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Personal Development

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The fol­low­ing 5 tips are a must read if you want to send emails that leave a good impres­sion, and com­pel the recip­i­ent of your emails to take imme­di­ate action.
1. Be bold: Start with the end
Need an answer from your recip­i­ent? Want them to take a par­tic­u­lar action, like print­ing an […]

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How to reach your goals

by The Crazy Colombian on February 27, 2008

in How to, Personal Development

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By now you will know that I am a ’new-age’ type of a char­ac­ter. I have a lot of inter­est in spir­i­tu­al­ity, moti­va­tion, and other top­ics related to my per­sonal and spir­i­tual devel­op­ment. A few days ago, while read­ing an inter­view with Dan Mill­man, I found a very pow­er­ful quote […]

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One of my con­stant sources of inspi­ra­tion is best-selling author Dan Mill­man. I am start­ing to notice a pat­tern here: two of my spir­i­tual guides (Jack Lalanne and Dan Mill­man) were for­mer ath­letes, and shared their per­spec­tives on life with oth­ers in a rather pub­lic way. If you know of more characters […]

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Almost 20 years ago I was sit­ting on a class­room at the ‘Uni­ver­si­dad de Los Andes’ learn­ing about System’s The­ory. In that class-room, I learned a very use­ful par­a­digm: Almost any­thing you care to look at, can be inter­preted as a sys­tem that takes some inputs; processes them; and pro­vides some out­puts.
Throughout […]

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Hello reader; we find each other again. I have an announce­ment to make. Over the last month, I found some­one very sim­i­lar, and at the same time very dif­fer­ent to me. His name is Andres Melo, and like me, he is a Colom­bian expa­tri­ate in an Eng­lish speak­ing coun­try (Canada).
Like me, he has a reflective […]

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Are you a specialist or a generalist?

by The Crazy Colombian on November 1, 2007

in Opinion, Personal Development

The Unawak­ened always rewards Speci­ficity.Only the Mas­ters enjoy Bal­anced Versatility.

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Spe­cial­i­sa­tion is highly regarded in this mod­ern world.I have dis­cussed career goals with many pro­fes­sion­als, and I am yet to find some­one who tells me “I want to develop a broad range of skills — I want to be a gen­er­al­ist”. But as the […]

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Improve your life by assessing your habits

by The Crazy Colombian on September 27, 2007

in How to, Personal Development

Per­sonal devel­op­ment’ authors often rec­om­mend us to “un-learn” old rou­tines, and make space for the effec­tive habits they are about to teach us. These books then spend hun­dreds of pages to describe habits that promise to turn your life around. Hav­ing tried many of these habits myself over the years, I started ask­ing some questions […]

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Is spell-checking making us lazy?

by The Crazy Colombian on September 26, 2007

in Opinion, Personal Development

These days, I write for a liv­ing. Rather weird, con­sid­er­ing I work in ‘mar­ket­ing ana­lyt­ics’. But it’s true. “The word is might­ier than the dig­its”. And in my trade, com­mu­ni­cat­ing what our cus­tomers want into clear and artic­u­late doc­u­men­ta­tion is part and par­cel of what I do.
I also write for myself. Some time back, I was […]

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Over the last 12 months , I have been on a jour­ney of self-exploration and dis­clo­sure. Through this jour­ney, I’ve had some dif­fi­cult times and chal­leng­ing moments. I also have had peo­ple I respect tell me I lost the plot. One thing in com­mon in both instances was that I let my emo­tions and my […]

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There’s been a lot of talk lately about train­ing our peo­ple for suc­cess; and about our desire to sig­nif­i­cantly raise our level of per­for­mance in the busi­ness. Inter­est­ingly enough, these 2 words (train­ing & per­for­mance) can be tracked to the sports arena. I wonder […]

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