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Oct

There are no problems in life, just challenges!

Categories: Featured, Personal development, Willpower mindsets

Tags: Cesare Pavese, Chuck Palahniuk, D. H. Lawrence, dream, God, Henry Miller, Mark Twain, Personal life, Psychology, Social Sciences, Travel

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Are you Willing to Fully Commit? When you look outside how do you see the sky? Is it big enough or not? Do you dream about the ideal life you would like to have or do you look to what can be improved in your own life? Did you think about the wide open outdoors of the landscape, the open vision to the blues of the clouds and huge, colorful clouds, the afternoon rare sunsets? Do you find opportunities and new experiences between the houses, buildings, big sky-crappers and monumental skyline of Read more [...]

Aug

Do you care enough to make a difference?

Categories: Featured, Personal development, Willpower mindsets

Tags: Andrew Carnegie, business, caring, Comments, Cray, effort, make a difference, Negative feedback, performance, persistence, success, Thought, work

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Do you care enough to make a difference? Are you ready to take action? Are you out of your comfort zone and ready to help someone that really needs? Can you afford to think by your own? Are you able to talk about it? Are you ready to get negative feedback? A lot of negative reviews? Are you ready to write even when you must expect that most people will not read what you wrote? Are you Able to Say 'No'? Are you Able to Say 'No' to yourself? Are you Able to Say 'No' and focus? Being a Read more [...]

Aug

If I would die tomorrow would I be happy with everything I achieved?

Categories: Featured, Ideas, Personal development, Willpower mindsets

Tags: adventure, Comfort zone, happyness, History, Human, journey, life, Mahatma Gandhi, philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Journey, Ursula Le Guin

Comments: 3

I. Why it is the journey that matters and not the final destiny! When I think about my life I like to think of it as an adventure, as a journey. And going through it I remind a precious thought that it is the journey that matters and not the final destiny. “ It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters, in the end. ” Ursula Le Guin However as human I am weak and strong at the same time and at a given point we all find some confusion about where to Read more [...]

Jul

Love an Essence that Resists Defining

Categories: Creativity & Arts, Featured, Ideas, Personal development

Tags: Art, essence, Lao Tzu, Laozi, love, Online Writing, poem, poetry, Potion, Relationships, Romance

Comments: 2

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love is a journey through uncharted territories. and "A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving." Lao Tzu we can only love without ego, letting go in the process of the journey from all of who we are without effort. dedicating all of us to the other... learning with the other, letting it go... love is a powerful sunny transparent gift, most of the time we don't see it once we see and mirror ourselves through the other person, even when it seems we are not seeing and probably Read more [...]

Jul

10 Important Questions To Ask Yourself

Categories: Featured, Ideas, Personal development, Willpower mindsets

Tags: arts, Ask an Expert, David Bowie, Ezra Pound, Fernando Pessoa, Marisa Mayer, philosophy, questions, Stanley Kubrick, strategical questions, United States

Comments: 2

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What are the questions I need to ask myself that can make a difference in my life and in the way I manage my drive and expectations. What are the questions to ask myself to get the most out of life? First of all it is important to remember the wise words by Voltaire: Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. To follow up I want to remember these wonderful wise words that Marisa Mayer one of the leading personalities and managers in Google told the audience at 92Y: "Burnout is about Read more [...]

Jun

Success is being yourself

Categories: Featured, Personal development, Willpower mindsets

Tags: Blame, Comfort zone, Earth, fear, Health, life, philosophy, positivity, self-help, success, Thought, thoughts, Visual perception, willpower, Wine tasting descriptors

Comments: 2

Success has various shapes and forms. But in the end there is only one success -to be able to spend your life with yourself and in your own way. Success is a long path and a journey of discovery. But there is only one success -to be able to spend your life in your own way, and specially with the person you see in the mirror. There are no formulas or secrets to success, but it has all to do with the way we look at our lives, our challenges, and the way we create our thoughts of it in the process Read more [...]

Feb

10 Special Things to Say to Yourself

Categories: Featured, Ideas, Personal development, Willpower mindsets

Tags: arts, dream, Energy, Health, learning, Mental health, My Life, Peter Ustinov, philosophy, Psychology, self-help, Social Sciences, Stress, Thought, Titanic, Understanding

Comments: 2

it is a ride in the bike of your thoughts photo dinis guarda

Understand that sometimes I have to walk away and move in order for others to enjoy the view. I am an optimist. I do believe that the best is always yet to come in my life. But being optimistic is sometimes foolish and difficult as Peter Ustinov once put it. Sometimes a personal goal, obsession and drive, a particular dream, ambition can create frustration. Also the same happens with the lack of a clear drive, focus or decision. In this landscape things will probably become sometimes too Read more [...]

Feb

7 Characteristics of Highly Successful People

Categories: Featured, Personal development, Willpower mindsets

Comments: 3

Personal success comes when one knows what he wants and focus on solutions to a specific set of challenges. And success varies according to cultures, family background, psychological profile and of course with will power. Nevertheless successful people are driven with passion, and they love themselves. Highly Successful People work to build an indestructible personality developing everyday integral features that create a sort of an inner algorithm, which gives life an order of magnitude, Read more [...]

Feb

Facebook IPO how Social Media disrupts the economy!

Categories: Featured, Online marketing, Trading & Investment

Tags: Andreessen-Horowitz, Dot-com bubble, ExxonMobil, facebook, Facebook IPO, Initial public offering, linkedin, Silicon Valley, Social media, Webvan

Comments: 4

Mark Zuckerberg iPad Drawing DinisGuarda

Facebook IPO is out there and is real! It shows that Software, the Digital and the Social Media industry as a whole are eating / replacing the economy / disrupting it. And although it seems crazy I believe it is also good news, not just because of Facebook in itself but because of what it represents, the digital world industry and all the economy. The advent of Facebook is the emergence of new digital open data, a somehow new economy. If Facebook keep they user base happy they are well positioned Read more [...]

Dec

the world is not going to end tomorrow

Categories: Featured, Personal development

Tags: business, dream, learning, New York Times, perseverance, self development, September 11 2001, Social Sciences, Warfare and Conflict, Worry

Comments: 3

Believe me the world is not going to end tomorrow. independent of all turmoil, independent of all challenges, independent of any drama or present nightmare, conflict. After any tempest there is always the quiet moment when the sea gets calmer. The important is to keep making a statement about believing and keep on learning every day that there is a need to be thankful with everything one gets not with in effect we don't have or owns. It is imperative to make a bold statement for life and keep Read more [...]