# thoughts

One of the worst feelings that exist is - feeling guilty. It represents the acknowledgment of the mistake.

You blame everything and everyone when in fact the problem is you

How can you live like this? Always wondering! Flirting with discontentment. Should you really have been thinking about this? I am talking about your job. I am going to say something. You have a good paycheck, some perks, flexible timesheet (but you have to work on Saturdays), you have set your boundaries, you have found professional stability (regardless of the fact that you are always trying to forecast something), you know everybody and they nourish some sort of respect to you, you have full access to managers, directors, and even the presidency. All these details could be enough to make you fulfilled at work. Instead, you don't feel part of the family. You are not on the same page. Why?

The truth lies deep inside you. You have been pretending, building an image of importance to the system but actually, you know that you are not doing anything that people imagine that you were supposed to be doing. It's another dimension, a distortion of reality created by you. Congratulations! You made it. You are the impostor's syndrome personification.

 The truth lies deep inside you.

There is a resistance rooted in your mind like a rat race. That's the cheese, keep running, but not only running, you have to pose that you are not like all other rats. You are a champion! The best part of this history is that the cage's door is opened. Actually, there is not even a physical cage, you can come and go whenever you want. It's a virtual cage imagined by you. However, you insist on staying there, waiting for that easy piece of cheese.

You blame everything and everyone when in fact the problem is you. You are not bold enough to take action. Where does all this laziness come from? Or is it all about fear? I think that I have more questions than answers. Working has always been part of our history as well as how much space this subject is allowed to remain in our minds. Which means that if you don't give much space for working in your mind, you might be working just by the paycheck. It's what really matters. You don't expect much personal fulfillment. The only thing that you want is to be capable of paying your bills and providing a good life quality for your family.

You blame everything and everyone when in fact the problem is you. 

On the other hand, if you expect more than paying bills you must find a way to change your life's narrative. Start writing your goals, defining your expectations, revising your actions (what is working, what is not working, what have never worked). Visualize everything and yep, guess what? Keep working to providing the means to support this changing. My final words are not so encouraging. I don't know whether it will work or not! At least you will find a purpose to wake up every single morning and commuting to work. You will find why you do what you do.

"So line on up, and take your place, and show your face to the morning..." John Mayer

See you all!!

The Antimatter

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler” 

Albert Einstein

There are first-level thinkers and second-level thinkers.The latter is used to looking what’s behind common sense, they tend to be misunderstood by people in general. They are, sometimes, considered strange people by most of society. They are considered the antimatter.

There is an inner feeling of refusing the conventional. Maybe because it’s not enough for them. That first dimension where everybody lives is not completely satisfactory for second-level thinkers. They need more, to go deeper, to find what lays underneath the basic truth.

This physiological necessity to understand the not understandable is sometimes a blessing but most of the times a curse. A second-level thinker walks alone in his thoughts while his body is stuck inside of a casket.

You can not do the same things others do and expect to outperform whatever you might be thinking in outperforming. Be the antimatter if you want to "beat the market". Do what no one else is doing. Dig deeper where nobody wants to dig and you will find the second-level thinker dimension.

It's almost sure that you will never be the same again.

I Guess I Just Feel Like - John Mayer

John Mayer - iHheart Radio 10/24/18

I guess I just feel like
I guess I just fell like
Nobody's honest
Nobody's true
Everyone's lying
To make it on through
I guess I just fell like
I'm the same way too

I guess I just feel like
Good things are gone
And the weight of my worries
It's too much to take on
I think I remember
This dream that I had
That love's gonna save us
From a world that's going mad
I guess I just fell like
What happened to that

I guess I just feel like
The joke's getting old
And the future is fading
And the past is on hold
But I know I am open
And I know that I'm free
And I'll always let hope in
Wherever I'll be
And if I go blind
I will still find my way

I guess I just felt like
Giving up today

*This is my transcription, not the final version.

Paradise Valley - Montana

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?