During my time as a manager, when committing for a delivery and a deadline, I always added about 20% to the time estimated by my team. Trying to steal some time? Not at all, I was making sure we respect the dead-line because out of my experience, this is how much time we actually needed. …
When I chose to become a freelancer a few years back I did not take the decision lightly, I weighed it for some time and it seemed that it was the right choice for me back then. But the truth is I had no idea what was in store for me following this decision. Now, …
What is your deepest desire? What do you wish the most at this moment? And what if it came true? What then? I saw a few years ago a TV show about a young boy from a poor village, (in Morocco if I am not mistaking). He was an adolescent (14-16 years of age), he …
I have always wondered why there are so many unhappy people around me. In Romania, being discontent with everything around us is almost like a virtue. We despise everything and everyone. Then I went to Western Europe and I saw that people are different, they are more content with their lives and they are happier. …
I have been on a quest for happiness for some time, and because of this I got used to analyze my state of mind every now and then. I realized that I have all the reasons to be happy: I am happily married, I have a good, stable job, I do not have money issues …
I look at myself and around me and I see busy people, trying to gather money, possessions, trying to improve themselves or trying to be better parents for their children; basically trying to make the most of their lives. But I feel that we are so trapped in this rush of making the most of …
Because Christmas has just passed and New Year is around the corner, how about going back to childhood for just a few moments. For me this means a time when we allowed ourselves to dream, to believe in magical creatures and to be free. We do not do this as adults, not because we cannot …
Because Christmas is coming and because a person very close to me is leaving the country I decided to write today about family relations. From my experience the relationship you have with your family is the most complicated of human relations. They are complicated because we cannot choose or change our family, they are for …