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Procrastination. Le lâcher prise : un renoncement ou un moyen de se dépasser ? - Pion Paul-Henri. Pourtant, le lâcher prise est attaché au développement de la personne et même au développement spirituel et associer développement et farniente est antinomique.

Le lâcher prise : un renoncement ou un moyen de se dépasser ? - Pion Paul-Henri

Si l’homme a besoin de se sentir acteur de sa vie, alors le lâcher prise doit être une action, ce ne peut être un renoncement. Rappelons nous en effet en toute chose que l’homme est sujet à trois phénomènes caractéristiques des organismes vivants : l’activité, le repos et l’évolution. Momenti d'ozio. Looking in. Boredom. Facts/Oddities. Murphy Laws. Murphy's Law Calculator. Murphy's Law Calculator From a formula for * Sod's Law provided by British Gas: ((U+C+I) x (10-S))/20 x A x 1/(1-sin(F/10)) "anything that can go wrong, will go wrong!

Murphy's Law Calculator

" Find out in advance whether you will be able to successfully repair your VCR, get to a meeting on time, impress your date, or be a success at any activity whatsoever ! Score: 21.794 Risk Factor: 64967.6 You are bound to screw up at least once ! How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself: A Timely Vintage Field Guide to Self-Reliant Play and Joyful Solitude. By Maria Popova A celebration of makers and hackers from half a century before they were called makers and hackers.

How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself: A Timely Vintage Field Guide to Self-Reliant Play and Joyful Solitude

Legendary psychoanalyst Adam Phillips has written beautifully about why the capacity for boredom is essential for a full life and Susan Sontag contemplated the creative purpose of boredom. Perhaps we understand this intellectually, but we — now more than ever, it seems — have a profound civilizational anxiety about being alone. An obstacle to living life fully. People with lyme disease or iron deficiencies or any other such ailments may appear to be quite lazy, especially if they forego activities that their friends and families partake in.

an obstacle to living life fully

These problems are especially troublesome if they're undiagnosed, for no one can see or know of a specific cause of a person's inactivity. Of course, all of the possible causes (save the physiological) don't justify a life without accomplishment. Nor does knowing that you're being lazy because of fear compensate for what you miss out on in life because of your unwillingness to act. The key to dealing with laziness is taking action, and the key to taking action is finding the motivation to do so.

What do we do, though, when a person simply doesn't want to be motivated to do anything? Are You Sleepwalking Your Life Away? By Celes on Jan 2, 2009 | ShareThis Email This Post.

Are You Sleepwalking Your Life Away?

Procrastination Portal. » Best Procrastination Tip Ever. Post written by Leo Babauta.

» Best Procrastination Tip Ever

Your first thought as you look at this article will be, “I’ll read this later.” But don’t. Let the urge to switch to a new task pass. Read this now. It’ll take you two minutes. Don't Stop Procrastinating. Just Procrastinate Better. By Robert Montenegro Procrastination is often unfairly regarded as productivity's evil twin, writes Donné Torr over at Hootsuite.

Don't Stop Procrastinating. Just Procrastinate Better.

Sure, procrastinators can be slow and unreliable, but there exists research to suggest not all people who put things off are unproductive. Whether it's the sort of "research" that's not worth the paper it's printed on, I'll leave for you to decide. You can’t beat your Facebook addiction into submission – so schedule it into your work day, says Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit. Why Procrastinators Procrastinate. PDF: We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing. Buy it here. (Or see a preview.) pro-cras-ti-na-tion |prəˌkrastəˈnāSHən, prō-| noun the action of delaying or postponing something: your first tip is to avoid procrastination.

Who would have thought that after decades of struggle with procrastination, the dictionary, of all places, would hold the solution. Avoid procrastination. While we’re here, let’s make sure obese people avoid overeating, depressed people avoid apathy, and someone please tell beached whales that they should avoid being out of the ocean. Procrastination is Fun. Do Nothing for 2 Minutes. One Click Wonders.

Cool Interactive Sites. "Useless" 17 Web Toys for Your Procrastination Pleasure. Sometimes you need to take a break from work and just veg out by doing something mindless and pleasant.

17 Web Toys for Your Procrastination Pleasure

TV or a game of solitaire is good for that, but both require a set time commitment. There are hundreds of alternatives on the internet in the form of web toys. These are sites that offer strange visuals, often interactive visuals, that require no real mental effort but might bring a smile to your face for a while. 1. Spider Vector Park has some great toys and games, some of which are harder to figure out than others. 2. Ooh, cosmic! 3. Staggering Beauty is a web page that comes with an epilepsy warning. 4. Silk is an interactive drawing program (with music) in which you weave patterns of silky wisps of smoke across the screen to create horizontally-mirrored art. 5. Sometimes you'd like to draw with many lines at the same time. 6. Time killers. Atomic Pin-Up. Le site que les pin-ups adorent !

Idleness. Funny. Tastefully Offensive. Very Demotivational. LE DEMOTIVATIONAL POSTER, ICONE DE L’INDUSTRIE AMERICAINE DU LOL. Pris dans sa globalité, le web français est un peu gros chat que sa maitresse aurait trop gavé de viandes en sauce.

LE DEMOTIVATIONAL POSTER, ICONE DE L’INDUSTRIE AMERICAINE DU LOL

Il a du mal à bouger son gros cul, il est très prévisible et n’est franchement pas très marrant. L’inverse d’un LOLcat quoi. Moi je vous dis ça comme ça mais dans le fond j’en ai un peu rien à foutre que les gens soient sinistres. En fait, c’est surtout Vincent Glad que ça chiffonne. Pour ceux qui ne lisent pas BienBienBien, l’ami Vincent, qui avait sorti son ton de maitre de conférence à l’ESJ pour l’occasion, nous expliquait en début de semaine que la France Numérique n’est globalement pas LOL.