centrifugal force of routine
As part of our survival needs in the industrial revolution we strive for maximum impact in our life. We fills several roles that demand us to maintain them on a regular basis. If we don’t balance our resources we are carried away into an automatic procedure which we call routine.
The center in the drawing is me, who am I and what I want in every second that passes. Do we remember that or we are pulled away by the centrifugal force of routine to the race?
Money is the tool to keep on running, Giving is the aim.
When you give you accumulate more power and you enhance your ability to give even more. If you can keep on moving this cycle using your money and execute your initiatives for assisting others you are doing your part and you are free to enjoy life.
Know and discover giving opportunities
One of the greatness of giving is to know what you can give, where and when. Giving don’t have to be the ordinary way like we all know, joining a voluntary organization and fill your position there, there is a simple way, right under your nose. The organization is a unit of one person, which is you, and the needy person is the opportunities you discover, opportunity to make a change.
Being Acknowledged => Happiness
From helping others you earn twice, first you are proud of your self and second you are satisfied from any benefit the other person achieved as a result of you actions.
Relation between money and happiness
Question: How much money do I need in order to be happy?
Answer: The minimum budget needed to maintain the cycle of giving and receiving. When this cycle is moving, you will enjoy a positive breeze through your entire existence.
*when you give you never give money, you use money in order to give.
Clean-up your desktop
Never work in a messy environment. The mess can slow you down
Messy Environment
Write notes of the things you have to do
Write the task you have to do after the work, that way you don’t have to remember them in your head.
Turn off your cellular phone
If you can’t, so just silent it. Don’t be stretched for the next phone call or text message.
The 5 minutes rule
Tell your self I will start doing it for 5 min, if I won’t like it I will quit. That will ease your difficulty to start.
Schedule a time for work and break
Place an aim, such as: studying 2 hours and then taking a break. This will encourage you to complete your tasks.
Analyze the task and prepare it for work
See what you have to do in order to get it done. Divide the task into small chunks that you can do one after the other. Get the right materials and tool ready before you start to concentrate.
your time is your most precious resource
Don’t disappoint your self
You are the best friend of your self, once you promised to do something, do your best to complete it. That way you will build your concentration for the long run as well.
What does it says?
Eye level
Do you get the feeling when you look at this person that you can talk to him? that he can listen? that he care about you? Well you are not the only one, President Obama deliver this feeling out of his personality, he truly believe that all people are equal regardless of the fact where you are coming from.
Compare
Try to imagine talking to Bush the son, he don’t care what you think or who you are, he reminds me the conservative Americans living in the country, for them if you are different from them you are a stranger. not in Obama’s case he is the man of the people, he sees you as who you are and not making judgments based on your social and econimical situation. Thats why people voted him because they feel he will solve their problems.
Obama 1
Obama 1 is the notion that:
I am will upload to my site two t-shirts that describing this notion and deliver the idea to others to undesdtand it. The design is very simple, like the number one, it is round and elementary.
Click to see in store
I am using photo shop on a daily basis but that time I decided I am going to do this job like the pro. I needed a logo that will look professional and deliver the right characteristic I am looking for my brand.
Familiar Logo
Defining you brand
Because we are not going to get much into it I will give you a tip to create a brand using common sense and simple principles. You have to imagine you brand as a person. For example: “the brand likes to eat chips”, “the brand is 75 years old and likes his grandchildren, he wakes up in the morning and read the newspaper. He seeks for safe investments and would like to feel secure”.
Choosing a Designer
Word of mouth is important here, try ask people in the field if they know someone. It is always better to hire someone local but if you are stubborn and would like to go international here is how I did it.
I searched for images in www.istockphoto.com . I found there an artists that is talented in my opinion then I googled him and saw that he is a member in www.Elance.com . This was the easiest way to hire him since Elance have a platform that you can track and work with your freelance.
Rob Snow work
The designer I found is Rob Snow (www.robsnow.org ). Rob is a former American English man who has moved to Greece and is living there right now with his family. Rob is lecturing about computer graphics in a local university and works as a freelance. Rob creates his works from a scratch, he use a pencil on a paper, scan it and then process the image in illustrator. He is the a masterpiece in that software, illustrator.
Working with the Designer
Now you have to write a brief describing your brand, plus instruction of how do you want the logo to look like. Try to be concrete about your demands and send the designer your fixes once he returns you the works time after time.
*iStockphoto - image bank. Lately the lower the prices to 1$ for most of the photos
*Elance.com - a web site that enable you to hire freelancer around the globe in the are of web development, design, marketing and virtual assistance.
Well, probably I am not going to write this blog. I am fighting with my self to get a little time of concentration here. 
My question is “will I be able to hold this idea on my shoulders?” Usually I not that kind of guy, I don’t like to do the hard work. Writing a good blog demends time. Should I say “good”, I don’t know how to define good. Success stories doesn’t happens as people expected, failure do but successes don’t.
I should probably start to write and then see what happens. Readers comments are a crucial for keeping the flame on. OK, this is a progress, so I need readers first.
Geting readers - How?
I need to publish it, a little PR might help, I can get links directing to me.
Before that I have to decide ona domain and name. I though about an image with a butterfly touching a finger and the finger transforms into gold.
Ok I am going to describe in the next post the process of creating the logo of Green Turtle T-shirts store.
Starting things is not always easy.
We will always have doubts if what we are starting worth the investments we put into it. It is always easy to follow other people’s success and copy the steps they took in order to receive the same result they achieved.
Try to recall from your life experience, was it like other people’s experience? Did you get the exact results they got. Probably not, each occurrence consists of many values that can not be controlled by us. We don’t have a full control in our acts, though we can enable the conditions to make our plans work.
Can you run now?
We afraid to walk in the dark. Why? because we want to feel secure regarding our state, even though we know we don’t control what is going to happened. Can you run with your eyes closed in an open field, knowingly that nothing will disturb your path? Think of that, you are fully aware that nothing will happened to you and you are requested to run as fast as you can no matter what direction?
Probably not…
Why is that? You need to have the ability to act under unknown situation where your senses are supported by an inner compass and you trust your self in the way you are choosing to take. In this blog I will try to give you a taste of how to train this ability and obtain achivements you didn’t think you can get.
That’s it, I decided to write a blog, I am not sure what it will be about, but I am sure somebody will be interested to read it, at least one person will be enough for me to keep writing, this what i will say when there will be many more, one person not more. ARE YOU THE ONE?