Milan Balaban
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¶[No quote - PAUSE]
As much as we use speech every day to emphasize an action or advice, there is something more powerful than a word… SILENCE. Often times it is underused and under-appreciated. Today I will focus on 2 areas where you should and will use the pause: micro level and macro level.
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¶“It is essential for each of us to cultivate our individual path” ~ Miyamoto Musashi
Welcome to the AD era aka Attention Deficit era. We hear all sorts of medications and treatments are given to the children that can’t seem to focus on their homework and can’t seem to do one thing at the time.
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¶“According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death.” ~ Jerry Seinfeld
I find this previous quote both hilarious and quite disturbing. On one hand it’s ok not to be afraid of death, you just need to work that “problem” with yourself (as I did). On the other hand it’s quite odd, what’s more normal for us humans than speaking?
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¶“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly” ~ JFK
Imagine a street. You’re going down the street, it is comfortably wide, with dense trees on both sides. You can only see the street and the sky, nothing else. Continuing forward you reach the destination, crossroads. There are two streets, one left, the other one is right. The left one is the same as the road up to this point. The other one is very narrow, you can barely squeeze the car. Which one will you take?
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¶” All that we are is the result of what we have thought.” – Buddha
This week’s article has one purpose, and one purpose only, to teach you what I have learnt from a Buddhist monk.
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¶“Hope is the dream of a man awake.” ~ French Proverb
If you read Creativity 101, my very first post, you know that I love being creative. Usually I find creativity by sparking the small fire of creativity in me. However, this time I decided to take a different approach, this time we look for external stimulation.
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¶42 – Douglas Adams
Today we tend to forget things. In the age of information overload it’s a necessary habit. However, there’s a subtle difference between “filtering” and forgetting. As always, there’s a gray zone, yet when we do it once, every subsequent time it gets much easier.
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¶“It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
No, I have not forgotten. The fact is that the site is moving to new servers and there will be a break from posting until 27th. Woohoo, getting an upgrade! 
Stay tuned, new and very exciting stuff awaits!
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¶“If you want to be happy, be” ~ Leo Tolstoy
We’ve all experienced it. Procrastination. It’s like bad breath. If we don’t do something about it constantly it goes around and comes back to bite us on the ass. However, it has a one key difference compared to bad breath – it doesn’t have to be a bad thing.
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¶“Letting go doesn’t mean giving up. It means moving on.” – Anonymous
Few weeks ago I’ve read a book on scientific tattoos which I found inspiring in many aspects. However, there was a quote that said, and I’m paraphrasing that humans have the same “life cycle” as the Sun. More precisely, the math function, up and then down. It struck me how much that was true and how connected it was to the idea of letting go.
