From the monthly archives:

May 2008

How to be more cool-headed

by The Crazy Colombian on May 26, 2008

in Health & Fitness, How to, Innovation, Life

Image: morning meditation 2, courtesy of Agata…
Do you keep a cool head in the face of adversity? Would you like to become more calm and centred in times of uncertainty? This short article will give you some ideas for making the most of your (hopefully!) daily shower, and improve your ability to temper your [...]

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Image: Derived from Karate Kick by kaibara87
Welcome to the third instalment in the Peaceful Warrior Series, a collection of articles inspired on a weekend seminar by Dan Millman. If you’re new to this series, you may want to start by reading the previous articles.
Last time I explained the Law of Balance and how to [...]

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“Subscribe by email” has been fixed

by The Crazy Colombian on May 17, 2008

in Announcement

This is a short message to apologise for the problems you may have encountered when trying to ‘Subscribe by email’. I had missed a few characters in the code, which meant it didn’t work properly.
If you tried to use this subscription method in the last week, please accept my apologies. You can try again now [...]

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13 Things to Avoid When Changing Habits

by The Crazy Colombian on May 12, 2008

in How to, Life

Originally published in Zen Habits, this article explains 13 things to avoid when trying to develop a habit. With a lot of experience in developing new habits (from quitting smoking to taking up running, GTD, vegetarianism and waking up early). Through these experiences, he not only learned a lot about what you should do when changing habits, but through his failures, he also learned about what not to do. Read on if you want to learn from his mistakes!

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Tomorrow

by The Crazy Colombian on May 9, 2008

in Love, Poem

A poem inspired by Bradley Trevor Grieve’s awesome book Tomorrow

For a copy of the poem, click here
Note: All images were made available to the public by their authors under a Creative Commons License on Flickr.com; for a full list of credits, watch the end of the video or click here
For more poetry, visit the following [...]

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Image: Champion Little Swinger by McGun
In this, my second reflection about the ‘Peaceful Warrior Experience’, I will present my thoughts on Dan’s presentation of the ‘Law of balance’. Surprised? Yes, I changed my mind; Instead of writing about my intuition, I decided to trust it and start with an article about balance. Hope you don’t [...]

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