I feel sad brining this article up so often. God bless Lebanon!

I used to be a beautiful city… Some people say I’m still as beautiful as I was before… I don’t like me anymore… I scare my kids away… I kill my people unintentionally… I starve them to death… I even turn some of their brightest days to a funeral in a split of a second…

Every day I stand there, waving to all these people, mostly young, leaving on these big things they call airplanes… Jealousy kills me, knowing that they will go and enjoy grocery shopping in a street I’ve never heard of, smiling to a stranger who doesn’t even know where their country is… Working hard and becoming successful… I wish they could be here with me, becoming successful with me… I feel helpless without them, thousands and thousands leave, few come back while I sit waiting and waiting and waiting…
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The way you work can have a huge impact on your creative success. We present the best advice from leading designers on every stage of the creative process, so that you can keep clients satisfied and make the most of your talents

What is design? Design is both the process and the final product of an endeavour to fulfil a personal or professional brief. Whether you are creating a piece of graphic work, a website, or a design for a new product, the underlying principal is the same – the creative process is everything. Continue Reading »

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Source: BittBox.com

These are in no particular order but I gave them numbers so you all could reference them in the comments if you like. OK, here we go..

1. You’ve had a client that thought they knew more about design than you.
2. Your clients pay you for your professional expertise and skill, yet you’ve run into one of ‘those’ clients, that refuses to take the advice from the very person he/she is paying for advice (you).
3. You’ve had a client that insisted on using the font “Papyrus,” and you had to hold in your barf as you prepped it [the design] for printing. Continue Reading »

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Someone asked Confucius, ‘what surprises you most about mankind?’
Conficius answered, ‘they lose their health to make money and then lose money to restore their health. By thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present,such that they live neither for the present nor the future and they live as if they will never die, and they die as if they had never lived…’

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This was written by a guy … it’s pretty damn smart.

Girls — Please have a sense of humor!

I never quite figured out why the sexual urge of men and women differ so much. And I never have figured out the whole Venus and Mars thing. I have never figured out why men think with their head and women with their heart.

FOR EXAMPLE:

One evening last week, my girlfriend and I were getting into bed. Well, the passion starts to heat up, and she eventually says, ‘I don’t feel like it, I just want you to hold me.’

I said, ‘WHAT??!! What was that?!’

So she says the words that every boyfriend on the planet dreads to hear…

‘You’re just not in touch with my emotional needs as a woman enough for me to satisfy your physical needs as a man.’

She responded to my puzzled look by saying, ‘Can’t you just love me for who I am and not what I do for you in the bedroom?’
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If you cannot follow all 40 steps, even a few are worth following. These are really very powerful. Implement whatever you can.

1. Take a 10-30
minute walk every day. And while you walk, smile. It is the ultimate anti-depressant.

2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day. Buy a lock if you have to.

3. Buy a DVR, tape your late night shows and get more sleep.

4. When you wake up in the morning complete the following statement, ‘My purpose is to__________ _ today.’

5. Live with the 3 E’s — Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy. (Enjoy with 3R’s club) Continue Reading »

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We all know the phenomenon: you forget to lock your mobile phone and without knowing it, you phone the first person in your contact list. In Belgium, the League of the Blind turned this insight into a fundraising idea. They asked everyone to put “A BLIND CALL” as the first contact in their mobile phone. So, next time you call someone accidentally, you make a donation to the league of the blind. Nice idea.

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It is popular in Japan today to drink water immediately after waking up every morning. Furthermore, scientific tests have proven its value. For old and serious diseases as well as modern illnesses the water treatment had been found successful by a Japanese medical society as a 100% cure for the following diseases:

Headache, body ache, heart system, arthritis, fast heart beat, epilepsy, excess fatness, bronchitis asthma, TB, meningitis, kidney and urine diseases, vomiting, gastritis, diarrhea, piles, diabetes, constipation, all eye diseases, womb, cancer and menstrual disorders, ear nose and throat diseases. Continue Reading »

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Source: Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO — It’s hard to determine what’s more surprising about Microsoft Corp.’s investment in Facebook Inc. — the appraisal that valued a 3 1/2-year-old Internet hangout at $15 billion or the rare snub of online search leader Google Inc.
The $240 million price Microsoft paid for a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook demonstrates just how badly the world’s largest software maker wanted to deepen its relationship with a startup that doesn’t even have $200 million in annual revenue. Continue Reading »

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I’m not really sure who wrote this since I received it from a friend via email. I must say that it did make me stop and reflect on how we approach our own work with goals of trying to earn money online quickly.
Stop, read, pause and reflect - I hope you enjoy this:

It’s been 18 years since I joined Volvo, a Swedish company. Working
for them has proven to be an interesting experience. Any project here
takes 2 years to be finalized, even if the idea is simple and
brilliant. It’s a rule. Continue Reading »

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