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Blake Griffin came into the league in 2009 with no tattoos. In the past year, he’s added three of them. In the summer of 2016, a beach photo of Blake Griffin showed his first tattoo, a landscape across his ribcage. This week, a Lee Jenkins profile of Griffin in Sports Illustrated described a second tattoo, this one on his wrist:

A clue [to the player’s free agency decision] happens to be tattooed in small block letters on his left wrist: stay.

The tattoo is a nod to his parents, Gail and Tommy, who seemed to put that verb in front of every sentence: Stay focused. Stay hungry. Stay humble. When Gail and Tommy arrived in Los Angeles after the 2009 draft, they knew only one thing about the Clippers. “The curse,” Gail laughs. “You kept hearing that word.”

Later in the text, Jenkins describes another text tattoo, this one on the right side of his torso, as seen in the photo above:

Griffin has one other tattoo, a quote from high school teammate Wilson Holloway inked on his side. When Holloway was a junior in college, he needed a new computer and Griffin sent him one. Holloway wrote him a thank-you note that included the advice: “Just keep smiling.” A couple weeks later, three days before the dunk contest, Holloway died of Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Griffin thinks about him often.

“One other tattoo” is incorrect as Jenkins didn’t discuss Griffin’s first tattoo, the landscape. The artist for this tattoo, Dr. Woo, posted a detailed photo on his Instagram last summer:

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The 4Ds Framework: How Task Nesting Helps You with GTD

What is Task Nesting?

Commonly used in Computer Science and Informatics, Nesting usually means where information is organized in layers and locked up with hierarchy. Following the same concept, Task Nesting here simply means task hierarchy. This means, different tasks can always be logically connected rather than sparsely scattered in your to-do list. A complex task can also be split into multi-layer subtasks (up till 5 layers including the parent task)! In general, it’s like a “family tree” that all the tasks can find their own place.

Task Nesting vs. Check Item

Some of you might already be wondering, “Did the Subtask feature already exist, which you could access in the task description? Why is there a new Subtask feature?”

The previous Subtask (now renamed as Check Item), lying in the task description section, functions more like a checklist. You can split a task, e.g. packing for a trip, into multiple subtasks, and also set reminders for each task. However, what you could not do in there is sub-dividing it into more grades, or setting priority and tags for subtasks. Therefore, we have renamed it as “Check Item” and it still remains in the task description.

As for the new Subtask feature – Task Nesting, I’d like to call it the real Subtask, because each subtask here is empowered with all the functions that a parent task has: setting tags, priority, reminder, assigning to others in a shared list, and etc.

Then, the confusion may rise, “Why do I need two Subtask systems?”

Like what was mentioned above, Task Nesting and Check Item function differently in many ways. In one word, Check Item is a lightweight version of Task Nesting. Put it in a more funny way, the former is like a “toddler”, while the latter has come into “adulthood”. Keeping both is actually allowing you more flexibility tailoring to your own needs of whether just a checklist with reminders could be enough or a whole subtask foundation with its own reminder, priority et al., is what you need.

How can Task Nesting helps with GTD (Getting Things Done)?

As David Allen’s theory in his book Getting Things Done, breaking a planned project into actionable items allows your attention to be focused on taking actual actions. Cutting a complex task, especially when it’s related to a big goal, e.g. an exam prep, or a product launch, into more digestible slices, is especially helpful for those who suffer from procrastination.

Not only being able to split tasks into smaller ones, a bigger advantage of Task Nesting is it brings a clear-cut structure showing the bonds between different tasks. This means tasks can be well sorted and organized based on their inner logic. Following what makes sense to you, the previously scattered tasks in your to-do list will no longer be single and can always be sensibly accommodated and grouped together. Therefore, you can not only know what needs to be done at what time, but also stay aware of the relationships between tasks (division and belongingness).

Task Nesting also makes the task arrangement more convenient, because every subtask incorporates the functionality of the parent task, which means it is able to maintain its own activities with separate contexts. It can also be put into different time blocks in your TickTick Calendar (Note: Subtasks will show without hierarchy in blocks.) More importantly, assigning different subtasks to other members also becomes simpler and more straightforward too, which makes team collaboration just a breeze if you’re all in a shared list.

Take Away: The 4D Framework

In summary, Task Nesting in TickTick helps you with GTD in terms of:

* Dividing tasks into subtasks

* Defining subtasks’ context

* Distributing subtasks to time blocks

* Delegating subtasks

QnA Time

1. Will the List Panel become messy if there are multi-layer Subtasks?

Not at all. You can choose to display or hide the Subtasks of a parent task, or even decide to only hide Subtasks in specific level(s), and display the rest. Anything as you like, really.

2. Is Task Nesting a premium feature?

NO NO NO. We love you all despite you’re using a free/premium account.

3. Is it mobile-only?

Nope. Available on all platforms:)

4. What else should I consider?

Seriously nothing. Download/Upgrade TickTick to help yourself getting things done with Task Nesting!

iOS

Android

Other platforms

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UfYH basic cleaning checklists!

A number of people have asked for bare bones schedules for what should be cleaned and when. Please keep in mind that these lists are in no way meant to be comprehensive, and that your needs will vary as far as tasks and frequency. This is meant as a starting point to forming good routines to keep on top of the mess.

Downloadable .pdf versions of these checklists are available at unfuckyourhabitat.com.

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Need UfYH advice? Start here.

I’ve noticed that many of the questions I get have a lot in common, and many of those, I’ve written about before. So here’s a handy list of links to some UfYH advice of all kinds. Many are from my Ask UfYH column at Persephone Magazine, and some are from unfuckyourhabitat.com. Most of this information also exists on the UfYH Tumblr, but this saves you having to do a search.

Roommates. Roommates. Roommates. Roommates. Roommates. Significant others.

Unhelpful spouses and passive-aggression

More unhelpful spouses and passive-aggression

“Men don’t see the mess”

More gender role crap

Cleaning with a chronic illness

“Cleaning triggers my anxiety”

Getting started

Why “company ready” is good, but “you ready” is better

“I think my home is beyond help”

Excuses vs. reasons

Cleanliness and creativity

Messiness is not a moral failing

Depression and deadlines.

How to decide what to keep and what to get rid of. (Plus, what to do about dog pee!)

More stuff than storage

Fruit flies

Dusting and pet hair

Bathrooms 101

Bathrooms and my thoughts on bleach

Grody mattresses

Cleaning vertical blinds

Dusting with allergies and how to get rid of lots of stuff at once

More getting rid of stuff

Things don’t magically stay clean

Asking for help

Fake a clean house

Guide to motivation

Sometimes you have to do shit you don’t want to do

Unpacking

Laundry

Where to store stuff

And, of course, the master post of helpful links.

#ufyh

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The Official UfYH Welcome Packet

Welcome aboard! If you’re new to UfYH, here’s the welcome packet:

I curse. A lot. If this is problematic for you, we may have to admire each other from afar. There will be many f-bombs, as well as some more creative stuff.

A 20/10 is 20 minutes of unfucking (cleaning, studying, what have you) followed by a 10-minute break. 45/15s are the same, only, you know, 45 and 15.

A drain volcano is baking soda and white vinegar poured down a drain. We call it a volcano because, well, you’ll see.

The UfYH Fundamentals list is a good place to start to see what we’re all about.

Check out the master post of helpful links and start here for various kinds of advice.

This is the UfYH supplies master list. This covers most of the items/products I frequently reference.

To submit something, post it to your own blog and tag it with ufyh, Team Unfuck Your Habitat or Unfuck Your Habitat. There’s a good chance I’ll reblog it. I love to reblog success stories.

I know how timezones work, and I know that reminders will sometimes come at the wrong time for people. Unfortunately there are about 40 time zones, so if I did the unfuck tomorrow morning and make your bed posts for every time zone, that would be 80 posts a day just on those two, and I don’t think I’d have any followers left to see anything else I might post. What you can do, though, is set the post to reblog at the right time for you (when you go to reblog, use the blue dropdown that says “reblog,” hit “schedule” and then enter the day/time you want it to post). That way, it’ll pass your dashboard at the right time for you.Or, I created an If This, Then That “recipe” that will automatically post the list to your Tumblr at a time you designate. Or, you can set an alarm to remind you to do these things when it’s appropriate for you.

I can’t always get to all of my asks. I’m only one person, and I get a lot of repeats, rude asks, sometimes Tumblr eats them, and sometimes they can be answered by doing a cursory search (search bar is on the sidebar). If I don’t answer your ask, please don’t send three follow-ups asking if I got it or demanding that I answer it.

Please take at least a cursory glance at the frequently used tags page and the last few pages of posts before submitting an ask. I get a lot of repeats.

I do not have a degree from stain college. If you have a specific stain question, Google is your best friend. Someone out there has found the perfect stain remover, and it’s probably on the very first page of Google results.

Before and after pictures are my favorites!

This is very important: No matter how fucked your habitat is, you are not beyond help. You can make progress. It will take time. But it’s easier than you think.

If you are someone dealing with physical limitations, chronic illness, chronic pain, mental illness, or any other situation that makes getting your living environment under control difficult, please know that you are not lazy, and that I know that “getting off your ass” may not be easy or even possible sometimes.

I encourage anyone who has limitations to modify challenges, suggest alternatives, and, above all, put their health first. If you can only do five or three minutes of unfucking, that’s worth celebrating. If you accomplish something that’s been modified so you can do it seated or in shorter stages, I want to hear about it.

Also, UfYH has an iPhone/iPad app and an Android app. I think it’s pretty awesome. You can also follow UfYH on Twitter and Facebook.

#ufyh

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The Fairly Comprehensive UfYH Master Post of Helpful Links and Pages

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About

Welcome Packet

UfYH Fundamentals

Why Make My Bed?

Downloadable Basic Cleaning Checklists

Emergency Cleaning

The Depression/Messy House Cycle

Cleaning With a Chronic Illness

The UfYH Guide to Moving

How to fold a T-shirt “vertically”

“How do I keep the place clean when no one will help me?”

Need UfYH advice? Start here.

Other UfYH stuff:

Get the book!

UfYH on Twitter

UfYH on Facebook

App for iPhone/iPad

App for Android

#ufyh

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Unfuck Your Habitat Fundamentals

20 minutes is not a long time. Marathon cleaning sessions, while satisfying, are exhausting and make you never want to clean ever again. 20 minutes at a time, once or a few times a day, is a sustainable way of keeping your habitat unfucked.

PUT IT AWAY. Probably 75% of our mess is made up of things we didn’t put away. Whether it belongs in a drawer, in the closet, in the trash, or in the cabinet, make sure it finds its way home. This is critically important in two areas, especially: laundry and the dishes. Doing laundry and doing the dishes are not difficult tasks, but most of us give up before the “putting it away” step. Don’t. As soon as it’s done, everything goes back to its home.

Most of the rest of our mess is because we have too much stuff and not enough places to put it. There are two solutions: less stuff, or more storage. Less stuff is, in the long run, almost always the better solution.

GET STARTED. Look, housework is a pain in the ass, and it’s rarely fun. No one is disputing that, but it isn’t hard. What is hard is overcoming your own lack of motivation to just get up and do something. Anything.

When your flat surfaces are clear, you feel like you’re making serious progress. Counters, tables, dressers, nightstands, etc. Try it.

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO UNFUCK EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE. In fact, you shouldn’t. That’s how burnout happens. One thing at a time.

TAKE BREAKS. It’s important for your state of mind. You can integrate cleaning into everything else you do. It doesn’t have to be all-or-nothing.

You can only change your own habits. If you’re dealing with roommates or spouses or kids or parents who aren’t on board, the best you can do is tell them what you’re doing (trying to keep ahead of the mess), and ask them to help to not make it worse. Getting passive-aggressive or resentful because other people aren’t playing along only hurts you, and it’s not good for your brain.

A little effort now saves you a lot of work in the long run. That’s why I advocate getting your stuff together at night for the next morning. That’s why I like dumping some cleaner in the toilet or tub or sink and letting it start to work while I do something else. That’s why taking the extra five seconds to wash your fork or put it in the dishwasher will always be a good idea, because it’ll stop Dish Mountain before it starts.

STOP MAKING EXCUSES. Yes, yes, you have a million excuses why your mess has taken over. But I refuse to believe that you can’t spare 20 minutes, once a day, toward improving where you live. If you’re still making excuses, you don’t really want to do it. If you realize that 20 minutes is really no big deal, I can pretty much promise that things will get drastically better pretty quickly.

If you are someone dealing with physical limitations, chronic illness, chronic pain, mental illness, or any other situation that makes getting your living environment under control difficult, please know that you are not lazy, and that I know that “getting off your ass” may not be easy or even possible sometimes.

I encourage anyone who has limitations to modify challenges, suggest alternatives, and, above all, put their health first. If you can only do five or three minutes of unfucking, that’s worth celebrating. If you accomplish something that’s been modified so you can do it seated or in shorter stages, we want to hear about it.

Most importantly: do what you can. Some days, this might not be as much as you’d hoped. That’s OK. Even tiny progress is still progress, and small but consistent change is more important than overnight miracles. You can do this. And if you get overwhelmed or discouraged, we’ll do our best to help.

(Also, UfYH has an iPhone/iPad app. And an Android app.)