Procrastination and social media are the toughest enemies of personal development, and, thus, of personal branding. Today I’d like to share three lifehacks that have helped me to jack up my concentration and productivity: The idea box Building on the basis of a suggestion box, this one is more visual and self-addressed. Whenever I’ve got …
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You are here: How a Greenmap gives you the keys of your city
Earmarked in a bigger project and the worldwide action of Cities Foundation, We own the city contest aims to break down boundaries of conventional practices, while spotlighting the innovative potential of bottom-up initiatives in sustainable urban development, so as to catalyze discussion and capitalize on debate. This is also the red line guiding the publication …
Kickstart your International Project
When working at an international level, “I have a project” is a recurring statement. However, many times the speaker has only “an idea for a project” or “a goal to be achieved by a project”. Therefore, setting the stage of what a project is comes as a natural step. In simple terms, an international project …
Wooing an EU call for projects
Every first comer to EU projects asks the same question: how can I get some funds? At first, we should make the difference, in a broad picture, between funds directly managed by the European Commission and those in charge of national /regional managing authorities. And then try to find synergies between the initiativewe want to upgrade …
5 tips on language learning
Some weeks ago I was writing on how to create our own personal branding, mentioning the importance of improving language skills. But how? When budget is limited, it seems impossible to spend several months abroad only for the sake of learning languages and the crisis makes difficult to get a temporary job without speaking the …
Julia Cameron: Is creativity for everybody? (I)
As defined by the Wikipedia, creative writing is “any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature.” Hale (2008) defines creative writing as “anything where the purpose is to express thoughts, feelings and emotions rather than to simply convey information.” But, is creativity accessible to everybody? …
Project Management in under 8 minutes
Chris Croft is one of the UK’s leading trainers and provides a wide variety of courses designed to involve, inspire and motivate people of all levels. To date Chris has trained some 30 000 people. In this video, he defines how to define a project, in 12 steps: – define the project – list …
How not to get famous
I am disturbed by the media blitz trying to convince us that we all have an artist inside and therefore all we have to do is joining a casting to be discovered . First, there is not an “Unique Artist” inside all of us. At least not an exceptional being, just for the meaning of …
5 everyday excuses not to write
Lately, I’ve been working on Creativity . I’m still no expert … can anybody be an expert on something whose nature is changing ? Nevertheless, I’d like to share with you some discoveries. For instance, common excuses for not writing (i.e. painting, drawing, crafting, embroidering, cooking , testing, photographing, training and all sorts of …