I love mornings. I believe I’ve said it many times, but it’s worth repeating because mornings are the kind of things that still keep surprising me.
Take for instance a morning some time back in August. I had spent a couple to a few months doing mostly no other, but spinning workouts, as my desperation toward the habitual and everlasting running injuries had reached its limit. And then, that particular morning, I woke up, and the desperation was gone…. [Read more.]

There goes another wedding anniversary

… that I’ve dedicated to writing my Master’s thesis. The one during which I also have my last MBA exam for this semester. Here’s the “FINISHED!” celebration dance I’ve planned :

Personal principles are not made to be followed during easy times, but during hard ones. They are meant to guide us, to give us a direction, and to simplify our decisions — even when opting for the right choice is difficult.

I remember an excellent example from the book Made to Stick regarding SouthWest Airlines. In short, the story was about the decision not to serve chicken salad to the flyers of a particular route…. [Read more.]

Whenever you wake up at 2:30 a.m. with the feeling that you won’t be able to fall asleep, you’ve got only 2 choices. Either toss around in bed and get even more frustrated than you already are, or get up and do what you’ve got to do.

I’m glad to say that today I decided for the latter and here I am, being productive while most people are still waking up, after an amazing workout in the gym. Best of… [Read more.]

Coming straight from one of my favorite DJs.

This post is a continuation to my Intro to Dubai trip in which I talked about arriving on late Saturday evening. (Yes, the post I was supposed to publish about 5 Fridays ago )
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Sunday morning, after breakfast, we took a cab to the textile souk.

We walked around the [Read more.]

Just wanted to let you know a couple of things related to the blog:

• The issues with IE are solved (at the least the ones I found out about).
• I’m currently  (as, in this instant) switching comment systems, from IntenseDebate to DISQUS. While I loved the IntenseDebate option of subscribing only to replies, rather than the whole conversation, it never worked for me, neither on this blog, nor on some other people’s blogs I know of + there are… [Read more.]
  

Here’s what I listen to on Friday mornings at 4:30am when attacking my To do list.

Enjoy

I’m aware of at least 2 bugs that have recently appeared on the website… (Or I just became recently aware of them). One is related to the comment system: apparently it’s declining some of your comments due to e-mail address issues. Thanks to Seb for letting me know about this.

The other one is related to how the site looks under the latest version of IE 8 and more specifically  how the font styling looks… If you haven’t… [Read more.]