And Ⅰ am still dancing, but not as much as before. Ⅰ am guessing Ⅰ will rest my ballroom ambitions for a while now and will continue more on the path towards mastery of argentine tango. Ⅰ am planning on posting much more on this, especially since Ⅰ will be taking classes again. Which is happy news as my girlfriend decided to try tango with me.

Related posts:

1. On a new tango path… As you may have read earlier Ⅰ have quit my...
2. Quick status update… Ⅰ have made the transition from university to industry, from...
3. getting GTD in my life – update So Ⅰ have been playing with David Allen’s gtd method...

Ähnliche Artikel bereitgestellt von Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Es wird alles bleiben wie es nie war.

Related posts:

1. O2 zockt ab. o2online – Anruf-Info per SMS, grundsätzlich eine feine Sache: als O2-Kunde...
2. Soziale Netzwerke Es gibt ja immer wieder gewisse Hypes im Netz. Der...
3. Standard Turniertanz: Motivationsquellen vs. Wertungen? Heute waren wir mal wieder auf einem Turnier (genauer gesagt:...

Ähnliche Artikel bereitgestellt von Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

• Ⅰ am pretty good at my lab with using my inbox – as well as processing it. There are still some problems with my electronic inbox – which consist of multiple places:

  a) a folder for downloads (like new versions/betas of DevonThink… as well as literature in pdf format). Ⅰ am pretty good at putting stuff in there, but not as good in processing it. But then this is not really a problem since most of that stuff either gets dumped into DevonThink for later reference (literature as well as diverse snippets from the net, the occasional (hah) GTD hack and much more). Nothing essential and most just stuff of low priority. And then there is that stuff that should go into the @SomedayMaybe box – software updates, new applications, plugins – whatever. Just the regular digital toys and tools.

  b) my email inbox Now that is a bit different. Ⅰ just switched to Mail.app 2.0 and am training my spam filter again – since junkmatcher is not available yet. Thus the inbox is quite full and needs some work, as well as my stuff in @nextactions – it seems to get overlooked – even though Ⅰ just started to add the items/actions to my backpack-lists.

  ⅽ) my del.icio.us account. Ⅰ am pretty good at filing stuff immediately so Ⅰ don’t have too much stuff in @inbox, and most of that stuff is there because Ⅰ have not had the time to think about filing – so there is low priority stuff in there mostly. Actually hardly any of the pages in there are related to important stuff – maybe that’s why the associated actions are not showing up on my lists. (basically my delicious account is a huge reference kit as well as a someday/maybe/readlater box). And then Ⅰ usually don’t bother to check my „real inbox“ in delicious (the one with the subscriptions of bookmarks). too many bookmarks and too little time.

• Ⅰ am not so good at my lab with creating nextAction-lists. Ⅰ think it is quite difficult to write down the next physical action since there usually are so many actions that take so little time – and it can be better summarized with the project’s name. But then Ⅰ haven’t figured out how to really organize my lab work into projects – at least Ⅰ am not thinking in terms of projects here. Ⅰ have multiple reactions/products in my lab journal – each could be considered as a project – but then they are all part of a bigger project as well. mhh, Ⅰ need to think more about this problem

• Ⅰ have become much better at writing my lab journal. And Ⅰ am also starting to use the first minutes when entering the bus going home to rethink my work day, collect open loops and ideas, brainstorm and plan a bit ahead – all in my moleskine – as well as think about other stuff Ⅰ need to do. This takes about 5 to 25 minutes each day and really gets my head clear of stuff and ready for my evening.

• Ⅰ have an inbox at home which is processed once every 7 to 10 days. There is mostly mail, bills and stuff to read in there, but ⅰ feel good about being in control here, too. But then there is the same problem as in my lab – Ⅰ am not really good at keeping the nextAction lists as well as project lists. Ⅰ think it all still comes down to the point that Ⅰ haven’t found a system that Ⅰ trust my stuff to put it in there and actually get it back out again. Ok there is not much lost since Ⅰ have no urgent stuff hanging here – most of my time is spent either at my lab, dancing or „relaxing“. But Ⅰ think Ⅰ could be much more efficient and would enjoy having a bit more control and discipline at home, too. Ⅰ suppose Ⅰ will need to rely on low-tech notecards and papers for my trusted system at home – anything fancy just doesn’t keep me interested as well as feeling safe with it. Hey, Ⅰ don’t even want to start writing nextAction-Lists in my Moleskine – although Ⅰ could see myself putting some context exactly there, like @calls @errands @shopping @u-bahn – in addition to having lists in a hipsterPDA. But strangely Ⅰ am much better at using my Moleksine as a journal as well as a thought-drop box – which basically is a storage of stuff that will need to be processed, so basically Ⅰ trust my moleskine as an inbox – but not for processed stuff. This will need to change.

[I need to leave now, more on that later, probably the next post]

Related posts:

1. My experiences with gtd so far – what next? Ok, Ⅰ need to admit right at the start of...
2. A new GTD application for MacOSX Check out this beautiful application for all those GTD people...
3. ideas for a gtd application Just a brainstorm and thought-dump...

Ähnliche Artikel bereitgestellt von Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

This experience is changing my tango, again. After one year of dancing mostly with the music Ⅰ just seem to have opened that door again, a door that had been shut for quite a while now after a short experience two years ago… and funny: Ⅰ would have thought Ⅰ would never experience such a thing again as Ⅰ considered it to be too specific and too special. Happy me – finding heaven again – and this time it seems in the arms of two different women.

But then there is another issue: Ⅰ am still not really sure if this still is just something that exclusively happens between dancers – or between two people who meet and where that connection is more than just a three minute (or three hour) encounter on the dancefloor. Back to the question: falling in love with the dancer or the dancing?

Oh, exciting times.

Related posts:

1. Dancing like Madonna //www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000B8QEZG?v=glance%26vi=samples - 36k Cached My rating: 4 out of...
2. Zydeco dancing Jody Smith, originally uploaded by marksteveg. Ⅰ have never come...
3. iPhoto, Ⅰ love thee not. Apple’s iPhoto 5 is great. A lot better than any...

Ähnliche Artikel bereitgestellt von Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

central park tango class,
originally uploaded by leslie h.

We switched to Daylight Savings Time last night, it is getting warmer outside, spring is coming. And thus the endless possibilities to dance tango outside! (although at this point Ⅰ switched on my happy glasses giving everything a yellowish look as the sun in Munich is not coming out and everything looks quite fad and lifeless outside.)

Related posts:

1. Another tango ghost @ flickr Tango, originally uploaded by smoking-argentina. As you may know (just...
2. Dance fotos by „moondust“ 20041009–001, originally uploaded by Moondust. Moondust has quite a nice...
3. Narcotango in Munich When: Sunday, October 16 2005 08:00 PM Where: Metropolis,...

Ähnliche Artikel bereitgestellt von Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Steve wrote the article „How to discover your life’s purpose in about 20 minutes describing a method that clears your mind of all external ideas, values and hopefully comes up with a true answer coming from your deepest inside. An answer whose truth you will feel instantly. Steve writes:

Usually it takes 15–20 minutes to clear your head of all the clutter and the social conditioning about what you think your purpose in life is. The false answers will come from your mind and your memories. But when the true answer finally arrives, it will feel like it’s coming to you from a different source entirely.

Ⅰ have not done the task yet – maybe because Ⅰ am afraid? My rationale would be „I do not have the time to do se now – maybe tomorrow“ which in part is true – as Ⅰ am currently in the process of writing this article as well as in the need to get ready for tonight’s tango fusion party. But you know how these things are… there usually is no „I do not have the time“ but more a „I do not want to take the time“. Whatever. Ⅰ will do the exercise – it is a logical conclusion of my inner needs and drives that have taken control at times these last months. Part of these was my adoption of „Getting Things Done“ Methodology, as well as the discovery of Steve’s blog – making me think and question as well as curious.

Of course, the pure idea of having a purpose has never been strange to me, nor have certain ideas Ⅰ have had in the past years about this purpose – my purpose – but never been really that convincing – many ideas have seemed to be too simple (can this really be it?) or too far off that they sounded true but also so in-concrete as that Ⅰ would not really see how that idea, that purpose would really work. My past attitude towards this has always been a trust in life that things will work out as they will as well as that these „ideas“ that Ⅰ have will eventually make themselves more clear to me as they start to come into my life. But then there is this time now, the last year of my 4th septade, my 28th year on this planet and Ⅰ somehow have the feeling Ⅰ will need to know what Ⅰ really want to do this year as it will be a good place to start in the right direction rather than following down a road Ⅰ don’t really want to go – just because it is so easy and obvious to follow it. Yes, Ⅰ will finish my PhD-Thesis sometime this year, probably not before November, maybe before April 2006 – but that is about the time Ⅰ have set for it as well as a good reason to figure out what to do then – where to go next and what Ⅰ really want to do. Yes, of course there are many options, many that Ⅰ could easily master – many challenges, quests and possibilities – and also many places Ⅰ can already see Ⅰ would be selling part of my soul if Ⅰ would go there without knowing why. Without staying sane in the process and not getting sucked into the „career path“ that we all seem to follow, that the „system“ offers.

Here was my final answer: to live consciously and courageously, to resonate with love and compassion, to awaken the great spirits within others, and to leave this world in peace.

were Steves last words on his purpose, a truly noble and true statement that makes me think Ⅰ may lie on similar terms – but the sentence does not ring any bells inside me – which would be expected as it is not my statement – but this also necessitates spending the time to find my own mission statement, my own purpose in life.

Related posts:

1. Finding the right reference/bibliographic tool | fauskes.net Finding the right reference/bibliographic tool | fauskes.net Many people use...

Ähnliche Artikel bereitgestellt von Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Having just finished 4 seasons of Babylon 5 I am feeling quite a bit wondering… wondering about the questions raised in the series, its dialogues and especially behind the scenes and between the lines. There seem to be three questions asked:

1. Who are you?
2. What do you want?
3. Why are you here?

Ⅰ am not sure if these questions actually are everything there is to it, but they sure are deep and meaningful questions – questions Ⅰ cannot answer but also questions Ⅰ want to have answered, that Ⅰ feel Ⅰ need to start putting some life into.

What do Ⅰ want?

It seems easy to answer the second question „What do you want?“, but maybe it is not that easy. Sure, there are certain needs Ⅰ have, and things Ⅰ want – but that cannot be the answer Ⅰ am looking for. Ⅰ can fill a page with things Ⅰ want – maybe this is exactly the way to approach this. Write down everything that is on my mind, write down everything Ⅰ want and then start looking what is behind all that. This idea reminds me of Dave Allens „Getting Things Done“ method, where you try to get everything out in the open, all open loops out of your brain which is not the place where reminders are supposed to sit if it is to live, decide and act instead of just running after shadows.

Who am I?

This is even a better question – and will its answer change the things Ⅰ want? In the end it will probably all converge into one thing on a high enough level – but then the answer cannot just be „to be“ in itself – even if this is enough meaning for anything; just too metaphysical for me Ⅰ guess. (not really, but not practically either).

Why am Ⅰ here?

The least concrete question and probably the source for who Ⅰ am – if there is something like purpose or meaning in the universe – everything Ⅰ am and want is because Ⅰ am here – but then there is a difference. If there is such a thing as destiny and/or fate – my wants and my self-view, the answers to questions 1 and 2 do not have to fall in line with it. There is always the filter of the subjective out, always the ego that interacts with the world, that has ideals, flaws and changes perception to reflect its inner self image into and onto the world. So by answering the first and second question Ⅰ do not get anywhere near the answer to question three – whereas the answer to question three might be changing and determining the other answers. Difficult to think about it, but even more difficult to find the answers. Steve Pavlina talks in his blog about those high level effects – but just on a theoretical level, Ⅰ cannot really follow as he does not give too many details, no examples – Ⅰ might need to send him an email to ask for more, to ask for some ideas.

Related posts:

1. minimize maintenance costs of an OS Ⅹ system … especially backup and „duplication“. bbum mentioned a while ago...
2. Why GTD? Kevin asks the dreaded question to anyone fanatical enough about...

Ähnliche Artikel bereitgestellt von Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.