General

I have just deployed (as you can see) a new look for this blog. It’s a major upgrade because I switched from wordpress to my own blogging platform (written in rails 3 if you care)…. Read more

Editor note: This post is part of the Guest Post Giveaway at the blog Unready and Willing.  If you think articles about writing or personal development (or personal development for writers) sounds like a good  fit for your blog, please take a look at the Guest Post Giveaway page and see if any of the articles spark your interest. How can a writer learn to deal with criticism? Many writers go to… Read more

Dragos Roua is the guy behind DragosRoua.com, a popular blog around personal development and productivity. He has some very interesting stories to share, so I decided to send him a few questions.

Oscar: Hi Dragos and thanks for giving me the opportunity to interview you. You own a blog which is very popular in the personal development niche, can you talk a bit about how you become interested in personal

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Motivation is the emotion that gives us the force to do something. Without motivation we would do nothing. We wouldn’t go to work without a strong motivation to pay rent and to live a comfortable life. We wouldn’t go out with friends without the motivation to have a crazy night.

It’s simple to be motivated to do those things, as they are necessities for most people. But what about things like working

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It’s nice to talk about productivity, but what happens when you keep track of what you did during the day and then you take a look at the results?

The experiment

here’s a realistic log of what I did on Nov 15 2009:

• 10.13 – 10.35: reply to comments on blog.
• 10.35 – 10.53: browsing.
• 10.53 – 10.57: break.
• 11.00 – 11.26: work on guest post (1 pomodoro).
• 11.26 – 11.27: break.
• 11.27 – 11.34: check email

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I’ve been excited by the idea of Josh who decided to run a guest post marathon. He got a lot of requests and he did write a lot of guest posts lately (one is coming here too). This post is just to announce that I’m starting my own guest post marathon for freestyle mind. If you have a blog, keep reading. If you don’t have a blog, it would be cool if you could refer this page to your friends who have… Read more

Just a quick post to inform all the readers of Freestyle Mind that this blog is now uncopyrighted, that is, its content is now available in the public domain. You are now free to publish the content of this website wherever you want, with or without citing the source. This is a big step forward I’m taking with the intention of providing even more value to the world. I don’t care getting fame as long… Read more

Today is Blog Action Day and thousands of bloggers are writing about climate change. The argument of this year is one that touches everyone of us. It doesn’t matter if you are rich or poor, happy or sad, climate changes will affect everyone of us, and our children as well. Unfortunately TV and medias are not educating the population enough and I believe a big reason is that they don’t know what’s… Read more

“This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.”

What would you have taken if you were asked to? I bet 80% of you would have said the red pill, 15% the blue pill, 4% both (uh?), and… Read more

Hi and welcome to Freestyle Mind, my name is Oscar and my mission here is to share and inspire you with topics about personal development and beyond. In the last couple of years I’ve studied a lot about personal development and programming, which is currently my day job and I’ve come to the conclusion that want I really want is to expand my knowledge about personal growth, life and success, so to… Read more