RDH filter info, and a tip I learned

Those of you who friended me in order to be on the RDH filter -- I promise you an update this week. I appologize for not having posted more by now, but school eats more of your life than you plan, regardless of how much time you bargain for.

Anyone who would still like to join the filter, just drop me an email at tzikeh whee thechicagoloop whee net. Info about what will be posted under the filter is here, and in my next RDH post I will link to the few posts which have already been made under the filter.

For the moment, I offer you a quick, easy tip that I learned at RDH which I have found immensely useful. When you make a to-do list to carry around with you (if you are the kind of person who does), write it in pencil rather than in pen. (I am now never without a mechanical pencil or two.) To-do lists in pen invariably wind up with things scratched out, and other things scribbled in the margins, and eventually look a mess. Whether you consciously recognize it or not, a scribbled mess of a to-do list can be a deterrent to getting things done, because a messy visual creates mental disharmony and frustration: it will never get done, your plans are a mess, your mind is disorganized. If you make the list in pencil, though, instead of crossing things off, you can simply erase them. This keeps your list clean, shows you via white space that you are accomplishing things, and if you have to add more to the list, you can add neatly and orderly and it won't frustrate you the way diagonal scribbled notes with arrows can.

Simple, yet amazingly powerful. White space serves as a massive mental palate cleanser, and keeps you calm in the face of what can otherwise become mentally daunting.