Well I am pretty good at doing stuff which is not productive — also refereed to as procrastination. But that is for sure one of the worst things todo! And me — and you — should focus on getting procrastination out of our life’s!
One thing I like to do if I procrastinate is shopping online. Just looking at things I could buy — which are most likely to be expensive toys for my camera gear or a new MacBook — but don’t need right now. I could also use that time to just go out shoot some nice photographs and get better with the gear I already own — which is pretty massive. Or I could study for school which would probably be a important thing todo.
In the end I think I have many problems in my time management. I am a bit unfocused and can procrastinate very well. But lately I am getting better in focusing and just ‘doing’ stuff — even if I am scared of it, which is if I need to write an email to somebody I do not really know. I just need to say: 10 Minutes and I need to have this ready. And that works most of the time!
The best feature of the treetop office, Joe might say, is the girl who comes in on the hour, sprawls across the desk and sings his nonsensical code — sometimes rapping, other times Christmas carolling — before abruptly retreating to her own lair, where she’s also writing, except in English.
The thing I admire about this space the most are the two cinema Displays and the way the photos are taken — that way the space looks so bright and a bit dreamie. But take a look your self!
One problem I experienced over the past and am noticing more and more is that people do not care for each other. They are just interested in their own best. That is for politicians here in germany — who are just looking at the next election and do not want to take any hard decisions because it could harm their next election score as well as for the business man (especially managers) who are just interested in earning as much as possible but nobody cares about how they make the money.
There are a few people on this planet who do care, who are active in changing the world and who are really concerned about how other people life.
I am not going to say that I do all this better than anybody else. I just say that it is possible to care! And it is has to be possible to get rich and still care!
In September I decided to chose an additional class at school: Spanish. There are many reasons for that — the most important right now is that I get a higher certificate at the end.
But there should be many more. The time you will read this post I am probably in Spain. Arrived 3 days before this post will go live. The reason for me to spend 3 weeks in spain is #1 to learn the language, #2 to meet interesting people, #3 to chill out and recharge my batteries for the next year of school and finally #4 to take some beautiful photos.
But whats about the language? Well I think that the more languages you can write/speak/understand the better. You can relate to the people in other ways and you can go to different areas of a countries than someone — just speaking english — can. Since my english already is pretty good. I wanted to start something new. And since Spanish is the second most spoken mother-tough the choice was pretty easy.
What I would like to learn in addition are the languages Chinese, Hindi and maybe some Thai. But that is for the future! Right now it is hard enough to get Spanish into my head!
Yesterday was the first, today the second and on Thursday and Friday are the next two exams. After this tests I will hopefully receive the ‘Fachabitur’ (in English this is probably translated: technical diploma, but I am not sure about that).
Here is a fact about me: I live in a small village near a — even smaller — town. And I am not exactly sure how to think about this because I think of it in two different ways.
The first thought is: I really love it to be able to look out of a window and see all the green around our house. The air and the fields.
But all this is not everything. There are many things about it which are not that nice. For instance I have this ‘how do I come to school‘ problem. And not just that distances generally are a problem.
The next problem I encounter is that here are many people who do not fit my thinking. I differ a lot. And I had some problems throughout my childhood what did not make it any easier!
Probably the last thing I would like to mention is the fact that you meet just very few people who do the same you do. For me that is photography, social-networking, web-development and all this new media stuff. On one hand this is great because I have less competition, on the other hand it is bad because I have nobody to talk to about my professions and this leads to the problem that it is hard for me to evolve!
One thing I think can change all this is the idea of traveling more. I plan to do that more over the next year and further. I plan on visiting people I met somewhere and never saw since. I plan on attending meet-ups and congresses / camps around my town — not just the once which are 10km away but also the once which are 100km and more away!
What do you think about this idea? How do you solve such problems or don’t you have any of those?
Many things are planed. Many are not. I have some plans made and those are sometimes hard for me to understand. It’s about to attend school one more year or not. In the end it came down to the decision that I am going to do one more year.
And that’s it for now! I am going to do this even if it will be boring and not exactly what I want that time. It is something which sure will be something I will build my future on. And I still can do what I want after that!
So for now: I have to take it. But later I will be thankful that I did!
Over the past few days I spent some time at Chatroulette (well a couple of hours to say the least) and the video describes pretty well what I think Chatroulette is about. I had some nice talks (with girls and boys) but most of the persons on there are not that nice. But to have some fun it is just that: ‘fun’
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