27 maio 2010

I am me

I am me.
In all the world, there is no one exactly like me.
There are persons who have some parts like me,
but no one adds up exactly like me.

Therefore, everything that comes out of me
is authentically mine because I alone choose it.
I own everything about me
My body including everything it does;
My mind including all its thoughts and ideas;
My eyes including the images of all they behold;
My feelings whatever they may be...
anger,
joy,
frustration,
love,
disappointment,
excitement
My mouth and all the words that come out of it
polite,
sweet or rough,
correct or incorrect;
My voice loud or soft.
And all my actions, whether they be to others or to myself.

I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears.
I own all my triumphs and successes,
all my failures and mistakes.
Because I own all of me I can become intimately acquainted with me.
By doing so I can love me and be friendly with me in all parts.
I can then make it possible for all of me to work in my best interests.

I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me,
and other aspects that I do not know.
But as long as I am friendly and loving to myself,
I can courageously and hopefully, look for solutions to the puzzles
and for ways to find out more about me.

However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think
and feel at a given moment in time is me.
This is authentic and represents where I am in that moment in time.
When I review later how I looked and sounded, what I said and did, and how I
thought and felt, some parts may turn out to be unfitting.
I can discard that which is unfitting, and keep that which proved fitting,
And invent something new for that which I discarded.

I can see, hear, feel, think, say and do.
I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive,
and to make sense and order out of the world of people
and things outside of me.
I own me, and therefore I can engineer me.

I am me and I’m OK



Virginia Satir

11 maio 2010

O Caminho

Viajei muito nos últimos 5 anos. Conheci a Ásia, a América Latina, percorri cidades Europeias. Deparei-me com o facto de que a primeira coisa que faço quando chego a um sitio novo é caminhar, perder-me nas ruas, jardins, praças, descobrir os bairros, sem mapa, sem objectivo definido.  Perco-me para encontrar a cidade. Perco-me para me encontrar na cidade.


Encontro refugio em momentos de reflexão silenciosa. O silêncio liberta-me, acolhe-me, conforta-me. Encontro para além das palavras, nas sensações, aquela que creio ser a minha essência. Em silêncio ligo-me à verdade, à intimidade, àquilo que é mais nuclear no meu ser.

Caminhar em silêncio é o que me move para o Caminho de Santiago.

Vou caminhar onde milhares, milhões de peregrinos caminharam ao longos dos séculos. Vou deixar que a energia de milhares de preces, de intenções, milhares de esperanças, dons, verdades, interiores penetrem em mim em cada passo que der. 

Dizem que não há maior sorte do que descobrir para que estamos aqui e cumprir a nossa missão.
Não sei ainda o que me trouxe cá, a este aqui e agora, com este nome e este corpo, e com estes dons.
Reconheço em mim um acesso à vida interior e a capacidade de o expressar, num diário, numa conversa, num blog, mas falta-me um sentido de propósito, a certeza de que é por aqui! Vamos!

Procurarei no Caminho o meu propósito, a minha ligação e este tempo, a este lugar, o grande amor, a grande libertação do meu ser interior, a sua expressão, sempre sabendo que as respostas estão dentro de mim, o Caminho será apenas um catalizador.



06 maio 2010

Where Should We Put Our Money?

(...)

Place your bets on young people who are building real products and
services that solve real problems and delight real customers. Heck,
even if they're old people with young energy, I say invest in them
too! (Note: my stance on entrepreneurship being a "young man's game"
is inversely proportional to my actual age).

Encourage young people going into the work force to forgo the promise
of unearned and absurd compensation on Wall Street for the more
appropriate and soulful option that comes from creating real value at
a startup company. When you meet a young person who wants to go to
Wall Street scold them. Tell them how sad it is that they are going to
waste their talents trying to manipulate money instead of creating
value. Explain to them that when they look back on their career, even
if they are successful, they will see a bunch of transactions and
models (they've dated and built), but they will never know the
satisfaction of having built something real. Something tangible that
they can be proud of.

(...)

(...) we need to find and support these entrepreneurs. Develop
the ones who think big, work hard, are resilient, honest, resourceful
and who are willing to take reasonable chances with our investments.
Also, we should only invest in the people whose prior products haven't
left  huge craters of unemployment and financial pain when they
imploded--but I digress.



Jason Calacanis
My blog: www.calacanis.com
My company: www.mahalo.com