Category: Blog

How many times did you changed habits just because you wanted to?

When you change habits you go discover your vulnerabilities, your weakness, you learn a lot.
This happens mostly because when you do that you both

• Disrupt an old habit
• Install a new one

It ain’t easy, but it’s really worth it.

I change habits a lot, mostly because I become fascinated by the new inputs in my life and I want to learn more about that.

My breakfast change usually every year, and every time there’s something new to adapt, to add, to change.
It’s incredible.

This way of changing and trying has helped me way beyond the comfort zone, it has helped me believe that we all can change, we can alter what we are and be different, not for the sake of being different, but because we want to achieve something.

I guess I still haven’t understood perfectly the meaning of play, although I might say that I try to study it as much as possible.

Play as never-ending game. Play as deep enjoyment.

I first heard about Play when I was listening to the power of vulnerability, an audio book by Brene Brown.
From that listening on, many things shifted. I remember how much controversial that book it was to me.
It wasn’t controversial because I was against its preaching but because it challenged everything I knew with some kind of new knowledge that was (and still is) difficult to translate into action.

We are used to our way of life, we are used to how we think.
Changing that is pretty difficult, but not impossible.

Play had a primary role into that book, because with play you free yourself.

That was the same conclusion Josh Waitzkin got in his book “The art of learning”, but he applied to a slightly different topic.

Reading both books made me realize that we all need to play.

I decided to move all the blogs to a new hosting (digitalocean), it was a simple thing but on the way I wanted to see if I could also learn a few things.

Failed a few things but I learned a lot along the way and I’ll write about that.

Also, I’m very excited about tomorrow as it will be a new change into my life, moving from a 5 days workweek to a 3.5 days workweek.
It will force many things to change.

Every now and then I realize that I’m procrastinating.
This can happen for a lot of reason: lack of interest, too many things to do, bla bla bla.

Procrastination isn’t necessary a bad thing, I personally believe in procrastinating as a way to keep the focus on one task (and put all the others on hold) but there are times where procrastination is counterproductive and that is when it doesn’t allow you to ship things.

Shipping is a term widely used when talking about products, but I guess we can use it for every task we want to complete as a whole.

When I realize that I’m procrastinating and I feel like I should ship instead there’s a trick I use to focus: Ship what I have.

Usually this moment happens when I already have done some of the work, it doesn’t happen at the beginning, when no work is done.
Why? Well… I think I tend to be a kind-of perfectionist (not obsessed though), so I plan to ship when I got all the things lined up, but this isn’t always the reality.

Reality will be that I don’t always have the time and will to do all I’ve got to do.
So I ship what I have and force me on do the best to finalize in a small time.

The world is filled with bad news, every day we read the newspaper or listen to TV we get bombarded with horrible news.

Then, when we come into the garden of our small life we hear bad news about our work, our relationship, etc.

There’s always someone who’ll pick up a chance to tell you some bad news. You might also wonder if it’s entertaining (and, sadly… it is.)
Within this whole block of information, are you able to accept good news?

Today I was talking with a  dear friend who was stressed from his day to day job, and I told him: You have nothing to fear, your skills are so worth it you won’t even have the slightest trouble in finding a new job.

I really mean it, but he was somewhat confused.

Then I asked myself How many times I refused good news?
How many times was I too scared to accept the opportunity that a good news can bring into my life?
This happens every single day, we all get both good and bad news, but we fail to recognize the former.