June 23rd, 2010 by Lucian
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How it started
A few months ago I’ve read the book “The Power of Less” of Leo Babauta.
An interesting book about simply organizing life about a simplified time management, allowing yourself to focus on the most important things.
Also I’ve started to came across with many articles about ToDo lists and Organizing projects and pros and cons about all of them.
And before that I was saying this thing for months: “Less is more”. So after reading the book, I’ve decided it is time to Walk the Talk and take some initiatives » Read more: Simply Better – Taking one challenge at a time
June 14th, 2010 by Lucian
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Where we are now
Often I can notice thinking on a short scale. And I’m not referring here at living the moment – which is a wonderful thing. I’m talking about limits and assumptions and judgments derived by living on the short scale theory, which I describe like this:
Maybe I’m the only one who thinks this way so there is no point to do it, cause it will not have any impact to myself or to the environment around me
I don’t know exactly from where it comes.
We are 6 billions of people on this planet.
Like Lao-Tzu said:
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
What happens if a percent might be thinking like this? What if 1.000.000 people » Read more: Living on the short scale
May 26th, 2010 by Lucian
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Sometimes I procrastinate. The brain needs its time out.
And sometimes I really want to get a new perspective on things.
photo credit: seier+seier
I’ve found these days a beautiful solution to change the state and become more productive or get a new perspective and it is very simple:
Working on a different desk.
Or in another words: just changing the current location.
It is simple, easy to do and very productive » Read more: Change the desk
April 20th, 2010 by Lucian
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Putting labels limits our ability to see other possibilities. To discover and sustain the potential of people around us.
And we are very good at doing this. It comes from early development ages of human kind, when we need to generalize in order to be able to learn new things and move forward.
It is going to a new level, in our times with so much information available. The first option when there is such an abundance of information that a human cannot read/process in one single life-time, is to generalize.
And this is even worse when we used it for people.
We just categorize one of our co-workers as being » Read more: Keep the label on the box
March 22nd, 2010 by Lucian
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Started from a post written for a personal development project I’m taking part – Whichway, I’m writing here a list with possible sources of happiness.
Some of them might work for you, some of them might not work for you.
They are what worked for me, in various times of my remembering and surprising experience.
Take them as they are and remember only one rule:
You are the owner of you own happiness.
There is no one there for you to make you happy.
Also please pay attention that your happiness may not ruin the other ones happiness.
The true sources of happiness is inside you. It is up to you to discover them and use them every way you can.
You can have as many sources of happiness as you want to have.
Some of the sources I will present in the next lines » Read more: 54 Sources of happiness
March 16th, 2010 by Lucian
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Auto-pilot
Many times we are on auto-pilot. Automatically responding to what happens in our lives, to what triggers our social and personal auto-mechanisms.
We’re believing most of what we hear.
Trusting well known “truths” just because our someone from our life believed in them and told us in some point in time (most of them during childhood) that “This thing should be this way!”
The question(s)
Just remember that many of the important achievements, steps forward, innovations and creations came because someone, sometime put this » Read more: Is it?
February 17th, 2010 by Lucian
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I hear very often around me, that people are waiting for something to happen or – worse – for someone to come and solve their problems.
I was myself in the same spot in the past so I decided to share with you my own experience on this.
Who/What are we waiting?
Let’s see what are the common things or persons we are waiting.
So we are waiting for:
1. The others to come to discuss with us our own needs
2. A friend to discuss with us our feelings
3. A partner to suggest us a better deal or a better project
4. A lover to come and express the love
5. Family to express the caring
6. An unknown person to come and say » Read more: No hero will come
February 11th, 2010 by Lucian
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Perception creates images
So, we are communicating every moment. And like someone said (don’t remember who right now):” You cannot not communicate”.
Let’s analyze a little how our minds work when we are communicating.
There is a real version of myself that is determined by all decisions I’ve made in the past, all the hopes I have for the future and all the moments I live in the now. And in all this mix, here comes the perception. The perception is the capacity of our mind to transform the reality based on our own world map.
So, how perception works in a communication?
It works well cause along with assumptions and expectations it creates two new versions of myself when I’m participating in a communication:
1. The “I” as I want to see myself
2. The “I” as others » Read more: How can 6 people really understand each other
January 19th, 2010 by Lucian
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Autonomy is one of the big points that improves leadership and allows a person to take good decisions.
One of the big instruments that gives power to autonomy is the awareness of our needs.
Why is this important? Because when you know your needs, then you know what is determining some of your behaviors. And just by knowing this, you improve your autonomy.
Every person has needs and not recognizing this means you just ignore a true fact: you, like anyone else have needs.
What to do about needs:
Acknowledge your needs and understand them well. You should know very well your needs, cause there is no one on this world that should know them better, than yourself.
Be aware that you are the only one who can » Read more: Awareness of needs – a path to autonomy
January 13th, 2010 by Lucian
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I’ve remembered recently what a very good person told me about the four rules of relations between human beings.
And today as I’ve experienced one of them I want to share them here and thus be sure whenever I want I can recall them:
1. Give
Give means simple giving.
Like I’ve explained in one of my previous posts: Dare to give, to simple give to others, without expectations, without regrets. Just give fully.
So the most important thing to remember here is: give without expecting anything in return.
Without creating expectations and without trying to make the other one someone obliged to me.
2. Ask
Most of the people cannot read » Read more: Four relationships rules
