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Friday, March 29, 2013

You can be happy too

“You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.” Ruth E. Renkl

Imagine how much time you spend being unhappy.
Isn't it a waste?
Waste of everything: energy, attention, concentration, time, life and much more.

Are you happy?
Being happy is a choice and is also a state of the mind.
There are so many people and factors trying to get a piece of your happiness and most of the times you allow it.

Happiness can be anything. To learn to be happy is a choice of your own mind.
From the moment you wake up everyday, the natural impulse of your inner being is to feel anger because you have to set that time to go to work, study, etc. 

The best example of the masters in happiness are children with less resources that learn how to be happy with less than other children with more resources.
They just are conscious of their boundaries and they choose to feel happy with less.
They find useless to feel unhappy and consider a waste of time complaining and they use every single moment they can get, to be or to feel happy.

Can we be happy?
That answer is very diverse and will depend on the measurement of what we can let go of things that bother us instead of wanting to allow things to bother more than what they really can.
In other words, if give them the enough importance they will affect us causing us unhappiness.

When we allow things to affect us, we are just giving those element the right to interfere in our quietness and affect us directly.
We then turn into irascible beings incapable of reasoning and our ability for problem solving lowers and we spend more time in problems that have simple solutions.

Are those elements worth that we change our mood for bad?
Not really, 
We live everyday allowing 90% of our environment to affect our life.
We do not know how to handle the 10% that really happen to us and we mess the following 90% of our day, week, month.

Now that you know where it is, do not allow that to affect you and by default you could live a longer life focusing in things that really matter.
Identify the element that trigers your unhappiness, isolate it and do not allow it steals your inner peace and affect your love ones.

Ivan Caballero 



Thursday, March 28, 2013

Don't Give Up !!!

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown. Ross Perot

Have you ever heard that? That story sounds familiar for you huh?
Why to give up? If you are just a few steps, days, months of achieving success !!

I'll tell why:

Because you have no idea where success is or can be.

You know why?
Because you didn't plan ahead of time; before you started your venture or idea.

I remember the day I saw my cousin to quit what he was doing just because he didn't achieve his goal on his terms.
He/She wanted to achieve such a goal in his/her own way, at his/her own time and when he/she wanted. Truth is, that when you plan ahead of time, you still can modify those aspects that might make you change your plans slightly until you aim in the real deadline according to your effort.

When doing creative work, yes, time is an enemy. But why does it have to be the same in repetitive tasks that you perform while are your regular work?

It is important to plan ahead of time. It saves you anger, frustration and failure.
Human emotions are just an unavoidable thing.
Do you want an advice?
Analyze yourself before you plan or start your creative work.

Put in consideration, your health, your time, your family events and as much as you can of your everyday life.

Then, separate your goal in small goals that can be achieved systematically and realistically.

Divide in segments and start one by one until you achieve each one of them and keep following until the next one is done and so one.

You'll realize how simple was achieve your main goal
Attitude is as important as your goal itself.
Are you going to keep the same enthusiasm down the road until you get where you want to get?

The key here is to keep your attitude and your mood as when you started.

How can you do that?
Well, develop that good habit to achieve and get results and then reward yourself with small awards.

Then come back to work until it's done. Just keep going, everything will be alright.

Ivan Caballero

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. Albert Einstein

It is said that when you do something you like, then, the rest comes by default or automatically.
I insist that you pay special attention to this because when you focus in success it seems the more you want it, the more it slips over your hands and it seems a never ending quest.

Then you realize that there are many people in the world who seem to be successful just for nothing and that in every task they perform, they achieve excellence and more success, causing a frustration to people that put special efforts in getting there.

Success is simple but as Mr. Einstein said try not to become a man -or woman- of success, but rather try to become one of value.

Let's say you add value to every single thing you do or put value in every single action you perform. This will cause your peers or clients to notice that extra effort or extra value you put and they will start making you a favorite person to deal with.

They might start asking for you tom come more often to take their provision list or they'd rather to receive your phone call instead of dealing with someone else in your company.
You might then be called by your boss who will tell you that there are clients you satisfy properly and to keep it that way.

Now you have more value in your company; and guess what? You could ask for that raise of salary or rank you think you deserve. After a while you could have an extra value to negotiate with your boss to get what you want or get a better position in your company.

No matter what you do, if you can add that extra concept more than one person will notice and you'll become more and more important not only in your job, but in your whole life; it's a concept to develop.

That concept can be applied to a boss as well as to an employee.

If to a boss; it will make you look better as a more competent and more capable person to be in front of your employees and they will prefer to be under your supervision instead of moving to another departments in the same company.

If to an employee; will make you look better in front of your superiors and they might start considering you for a raise or to be candidate of promotion to a higher rank.

Is it difficult?
Not really, all you need is to pay attention to what you do and how can you do it better or make a slight change that your clients or friends would like to receive while dealing with them. Is that simple.
Then you have to develop the habit to keep adding value to what you do. The rest will come automatically.


Ivan Caballero

Saturday, March 23, 2013

I can not do everything,but I can do something. I must not fail to do something that I can do

I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do
something that I can do. Hellen Keller


These words have implicit the willingness to act and to keep an attitude of I can or I have to try.


When you have a business what you usually do is to rely on your subalterns who work for you, they can be your assistants, team group or co workers. But you then fall into a lets call it a work mode of commodity where you feel you work less and less and you still get your goals completed.


I have to tell you that when that happens your fall could be closer than what you think. Here is why.

Mind is tricky and plays you a game where your ego makes you believe that you are a real star and as a consequence you pay less attention to minimum details.


Have you ever heard the phrase: “The devil is in the details”?

Hehehe, it's true.


As a business man or business woman when paying less attention to those minimum details you put in risk your whole job position and also could risk your own company or the one you are working for.


If you are less attentive to everything is happening around you, then, you might be relying too much in your workers who might have detected your lassitude and as a result would not be worrying of what they have
to do since you have given them this example.


In the other hand you might find yourself in the illusion that you really are special, because your real work week is less than 40 hours and instead you only really work 10 and you think that the sun is raising because of you in that company.


Well, you are wrong. Get your batteries charged again and pay attention to what's happening; no matter if you had a headache before or after work or if you think your providers are all against you. It's in you mind now. The battle is in your mind and you better play well the game or it will be a game over for you or your company very soon.


Now, If you bring your job problems home, the end is near. You family would pay the price of your troubled mind and you'll get the cycle of anxiety that will reach you at work endlessly.


Why don't you just exercise your mind and body and retake what's your work used to be?

Find someone who evaluates you if you can't evaluate yourself ; and fix the problems that can be solved as soon as possible, then, go for the more and more complicated tasks until you finish the list.


If you do something at the time you are working, then do it well, and keep in mind that the less you fail in your regular work activities and take care of every single details you do, chances are less to fail in
your whole laboring life.


Ivan Caballero