March 30, 2015 Last night (or just this madaling araw) I dreamed of me and a friend of mine, hurrying and riding a tricycle but then at the same time, we left it because the tricycle was making us slow. We were in our barangay and I really don't know where we heading. Then, I looked at the sky and saw a crescent moon and a big red moon (or is it the sun or a planet) and I was amazed. I stopped on my tracks and stared at it. I ask about it to other people but they are also full of wonder and don't seem to be worried about it. Then I remember that I am suddenly riding a jeepney, alone with random strangers as passengers. I can still see the moon and the red thing on the sky. The passengers are talking about it and they have their own theory about why such phenomenon happened. They said that the red one was the sun and it seems the night gotten to become longer that the sun rises itself with the moon still on its rightful position. Then there was an eclipse. The red thing was ea...
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Radically speaking.....
Well, that vide o was a Ted talk by a brazilian CEO - Ricardo Semler. He practices a radical form of corporate democracy, re thinking everything from board meetings to how workers report their vacation days (they don’t have to). It’s a vision that rewards the wisdom of workers, promotes work-life balance — and leads to some deep insight on what work, and life, is really all about. In a nutshell, this was an inspiring talk, a moving one that I will never forget. Yes, consider watching ted talks as one of my extra curricular activities during my free time(s). I will not go into details about his talk here and how come it was awe inspiring. You can see the transcript here if you want to read it instead.
This week I learned that in life, there are no shortcuts and those shortcuts, instead of giving us good results, it often ends up devastatingly. But if you have to start a journey and make a path for your travels, you have to choose the right long road and always always follow your instincts and must know when you should take the plunge.
I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing." ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman
You ruin your life by tolerating it. At the end of the day you should be excited to be alive. When you settle for anything less than what you innately desire, you destroy the possibility that lives inside of you, and in that way you cheat both yourself and the world of your potential. The next Michelangelo could be sitting behind a Macbook right now writing an invoice for paperclips, because it pays the bills, or because it is comfortable, or because he can tolerate it. Do not let this happen to you. Do not ruin your life this way. Life and work, and life and love, are not irrespective of each other. They are intrinsically linked. We have to strive to do extraordinary work, we have to strive to find extraordinary love. Only then will we tap into an extraordinarily blissful life." —Bianca Sparacino, How To Ruin Your Life (Without Even Noticing That You Are) # TodaysMantra
"Lately I’ve been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn to love that way, and who I need to become to become the kind of love I want to be ... and when I break it all down, when I whittle it into a single breath, it essentially comes out like this: Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe." —Andrea Gibson # TodaysMantra