Posts Tagged ‘Books’
The problem
GTD fan as I am, I usually put a strong brain effort at the planning stage of a project, so I can later enter ‘executive mode’, following my self-instructions in a Robocop-like manner. Working like that guarantees (more…)
Friday, August 20th, 2010
Tags: Books, Classification, Computers, Creative thinking, David Allen, Entitling, GTD, Learning, Low level, Organizing, Outlining, Personal productivity, Planning, Thinking, Tips
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Let’s put the authority argument first, for they still seem to keep some value in this age of mobs taking the power. The poet Paul Valéry, refined human being and one of my literary heroes, affirmed in his diaries that museums seemed to him disgusting (more…)
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Art, Beauty, Books, Consumerism, Creativity, Daydreaming, Leisure, Paul Valéry, Social conditioning, Subliminal
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A short remembrance from one of my latest sentimental relations, and what I learned from it. All in all, just a resource to think aloud about one of those issues (more…)
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Biology, Books, Communication, Compassion, Difference, Emotions, Experience, Fear, Films, Gender, Happiness, Humor, Interdependence, Learning, Love, Mind, Personal development, Personal relations, Rejection, Social conditioning, Society, Sophocles
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I have recently noticed that I read some pages from a book every day, very few, but it has spontaneously become a sort of a steady habit, and, besides, it is quality reading, because (more…)
Friday, July 23rd, 2010
Tags: Blogging, Books, Emotional intelligence, Habits, Happiness, Learning, Lists, Pareto, Richard Koch
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The correct adoption of the GTD methodology, besides a boost in our outcomes, can also cause some important psychic side effects. David Allen himself frequently acknowledges it, sometimes (more…)
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Books, Capture, Creative thinking, Creativity, David Allen, Films, Growth, GTD, Happiness, Inspiration, Learning, Life, Personal development, Personal productivity, Planning, Poetry, Transcendence, Weekly review, Workflow
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It always happens as a surprising yet pleasant accident: I suddenly find myself interconnecting fields that have very little or nothing in common. I cheer up my 80 years old aunt using (more…)
Friday, July 16th, 2010
Tags: Books, Brain, Communication, Creative thinking, D'Annunzio, Emotional intelligence, Experience, Happiness, Humor, Ideas, Interdependence, Internet, Language, Motivation, Poetry, Society, Transcendence, Virgil, Words
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Here is a trick mind plays very often on us, and on which I comment for the sake of those who, like me, are engaged with their own internal development and rise of consciousness. If I talk about it, abandoning all kind of embarrassment, is not because (more…)
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Albert Camus, Books, Consciousness, Ego, Emotional intelligence, Ethic, Experience, Globalization, Guilt, Indecision, Interdependence, Learning, Mind, Ozzy Osbourne, Pain, Perception, Personal relations, Proactive, Rejection, Sickness, Social conditioning, Society, Subliminal, Violence
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I don’t know, maybe it comes with it age, but I have recently realized a huge misconception in my way of facing things, life, you name it. In my way of being an “adult” and “sensible” person. (more…)
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Ageing, Beauty, Books, Creative thinking, Emotional intelligence, Experience, Focus, Goal setting, Habits, Happiness, Indecision, Inspiration, Law of attraction, Learning, Life, Motivation, Passion, Perception, Personal development, Planning, Positivity, Proactive, Procrastination, Tasks, Time Management, Transcendence
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I feel terrible. My throat is spiked with thorns, I have this intermittent pain in my articulations, I’m cold, I’m hot. A few minutes ago, I went into the shower before removing my soaked sheets, after a night of what only very generously could be named as “sleep”. I remember a moment after the shower, when I (more…)
Friday, June 18th, 2010
Tags: Acceptance, Adaptation, Ageing, Biology, Body, Books, Capture, Children, Consciousness, Emotional intelligence, Experience, Fear, GTD, Helplessness, Humor, Introspection, Intuition, Labeling, Language, Learning, Life, Mental block, Mind, Motivation, Nature, Notebooks, Organizing, Pain, Perception, Personal development, Personal productivity, Positivity, Primitive mind, Rejection, Sickness, Social conditioning, Society
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Say you love David Allen… (O.K., say what you want). Long and steep is the road from messy to productive, but gratifications are spread like sweet fruits all along the way. It is not about upgrading; it about growing. Once you get it, Allen’s Getting Things Done system is a very tight tool to use; as he himself states in “Making it all work”, with a delicious lack of false humility, (more…)
Friday, May 28th, 2010
Tags: Areas of focus, Books, Calendar, Capture, David Allen, Filing, Focus, GTD, Intuition, Judgement, Learning, Lists, Low level, Notebooks, Organizing, Personal productivity, Productivity, Projects, Tasks, Thinking, Time Management, Workflow, Writing
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