ASSCURL May Be the Most Important Acronym to Know

I love acronyms and I hate them. LOL.

At work, thousands of acronyms are mentioned, like they had an important meaning. And most of the time the meaning of the acronym is meaningless.

I've come up with a few acronyms, some good and some bad.  Many acronyms may have lost their meaning like IBM where the acronym is more meaningful than the original term, (International Business Machines).

Sometimes acronyms obscure meaning KFC - Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Some of the acronyms I've come up with help me but probably confuse my readers.

One thing I hate is when someone at work gives a PPT (PowerPoint) presentation and doesn't define the acronym they've used.

Acronyms can be used as a mnemonic device like the word HOMES representing the Great Lakes in the United States.

Back to ASSCURL which is a funny word maybe it means twerking, but this is a memory device to help remember the 7 categories of persuasion which was created by Robert Cialdini.

The categories are:

Authority
Social Proof
Scarcity
Commitment or consistency
Unity
Reciprocity
Liking

So when you need to persuade like when:

• getting a job
• writing a resume
• getting others at work to do things for you
• getting your friend and family to do stuff
• finding a date
• writing an ad
• selling a product or service
• writing a book
• getting a promotion
• changing a person's mind

To learn more about ASSCURL see

Some of my favorite acronyms that I created:

• FUD WUD UG WUG - iF yoU Do What yoU've Done, yoU Get What yoU've Got
• ALED - A Little Each Day
• PURGE - Prioritize yoUR Goals Everyday
• FTAD - Finish Then Add Details
• MTB - Market Then Build

For more see my Listi on Acronyms to reach your goals

Daily 5 Minute Journal Dec. 26, 2015

Islamaphobia. 

This term has been used in a number of ways, To me it means a fear of Islam. Islam makes me afraid as any doctrine that can get people to kill themselves and others fly planes into buildings, mass murder people who've done nothing at all is something to fear. The term seems to be used to stop people from criticizing an idea, which all religions are.  And when people talk about all the hate crimes against Muslims, there are a number of reasons people do this and the main one is what certain Muslims have done in the name of their religion. Obviously there are many good Muslims and the majority would never do these crazy things. The only question I have is that I believe the term phobia relates to an irrational fear, but I don't know that this fear is irrational.

Health

wt. 165.4 which is > 165. Blood Sugar was 93 which is better than usual. I took a lot of pills and stuff yesterday morning, maybe the affect is delayed. Saw family yesterday.

TV

I watch a weird Star Wars Christmas special that was so bad it was good. 6 is nice.

I watched Booze Traveler show which was in Guatemala. This show is giving me the travel bug. Niece is going to Thailand.

It's nice having my son home from college as he spends time with me. We watch some TV together, like Curb Your Enthusiasm (spoiler alert).

We watched the episode where Larry is going to a wedding get's hung up as he can't find his airline tickets. There is a scene where Larry and Cheryl are driving to the wedding and Larry sing's the following song. Ya dat da.

Memory

Where's my phone? This seems to be the question I ask the most these days.

I walk into the garage and forget why then realize it's to get a trash bag. I've been doing this since I was a kid where I'd get to a new room and not remember why I'm there.

I can't remember Mel Gibson's name and the movie he did with the Inca's?

Wisdom of a Dad

I recently located a hard copy of my book Wisdom of a Dad. It's a bit overwhelming figuring out how to get the information in the book into the one I've published on the web.

Current Task

I'm having second thoughts about CurTask, Which is the software that's supposed to help me reach my goals. I'm realizing that it's not working and maybe I need to come up with another method to get stuff done. The idea is something I've been working on a long time and the real name is Smart Task Selection. The idea is that a smart computer will tell you what to do and if you do it you will reach your goals.

Meditation

I meditated yesterday, using the Headspace app. I liked it. It did relax me.

Optical Illusions

I spent some time yesterday watching youtube videos on optical illusions. Mostly balls rolling up hill.

Annoyance

Annoyance that the Windows explorer to view files by descending date use to be instantaneous but with the newer version of windows it takes too damn long.

Twitter

I'm still posting to twitter and do love when I get retweets, likes or mentions. A little pissed that twitter has banned my account from advertising and I'm not sure why and they refuse to tell me.