December 27, 2012 – 6:18 am
It’s hard to realize you have a bad habit. At first sometimes you try to deny it; you try to tell yourself it’s not a bad habit, just a one-time thing. After a while, though, some part of your brain tells the other part that yes, in fact, you have a bad habit. And what [...]
December 5, 2012 – 6:27 am
One of many ways of behavior changing techniques you can “apply on yourself”, say, to become a better student, get rid of social awkwardness, or virtually any characteristic you feel is bad for you, is that of giving yourself a prize for any goal accomplished. While that is pretty much ok, what kind of prize [...]
October 1, 2012 – 6:21 am
When we talk about leisure time we mostly refer to activities unrelated to work, to duties, to numbers. Leisure according to many people is the time you spend watching TV, going to a party or listening to music. It is actually, by dictionary, the time you spend on those things. But there is a twist. [...]
September 28, 2012 – 6:16 am
I write this in order to put this thoughts somewhere, besides my notebooks (pretty much like any other article here in the blog). What makes this different is that I’m not sure enough to say this is applicable to everybody. If it is, well, great. If it’s not, well, you’ve been advised. It’s not that [...]
September 25, 2012 – 7:04 am
Today we’re living in a half real, half virtual, society. And yet the “virtual” part is becoming real. It’s not bad, I must say, disagreeing with almost everyone. Electronic devices appeared a while ago and they’re not going anywhere. I think centuries ago people said the same things about new devices, like when the printing [...]
Productivity is something related to doing, doing more in less time. You are productive when you’re doing more, in quantity, not reducing quality, in less time (some would object on the quality part…). But what do your mind has to say? Being productive is a matter of being conscious of yourself, doing stuff regularly and [...]
And I don’t mean the present day, but the present, not thinking about the past, nor the future, but the present, got it? Ok. A person can either “live” on the present on a long-term period, or on a short-term period. To know how to do it on a short-term would help you understand how [...]
