Posts Tagged ‘change’

Change the desk

May 26th, 2010

Sometimes I procrastinate. The brain needs its time out.

And sometimes I really want to get a new perspective on things.

perfection, brasilia april 2006
Creative Commons License 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

Awareness of needs – a path to autonomy

January 19th, 2010

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

Before having is being

December 16th, 2009

So there is a misconception saying that “We need to have something before being or acting”.

And I will explain about this with some short examples:
- We want to have respect of the others, before respecting them (before being respectful to them)
- We want to have understanding of others, before we try to understand them
- We want to have attention of others, before we pay attention to them
- We want to have forgiveness of others, before we forgive them
- We want to have caring of others, before we care about them
- We want to have love of others, before loving them

And here the list is as long as we want to make it.

What is the trick here?

Some people consider » Read more: Before having is being