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.

I guess we should all learn to respect each other’s struggle.

We all have a life, and while we move into ours we should always keep an eye on what’s happening around us, respecting the work of others, trying our best to not harm anyone.

Harm can’t be avoided, but if we do our best can be diminished.

On a side note: I realized it’s a super good idea to write down each month/week goals and accomplishments.

at the end of the year it will make it easier to know what went good.

I keep turning to this topic: Helping others.

In the past I was very selfish. I thought of myself and put my priorities up in the list.
I improved, although I can hardly say that I fully changed.

It would be foolish of me to think that I’m a better person now. I’m good, yes, I make good deeds, yes, but I still have that lingering feeling that helping myself is better than helping others.

Don’t misunderstand me, I believe it is really important to help yourself first, to love yourself first, to understand that without yourself you’ll be nowhere.

We are the the ground where our life is built upon.
That ground, though, needs some more seeds, some different seeds, like helping others.

We should dedicate time and effort to help people, time and effort to let them grow and outgrow us with no sense of competition.
I think this because the only way to create a better world is to improve our surroundings, but at the same time this action of helping others shouldn’t be solely moved by this selfish need (because it is selfish).

No, the will to help others should grow slowly as a small seed inside us, it should become a bonsai of actions we do every day.
One day it’ll be a small task, the next day a big action.
But it should be something we feel it belongs to our DNA, not because we believe something, not because we need something, but because we know it’s right.