Plans are good. Plans help dreams become reality. For everything we want to achieve we are going to make a plan. Even people who say that they are going to improvise and that they don't need a plan still have a plan. Counting on improvisation is a plan. What happens when we get used to …
Believing lies
The placebo effect is known to have cured people from diseases that have no cure, to have made pain and other symptoms disappear and even to overcome depressions. Actually almost 50% from people suffering from depressions show improvements when having placebo pills. The placebo effect is basically a lie. But a really efficient one. A …
Where do brilliant ideas come from
I am certain that you have heard how great ideas emerge. It can be the apple falling on Newton's head, August Kekule ring structure which came to him in his dream or the eureka moment which Archimedes had while jumping in the bath tub. People love to believe epiphany moments really happen. It makes life …
Lead or follow
Leadership is the new best thing. Big companies are always searching for leaders, political parties are constantly trying to create them, each industry needs new leaders in order to evolve and most of you would like to be one. What makes leaders so highly appreciated and sought after is their ability to make things move. …
Fear of deadlines
Work, no matter how hard, boring or challenging, would be just work if it wasn't for deadlines. When deadlines come into play, work changes and becomes a commitment. A commitment to deliver your part, an idea, a product. Delivering scares you. You have no problem doing the work. Work does not scare you because as …
2012 to do list
Take more risks so I can fail more... Fail more so I can learn more... Learn more so I know how to do things better Burn all the maps... Start a journey and get lost... Find my way... Draw new, better maps to burn Start something new... Push something through the dip... Finish something Start …
Time and giving up things
We all want more time to do certain things. Some might want more time to read, others to work, to be with friends, to play with their kids, to watch TV and so on. There is no such thing as more time. We all got 60 seconds a minute, 60 minutes an hour, 24 hours …
Following maps
The purpose of maps is to get you from one place to another by using the fastest, shortest or safest route. At first we only used them to travel from a place to another, but as we became addicted to them we started creating maps for our education, for our jobs (we call them careers …
Everything is a sale
Everything is a sale. When you go to the supermaket to buy what you need, when you go at work and sell your time and knowledge for money or benefits, the time spent with your friends, your relationships, love and even when you do a random good deed you do it for the rewarding feeling …
Attitude is all that matters
At one of my first interviews I have been told that "we hire people based on their skills and we fire them because of their attitude". This stuck with me for years before I really could have a clear opinion on the matter.