Archive for June, 2010
5 Huge Time Management Mistakes You Should Avoid
"It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?" - Henry David Thoreau I just love time management techniques. The reason for that is not that I would like to be the most efficient person in the world and become a workaholic who works efficiently for 12 hours a day, but rather the fact that with a right kind of time management you can achieve [...]
5 Tips for Making the Most of Your Travels
"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." - St. Augustine One of my biggest passions in life is traveling. Seeing new countries with their own distinctive culture, sceneries, people, smells, and foods always expands my mind and helps me to see the world through different perspective. The longest trip I have done was about three years ago and lasted for [...]
How to Declutter Your Life in 5 Days
“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” - William Morris Is your desk filled with paper and books? Are your closets full of clothes you never use? Is the amount of clutter starting to overwhelm you and it feels like it is getting harder and harder to start cleaning things up and making your life simpler? Maybe you just don't know [...]
3 Practical Steps for Making Friends and Improving Your Social Life
“Only a life lived for others is worth living” - Albert Einstein It is quite surprising to realize how many people have problems with social skills, although we humans are supposed to be social creatures. For some people good social skills come naturally and they are usually the loudest ones as well, so it might seem like most people would be good in making new friends, but that is not [...]
How to Control Anger – 5 Tips that Actually Work
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” - Siddharta Gautama Some people have shorter temper than others, but I believe that everyone loses temper every now and then. I consider myself as a calm person who does not get angry very easily, but I have still had my share of extreme feelings of anger [...]
How to Remember Someone’s Name with One Simple Trick
"A person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language" - Dale Carnegie I am not sure if this is the case for everyone, but I have sometimes serious problems of remembering the names of the people that are not in my closest circle of friends. I can remember the face of someone who I have only met once briefly, but the names just seem to be impossible to [...]
The Power of Giving
I stumbled upon this great story in Joshua Becker's blog "Becoming Minimalist", which he had found from the book Mr. Little John's Secrets to a Lifetime of Success: Many years ago, a 10-year-old boy walked up to the counter of a soda shop and climbed onto a stool. He caught the eye of the waitress and asked, “How much is an ice cream sundae?” “Fifty cents,” the waitress replied. The [...]
Are You Ready for REAL Freedom?
“It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything.” - Chuck Palahniuk When you think about the word freedom, how do you interpret it? For many people freedom of action, movement, opinion, and ability to achieve their goals are the most important things that come into their minds. Freedom is usually seen as an external thing that other people or the society grants [...]
