One thing at a time

In his once-famous book, Psycho-cybernetics: Creative Living for Today, author Maxwell Maltz wrote about the importance of concentration:

... concentrate creatively on the activity. No one can do it for you. When you play tennis, play tennis. When you are gardening, garden as if it is for the moment the most important thing of your life.
   I must warn you that concentration is a process that can be done creatively only if you learn to do one thing at a time—and you learn to do it well before you take on before you take on another challenge.

If he is right, and I suspect he is, what does that say for the idea of multitasking?

Three, count 'em, three, posts to my (other) site

I've not written much on Posterous since the owners sold out to Twitter and development on it stopped completely. This used to be my secondary, mini-blog. I loved Posterous. But now I can't depend on it much.

So today on my blog, mine all mine, I made two status-type posts, and tonight a longish Journey entry on, of all things, voting, with a strong flavor of politics. The first two I would have made on Posterous, way back when, but not now.

Variety of beans?

Anybody have any idea what kind of beans these are? The shell looks like butterbeans, as does the shape here, but the color is quite different. If you know, got any tips for cooking? A friend gave us these from his organic garden.

Wed. morning thoughts

4 thoughts, spiritual and virtual:

* Politics being what they are, I'm thankful that salvation comes by other means. Less government, the better. More Christ, the blessing.

* Skip to next item, since these are not subjects of general interest: sleep (not well, unusually), diet (too much pizza), and dreams (I hardly ever remember).

* I had moved away from the Google Feed Reader, as all things Google. Just found Tiny Tiny RSS. Nice! And hosted for me here. Better! But then again, now I have ~Friendica ... So do I have a real use for #tt-rss? Anybody else have ideas or suggestions for using it? The public links seem to be disconnected in parlamentum.net.

* I thought it would be nice to somehow bring together my English translation of the #devotional, Quick Bible Truths, and Believing Prayer in one spot. I did it here as "Devotional Time." People (read: you) can sign up and get it by email, IM, RSS, iPhone. Hmm, what can #Friendica do on this score?

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