Saturday is packed with happiness, meaning, and music.  A great way to start a weekend and a long one if you are lucky!  Ham Radio Q-Cards, is another happiness chart, but this one is different, and a few innovative companies are doing the right thing regarding meetings.  More advice from masters, this time on the lies we tell ourselves about time, and a Tiny Desk Concert from NPR just for fun.

To start the day, let's discuss what you can do on day 1 vs. day 30 and implement that plan. 

Today's challenge will require introspection.  You can categorize some habits if you want to increase your energy, do something physical, improve your nutrition, and/or get more sleep.  If you want to increase mental health, read books on the areas you struggle with and implement strategies from the books that make the most sense.  If you want to improve your relationships, you can research and journal, but if you want to improve your relationships, you have to start going out into the Gym of Life.  One of the best ways to build strength is consistently going to the gym; if you go to the gym on day 1, you can do 10 pushups, and by day 30, you can do 100 pushups. 

Some of the relationships you will seek to have or improve will not work out; know that going in, and don't let it stop you from finding another one.  In that sense, we could all use a little salesperson mentality.  A good salesperson has a short memory (shoutout to Coach Grieves); if a prospect isn't interested in what you offer, try to avoid taking it (too) personally and move on to the next chance. 

A Relationship Challenge could be coming…

Changing the Night Journal post, ask yourself the same three questions, throw your answers into the comments, and we will highlight some of the responses.

We found another story about happiness, running theme in January, from a new website called Flowing Data.  The chart, which uses a scatter plot and packed bubble chart, is fascinating, it plots out happiness (x-axis) and meaning (y-axis), and as the researcher, Nathan Yau, states, some of the outliers are more interesting than most prominent data points.

The most enormous bubbles involve; eating, drinking, and socializing.  These activities produce both happiness and meaning.  On the flip side, phone calls from vendors and service providers were high in meaning and low in happiness.  It's also no surprise that many of the highest happiness bubbles involve relationships.

The image below is static – if you click on it and go to the website, you can see what each bubble represents.

Marc Weidenbaum writes the Substack This Week in Sound and highlights a story you don't see daily.  Ham Radio QSL cards.  You are familiar with a Ham Radio, a CB Radio type of radio operator system that was more prominent pre-Internet.  We just found out that Ham Radio people have their own trading cards!  Not trading, but cards.  Weidenbaum gives life to a little piece of radio history most did not know; his work also comes with great images of the QSL cards.  Finally, QSL does not stand for anything, "Q-Codes" is a way to transmit info, similar to CB Radio people who say "10-4 Good Buddy".

The NYT Watching section lists what to watch as award season begins.  It's a great list with brief descriptions that might help your 3-day weekend with the fire plans.

After posting a story about how innovative remote workers can be in a new era of over-the-shoulder management styles – some companies are going in the opposite direction and canceling all meetings.  Calling it a Calendar Purge, Shopify is canceling all recurring appointments with more than two people in perpetuity. 

Too often, meetings are a place to get organized instead of a structured place to move the strategy forward.  You can call it a staff meeting, a sprint, or a brainstorming session unless a detailed agenda has been put together, sent out, and commented on by the attendees; at best, all you will get is another list of stuff to put on your other list of things.  Good meetings can be high value; unorganized meetings should come with a monetary fine for time wasted!

The Cranberries are one of our favorite bands coming out of the 90s.  Sort of like the Irish version of UKs The Sundays, The Cranberries mixed acoustic with electric alt-rock and tied it all together with Delores O'Riodan's beautiful voice.  O'Riodan left us too early in 2018, but the Tiny Desk Concert produced by NPR is a good reminder of how good they were.

[Music Notes]

A few musical quick hits, NIN from the drums, U2 reimaging their song poetry, and Heavy-Metal Margie Robbie!

Watch IIan Rubin on drums with Nine Inch Nails playing Terrible Lie – Drum Cam.

U2 adds a companion album of reimaged songs to Bono’s book called Songs of Surrender.

Margot Robbie’s Goth phase.

Words | Music | Art | Unknown

Relationships.

Click on the Apple Music image to listen to the song on Apple Music or on the Spotify Image to listen to Spotify.

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