The emotional time

WHERE you were doing WHAT one year ago? Middle June and just only one year ago, I was in Madrid with many projects in my mind and happy for the wondered return to Spain after four years living and working in England.
One year is the measure for the chronological time passed by, but it’s not the amount of emotional time consumed according to a Barcelona University Professor and Psychologist who write the book “The emotional time”. I read his book this weekend. The concept is quite simple, when you’re having fun or enjoying what you’re doing (playing your favorite game, listening to the music you like,…) , times goes by quickly, but in the opposite way, when you are waiting for something, queuing or doing something you don’t like or enjoy, those activities look like it took you ages to finish them!
We live in a society where chronological time is basic and is established to allow coordination, behavioral rules and civilization progress, but we usually forget about emotional time. We forget about our internal clock that is continuously measuring emotionally our activities. We forget how important is to feel synchronize and on-track with it.
Time is a high valuable thing that is giving to us and our only purpose is to use it with total freedom and accordingly to our hurt. In another post I talked about time management, Today I talked about time again, but the emotional side of it and how vital is the right use of it.
Thanks and smile,

dk

100$ notebook

This is the solidarity Laptop invented by Nicholas Negroponte and within Unicef project/campaign for next October. Developed by MIT (Massachusetts Technology Institute) the goal is to allow access to technology and Internet to children from undeveloped countries. This little laptop will cost only 100 dollars and even has WIFI!

thanks and smile,

dk

Interñet

Next October, all URLS or internet domains ‘.es’ would be able to include our beloved letter “ñ”. This subject made me remind my times working and living in the UK and all the difficulties in writing mails to Spain without using letter ñ. You have the feeling of lack of presence of the Spanish culture within the Anglo-Saxon world.
Well, you know this blog is written in English for “cultural reasons” we believe in the richness of languages so we’d like to thank this initiative and hope this letter is far more used within web 2.0.
Thanks and smile,
Dk

Olé España!

MBA is getting to an end…

Well guys, this is it, MBA classes are almost gone. Next Wednesday is our final class as a group. We will have some more classes though, three optional subjects, but with different people from other executives groups, and others like me (doing the Venture Lab) will have only one... Nevertheless we all still have to do the final exam…
These days in class, we feel a bit rare. It’s a mix of good feelings and strange feelings. Good feelings for knowing this is the end of a big effort but, at the same time, a bit of saddness for realizing we will loose the good moments we usually share at class, the jokes, social events, the end of the classes when we go for a drink, dinners and so on. We think summarizing is the feeling of acknowledging that our days as “STUDENTS” are gone again…
We better start thinking in the next challenge… Dancing classes perhaps…? :-)
Thanks and smile,
dk