No need to sing the tango

2008 September 30 2008

This is something I learned some time ago and stayed in a talk that inadvertently listed as "not to be singing the tango". Everyday, meet someone, regardless if it's too little or not you see, and to make the famous question How is it going?, The common response is automatic and "all good" but we know that in a matter of seconds, some of the two will recite the bad day you had, so it takes the collective, or the amount of people that were in the subway at rush hour, passed as a survivor of a problem, when we are talking about something quite normal and everyday.

Why we do it? complain because it became a habit and you compete to have more bad luck. One of the places where it is reflected in the web 2.0, as we this "listening" all the time, seeing as we are now, giving us instead to constantly review and accidentally with all that information is created profile as is a person, seeing that it transmits.

The most serious, is not an argument that it is normal to tilde problem, but the bad image that conveys such a person. We are not aware, but one day the bus did not stop, another day and ask us broke Tv , so on until the person in front of us think "This is a problematic" or "This is living with Quilombo" or "Wow, better still long, because it always brings bad wave tragedy and others." As entrepreneurs and ordinary people, not the image we want to give anything a bad story that would accidentally buy my friend William, and we think that really goes wrong and we have the right to complain to whoever we meet, or at the place where you can leave an expression of my state.

So reader / friend of mine, as you are're not to be singing the tango, it must be given to later in life, if something bad happened to you, think of the responsibility that you got on it and how to improve it. Unfortunately as we embedded this habit, is an exercise that we do to stop this, but has not condufir to say all the time "I'm great" "that great day" because it would pass for fools to pass first and then some credible, which we do not want to happen.

If you believe that somehow YOU CAN enrich this debate please please do it!, I think everyone can do, so are invited to bring their own.



The area

2008 September 16 2008

In a very good blog about personal productivity called the basket , I found the following post which talks about "the zone ". The same concerns when we get to be in those moments where conseguis absolute concentration on what you're doing, with the consequence of losing track of time completely.

In the post to give some tips on things to do to stay long in the area. Like being on a subject I know, but where there is always something to learn, you must also be challenging, we should encourage us to do and have a fast reaction (The times I remember being in the area when I was in charge of making the windows of technology, Pasban hours and hours, lost sales, but I was excited very much and kept me with full attention to what he was doing, the quick response I had was every two minutes to see if it was running or not)

As entrepreneurs (not necessarily people who have your business, but people with attitudes to change things), but it is important to leave the comfort zone , the most important thing that our entrepreneurial activity in the area. When we talk about the passion we must do things, focus, energy and other attributes, we refer to many of the things we found in this area.

Another important fact to know that you can, think that there is the possibility of achieving my goal more difficult it may seem. The way to accomplish something impossible or not known, first thinking it is possible and there, after checking which way to take us to our destination and so work in our step by step, fully focused.

Something very important is to get away from bad areas, like the criticism. It is a normal attitude, which inadvertently fall by the people around us. Where no real reason everything is wrong, everyone is complaining and complaining transmits culture. Ex: There's this underground that is filled! If it is a crap, they have to fix it! Because he's always bad! It travels like cows! Where perhaps it is 6 pm and a subway is coming less than 3 minutes each, for 90 cents! Another example is in the more traditional works: This work is a m ...., Underpaid, are a lot of hours, they ask you anything, in such other place x charge more. But no one says how to improve things, or do something to improve it, only complain as martyrs, on top of you where you work x who charges more, but installed another critical area where charge more but have more problems and head does not value what they do ( you told pumpkin? ). L or important is to make an important and significant act to cut it, but if you do not succeed ANDAT!, Because most do not want it going to affect you.

In closing I want to take this phrase from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi "What's interesting is that people who were doing something active and concentrated felt happier than people who watch TV without thinking."