Ideas to improve the quality of life

I continue to keep the cornucopia of technology at arm's length, so that I can more easily remember who I am.
- Kevin Kelly -

As we constantly outsource our brain functions to our smartphone, laptop or intelligent watch, we should start to be aware, and to make small changes. Such as memorizing a phone number or write a birthday in our notebook. Send a postcard on someone birthday instead of a Facebook message. There are many ways to implement change. Keep your phone in another room during the night to charge, so you will not be tempted to reach for it first thing in the morning. Open your window instead and breath properly for ten times. Improve yourself!


We have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary goodwill, a common global society.
- Mahnaz Afkhami -

What do i mean when i say global? No, i am not referring to some occult organisation aiming to take over the world. I mean solving global problems through local approach. Our imagination is our only limit. Help your children to plan 10 trees, Play one Hour outside or read a book instead of watching TV. Be active. Take care of your body, your emotions and your mind. Let the Nature to do her magic.

Last day at work - new beginnings

Today was my last day of work, in a place that make me grow, despite the dificulties. In the end, no place is perfect in the real world. And as a parting gift i give a red rose to every woman and a fancy pen to every man that worked with me in the past months. Why, would you ask? Because i can. I couldn't help myself to notice their reactions, and just this bit, the way in which you accept an unexpected gift, make me know more about them than i could learn in the whole amount of time of working together. I had so much fun. Fat or skinny, young or old, didn't matter to me, every one of them get their gift, and their reactions varied from: "why?" or "must cost you a fortune to do this" to hug without being able to say a word ( in fact she said after a while that nobody ever did something like that there ). I told them that it was a privilege to work with them and after that i just left. Nobody knew that it was my last day at work there until i told them. But at least something very amusing happen. Being the time to end the shift, everyone was going home smiling, full of hope, holding a rose as a personal trophy and we got even random people on the street noticing that and smiling back.
Who was thinking that one person can generate such a shift in a very solid pattern of daily thoughts through an apparently insemnificative act ?

P.S. This is not only a selfless act, but also a variation of the Stop technique developed by Gurdjieff at the beginning of the 20th century.