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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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

Only extreme ignorance or arrogance can lead to believe that one fully controls one’s behavior. To begin with, we are alive beings, and we don’t know what life is: scientists can describe its parts or modify its working, but they cannot explain life. What I am going to discuss here is Carl Gustav Jung’s basic ideas on the unconscious, and you may agree with them or not, but one fact is already undeniable: (more…)

I have a retarded mind: I very often go through the best ideas in books and posts without noticing them right away. They usually become some sort of “seed” in my head and take 3, 4 days to fully grow, without me having the least intention to do anything about them. And then one day, as a flower that opens after a delicate nurture, I say: “wow”, and do something about it.

Writing the successes of the day was one of those great ideas. Simple, non-coded, very little time-consuming, it pays off in a way that is almost scary. (more…)

“There is nothing wrong with me. In fact, I’m a very good boy. I do all the math. I separate color and white clothes before laundry. I can tell when a traffic light is red, a floor slippery or a person angry, thus increasing my owner’s probability of survival. And man, do I enjoy all of it! (more…)

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As a product of a typically non-productive culture (sorry for the tongue twister), I have found a very useful tool for implementing the GTD method in monitoring workflow interruptions. The first thing I noticed was (more…)