Keep life simple

Working time in your life

26 January 2008 at 23:02:00 Posted by Mykhailo Poliarush

How many time do you spend at your desk and away from desk?
From time to time we should think it over.
There's time for work and should be time for relax.
Unfortunately, time goes by and we should plan recreation and entertainment.
Let's do simple calculation.

8 hours - sleeping time.
1 hour - come to work.
8 hours - working time. Sometimes it might be more.
1 hour - come home.

so it has leaved only 6 hours. If this time isn't planned you won't fill it.
There's so much books about time management. I even attended training.
I should say it's very instructive and useful.

A few links regarding it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_management - just in common.
http://www.time-management-guide.com/index.html - good source
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~acskills/success/time.html - exact example and videos
http://www.managementhelp.org/prsn_prd/time_mng.htm - good source
and the last link http://www.sellingsalesmanship.com/time.html - good quotes.

Well, sum it up:

Money, can only be gained or lost. But time I can only lose.
So, I must spend it carefully

Best quotes

at 16:42:00 Posted by Mykhailo Poliarush

People have ability of thinking. The more thinking, the more thoughts.
The more thoughts, the more you work to improve yourself.
Sometime you can't explain your thoughts and there's no better way as put into words.
I'd like to share my favorite quotes:

Albert Einstein

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Anonymous

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Mark Twain

Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

Winston Churchill

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Mahatma Gandhi

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Traffic jam picture

17 January 2008 at 15:15:00 Posted by Mykhailo Poliarush

Please have a look. I'm shocked. There is no ANY driving culture here.

If everyone just a little thinks of someone on the road there wouldn't be such traffic jam.
For example it's not a secret that everyone in Ukraine can easily buy driving license for 200-300 USD. It's simply disgrace.

I'm just wondering about getting driving license in other countries. Do you have the same?

Slovakia, Bratisliva. Cost of living.

16 January 2008 at 22:48:00 Posted by Mykhailo Poliarush

I've already written about Belgium, Brussels a few days ago and I'm going to continue write the next country's survey. I had conversation with my friend which currently works in Slovakia, Bratislava.

Tax
38%

Transport

Taxi
A 10-minute ticket costs SKK 14, and a 30-minute ticket SKK 18, which is under 50 Euro cents.

Food

Clothe

Average salary

Flat rent

Cost of living is xxx.

you know, as i saw average salary ~50k. don't forget that they pay tax :), as i saw it was ~50%.
so perhaps salary grow down to 25k ^). because in my case as i told you they proposed me near 1.7 euro per/month so ~20k per year (but -25% because of tax). but the appartment in the center of the city in bratislava ~350euro+70-100 euro(charges). ~450euro. and food costs not so expensive like in Beussels, i'm sure. but the idea is great. maybe you should create something like table where you show everything.

sorry fro misstakes, i took one bottle of wine in fridge... he he.. it is one of our benefits on a job.

i'm still waiting you here, in Bratislava... here a good point to move to the Austria or any other country.