<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:01:20 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@munteanu/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[HappyChallenge - Red, Ripe, Healthy Melons]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the happiest moment of my day has to be when I started eating the melon in the image below. Such flavor! Such red-ness. It was really fresh, sweet and healthy! When I bought it, the guy selling]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/happychallenge/@munteanu/happychallenge-red-ripe-healthy-melons</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/happychallenge/@munteanu/happychallenge-red-ripe-healthy-melons</guid><category><![CDATA[happychallenge]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[munteanu]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2017 15:12:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXa4EWjbgQRemLKWjVRfSpmKsn9CowvG3e86mf4Mcoh5AAjTip2hXaofTR3EKXMSXoPAEjAV6eqk?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Digital Fasting Complete! (Follow-Up Article)]]></title><description><![CDATA[As promised, I am coming back after 7 days of no laptop usage and I'm writing a follow-up article. As a quick reminder, the initial challenge was 7 days with no laptop, coupled with a double dose of daily]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/life/@munteanu/digital-fasting-complete-follow-up-article</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/life/@munteanu/digital-fasting-complete-follow-up-article</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[munteanu]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2017 14:13:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/RGgukq5E6HBS5wvERDA3ZF4P2WKQy2VoZZet1QV2NrbsTaaGZRWKVqUD25FVUjrzzJfsM87Qnkx9PHFT7xE2cKPRxzYhFd87FpzAq71VSKqf1UV4npqhKMpC4TD12zS?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Digital Fasting: No Laptop (or PC) for 7 days]]></title><description><![CDATA[An exercise of will power and discipline The time was long due for this. Starting from tomorrow, 3rd of July, the next 7 days are going to be a new challenge for me. I am willingly giving up using any]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/life/@munteanu/digital-fasting-no-laptop-or-pc-for-7-days</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/life/@munteanu/digital-fasting-no-laptop-or-pc-for-7-days</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[munteanu]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 02 Jul 2017 15:48:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/RGgukq5E6HBS5wvERDA3ZF4P2WKQy2VoZZet1QV2R8xQ3KbZ2d3wZhbwvX4wTVq5qriU4qXqon6nmScVdCJNibXrBu8wCVFQtEH8nF9m76U2TQarUWvVQSDYd66KiXQ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do this before sharing your Steemit articles on Facebook]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hi, I’ve noticed some people have some issues when posting their Steemit article on Facebook or Facebook groups. It will look something like this: The reasons why Facebook won't pick up your articles']]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/steemit/@munteanu/do-this-before-sharing-your-steemit-articles-on-facebook</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/steemit/@munteanu/do-this-before-sharing-your-steemit-articles-on-facebook</guid><category><![CDATA[steemit]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[munteanu]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2017 11:30:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP5xqHVTtgzxr9jRnPYTxeDK7ZMexdNvEJSGWhnFedMdJTLdA7uKbmp1BXyjmiJ8mYLPjUHPHsHNpM8LJPxvCFVB9wSM4umj9gHkVBU?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trip to Hungary — Budapest and Keszthely, definitely worth visiting!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, I took a trip to my neighboring country, Hungary (or Magyarország), for some time to relax and also to meet up with some relatives (I'm from Romania, btw). My first stop was Budapest,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/travel/@munteanu/trip-in-hungary-budapest-and-keszthely-definitely-worth-visiting</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/travel/@munteanu/trip-in-hungary-budapest-and-keszthely-definitely-worth-visiting</guid><category><![CDATA[travel]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[munteanu]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2017 17:30:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3jpR3paJ37V8t3d5gG8YxUrFtTrvhgCDjjN8jFs75muXG8Vz3AABvgSPuVB45jUs44Lvru1VLew9Pxw6MoV3AedAy864VQYaC3xv3djYjzXRN7ew1otZ7A1bMWKE2rRTnpWwp?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Power Of Our Words And Cleaning Our Internal Dialogue]]></title><description><![CDATA[As a disclaimer, I am an amateur student of positive psychology. I am nowhere near an expert. But I do take positive psychology ideas and try them to improve my life. I also share these ideas with friends]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/psychology/@munteanu/the-power-of-our-words-and-cleaning-our-internal-dialogue</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/psychology/@munteanu/the-power-of-our-words-and-cleaning-our-internal-dialogue</guid><category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[munteanu]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2017 23:38:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXYvcfXmFeR3gPtZDNBdFwxAN4ykE3eahnwm8XtDEsQL6KWAHtdtLGGpuyT1m1Nc6E7BauC2s6VU?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Novice DJ’s Most Important Skill To Develop: Counting Beats, Bars and Phrases]]></title><description><![CDATA[(this is a follow-up to the article The Novice DJ’s Introduction To The Art Of Mixing) For an upcoming DJ, one of the most important basic skill to develop is: Active Listening This means developing the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/music/@munteanu/the-novice-dj-s-most-important-skill-to-develop-counting-beats-bars-and-phrases</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/music/@munteanu/the-novice-dj-s-most-important-skill-to-develop-counting-beats-bars-and-phrases</guid><category><![CDATA[music]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[munteanu]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2017 20:41:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXZBC7ZVyQd7cgG8ETsetfu1yR3LHUs4THJUyfsvJacuyadF4WUhF84SP7uzzgzsYaSpCcbnzjQJ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Novice DJ's Introduction To The Art Of Song Mixing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hi everyone, This is a little article is for those of you who want to learn a thing or two about the art of DJ-ing and about correct song mixing, and they don’t know where to start. 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Teenagers think they will be happy once they move out of]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/positive/@munteanu/how-to-increase-happiness-in-the-present-moment-with-the-reversed-gap-method</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/positive/@munteanu/how-to-increase-happiness-in-the-present-moment-with-the-reversed-gap-method</guid><category><![CDATA[positive]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[munteanu]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2016 22:08:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/o1AJ9qDyyJNSg3j52kokyfvD831NZY8tdYnCqdbcoctwNvXRg?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[How And Why To Meditate? (Quick Guide)]]></title><description><![CDATA[(Photos credit: Pixabay, colage created with BeFunky) I started practicing meditation 8 years ago. In the first 2 years, I did it constantly, almost every day. After that, with pauses. But somehow, I always]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/meditation/@munteanu/how-and-why-to-meditate-quick-guide</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/meditation/@munteanu/how-and-why-to-meditate-quick-guide</guid><category><![CDATA[meditation]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[munteanu]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2016 14:30:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/o1AJ9qDyyJNSg3j52kokyfvD831NZY8A9nf1StZc8K3TzHUbQ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Unconventional Guide To Dan Munteanu]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hi there, I'm Dan! So who am I, again? Well, it's quite hard to put my finger on a single word to encompass who I am. Several words do come to mind to help me define myself, but still they don't quite]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/introducemyself/@munteanu/the-unconventional-guide-to-dan-munteanu</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/introducemyself/@munteanu/the-unconventional-guide-to-dan-munteanu</guid><category><![CDATA[introducemyself]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[munteanu]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2016 22:50:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/o1AJ9qDyyJNSg3j52kokyfvD831NZXoUgsoDF7CbvNW5AcCjG?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[[TIL] Teaching Aging Smartphones New Tricks (or How An Android Boot Loop Caused My Learning Frenzy)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today I learned (ok, it was actually last night) two very important things about my trusty Samsung Galaxy S4 phone: The main Facebook app was eating around 1GB of internal storage space The Facebook messenger]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/til/@munteanu/teaching-aging-smartphones-new-tricks-or-how-an-android-boot-loop-caused-learning-frenzy</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/til/@munteanu/teaching-aging-smartphones-new-tricks-or-how-an-android-boot-loop-caused-learning-frenzy</guid><category><![CDATA[til]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[munteanu]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2016 19:32:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/o1AJ9qDyyJNSg3j52kokyfvD831NZY8E3ts7aDjQe2Fkm1i14?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dating Ideas: Escaping The "Friend Zone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[(video at the end of the article) Some years ago I became interested in a very special personal development niche: the dating/PUA niche. For those of you who don't know, PUA stands for Pick Up Artist(s).]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/dating/@munteanu/escaping-the-friend-zone</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/dating/@munteanu/escaping-the-friend-zone</guid><category><![CDATA[dating]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[munteanu]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2016 14:19:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/o1AJ9qDyyJNSg3j52kokyfvD831NZY7nfN4tMmi1zNPs8mY38?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blogging Tools]]></title><description><![CDATA[I've been a year since I started my own personal development blog. During this time, I've come to use some really cool resources to enhance my blogging activities. 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