Improving The Quality Of Your Life

I’ve seen so many people talking about the importance of reducing the computer time in our lives and I’ve always wondered, how much time do people really spend in front of their personal computers and on which tasks?

Currently I spend almost twelve hours every day (both mobile - notebook, and at home - desktop). A lot of time, I know. The reason for me spending so much time on the computer is that I’m doing almost all my work on it.

The full computerization of a country is impossible to avoid. Today computers are used on a production, in the offschools and flats.

Children, which can’t read and write yet, already strongly use this wonder machine, playing on it for hours.

The last researches showed that computers don’t make us more healthy and with the wrong use can give an irreparable harm.

While the computer producers assert that their products are absolutely unharmful, the protection remedies producers and the computer users have a different opinion.

The most common health problems are lose of eyesight, muscles and joints diseases, memory worsening, weakness, tachycardia, negative dysfunctions, inattention and neurasthenia. The easiest way to fight these problems is to pay close attention to your workspace ergonomics.

Now what I want to ask you is a simple question (well, two…):

How much time do you spend on your computer each day? And on which tasks do you spend the biggest chunk of time?

I’m curious to find out how much time do Project Armannd readers spend on their computers daily.

Let’s discuss this issue in the comments. Maybe we’ll discover new ideas about how to improve our productivity and health while working with computers.

One of the greatest forces that stops you from achieving your true potential is the fear of failure. The fear of failure is related to the fear of criticism and fear of rejection.

One of the main differences between successful and unsuccessful people is that the successful people fight and overcome their fear of failure. Unsuccessful people are incapacitated by it.

There is one important law that the successful people know about and follow, and that is the Law of Feedback.

The Law of Feedback: there is no failure; there is only feedback.

Today’s question is closely related to the fear of failure.

It requires you to look deep within yourself and analyze the things that make you happy and bring you satisfactions.

What would you attempt to do
if you knew you could not fail?

Take your time to answer this one, because the answer is very valuable - to you. If the answer comes from inside of you, from your heart, and you feel like you are meant to do that thing and it could represent you, then don’t be afraid of failure and start working towards it. Remember the Law of Feedback: there is no failure; there is only feedback. What reason do you have to be afraid of feedback? Everyone wants to receive feedback!

Having this fresh perspective, look deep within and think of what would you like to attempt if “failure” wouldn’t exist in this universe.

As this blog is getting very close to celebrating it’s second month of existence and I’m getting better at understanding what you, my readers, like to read about, I would like to ask for some help in improving this blog!

In one year from now, with your help, I would like to see this blog grown into an authority resource on self improvement. That’s why I need you to dig deep within your mind and tell me what improvements would you want me to make in order to improve your visiting experiences.

While I can assume what you like or dislike, it remains only an assumption.

I would like to find out what you like about this blog, what kind of posts do you enjoy reading the most, what topics would you like to read more about in the future… Also, I would appreciate you telling me the things that you don’t exactly love around here (be as honest as possible on this one).

Any constructive ideas, suggestions and comments are welcome. Make your voice heard in the comments and let’s improve this blog, together!

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.” - Albert Einstein

I’ve always agreed to that. And because of that, I’m gonna test your intelligence with a very simple problem.

Below is a quote that I’ve used in a previous post, and what you have to do now is to count how many F’s (both uppercase and lowercase) are in it. Simple enough? I think so. Here it is:

Kant… accepted the notion of things-in-themselves existing independently of any knowledge… As his starting point [he took it] that any specific knowledge we claim to have of such and such an external object is obtained through our senses, [and] hence is at best only indirect and questionable… What we know directly and with certainty is therefore only the set of our ideas. [For example,] the very notion of causality [is] a priori mode of human understanding, in other words, an idea. - d’Espagnat

Finished counting? How many F’s (both uppercase and lowercase) are in that text? Tell us in the comments. I’ll tell you your results there.

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Note: Please don’t use the search feature of your browser to count the F’s.

A study conducted by the University of Georgia shows that the middle school students who are exposed to anti-smoking ads are more likely to smoke. You may wonder, how is that possible? Well, it’s a fact that the youth have a rebellious nature and don’t want to hear what they should do or not do. Often, when sending them a “don’t do that” message, they will do it just to express their nature.

In 2002, an anti-smoking foundation found that the anti-smoking campaign of the tobacco manufacturer Philip Morris had reverse effects, it was making the students more likely to smoke.

From a psychological point of view, these results are predictable if we take into consideration their target (the teens). This is because their minds are very vulnerable to sublime psychological marketing.

These anti-smoking campaigns aren’t the only ones that have positive results for the sales of the big companies. Almost everything that’s labeled as being “prohibited” or not recommended for an age group has reverse psychological effects, it creates want. Even drug use may be enhanced by the anti-narcotic campaigns, because of the human psyche.

I want to know what your opinion about this. What kind of message or approach do you think would have the desired results in stopping the youth from smoking or consuming other dangerous or restricted products?