Archives for the 'Authenticity' Category

Are your goals really YOUR goals? [How to be an Original]

‘Cause we all just wanna be big rockstars
And live in hilltop houses driving fifteen cars
~ Lyrics from “Rockstar” by Nickelback

Fifteen cars? Is that what you want too? Chances are that the thought of something similar has crossed your mind at some time in your life. How couldn’t it have, we’re pummeled with the marketed picture [...]

20 May 2008 | Authenticity, Goal Setting, success | No Comments

Passionate People Make Passionate Blogs [How to be an Original]

It’s Sunday, 6:17 AM. I’m running my first run in a long time, loving the freshness and quietness of early morning. After 5 minutes of relentless protest, my legs accepted that I’m not going to stop and have started cooperating.
My mind shifts into a rhythmic thinking mode, combining thoughts and ideas with a metronome like [...]

28 April 2008 | Authenticity, blogging | No Comments

To Be Yourself [How to be an Original]

To be nobody but yourself
in a world which is doing its best, night and day,
to make you like everybody else
means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight,
and never stop fighting.
~ E.E. Cummings

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28 April 2008 | Authenticity | No Comments

Steve Jobs gets it: Authenticity [How to be an Original]

As the world is buzzing about the keynote speech Steve Jobs gave yesterday at Macworld Expo, I want to draw your attention to another speech he gave: the commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005.
In this speech Steve Jobs tells three stories. They are stories with a message of the lessons life presents and about [...]

16 January 2008 | Authenticity, Inspiration | No Comments

Tying it together: the why, what and how questions [How to be an Original]

I’ve been thinking about the correlation of the topics I’ve been blogging about. They reflect what I’m thinking about, what I’m reading about, what I’m working on, what I want to achieve and so on. They cover a wide variety of topics, not so much on a horizontal scale, but more so on a vertical [...]

17 May 2007 | Authenticity, GTD, General, Goal Setting, Personal Productivity, Personal Productivity / GTD | No Comments