New begin

This post is officialy last. As I stated in about page of this blog this is experimental site till end of 9.2009. However, I will on 5.10.2009. edit this post and add link to a new and radicaly different blog as result of this experiment. Till then.

Dalibor

My new blog is Happiness now

A bit more about envy

If you read previous post where I talk about envy, you may get impression that I’m against any thinking about other people.

It’s totally opposite. Other people has different path in life than you, so they received different influences and create different wisdom than you. Other people are valuable source of information how to improve your life.

However, many people when look to other people activate just one biased feeling, they tend to think either all people are better then them or they are better then all other people. Most of a time neither is true.

Today mass media create one dangerous feeling in people. We think we know people we didn’t ever see, just because we are seen picture of them, products they produce and some carefully crafted half facts about them. After some time, we start to believe in that there are may people that are just better.

And to conclude different just think about scandals, suicides and stuff like that. Look for most notorious examples like Amy Winterhouse, Britney Spears. Do you really think that deep inside they are happy persons? And they have all money and fame you can imagine. Do you really think just because there is no new scandal about your favorite star that he or she is necessary feel happy and fulfill with life?

If you reserve your feelings only to people that you know in person you will rarely have any chance to feel envy, because every person has some good and bad side, some problem and some solution.

Use good solutions, and help when you can do it productively with problem is receipt for happy life.

OK I’m lousy chess player

When I was kid I play chess as rest of my family except mom (father was even President of Croatian Chess Association), and I was pretty pathetic. My biggest problem was that when I was playing I play my strategy without even thinking what my opponent will do, what was his strategy. Result was almost always defeat.
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Dealing with feelings or how to deactivate bomb

If you now think about one guy that do some stuff around some very complicated device, police patrols and barricades… this is not that kind of article.

I talk about yours inside bombs. You know situation. Some gay or girl talk harsh to you then came some innocent guy and you talk harsh to them because of previous guy. That guy was an innocent victim of your internal bomb and this article talk about bombs deactivation.
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Short course to meditation

Step1:

I really hate mystification and overcomplicating simple stuff. For example meditation has 3 simple components:

  • Stillness,
  • Focus,
  • Slow and deep breading.

Let’s do it in easy way. Think for a moment. Do you know any situation with two of three components of meditation? Continue reading Short course to meditation

How to renew passion again, and again, and again

One myth that I really love in self help books is: you must find your passion and every day will be fun your passion will flourish and you will be happy. To me it’s like a fairy tale end: “And they live happily ever after.”

OK there are plenty people that achieved this but even more there are failures. Human brain is not build for a long passion because long passion is evolutionary bad thing. As I said in one comment on some blog if you are in mortal danger every day then project that will pay of next month is not worth of time. Because we are not in mortal danger every day just few thousands year ago, this hard wired thing in our brain is not changed. We are created to adapt and passion is not adaptable.

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How to change your life

It’s very fascinating how this civilization forgets synthesis. We all time do analysis and almost every scientific work that is written is analysis of something. However, almost all progress, almost all inventions are synthesis of something. If you really want to make progress in any part of your life you need aha moment which is just one big synthesis of your knowledge in some area.

So how to achieve knowledge synthesis? Order one from your brain:
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How to start planning in your life

OK you decide to start planning (promising as I like to call it, see previous post) in your life. How to start?

Most of time you will hear advice like:

  1. Determine your life purpose, and then,
  2. Make global plan what you want to achieve in your life, and after that,
  3. Make 5 year plan, 1 year plan, 3 month plan… and so on.

However, if you are person with strong life purpose than this is procedure that you figure by yourself like any other of people that give that advice.

Obviously then if you don’t have idea about life purpose you must start finding one, but then you don’t have time for that because your lack of purpose grow out in situation that you must change something in your life just to make him bearable.

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Essential of good planning

Yes you know: When you plan something you must be flexible because thing are changing and we must adjust our planning accordingly.

Is it just like that? I’m sure it’s not because I have one little trick that make me possible to stick with my plans, and avoid rationalizations why something can’t be done.

What is trick?
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Power of positive thinking

“I’m Jack. I have forty and I will be a astronaut. “ – He said.
“Welcome Jack.” – Rest of group.

If ever would be group of positive thinker anonymous then it will look something like this.

Today it’s modern to believe that every people can achieve anything if he believes strong enough. So what man does? He imagine most wildest of his wishes, most childish of his dream and think that if he day dream about it all days somehow miraculously by power of secret something will happen and he will be astronaut.
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