How deep would you dive?

Assume for a moment you have found your true passion, your dream.

That, in itself, is a one in a million achievement, however, you are sure of it like the sun rises every morning.

What are the odds of succeeding at it? Chances are your dream won’t make it. 1 out of 10 companies survive its first 5 years. So, with that in mind, what would you do to pursue that superb goal of yours?

To be able to come up with a decent plan you would have to analyze what is the best way to tackle this challenge.

And by analyzing I mean you should become obsessed with the problem your solving.

You will become your target audience and learn their likes, dislikes and dreams.

You will think nothing else but how to do it better and better and better. After all, it is your dream we are talking about, right?

You must dive into it deeper than ever you’ve gone before. It only makes sense. You must, or else, your dream doesn’t really matter that much, does it?

Missing the point

“All you need in a contractual relationship is promises and consideration,” Zavareei told MarketWatch in an article about the increasing number of class actions lawsuits from students to their colleges.

Due to covid-19 schools have been ordered to close premises but also to keep “schooling” at a distance.

If they think that just by sticking to the argument that “we only provide education” will get them off the hook, then they are missing the point completely.

First just take a look at some of their sites and advertising. You will find there promises of certain performance once you’ve finished school in the sense of getting a job or funding startups, things we all now, they won’t deliver on their promise.

And for basic schooling, primary, secondary and high schools, if they think their only responsibility is to transfer hard knowledge, then they are blind to the fact that families (parents and students) are solving with schools so much more issues than just learning 1+1.

Zoom classes won’t do the trick. Families will migrate to better solutions. In what shape will these new solutions come?

Do absolutely nothing

Lifehacks, tools, gurus and stuff.

Of course they do help when you are open to them.

But if you are really open to anything and everything, just meditate on the goal of achieving nothing g by pursuing nothing while doing nothing.

Just try to go through this piece of valuable advice.

We are supposed to create songs and long plays

Just as a single bar in a song may be sublime, but played without the rest of the song loses its meaning and context. So we, are supposed to create whole songs out of our daily projects.

It means we should focus the construction and performance of a long line. We should aim to feel the whole song. We have to delay the temptation of only pursuing the low hanging fruit and, instead, exercise the patience of a long run symphony of our lives.

Great accomplishments require consistency and grit.

Cared too much to fail, so I froze.

That’s why, when my parents said NO to me and my intention to attend to music school, sadly, I now realize, I was kind of relieved.

You’ll see, that way, there was NO CHANCE that I would fail at being a musician, something I cared too deeply.

It is kind of refraining yourself of talking to that girl you like so much, so you avoid being rejected.

Of course, the downside is you live your life thinking what would have happened I you would have pursued your dream. Please don’t do that. Just don’t.

The Game 1/6

So you set yourself in a field. You have rules and you abide to those rules. You play the game and you keep losing. Nevermind the reasons. What is important here is the outcome: you consistently keep losing.

What are your options?

  1. Do nothing and keep losing
  2. Keep trying until you master the game and succeed
  3. Change the opponents so they are amateurs
  4. Change the rules so they favor your abilities
  5. Change the game so your position yourself in better position regarding your skills

Each option brings a whole different outcome and life. Think slow and choose wisely.

Islands of reality

It seems as if people are living in islands with small groups of people. Most of the time, these islands never touch another island, but sometimes the islands are overlapping with other islands.

There’s the island of poverty versus the island of ostentation. The island of power versus the island of powerless automats. The island of scarcity versus the island of abundance.

There’s an island dichotomy that has caught my eye lately. This dichotomy seems to define on what other dichotomy you will be allowed to enter, or inflict yourself upon: the island of desperation and hopelessness where there is nothing you can do and the island of everything is in your hands to achieve.

I believe, as of now, I have no concluding evidence that I might be living in or the other, so, it comes to ME TO DECIDE on which of these island is my reality developing.

That being said, we all have the ability to place ourselves into the series of islands we choose to be but this pair is the mandatory first choice (and perhaps the most important) we will ever make to construct our own reality.

The curse of straight a’s

Having it so easy to get straight a’s during all my student life made me cruise for all those years in school. It also made me feel that everything would be as easy on the forthcoming years.

It made me feel too comfortable to realize that other challenges were out there. Challenges like creating a business and a living that would be entirely up to me.

Can’t be too hard on myself because every single advise and compliment I got back then reinforced the idea that being great at school would lead me to a great job and a great life. Of course that wasn’t the case.

I realize the harsh truth later in life. The bad news is that you never get back all those “wasted” years. The good news is that those years are only lost if you learn nothing. And also, that is never too late to learn new tricks.

It has arrived a time to unlearn all that shallow, misleading data. I feel I am doing it really good.