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10 simple activities to boost your imagination
Imagination and creativity are two words that we often use as synonyms. Yes, they are closely related, but there is an important difference between them. Imagination is the gateway to creativity. We cannot do anything creative without engaging our imagination. Have...
Why you should have a tennis ball (even if you don’t play tennis)
A tennis ball is a perfect, inexpensive, space-saving tool for stretching and self-massage. You can take it with you practically everywhere and use it daily. I use a tennis ball for stretching after jogging and weight training. I also used it a lot in the last year...
All we want for Christmas is…
I will be honest with you: I wasn’t sure if I would still be alive this Christmas. Exactly a year ago, I was diagnosed with cancer. I remember cutting my waist-length hair before going to the hospital for my first chemo and wondering if I would survive treatment....
Project managers main challenges
Projects coordinators struggle with many challenges. Constraints, risk, deadlines and — perhaps most importantly— people motivation and cooperation. In this blog, we share our perspective on the most important difficulties projects managers face and how we as...
Project Preparation Checklist
What can help you to prepare a meaningful project? At M-Powered, we love to use checklists to help us to write and manage projects. We believe that they also increase wellbeing as it means we don’t worry as much about forgetting tasks. This week we would like to share...
Writing a project? Remember to take care of yourself!
I know how it is. When writing a project, time seems to move faster than usual, and the workload only seems to increase with time. Day by day, you find yourself needing more coffee. As the deadline draws closer, the nights seem to get shorter. And eventually, when the...
How do successful project writers develop their funding applications?
The new “season” of European funding deadlines has already started, with more and more of my colleagues and clients busy developing new project ideas. It made me wonder, what really helps project managers to write successful Erasmus+ project applications. I decided to...
How to develop your Erasmus Plan
Does your organisation have a development strategy for the next 2 – 5 years? And if yes, have you included in it a plan for international cooperation? The reason I ask this is because there are many opportunities through several European programmes, including...
It’s time for a new beginning
At M-Powered, we believe in the power of rest. When we do business, we take a relaxed approach and give ourselves time to recharge often. And when we are on holidays, we sign out of work emails and messages and fully relish the experience. This year, we all enjoyed...
Accepting help is empowering
Often, we can believe that the more independent we are, the more admirable we are, and that accepting help is a sign of weakness. However, I want to challenge this idea and discuss the evidence that demonstrates the positive effects of community and collaboration. ...
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