February, 2010

Human beings are social animals. You’ll never feel complete without social interactions. That’s why isolated self development is very likely to fail.

Ask people about their ultimate goal and most of them reply happiness or something that’s closely related to it. And you know, it’s very hard to reach complete happiness by isolating yourself.

Of course, there’s always a certain risk if you integrate other people in your plans, as they are .. not you and so their plans might differ from yours. But it’s better to take calculated risks than to lead a boring life! At least, that’s how I think about it. Plus, you can minimize those risks by doing some thinking about yourself. Notice, that I wrote “some thinking”, don’t spend all of your time alone. Thinking can create a nice basis for your self development, but once you got your basis, further progress becomes way easier if you use other methods as well. And you won’t really know yourself unless you studied yourself in social interactions.

If you dislike all kinds of social situations, this does not mean that you should avoid them. On the contrary, you should rather get used to them. Feeling uncomfortable during most social interactions is a clear sign that you focus on yourself too much. Go out and learn to have fun! You’re not the only interesting person out there.

Does your definition of being perfect include looking perfect? If the answer to this question is yes, then I have another question for you: What’s the perfect look? Try to answer that question and you might end up confused.

Almost all kinds of perfectionism include some definition of looking perfect and there are some different approaches to describe perfect looks. I’ll explain some of them to help you finding the definition you want to use for yourself. Take a look at these:

1. Comparison with other persons. This one is bad. And very common at the same time. A lot of people take the looks of a famous model or actor and start trying to look the same. Or wanting to look the same, as they don’t know how to come closer to this goal. The truth is that you are another person. And so you will always look different. (more…)

Alright, let’s see what happened in january 2010.

• 11 new posts have been submitted to this blog. With the number of articles being 10! Not bad.
• I launched my new project ThinkersClub.org, and did a lot of modifications on the code during this month.
• I changed the about me page of this blog. Nothing really special, but I just wanted to mention it here..
• I’m getting used to twitter and I begin to like it.
• There are some new pictures decorating some posts on this blog.

Well, I revealed my own goals some time ago, one of them was “Having submitted at least 50 posts to this blog. At least 27 posts need to be articles.” I already posted 30 articles, so I’m done with this part. (I’ll still post articles though.) The total of posts is 39 at the moment, posting 11 times till 31.03.10 won’t be that big of a problem I suppose.

Phew! All in all, january was great. Really productive and inspiring. 2010 is gonna be a great year!