Ask and thou will have: creating a vision board
In these days I am engaged with the passionate task of drawing some detailed vision boards. Some subtle but very relevant effects have appeared already (more…)
Archive for March, 2010
New adventures in fatherhood
I like a lot that theory that says that one grows up only to become what he was in the beginning. Maybe that’s why I am so interested in children (and generally (more…)
Twelve sentences to change other people’s “polarity”
Here is a series of sentences used to cope with negative stances, by taking them to a different level. Maybe for some of you they are very basic (all of them are a must in areas like conflict solving, and probably others like sales techniques)… but I think (more…)
The deeper the channel, the greater the flow
That’s the title of the productivity prompt #11 in David Allen’s “Ready for anything”, which I’m currently enjoying (to say the least: it’s like a productivity earthquake). Allen makes a unique work in (more…)
There’s nothing wrong with being a freak
Today let me sing a little chant in favor of originality and personal difference.
We live tough times for originality. Our globalized world has turned all ranges of human experience into very standard patterns, so all of us are very alike, and most of passions have become collective. Even in those cases when (more…)
Advanced brain-fu
I want to share with you a wonderful quote from the Dhammapada, one of the traditional Buddhist texts. I am not looking for converts of any kind here, firstly because Buddhism is not a theocentric but an anthropocentric system of belief, so it does not (more…)
Playing death
Humor was once defined as “distance that approaches”. It is one of the best existing relieves for our tortured and overwhelmed left brain (it is (more…)
GTD for writers
I’ll admit it: everything I do, I do it for my fiction. I honor writing as the art with the biggest powers, when considering its effects, and the degree of intimacy, elevation and sometimes “possession” it grants (writing, in its finest hour, becomes invisible, the words stop being “black boxes” with a meaning inside and become something similar to music). (more…)
The mall zoo: reflections on the divided mind
Going to a mall on Saturday is not precisely my idea of fun, but that’s exactly what I did the other day, obeying a call of duty. The experience, in any case, was very worthwhile as a sociological experiment; in our society, where everybody goes to the same places at the same time, (more…)