about to migrate and/or do a reinstall, this keeps EVERYTHING not locked down but Compact. the desktop is always clean, nothing sprawls no amorphorous folders Perfect example is audacities , I record, edit then DELETE the audacity file (which are completely unneeded and space-hoggers) this removes uncertainty and creates closure [...]
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			<itunes:keywords>emtpy hard drive,hard drive,minimalism alt,prevcat_g2g,productivity 2.0,simplicity</itunes:keywords>
	<itunes:subtitle>This is a massive massive productivity tip I just realized.  It's to keep the computer (and hard-drives) STREAM-LINED.  COMPUTER work AND FOLDERS! ONE OF MOST MONUMENTAL OF YEAR SO FAR. PRODUCTIVITY. CLOSURE, NON-SPRAWL. CONTAINED. MODULAR.</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>This is a massive massive productivity tip I just realized.  It's to keep the computer (and hard-drives) STREAM-LINED.  COMPUTER work AND FOLDERS! ONE OF MOST MONUMENTAL OF YEAR SO FAR. PRODUCTIVITY. CLOSURE, NON-SPRAWL. CONTAINED. MODULAR.  Use computer as-if I am about to migrate and/or do a reinstall, this keeps EVERYTHING not locked down but Compact. the desktop is always clean, nothing sprawls no amorphorous folders Perfect example is audacities , I record, edit then DELETE the audacity file (which are completely unneeded and space-hoggers) this removes uncertainty and creates closure and completion psychologically and realistically plus I'm left with FANTASTIC sense of a GREAT clean clear workspace!

A time where I did just this was when my S.M.A.R.T. hard drive status was failing.  Basically, that means that gradual signs of wear and tear are showing and indicators predict an imminent hard drive failure.  But the hard drive, at the time, worked fine although I couldn't repartition it.  In short, I used a computer (with an extra monitor attached to it) ONLY for browsing and looking at external hard drives!  I had thus massive, over 90% empty hard drive.  It was glorious and immensely clarifying!  It encouraged me to have a tidy workspace and usually I downloaded applications or add-ons and meant to uninstall them and didn't and it added to this cumulative effect of clutter.  But with NOT using the hard drive, using the computer as if it were a workstation, productivity increased exponentially!
The Faux Ticket Experiment.  Try it!
This turned out also to be massively congruent with my passion for minimalism!  Additionally, this small habit of computer minimalism and productivity and efficiency, galvanizes health.  Here's how.  I noticed a pattern preceding travel.  Many times. right before travel I found myself tidying up immensely.  I ate more healthily and naturally and exercised regularly.  If I had a plane (or train) to catch and I had purchased the ticket for over a month in advance, I was very organized and balanced.

I realized I could emulate that same bit of health equilibrium without the cost of purchasing a ticket!  I could just always act like I had a ticket to go to xyz place in three days.  Try that!  It's the faux ticket experiment.  You don't purchase a ticket nor go anywhere but your productivity levels act like you are and you complete projects, have previously inaccessible resources of energy and things are much more modular and organized!</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
		<itunes:duration>11:11</itunes:duration>
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		<title>Kitten Anthologies 2: Lesson of Personal Space and Time</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/omdN81ws1Qs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/2011/kitten-anthologies-2-lesson-of-personal-space-and-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>Another lesson my Kittens (and this serves as another installment of the original Kitten Anthologies) taught me is that Personal Space and Personal Time is crucial to any relationship even one with the species felis catus (between homo sapiens and felis catus or homo sapiens and homo sapiens personal time and personal space is crucial).  What I learned from cats is I love them.  I love them looking, acting, and feeling healthy.  I love their companionship, low maintenance, agility, awesomeness, and they&amp;#8217;re some of my best friends, really (if you [...]
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	<itunes:subtitle>Another lesson my Kittens (and this serves as another installment of the original Kitten Anthologies) taught me is that Personal Space and Personal Time is crucial to any relationship even one with the species felis catus (between homo sapiens and feli...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Another lesson my Kittens (and this serves as another installment of the original Kitten Anthologies) taught me is that Personal Space and Personal Time is crucial to any relationship even one with the species felis catus (between homo sapiens and felis catus or homo sapiens and homo sapiens personal time and personal space is crucial).  What I learned from cats is I love them.  I love them looking, acting, and feeling healthy.  I love their companionship, low maintenance, agility, awesomeness, and they're some of my best friends, really (if you want to call that pathetic, so bet\ it).  They are some of my best friends and I care about them and I love my cats.  That said, being around them 24/7...I'd strangle them; I would go completely insane!   And then I realized the parallel of that to any relationship. Sartre said "Hell is other people" (blogged on this extensively, but showed that we always have choice), and you want other people, a homo sapiens to homo sapiens relationship, but that, too, would be hell to be around another homo sapiens 24/7.

So what actually makes a relationship good and immensely something of benefit and of something that you look forward to, so that it's not a burden, something that's delightful...is, in many ways time away from the relationship and being able to be like "It's been great awesome fun playing with you!  I'm going to go now.  Bye."  and then doing your own thing.  If you don't do that, a relationship is burdening.  Having the right balance of time interacting with a person (delightful) and then time not interacting with them (also and equally as delightful) is the recipe for a meaningful balanced relationship.  So another thing I learned from my cats is that for having a relationship with any species, part of that relationship is also not having a relationship! Being in a relationship and always being with that person (or species) in the relationship is toxic.  So a functional relationship involves space and time and not interacting with that relationship entity (person, species, felis catus) at all at times, that's part of the relationship!

Also, this is in regard to discipline with yourself in a relationship!  Often, when I'm in the middle of a project I'll see my cats and want to pet one of them.  I'll have that interest and feel if I don't then they'll think less of me (when such a conclusion is irrational given all the petting sessions and how much I like and play with them), which is preposterous.  But if my prefrontal cortex reminds me that petting and playing with the cat now (in the middle of something) will leave me feeling distracted and frustrated that it's better not to at that time.  This is immensely important.  I've observed times where I give into the urge to pet my cats when in the middle of something and it's delightful for awhile but then I try to refocus and my amygdala "hijacks" (a concept described by Daniel Goleman as when the emotion center of your mind kind of takes over with its hair trigger responses instead of the smooth sound logical left PFC), and I resultingly feel frustrated and anxious about not getting work accomplished.  So relationship balance is not just ensuring others give you space, but fortuitously knowing to discipline yourself by applying self-awareness so you know that if you interact with a certain relationship entity at a certain time it wouldn't be the best for you.

This is a fascinating and quite astounding truism I (thanks to my feline friends) I just realized.  A huge monumental part of a relationship, is NOT interacting with the person in the relationship!  Otherwise, the relationship feels parasitic and leech-like.  A balanced relationship has a correspondingly balanced distribution of time with and time not with the species!
Lesson
Know when time with a person would be best and honor the self-awareness of understanding when time not interacting with an entity (cat, friend, person, whatever) would be best.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
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		<itunes:duration>9:02</itunes:duration>
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		<title>Want to Accelerate Your Usage of Time and Productivity? Try Pomodoro!</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/8PhO0mvlIfQ/</link>
		<comments>http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/2011/want-to-accelerate-your-usage-of-time-and-productivity-try-pomodoro/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>History and &amp;#8220;Will it Work?&amp;#8221; What is The Pomodoro Technique?  Directly from their website: The Pomodoro Technique® is a way to get the most out of time management.  Turn time into a valauble ally to accomplish what we want to do and chart continuous improvement in the way we do it. Francesco Cirillo created the Pomodoro Technique® in the 1980s.  It is now practiced by professional teams and indviduals around the world. Right, so it&amp;#8217;s a &amp;#8220;time management&amp;#8221; technique that&amp;#8217;s over 30 years old.  First off, I would do away [...]
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	<itunes:subtitle>History and "Will it Work?" What is The Pomodoro Technique?  Directly from their website: The Pomodoro Technique® is a way to get the most out of time management.  Turn time into a valauble ally to accomplish what we want to do and chart continuous i...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>History and "Will it Work?"
What is The Pomodoro Technique?  Directly from their website:
The Pomodoro Technique® is a way to get the most out of time management.  Turn time into a valauble ally to accomplish what we want to do and chart continuous improvement in the way we do it.

Francesco Cirillo created the Pomodoro Technique® in the 1980s.  It is now practiced by professional teams and indviduals around the world.
Right, so it's a "time management" technique that's over 30 years old.  First off, I would do away with the concept of the "time management", that will slow you down (more on this later in my post).  And also do away with "chart continuous improvement".  Don't worry about charting your improvement.  You'll feel it and see it using the crisp mathematically-clear 25/5 time chunks (or scapes or frames).  Personally, I think their website turns it into something much more than it is: it's using time in 25 minute chunks with a 5-minute break.  That's all it is!  I don't think that's worthy of "Registering", but that aside, it is unique and interesting and what follows are some insights into this.

Admittedly, when I first discovered the Pomodoro Technique in early 2009 it was a "cool idea" and I remember seeing this odd-looking tomato logo.  That was about it.  I got bogged down with gear!

 
Just Try the Technique and Don't Fret About Gear
I got too bogged down with "which app do I use"?  Do I actually use a bloody egg-timer?  (I would now recommend focus-booster.  It rocks.  Is simple, digital, and best of all has a colour-changing bar reflecting the amount of time left!)  But I would not recommend getting an actual egg-timer.  That distracts from the modularity of the pomodoro technique, it is clunky, too old-fashioned, makes annoying sounds, and doesn't have much use other than the technique (an egg-timer is not versatile).  Plus, you will look like an imbecile carrying around a ticking egg-timer, when really you're a stream-lined productivity machine!  So focus-booster works great.  Also a wrist-watch with a multi-function timer (some wristwatches allow for another timer, like the break timer, to start or the chronometer) set at 25-minutes would work.  Using focus-booster or your watch utilizes "gear" you already have to install this technique (try it out, it may not be right for you, but at this time in my life, thigns seriously fly using the Pomodoro Technique and having discovered the Focus Booster app.  I am thinking of many things in 25-minute segments now.  Okay that's 1 blog post, 1 outbound bike ride to get groceries...1 etc.).  It's almost like how as I was growing up whenever I heard of some expensive thing I would respond "That's like buying 4 computers!" and I would always convert an incomprehensibly large sum into "computer increments" for comparison.  Pomodoro's do change the landscape of your time.  If you like being locked in, imprisoned by the linear flow of a calendar, this likely won't work for you, but if you like modularity, crisp, efficient, time modules, Pomodoro rocks!

Also, disclaimer, what I was mentioning before was that I was distracted with getting the right "gear'.  I liked the technique but muddled over:

	vibrating wrist watches
	phone apps
	computer apps
	actual timers

And the like.  I was getting stuck on "gear" and not employing technique!  Gear is irrelevant.  I never really knew  exactly what Lance Armstrong meant by titling his book "It's Not About the Bike", but one message I took from that is that it's not about "gear" it's about how you use a technique or skills or focus.  In fact, if you're over-obsessing about gear, you probably don't understand the technique!  That was the case with me in early 2009.  Being obsessive absout which "new" gear to try out this "new" Pomodoro technique was indicative of not really understanding and not using (or maybe, at the time, not being compatible with) the technique.  Keep that in mind.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>John Thomas Kooz</itunes:author>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
		<itunes:duration>21:01</itunes:duration>
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		<title>Firewalks: A Monumental Hoax and Scam</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vylpodcast/~3/ryINm9kAmtc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/2011/firewalks-a-monumental-hoax-and-scam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>Edify on the go with this audio download! &amp;#8220;When they are in front of 2,000-degree fire, they get an emotional state change.&amp;#8221; &amp;#8211;Anonymous spewer of delusional cult rubbish I&amp;#8217;ve done the Tony Robbins Unleas the Power Within and I can tell you straight off the bat that it&amp;#8217;s a 2-second experience of which I&amp;#8217;ve experienced much more intensnely walking across extremely hot sand in Costa Rica. Anyone who is impressed or &amp;#8220;awakened&amp;#8221; in any way by walking on coals (covered in ash, and ash insulates) that are not as hot [...]
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	<itunes:subtitle>Edify on the go with this audio download! "When they are in front of 2,000-degree fire, they get an emotional state change." --Anonymous spewer of delusional cult rubbish I've done the Tony Robbins Unleas the Power Within and I can tell you straight...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Edify on the go with this audio download!
"When they are in front of 2,000-degree fire, they get an emotional state change."
--Anonymous spewer of delusional cult rubbish
I've done the Tony Robbins Unleas the Power Within and I can tell you straight off the bat that it's a 2-second experience of which I've experienced much more intensnely walking across extremely hot sand in Costa Rica. Anyone who is impressed or "awakened" in any way by walking on coals (covered in ash, and ash insulates) that are not as hot as hot sand (people do the equivalent of a "fire walk" every time they walk on the beach sand without sandals on a hot day) is a delusioned idiot. Firewalking is a scam, a marketing tool, effective in luring people in because of its exotic-ness, but no more effective than walking on beach sand. I find it apallingly vile how the whole jiggery-pokery business of getting people hyped up to believe some magnificent awakening has occurred (no it hasn't, the sole of your feet touched a surface slightly less hot than very hot sand) is so pervasive!</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Trick for Converting Fahrenheit to Celcius, the English Separatist Boat, Refreshingly Jovial Chilly Air, and Proper Ideological Evolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>What&amp;#8217;s in store for you in this post: factoids about the boat that transported English Separatists to &amp;#8220;America&amp;#8221; in the early 17th century details about the inventors of major forms of temperature measurement some interesting rants of ideological evolution finally, the original intention, a mnemonically-helpful presentation of a mathematical formula enabling smooth conversion between the two measurements Enjoy. Two years before he died in 1742 (meaning he croaked in 1744), the Swedish Astronomer Anders Celcius1 invented, well as you might guess, the Celcius scale for temperature measurement. Meanwhile, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, [...]
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	<itunes:subtitle>What's in store for you in this post:  factoids about the boat that transported English Separatists to "America" in the early 17th century   details about the inventors of major forms of temperature measurement </itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>What's in store for you in this post:

	factoids about the boat that transported English Separatists to "America" in the early 17th century
	details about the inventors of major forms of temperature measurement
	some interesting rants of ideological evolution
	finally, the original intention, a mnemonically-helpful presentation of a mathematical formula enabling smooth conversion between the two measurements

Enjoy.

Two years before he died in 1742 (meaning he croaked in 1744), the Swedish Astronomer Anders Celcius1 invented, well as you might guess, the Celcius scale for temperature measurement. Meanwhile, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, a Danish-German-Polish physicist proposed his system of measurement in (dyslexically compared to 1742) 1724, 18 years in the past, before Anders.

While the metric inventions of Anders and Daniel only 18-years apart are glorious inventions for measurement in science, engineering, and determining how many layers of clothing you should wear before embarking into a refreshing arctic chill (really, though, cold air is quite delightful, it feels like summer because instead of being sluggish, one's body and mind become more active; as Dickens would say, a good chilly air is refreshing and "clear, bright, jovial, stirring, cold; cold, piping for the blood to dance to"2), it is annoying when you see temperature readings in F or C and only one of those is familiar to you.

It would be quite bloody convenient if every place efficiently utilized the same form of measurement, actually most all scientific and engineering communities use solely Celcius or Kelvin for temperature measurements and, in fact, it's only Belize, a few other countries, and USA that use non-metric non-Celcius units (frequently doing things the idiotically old-fashioned way with measurements *cough*  Imperial Units or United States customary units; there does NOT need to be individualized systems of measurement.  There's times where doing one's own thing is great for creativity, but not with measurement!) . But until that thorough standardization happens and every geographical region in the world shifts entirely to one form of measurement, it's good to be able to convert between Celcius and Fahrenheit.  Without going too much into an anti-American rant (this will be horribly contradicted in precisely two sentences counting this one) , the Celcius scale technically replaced the Fahrenheit scale in the mid-1900s.  It's my belief that America has been toxically living in the past since around then and further back even.

Okay I felt an anti-American rant emerging and dearly tried to thwart it, but it can't be helped. It's just vexing temporarily being in a country that convinces itself that it's so remarkably advanced and "not" a third world country (which, unfortunately, in some parts it is becoming) when it uses a different form of "International" (emphasis on the "inter"!) measurement for length, other distances, and temperature. This reminds of sleezy techniques Apple Computer used (like Apple Script, a scripting language just for that operating system; if you learn Applescript, you'll find that almost 100% useless in any other operating system, which is a terrible way to go about things. I guess this is alluding to the benefit of the universal language of math and to more standardized computing learning like the bash shell and cross-platform langauges (or scripting languages) like python, java, and javascript, my three favourite programming languages by far. The whole reason why Apple created "apple-only" things was to get the customer to use its own jargon in an imprisoning and deluding way. Linux and unix (ironically the backbone of apples' 10.x operating systems) is the equivalent of the "units of measurement" for computing that has always existed, always will exist in some form or another. Why? Because it was created and crafted and continues to be created and crafted by people who are not working for paychecks,</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Medieval Times Career-Progression</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz (aka johntkucz John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)</dc:creator>
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		<description>&amp;#8220;In the Middle Ages, the time served apprentice went off as a journeyman to gain experience with a number of masters, and then settled down under one master he got on with. Here he would produce his masterpiece &amp;#8211; literally, the piece of work that proved he was a master. This recognised by the Guild, he became a master himself&amp;#8221; -Kupfernigk, Slashdot This is really interesting. The career-progression path in the Middle Ages was Apprentice Journeyman under a Master Masterpiece production Master, consequentially of Guild recognizing masterpiece I think that&amp;#8217;s [...]
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	<itunes:subtitle>"In the Middle Ages, the time served apprentice went off as a journeyman to gain experience with a number of masters, and then settled down under one master he got on with. Here he would produce his masterpiece - literally,</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>"In the Middle Ages, the time served apprentice went off as a journeyman to gain experience with a number of masters, and then settled down under one master he got on with. Here he would produce his masterpiece - literally, the piece of work that proved he was a master. This recognised by the Guild, he became a master himself" -Kupfernigk, Slashdot
This is really interesting. The career-progression path in the Middle Ages was

	Apprentice
	Journeyman under a Master
	Masterpiece production
	Master, consequentially of Guild recognizing masterpiece

I think that's really sound. In theory, PhDs "are" designed to be like that, but aren't really, because they operate in the reality-distorted bubble of the academic-education sphere (which can and is very different from real life). So what's so interesting about Medieval Times career-progression is that had three stages (4 if you can't that Journeyman-producing-masterpiece as a stage, and I would count that as a stage, kind of a journeyman++, making four simple stages) and the progression through them was based on progress and achievements in crafting, making, or doing things in real-life (instead of the academic bubble). As someone who graduated from a 4-year college with a degree that assisted in career in no way whatsoever (actually getting that degree, which was an enormous amount of work, did enlighten me to how disregarded degrees are in real-life professons; it was a hard-learned-earned lesson), I like that apprenticing to mastery concept. Reflecting on my own life, I might have subconsciously chosen to pursue coaching as the 4-stage career-progression (but computer science, atheism, hard sciences, and philosophy have also interested me), but the concept of that real-world experience indicated by progress in a career is seriously lacking today. That's what i like about some video games, really; the clarity and certainty of one's progress. With education today, you can progress in the educational sphere but (as I, and many have learned) that often has zero bearing on real-world job/earning/career. So the Medieval Times career-progression, although ancient, certainly doesn't seem antiquated or "out-of-date" in its utility nor design. Again, internships possibly have replaced medieval apprenticeships, but there certainly lacks that real-world career-progression certainty today that was so solidified in the Middle Ages. I'm not saying Medieval Times was better than present day, just noting that the metrics of career-progression then are much stronger and more sound than they are today (where people can "study" in a "school" for years and years and then "let out into the real world" where most of their learning, while conducive to intelligence, is not applicable or not regarded as important in real-world job scenarios). As someone who's done enormous amounts of self-personal knowledge-learning, and school study (two different things, the former I believe to be much more valuable), and a TON of pro bono free, volunteer, or just non-pay work, coupled with very little earning. This concept of observing how career-progression worked (apparently much more magnificently than nowadays; there are perks to living in present day, but career-progression is more or less broken as far as I gather. I can't help but being a bit miffed at how much time (and money) went into education and how irrelevant it was to career-progression. I don't want to fix that (I am just trying to solidify my own career placement); but some people really should, eventually. All school isn't useless, obviously. Some of it is marvelous, but the part where someone graduates and then there's zero contingency from the work they've done is the most blatant definition of "broken". Sometimes it works, but the modern school system is broken for some careers in regards to providing substantial career-progression is rubbish. There are many benefits to present day living over Medieval Times,</itunes:summary>
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