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10 Important Questions To Ask Yourself

By Dinis Guarda  /  11 Jul 2012  /  0 comment

What are the questions I need to ask myself that can make a difference in my life and in the way I manage my drive and expectations. What are the questions to ask myself to get the most out of life? First of all it is important to remember the wise words by Voltaire: Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. To follow up I want to remember these wonderful wise words that Marisa Mayer one of the leading personalities and managers in Google told the audience at 92Y: “Burnout is about Read more […]

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10 Special Things to Say to Yourself

By Dinis Guarda  /  27 Feb 2012  /  0 comment

Understand that sometimes I have to walk away and move in order for others to enjoy the view. I am an optimist. I do believe that the best is always yet to come in my life. But being optimistic is sometimes foolish and difficult as Peter Ustinov once put it.  Sometimes a personal goal, obsession and drive, a particular dream, ambition can create frustration. Also the same happens with the lack of a clear drive, focus or decision. In this landscape things will probably become sometimes too Read more […]

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7 books on Social Media, Tech, Society related to read

By Dinis Guarda  /  28 Jun 2011  /  0 comment

7 Top Social Media, Tech, Society related books in my list! The corridors of knowledge are always being populated by different evolution and trends passing by. Society with the advent of Social Media is going through a huge revolution but this is not something new. There has been an evolution and we are at this stage thanks to a lot of research, technological and social changes that have been there for long time, evolving. In a time of attention spam and where all of us read shorter and shorter, Read more […]

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Angels Come to Visit Us We Just Need to Be Aware

By Dinis Guarda  /  28 Feb 2011  /  1 comment

Life is made of a magnitude of overwhelming islands in a wild and sometimes calm sea. When visualising life one can think of it, somehow, made of a magnitude of overwhelming islands in a wild and sometimes calm sea. And as true navigators one needs to go through it with the right sailing skills and make sure we reach the right island of the archipelago of destiny… Though one needs to do it without loosing sight of the archipelago of life and its whole. No man is an island as John Donne put Read more […]

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It is not about having time but making decisions: Social Me-dia Management

By Dinis Guarda  /  11 Feb 2011  /  0 comment

What if time stopped now…? What if you could effectively do what you always wanted to do…? This is a question I have been asking myself more lately. And the answer it is not so much about time, but about time management and decision! In the present landscape we live where the Me is mixed within the Social “Me”dia there are new things to be extra aware. Everything in daily life and personal management is somehow mixed with different real and digital platforms. This shift from reality and Read more […]

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Web Personal Development in an age of code

By Dinis Guarda  /  25 Jul 2010  /  0 comment

Image via Wikipedia We live in a world where the influence of web is changing our personal development and behavior. The impact of the digital world and its computational code on everyday life and in the way we process language has become comparable to that of the speech and writing. The process of creation language and code have grown entangled and the lines that once separated human speech from machines code have become blurred. Most of our lives we now pass it in a kind of limbo were we Read more […]

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A Balanced and a Tragic Vision of Humankind

By Dinis Guarda  /  18 Jul 2010  /  0 comment

There is a mythic fight between a balanced and a tragic vision of humankind in the developing inner thoughts and contradiction one lives . This quest and axis has been the basis of mythology, folklore, legend and ultimately is the quest that makes humanity reach a concept of memory and knowledge.

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7 Willpower Mindsets and What Makes You Succeed (with Einstein quotes)

By Dinis Guarda  /  28 Feb 2010  /  0 comment

Each person is a sum of various parts: with strength-weakness and erroneous zones. In order to manage the balance between these zones the most important is to believe and manage correctly the will power. Part of this work needs to be done in the process of eliminating prejudice, fault-finding, criticism, blame. Though this is a full time job that needs to be done in the whole process of life. There are not so many people on earth capable of controlling their own destiny. And what makes someone Read more […]

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Trends of Post-structuralism and the Question of Meaning

By Dinis Guarda  /  17 Jan 2010  /  0 comment

What are the traces that makes us survive as creatures of difference? All of us have a dna glossary of multiple differences and cultures. We live in a process of cultural and anthropological social quotation, reiteration, allusion and inner question, chaos trying to combine signifying practices of intelligibility in our stories, rituals and customs. “A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and Read more […]

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