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Have you ever wished to have more than 24 hours in a day, have you ever felt that your head is about to explode as you’re trying to assign at least a few check marks to your To Do list? Have you tried every trick in a book on how to manage time but still can’t quite tame this beast?

Despair no more - the help is on its way, the real solutions from real life time management gurus who unveil their secrets to one of the most challenging problems that most of us struggle with. These 33 time management strategies will cure every workaholic in the world, will motivate any procrastinator and encourage the utmost pessimist to get things done in no time and still have time left to enjoy life.
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Russian roulette, duels, the Renaissance, the Nihilism, the wars - these are just some of the most famous characteristics of Czarist Russia in the first half of the XIX century. One of the youngest and loudest literature voices of that time was Mikhail Lermontov. In his short life (he died at the age of 26 in a duel) he wrote hundreds of stories, poems, and the novel “A Hero of Our Time” that represented the entire generation of highly erudite but bitter and bored young men who treated love and life just like another game of cards or a roulette.

Today’s bit of Literature - The Fatalist - was published in 1839 and only later included in the novel “A Hero of Our Time” that turned out to be a collection of stories united by the common hero, or rather an anti-hero Pechorin.
Is it true that a human’s fate is predestined, that it’s not in our powers to rush or postpone the death? Read Lermontov’s take on the fate and tell me whether or not you’re a Fatalist yourself? Was there something in those numbers “1″ and “4″, or was it only a tragic coincidence that Lermontov was born in 1814 and died in 1841, the last two digits of his year of death are the reversed numbers of his year of birth?
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As you know, last week I’ve participated in Daniel’s group writing project over at DailyBlogTips, which resulted in 122 submissions with tips on practically anything from blogging to business to travel to food to life.
Here are my four personal favourites:
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Some people seems to have it all - the looks, the luck, the recognition, the respect from their peers and admiration from their fans. But behind the mask of effortlessness hides a naked truth about the long hours of hard work and the tenacious perseverance in following their dreams and achieving the goals.
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Back in school we had a young teacher of Russian Literature whom no one in class would listen. Those literature classes were the noisiest, and the students were doing anything except studying Literature and following the teacher’s orders. One day he brought a book, and started reading it to us. After only a few minutes the teacher got our absolute attention. He was reading to us stories by Mikhail Zoshchenko - one of the funniest of Russian writers.

He was often criticized for his careless and simplistic use of language, but behind the mask of semi-literacy was hiding a sober look at the realities of the Soviet Power. The significance of the presented here short story Electrification is the fact that one of Lenin’s most famous slogans was “Communism is Soviet Power plus the Electrification of the Whole Country”.
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A few months ago I posted an article about the importance of paying attention to details in design and presented some inspirational examples on styling your blog titles, dates, post details, bulleted lists with icons and comments.
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Fortunate, blessed, grateful, awed, reverent…. That’s what I feel when I think about readers of Inspiration Bit. What did I do to deserve all those hundreds of subscribers and fans who favourited this blog on Technorati? Sure, there are hundreds of other blogs who have thousands of subscribers. But there’s only a handful of blogs that managed to build a loyal community of readers and friends, not a fanatic following nor the eager crowd to imitate the success of others.
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Karel Čapek (1890-1938), Czech playwright, novelist and short story writer, is recognized for his intelligent humour and exceptional imagination. He’s probably best known for his futuristic play R.U.R (Rossum’s Universal Robots), where he was the first one to use the word ROBOT, invented by his brother Joseph Čapek (poet and cartoonist), as well as for his anti-fascist novel “The War with the Newts”. He was even nominated for the Nobel Prize for the anti-war messages included in his plays. Unfortunately, it was during the Nazi Germany and the Swedish Academy was too afraid to give it to Čapek.

The Last Judgment is just one of the brilliant short detective stories from a hilarious work called “Stories from a Pocket and Stories from Another Pocket”. The story only seems to be pretty straightforward, it’s written with a clever humour with a rather sophisticated message.
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