I received this book called Daily Rituals by Mason Currey as a gift from my wife and I just read a few pages. It’s a book with the daily habits (rituals) that people like Voltaire, Mozart, Benjamin Franklin and many others had. I knew that our habits are important, but how important? Two or three years ago I went to a seminar about … Continue reading Are we defined by our habits?
Have you ever wondered how do we know to interact with other people? We know to interact by instinct, but what about all the rules we respect without even knowing them? How do we develop our personal space? Jordan B. Peterson talks in his book 12 Rules for Life about the fact that children develop most of their social skills by the time they reach … Continue reading Our social skills
Stress is a huge problem these days because the world is full of chaos (both outside and the inside world). Because of this, I believe we need all the help we can get in order to adapt ourselves to this, otherwise we’ll have a short stressful life (stress has a huge impact over our body which I wrote about in this post). I’ve … Continue reading How to Stay CALM in Stressful Situations – Video
How important is to know your friends and why is so important? I’ve watched this podcast where Vanessa Van Edwards talks about how important is to know your friends from a reactive point of view, if we can name it like that. We have multiple types of friends. We have the dream killers (as Mrs. Edwards likes to call them) which are those friends … Continue reading Knowing your friends
I watched this interesting episode of Impact Theory on YouTube and I’ve heard something which I found to be very interesting (if you watch the episode, you’ll find more interesting things like how we try to find a cause – effect connection in random situations). Moran Cerf said that we have different people inside our brains. My first thought was “Wait, what?” so … Continue reading The people from our brains
I remembered the first post I’ve ever written and after all this time I still resonate with it. I’ll share it with you once again and as always, don’t hesitate to share your thoughts about it (the original post can he found here)! Words… these marvelous things that provides us the way to communicate with eachother. But I’m often thinking… how real are … Continue reading Pointless Words – Reblog
How genuine are we when we interact with other people? What about the times we interact with ourselves? How do we behave? Why so? Is it because of the social rules? Is it different from one set of people to another? Which of those behaviors is more like us and which is just a façade? I’ve noticed that there aspects of myself I … Continue reading The Masks we wear
Simon Sinek talks about how important it is to label the way we feel. From the physical point of view we can experience the same things, but the difference is made by how we define that experience. For example, when we feel that our palms start to sweat, our pulse raises, our temperature raises, and our breathing increases, we can be either nervous or … Continue reading I’m nervous vs I’m excited
We do things every day. Some of them we enjoy doing, others to do because we have to and some we do because we need to. There is this thing I’ve noticed: whenever we have to do things, we sometimes feel worse compared to the things we need to do. Why is this happening? I believe this happens because when we have to … Continue reading I need to vs I have to
Since it’s Monday again and maybe the energy level is not that great, here is something that might help with this (I found it very helpful). I honestly cannot decide which one is my favorite step. I like to take action every day and to keep the momentum going. Which rule is your favorite? Continue reading Motivational Monday
“The key to self confidence is to keep the promises you make to yourself” – Ed Mylett This is the phrase I encountered today that made me think (don’t worry, I was thinking before this too). It makes sense, but why? What is the main idea behind this that builds up our self confidence? I’ve encountered the same idea at Casey Neistat, but … Continue reading Just decide
Thanks to theenchantedlabyrinth’s comments I’ve started to think about how we’re seeing material things as signs of how important someone is in society. Apparently, the more money and possessions someone has, the more important that person is. I believe we got this all wrong. It is true that most successful and important people have lots of money and lots of possessions and that’s … Continue reading The Material Status Quo
I remember I posted this video a while back and I find it even more powerful and insightful when I watched it today. We want happiness without knowing what it means and most of the time we’re sad because we can’t get that. We confuse having things with happiness when actually things bring joy (at most). This is a tough subject. I hope I’ll find … Continue reading The Pursuit of Happiness – Reblog
Yes, that’s right. I believe we all are influencers even though it’s not on that macro scale other people have (especially the well-known people). It happens without us being aware of this. We are influencing the people that spend lots of time around us and I believe it is important for us to be aware of this. Have you noticed that when some friend … Continue reading We all are influencers
According to Wikipedia, “Mindfulness is the psychological process of bringing one’s attention to experiences occurring in the present moment.” I’m sure most of you have heard about this and you practice it from time to time. I myself do also practice it from time to time and it is a constant battle between present and future. I try to enjoy the present moments whilst … Continue reading A few words about Mindfulness
This term is used in psychology as a way to explain the belief of how much do people think they are in control of their lives. If the locus of control is internal, it represents that those people believe that they are pretty much in control of their lives. If the locus of control is external, it means that those people believe that their … Continue reading The Locus of Control
Life is full of circles so we have good times, not so good times and horrible times. These last ones are the toughest and can do the biggest damage. There is this saying in my culture that a great farmer is preparing him self in summer for the winter and in winter for the summer. This raised a question for me: Should we prepare … Continue reading Preparing for hard times
I listened to this podcast today where Tom Bilyeu talked with Ed Mylett about some interesting ideas. One of the things that hit me hard was the story about the time Ed Mylett went to the doctor. He said that this doctor had a different approach in addressing the health issues Ed had. Instead of prescribing some meds and getting to the next patient, … Continue reading Motivation through other people
Today I’ve met this idea that we whatever we learn, we can unlearn so I’ve started to wonder how would this be possible and what would we want to unlearn? I always thought that we should keep learning things to move forward and to get better each day so why would we want to unlearn things? Well, the short answer is that we’ve might … Continue reading Can we unlearn things?
We know we don’t know anything, right? The thing is that there are people in this world that know a little less nothing than us so it would be very helpful to learn from them instead of taking things from zero. Wouldn’t it be great to learn about investing from Warren Buffet or to learn about writing from J.K. Rowling or from George R. … Continue reading Why do we need mentor(s)?
