Archive | April, 2009
The key to successful studying
I’ve written before on handling all the information that we are bombarded with every day. But what I haven’t told you is what the key is to success in studying. Actually, the success to almost anything we try. The key is caring about what you are doing. If you care enough you won’t let yourself be [...]
Continue reading...The prison of the mental world
29 April 2009
Just sit and count your breaths. Feel the cold air flow in through your nose and out again. There is nothing but the present, no mind, no thought. Sounds like a lot of new age stuff doesn’t it? It’s actually the basis of zazen meditation. Now don’t skip this blogpost straight away because you don’t [...]
Continue reading...Zen and the art of blogging
28 April 2009
This blog has been running now for about six weeks and it’s time for me to tell you why I chose to blog, what I want from it and what’s in it for you. It’s a bit of a lengthy post, but I want to let you know who I am and what I’m aiming [...]
Continue reading...Living on a small footprint, minimalist living.
27 April 2009
You can find inspiration everywhere and today it came in the form of an article on architecture. A special about small living spaces which made me think about my current living situation. How much space does a human need to be able to live and thrive? If we take a look in the direction of [...]
Continue reading...The unseen posts, digging in the archives
26 April 2009
As you know I’m taking part in Probloggers 31 days to building a better blog challenge. Last Thursday we got the assignment to create a sneeze page. “The idea is simple – to create a page that propels people in different directions deep within your blog by highlighting a variety of posts that you’ve previously [...]
Continue reading...My blogchallenge: a weekly update
25 April 2009
As some of my readers already know I’m working on a challenge to get my blog to grow big enough so that I can reclaim my domain. Big enough is defined here as >500 pageviews a day for seven consecutive days or >300 subscribers to my RSS feed. There already have been several occasions where [...]
Continue reading...The zero hour workweek
24 April 2009
How many of us feel like we are out of place where we are right now. Our work takes place in the proverbial cubicle where we secretly do other things at the same time. Running an online business or perhaps blogging in the boss’s time. We hate don’t like our job a lot and as [...]
Continue reading...5 apps that get me through my plugged life
23 April 2009
Every once in a while you find a piece of software that helps you to make you plugged life a bit easier. Some people look for these things every day and are constantly updating and striving for the perfect setup. I don’t belong to that group, for me it’s about function and as long as [...]
Continue reading...Reclaim your dreams: an eBook review
22 April 2009
A few days ago Jonathan Mead (Illuminated mind) tweeted who would like to review his new eBook on their blog. I took the chance and tweeted back that I would like to do a review. Lo and behold, the eBook was in my email a few days later and I read it “cover to cover” [...]
Continue reading...Plugged living vs Unplugged living
21 April 2009
As I was walking down the street today I had a thought about something, I dug my smartphone from my pocket and started to look something up. Only a few seconds later a bicycle almost ran me over. “Look in front of you, in stead of at that thing!.” I followed quickly with “This is [...]
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