Posts Tagged ‘creativity’

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

Is it?

March 16th, 2010

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?

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