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Entries from January 2008

Discontinuous change or Why you should not listen to your parents

January 17th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ll assume you are between 27 and 33 years old, my specific target reader for this post. Then, I’ll correctly assume your parents are baby-boomers and were in professions such as architects, teachers, doctors, lawyers, corporate managers and such. In your earliest years, they told you that you can be anything you want and the [...]

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Tags: Arena of Ideas · Careers · Freelancing · People · Quit Your Job · Travel

World’s Best Collection of Lifehacking Links and Blogs

January 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Are you a fanatic of lifefhacking and its subsets - success tips, entrepreneurship, self-development, health, finance and whatnot? This whitepaper compiled a very complete and exhaustive lists of blogs and links on the subject of lifehacking.
Just don’t forget, spending too much time reading them would actually be counter-productive… Focus on not more than three that [...]

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Tags: Leisure · Life Hacks

Travel Photos for Screensavers

January 11th, 2008 · No Comments

I just have to share this. The beautiful picture above is Victoria Falls in Zambia.
My desktop wallpaper is plain black with a few white text of power notes such as “Focus”, “What is your desired outcome?”, and “Are you inventing things to keep you busy instead of completing your goals for today?”
My screen saver is [...]

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Tags: Leisure · Travel

People you would like to meet for 2008

January 8th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Networking is one of the most powerful and fastest ways to learn more about the things that interest you. Going further, why not network with celebrities? It can be fun if we just can overcome fear of being rejected. Hey, they’re people, too, right? And with Internet it’s not impossible to reach out to them.
Following [...]

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Tags: People

The Gap Year

January 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments

No, this post isn’t about jeans. The “gap year” refers to an event where you drop everything you are doing right now in your everyday life and take just take a hike for a whole year! This usually involves traveling around the world, but it can also involve taking odd jobs in the places you [...]

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Tags: Leisure · Travel