Everyone who has written a dissertation knows how it feels like. Day and Night lose the meaning and head is full of oh so many thoughts what to write, where to write and when can I start enjoying the summer? This is how I feel now. The moods go up and down and all I need is some space and time to write. Oh and Murphy is also there – my laptop-s mouse stopped working properly, have to use external one now and sometimes my keyboard doesn’t respond, so I think I should copy my work somewhere else, You know, just in case … All in all it’s an interesting process to learn from!

In Ted.com are …

Riveting talks by remarkable people …

How to become successful? Watch this 3 minutes video.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/est/richard_st_john_s_8_secrets_of_success.html

This entry is for all the single hearts. Skype is proposing a cool thing taking into account valentine’s day that is just around the corner. Who feels adventurous should try this …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdEFJqu6Y40&feature=player_embedded

How to concentrate? Sometimes I think I am good at juggling between things and am proud of the ability to do many things at the same time, but I have to admit, if I would concentrate I would finish the tasks quicker and the quality would be better, so how?

There are many pointers and tips what to do. But the best for me what i found was FIVE MORE RULE .

Work FIVE MORE minutes. Read FIVE MORE pages … just FIVE MORE before i want to give up.

Mental stamina can be built, just like physical stamina (take an example of athletes who always push themselves into new heights, new weights, new distances even if they are tired).

Another suggestions, which I will try – i will make a deal with my mind it can’t refuse. Yes, the mind takes bribes. I will assign start and finish time and bribe myself with something if I have finished what is in my plans, in my daily plan

And I have to touch also the oh-so-much touched upon suggestions how to be more productive by concentrating:

1. Relax

2. Free the mind

3. Find the right conditions

4. Make a daily schedule

I know it is so obvious what should be done when one wants to be concentrated, but easier said than done … Yes.

Ok here it goes.

How many times a person blinks?

Infants, for example, blink once every minute or so, but adults blink an average of 10 to 15 times a minute. Someone feeling anxious or telling a lie blinks more often, and a person deep in concentration blinks less often.

I have been thinking about it a few days now.  I read a lot and find out interesting stuff and then there are questions that bug me, like do fish drink water or why should penguins buy a fridge? … and then I think I should know this. The curiosity and constant need to know more and more is driving me sometimes crazy, but just sometimes. Since the beauty lies in knowledge, (new) ways of explaining how things work.

Starting with February i dedicate each day answering one question that pops into my mind or someone else’s mind, provided You tell me the topic about which You want to know more. I can be the one to find it out Have You ever given Your camera to someone else, so he/she can take some pictures? The pictures come from a different angle. So if You don’t want to know only my angle and what fascinates me and what I am curious to find out, then throw some topics in the air … and let them fly to me

Have a great start to the week!

Besos

I just saw an inspiring video. Short but educating, how at school we are taught to know the right answers, what about creativity?

If i pose You a question – where would You like to have Your third eye? Then a majority would say in the back of Your head. Why there? If there are much better places … Just look at the video and think about it. How creative we are when we are kids, but then what happens?

http://www.theideabook.org/video/clip1.html

It all begins with a dream …

Snowy New Year greetings from a really cold place. We have more snow than the past 10 years have seen. Global warming? Hmm … Global recession compensated with real-must-be-January weather, I suppose so. The 2010 fireworks were less colorful than the years have seen. So must be recession. But 2010 will see the improvement. In all fields.

I am quoting here Gandhi and one of his quotes (one of my friend’s likes it a lot) – “You Must Be The Change You Want To See In The World”. With that I wish You a funky year … lots of great deeds and happy moments

After a break in the blogging world I return now. If believing horoscope, then 2010 will bring a lot of career opportunities into my life, cannot wait. I have quite a lot of energy and a need to focus on some new challenges. You get, what You think and want.

During Christmas I managed to finish one book within few days. Some time ago I discovered the book when surfing in the web and thought I would like to read it. Now that I have read, I can warmly recommend it to the ones who are in the door step of a new career or who want to change their life in that area. The book is written by Tina Seelig and the title is “What I wish I knew when I was 20″.

One thought that I really liked from the book and agree with – don’t make excuses if You are unable to do something. The only one (thing) to blame is Yourself.

The book (almost) ended with these words. I am quoting her, as I like the ideas and want to share with everyone …

“Hopefully the stories in this book underscore the idea that boundless possibilities result from extracting yourself from your comfort zone, being willing to fail, having a healthy disregard for the impossible, and seizing every opportunity to be fabulous. Yes, these actions inject chaos into Your life and keep off-balance. But they also take You places you couldn’t even have imagined and provide a lens through which to see problems as opportunities.”