Archive | March, 2009
31 days to build a better blog
Although I don’t have an exact idea on what to expect, I subscribed my self to Problogger’s 31 days to build a better blog project. “The idea behind this is simply to have a group of bloggers setting aside a month of their time to work at improving their blogs. While we all want to [...]
Continue reading...Time for yourself, what is it?
29 March 2009
Leave me alone! I want me-time…. Who hasn’t said that from time to time. I know I have. But what is “me-time”. More time for yourself? But how can you call time yours? Strange isn’t it. At any given time you can only do one things, either you’re helping someone with a task they need [...]
Continue reading...Is logic really that logical?
25 March 2009
While working on a bit of math (proposition logic) I started thinking on logic. Is everything really logic all the time. Our reactions to one another for instance, can they always be classified as logic? I doubt it. Even so we call our reactions logical. If someone hits you, is it logical to hit back [...]
Continue reading...To care or not to care, the key to minimalism?
23 March 2009
I keep wondering, what makes people care and why don’t people care about certain things. This came to mind while changing the oil on my motorcycle. A simple rule my father taught me was “you can borrow anything from me, as long as you put it back where you found it, and in the same [...]
Continue reading...On attention
22 March 2009
And again, when looking around I got a new idea for a blogpost. Inspiration is everywhere. I want to write a bit on attention. Or rather, the Japanese character of “Nen”. Which translates to “wish, sense, idea, thought, feeling, desire, attention”. The last time I talked with m Zen teacher he talked about this character [...]
Continue reading...One post at a time is the way to go
20 March 2009
It has been said before but this is really important. How do you market your blog? How do you get readers? The answer is simple: one post at a time. The last few days I’ve seen a slow rise in visitors to my blog. Visitors mostly come through two channels at the moment: Either a [...]
Continue reading...100 items, can it be done?
19 March 2009
Looking around my room I see more and more things, big and small, that I hardly use. Ranging from a pocket knife (I use only one, I have six) to a guitar which I haven’t played on in something like a year and a half. Now it’s hard to part with a musical instrument but [...]
Continue reading...Exploring beginner’s mind
16 March 2009
The Phrase Beginner’s mind is a phrase coined by Shunryu Suzuki or as most call him Suzuki-Roshi, a Zen master who ran a Zen temple in San Francisco in the 1960′s among other things. But what exactly is beginner’s mind? I wrote about this in my first post on this blog but I want to explore [...]
Continue reading...Afraid of the deep end?
16 March 2009
I wrote in my first post I’ll be giving a list of things I want to begin with. Scratch that idea, for now I’m writing on this blog and it’s beginning. There is more than enough to explore here, more than enough ideas to get committed to screen. Thanks to the comment of Samir on [...]
Continue reading...Harder than it seems
14 March 2009
This is only my second post and already I’m having trouble to write. It’s not that there isn’t enough to write on, it’s that there is so much. Where to begin. (pun intended) This is a problem most bloggers run in to according to several writes (Darren Rowse and Leo Babauta). You need to find [...]
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29 March 2009
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