Author: Andrea Grassi

I was checking out a product newsletter right now and I realized there’s so much to learn, so many things in a single email that one can get as takeaway.

We should communicate more and more clearly, focusing more on creating wonders

Even if it may seem obvious, we’re not that good at remembering. When you write things down and read them later on, it’s possible you’ll remember parts of your past that were forgotten, lost.

For every self-help book in the world there’s a man who seek power. Not the power you see in the movie, we are fragile beings, we don’t always seek that power consciously, but we do desire it.

We want to get out of our cages, to be free of our limits. To have money to live the life we dream, to be free from work and stress, to have no limits.

Even though we might not dream that big, we want it and in this desire our will starts working and it moves us into the field of the “think grow rich”.
That the mind is everything and that we can achieve money, power, energy, and happiness.

Yes, happiness. We all strive for that and sometimes we forget that we would probably be ok with being happy.
The sad part is that, even though money and power might help having an happy life, they are not the reason, nor they can become the reason.
Happiness is elsewhere, happiness is within and can’t be reached from the outside, no matter the struggle.

We think of work as a way of enriching and living well, but what would your life be if you would work less? Would all that money be needed afterall? What’s the price you are paying right now to sustain the level of living you’re having?

Being happy is not a matter of money, power, or whatever.
It’s a choice.

And it’s not a choice like “I choose to be happy”, and then you’re happy.
It’s not that easy. It’s a continuous work because you need to stay in line with yourself. To be true to your feelings, to learn from within you what are the causes of your stress, of your pain and learn from that.

Happiness is a choice and it’s the most difficult one, because it takes courage to be happy.
It’s much much easier to be unhappy, that’s why being happy takes time, courage and effort.

This sunday it will be election day here in the city where I live.
What usually happens is that in the months before the elections the actual mayor tries his/her best to do all the work on the streets, fixing holes in the asphalt and so on.

Every mayor does it and every citizen notice it and says “they’re trying to buy votes”, right?

I was of the same opinion, but then few days ago I realized that we, as citizen, have short memory.
We don’t recall the good conduct of a mayor, we mostly recall his/her mistakes. The good things often vanish in the memory and are more difficult to recall.

If that’s our problem, as citizen, then it’s quite normal for them to leave for last the most noticeable work.
It’s not because the politics are trying to deceive us, it’s us that created this situation.

This happens because of us, and the only way to fix it is to do a cultural change.

Do you plan to always stay the same, or do you have a bigger goal, something that will be your future idea?

What is that you want to achieve?

We live our lives working and living a common life, but I think there can be more.
Today my boss told me that in ten years he would plan to sell for anything, because at that time he’d like to retire for good.

I think that’s good. We need to retire, we need to stay with our families, to rest, to build something different than our businesses.

We need to let the word thrive through our wisdom, the stories, the things we learned, the vision.

But we don’t think too much about the plan. We often live day by day, missing the opportunity to have a defined vision of what’s going to happen and how to get there.
Both from an employee and employer perspective we are drowned into our daily habits and we don’t breath the fresh air that could allow us to have more vision, more direction for our future.

Think more of what you want from life, think about what matters to you, and then plan for it.