The choice of a personal pathThe choice of a personal pathI am always in the search of a personal path and for that I just hunt as many crossroads I can, knowing that only by experiencing and refining my choices continuously, my chosen path will be as rewarding as I want it to be. Articles
Cash, Stubborness and Music
2012-01-05 16:00:00 I had the first cassette recorder when I was around 4. It was called Jola 2, a Polish make. I know, I know, Poland and cassette recorders. But hey, it was the peak of the communist era in the Eastern Europe, in very early seventies. We were all actually eating our own dog food. I ... More About: Music , Cash
An Tan Tiri Mogo Dan
2012-01-03 16:00:00 Or, to be more precise, ?An Tan Tiri Mogo Dan, Cara Cara Si, Princi Pa Ta Morin Go. Tan Go!? In case you didn?t live in the Romania of the seventies, chances to know the meaning of those words are close to zero. Ok, it?s a ?countdown?. You don?t know what a ?countdown? is? It?s ... More About: Business
Taming Monkeys Aftermath
2012-01-01 12:19:00 It?s the first day of 2012 and I think it?s time to review my taming monkeys experiment. It all started a year ago, when I decided to ditch my new year resolutions. Instead, I replaced them with twelve monthly challenges, in which I wanted to tame an inner monkey. Very shortly, an inner monkey is ...
Tiny Buddha ? The Book, Interview with Lori Deschene
2011-12-09 11:49:00 A couple of years ago, an interesting Twitter handle caught my attention. It was something called @tinybuddha and it aimed at delivering “simple wisdom for complex lives”. This handle grew over the last years to become one of the most popular self-help Twitter accounts. At the moment of writing this, it has more than 200.000 ... More About: Buddha , Interview , Book , Tiny
Flames
2011-12-08 11:03:00 No fire can burn without air blown into it. The flame must consume oxygen in order to exist. So every time I’m getting burned by something I do, or something others are doing or saying to me, I’m always questioning who’s blowing the air into that flame. If it’s me, I stop blowing. And every ...
Taming Monkey Number 11 ? The Results
2011-11-30 11:47:00 It?s the last day of November and I decided to write a short report about my eleventh monkey. If you don?t know what I?m talking about, go read the introductory post. In short, at the beginning of 2011, I decided to ditch my yearly resolutions and replace them with 12 monthly challenges, in which I ... More About: Monkey , Results
The Inner Bubble
2011-11-14 12:51:00 Have you ever heard of the Internet Bubble? It was a very interesting phenomenon in the early 2000s. Basically, what generated this so called ?bubble? was the fact that the value of internet startups was highly over rated, without any realistic support. Based mainly on subjective factors, in just a few years, those startups were ...
41 Things I Did In My 41st Year
2011-11-10 06:00:00 I usually do this kind of lists at the end of each year. I did one in 2009 and one in 2010. But, as I decided to change my approach towards these events, with my taming monkey challenge replacing my new year resolutions, I thought it would be wise to go further and move this ... More About: Things
Taming Monkey Number 10: Talk Less, Do More
2011-11-02 14:07:00 Every once in a while, when I’m in the middle of a discussion, Bianca, my 5 year old daughter breaks in with a low voice, but very firmly: ?dad, you talk too much!? And oh, she is right every time. I don?t know from where she picked this up. It may be that at some ... More About: Monkey , Talk
Information Is Cheap, Action Is Expensive
2011-10-12 09:30:00 Remember how understandable it was to be late 20 years ago? It wasn?t like the world will collapse if you?re late 5 minutes. There were no cell phones. If we had to meet you, and you were late, we first assumed that you simply forgot. After more than 15 minutes, we simply decided that you ... More About: Information , Action , Cheap
Positive Motivation Versus Negative Motivation
2009-07-13 14:00:00 What makes you move forward? Which are the most powerful stimulus for you? Are you doing stuff only to avoid potential dangers, or are you just curious? In today’s post I’ll talk about negative motivation versus positive motivation. You may ask now: motivation is just the power which moves you to do stuff, are there anything like “negative” or “positive” to it? Isn’t this something related to what you do, not to what motivates you? Well, in my opinion, your motivation is directly shaping you actions. If you’re positively motivated, your action will most likely have a positive outcome. If you’re negatively motivated, your action will have an undesirable outcome. Negative is rooted on fear, while positive is rooted in service. The Fear Root Fear means you’re acting on the pressure of losing something, This is what fear is: the menace of losing something: your current context, your money, your life. Fear was for a long time a fantastic survival mechanism, and for th... More About: Motivation , Versus , Positive
Holiday, New Domain Name, Full Moon and Projects
2009-07-10 14:00:00 Starting tomorrow we’ll go on a short holiday. While are still in Romania we thought it would be interesting to have a car trip in Europe, trying to take things easier and see as much as we can. We planned really loosely this trip and even the word “planned” is used in a quite inappropriate context. We just decided it’s time to go, taking advantage of Bianca’s holiday and of the promised good weather. We do have some cities we want to see and a little bit of a plan, but it can be changed anytime. We plan to see Vienna, Prague, Salzburg, a little bit on Austrian Alps and probably some sea side in Croatia. At best, the holiday will be two weeks but we can go back anytime if we don’t like something. I’m quite happy with this arrangement. Although I had quite a bit of traveling during the first half of the year, it was on my own, without my family. I visited Thailand, Japan and had a short stop in New Zealand too (ok, that was business related, but still). But since the la... More About: Projects , Holiday , Full Moon , Moon , Domain
Assess – Decide – Do For Relationships
2009-07-08 14:00:00 Assess – Decide – Do is a simple life management framework. Emerged from some limitations of productivity methodologies like GTD, and constructed with a flexible approach, ADD comes handy when you face difficult or pressuring contexts in any areas if your life. At its core, ADD is overwhelmingly simple, it’s entirely up to you to create your very own implementation in whatever area you want to improve. In today’s post I’ll give you some outlines on how I think ADD can be used for relationships. It’s my point of view, which may or may not be congruent with yours. And that’s the beauty of it: being so simple, ADD gives you a lot of room on how to implement it for a specific area, as long as you respect 2 simple rules: at any time you can be only in one realm, being it Assess, Decide or Do the quality of the implementation is given by the Flow, or by the smoothness you achieve in traveling from one realm to another. If you’re new to my blog, or never heard a... More About: Relationships
How And Why We Get Bored
2009-07-06 14:00:00 Boredom. The final frontier. These are the ramblings of a blogger trying to boldly explain what no man ever avoided: why and how we got bored. What Is Boredom? Have you ever thought what boredom is? How we end up being bored? How we can strangely reproduce this state so often although we consider it something very uncomfortable? Maybe you tried, but ended up bored in the process… Boredom is a state of anxiety and low self-respect. We’re educated to get satisfaction from a very limited set of activities. Watching movies, eating, reading, programming (I know my blog is read by some fine geeks too, this one’s for you, guys ), talking with friends, daydreaming. We’re in a state of comfort and balance every time we’re doing something we like. But the moment we’re not doing it anymore, something very subtle, yet extremely powerful happens. Because we’re not doing what we like anymore, we start not to like who does it too. Meaning us. If we can’t get satisfaction... More About: Bored
System Overload
2009-07-03 14:00:00 How many times you’ve started something “without thinking”? How many times you just dived in, thinking that “things will arrange somehow”? How often you embarked on new projects just by passion or enthusiasm, without any type of assessment? I know I did it a lot of times. So often that I was on the verge of completely ditching my assessing and deciding capabilities. I was just doing stuff, imagining that I was carried by “the flow”. Truth is I was not on the flow. I was completely out of sync. Trying to do so much, but with so little care for my real needs. Just going forward without assessing any of my moves. I remember that every time after a “full” period in my life, something extremely violent happened, usually to my detriment. Every time I was doing “so much” a restraining event came, quite often violently, and drastically restrained my options. Took me a while to understand this dance of doing too much and then doing too little. But it finally came true: ... More About: System
July Mariner Promo Code
2009-07-01 00:00:00 Here comes a new month, and with that, a new chapter of our yearly long promotion. First of all, this is an exclusive promotion for eDragonu readers, and it’s based on exclusive promo codes. You won’t find these codes anywhere else on the Internet. It’s one of the way I try to reward my users, by arranging special deals with other value providers in the field. And second, I will get straight to the point, as usual, giving you the code and then I will give some basic description on what you get and how to use it. The Mariner Promo Code for July 2009 is panther This code will give you an instant 15% discount on ALL Mariner software, including, but not limiting to, MacJournal, MacGourmet Deluxe, Story Mill, Contour, Write or Calc. This code applies even to packages for desktop suites you’ll find at Mariner website. All these are solid, stable Mac applications, developed by a company with more than 18 years experience on the online market. Oh, 18 years in the o...
Pay Yourself First
2009-06-29 14:30:00 Anything you do requires energy. And everything you do creates energy. Anything. Even reading this article. You’re spending energy by focusing on the text, processing the info in your brain and matching it against what you already know. At the end of this process, you get some energy back in the form of new ideas, new approaches or possibly some answers. Hopefully, you’ll get some positive energy by reading this :- ). Have you ever thought what happens with this energy you get back? How much of it you really use? How much of it you discard unconsciously? We’re usually thinking in spending patterns rather than in receiving patterns. We think: how much it will cost me to do this, or how much I will have to give to make this happen. But we almost never think in terms of: what’s the reward of doing this? I know what you’re thinking: you think I’m heading towards the “what’s in it for me?” mindset. Well, this is not what I meant. The “what’s in it for me” mindset ...
Amazon Kindle 2 Review
2009-06-26 11:00:00 Over the last few months I’ve been playing extensively with the new Amazon Kindle 2. In today’s post I’ll share some of my conclusions after quite a long period of constant usage. Since there already tons of technical reviews on the internet, I will will focus more on the day to day usage and on the insertion points on my daily routine, rather than talking about too much geeky stuff. But since we’ll be talking about a gadget, I will shortly go through some of the most important technical highlights of it. Kindle 2 – The Gadget Amazon Kindle 2 doesn’t have an LCD. Instead, it uses something called electronic ink, which basically means it will not have a backlight on the display. There is also a latency in browsing to a new page as well as changing the current screen (for the Home page or for the table of contents of the current book). Surprisingly enough, the screen is crispy and very comfortable. You must be in a suitably lighted space though. The battery life was al... More About: Review
The Morning Phrase
2009-06-23 14:00:00 What’s the first thing you hear in the morning? What’s the first thing you read in the morning? What’s the first thing yo do in the morning? I ask because this very first thing will shape your whole day. If it’s something that plays on the radio, you’ll hear that tune all day long. If it’s something that you hear form your room mate (or your spouse, or your kid) it will circle in your mind all day long. If it’s something you’re doing with good results it will influence your entire day. With good results, of course. I call this specific piece of action, this day igniter: “the morning phrase”. The morning phrase is something very important and I don’t mean only at a symbolical, metaphorical level. We’re functioning with two minds: one conscious and the other one subconscious. Like it or not, a huge part of your being is driven by your subconscious mind. And one of the first things your subconscious will receive daily will be this morning phrase. And guess what:... More About: Morning
Waking Up Early
2009-06-20 09:31:00 Waking up early is probably the most popular topic amongst the personal development blogs. Not to mention the fact that is almost the first thing you hear during a personal development seminar: I will teach you how to wake up early, my friend. It’s the “Hello World” of the personal development (“Hello World” is the first application you build when you learn a new programming language). I have to admit that I was quite busy with this too, back in my early personal development endeavors. So, why is this so important after all? Why waking up early? In today’s post I’d like to focus on the reasons behind this popular topic as well as on some of my own techniques to accomplish this. No Time Mindset With all due respect, I think that waking up early comes from a “I have no free time” mindset. Waking up early is for people who have daily jobs but want to win extra time on the side. Waking up early is a signal you send to yourself with the content: “free some of my limit... More About: Early
Minimalistic GTD workflow: Getting Things Done with Do It!
2008-05-13 12:44:00 Although a little too simple for my taste, Do It (formerly known as “To Do”) is one of the “oldies but goldies” around the Mac software community. Yes, I know, I am being mean, after all, “Do It” is only one or two years old - the author blog haven’t been updated since last year, ... More About: Getting Things Done , Workflow , Things , Minimalistic
Blogging with an iPhone?
2008-05-12 22:44:00 …Is not at all a very difficult task. To be honest, it’s quite enjoyable, as long as you’re not on EDGE. From my experience, is very important to have a very good internet connection, otherwise the touchscreen keyboard will give you some very strange delays. But that keyboard also is the main reason for blogging ... More About: Phone , Iphone , Blogging , Productivity
My 7 essential wordpress plugins
2008-05-11 22:36:00 I blog for about 2 years now, and the only platform I used so far is Wordpress . No need to argue here about the reasons, enough for you to read some statistics on the internet and you’ll see that Wordpress is giving the best feature / learning balance that you’ll need when you want to ... More About: Wordpress Plugins , Blogging , Plugins , Essential
GTD: identifying your contexts
2008-05-10 22:05:00 One of the key factors for a good GTD implementation is the context management. There are many key factors, I agree, but context management is one of them. As you may already know, one of the basic concepts of GTD is to spread your actions over all the contexts you are acting in. You are ...
Keep your soul in good shape: managing your psychological calories
2008-05-09 13:52:00 You know the story of the 3 mice groups? I guess not. It’s a very interesting one and I thought it would be a very good start point for this post… So, without further ado: a group of researches in psychological behavior took 3 identical groups of mice, and put them in 3 separate cages, ... More About: Soul , Psychological , Shape , Good , Calories
Managing online projects in 5 easy steps
2008-05-08 22:54:00 I’ve been recently invited by a student organization in Bucharest to give a presentation about online project management, starting from idea to the final result. I gave the presentation today and because handling such a delicate subject is not a sequential operation, I didn’t use a PowerPoint template. Instead, I’ve made a mind map, in ... More About: Projects , Productivity , Online , Easy , Mind mapping
PocketTweets - an iPhone twitter client
2008-05-07 12:30:00 Yesterday I was briefly describing two GTD-like applications, both based on Leopard’s new iCal engine, Anxiety and Today. While browsing on the Today’s authors website I also noticed that they launched an iPhone twitter client. I’m a twitter addict - although I’m not (yet) a twitter ranter, keeping my tweets at a normal pace - ... More About: Iphone , Twitter , Client
Today?s Anxiety: Mac OS X Leopard iCal new engine at work
2008-05-06 22:42:00 The new Leopard ’s iCal storage engine seemed to attract at least two GTD centric implementation in the last few weeks. The most notable are Today (by the same guys that wrote PocketTweets, the mobile Twitter client) and Anxiety (quite a strange name, I agree…) To be honest, both applications are pretty much the same thing ... More About: Work , Engine
TaskPaper - a lightweight task manager for Mac reviewed
2008-05-05 13:52:00 When it comes to lightweight task managers, on Mac, especially, you think immediately at Task Paper, an application provided by Hogbaysoftware. TaskPaper has a long history of reviews and good reactions. I discovered the application several months ago, when it was included in a bundle at MacHeist, and that should point from the beginning that TaskPaper ... More About: Manager , Task Manager , Lightweight
Money and you
More articles from this author:2008-05-04 18:49:00 Money is one of the most common topics in western culture. Almost any newspaper, book, movie or other form of collective information media is talking about it, in one form or another. Without any doubt, money has become an obsession of the western culture, one of the most materialistic culture in whole history. Money seems ... More About: Money 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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