Hi, my name is Oscar, and this is my personal development blog. I like to create stuff, challenge assumptions, and try out new things. I blog about personal development and everything I learn here. Read more.
Personal Development - Freestyle Mind
Productivity and Life Hacks
Now that spring has come, it’s the right time to do some cleaning at home. Today I spent some time cleaning my room and getting rid of old stuff that was only filling up space in my room. I like to do this activity every once in a while, and every time I can find something some stuff that I no longer need and that I can safely throw away. It’s a very liberating experience, especially now that I work
Since I started my waking up at 5 am experiment, I gained a lot of new time to do the things that I previosuly couldn’t do. For example I can mpw work for 3 straight hours in the morning without any kind of interruption, and I can get more done in those 3 hours than what I would get in 1 week of working in the evenings. However, a curious thing started to happen. As I gain more time, the things that
I always tell people how important is to stick with something. Overnight success is never going to work, and every time I hear someone telling me his overnight success story, I always turn my head around. The reason is that I know that overnight success is always followed by months or years of hard work and failures. For example I created the code for this blog in no more than 8 hours across just
Fear is perhaps the single most important reason that you are not taking action right now. Fear is the response to change that our brain sends us when we try to break the status quo. What if something goes wrong? I’m sure you asked yourself this question a lot of times, sometimes in your subconscious, and then refused to take action because you didn’t know the answer. I don’t even want to think about
Editor note: this is a guest post by Anthony from feint.me. These days, the idea of staying truly focused on any given task seems increasingly difficult. What with Twitter, RSS readers, IM clients and of course email, our lives are filled with constant distractions, engaging us in a battle for focus and productivity. We can’t take focus for granted. It’s not something that just happens. And unless
I have many goals for this year, such as earning $1000/month from passive income (as a part of my 10,000/euros month major goal), growing this blog even more, and read 50 books. I have a lot of dreams, but a huge view of reality at the same time. There’s no way I’m going to do all of this without an effective plan of action. Yes, because at the end of the day it’s what we actually did that matters,
Every once in a while I like to take some time for myself and recharge my life. In this time I go through and revitalize each area of my life. Every time I have one goal in mind: simplify and improve. Every time I do this, I get a lot of energy and new ideas back as a result. Here are some tips I want to share to start decluttering your life.
Concentration is difficult to gain, and even more difficult to maintain. Music can help us a lot maintaining concentration at work and home, so I decided to create two playlists to share with you. To get the best out of these playlists, I strongly advise the use of headphones. Other than the sound quality improvements that you get by using headphones, you’ll also create a sort of isolation from the
2010 will begin in just two weeks, and this is the perfect time for us to set new goals, except that I’ve never done it before. in fact I’ve always planned when I needed to do so, without waiting for the new year to come. Still, this time is different because I feel the need to realign my goals and values. The reason I feel a need to realign my goals is because I just had a few days of laziness where
This week I sit down thinking about many steps of my businesses. Usually when I do this I just try to think at what I can offer to others. A typical conversation with myself would go like this: me: ok, what can I offer to people using my service? my inner self: oh, you could just give them some free reports. me: sounds cool. my inner self: but you shouldn’t tell them the whole story, otherwise how
