How to find motivation when it’s gone on vacations
In: Management| Psychology
7 Feb 2010
Ever felt at work that you are stuck in first or second gear or you are on those days when your motivation is idling. Well, it’s normal. No one can sustain 290 (give or take) days a year at full throttle. If you can you are either alien, on crack cocaine or you are my partner Lauren. For the rest of us humans (or non-addicted individuals) when boredom or stagnation strike there’s an easy formula to counter that and remain productive. Find what’s your adrenaline fix. Motivation doesn’t come from outside, although external events can trigger motivation. Motivation emanates from within. So if you don’t find it, no one will do it for you.
What motivate me is:
- Ideas
- New projects (tightly related to point one)
- Crisis situations (or any fire that needs to be put out)
Knowing what makes your heart rate go faster is the solution and finding out what that is, is easier than the formula: pay attention to yourself, be introspective. Throughout the day we all experience a wide range of emotions (faint or strong). Identifying those emotions and singling them out will get you halfway through the process. Read the rest of this entry »
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- Tags: find, formula, Freud, how to, motivation, productivity, Work
February 6, 2010, West Chester, PA 11:50 PM.
Looks like it’s not gonna stop snowing so I’m stranded here until the glaciers recede. Probably sometime during the day after tomorrow (pun intended).
According to Tom Moore, Lead Meteorologist of the Weather Channel this is a [rephrase] historic storm which will paralyze the Mid-Atlantic (us included). I’d post the link but it’s a dynamic page. By the time you check it the title might read “it’s always sunny in Philadelphia” (another bad joke, this is getting old). For short, you can call it the “snowpocalypse” or “snowmageddon” as local media has preferred to call it, according to foreign sources.
I feel like I worked in a call center all day. It rained call-offs. I had hoped I’d be able to rush out to my girlfriend’s (who lives closer than I do) before it got too bad but as the day progressed I realized that the plan was only wishful thinking. Read the rest of this entry »
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- Tags: blogging, coverage, live, PA, Pennsylvania, snow, snowmaggedon, snowpocalypse, snowstorm, storm, US, USA, winter
Last December I wrote an article summarizing some of the consequences that the economic recession has brought to the Mental Health Care System and how the inadequacy of some policies and practices have surfaced along with it. Today I’d like to expand on that topic mostly centering in the challenges that Residential Treatment Facilities which provide treatment to adolescents are facing.
While children and adult programs are gushing with momentum and expanding, for teenagers it seems like nobody cares about them.
Right now between families and Residential Treatment Facilities (RTF) there’s nothing. No group homes, no half-way houses, not even hospitals to an extent (I’m generalizing here, it does not apply to %100 of the cases). Read the rest of this entry »
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- Tags: agencies, care, crisis, facilities, failure, funding, government, health, mental, recession, referrals, residential, RTF, states, success, treatment
Miracle spray may revolutionize the way we clean and preserve stuff thanks to nanotechnology
In: Science
3 Feb 2010
“SiO2- ultra thin layering” (that’s the technical name) comes in the form of a liquid glass which can coat surfaces with a 15 to 30 molecules thick (500 times thinner than human hair) film. It is eco-friendly, non-toxic and it protects almost any surface from dirt, bacteria, UV radiation, heat and acids.
The liquid is almost completely composed of silicon dioxide which is extracted from quartz sand, one of the most abundant minerals on Earth. The liquid forms a water-repellent (hydrophobic) layer. Dirt or whatever lands on it can easily be washed off with water. Read the rest of this entry »
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- Tags: cleaning, Nanopool, nanotech, nanotechnology, protect, spray, surfaces
Apple’s iPad. What a disappointment
In: Social Trends
28 Jan 2010
It’s finally here. After months of rumors, speculation and a hype level only comparable to that of the iPhone a couple of years ago Apple finally released its “netbook killer” to fill the niche between smartphones and laptops.
I’ve been restraining myself from writing about it. After all, who needed another speculative post? What else was I going to add that hadn’t already been said? Now it’s out so that’s why I’m finally writing about it.
I followed the keynote on Engadget and Gizmodo and as a good fanboy I told myself that I was gonna remember that afternoon just as good as I still remember exactly where I was (on the other side of the globe) and what I was doing (lying in bed with a coffee) the day the iPhone was launched.
I remember that the first thing I thought right after the iPhone announcement was “I’m gonna get one no matter what” (which never happened since I jumped on the Android wagon). This time my reaction was quite different. Read the rest of this entry »
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- Tags: aapl, apple, first impressions, iPad, iphone, keynote, launch, steve jobs
Finding the person you are looking for within LinkedIn can sometimes be a difficult task. Search results are not always what you expect and even though there are ways to filter them (by company, location, function, etc.) sometimes finding what you are looking for is an exercise of patience (perusing through search results) and luck. Read the rest of this entry »
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- Tags: linkedin, social networks, tags, update
New logo for the blog!
In: Uncategorized
18 Jan 2010
Scientists have discovered how memories are encoded in the brain
In: discoveries| neuroscience
26 Dec 2009
Via Physorg.com
The finding, published in the December 24 issue of the journal Neuron, could eventually lead to the development of new drugs to aid memory.
The state of the Mental Health Care System in the US
In: Psychology
25 Dec 2009
The crisis has spread to everywhere and even when signs of recovery are spotted here and there we are not out of the storm yet. Actually, we may have to wait for one or two more years to be back to “normal”.
The Mental Health Care System is no exception to this and is being hit really hard from many fronts. Read the rest of this entry »
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- Tags: agencies, care, crisis, facilities, failure, funding, government, health, mental, recession, referrals, residential, RTF, states, success, treatment
New Category Layout
In: Uncategorized
5 Dec 2009
Hi everyone, the blog’s categories were a mess so I cleaned everything up in order to make it easier to navigate the topics.
There are now only 5 parent categories: Management, Psychology, Science, Social Trends and Books. Sub-categories branch from them.
Cheers!
Fernando
image credit Jaypeeonline.com
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