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Twenty-five

Saturday, 10. March 2007, 12:49:19

Today the Sun returns to the position it was in when I was born (at least that's what daily horoscope thingy says).

YEY

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International Women's Day

Thursday, 8. March 2007, 12:55:39

life, holiday

Today is March 8th - International Women's Day. Here in Serbia, it really is a big deal. You can see people on streets selling all kinds of flowers and people buying those flowers for their loved females. Usually it's all about flowers, but people also buy all kinds of different presents. For example, today I bought a flower and a book by Danielle Steel for my mom. Hope she'll like it

So, happy women's day to all females out there!

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Wall space

Friday, 2. March 2007, 21:34:42

life

Today I decided to decorate an empty wall space in my room, just above the computer screen. I put postcards from various places I've visited. It was fun to remember all those places, I even got out my USA scrapbook, and found there some postcards that I even forgot about them

full-size photo - 623kb

Now, I want to fill other empty space on walls with some movie posters maybe. hehe, yeah definitaly something to consider. Maybe a "It's a wonderful life" movies poster, or "Breakfast at Tiffanys" poster

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Worried today?

Sunday, 25. February 2007, 16:48:54

life

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.

~Author Unknown

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What do they think?

Wednesday, 21. February 2007, 16:00:39

quotes, life, random

Many times I find myself checking if I'm doing "the right thing" at the moment. Am I spending my time doing anything "productive" or am I just "wasting" my time? Well, it's all crap and I should get rid of those bad habits. There is no such thing as "wasting my time". Time that I spend wasting is not a wasted time. What wasted time is for me, for others might be not, and vice versa.

Society has had such a great impact on us that we often forget about our uniqueness, our need to be FREE. We are walking away from ourselves, instead of doing the opposite thing.

We always want to leave a good impression, we want to please our boyfriend/girlfriend, we want to have "success"... We are always dependent on something/someone. We think "What do they think about me?"... "How do I behave in a certain situation?"... "Am I gonna sound stupid if say this?"... "Is s/he going to like what I wear?"...... "Is this right or wrong?" Think outside of the box, there is no right or wrong, those are just man's "intelligent" ways to classify his experience and label something as "society acceptable" or not. Forget what you have been learning in school, your way of being is the right way of being. "Unique" is a keyword here.

Our inner child is always there and it always wanna go outside and play. Let it play!

Actually, if something is considered a waste of time, it definitely is worrying about what others think of you.

from thinkarete:

"Quit Worrying About What Others Think. That’s a big one. Really big. Really really really big. First of all, let’s be clear about one thing: You’re worried about what someone else thinks of you, right? OK. Now, while you’re doing that, what do you think they are
worried about? Hah. Exactly. They’re worried about what you think of them. But you’re so busy worrying about what they think of you that you’re not even spending much time thinking about them. (You follow that?

To be honest, whether or not that’s true all the time is irrelevant (although I do think it’s true most of the time). In any case, if you’re going to live your life dependent on the good opinion of others for your happiness then, uh, I’ll put it to you bluntly: You’re screwed.

There’s NO way you can please everyone all the time. Even someone who wins an election by a landslide still had 30 or 40% of the people who disagreed with her.

Further, and I’d say much much much more importantly, by worrying about what other people think of you and working hard to try to please them, you’re losing the essence of who you are — you’re expressing such a small fraction of who you truly are. That’s not cool.

So, quit worrying about what other people think of you. Pretty please."

By worrying about what others think about us we are conditioning ourselves and limiting our freedom. We can never be free that way, because we are always gonna behave the way somebody else wants us to behave. We have some false assumptions about what other people think about ourselves. They are always false and un-necessary. I will never know what other people think of me by thinking about it. Does it matter what others think of me? Not so much. After all, what's the use of knowing it?

Mark Twain said:
"Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth."

... and I would add: "Write like nobody's reading!"

now, writing this post was such a beautiful waste of time

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Habits

Saturday, 17. February 2007, 18:34:11

motivation, life

We are all creatures of habits. Habits shape our lives. I once read somewhere that it is needed 21 days for us to establish a habit. Although I do not believe in that, it is a fact that in order to establish a habit, I have to do it over and over and over... Again, again, and again... Until it becomes my "second nature". It takes some courage to make a new habit. I mean, it is an imperative for a person to "stay on the track", no matter what. We could be easily bored after 2 or 3 days of practicing our new habit, and I guess that's the most important point in making a new habit, a point in time where we get enough of it, or we feel we just cannot do it anymore, we don't care about it anymore. It's the point when we should remind ourselves that this is just temporary thing... What we are doing is trying to implement one thing into our life until suboconsious mind accepts it as part of our own existance. That's why we don't have to learn to drive every time we sit in a car. It's a habit... a learned habit, of course.

So, what new habit do I want to establish? Every day I would like to spend at least 1 hour of reading a book. Not that I don't read, I just would like it to make it a habit. Why? Becuase there're a lot of books I want to read. I mean it's so much easier to sit in front of TV and watch some silly show. Instead, why not spend an hour (or even less) reading a book I've always wanted to read? Speaking of reading, are we aware of how much we read from computer screens? and speaking of TV, I guess millions of people around the world established a habit (a bad one) of just sitting in front of the TV doing nothing. Turn the damn thing OFF :-)

I guess it's all about being persistent and sticking to a new habit for some time, until we forget about the habit because it became part of our every day lives.

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Awakenings

Friday, 16. February 2007, 01:29:40

movies, life

I've seen this movie "Awakenings" just today. I am surprised how not a lot people mention this movie - it is kinda underrated. I find it just fabulous, with some great messages about life in general and what we forget sometimes because we are "busy" with other stuff. Outstanding performances by Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. It's based on a book that is based on a true story. De Niro rules as always... His performance of a victim of an encephalitis epidemic is worth of Oscar. I won't go into details - spoilers.... Just gotta see it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099077/

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a bit ill + new cellphone

Thursday, 15. February 2007, 12:10:13

tech, life

I'm kinda ill these days... My throat hurts and I cough sometimes. I have slight headache occassionally and my back hurts.. or maybe back bones, I am not sure.

Yesterday I got new cellphone - Samsung E370. I am really not into new high-tech cell phones and stuff, I just needed a new one... The old one was having problems with charging adapter. This Samsung model is a nice one. It's small, it has tons of features and it fits my hand really well

So the first SMS was from Ivana in Israel wishing me Happy Valentine's Day. Thanks a lot, thinking about ya :**

and I'm off to rest now, maybe watch a movie or somethin'...

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100% Human

Tuesday, 13. February 2007, 18:50:45

life, web

I came across this website with a great campaign. We are all human after all.

http://www.100percenthuman.org/

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thinkarete

Tuesday, 13. February 2007, 13:51:35

motivation, life, web, quotes ...

Wanted to share this great inspirational text... It's a great read:

thinkarete.themanifesto.

What would you do if you weren’t afraid?

OK...

So...uh...what exactly are you waiting for?

This isn’t a dress rehearsal...

Wake up!

Here’s the deal: What we can be, we MUST be.

Period.

There’s no getting around that one.

So, turn off your TV. Put down your drink. Get off the medication.

Quit numbing yourself. The pain’s not going away.

Not until you thinkarete.

“thinkarete”?

Yep.

Gandhi got it. Einstein got it. Mother Theresa got it.

Tiger gets it. Gates gets it. Oprah gets it.

The Greeks got it.

Get this: Guys like Socrates, Plato and Aristotle said that if you want happiness you better live with areté--a word that literally means virtue or excellence but has a deeper meaning...something closer to “constantly striving to reach your highest potential.”

areté.

How beautiful is that? It was one of the highest ideals of Greek culture.

It should be one of ours.

Tragically, it’s not.

We seem to be more interested in resumes, accolades and 401k's.

Speaking of retirement...

Who came up with that? Work like crazy doing something we're not passionate about so we can accumulate enough money to pay the bills from our stress-caused illnesses while we complain about what we should have done when we were still young.

Hmmm...We can’t quite figure that one out. Seems like it makes a bit more sense to go ahead and dare to live now...

Why not thinkarete?

Live to your highest potential--moment to moment to moment.

Not in the mood?

Fine. Then live with regret, anxiety, and disillusionment.

Your call.

Think about it. When do we feel most alive?

Exactly. When we’re being ourselves--our highest selves.

You want happiness?

thinkarete.

Dream. Grow. Stretch yourself.

Rip off the tie. Jump out of the cubicle.

Dream. Think. Dare to be crazy.

What are you waiting for?

thinkarete.

Are you crazy enough to think you can change the world?

Good.

Now go out and do it.

Live. Love. Smile. Hug. Laugh. Dream. Do. Create.

Have fun. Be intense. Be audacious. Be unreasonable. Act impeccably. Breathe.

Be you. Be different. Get paid to do what you love. Dance in your underwear on your way to work...

Why not?

Ditch the tie. Escape the cube. Leave the 8-5. Trash the resume.

Ignore the critics. And the cynics. Burn the corporate ladders. Laugh at the ceilings.

Quit the bitching. Open your mind. End the laziness. Overcome the fear. Transcend the conditioning...

Why not?

Move the world.

Change the world.

Push the human race forward.

Whatever you call it, go out and do it.

When?

Now.

Not when you have enough money or once you do this or do that. That’s nonsense.

It’s not gonna be easy, but go out and live your dream. Now.

You deserve it.

And, if that doesn’t move you: The world deserves it.

thinkarete.

http://www.thinkarete.com