Good evening. My name is Denis Yablonsky and I want to tell you what made my life better, fuller and richer this year! In the New Year's turmoil, I don't want to load people's minds with a huge article on this topic, but just make up the TOP 5 "improvers" of 2012.
At the end of 2011, I began to increase the pace and volume of reading books and at the end of 2011, I set myself the task of reading 52 books. And so, on December 29, 2012, the plan was completed. More than 200 books have been bought this year (for which many thanks to Boffo boutique and his lovely team) on various topics that are exciting for me, such as health, time management, investing, marketing, service and the most "delicious" direction — biographies. It is difficult to overestimate the influence of such a violent passion for reading, but I can say with confidence that this influence is only positive, and I have already written about this in more detail in my article, just here on the website. Friends, read it, it's really useful and interesting!
I started spending more time with my family and loved ones. And most importantly, I tried to be distracted by work at such moments as much as possible. Each such family meeting charges with unreal energy and positive for all subsequent time. You really begin to feel better about life, its meaning and your own achievements. Family is very important, call your parents right now and tell them that you love them!
For the first 10 years of permanent work and study in Moscow, I was able to afford to work for more than a month in a pleasant environment outside the house, for which a huge thank you to my friend and business partner Arseniy. The first "exit from the twilight" was from May to July, when I left for my native places, where I spent a lot of time as a child. It was just unreal. The productivity of work has increased significantly, things have been done that have dragged on for years up to this point, my well-being has improved and I definitely began to get more joy from life (and from very ordinary things, like cycling and swimming).
At the moment, I am writing lines from sunny and warm (+18) Barcelona, where I have been for almost a month and am not in a hurry to get back. At the same time, the work continues to go on, and the results beat all their own records. The sun, the sea, the mountains and Antonio Gaudi's favorite architecture are my immediate plans. Be sure to break out of the enchanted circle and work remotely, it's worth it!
A super program for self-organization and project management using the GTD method. It is available on iPad and Mac, perfectly supports the "cloud" service for data synchronization. Insanely simple, expensive and therefore unrealistically useful. I highly recommend this "improver" to everyone and everyone, thanks to him personally, I and my team, we can say, have turned mountains.
This year I remembered what it is to do a favorite and interesting thing. In recent years, routine has cooled my entrepreneurial spirit a little. And now a new business, promoting and managing online stores, has opened a second wind in me. The whole year was spent in a crazy drive and the most pleasant thing about it is that I was able to realize and use the full benefit of the moments I wrote about above. Friends! Do an interesting and favorite thing and life will open up for you in new colors! I guarantee it!
P.S. The item that is more likely to get into the TOP5 "improvers" of 2013 is writing. Just recently, I began to receive recognition about my articles (which I apparently lacked all this time) and I know for sure this is just the beginning. A plan has already been set to write the first book before March 1, 2013. By the way, you can take me at my word! It will definitely help me! And I hope my "improvers" will help you and improve your life.
Denis Yablonsky, founder of DJ Academy — musicacademy.ru
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