Pieces of Advice

I have been working with some ideas and I wish to share them with you.

The way I found to improve my life (personal and professional) is following these steps every day.

1) Wake up as early as you can. I wake up at 5 am most of the days. It's the best way to balance family and work.

2) Don't leave much room for insignificant people/things in your life. Avoid toxic people and toxic things. Work with green, yellow and sometimes red people/things, but never with toxic.

3) Work with your things. Be quiet. Be the last to speak, mainly about your plans, goals and objectives. Keep them with you.

4) Avoid foolish interactions. Don't waste your time walking out of your path. 

5) Study! Study as hard as you can. Study whenever is possible.

6) Find your way to go. There are those how can only see the things that prevent them to get their goals, and there are those who can see beyond. They see what they want. Be one of them!

Luck and peace to you all!

Crime and Punishment

The criminal law establishes crimes and the proper type of punishment for each of them. But what is the correlation between crime and punishment? And how those measures and penalties are seeing through the eyes of society?

When someone breaks a rule, so he/she got punished. That is the way things work, or at least how they should work. You can see this from a macro perspective (society), or from a micro-perspective (your own reality).

A few days ago, my wife grounded my 2 years old son because he wasn't having a good behavior. In other words, he broke the house rules. They had a conversation about what had happened and his punishment was to stay in his bedroom for 10 minutes alone. After that, it was the time for my wife and I have a talk. In my opinion, her measure was too harsh. So, in this case, we were talking about the same "crime" with different opinions about what would be the correct punishment to the "infractor".

The grounding was unpleasant, and she issued it purposefully to serve as his punishment.  However, it is not a law. It is not written in any place that the correct measure, in this case, is to ground him, but she decided based on what she believed that would be the best punishment for him.

In order to correct those discrepancies and to avoid that anyone would take their own measures based on their own beliefs, the laws were written as wells as the punishments for the violation of them. But it seems that are some different views about the application of the law. There are those who believe that, choosing to behave badly, you must, therefore, be blamed and held responsible for your bad behavior. In other words, it is the called "an eye for an eye" which means that the punishment should fit a crime.

On the other hand, there are those who believe in punishment as an example to the society. From a micro-perspective it was exactly what my wife did with my son. When she grounded him she was trying to give him an example and show the consequences if he would choose to break the house rules again. Analyzing from a macro perspective if we had siblings, we would be giving an example to the other son. He will notice the consequences and think twice before breaking the rules as his brother did.

The law is not perfect. It is opened for interpretations as well as the punishments are opened for controversies. Although we may not agree sometimes with the balances and counterbalances ruled by the system, they are the foundation of a well-structured society.

WOTD - Bailout

Word of the day - BAILOUT

- a rescue from financial crisis.

Example:

Greece has successfully completed a three-year eurozone emergency loan programme worth

€61.9bn  (£55bn; $70.8bn) to tackle its debt crisis.

It was part of the biggest bailout in global financial history.....

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45243088?ocid=global_bbccom_email_19082018_top+news+stories

Father’s Day

Repetition

What people like John Mayer, Aaron Sterling, Dave Grohl, Simon Sinek, Mark Knopfler, to not mention others, have in common?
Repetition! And they know - WHY - they do what they do. Their purpose in life is crystal clear in their minds.
What makes you improve? Be better in something?

#5

There are those who would say that you shouldn't care about your image and about what people think about you. On the other hand, there are those who say that you really need to be worried about what kind of image you are seeding in the world. But, shall we really start to analyze and understand how the world see us? Or shall we live being "ourselves", no matter the consequences that this belief could bring to us?

#4

To keep a good relationship don't try to do everything one likes, but avoid everything that one doesn't like.

See you!

WHY

I work for a company which is constantly analyzing what  "market rivals" are doing. Day by day, my company tries to beat, to overcome its rivals. The funny thing is that they are always one step further than my company. Even if in some moment my company is the #1 position, it doesn't last too long. So, this makes me think about what is happening there. 

After watching one of Simon's Sinek speech, I finally had a glimpse of what would be the problem. Simon said something about the differences between the way that Apple and Microsoft run their businesses. While, one is looking forward, trying to "beat" themselves, trying to be constantly better and in consequence overlap the competitors, the other is always trying to beat the first one.

The aftermath is that while Apple is moving forward and most important, beating itself, Microsoft is in second place, always one step behind.

Bringing this allusion to my reality, the company where I work is doing exactly what Microsoft is doing. Both are working with their WHAT, their HOW, instead of their WHY.

Only when you know exactly WHY you do what you do every single day, you find WHAT an HOW you do what you do. 

In other words, only finding your purpose (WHY) you will be the first, but the first to yourself, not for someone else.

Simon Sinek: CHANGE YOUR FUTURE - Life Changing Motivational Speech

Toy Story (1995) - Review

In 1995 Disney releases what would be considered a landmark for the animation's industry. Toy Story, a CGI (computer-generated imagery) movie, underlines Disney's greatest technological advance in decades. 

 

Toy Story brings a new world seen through the eyes of the toys of a six-year-old boy, Andy. Living in his bedroom the toys come to life when Andy is not there. Woody, an old-fashioned cowboy toy, and his friends have to deal with the arrival of a new toy, Buzz Lightyear, a space ranger. With a better design and technology, Buzz represents a threat for Woody who tries to keep his position of Andy's favorite toy. The plot hits its highlight when Andy's family decides to move. Woody and Buzz are left behind and are caught in Sid's bedroom, a terrible neighbor boy who likes to transform toys into nightmare creatures.

The animation succeeds mixing technology with a well-written script. Sometimes hilarious but original, it's almost impossible not to have the feeling that the characters are in fact real. This was only able by the excellent animation technology applied to the film. The result proves so breathtaking that the regular cartoons look like will never seem the same again.

Watching the film, I felt I was in at the beginning of a new era of movie animation, which draws on the best of cartoons and reality, creating a world somewhere in between them. It's improbable not to think that I will watch and rewatch Toy Story as many times as possible. Definitely, in the future, it will be remembered for all, adults and kids, as a classic, a turning point in what once was known as a cartoon.

Vision Board - Where I want to work.