Archive for February, 2009

Emotional Guidance System

February 20, 2009 at 8:09 pm · Filed under Personal Development ·Tagged , ,

I just love the EGS – Emotional Guidance System from Esther and Jerry Hicks book

Ask and it is Given : Learning to Manifest the Law of Attraction

Ask and it is Given : Learning to Manifest the Law of Attraction

It is a pretty simple and effective concept. Your emotions help guide you where you are in relation to where you want to be. So if you feel a discord or angry for example then you are simply not in line with where you want to be. Below is a scale from page 114 of the book to help you gauge where you are:

  1. Joy/Knowledge/Empowerment/Freedom/Love/Appreciation
  2. Passion
  3. Enthusiasm/Eagerness/Happiness
  4. Positive Expectation/Belief
  5. Optimism
  6. Hopefulness
  7. Contentment
  8. Boredom
  9. Pessimism
  10. Frustration/Irritation/Impatience
  11. “Overwhelment”
  12. Disappointment
  13. Doubt
  14. Worry
  15. Blame
  16. Discouragement
  17. Anger
  18. Revenge
  19. Hatred/Rage
  20. Jealousy
  21. Insecurity/Guilt/Unworthiness
  22. Fear/Grief/Depression/Despair/Powerlessness

The trick is to change your thoughts and try and move up the ladder of emotions. So moving from say Depression to Anger should be seen as a positive move even though people around you may not see it like that. The goal is to change your thoughts until your emotions move up the scale. Of course as challenges appear you will not stay at the top of the scale, but if you take notice of how you are feeling you can quickly correct the situation.

Great book with some fantastic tips.

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Pay for Use paradigm

February 2, 2009 at 5:59 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

Last week Nati Shalom visited my company to present Gigaspaces and his understanding of what is meant by Cloud.

Interestingly we got to the Pay for Use paradigm.

At the moment I don’t have a car but rather I use the services of GreenWheels.nl or ConnectCar.nl when I want to travel around Amsterdam, NL.

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Greenwheels

Both these providers offer a car on a pay as use service with a small monthly contract charge. The fees are divided over time, kilometer usage and petrol per kilometer used. When I don’t need a car I don’t pay. Great.

In the IT world we have the same concept offered by companies such as Amazon Elastic Cloud Computing. This is getting to be very popular with my clients especially for short term usage in test environments. Also based on a per usage model, a fixed fee per hour based on the size of machine. Again when I no longer need the machine I don’t pay. I can scale up to use multiple machines and of course I have to pay per machine used but it is simple. A lot of clients have difficultly achieving this in their own IT department.

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Atomic Vario D2 DoubleDeck skis

February 2, 2009 at 5:51 pm · Filed under Ski, Uncategorized ·Tagged ,

A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to test Atomic’s new top of the range Vario D2 skis.

Atomic D2 DoubleDeck

Atomic D2 DoubleDeck

The ski’s have a split at the front filled in with a plastic strip and are generally lighter than say the SX or SL range. The idea is that if you apply pressure it is possible to alter the radius of the ski. In practice I found this very difficult to use. If you are only busy with aggressive carving turns and can put pressure on the tips to turn then these ski’s are great. If your looking for an all rounder then my advice would be don’t buy these but go for the cheaper version, the D2’s without the plastic strip. I was pleasantly surprised by the difference. These are also light weight  but are fantastic for carving as well as in the powder, in the moguls or just general use on the piste.

My gut feeling was that both the SX-10 and SX-12 provide a more sturdy and sure ride at high speeds than the D2. The SX ski’s are certainly much heavier.

Atomic SX-12

Atomic SX-12

Try them for yourself!

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