Category: Blog

Sometimes all you need to kick off a project is the least.
A small change in your routine.

It might be just the device’s fault. You might be using an old pc and since it’s so old and slow you might delay what you have been planning.

It takes guts to recognize that.
Luckly we can fix it.

With a bit of thinking and self-thought you can discover what’s the hole in your life, the paralyzing venom.
To do that accept the fact that there will be holes in your life, and some of them can be quite fixable.

Arrange time, space and services to help you out.

Time

Make time for your goals, start small, increase every day without filling your life

Space

Choose a place, make it the place where you’ll create/work/whatsoever.

Services

Need a pc? Buy it.

Need a new modem? Buy it.

Whatever you need, make it sure you have it.
If it does costs too much, scale down, replace it and schedule the money so one day you’ll buy it.

Then start.

If you improve 1% every day, you can get well over 100% in a year.

Even if that percentage will fail and vary, chances are it will work.

Worth a try, isn’t it?

I was in my favourite Pizza place, one of the  best around here, and I got to talk with the wonderful Antonio, a man from the south of italy who also got the chance to travel the world, specifically germany, and work there.

He said “I was lucky because I got to come back to italy before it’s too late”
Late for what? I say
“If you stay to much in a place, then you’ll live there. Family, wife, all things will sort of bond you with the place, and I was lucky because italy is such a wonderful place”
It is, but how are you finding yourself here? Is it a good city?

I was asking this to know what does he thinks of Montevarchi, some people hate it, some people are ok with it.

“Montevarchi is great” he said “you have everything at hand, everything is near.”

He kept talking until he told me one of the most beautiful things I have heard in life, really inspiring.
In italy we have a saying that goes like this “don’t spit on the plate where you eat”.
It means respect the place that pays your bills.

Antonio moved this saying even further
“You must respect the place where you live , because, yes, you’ll be staying there every single day for a long time, and if you live in the shit, it ain’t good”.

Respecting the work or the job wasn’t enough for him, he respected the city too, and I agree.
Respecting our surroundings, or even the world, is a great thing.

Time will pass and your ideas will shift.

What was imperative will become optional, what was useless might become interesting.

There’s nothing wrong about change, although you have to learn to admit to yourself that your old stances are no more valid.

You will be proven wrong, but you better be, since proving yourself right in the same stance might just mean you refuse to grow up.

I love to hug, there’s no way I would deny this.
Hugging is like creating a connection, like protecting a child.

The hug itself is the human demonstration of vulnerability, love, honesty all together in just one action.
You don’t hug anyone.

The bad thing is that we usually don’t hug, or we don’t hug deeply.

But what is deeply by the way?

You might hear a marketer recommend to hug someone in a specific situation, would that hug be real, true to itself?
I don’t think so.
I don’t believe that kind of fake hug will contain all the data, all the passion and the feelings that you usually put and communicate through a hug.

That’s why we need more hugging, deep hugging.
We need to share our heart with other people, to let us connect with our inner parts, link two human beings for a second or two, not for love, not for sex, but for being here right now, for sharing the overwhelming beauty of a hug.

Truth to be told there’s no secret to hugging deeply. I lied.
I believe there’s one way to do it, yes, and I believe that’s the secret. But it’s no secret at all, that’s why I lied a bit.

The secret to hugging deeply is to hug deeply.
Is to share our full range of emotions inside a static movement, a hug.
Compress all of our feelings into a single posture, heart to heart with another person.
No motion in the hands or arms, a hug doesn’t need moving.

A hug needs to be static in order to feel both the heartbeats.
And in that awkward moment, you stay for many seconds that pass like an eternity between two different worlds.

Then we separate, as a child who becomes distant from his mother the first time he/she is born.
Born with a new feeling, a new sense of deep connection with the world.

The feeling of another heartbeat.