Friday, September 2, 2011

Lesson from Bulgaria

Hi all,

I found a curiosity in Sofia. The National Bank has a little terrace known as "Suicide Terrace". The Terrace has this name because during the financial crisis, the directors of National Bank usually suicides from it.
In fact, in Portugal we don't have this terrace. So, where is our former National Bank Director? EUROPEAN Central Bank! http://www.ecb.int/ecb/orga/decisions/html/cvconstancio.en.html
YEY, instead of suicide, we promote and send him in a package to European Union!!

Common, the portuguese chrisis is also a consequence of Government decisions... so... hum...
wait... where are our former Prime-Ministers?

Antonio Guterres - Former Portuguese Prime-Minister
United Nations - Main responsible for Refugees Commission

Durão Barroso - Former Portuguese Prime-Minister
President European Commission

José Socrates - Still don't know where to go... but we will send him away for sure...

Interesting no?

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Monday, August 29, 2011

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Kontroll

Hi all,
I have seen this movie from Hungary in Budapest and was awesome.
Kontroll looks an alternative movie showing, by exaggeration, the homeless/metro checkers way of life. The best thing of this movie, is that provide us multiple interpretations.


Movie description:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373981/

Soundtrack:

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Top 8 - Foreign Dishes

Hi all,
Today a friend of mine asked me for my favorite foreign (out of Portugal) dishes.
Nice question hein?
Here is my top 8 selection from the places where I have been and ate the dish at the right country.


8. Goulash - Excellent spicy soup (Hungary)














7. Pierogi - Nice home made pasta with meet (Poland)














6. Ćevapčići - Special mixed meet (Serbia)














5. Spaghetti Carbonara - Excellent italian pasta combination (Italy)














4. Chivito - The Bomb sandwich (Uruguay)














3. Iskender - Mix of bread, yogurt, fried potatoes, meet and spices (Turkey)














2. Raclette - Burned cheese with hot potatoes (France)














1. Asado - All types of cow grilled meet and vegetables at one plate (Uruguay)




Monday, July 11, 2011

Friday, July 8, 2011

chess

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Sunday, July 3, 2011

Memorandum 2011 - 2/4

MEMORANDUM
(2011 - 2/4)


Be you, be yourself
Even you would have a twin, this twin would never understand your own way of looking the things. What you have seen, is your perspective... So, according to your perspective, you have to decide. And decision depends from you, nobody else. Feedbacks are all time welcomed and needed to decide. But you are the last one who owns your life.
Experience from the others are important and relevant, can touch you deeply, however the last voice of your own decision to say A or B is from you.


You are not perfect. Deal with it.
Being yourself is working hardly to provide others a better/fair life and the impact/success of this work is your perfect happiness. But you can't be perfect.
If you are a looser, is your fault! Fix it and be a winner. Is that hard to think like that?



Base your life in facts, not assumptions

"Assumptions" is a combination of (ass)&(umptions). If you don't know, do not assume. Base your life in fact or different and multiple scenarios instead. Through action and time, you will discover all facts one by one.


Take the control

Be aware that people are not technology that you take the control. Technology make us faster, higher, stronger but will never substitute or change Human being feelings. But if you don't take control of something because someone, don't give up. Take over your life and not let your life take over you.
Do not hurry to achieve it, but never loose time and try to understand what is behind each move, each action of each person. What was the needs, the values, the principles, the interests and find a way to understand it and complete it. If you can't keep fight for it, only in this way you can take the control.


Life is life. We do not have other right? So Enjoy it!

If life is only one long travel, which you bought one way ticket since your first born cry second. Even you want to return, it never been the same look, same structure, same sensations. Sometimes better, sometimes worst, is always different.
In life travel, even you return, the own return is not allowed because it never been the same. Even you don't want, you are limited, and choosing your best way is truly important.
If your happiness is about choices or non choices, you need to have a multiple ways to get your own good destiny. Do not choose the one you like more or less, the one you are more passionate about or not. Choose what your heart is following, heart goes always right because goes to the most difficult option you can find in your live...
So, if is coming to a decision, you should not choose...
... what you like more.. or less ....
... what have feeling that is better for you.. or worst (even then you got wrong) ...
... just following your passions, talent, financial motivation or other reason...
... you SHOULD choose always the most difficult alternative that can find in your live, and fight for it.


Laissez Faire
Live the flow and not create any expectation.


Breathe
No one should die before go to the desert and take a deep reflection. To breathe and once in a while it saves us from our stress. "Sometimes you have to forget what you want to remember what you deserve" and reflection gives you that. And then you realize that what you have is exactly what you wanted...


Open your alternatives

360 degrees view is always important. If we feel limited, we need to fly and look over it.
In other way, open alternatives are always happening and provide you more capability to choose. More alternatives you have, happier you are on your chosen travel.
Find inside yourself the right solution to feel free.
Open your ways but choose one and take a risk in which one is the most difficult to find in your live. Do not stay stopped, it never comes to anywhere.
Take the best shot and do not forget to live your travel, better then arrive is living the own travel...
who usually fear change, will never be happy. Enjoy and take risks on your every little second.


Attitude is Everything

Our destiny depends on our attitude. It's all about attitude. You may not control your destiny, but you control your soul and efforts to achieve. Are you destined to be or determined to be? It's up you...

Sometimes life surprises you in your damn face and not doing anything is never a solution. When we don't do anything, we have a full list of things that we decided to not do instead. Some of them can be crucial
. Keep it simple, look everything as in usual and constant change.

Any complain is useless. only is useful if we transform it into action and change what we feel that is wrong. Stop complain, act. Simple. Behind our actions, there is a decision already made from us and an opportunity cost associated. Opportunity cost based on full valued alternative options that we decided to not go through. If this opportunity cost is starting to be higher, think better on what a hell are you doing with your life.


Decide and Be Responsible from your acts

Life if full of choices. So, when I have multiple choices and I have to decide, I always choose the option that I most difficult would find again in my life. Opportunities matters. Decisions brings responsibility. You are the responsible for everything around you.
You should never blame others from their own decisions or non-decisions.
If we believe that we are not responsible for everything in this world, we are totally wrong. There is always something that we can do to achieve what we want. If something happened from other part even in the other side of the planet, you should consider as your fault, because only in this way you can try something to change it.
Even a word or an act, if you decide to not do it, is your fault. Never from government, State, companies, institutions or even other people. Is your. Only in that way, you can move forward and try to change.
Act, act, act. Doesn't matter if you are on the 1st or 2nd class. If your plane crash, you disappear anyway.


Be persistent

Flashbacks always kills you, so stop think in the past, stop dreaming the future. Its time for your Action! You want, you do, you have. Is so simple like that! If you are persistent, in the future you will never regret on your actions. It was not your fault, you did your maximum. "Don't regret anything you do, 'cause in the end it makes you who you are" Life is not easy and as it is not possible to go back and start a new beginning, you can always start today and make a new ending.


Keep learning

To be perfect we need should changing constantly.
Learning, in fact, is a Human being innovation.
Basically the education is the Human Being innovation. To learn is to innovate. So, do not loose the road, keep on track and be open to learn. Be open to what life is giving you and learn from it, release yourself.


Release yourself

With your wrong decisions, smile, learn and try to do better after.
Do not impersonate any problem. I know is difficult, everyone is always doing it.
Instead of impersonating the problem, try to separate the problem from the people, personate the solution and transform it in action with all your efforts you have!
Looking back, sometimes when you think about failing, you just want to blame hardly yourself. But easily you should go rationally and conclude: "I did my best".
For better future, you have to feel that you are doing your maximum now. Are you? Yes. If not, you are loosing every day, minute, second to get your goals well reflect and thought.

Transforming my dreams to vision and vision to reality... Keep walking, on the walk of life...
In order to have things you never had, try to do thing you never done. Do not expect that luck will help you. Sometimes can not come. So do not be dependent from luck, be dependent from yourself and your results. If you don't have any result, you should feel that you are loosing it. You should feel since the very beginning you wrote down the goals.
Don't believe in luck, it doesn't exist. Lucky nothing more than an mental success probability that almost randomly happened. Almost, because you did the right step to get this success, you took a first step to achieve it. To increase your success probability, be at the right place in the right time, it never knows what can happen.


Everyone is important

As you threat yourself well, you should threat the others with the same respect. Respect with the same looking in the eyes as you look to the mirror. Even your hardest and strong enemy. Your hardest enemy is your best friend.
Great enemies are the ones that take your first little weakness as a chance to crash strongly you down. So, as in chess the best defence is your attack and the best attack is your defence, prevent yourself and eat all your enemies in your earlier breakfast. Always with ethic, conscience, transparency and morality.


Do not forget your intuition
"Usually we get what we anticipate."
Most of the decisions are based in facts and intuitions. So work your intuitive part, be concentrate in the whole details around you and ask yourself the reason to be there.


Fight for your happiness

Success is your destination and happiness your whole travel.
Stick to your goals with action, responsibility, passion & ambition. Do not be afraid of the unexpected, because "Uncertainty & expectation are the joys of life. When ideas comes, enemies will comes after it. So if you are clear about your goals, fight for it, fight for your happiness, you deserve it!!!
You should be strict to get your reasonable, ethical and moral goals and threat an enemies with respect as enemies. Separate your enemies always from the issues that they creates, then kill the issues, your enemies got weakly after it.


Filter the negative things

Be positive and filter all negative parts around you. Change your environment to positive and able to turn it the most comfortable possible.


Keep building your comfort zone
Do not blame other ones to not live comfortable. Your comfort zone is a consequence of your acts, so build it and constantly change it according to your needs.


Love your closers

"Love is not measured by how many things we give to each other, or by how many things we are willing to do for each other, but by how much of our differences we are willing to accept. Loving means allowing each other to be imperfect, and even fail, accepting each other just in the same way".
If we are one world, the infinite universe is not enough to stop us. Love your closers. You never know when you will miss them, but I guarantee one day you will. So love them as you never will see them before. Be a plus in others lives and threat your closers with respect and love.
When you love someone think twice before any promise. When you have someone, think twice before any act.


Take your passion into action

Our passion and love move us to into the sky. However higher we fly, higher can be slide down. Is always a risk but passion provide us the whole efforts and ambition to achieve our goals... More we do, less the risk we take to not be successful. Higher the mountain, higher the challenge, higher the results!



You have limits, break them
Even you are under a fog in the morning, you still be a shiny happy person. You love to wake in the morning and say: is going to be a great day! If you do your maximum, you will be always on track to heaven. But you are not God, sometimes you have to wait. Acting is living, but to wait until the right moment is a quality who only few have it.
When you wait you are managing your breathe, your silence. When silence speaks from us, everything is already said, we . Sound reach our hears, music reach our heads, silence reach our heart.


Ta
ke care of your future
Your present is always unique. If one day you will be at the same place with same people doing the same things as you did before, the moment will be never the same.
Life is like a travel, you can't repeat anything. Everything is always different and in constant change
.
Do not life for today, live for a better today everyday, was it good today? When you will sleep and think "It was a great day", then at this day you should feel that you did a great job.

The words "if" and "I" should be always followed by "will" and not "would". Otherwise you are wasting your time.
When it comes to past, present & future we can't have the all 3, one has to go away and future can never be this one. Leaving our future is leaving our life. "The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time. Threat well your future. If you don't educate our next generations' excellence, integrity and commitment to life your society will never step forward...



Francisco Miguel Sousa

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Thats me. Try yourself and compare

Advanced Global Personality Test Results
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Orderliness||||||||||||||56%
Accommodation||||||||||||||56%
Intellectual||||||||||||||60%
Interdependence||||||||||||||||70%
Mystical||10%
Materialism||||||||||||||60%
Narcissism||||||||||||||60%
Adventurousness||||||||||||||||||80%
Work ethic||||||||||||||||70%
Conflictseeking||||||||||||50%
Need to dominate||||||||||||||||||80%
Romantic||||||||||||||||||||90%
Avoidant||10%
Anti-authority||||||||||||||60%
Wealth||||||||||||||60%
Dependency||||||||||||||||70%
Change averse||10%
Cautiousness||||||||||||||||70%
Individuality||||||||||||||60%
Sexuality||||||||||||||60%
Peter pancomplex||||||||||||50%
Histrionic||||||||||||||60%
Vanity||||||||||||||60%
Artistic||||||||||||||||70%
Hedonism||||||30%
Physicalfitness||||||||||||50%
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Paranoia||||||30%
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Indie||||||||||||||||70%

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Caetano Veloso

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Mentorship

Hi followers,

Sorry to be out for a while. Life is not being easily at this side.
Today I remind how Mentorship is important in our lives.

Is important for us to have a mentor. Professional mentor, personal mentor, family management mentor, relationship mentor, etc. Is important to have someone to count on, and rely when we need a strong word and reasonable advice.
The world is full of mentors. They advice, they can be wrong, they can be exaggerated, they can be reliable. The most important is that they provide an external perspective.

That's the most important.
I really suggest you to have one.

Please find below a nice video with a famous Mentorship meeting :P

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Video Clip in Lisbon - Mauro Picotto - Proximus



LISBON-Portugal. Video clip done in Portugal. Most of portuguese music fans didn't know about that. Attention: Mauro Picotto, Italian..promotes Portugal better than portuguese musicians.

Antalya, Turkey.

One of the most beautiful things I have seen...

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Wonderwall in Paris



Missing my sunsets in Paris.

When I lived in Paris, almost my whole Sunday Summer sunsets were in Sacre Coeur.
Singing Wonderwall in front of all city was a must do.
I missed that today and found this video.

Brilliant.
One day will be there again singing that song! Oh yeah!

Francisco Miguel Sousa

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Friday, April 1, 2011

Memorandum 2011 - 1/4
















MEMORANDUM
(2011 - 1.1)


Be you
Even you would have a twin, this twin would never understand your own way of looking the things. What you have seen, is your perspective... So, according to your perspective, you have to decide. And decision depends from you, nobody else. Feedbacks are all time welcomed and needed to decide. But you are the last one who owns your life.
Experience from the others are important and relevant, can touch you deeply, however the last voice of your own decision to say A or B is from you.

Base your life in facts, not assumptions
"Assumptions" is a combination of (ass)&(umptions). If you don't know, do not assume. Base your life in fact or different and multiple scenarios instead. Through action and time, you will discover all facts one by one.

Life is life. We do not have other right? So Enjoy it!
If life is only one long travel, which you bought one way ticket since your first born cry second. Even you want to return, it never been the same look, same structure, same sensations. Sometimes better, sometimes worst, is always different.
In life travel, even you return, the own return is not allowed because it never been the same. Even you don't want, you are limited, and choosing your best way is truly important.
If your happiness is about choices or non choices, you need to have a multiple ways to get your own good destiny. Do not choose the one you like more or less, the one you are more passionate about or not. Choose what your heart is following, heart goes always right because goes to the most difficult option you can find in your live...
So, if is coming to a decision, you should not choose...
... what you like more.. or less ....
... what have feeling that is better for you.. or worst (even then you got wrong) ...
... just following your passions, talent, financial motivation or other reason...
... you SHOULD choose always the most difficult alternative that can find in your live, and fight for it.


Open your alternatives
In other way, open alternatives are always happening and provide you more capability to choose. More alternatives you have, happier you are on your chosen travel.
Open your ways but choose one and take a risk in which one is the most difficult to find in your live. Do not stay stopped, it never comes to anywhere.
Take the best shot and do not forget to live your travel, better then arrive is living the own travel...
who usually fear change, will never be happy. Enjoy and take risks on your every little second.


Decide and Be Responsible from your acts
Life if full of choices. So, when I have multiple choices and I have to decide, I always choose the option that I most difficult would find again in my life. Opportunities matters. Decisions brings responsibility. You are the responsible for everything around you.
You should never blame others from their own decisions or non-decisions.
If we believe that we are not responsible for everything in this world, we are totally wrong. There is always something that we can do to achieve what we want. If something happened from other part even in the other side of the planet, you should consider as your fault, because only in this way you can try something to change it.
Even a word or an act, if you decide to not do it, is your fault. Never from government, State, companies, institutions or even other people. Is your. Only in that way, you can move forward and try to change.
Act, act, act. Doesn't matter if you are on the 1st or 2nd class. If your plane crash, you disappear anyway.


Be persistent
Stop thinking the past, stop dreaming the future. Its time for Action! You want, you do, you have. Simple! If you are persistent, in the future you will never regret on your actions. It was not your fault, you did your maximum. "Don't regret anything you do, 'cause in the end it makes you who you are" Life is not easy and as it is not possible to go back and start a new beginning, you can always start today and make a new ending.


And with your wrong decisions, smile, learn and try to do better after.

Do not impersonate any problem. I know is difficult, everyone is always doing it.
Instead of impersonating the problem, try to separate the problem from the people, personate the solution and transform it in action with all your efforts you have!
Looking back, sometimes when you think about failing, you just want to blame hardly yourself. But easily you should go rationally and conclude: "I did my best".
For better future, you have to feel that you are doing your maximum now. Are you? Yes. If not, you are loosing every day, minute, second to get your goals well reflect and thought.

Transforming my dreams to vision and vision to reality... Keep walking, on the walk of life...
In order to have things you never had, try to do thing you never done. Do not expect that luck will help you. Sometimes can not come. So do not be dependent from luck, be dependent from yourself and your results. If you don't have any result, you should feel that you are loosing it. You should feel since the very beginning you wrote down the goals.
Don't believe in luck, it doesn't exist. Lucky nothing more than an mental success probability that almost randomly happened. Almost, because you did the right step to get this success, you took a first step to achieve it. To increase your success probability, be at the right place in the right time, it never knows what can happen.

Everyone is important

As you threat yourself well, you should threat the others with the same respect. Respect with the same looking in the eyes as you look to the mirror. Even your hardest and strong enemy. Your hardest enemy is your best friend.
Great enemies are the ones that take your first little weakness as a chance to crash strongly you down. So, as in chess the best defence is your attack and the best attack is your defence, prevent yourself and eat all your enemies in your earlier breakfast. Always with ethic, conscience, transparency and morality.


Fight for your happiness
Stick to your goals with action, responsibility, passion & ambition. Do not be afraid of the unexpected, because "Uncertainty & expectation are the joys of life. When ideas comes, enemies will comes after it. So if you are clear about your goals, fight for it, fight for your happiness, you deserve it!!!
You should be strict to get your reasonable, ethical and moral goals and threat an enemies with respect as enemies. Separate your enemies always from the issues that they creates, then kill the issues, your enemies got weakly after it.


Love your closers
If we are one world, the infinite universe is not enough to stop us.
Love your closers. You never know when you will miss them, but I guarantee one day you will. So love them as you never will see them before. Be a plus in others lives and threat your closers with respect and love.
When you love someone think twice before any promise. When you have someone, think twice before any act.


You have limits, break them
Even you are under a fog in the morning, you still be a shiny happy person. You love to wake in the morning and say: is going to be a great day! If you do your maximum, you will be always on track to heaven. But you are not God, sometimes you have to wait. Acting is living, but to wait until the right moment is a quality who only few have it.
When you wait you are managing your breathe, your silence. When silence speaks from us, everything is already said, we . Sound reach our hears, music reach our heads, silence reach our heart.

Ta
ke care of your future
When it comes to past, present & future we can't have the all 3, one has to go away and future can never be this one. Leaving our future is leaving our life. "The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time. Threat well your future. If you don't educate our next generations' excellence, integrity and commitment to life your society will never step forward...

Francisco Miguel Sousa

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

1. Sensation Post: Hungary and Goulash



Yesterday night, I missed Hungary Goulash.
I want to repeat the sensation of eating a soup at 3am in the streets of Buda with a nice views to Pest.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Nostalgy 2008 - Portuguese firework in Krakow, Poland



In August 2008, I did an internship in Poland. Was amazing one, in Ganymede Technologies.
Suddenly, one day Andrea Vincze and Walid Triki wanted to see the fireworks festival at the center of the city.

Was lovely, why?
Actually Portugal was one of the competitors and WON!
However, these fireworks were important for my life.
When I saw the fireworks, after more than 8 months out of Portugal.. and listen by sequence.

1. Dulce Pontes - Canção do Mar (Sea song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSIGWEcR5Dc
2. Madredeus - O pastor (shepherd)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b-RehmqZUE
3. Carlos Paredes - Verdes Anos (Green Years)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2X_7Gi5krs&feature=related
4. Xutos e Pontapés - A minha Casinha (My lovely house)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5kdbIfb25I


Well... I have to confess... this firework was for me... had to...

1. I missed the sea... Over 8 months without seeing the sea was to much...
2. Shepherd song... started: "Oh, nobody come back / to what have left / nobody leaves the big wheel / nobody knows where walked before." I was feeling, my life travel was finishing, I needed to come back to my home and proceed my walk of life in Portugal.
3. Green years... This music followed my travels. Whatever country I have visited, I always listen this music. In fact, since 2006 to 2008, all years were great. Great green years had passed.
3. My Lovely house... I was missing Portugal. We can't deny our origins, we always miss them right?

Monday, March 14, 2011

I MISS CHIVITOS

Friday, March 4, 2011

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Creep



When you were here before
Couldn't look you in the eye
You're just like an angel
Your skin makes me cry

You float like a feather
In a beautiful world
I wish I was special
You're so fucking special

But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here

I don't care if it hurts
I want to have control
I want a perfect body
[From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/r/radiohead-lyrics/creep-lyrics.html]
I want a perfect soul

I want you to notice
When I'm not around
You're so fucking special
I wish I was special

But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here

She's running out the door
She's running
She run, run, run, run
Run

Whatever makes you happy
Whatever you want
You're so fucking special
I wish I was special

But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here
I don't belong here

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Interesting...

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Can't touch this

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Alex, here is my response!


Alex,
Here is my response:
"Oh Yeah"

Starting to do Quotes

If we are one world, the infinite universe is not enough to stop us. (Francisco Miguel Sousa)

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Breathing

Monday, January 24, 2011

Sharma... Sticking to your dream



3:05 - 3:36
"(...) Every dream starts small. But you want to start and move it forward, each every day. And when everybody laugh on you and criticize you, pain now hit to them. Keep on moving you dream forward. Because there is something magical about sticking to your dream longer than any around you, if you have the right to stick at your dream (...)"

Monday, January 17, 2011

Love your closers

In his beautiful article, A Gift for My Daughter, Harry Browne, American libertarian writer and politician, writes a beautiful note to his daughter in which he gives her a gift that would last a life-time. The timeless gift he gave to her is also a gift of indispensible learning and wisdom for all great leaders.

“It’s Christmas and I have the usual problem of deciding what to give you. I know you might enjoy many things — books, games, clothes. But I’m very selfish. I want to give you something that will stay with you for more than a few months or years. I want to give you a gift that might remind you of me every Christmas. If I could give you just one thing, I’d want it to be a simple truth that took me many years to learn. If you learn it now, it may enrich your life in hundreds of ways. And it may prevent you from facing many problems that have hurt people who have never learned it. The truth is simply this: No one owes you anything.

Significance - How could such a simple statement be important? It may not seem so, but understanding it can bless your entire life. No one owes you anything. It means that no one else is living for you, my child. Because no one is you. Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel. When you realize that no one owes you happiness or anything else, you’ll be freed from expecting what isn’t likely to be. It means no one has to love you.
If someone loves you, it’s because there’s something special about you that gives him happiness
. Find out what that something special is and try to make it stronger in you, so that you’ll be loved even more.
When people do things for you, it’s because they want to — because you, in some way, give them something meaningful that makes them want to please you, not because anyone owes you anything. No one has to like you. If your friends want to be with you, it’s not out of duty.
Find out what makes others happy so they’ll want to be near you. No one has to respect you. Some people may even be unkind to you. But once you realize that people don’t have to be good to you, and may not be good to you, you’ll learn to avoid those who would harm you. For you don’t owe them anything either.

Living Your Life - No one owes you anything. You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are, others will want to be with you, want to provide you with the things you want in exchange for what you’re giving to them. Some people will choose not to be with you for reasons that have nothing to do with you. When that happens, look elsewhere for the relationships you want. Don’t make someone else’s problem your problem. Once you learn that you must earn the love and respect of others, you’ll never expect the impossible and you won’t be disappointed. Others don’t have to share their property with you, nor their feelings or thoughts. If they do, it’s because you’ve earned these things. And you have every reason to be proud of the love you receive, your friends’ respect, the property you’ve earned. But don’t ever take them for granted. If you do, you could lose them. They’re not yours by right; you must always earn them.

My Experience - A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything. For so long as I’d thought there were things I was entitled to, I’d been wearing myself out — physically and emotionally — trying to collect them. No one owes me moral conduct, respect, friendship, love, courtesy, or intelligence.
And once I recognized that, all my relationships became far more satisfying. I’ve focused on being with people who want to do the things I want them to do. That understanding has served me well with friends, business associates, lovers, sales prospects, and strangers.
It constantly reminds me that I can get what I want only if I can enter the other person’s world
. I must try to understand how he/she thinks, what he/she believes to be important, what he/she wants. Only then can I appeal to someone in ways that will bring me what I want. And only then can I tell whether I really want to be involved with someone. And I can save the important relationships for those with whom I have the most in common. It’s not easy to sum up in a few words what has taken me years to learn. But maybe if you re-read this gift each Christmas, the meaning will become a little clearer every year. I hope so, for I want more than anything else for you to understand this simple truth that can set you free: no one owes you anything.”
Harry Browne, December 25, 1966

What are the incredible breakthrough insights and changes that you can find in your life by realizing that no one owes you anything?
You are freed of the expectations that others owe us something.
You recognize your own independence and responsibility to be all that you can possibly be.
You learn that in your relationships with others, some things must be earned through your own actions, behaviors and attitudes, and through your understanding of the other person's needs and desires.

You learn that you find fulfillment in relationships in which common interests are shared, perspectives and goals.
You find that in being all you can be, the gifts that you give to others will be returned with grateful appreciation and recognition.
You learn to realize that in some relationships, for whatever reason, they will not work and you will need to walk away because you, too, do not owe anything to another.
This is a magnificent gift Browne has shared. Remember the counsel he gave to his daughter: to re-read this gift that "the meaning will become a little clearer every year.” May you find great joy in your understanding that "no one owes you anything."

Have all of you a beautiful day and a fantastic week!!!

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Walking at the sun



Walking in the sun








I am walking in the sun.
I am a artist walking in the early sun. Walking and creating as living before my time or behind it to renew the essence of the environment around me.
I am walking in the sun. I am a diplomat walking in the early sun. Walking and playing chess politely as who always remind your birthday but will make you never remind your age.
I am walking in the sun. I am with you walking in early the sun. So, don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me ... and then...

Then, we are walking in the sun. We got stronger walking in the sun. Walking and laughing at the early morning relaxed sun as who are sure that will find one day the best sunset view ever.


Thursday, January 13, 2011

Largest Day of my Life... (2/5)

How come your luggage change your day?
This post is the answer.. (2nd post in 3 posts)

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh". Luggage was lost in the middle of the Airport in Brussels.

First of all, this was a real day. My best and amazed incredible day, I have to say. Until now, definitely the day which I had faced more challenges at the same time. Everything because a fail. Everything because a luggage...
in Brussels, Belgium...

As the explained in the 1/3 published, with 20 euros, mobile off, ID card, VISA card, clothes luggage, without flight tickets and passport how could I arrive to Turkey from Belgium with almost 1 hour to get the flight? If I wanted to come back, how could I return to Paris? Waaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

There I was with Amandine Bancel from my team without my luggage. I was desperate, with my hands on my head. Scream just come in consequence, without knowing what to do. Taxi driver has left with the luggage and I was with... almost nothing, just the clothes bag.

So... think, think... reminding my chess strategy:
1st) last move from the other person - Run out from the taxi as taxi driver.
2nd) what is the intention of the other person - As Taxi driver, go to the TAXI ARRIVALS PLACE???????
Just said to Amandine to go to Air Italia, informing what happened with me, and told her that I will be on the check in 10 minutes. Then I run, almost all I could with my clothes luggage. With all my strength to see if I could see the Taxi Driver on the Arrivals place at the Airport.

Nothing.
No Tunisian guy with musctahe, neither Taxi with my luggage. Ask the taxi drivers, if they knew him, anything could help... One, nice one, one taxi driver told me: "hey man, what's up?".... "WHAT A FUCK MAN, I will call the lost and found from the central place".
He did several calls, to different numbers, different places. Noted everything on a post it with little bit of ketchup from his weird breakfast and told me: "dude, is like that. the colours of the taximeter was green or red?" I answered red. "MANNNNNNNN HE IS ILEGAL. Only the legal ones have the green ones. Shit! You screwed!".

I got the paper, hug this cool guy and run to the police Station.
Desperate again, I came there directly to the police, explained everything and ask for help... My desperation was delivered to the policeman. Poor man, he got nervous without knowing if could calm me down or run to the phone. Nicely he told me: "Hum, let me see. Francisco, no worry we will try to get your luggage, do you want to regist what you lost?"

Then I did the list of things, and more details I was providing, more serious was the policeman with me. 40 minutes around a crazy paper just to have in my hands, proving what I lost. What I couldn't get it. At the end, I asked him the number and address of the Portuguese Ambassy. I needed to go there to find a solution for my passport... I needed to be there.

8am - Run to the check in.
At the check in, Amandine was almost leaving. Her flight was waiting for her
She didn't want to leave. I said: "Amandine, no worry, I will be there." I still remember today her incapacity eyes once she left. In my mind was clearly that I "WILL BE THERE" and "IT WILL BE TODAY".

After 3 months of pushing hard to be at this AIESEC International Congress, I just needed to be there. Said goodbye to Amandine and then talked with the A.Italia airlines guy.
Actually this italian was not so gUy at all, he looked more as gAy, than other thing. I remember as today, his screams when he saw me: "YOU ARE THE GUY WHO LOST THE LUGGAGE??".. "OHHHHH AHHHH OHHHH I will do my best. I will do my best."Francisco, I will help you. Don't worry, I will help you. Here your registration. I have cancelled your current flight, but no problem, as soon you have your documents you can take the flight. Here the registration and here my cellphone, please contact me as soon you have the documents back. Good luck, run to get it. GOOOD LUUUUUCK"
I got the papers and then I run.

Wait.
Wait.
But run to????

Look for signs. Then I saw "Airport Lost and Found", I went there, nothing.
The fat woman was more calm than ever, neither a call to police. I just said myself "what a BITCH". Whatever, I run out of the airport to the Radison (i think) Hotel in front of it as recommended from the taxi driver.
Well.. Guess what? Nothing. BITCH!

Then, resigned, I went to the ATM. Put my VISA card to get the money to go to Portuguese Ambassy. GUESS WHAT? VISA DIDNT WORK!!!!
No money??!!! Tried all ATM's and NOTHING!!!!!

So, with 20 euros, mobile off, ID card, VISA card, huge clothes luggage on my back, without flight tickets and passport how could I arrive to Turkey from Belgium?

BAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Friday, January 7, 2011

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Monday, January 3, 2011

I'm easy like Sunday Morning



Know it sounds funny
But, I just can't stand the pain
Girl, I'm leaving you tomorrow
Seems to me girl
You know I've done all I can
You see I begged, stole, and I borrowed! (yeah)
Ooh that's why I'm easy
I'm easy like Sunday morning
That's why I'm easy
I'm easy like Sunday morning!
Why in the world would anybody put chains on me?
I've paid my dues to make it
Everybody wants me to be
What they want me to be
I'm not happy when I try to fake it! no!
Ooh that's why I'm easy
I'm easy like Sunday morning
That's why I'm easy
I'm easy like Sunday morning!
I wanna be high, so high
I wanna be free to know
The things I do are right
I wanna be free
Just me! Whoa, oh! Babe!
That's why I'm easy
I'm easy like Sunday morning, yeah
That's why I'm easy
I'm easy like Sunday morning, whoa
'Cause I'm easy
Easy like Sunday morning, yeah
'Cause I'm easy
Easy like Sunday morning