The secret of happiness is to ask yourself every day:
(1) What’s good about my life?
(2) What needs to be done?
(3) How can I get this done and enjoy the process?
As I’ve mentioned before, I use those questions a lot, and they’ve really helped with learning to enjoy doing income tax. One of the reasons I enjoy doing it is I love having an excuse to use Digits, my calculator app for my iPad. It makes doing the arithmetic fun. What more could you ask? I agree wholeheartedly with the creators:
Digits combines the edit-ability of a spreadsheet with the simplicity of calculator. Dare we say it? Digits is a calculator a human can love.
They have me hooked!
Do you have any tools that you love?
April 1, 2014
My smart phone! It can do many things. The only thing it cannot do is to cook for me.
So you’re now one of the true believers. 🙂
Haven’t caught up with you high tech folks yet. I have a simple TracFone for use in emergency situations only and never use it otherwise. If I can’t include my computer in the conversation and all its available software, I’ll have to sit this one out! 🙂
Why would you assume computer software doesn’t count? Photoshop is one of my favorite toys. I use it all the time.
LOLOL.
only i will find my comment unpitiable.
not sure that’s a word.
but the truth is.
i do not use math in my grown up life.
at least math that needs extensive calculating!
past my 10 fingers anyway.
well.
not intentionally.
only when i’m forced into it.
and then… if i absolutely HAVE TO…
my little ancient pocket calculator is my hero.
god help me when his battery goes dead.
i love him.
his name is herman.
It’s not that hard to replace batteries, thank goodness! Yes, calculators are wonderful things. I have one on my computer, which I even use more than my pocket one or the one on my iPad now. Can you believe up until 1975 we did our income taxes by hand? We moved here from New York in 1974 and had to split our income between New York and New Mexico. After that experience we started buying calculators. We are true believers!
Do I have any ‘tools’ I love, Jean? Yes, I do. A hammer, a screwdriver, my washing machine, my hands, eyes, ears and other faculties to negotiate life.
My “secret to happiness” is very different from yours. Wasting a lot less time too.
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What do you consider wasting time?
How can I get this done and enjoy the process? A question I often ask myself when I have some potentially tedious thing to do. If you look at things imaginatively you can usually find a way of turning the tedium into fun, or at least taking the edge off it.
Yes, I find that too. It’s a great question.
Of course I would vote for the computer, not all the bells and whistles though
Right now the controller, also known as the server (real people (phone) this morning) cannot work out to fix something; possibility I will lost my connection later this evening. Touch wood that my neighbour who knows a geek will come soon.
I love my new2me microwave – does so many more things than older (now bust) one including jacket potatoes
I wouldn’t say I love my washing machine, but serves me well. I don’t have a smart phone but a jack of hardly any trades, but it works
The manual thing I love to show off at Uni is my touch typing – learnt well before computers were even the apple in anyone’s eyes!!! So many students still “hunt and peck” (I think that’s the phrase)….
Yes, the computer. Before we retired 20 years ago I told my husband I needed my own computer. That would have been the one thing I would have missed about work. And that was even before Google made the internet so useful.
We do almost all of our cooking with the microwave, so we have a backup just in case. As Andy says, “We need to eat. How else would you cook?”