On Living A Better Life, Screwing It Up, And Everything In Between
All that can be made into personal development, from thoughts to hardware, from coaching to meditation.
Last month, on May 15th, I stared a 230 days writing challenge. The goal was to write every day until the end of 2020. So far, so good, I’m on track with more than 30 posts already (32, to be precise, if we include this one too). Since this is quite a big task, I … Read more 30 Days Into A 230 Days Writing Challenge
When I learned how to meditate, one of the most surprising guidelines I received – from all the teachers I followed, no matter their tradition or lineage – was to always “get back to the task at hand”. Which meant that, if my mind would slip away during meditation, all I had to do was … Read more Getting Back To The Task At Hand
When I first heard about people doing “retreats”, ten years ago, I was a bit confused. They were leaving their homes, traveling to a different country, and then spend one or two weeks, sometimes a month or more, in a different house, all alone. So basically they were leaving their own homes to isolate in … Read more 2 Ways To Look At The Coronavirus Crisis
Lately I’ve seen a lot of people doing sugar-free challenges. Like, you know, not eating sugar (or sweets) for at least 30 days. Many of them are documenting these challenges on social media and the vast majority of them are reporting very good results. A common thread of these reports is that sugar is “poison”. … Read more We Don’t Need Balance, We Are Balance
I’ve been writing about personal development for more than a decade now. At times, I went overboard. I was so much into the next “system”, the next “program”, the next “challenge” that I lost the big picture, thinking I found some magic shortcut that can turn things around fast, without any consistent effort. Of course, … Read more 5 Clues You’re A Personal Development Junkie
And the only productivity hack I know for WhatsApp, honestly. Just to make things clear, WhatsApp doesn’t particularly strike me as a productivity app. On the contrary. It can be the most distracting thing in your digital inventory. And yet, many people are using it, and sometimes for good reasons. It has end to end … Read more The Best Productivity Hack For WhatsApp
One of the perks of working from coffee shops is the amount of meaningful conversations you can have – based, obviously, on the number of interesting people you meet there. Since lockdown relaxed, a couple of weeks ago, I was finally able to restart my working from coffee shops routine (slightly trimmed down, but still). … Read more Obstacle And Opportunity Start With The Same Letter
Ernest Hemingway was probably the biggest influence on my late teenage years. Between 15 and 18, I’ve read everything I can put my hands on, which had Ernest Hemingway name on it. Some of his short stories I still remember by heart. Like The Short Happy Life Of Francis Macomber. Still get the chills when … Read more The Amount Of Life In Our Days