Search
Random Post

Posts Tagged ‘Motivation’

They Should Have Blogged: Ralph Waldo Emerson

“One man must be willing to see the thing he loves disappear, and yet keep loving it”; how many times I have held to this sentence, facing (more…)

Keep the faith (and remember where!)

I am a person who has faith in a lot of things, but I don’t think I’ve ever had blind faith. I wonder if such thing as blind faith really exists. I think there’s something really screwed up in the definition of (more…)

Titanic meditations

“Come on, let me see your smiling face. The new ping pong classes start today at deck C (more…)

Surprise! You learned…

Leaving surprise notes to yourself is a wonderful way to increase your awareness and learn or remind yourself things without effort.

Like most of the best techniques, it is very simple; take a small piece of paper and write on one side the thing you want to be reminded of. Make sure you write it as a question. This is important because (more…)

Naive is the way to go

It was a period of my life when I was suffering a lot. I had difficult personal issues at the office where I was working, a set of new and nasty human situations, to face which I lacked the least resources. All the time I spent there was a torture, (more…)

Another inner battle: codependency

I got in contact with the issue of codependency merely by chance, as I was looking for better ways to interact with a person with a problem of addiction. I had a feeling that I was not going anywhere and (more…)

Problems with love? (Part 2)

Here is the second part of my saga on love. You can find part 1 here in case you have not read it yet.

Family matters

I have already posted (and will further post) about Nobel-awarded Konrad Lorenz’s Civilized Man’s Eight Deadly Sins, an enlightening essay by an ethologist (i.e., an animal psychologist) on that particular animal species called human. It is very interesting what he says about upbringing. He remarks (more…)

Problems with love? (Part 1)

Happy 2011 to everybody! I want to start my blogging year with a major issue, maybe ‘the’ Issue par excellence, the problem that, once solved, would chain-react upon the others. I mean, and with the simple usage of word we meet the first complications, the current situation of (more…)

The elevator of life

That elevator ride seemed to have no end, it was one of those days. As usual, I was humming into air all kind of disgusting terms and vague insults, self pity statements and external justifications that explained all my bad luck (yes, that’s my regular habit whenever I have one of those days).

I was so abstracted with my thoughts, in fact, that (more…)

The bear story

1

In Frogs into Princes, John Grinder and Richard Bandler refer a very eloquent story about free will and systems of beliefs. The Denver zoo was being renovated, and the delivery with the polar bear (more…)