Leadership

MEMORANDUM - The end of the blog

2011-10-03T00:08:00.007+01:00

MEMORANDUM

1. WAKE UP
1.1. Start being yourself
‎"Before try to change the world, change yourself". The things you felt so far is it was just your perspective, not the anyone else perspective. In fact, even you would have a twin, this twin would never understand your own way of looking the things. So start being yourself, because you know what you have passed until today.

1.2 Look your life as a challenge
Life should be your favourite game. With your only 1 credit, nothing else can challenge you more than life. So live it as a challenge.

1.3 Fight for your happiness
Success is your destination and happiness your whole travel. So stick to your goals with action, responsibility, passion & ambition and do not be afraid of the unexpected, because "Uncertainty & expectation are the joys of life".
When goals and then ideas are coming to your mind, 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 goals and threat your barriers to get your goals with respect. Separate your barriers from the issues that comes in consequence. Kill these issues, your barriers got weakly after it.

1.4 Live. Search for your best sensations
A picture value is not measured by how the figures or colours are combined, but by the sensation it creates to who is seeing them. Life is the same thing.

1.5 Take 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.
So do not live for today, live for a better today everyday.
When you will sleep and think "It was a great day", then at this day you will feel that you did a great job. The words "if" and "I" together should be always followed by the word "will" and not "would". We must focus on our future decisions, otherwise we are just wasting our time.

When it comes to past, present & future we can't have all at the same time, one has to be selected to go away and future can never be this selected 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...

1.6 Release yourself
After your wrong decisions just smile, learn and try to improve your actions for the next time.
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.

1.7 In the end you are the one to decide
Decision depends from you, nobody else. Do not let external evaluations limiting your life, take them in consideration to be free to decide.
Feed backs are always coming and going, are welcomed and needed to decide but filter them.
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.
But you are the last one who owns your life. In the end you are the one that decides.

2. Look at your past with peace

2.1 Breathe
The closest thing to crazy is to not 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...

2.2 Your present is a consequence of your past
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?

2.3 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.

2.4 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.

2.5 Luck doesn't exist
My friends, luck doesn't exist at all. Luck is an ilusion concept that Human beings have created to not face the reality. The reality that happened in consequence of inumerous factors. More factors you control higher probability you will have to get your goals.

3. Change your habits
Your actions drives you to what you need. If an habit is a constant term to describe several actions, create positive and strong habits to believe in your thoughts, to respond to your needs and achieve your goals.

3.1 LEARN. 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.

3.1 ATTITUDE. Attitude is Everything
By facing a challenge, whatever you would say that is impossible or possible, you will be always right. I never met a successfully person without sweating to achieve something. And always starts with the right attitude, the winning attitude.
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.

3.2 CONTROL. Transform your trends in opportunities. 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.

3.3 ENJOY. Life is life. We do not have other right? So Enjoy it!
Time is limited, it never goes back. Is definitely our precious thing.. Wasting time is totally wasting life. Take your time with your closest ones. Live for a better day everyday, you will never knows tomorrow.
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.

3.4 LIVE THE REAL. 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.

3.5 SOLVE. Solution oriented
In a specific problem, either we usually focus on the past negative things to excuse our fails, either we focus on the positive future things to solve them.
Do not personalize in yourself or in others your issues/problems, but the solutions to get over it.

3.6 PERSIST. Don't give up. 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.

4. The world is waiting for you

4.1 Laissez Faire mode.
Live with laissez fair mote. Live the flow and do not create any expectation.

4.2 Show your love to everyone.
"There is no better antidote to loneliness than communication."
You should threat the others with the same respect as you threat usually yourself. 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.

4.3 Do not forget your intuition
"Usually we get what we anticipate." What usually we thing that can be, most of the times we are totally right.
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.

4.4 Filter the negative things and share your achievements
It may be cloudy, windy, rainy or snowy. However remember, that at this precise moment, above any cloud is always a wonderful sky waiting for you.
Be always positive and filter all negative parts around you.
If has to, change your environment to positive and able to turn it the most comfortable possible.

4.5 Keep building your confort zone but do not be dependent from it
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.

4.6 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.

4.7 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!

4.8 You have limits? So 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.

4.9 Health is the base of your happiness
Your health has to be renewed as soon as possible and should never being forgotten.

5.0 Prioritize
Be aware in your "required" things and separate them from your "nice to have".
A good friend always tells you what you need to hear and not what you want to hear."Do not prioritize them, if you are just their option." Do prioritize who really care honestly/deeply by listening/doing the enough to make you happy.

Francisco Miguel Sousa

Lesson from Bulgaria

2011-09-02T20:42:00.005+01:00

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

http://www.un.org/sg/senstaff_details.asp?smgID=14

Durão Barroso - Former Portuguese Prime-Minister

President European Commission

http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/president/about/cv/index_en.htm

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

Interesting no?

La Flâneur

2011-08-30T22:29:00.000+01:00

Le Flâneur (music by The XX) from Luke Shepard on Vimeo.

Zaz - Dans ma rue

2011-08-29T01:10:00.001+01:00

Kontroll

2011-08-11T23:29:00.004+01:00

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:

Move, Eat and Learn

2011-08-09T00:33:00.001+01:00

Top 8 - Foreign Dishes

2011-08-03T00:22:00.008+01:00

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)

Listen to your heart

2011-07-11T00:56:00.001+01:00

chess

2011-07-08T16:27:00.001+01:00

Memorandum 2011 - 2/4

2011-07-03T23:14:00.003+01:00

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.

Take 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

Thats me. Try yourself and compare

2011-06-15T22:11:00.002+01:00

Advanced Global Personality Test Results

Extraversion	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	50%
Stability	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	43%
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%
Religious	\|\|\|\|\|\|	30%
Paranoia	\|\|\|\|\|\|	30%
Hypersensitivity	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	43%
Indie	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	70%

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2011-06-15T18:05:00.000+01:00

Mentorship

2011-06-02T19:22:00.002+01:00

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

Video Clip in Lisbon - Mauro Picotto - Proximus

2011-05-01T19:44:00.002+01:00

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.

2011-05-01T14:19:00.002+01:00

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

Czech President teach how to steal a pen

2011-04-13T21:23:00.002+01:00

Wonderwall in Paris

2011-04-10T00:03:00.002+01:00

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

Narayanan Kirshnan - Truly Hero

2011-04-03T23:25:00.001+01:00

Memorandum 2011 - 1/4

2011-04-01T12:01:00.000+01:00

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.

Take 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

1. Sensation Post: Hungary and Goulash

2011-03-30T09:36:00.003+01:00

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.

Nostalgy 2008 - Portuguese firework in Krakow, Poland

2011-03-20T21:27:00.005Z

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?

I MISS CHIVITOS

2011-03-14T01:09:00.002Z

Serendipity Obituary

2011-03-04T14:19:00.001Z

Creep

2011-02-27T18:16:00.001Z

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

Interesting...

2011-02-15T12:43:00.000Z

Can't touch this

2011-02-13T19:13:00.001Z

Alex, here is my response!

2011-02-09T08:03:00.000Z

Alex,
Here is my response:
"Oh Yeah"

Starting to do Quotes

2011-02-09T01:43:00.002Z

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

Breathing

2011-02-06T20:27:00.001Z

Sharma... Sticking to your dream

2011-01-24T23:55:00.004Z

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 (...)"

Love your closers

2011-01-17T12:12:00.003Z

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!!!

Walking at the sun

2011-01-16T22:13:00.002Z

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.

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

2011-01-13T23:19:00.004Z

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

How to Get Up Early - Vlog

2011-01-07T23:46:00.004Z

HeadWar ! Deserving Peace...

2011-01-05T19:00:00.004Z

I'm easy like Sunday Morning

2011-01-03T20:23:00.000Z

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

O Natal tem destas coisas (5 anos depois, o mesmo)

2010-12-25T13:09:00.000Z

Era uma vez um rapaz, Joaquim Carreira de 10 anos, que vivia com mais 8 irmãos, em meados da década de 50, numa casa humilde para os lados da Batalha, Leiria.

Ao contrário dos outros irmãos, Joaquim Carreira, sofria de uma deficiência, em que deformara os seus frágeis membros esquerdos. Ao mesmo tempo que os irmãos iam crescendo normalmente, Joaquim cada vez mais ressentia dificuldades com o andar. Os pais, que infelizmente não tinham dinheiro para curar o seu filho, limitavam-se a vê-lo a habituar com a ideia de ser diferente dos outros.

Joaquim, não era um miúdo qualquer, tinha uma imensa força, tanto física como psicológica. Depressa conseguiu arranjar o seu tempo. O gado da família era por sua conta. Ainda hoje se conta na aldeia, as suas caminhadas de mais de 10 quilómetros num só dia com os animais.

Pouco tempo passa e as coisas complicavam-se ainda mais. Joaquim, perdera muito cedo a sua mãe. Com isso, teve que deixar a escola e trabalhar a tempo inteiro. Um trabalho pequeno aqui, outro ali. Com o seu braço esquerdo sem força, e uma perna quase sem movimentos, ia fazendo os seus possíveis.

Os anos vão passando e a família separa-se pouco a pouco. Alguns irmãos tentam ir para a capital, outros para Brasil, França, Alemanha. Joaquim, por sua vez ia ficando cada vez mais só. Ora passava uns meses na casa de um irmão, ora outros na casa de outro.

Certa altura, surgiu uma uma ideia de ir para um lar em Coruche, com a finalidade de conseguir ter um bom acompanhamento. E assim foi, Joaquim já com 40 e poucos anos, fora para o lar em Coruche.
Recordo muito bem, como se fosse hoje. Ainda não andava na escola e, cada vez que ia da minha terra, Algarve, para a terra natal do meu pai, Leiria. Coruche era paragem obrigatória.
Muito novo encarei o Joaquim, meu tio, de forma estranha. Tendo eu, na altura como passatempos, a televisão ou jogar a bola com os amigos. Ver o meu tio num lar de idosos em que por exemplo, tinha de partilhar o quarto com mais um idoso, que mais cedo ou mais tarde, acabaria por morrer, metiam-me imensa confusão.

Então o modo em que passava o seu tempo era incrível. Um dia normal, para ele, era ouvir rádio, corridinho de preferência, e ver os idosos a jogar as cartas. Tudo o que acontecia fora do lar, aparte das historias da sua terra e da família, passava-lhe completamente ao lado.
O seu crescimento parecia que tinha parado com a doença. Uma televisão, por exemplo, ja lhe metia confusão. Dava-me a sensação que vivia um passado presente, mas genuíno ao mesmo tempo.
Poucos eram os Natais que a família o trazia para as suas casas. Normalmente, era a família que ia ao encontro do Joaquim. O lar ja se tornava também a sua família, pelo qual todos os natais faziam grandes festas.

E tudo passava dentro do normal, até que um dia recebi uma notícia que me chocou bastante. Joaquim tinha de ficar sem uma perna devido aos diabetes. A sua perna deformada obrigava agora a que nunca pudesse andar. A sua volta matinal pela herdade do lar já não poderia ser feita como antigamente.
Incrivelmente os seus familiares que, acabaram de brigar entre si, juntaram-se em solidariedade com o Joaquim e compraram-lhe uma cadeira de rodas eléctrica.

Mais tarde, já no fim da década de 90, os diabetes de Joaquim, voltaram a fazer das suas. A sua outra perna, a sempre sã, também tinha de ser cortada. Nessa altura o seu andar, que era uma das suas poucas relíquias, teria de ser deixado para trás.
Então, as idas ao lar de Coruche já era uma obrigação para mim.
O seu olhar doce e o seu sorriso maroto já não era o mesmo. Após ter ficado sem pernas, Joaquim passara para sala de doentes, que tinha de partilhar com mais 5 idosos, pois era a unica sala do res-do-chão do lar. Os gritos de dor por parte desses mesmos idosos, provocavam-me imensa confusão. Por vezes até arrepios e, só me aptecia era saír dali. Mesmo assim, compensava imenso ir lá, pois era um mar de felicidade para ele. Até dava sempre uma volta pela herdade, querendo mostrar os seus dotes de condução na cadeira eléctrica aos familiares. Parecia uma criança com o seu brinquedo favorito.

Mesmo assim, o tempo não perdoa. No passado natal, tinha la ido, por acaso o vi bastante bem. Foi a última recordação dele vivo, que guardo na memória. Mas passado uns dias, precisamente a 4 de Fevereiro, meu dia de aniversário por coincidência, meu dia que fizera 21 anos (2005), morrera Joaquim.

Hoje ainda olho para a única recordação que tenho, com estima. Um barrete que eu tinha oferecido no último Natal. Segundo as funcionárias do lar, ele não largara um segundo que seja, pois era do seu sobrinho que gostava muito. Pouco tempo antes de morrer, fez questão que esse mesmo barrete me fosse entregue. Pena não ter sido usado muitas vezes…

Embora a morte tenho sido anunciada algum tempo antes, foi o fúneral que mais me sensabilizou até hoje. Não por haver imensa gente, não porque o tio que gostava imenso morrera, mas por aquilo que viveu.

Pena não poder ter feito nada mais.
A vida é mesmo assim e tem destas coisas...

Francisco Miguel Sousa
2010 - 5 anos depois do mesmo post.
O Natal não faz esquecer os mais queridos

Memorandum - 2010 (after 12 months of reflection and 3 posts of improvement)

2010-12-14T00:01:00.000Z

MEMORANDUM
(2010 - Final after 4 releases)

What you have seen, is your perspective...
Even you would have a twin, this twin would never understand your own way of looking the things. 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.

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 passionable 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.

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... Enjoy it every second.

Decisions brings responsibility. You are the responsible for everything around you.
Important: You should never blame others from their own decisions or non-decisions. 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.
If you are persistent and you couldn't do anything, do never think that you could do it better.
It was not your fault, you did your maximum.
"Dont' regret anything you do, 'cause in the end it makes you who you are"

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.

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.

As you threat yourself well, you should threat the others with the same 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.

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.

Francisco Miguel Sousa

O dia em que um sorriso parou São Paulo. (The day when a smile stopped S...

2010-12-06T14:04:00.000Z

BAJOFONDO .FAIRLY RIGHT ( CON ELVIS COSTELLO )

2010-12-05T21:53:00.000Z

Turkish EuroVision 2010 - 2nd Place

2010-11-26T12:59:00.000Z

Bajofondo - Hoje

2010-11-23T23:11:00.000Z

Bajofondo - Hoje

Tradução

"Leu outra vez,
Quase sem ver
Envolto numa densa núvem de emoção
Perdeu o seu cheiro.... aquele sabor
Das manhãs, de uma vida que venceu

Hoje, Hoje, Hoje
Leu outra vez, e caminhou
Debaixo da puta chuva que não pára de golpear
E a senti-lo.. que vá a sentir
Enquanto as lagrimas pingando a granel

Leu outra vez, se surprendeu
Buscando auxílio num remédio com paixão
E num café se refugiou
E lá fora o mundo, continuava sem razão

Hoje não soube e não é grupo, está roto por adentro
Foi tão bruta a sentencia
Essa clínica evidência

Ela agora está aí... e aí pousou
É nesta zona de onde arruga tal dor
E o mais, não o pode ver
Porquê o futuro hoje desmoronou
E o vidro o tenta apanhar
Como se assim fosse apagar sua maldição

Leu outra vez, e disse adeus
E à frente só havia despedida
Hoje não sabia e não é grupo está roto por a dentro
Foi tão bruta a sentencia
Essa clínica evidência"

"casi sin ver
envuelto en una densa nube de emoción
perdió su olor… y aquél sabor
de las mañanas, de una vida que venció…
hoy, hoy, hoy

Leyó otra vez, y camino
bajo esa puta lluvia que no deja de golpear
y la sintió… que va a sentir
mientras las lagrimas brotaban a granel
leyó otra vez, se sorprendió
buscando auxilio un remedio compasión
y en un café se refugio
y afuera el mundo continuaba sin razón

Hoy no supo y no es grumo esta roto por adentro
fue tan bruta la sentencia
esa clínica evidencia
ella ahora esta ahí… y ahí palmo
en esa zona a donde arruga hasta el dolor
y es que además… no puede ver
porque? el futuro hoy se le desmorono
y el vidrio intenta desempañar
como si así fuera a borrar su maldición

Leyó otra vez, se dijo adiós
en adelante solo habría despedidas
hoy no supo y no es grumo esta roto por adentro
fue tan bruta la sentencia
esa clínica evidencia"

Turkish Dance

2010-11-18T23:50:00.000Z

Future of Software

2010-11-17T00:28:00.001Z

prediction for 2015:

Facebook will step forward Titan andother ideas and do a simple systems to all profiles have an easier way to buy their own personal domains and e-mails.
Imagine: francisco@miguelsousa.com with Facebook E-mail and website.
Linkedin in this sense starts to integrate the communication of facebook.
Facebook then will face high costs with weak communication channels.
Facebook, will integrate their personal social network with the professional of Linkedin.

Google the same will happen with high costs for all social network efforts in waves as Orkut, Google wave, Google Buzz, whatever more will try to...
And both will marry with smart integration as partners.
Google turns to his best features as searches and the face turns to new ideas for small and middle companies market.

Microsoft finally buying Yahoo to respond Google, will come late to this discussion. MSNMessenger will die in bloody hands of Facebook and Microsoft buys Skype, lately again, because all users wants to call by Facebook(Linkedin support) and their own portals.
Microsoft looses their own monopoly, and r"adicals" looks the foundation of Bill Gates as "awesome" and it starts to look better to MS instead of Apple...
Steve Jobs has a millionaire foundation? No... Apple will face a new revolution after a disaster that will be the iPad.
Paying applications will do the customers to run over them system...

Nobody knows what is twitter and MySpace will crash down because the only current customers, the music sector, will be covered by some great idea that I have no idea :P because was not invented yet. Something like current Spotify that is closest today feature is revolting the radio market. Radios will network anymore as FM or AM but single programs that we can select inside the same system. Virgin can have a word on that and I believe Richard Branson will come with some idea.
Movies will be sold as symbol PAN Drives with licenses views from each "Studio" recorder.

With these merges, a new wave of free content revolution will start over. International Company not work (not personal as linkedin) will have space for Company connections each other. And the all market will be over that easier company content system.

I believe leaks already started this new political wave.
Software will be the solution for main State politics systems and politics portals will come over any political media. The current Political institutions which born in the Republic revolution of XIX Century will disappear.
Political debates will be clearly, State payment systems will be clearly and all citizens of the world will have the possibility to use electronic signature recognized in everywhere in the world...

Man of Saldanha is now immortal (Senhor do Adeus, Senhor do Saldanha)

2010-11-13T00:45:00.000Z

Portugal lost a smile this week.

The history of the "Man of Saldanha (Place)" in Lisbon, is an unbelievable.
Imagine that you are driving a car in the main Avenue of Lisbon, and someone at the street is saying "Good Bye" to you.
You found it strange, so you look back. Actually it was a just a simple "Good Bye".
Without anything in change.

During years, maybe more than 10, in "Saldanha" was a man who always saying good bye to who passed at this Avenue.

Year after year, he was becoming a symbol. A symbol of loneliness, symbol of Lisbon, symbol of kindness...

At the end, his intentions were the best. Just fight his loneliness. But why a person becomes old and do such a thing like that every single night? What was his story? How come a person in a city of 1 Million inhabitants comes to such long loneliness?

His tribute was yesterday night, and an unbelievable number of people wanted to say the last goodbye. More than 200 people said the last good bye and more than 5000 people passed by car
this night for his last good bye. Unbelievable... amazing...

Last tribute:

"Good Bye" my friend.
This music describes so well how Lisbon said so much times Good Bye to you:

Morreu o "Senhor do Adeus" - Portugal - DN

2010-11-11T22:41:00.000Z

Morreu o "Senhor do Adeus" - Portugal - DN

Signs

2010-11-09T09:53:00.001Z

W auche? (Video from Poland)

2010-11-09T00:05:00.000Z

This music reminds my 2008 Polish summer nights...

Economia Portuguesa? Teoria da Sanita

2010-10-29T00:31:00.000+01:00

(Sorry for the post in Portuguese, this is for portuguese citizens...)

O que passa com economia Portuguesa?
Tenho uma teoria! Teoria da utilização da sanita!!!!

Desde há muito que a classe política sentava-se nela se e faziam a sua "shit". Por vezes cheirava mal, mas passava. O pior é que depois vieram uns pantanosos que não tocavam o autoclismo... cheirou mal e demitiram-se.

Outros vieram e no lugar de arranjar o problema e tocar o autoclismo perfumaram o WC. Pior fizeram mais "shit" e puseram mais papel higiénico por cima. E como já cheirava mal e ficou entupido, decidiram fugir para onde podiam, até para a Comissão Europeia foram vê lá tu.

A seguir, veio outro a substituir, que nem nela se sentou e já julgavam que iria fazer muito mais "Shit" que os anteriores. Demitiram-no do WC.

Por último chegou o senhor motivador. Com o seu poder motivador, cada vez que fazia a sua "shit" conseguia motivar as pessoas à volta para que o cheiro não fosse mais nada que ilusão delas mesmas e as coisas estranhas a passar pelo chão fora era fruto de uma descoberta de petróleo. Longe de vir da sanita. Depois fez tudo o que podia para não encravar os tubos, com o seu "shit" especial aqui e ali até que não havia mais espaço...
Agora esse senhor tentou tocar o autoclismo e inundou tudo... Os que passam por lá perto reclamaram e por mais incrível que fosse, ele disse que era previsível nas suas expectativas. Isso da sanita seria resolvida sem problema de maior, não seria preciso chamar o canalizador expert FMI.
Ele resolveria... e resolveu exigir o pagamento dos estragos a quem até nem no WC costuma ir ou usufruir de uma forma distributiva...
No fim de tudo, para limpar a sua imagem e cheiro terrível diz que a culpa é dos que se pensa que vêm a seguir e nem ainda nela sentaram.

É digno de dizer que tudo isto me mete nojo... daí a foto.
FMS

If Portuguese Democracy would be singer...would sing this music to portuguese citizens!!!

2010-10-20T12:32:00.000+01:00

Got no reason for coming to me and the rain running down.
There's no reason.
And the same voice coming to me like it's all slowin down.
And believe me -

I was the one who let you know
I was your sorry-ever-after. '74-'75.

It's not easy, nothing to say 'cause it's already said.
It's never easy.
When I look on in your eyes then I find that I'll do fine.
When I look on in your eyes then I'll do better.

I was the one who let you know
I was your sorry-ever-after. '74-'75.
Giving me more and I'll defy
'Cause you're really only after '74-'75.

Got no reason for coming to me and the rain running down.
There's no reason.
When I look on in your eyes then I find that I'll do fine.
When I look on in your eyes then I'll do better.

I was the one who let you know
I was your sorry-ever-after. '74-'75.
Giving me more and I'll defy
'Cause you're really only after '74-'75.

I was the one who let you know
I was your sorry-ever-after. '74-'75.
Giving me more and I'll defy
'Cause you're really only after '74-'75.

'74-'75

'74-'75

'74-'75

Zombie - Cranberries One of the best videos ever

2010-10-19T00:13:00.001+01:00

Miracle of Andes - 16 people survived after airplane crash eating Human meet to survive?

2010-09-22T17:58:00.000+01:00

Better Video with the real survivors:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4aD6odYDfU&feature=related

Explanation (From Wikipedia)

Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, also known as the Andes flight disaster, and in South America as Miracle in the Andes (El Milagro de los Andes) was a chartered flight carrying 45 people, including a rugby team and their friends and family and associates that crashed in the Andes on October 13, 1972. The last of the 16 survivors were rescued on December 23, 1972. More than a quarter of the passengers died in the crash, and several more quickly succumbed to cold and injury. Of the twenty-nine who were alive a few days after the accident, another eight were killed by an avalanche that swept over their shelter in the wreckage.

The survivors had little food and no source of heat in the harsh conditions, at over 3,600 metres (11,800 ft) altitude. Faced with starvation and radio news reports that the search for them had been abandoned, the survivors fed on the dead passengers who had been preserved in the snow. Rescuers did not learn of the survivors until 72 days after the crash when passengers Nando Parrado and Roberto Canessa, after a 12-day trek across the Andes, found a Chilean huaso, who gave them food and then alerted authorities about the existence of the other survivors.

Contents

1 The crash
1.1 Early days
1.2 The search
1.3 Cannibalism
1.4 Avalanche
1.5 Hard decisions
1.5.1 Radio
1.5.2 The sleeping bag
1.6 December 12
1.7 Finding help
2 The mountain rescue
3 Timeline
3.1 October 1972
3.2 November 1972
3.3 December 1972
4 Passenger list
4.1 Crew
4.2 Passengers
5 Aftermath
5.1 Official website (2002)
5.2 2010 Chilean Mine Disaster
6 The crash in popular culture
6.1 Books
6.1.1 Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (1974)
6.1.2 Miracle in the Andes (2006)
6.2 Film and television
6.2.1 Supervivientes de los Andes (1976)
6.2.2 Alive: The Miracle of the Andes (1993)
6.2.3 Alive: 20 Years Later (1993)
6.2.4 Stranded: I Have Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains (2007)
6.2.5 Trapped: Alive in the Andes (2007)
7 See also
8 References
9 Further reading
9.1 Books
9.2 Articles
10 External links

The crash

On Friday the 13th of October, 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force twin turboprop Fairchild FH-227D was flying over the Andes carrying Old Christians Club rugby union team from Montevideo, Uruguay, to play a match in Santiago, Chile.

The trip had begun the day before, when the Fairchild departed from Carrasco International Airport, but inclement mountain weather forced an overnight stop in Mendoza. At the Fairchild's ceiling of 29,500 feet (9,000 m), the plane could not fly directly from Mendoza, over the Andes, to Santiago, in large part because of the weather. Instead, the pilots had to fly south from Mendoza parallel to the Andes, then turn west towards the mountains, fly through a low pass (Planchon), cross the mountains and emerge on the Chilean side of the Andes south of Curico before finally turning north and initiating descent to Santiago after passing Curico. After resuming the flight on the afternoon of October 13, the plane was soon flying through the pass in the mountains. The pilot then notified air controllers in Santiago that he was over Curicó, Chile, and was cleared to descend. This would prove to be a fatal error. Since the pass was covered by the clouds, the pilots had to rely on the usual time required to cross the pass (dead reckoning). However, they failed to take into account strong headwinds that ultimately slowed the plane and increased the time required to complete the crossing: they were not as far west as they thought they were. As a result, the turn and descent were initiated too soon, before the plane had passed through the mountains, leading to a controlled flight into terrain.

Dipping into the cloud cover while still over the mountains, the Fairchild soon crashed on an unnamed peak (later called Cerro Seler, also known as Glaciar de las Lágrimas or Glacier of Tears), located between Cerro Sosneado and Volcán Tinguiririca, straddling the remote mountainous border between Chile and Argentina. The plane clipped the peak at 4,200 metres (13,800 ft), neatly severing the right wing, which was thrown back with such force that it cut off the vertical stabilizer, leaving a gaping hole in the rear of the fuselage. The plane then clipped a second peak which severed the left wing and left the plane as just a fuselage flying through the air. One of the propellers sliced through the fuselage as the wing it was attached to was severed. The fuselage hit the ground and slid down a steep mountain slope before finally coming to rest in a snow bank. The location of the crash site is 34°45′54″S 70°17′11″W / 34.765°S 70.28639°W / -34.765; -70.28639Coordinates: 34°45′54″S 70°17′11″W / 34.765°S 70.28639°W / -34.765; -70.28639, in the Argentine municipality of Malargüe (Malargüe Department, Mendoza Province).

Early days

Survivors amongst the wreckageOf the 45 people on the plane, 12 died in the crash or shortly thereafter; another five had died by the next morning, and one more succumbed to injuries on the eighth day. The remaining 27 faced severe difficulties in surviving high in the freezing mountains. Many had suffered injuries from the crash, including broken legs from the aircraft's seats piling together. The survivors lacked equipment such as cold-weather clothing and footwear suitable for the area, mountaineering goggles to prevent snow blindness (although one of the eventual survivors, 24-year-old Adolfo "Fito" Strauch, devised a couple of sunglasses by using the sun visors in the pilot's cabin which helped protect their eyes from the sun). Most gravely, they lacked any kind of medical supplies, leaving the two first year medical students on board who had survived the crash to improvise splints and braces with salvaged parts of what remained of the aircraft.

The search

Search parties from three countries looked for the missing plane. However, since the plane was white, it blended in with the snow, making it virtually invisible from the sky. The initial search was cancelled after eight days. The survivors of the crash had found a small transistor radio on the plane and Roy Harley first heard the news that the search was cancelled on their eleventh day on the mountain. Piers Paul Read in Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (a text based upon interviews with the survivors) described the moments after this discovery:

The others who had clustered around Roy, upon hearing the news, began to sob and pray, all except Parrado, who looked calmly up the mountains which rose to the west. Gustavo [Coco] Nicolich came out of the plane and, seeing their faces, knew what they had heard… [Nicolich] climbed through the hole in the wall of suitcases and rugby shirts, crouched at the mouth of the dim tunnel, and looked at the mournful faces which were turned towards him. 'Hey boys,' he shouted, 'there's some good news! We just heard on the radio. They've called off the search.' Inside the crowded plane there was silence. As the hopelessness of their predicament enveloped them, they wept. 'Why the hell is that good news?' Paez shouted angrily at Nicolich. 'Because it means,' [Nicolich] said, 'that we're going to get out of here on our own.' The courage of this one boy prevented a flood of total despair.[1]

Cannibalism

The survivors had a small amount of food: a few chocolate bars, other assorted snacks, and several bottles of wine. During the days following the crash they divided out this food in very small amounts so as not to exhaust their meager supply. Fito also devised a way to melt snow into water by using metal from the seats and placing snow on it. The snow then melted in the sun and dripped into empty wine bottles. Even with this strict rationing, their food stock dwindled quickly. Furthermore, there was no natural vegetation or animals on the snow-covered mountain. The group thus survived by collectively making a decision to eat flesh from the bodies of their dead comrades. This decision was not taken lightly, as most were classmates or close friends. In his 2006 book, Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home, Nando Parrado comments on this decision:

At high altitude, the body's caloric needs are astronomical ... we were starving in earnest, with no hope of finding food, but our hunger soon grew so voracious that we searched anyway ...again and again we scoured the fuselage in search of crumbs and morsels. We tried to eat strips of leather torn from pieces of luggage, though we knew that the chemicals they'd been treated with would do us more harm than good. We ripped open seat cushions hoping to find straw, but found only inedible upholstery foam ... Again and again I came to the same conclusion: unless we wanted to eat the clothes we were wearing, there was nothing here but aluminium, plastic, ice, and rock.[2]
All of the passengers were Roman Catholic. According to Read, some equated the act of cannibalism to the ritual of Holy Communion. Others initially had reservations, though after realizing that it was their only means of staying alive, changed their minds a few days later.

Avalanche

Eight of the initial survivors subsequently died on the morning of October 29 when an avalanche cascaded down on them as they slept in the fuselage. For three days they survived in an appallingly confined space since the plane was buried under several feet of snow. Nando Parrado was able to poke a hole in the roof of the fuselage with a metal pole, providing ventilation.

Hard decisions

Before the avalanche, a few of the survivors became insistent that their only means of survival would be to climb over the mountains themselves and search for help. Because of the co-pilot's assertion that the plane had passed Curico, the group assumed that the Chilean countryside was just a few miles away to the west. In actuality, the plane had crashed inside Argentina and, unknown to the survivors, just a few miles west of an abandoned hotel named the Hotel Termas Sosneado. Several brief expeditions were made in the immediate vicinity of the plane in the first few weeks after the crash, but the expeditionaries found that a combination of altitude sickness, dehydration, snow blindness, malnourishment and the extreme cold of the nights made climbing any significant distance an impossible task. Therefore it was decided that a group of expeditionaries would be chosen, and then allocated the most rations of food and the warmest of clothes, and spared the daily manual labor around the crash site that was essential for the group's survival, so that they might build their strength. Although several survivors were determined to be on the expedition team no matter what, including Parrado and Roberto Canessa, one of the two medical students, others were less willing or unsure of their ability to withstand such a physically exhausting ordeal. From the rest of the passengers, Numa Turcatti and Antonio Vizintin were chosen to accompany Canessa and Parrado.

At Canessa's urging, the expeditionaries waited nearly seven weeks, to allow for the arrival of spring, and with it warmer temperatures. Although the expeditionaries were hoping to get to Chile, a large mountain lay due west of the crash site, blocking any effort made to walk in that direction. Therefore the expeditionaries initially headed east, hoping that at some point the valley that they were in would do a U-turn and allow them to start walking west. After several hours of walking east, the trio unexpectedly found the tail section of the plane, which was still largely intact. Within and surrounding the tail were numerous suitcases that had belonged to the passengers, containing cigarettes, candy, clean clothing and even some comic books. The group decided to camp there that night inside the tail section, and continue east the next morning. However, on the second night of the expedition, which was their first night sleeping outside exposed to the elements, the group nearly froze to death. After some debate the next morning, they decided that it would be wiser to return to the tail, remove the plane's batteries and bring them back to the fuselage so that they might power up the radio and make an SOS call to Santiago for help.

Radio

Upon returning to the tail, the trio found that the batteries were too heavy to take back to the fuselage, which lay uphill from the tail section, and they decided instead that the most appropriate course of action would be to return to the fuselage and disconnect the radio system from the plane's electrical mainframe, take it back to the tail, connect it to the batteries, and call for help from there. One of the other team members, Roy Harley, was an amateur electronics enthusiast, and they recruited his help in this endeavor. Unknown to any of the team members, though, was the fact that the plane's electrical system used AC, while the batteries in the tail naturally produced DC, making the plan futile from the beginning. After several days of trying to make the radio work back at the tail, the expeditionaries finally gave up, returning to the fuselage with the knowledge that they would in fact have to climb out of the mountains if they were to stand any hope of being rescued.

The sleeping bag

It was now apparent that the only way out was to climb over the mountains to the west. However, they also realized that unless they found a way to survive the freezing temperature of the nights, a trek was impossible. It was at this point that the idea for a sleeping bag was raised.

In his book, Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home, Nando Parrado would comment thirty-four years later upon the making of the sleeping bag:

The second challenge would be to protect ourselves from exposure, especially after sundown. At this time of year we could expect daytime temperatures well above freezing, but the nights were still cold enough to kill us, and we knew now that we couldn't expect to find shelter on the open slopes. We needed a way to survive the long nights without freezing, and the quilted batts of insulation we'd taken from the tail section gave us our solution ... as we brainstormed about the trip, we realized we could sew the patches together to create a large warm quilt. Then we realized that by folding the quilt in half and stitching the seams together, we could create an insulated sleeping bag large enough for all three expeditionaries to sleep in. With the warmth of three bodies trapped by the insulating cloth, we might be able to weather the coldest nights.
Carlitos [Páez] took on the challenge. His mother had taught him to sew when he was a boy, and with the needles and thread from the sewing kit found in his mother's cosmetic case, he began to work ... to speed the progress, Carlitos taught others to sew, and we all took our turns ... Coche [Inciarte], Gustavo [Zerbino], and Fito [Strauch] turned out to be our best and fastest tailors.[3]

After the sleeping bag was completed and another survivor, Numa Turcatti, died from his injuries, the hesitant Canessa was finally persuaded to set out, and the three expeditionaries took to the mountain on December 12.

December 12

On 12 December 1972, some two months after the crash, Parrado, Canessa and Vizintín began their trek up the mountain. Parrado took the lead, and often had to be called to slow down, although the thin oxygen made it difficult for all of them. It was still bitterly cold but the sleeping bag allowed them to live through the nights.

On the third day of the trek, Parrado reached the top of the mountain before the other two expeditionaries. Stretched before him as far as the eye could see were more mountains. In fact, he had just climbed one of the mountains (as high as 4,800 metres (15,700 ft)) which forms the border between Argentina and Chile, meaning that they were still tens of kilometers from the red valley of Chile. However, after spying a small "Y" in the distance, he gauged that a way out of the mountains must lie beyond, and refused to give up hope. Knowing that the hike would take more energy than they'd originally planned for, Parrado and Canessa sent Vizintín back to the crash site, as they were rapidly running out of rations. Since the return was entirely downhill, it only took him one hour to get back to the fuselage on a sled made from broken parts of the plane.

Finding help

Parrado and Canessa hiked for several more days. First, they were able to actually reach the narrow valley that Parrado had seen on the top of the mountain, where they found the bed of Rio Azufre; then they followed the river and finally they reached the end of the snowline and, gradually, more and more signs of human presence, first some signs of camping and finally, on the ninth day, some cows. When they rested that evening, they were very tired and Canessa seemed unable to proceed further. As Parrado was gathering wood to build a fire, Canessa noticed what looked like a man on a horse at the other side of the river, and yelled at the near-sighted Parrado to run down to the banks. At first it seemed that Canessa had been imagining the man on the horse, but eventually they saw three men on horseback. Divided by a river, Nando and Canessa tried to convey their situation to which one of them, a Chilean Huaso named Sergio Catalan, shouted "tomorrow." They knew at this point they would be saved and settled to sleep by the river.

During the evening dinner, Sergio Catalan discussed what he had seen with the other huasos who were staying at the time in a little summer ranch called Los Maitenes. Someone mentioned that several weeks before the father of Carlos Paez, who was desperately searching for any possible news about the plane, had asked them about the Andes crash; however, the huasos could not imagine that someone could still be alive. The next day Catalan took some loaves of bread and went back to the river bank, where he found the two men who were still on the other side of the river, on their knees and asking for help. Catalan threw them the bread loaves, which they immediately ate and following Parrado's gestures, a pen and paper to write a note, addressed in red lipstick, telling the huasos about the plane crash and asking for help; then he tied the paper to a rock and threw it back to Catalan, who read it and gave the boys the sign to have understood.

Catalan rode on horseback for many hours westwards to bring help. During the trip he saw another huaso on the south side of Rio Azufre and asked him to reach the boys and to bring them to Los Maitenes. Instead, he followed the river till the cross with Rio Tinguiririca, where, after passing a bridge he was able to reach the narrow route that linked the village of Puente Negro to the holiday resort of Termas del Flaco. Here he was able to stop a truck and reach the police station at Puente Negro, where the news was finally dispatched to the Army command in San Fernando and then to Santiago. Meanwhile, Parrado and Canessa were rescued and they reached Los Maitenes, where they were fed and allowed to rest.

The following day in the morning the rescue expedition left Santiago and, after a stop in San Fernando, moved eastwards. The two helicopters had to fly in the fog and reached a place near Los Maitenes just when Parrado and Canessa were passing there on horseback while going to Puente Negro. Nando Parrado was recruited to fly back to the mountain in order to guide the helicopters to the remaining survivors. The news that people had survived the October 13 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 had also leaked to the international press and a flood of reporters also began to appear along the narrow route from Puente Negro to Termas del Flaco. The reporters hoped to be able to see and interview Parrado and Canessa about the crash and the following days.

Parrado and Canessa with Chilean Huaso Sergio Catalan[edit] The mountain rescue
In the morning of the day when the rescue started, those remaining at the crash site heard on their radio that Parrado and Canessa had been successful in finding help and that afternoon, 22 December 1972, two helicopters carrying search and rescue climbers arrived. However, the expedition (with Parrado onboard) was not able to reach the crash site until the afternoon, when it is very difficult to fly in the Andes. In fact the weather was very bad and the two helicopters were able to take only half of the survivors. They departed, leaving the rescue team and remaining survivors at the crash site to once again sleep in the fuselage, until a second expedition with helicopters could arrive the following morning. The second expedition arrived at daybreak on 23 December and all sixteen survivors were rescued. All of the survivors were taken to hospitals in Santiago and treated for altitude sickness, dehydration, frostbite, broken bones, scurvy and malnutrition.

Timeline
October 1972
October 12 (Thu)
Crew 5, Passengers 40.
October 13 (Fri)
5 people missing, 12 people dead. Alive: 28
October 21 (Sat)
Susana "Susy" Parrado died. (dead: 13, missing: 5, alive: 27)
October 24 (Tue)
missing 5 people found dead. (dead: 18, alive: 27)
October 29 (Sun)
8 people died in an avalanche. (dead: 26, alive: 19)
[edit] November 1972
November 15 (Wed)
Arturo Nogueira died. (dead: 27, alive: 18)
November 18 (Sat)
Rafael Echavarren died. (dead: 28, alive: 17)
[edit] December 1972
December 11 (Mon)
Numa Turcatti died. (dead: 29, alive: 16)
December 20 (Wed)
Parrado and Canessa encounter Sergio Catalan.
December 21 (Thu)
Parrado and Canessa rescued.
December 22 (Fri)
6 people rescued.
December 23 (Sat)
8 people rescued. 16 people alive.
December 26 (Tue)
Front page of the Santiago newspaper El Mercurio reports that all survivors resorted to cannibalism.

Passenger list
Crew
Colonel Julio Ferradas, Pilot,
Lieutenant Colonel Dante Lagurara, Co-Pilot,
Lieutenant Ramon Martínez,
Corporal Carlos Roque,
Corporal Ovidio Joaquin Ramírez.
[edit] Passengers
(Survivors indicated in BOLD)

Francisco Abal
Jose Pedro Algorta
Roberto Canessa
Gaston Costemalle
Alfredo Delgado
Rafael Echavarren
Daniel Fernández
Roberto Francois
Roy Harley
Alexis Hounié
Jose Luis Inciarte
Guido Magri
Alvaro Mangino
Felipe Maquirriain
Graciela Augusto Gumila de Mariani
Julio Martínez-Lamas
Daniel Maspons
Juan Carlos Menéndez
Javier Methol
Liliana Navarro Petraglia de Methol
Dr. Francisco Nicola
Esther Horta Pérez de Nicola
Gustavo Nicolich
Arturo Nogueira
Carlos Páez Rodriguez
Eugenia Dolgay Diedug de Parrado
Fernando Parrado
Susana Parrado
Marcelo Perez
Enrique Platero
Ramón Sabella
Daniel Shaw
Adolfo Strauch
Eduardo Strauch
Diego Storm
Numa Turcatti
Carlos Valeta
Fernando Vázquez
Antonio Vizintín
Gustavo Zerbino

Aftermath

View of the Crash Site Memorial - February 2006. When first rescued, the survivors initially explained that they had eaten some cheese they had carried with them, planning to discuss the details in private with their families. However, they were pushed into the public eye when photos were leaked to the press and sensational, unauthorized articles were published.

The survivors held a press conference on December 28 at Stella Maris College, where they recounted the events of the past 72 days[4] (over the years, they would also participate in the publication of two books, two films, and an official website about the event).

The rescuers and a Chilean priest later returned to the crash site and buried the bodies of the deceased 80 meters from the plane. Close to the grave a stone pile with an iron cross was built. The remains of the fuselage were incinerated.[5]

Official website (2002)
In 2002, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the event,[6] an official website was created for the survivors. The website, entitled Viven! El Accidente de Los Andes is available in both Spanish and English.[7]

2010 Chilean Mine Disaster
In 2010 four survivors of the crash publicly expressed their support for the 33 miners trapped in a mine in northern Chile, following the 2010 Copiapó mining accident, who may have to stay there for months. The survivors brought messages of support from children from Uruguay.[8]

The crash in popular culture
Books
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (1974)
The first book, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, (published two years after their rescue) was written by Piers Paul Read who interviewed the survivors and their families. It was a critical success and remains a highly popular work of non-fiction. In the opening of the book, the survivors explain why they wanted it to be written:

“ We decided that this book should be written and the truth known because of the many rumors about what happened in the cordillera. We dedicate this story of our suffering and solidarity to those friends who died and to their parents who, at the time when we most needed it, received us with love and understanding. ”

A reprint was published in 2005 by Harper. It was re-titled: Alive: Sixteen Men, Seventy-two Days, and Insurmountable Odds—The Classic Adventure of Survival in the Andes and includes a revised introduction as well as interviews with Piers Paul Read, Coche Inciarte, and Álvaro Mangino.

Miracle in the Andes (2006)
Thirty-four years after the rescue, Nando Parrado published the book Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home (with Vince Rause), which has received positive reviews. In this text, Parrado also touches upon public reaction to this event:

“ In fact, our survival had become a matter of national pride. Our ordeal was being celebrated as a glorious adventure… I didn't know how to explain to them that there was no glory in those mountains. It was all ugliness and fear and desperation, and the obscenity of watching so many innocent people die. I was also shaken by the sensationalism with which many in the press covered the matter of what we had eaten to survive. Shortly after our rescue, officials of the Catholic Church announced that according to church doctrine we had committed no sin by eating the flesh of the dead. As Roberto had argued on the mountain, they told the world that the sin would have been to allow ourselves to die. More satisfying for me was the fact that many of the parents of the boys who died had publicly expressed their support for us, telling the world they understood and accepted what we had done to survive … despite these gestures, many news reports focused on the matter of our diet, in reckless and exploitive ways. Some newspapers ran lurid headlines above grisly front-page photos. (247–8) ”

Film and television
Supervivientes de los Andes (1976)
This was a Mexican production directed by René Cardona, Jr.,[9] based on the 1973 book, Survive by Charles Blair, Jr.

Alive: The Miracle of the Andes (1993)
The film Alive received mixed reviews. It was directed by Frank Marshall and is based upon the book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read. It stars Ethan Hawke and is narrated by John Malkovich. Nando Parrado served as a technical adviser to the film. Carlitos Páez and Ramon "Moncho" Sabella also visited the recreated fuselage during the shooting of the movie to aid with the historical accuracy of the set and to instruct the actors on how the events actually unfolded.

Alive: 20 Years Later (1993)
Alive: 20 Years Later is a documentary film which was produced, directed and written by Jill Fullerton-Smith and narrated by Martin Sheen. It explores the lives of the survivors twenty years after the crash. It also discusses their participation in the production of Alive: The Miracle of the Andes.

Stranded: I Have Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains (2007)
Stranded: I Have Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains, written and directed by Gonzalo Arijón, is a documentary film interlaced with dramatised scenes. In the film, all of the survivors are interviewed, as are some of their family members and the people involved with the rescue operation. Additionally, an expedition in which the survivors return to the crash site is documented. The film was first shown at the 2007 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands and received the Joris Ivens Award.[10][11] This film appeared on PBS Independent Lens as STRANDED: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors in May 2009.[12]

Trapped: Alive in the Andes (2007)
Trapped: Alive in the Andes is an episode from season one of the National Geographic Channel documentary television series Trapped. The series was dedicated to examining the stories of various accidents which left survivors trapped in their situation for a period of time. The episode Trapped: Alive in the Andes was aired November 7, 2007.

Algarve - My Region

2010-09-22T01:15:00.000+01:00

Largest day of my life... (1/5)

2010-09-21T21:05:00.001+01:00

How come your luggage change your day?
This post is the answer.. (1st post in 3 posts)

First of all, this was a real day. My incredible day, 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.

21st of August is now a free day from me. Since 2007, the year that I was going at this day to an International Congress of AIESEC in Istanbul, Turkey.
At this time I was working in Paris, France, for the International Organization of Students AIESEC. My term has started in June of 2007 and as default I had to represent France as member of National Committee in Turkey.

As Rita Pang, my colleague from Canada reserved the flights to Istanbul from Brussels, at 20th I travelled with Amandine Bancel, other colleague, to Brussels. We had an amazing reception from Paulo Silva. Paulo, was a trainee in DHL Brussels at this time. An excellent person with excellent reception.

During this night, Paulo explained us how to go, at 7am, to Airport. We needed to be there at 9am of 21st August in order to fly to Milan. Until now, nothing special. We got the street and stopped at the bus stop.

At the bus stop, around 7.20 am, we realized that the street was blocked. It was under construction unfortunatelly. So, we walked until the next street, biggest one to take a taxi. A simple taxi driver, bond with mustage, saw us when he has left an Irish Pub. We took the taxi.

Big mistake. After a difficult conversation about Tunisians as is the taxi driver, and other religions and etnics, without any judge of values, religions or ethnics, I was trying to answer each question with racionality and honesty, we arrived finally at the airport.

Between paying the taxi driver and taking out the lugagge. I forgot to take out my bag and the taxi driver has left...
Horrible! My laptop, wallet with some documents, passport, flight tickets, debit card, camera, external hard disk, charger.... "AAAAAAAhhhhhhhhhh!!!" My scream arrived to Turkey before the sunlight that hadn't come yet to my hardest day of my live. Largest day of my life.

With 20 euros, mobile off, ID card, clothes luggage, without flight tickets and passport how can I arrive to Turkey? How can I return to Paris? Waaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

To be continued...

Success in Sales

2010-09-21T18:39:00.000+01:00

Steve Jobs Speech

2010-09-15T23:31:00.000+01:00

Steve Jobs Speech

Thank you. I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.

Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months but then stayed around as a drop-in for another eighteen months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife, except that when I popped out, they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking, "We've got an unexpected baby boy. Do you want him?" They said, "Of course." My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college.

This was the start in my life. And seventeen years later, I did go to college, but I naïvely chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, and no idea of how college was going to help me figure it out, and here I was, spending all the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back, it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out, I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms. I returned Coke bottles for the five-cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example.

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer was beautifully hand-calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and sans-serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me, and we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts, and since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them.

If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class and personals computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.

Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college, but it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later. Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever--because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.

My second story is about love and loss. I was lucky. I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was twenty. We worked hard and in ten years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees. We'd just released our finest creation, the Macintosh, a year earlier, and I'd just turned thirty, and then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew, we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so, things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge, and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our board of directors sided with him, and so at thirty, I was out, and very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down, that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure and I even thought about running away from the Valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me. I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I'd been rejected but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods in my life. During the next five years I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the world's first computer-animated feature film, "Toy Story," and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.

In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT and I returned to Apple and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance, and Lorene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful-tasting medicine but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking, and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it, and like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don't settle.

My third story is about death. When I was 17 I read a quote that went something like "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "no" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important thing I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life, because almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago, I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctors' code for "prepare to die." It means to try and tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next ten years to tell them, in just a few months. It means to make sure that everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope, the doctor started crying, because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and, thankfully, I am fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept. No one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don't want to die to get there, and yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now, the new is you. But someday, not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it's quite true. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalogue, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stuart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late Sixties, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid cameras. it was sort of like Google in paperback form thirty-five years before Google came along. I was idealistic, overflowing with neat tools and great notions. Stuart and his team put out several issues of the The Whole Earth Catalogue, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-Seventies and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath were the words, "Stay hungry, stay foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. "Stay hungry, stay foolish." And I have always wished that for myself, and now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Thank you all, very much.

Memorandum - Take 3

2010-09-15T23:30:00.000+01:00

Hi all,
Here is my THIRD take for my memorandum.
Which I am looking to complete until the end of this year.

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MEMORANDUM - Decision & Responsibility

What you have seen, is your perspective...
Even you would have a twin, this twin would never understand your own way of looking the things. 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.
Experience from the others are important and relevant, however the last voice of your own decision to say A or B is from you.

Life is life. We do not have other right?
If life is only one travel, which you bought one way ticket since your first second. Return is not allowed and choosing the ways are truly important, so if you have a lot of ways for good destiny to choose, happier you are. Open your ways and choose...take a risk.

Decisions brings responsibility. You are the responsible for everything around you.
And more important is that you never, never should blame others from your decisions or non-decisions. Anything around you is your fault, because you did/did not anything to change it. Even a word or act, if you decide to not do it, is your fault. Never from government, State, companies, institutions or even other people.
Luck happens, but who does really right choices in the right time is you, right?

And with your wrong decisions, smile, learn and try to do better after.
Do not personate the problem. Personate the possible solution and transform with action with all your fingers you have! Looking back sometimes when you think about failing you just want to blame hardly yourself....But easily you go rationally that you think like: "I did my best".
For better future, you have to feel that you are doing your best decisions now. And you are loosing every day, minute, second that you not move to get your goals well reflect and thought.

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, or money ...
... you SHOULD choose always the most difficult alternative that can find in your live.

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.

As you threat yourself well, you should threat the others with the same respect. With the same looking in the eyes as you look to the mirror. Even your great enemy.
Great enemies are the ones that take your first weak chance to crash you down. Eat them before, with ethic, conscience and morality, when they do a weak step.
When ideas comes, enemies will comes after it. So if you are clear about your goals, fight for 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.

Uruguayan Movie

2010-09-10T12:34:00.000+01:00

History from a Penalty...

2010-09-10T12:33:00.000+01:00

Key(on)board to destiny

2010-08-23T23:41:00.000+01:00

Key by Key
Letter by Letter
Here I'm writing in front of my computer
Single tool allowing to navigate so far
So deep as my dreams can go through
So high as my wings could fly to
And then I imagine, I imagine...

Key by Key
Letter by Letter
Here I'm imagining in front of you
Single lady allowing to dance so slow
So strong as your courage can go through
So intense as your eyes could look to
And then I realize, I realize...

Key by Key
Letter by Letter
Here I'm realizing in front of life
Single time allowing to move so fast
So circled as the watch can go through
So completed as the space could end to
And then I desire, I desire...

Key by Key
Letter by Letter
Here I'm desiring in front of challenge
Couple smiles allowing to live so happy
So full as our connection can go through
So great as our heart would beat to
And then I wait, I wait for your answer...

Francisco Miguel Sousa

Expresiones Uruguayas

2010-08-21T19:35:00.000+01:00

http://www.taringa.net/posts/info/5252636/Diccionario-de-expresiones-Uruguayas!.html

Do you wanna know about Uruguayan Quotes?
Quieres saber que expresiones uruguayas hay?
Good one!

D. Sebastião Não Volta! Mexa-se

2010-08-07T13:51:00.000+01:00

Há dias fui cortar o cabelo

Como sempre, escolho a dedo os locais de consumo.
Mais que um bom serviço tenho uma filosofia de saber com quem estou a contribuir. A quem acabo por distribuir a riqueza por mim conseguida, pelo meu tempo que não volta investido.

E assim foi, escolhi a Avenida de Roma, onde se encontra talvez um dos únicos cabeleireiros sobreviventes desde os anos 60.
Entre o "Boa tarde, dá para cortar o cabelo?" e "Como quer o seu corte de cabelo? Tem um excelente cabelo o senhor", nada de anormal. Uma troca de conversa banal, como as outras tantas que devem ter passado pelo Salão de moveis clássicos dos tempos ainda do "yeye".

Conversa puxa conversa, do cabelo vai parar a crise... Sim eu sei. A cada dia que passa tenho menos cabelo, mas não é de crise cabelo que me refiro...

"Isto vai mal não vai? As pessoas cada vez têm menos dinheiro, ninguém já se arranja nos dias de hoje. Só nesta avenida já existem 4 cabeleireiros e a fazerem cortes de cabelo a 5 euros, isto já não é o que era dantes. Mais de metade da minha clientela ou já saiu da zona de Roma, ou já faleceu. E a caminho vou eu também".
Resumido começou a injecção de negatividade, na sua verdadeira composição portuguesa qual eu já me encontro totalmente viciado e dependente.
“Então e o senhor, qual é a sua opinião?”

Atordoado com tal dose injecção, acabei por dar seguimento à conversa:
“Pois meu caro amigo, a minha opinião de nada lhe vale. Nem a si, nem a ninguém.
De que adianta lhe dizer que vive num país seguro, com bom clima à beira mar plantado, sem pestes, guerras ou pobreza extrema como vi em África, Ásia ou mesmo na América do Sul. De que adianta lhe dizer que o seu país lhe dá a liberdade de fazer imenso por tão pouco e o senhor não está a aproveitar as oportunidades.
Amigo, se lhe dissesse que perde o seu tempo a se queixar e depois não faz nada para mudar a sua situação, o senhor sentiria ofendido de nada adiantaria.
Se quer contar comigo para o ouvir e dizer que tem razão, deixo isso para os outros. Neste país de fado tristonho e saudosista, com certeza não lhe faltam clientes desses.
O nosso tempo por cá é escasso o senhor sabe disso melhor que ninguém, então amigo, aproveite-o e não espere por amanhã.
Eu nunca culpo os outros do meu insucesso. Se há alguem sempre culpado,serei sempre eu. E o digo a todos os que me rodeiam sem qualquer problema.

Pois olhe mexa-se, se não está contente faça qualquer coisa para mudar.
Amigo, Dom Sebastião não volta, mexa-se! O senhor é experiente e sabe melhor que ninguém na sua área como o conseguir. Tente sempre encontrar sempre novas ideias, partilhe com os seus clientes e operacionalize-as.
Lamento mas o dia de nevoeiro de Dom Sebastião não chegará.
Realize os seus sonhos faça sempre mais e melhor para os conseguir. E olhe, se não correr bem experimente de outra forma e faça-o 2, 3, 10 vezes mais. Mais importante que atingir ou não o seu objectivo é o quanto de belo teve a sua viagem.
Se o fizer, daqui a 3 meses quando voltar cá para cortar o cabelo, não tenho a menor dúvida que a sua conversa será diferente."

Veremos
Francisco Miguel Sousa

Memorandum - Take 2

2010-07-26T23:46:00.000+01:00

Hi all,
Here is my SECOND take for my memorandum.
Which I am looking to complete until the end of this year.

MEMORANDUM

Your perspective is yours... Not from anybody else.
Even you would have a twin, this twin would never understand your own way of looking the things. 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.
Experience from the others are important and relevant, however the last voice of your own decision to say A or B is from you.

Life is life. We do not have other right?
If life is only one travel, which return is not allowed and choosing the ways are truly important, so if you have a lot of ways for good destiny to choose, happier you are.
Open your ways and choose...take a risk.

Decisions brings responsibility.
And more important is that you never, never should blame others from your decisions or non-decisions. Anything around you is your fault, because you did/did not anything to change it. Even a word or act, if you decide to not do it, is your fault. Never from government, State, companies, institutions or even other people.
Luck happens, but who does really right choices in the right time is you, right?

And with your wrong decisions, smile, learn and try to do better after.
Do not personate the problem. Personate the possible solution and transform with action with all your fingers you have! Looking back sometimes when you think about failing you just want to blame hardly yourself....But easily you go rationally that you think like: "I did my best".
For better future, you have to feel that you are doing your best decisions now. And you are loosing every day, minute, second that you not move to get your goals well reflect and thought.

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, or money ...
... you SHOULD choose always the most difficult alternative that can find in your live.

As you threat yourself well, you should threat the others with the same respect. With the same looking in the eyes as you look to the mirror. Even your worst enemy.
When ideas comes, enemies will comes after it.
So if you are clear about your goals, fight for 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.

Um Lugar ao Sol - Place at the Sun

2010-07-25T22:38:00.000+01:00

Um Lugar ao Sol - Place in the sun


		Se souberes adormecer - If you know how to fall and sleep Com o dia no olhar - With a morning day in your look O teu sonho viverás - Your dream will live Juro - I sware E ao chegar o amanhecer - And when will come the early morning Não terás que aceitar - You will not have to accept Entrar no jogo a perder - to enter the loosing game Ah, Ah P'ra procurar um lugar - To search for a place Juro - I sware Um lugar ao sol - A place in the sun Sempre teu - Allways yours Sei que é um sonho e não pertence a mais ninguém - I know, is a dream and do not belong to anyone else O teu lugar ao sol - Your place at the sun Se souberes acreditar - If you know how to believe Que sonhar é só viver - That to dream is to live E viver imaginar - And to live is to imagine Ah, Ah Vais conquistar um lugar - You will conquest a place Juro - I sware Um lugar ao sol - A place at the sun Sempre teu - Allways yours Sei que é um sonho e não pertence a mais ninguém - I know is a dream and do not belong to more anyone else O teu lugar ao sol - Your place at the sun Não pares de lutar - Do not stop to fight Agarra o dia a nascer - Catch your day in the morning sun Há uma batalha a travar - There is a battle to take Só tu podes vencer - Only is you who can win Só tu podes vencer - Only is you who wan win Um lugar ao sol - One place at the sun O teu lugar ao sol - Your place at sun Juro - I sware Juro - I sware

Travelling around the world ?

2010-07-21T09:53:00.001+01:00

www.statravel.co.uk

Turkey

2010-07-19T23:25:00.000+01:00

Shared on AIESEC 2015 Blog

"You are not going there. Right?", screams my sister in front of her television.
Running to my living room I couldn't believe as well. The city, where I should be in 2 days were bomb attacked, the target were the tourists, to have stronger impact.

However, it was enough to not allow me to go there and do my first experience abroad. Was in 2006, and my 21 years old at this time were enough to make my decision and take the risk to go.

Paradise for many people, Antalya, Turkey was definitely the best place to pass my summer. After being buddy for many trainees and responsible for National Reception events, it was the first time I was received by someone.

Tuncay was this "one" and then almost 1 month and half was the best times ever... I was responsible for one PBOX with 14 trainees, with all logistics associated working indirectly with Mayor of Antalya, I was more than happy.

In August, I left Turkey with the country in my heart.
Back to my couch in the capital of my apartment's confort, I open the TV and the news..... I couldn't believe what I have seen. Antalya had suffered again other bomb, this time in the center, at one exchange shop, next door of a restaurant where I was eating sometimes!!! In the TV appeared the nice man that shared with me football conversation and nice times with a kid on his arms.
This time, I couldn't manage my feelings, and I passed badly for a period.
For any portuguese citizen, was just one more news, as it is for me when I see often these kind of situations.
For me was everything.
The world is ours my friends, we just need exchange to wake up step forward.
Go ahead, see you in 2015!

The power of being the right pown

2010-07-13T17:33:00.000+01:00

One pown off, in the beggining of Chess can be nothing.
Last Pown in, at the end can be everything.

Good blog is the...

2010-07-07T01:45:00.000+01:00

...blog that provide exclusive and interesting content...
let who is reading to feel that is updated intensively...

Creative mind?

2010-07-07T01:41:00.000+01:00

Forget cell phone and take one day off just for you doing what you want more...
Introduce a organized chaos in the work place, to let free the people's mindset...

2010-07-06T01:05:00.000+01:00

Tic Tac... tic tac... Life compass never looks different, traducing in the nude a rusty reality in each hour, minute, second that pass, face it and you will have strength enough to rebuild everything again more consistently tic tac... tic tac...

Basic class about communication

2010-06-28T23:28:00.000+01:00

From: "Punk Marketing" by Richard Laermer and Mark Simmons

Basic class about communication:
01. Arrange a vibrator cellphone.
02. Find a silent keyboard.
03. At dinner limit yourself being sit. Listen all people and try to follow the conversation according to their needs.
04. Do a favour in yourself and prove that you can write well.
05. When you speak with someone by VoIP or Skype, do not forget that it different than being surprised from a nice phone call.
06. If you are using a cell phone at the same time that you are with someone, say sorry and explain how important is for you.
07. When someone is explaining you something, look this person in the eye, try to understand, reflict internally what it was saying and if you have any question, ask in coherent and complete. You will see the difference.
08. Stop to use famous quotes from business magazines.
09. When you receive an e-mail mark it and then answer with the right time.
10. When you discover that someone is not listing you, tell them. Shake your head. As much you will be tolerant with bad communication, more people will continue to communicate badly.
11. Being out of the city is not excuse to not see e-mails.
12. Do not answer the cell phone with "Hi Mark", everybody knows that you know who is the person at the other side. Is not good, neither empathic.
13. Ask always "how are you?" then listen the other person.
14. When you send an e-mail to a friend or colleague, do not mix with other subjects.
15. Everybody should be standing up during the conference calls.
16. Why you should send e-mails to other people subjects that you want them to read?
17. Do not difficult the contact from other people with you.
18. If you want really upset someone, do not respond when someone is saying something bad.
19. If someone haven't answer your e-mail. Call. You will see, that they are not ignoring you.
20. Use the silence key.
21. Now read this again. We hope that you will do it.

Manifesto - Punk Marketing

2010-06-28T23:19:00.000+01:00

Currently I just read a book "Punk Marketing".

Punk Marketing explains how important is for us to have our own manifesto.
Article 1 - If you do not take any risk, you die
Article 2 - Why not asking: Why not?
Article 3 - Adopt a firm position
Article 4 - Do not submit
Article 5 - Do not be a controller
Article 6 - Expose yourself
Article 7 - Do enemies
Article 8 - Let them wanting more
Article 9 - Think forward to your competition
Article 10 - Do not let yourself being seduced by technology
Article 11 - Know who you really are
Article 12 - It finish the bullshits about marketing
Article 13 - Do not let others to define your patterns
Article 14 - Use the revolution tools
Article 15 - Interrogate, dear participants

"Durazno y Convención" - Jaime Roos

2010-06-24T13:30:00.000+01:00

Memorandum - Take 1

2010-06-14T23:26:00.000+01:00

Hi all,
Here is going my first draft of my memorandum.
Which I am looking to complete until the end of this year.

MEMORANDUM

My perspective is my perspective. Not from anybody else. Even I would have a twin, this twin would never understand my own way of looking the things.
So, according to my perspective, I have to decide. And decision depends from me. Nobody else.
Feedbacks are all time welcomed and needed to decide. Experience from the others are important and relevant, however the last voice of my own decision to say A or B is from me.

Decisions brings responsibility.
And more important is that I never, never should blame others from my own decision or non-decision. Anything around me is my fault, because I did/did not anything to change it. Even a word or act, if I decide to not do it, is my fault. Never from government, State, companies, institutions or even other people.
Luck happens, but who does really right choices in the right time.

And with my wrong decisions, I have to smile for it, learn and try to do better after.
Looking back sometimes when I think about failing I just want to blame hardly myself.
But easily I go rationally that I think like: "I did my best".

For better future, I have to feel that I am doing my best decisions now. And I am loosing every day, minute, second that I am not moving through my goals well reflect and thought.

If I have to choose, I always choose not...
... what I like more.. or less ....
... what have feeling that is better for me.. or worst (even then I got wrong) ...
... just following my passions, or money ...
... I choose always the most difficult alternative that I can find in my live.

As I threat myself well, I should threat the others the same.
Same looking in the eyes as I am looking to mine in my mirror.
As I never would like to be forced, I believe we never should force people to do whatever they want or not. If we do it, we would be blocking their own freedom for their most valuable thing they have, own life.

Life is life. We do not have other right?
If life is only one travel, which return is not allowed and choosing the ways are truly important, so if we have a lot of ways for good destiny to choose, happier we are.

Open your ways and choose...

Great 90's - Cleaned from dust

2010-06-14T22:42:00.003+01:00

I'll be your dream, I'll be your wish
I'll be your fantasy
I'll be your hope, I'll be your love
Be everything that you need
I'll love you more with every breath
Truly, madly, deeply do

I will be strong, I will be faithful
'Cause I'm counting on
A new beginnin'
A reason for livin'
A deeper meanin', yea

And I want to stand with you on a mountain
I want to bathe with you in the sea
I want to lay like this forever
Until the sky falls down on me

And when my stars are shinin' brightly in the velvet sky
I'll make a wish to send it to Heaven
Then make you want to cry
The tears of joy for all the pleasure in the certainty
That we're surrounded by the comfort and protection of
The highest powers in lonely hours
(Lonely hours)
The tears devour you

And I want to stand with you on a mountain
I want to bathe with you in the sea
I want to lay like this forever
Until the sky falls down on me

Oh can't you see it baby?
You don't have to close your eyes
'Cause it's standin' right before you
All that you need will surely come
Uhh hu yea

I'll be your dream, I'll be your wish
I'll be your fantasy
I'll be your hope, I'll be your love
Be everything that you need
I'll love you more with every breath
Truly, madly, deeply do
(I love you)
Huh huh

I want to stand with you on a mountain
I want to bathe with you in the sea
I want to lay like this forever
Until the sky falls down on me

And I want to stand with you on a mountain
I want to bathe with you in the sea
Well I want to live like this forever
Until the sky falls down on me

6 Reasons Why You Are not Getting Hired

2010-06-11T14:36:00.000+01:00

Frustrated by unemployment?

Job hunting is tricky business. Getting hired is a subtle mix of the right qualifications, enough experience, interview chemistry, and a dash of luck. Assuming you’re making all the right moves and avoiding the really obvious job seeker mistakes, there are a few points to consider that could be your ticket out of unemployment.

Get out of your job search rut and back in the game by fixing these five mistakes you might be making:

1. Job Description
Read it. Do you meet every qualification listed? If you think you can get away by not having that extra few years of experience or make do without the requested higher degree, think again. Job descriptions are a baseline for hiring managers. With so many job applicants, recruiters are naturally going to pick the best of the best, and that means you’ve got to meet every single one of the job requirements, at the very least. But that doesn’t mean you should give up, either. If you find yourself not meeting a certain job requirement time after time, do something about it! Nothing shows dedication like taking action.

2. Word Play
It’s not enough to have a clean resume free of grammar and spelling errors; you’ve got to go that extra mile. No matter how amazing your resume looks, everything lies in the words. If the hiring manager has to decipher your resume jargon, don’t expect a call back. Phrase your resume with the right keywords. Use powerful words that imply action and sell your experiences by highlighting specific achievements and accomplishments. The right keywords are your key to getting your resume on top of the pile.

3. Job Search Tactics
Browsing through the classifieds? Going through Human Resources? Looking at company websites for job leads? One reason your job search may have hit a dead end is because your methods are outdated. Get with the 21st century and go online! The right social network can connect you directly with the job you want. Use Twitter to find jobs in your field and LinkedIn to maintain your connections. Spread yourself out and try something new — you never know which method will work!

4. Not the Right Fit
There is no perfect recipe to getting hired. You could do everything right — dress your best, arrive on time, and come fully prepared — and still not get the job. Sometimes, it’s just a matter of personality or a clash with the unstated corporate culture. At this point, qualifications don’t matter. It’s the sad truth — and completely legal. One consolation: It’s not you, it’s them.

5. Lady Luck
You’d think if you did everything right you’d be guaranteed a job. But job hunting isn’t always like an equation where the right steps will guarantee you the right answer. Lady Luck can play her hand and leave you in the dust. The position might go to another, equally qualified, candidate, or the timing will simply be off. Family restrictions may prevent you from taking the job or the company simply can’t afford to hire you right now. The best thing you can do in a situation like this is thank your contact for their time and keep that relationship alive. You just may be the person they call for their next opening!

6. High Expectations
It’s one thing to stay positive about your job outlook, and another to have false hopes about your prospects. Are you aiming at jobs out of your league? Expecting a certain salary range or health benefits? We’d all love to work at our dream job, but we take the job that’s good enough — because it is. Ask yourself what you’re willing to give up to get a job. Be honest with yourself. Changing your mindset can broaden your job search results drastically. You may find yourself on a regular payroll faster than you think!

(Hamsa Ramesha | SalesHQ)

7 Tips to Make Meetings More Interesting

2010-06-11T14:30:00.000+01:00

7 Tips to Make Meetings More Interesting

Meetings can be deadly, especially if they feel unproductive.
Listening to your boss drone on and on about things that don’t affect you just isn’t a smart use of your time.
So how can you make your boring meetings more productive?

Research shows that increasing activity and creativity in meetings helps increase brain activity and alertness. Everyone’s happier when you make your employees and coworkers feel engaged and important to the meeting. Need help figuring out how? Follow these seven tips to make your meetings more interesting and successful.

Encourage Creativity
We all doodle during long meetings. It helps kill the time and gives our brains a creative outlet. But doodling does more than just waste paper. It gets the creative juices flowing and improves your short-term memory functions.

Try this: Give every meeting participant a few sheets of paper and a couple of pencils and have them sketch out their ideas. It doesn’t matter what they sketch or how accurate it is — you’re not looking for fine art here — the simple act of sketching flexes their brains and helps them feel involved in the meeting.

Make Participation Mandatory
Remember your elementary school teacher who’d call on people even if their hands weren’t raised? She had a point. If you force people to think of answers, it gets their brain working overtime. Nothing makes people feel more uncomfortable than being singled out and unprepared in a meeting. If they know they can be called on at any time, they’ll be more attentive and constantly thinking of answers to each of your questions.

Try this: When you make an important point during a meeting, ask for feedback. If no one comes forward, start calling on the most bored-looking person. “What do you think of this plan?” “Do you think it will work?” “How should we proceed?” They won’t just feel involved in the meeting — they’ll also be generating reactionary, spur-of-the-moment answers that can sometimes breed the best ideas.

Include Vibrant, Engaging Visuals
We’re not talking your dad’s lame PowerPoint here. Slide after slide of numbers and huge blocks of text would put anyone to sleep. A good rule of thumb for any presentation: Show, don’t tell. There’s no point in just reading the words off a screen everyone can see — your coworkers are literate, right?

Try this: Limit the words on each slide to five or six, just enough to make your point. Use the rest of the slides to illustrate what you’re talking about. Use pictures, graphics, and even video to get the message across. Find images that will get a reaction from the audience, whether it be understanding, shock, or even humor. And use vibrant colors, such as reds and purples. The standard blues and grays are just too calming. Do you want to put everyone to sleep?

Use Brainstorming Techniques
Don’t let your meeting get shut down by people shooting down each other’s ideas. If you think your ideas will be disregarded, you’ll be less likely to offer them up in the first place. Put every idea on the table without judging or criticizing, and then discuss which ones are the best. Everyone has to feel comfortable participating.

Try this: When brainstorming, give everyone a topic and have them start writing down random words and phrases in a stream of consciousness. Don’t pause, don’t over-think, just write. Then, have everyone go around and read 5–10 of their best words or phrases. Ideally, should trigger other, fresher ideas from the group as a whole.

Use Games and Toys to Stimulate
There is a reason we gives young children games and toys to help occupy their time — it helps stimulate parts of their brains. Games help with problem solving and deductive reasoning and get creativity flowing. While it may seem silly, introducing toys and games into a meeting can actually help with the productivity of the meeting as a whole.

Try this: Hand out small Nerf guns, and every time someone has a great idea, they get to shoot one of the other participants. Or have everyone illustrate their ideas using Play-Doh. Or turn your brainstorming session into a game of Pictionary. Have people draw their ideas without speaking and have the others guess. Everyone will want to play and the ideas will come pouring out.

7 Tips to Make Meetings More Interesting

Keep the Blood Sugar Up
While donuts and brownies might be bad for you, in small doses they can help elevate your blood sugar during a long meeting and keep your brain active. Offering some kind of simple sugar like bananas, sodas, muffins, or candy will help perk everybody up.

Try this: If you think people will shy away from the donut method, bring a bag of mini candy bars in and hand them out whenever anyone participates in the discussion. It not only gives them a boost of sugar, but also encourages and validates their contribution to the conversation.

Be Concise
Most meetings don’t need to last more than an hour at the most. Keeping people in a confined space for longer than that is just going to make everyone shut down mentally. Not every person needs to be in every meeting. Think about breaking up huge, drawn-out meetings into smaller, quicker meetings with fewer people.

Try this: It’s up to you to make sure everyone stays on topic. Hit the key points. Keep brainstorming sessions to five or 10 minutes, since the best ideas usually come out within that time frame. And no matter you’re at when the hour is up, cut it off and plan to meet at a different time.

Diniz Adrião - Portuguese emigrant - South Africa, Joanesbourg Police responsible

2010-06-10T22:44:00.001+01:00

South African citizens and portuguese emigrants who have contributed already for the world cup

Gabriel de Abreu, he is the responsible of the World Cup 2010 Logo!
Learned how to draw in the portuguese minimarket of his father...

Manuel de Freitas, national deputy and responsible for the transportation at the biggest opposition political party. Contributed directly for the transport connections in South Africa until 2050!

Diniz Adrião is the main responsible for Police in Johannesburg,South Africa.
Since the end of Apartheid, Diniz was almost a diplomat, between the conversation from all ethnics in South Africa.
Many stories, for sure, that he has to say about being an example for a multi-racial world...
Keep on eye in this hero.

8 Principles of Fun

2010-06-10T12:26:00.003+01:00

8 principles for career management

2010-06-10T00:05:00.000+01:00

Interviewed by Portuguese public TV Channel

2010-06-09T19:51:00.001+01:00

RTP - BOM PORTUGUÊS

Interview for ODN, Newspaper in Hong Kong - Portuguese feeling about Greek situation

2010-06-09T12:18:00.000+01:00

1. What do you think of the new word "PIIGS"?
Can you imagine the citizens of Hong Kong interested to being part of "PIIGS" group? Definitely not.
Nobody would like to be called as "PIIGS". "PIIGS" is no more than an sentence which economists prefers to describe the countries integrated in EU since 80's, and increased their own external debts until today. So "PIIGS" can be compared to the pig animal, who eat everything and not save any food for the coming times.
According to the "P", where I live now, its totally necessary to produce value to have money and pay the external debts. If we look the eurostat last report in the last quarter, Portugal increased 1% the GDP comparing to the last quarter in 2010. Inside UE it was the second best performance after Sweden. UE and EuroZone had 0,2%. This "P"ig actually is made by rubber, save money in their own back and is working hard in the Gym...

( http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/2-04062010-AP/EN/2-04062010-AP-EN.PDF )

2. How is your country's economy recently? What is your prospect of EUR?
This is the time for portuguese economy, because politically the Government and opposition is together finding solutions, and mainly the Euro is being cheaper and cheaper... which allow Portugal to push the EuroZone increasing highly the economy by tourism and exports. I could describe the huge influence of Portuguese economy in South American countries or even to contribute for German industry, but let see for example the portuguese speaking market.
Brazil or Angola which had more than 20% GDP growth in 2007 and more than 10% in 2008 or even Mozambique, São Tomé e Principe, Macao, Cape Verde, Guine Bissau and East Timor. All of these countries are performing very well and Portugal is contributing directly for that with a cheaper Euro. Brazil for example, has 5% GDP growth in 2009 and our exports to Brazil increased 73% in the first Quarter of 2010 to the same in 2009. This year exports to Angola, until April 2010, were more than 21.6% comparing to the last year. With these statistics and Euro being cheaper, I can only being positive and see the best future for Portugal. Am I wrong?

( http://www.indexmundi.com/angola/gdp_per_capita_(ppp).html )
( http://economico.sapo.pt/noticias/exportacoes-de-portugal-para-angola-disparam-216_12914.html )
( http://www.theodora.com/wfbcurrent/angola/angola_economy.html )

3. Since the Greece problem was exposed, how have you changed your personal portfolio?
Definitely not change any personal portfolio. The situation of Greece is simple and portuguese citizens are intelligent enough to not be influenced by lobbyists trying to show from the media that everything is going down. Greek State has a huge influence on the Greek economy, is time to cut it and let the Greek market being balanced to the new international trends. Greece needed these reforms long time ago and is better to change now than in the future. Actually, have we seen all European countries before being so together to solve the economic issues and supporting each other as we are doing now? Is time to realize that when this is happening, EU is being solid and consistent and not the opposite.

4. Which kind of investment have you made for your wealth management this year?
First of all, I have to say that I belong to an excellent generation which born in 80's and in the democracy. In any sector (not only in Football with Cristiano Ronaldo), we never being so well refereed and known abroad. To situate easily my case, I have 26 years, an economics degree and 4 years of professional experience in 7 different countries inside EU (thanks to European Union that allowed me to do that easily) and other countries as Turkey or Uruguay. This year I was back to Portugal and in 1 month I could find a job through normal system, being an apartment in the capital, and allow to save 50% of monthly/salary.
In the future I want to start my own business but I am not an example as the majority. However I believe that if every portuguese citizen turn off the external negative mood, stand up and start to operacionalize for their own entrepreneurship goals, all can achieve whatever they want because portuguese economy is an excellent platform for that. In Portugal there is no entrepreneurship burocracy, we can start a company in only one hour and we have a huge number of State/private support programs to do start up.

5. As an European, how did the "debt crisis" affect you (or your family) in your daily life and work? Please also state the biggest change affected you.
The State is handling the external public debt situation, but somehow affected me and my family. The biggest change was this month, which our salary taxes increased 1%-1,5%, 1% for all consumption taxes and my family house credit rates is increasing since last year. However did not have any impact on our savings.

Expectations

2010-05-29T20:53:00.000+01:00

Expectations is important.
If we have too much, is the beginning to be desappointed.
If we have to low, is the begginning to have good surprises.
In this case is good to have low expectations. Simple.

Follow your Passions

2010-05-19T13:45:00.000+01:00

This is being the main topic in this blog, and actually I have to keep tracking on that.
Passion is everything.

Passion mooves you and can blind you.
However passion is definietly what mooves you to do certain things.

If you want to keep working with motivation, you have to fit your passions to it.
How? Simple process.

1. Do a list of things you enjoyed the most to do it in the pass.
2. Then try to find concretely what was behind each thing you loved the most.
3. Go through all your professional market and try to look which job description can fit with your passion.

Example:
1. I love jogging
2. Because I love to discover new routes, doing something different and be healthy.
3. I am veternary. I would love to have a job which I discover new routes doing something different every day and be healthy.

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LEARNING POINT
Passion mooves you to your success, the money comes after it. Get to know it better and fit with your work.

Choices...

2010-05-07T19:45:00.000+01:00

Entrepreneurs - How to motivate employees?

2010-05-04T17:11:00.003+01:00

I found this interesting...

Portugal invita usted a venir!!!!

2010-05-02T22:47:00.000+01:00

http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/la2/ultimos/index.html#659940

Scent of a Woman...

2010-04-20T21:12:00.000+01:00

Virtual friends!

2010-04-13T00:00:00.000+01:00

"To: The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning

In a recent article which speaks of relationships in virtual online communities, Maybe You Need New Friends, Seth Godin posesthought-provoking questions about our virtual connections.
They alsoapply, however, to the people around us who share our daily life.
“Real world friends are hard to find and hard to change.
But virtual friends?
If your online friends aren't egging you on...
If your online friends don't spread the word about the work you're doing...
If your online friends aren't respectfully challenging your deeplyheld beliefs...
If your online friends don't demand the best from you...
Then perhaps you need new online friends.
”We all recognize the power of the influence that comes from the people around us – from their feelings and attitudes to their views on life.
Their ideas, perceptions and insights give us new ways of looking atthe world.
They change us, sometimes dramatically, but most oftenim perceptibly over time.
They are the tacit role-models we choose inour lives.
Jim Rohn, motivational speaker, wrote:
“We need a variety of input and influence and voices.
You cannot get all the answers to life and business from one person or from one source.”
If we are to continue to grow, to achieve our dreams, we need people around us who will challenge and stretch us, people who will “demand the best from you.”
Surround yourself with people who bring the best out of you,who excite you to see new possibilities;
who move you out of your comfort zone, who care enough for you to tell you what you need to know, but not necessarily what you want to hear.
It is these people…
friends…
who will move you to explore those incredibly beautiful gifts within you that are yet undiscovered.
Choose wisely; choose well.
Remember the words of Ben Johnson, British poet:
“Very few mean are wise by their own counsel, or learnedby their own teaching.
For he that was only taught by himself had a fool for a master.”

Have a good evening everyone,"
Antonio Jovanovski

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Learning Point:

Vitual Friends
If your online friends aren't egging you on...
If your online friends don't spread the word about the work you're doing...
If your online friends aren't respectfully challenging your deeplyheld beliefs...
If your online friends don't demand the best from you...

Protect your dreams

2010-04-12T21:08:00.002+01:00

Striving for Excellence

2010-04-11T19:45:00.001+01:00

Professionally when we have a recognition from our work, our working opportunities appear easily.

In 2007, May in concrete, I received an invitation to be a chairman of 3 days conference in Bialystok, Poland.
The invitation came by e-mail from one Polish guy called Pawel Turel.
Sincerely, I couldn't remember who was Pawel, but the e-mail was very well written and totally motivated.
Is not every day that we receive and invitation like that, mainly in the beginning of our career.

Pawel was a ex-colleague from one finance conference in Warsaw 2 months before.
As his e-mail said, I would be the right person for this responsibility because the impact of my work in the previous conference.

Pawel Turel in Brazil

As is logic, I said yes.
The rest of invitations came in consequence.

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Learning point:

When is not expected, something great happens.
Some people says it's luck.
I don't believe in luck. Luck works.
We just have to be at the right time in the right place, in the right moment. Whatever it costs.
We just have to desire to be excellent every single day.

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Conference photo:

Family concept changed - Paysandú, Uruguay

2010-04-04T19:47:00.000+01:00

Hi all!

Anyone has their own moment that change totally our perspective.

Concerning the family perspective one, I will share right now how it totally changed!!!

The trip began in November 2009.
It was the first trip from Montevideo to inside Uruguay.
Leonardo Innella, ex-collegue from the company invited me to go to Paysandú (I hope it right well written).
Paiysandú is region and respective capital in Uruguay. Regarding the city, is a typical city from a country which the young people leave to get better professional career to the capital.
As all other middle cities, exists higher season of the year when all people goes back to their own hometown cities.
Religion city or family festivals or events, summer or election days.

In this case it was elections.
The country wanted to vote for own President.
So it was perfect to go with Leonardo and see the city.
Actually it was more than the see the city, it changed totally my family concept.

With a honest smile and friendship, all members of the family received me with all kindness. A long time ago I didn't feel so well received by a family actually.
More than friend of Leonardo, they made me feel part of the family.

"Sunday is a family lunch day" and it was.
With all Barbecue process, which only Uruguayans can do, interesting conversations was shared at the table.
Definitely made me feel, how far I was from my family, how long days I passed in over 4 years out of my country.

Definitely these Sundays is and will be part of my family life.
Definitely these days will be enjoyed more than before.

"Little things change our lives"
This little experience changed my life, more than 2 Christmas passed out of my family.
Thanks to the kindness of Leonardo.
Thanks to the friendship of his family.

I hope they enjoy my "recuerdo" from me...
Big hug for all...

Life is a complete travel

2010-04-04T19:10:00.000+01:00

PHOTO 1 - Montevideo, Uruguay AIRPORT

Travelling and living...

If there are some lessons, one is definitely that life is travelling.
From my point of view, I can separate my life in 2 parts.
One life before travelling alone and other life after it.

After all, life is a travel isn't it?
This is what I will describe in this post.

I am travelling back from my Easter holidays in Albufeira to Lisbon and I felt, in a way, to express finally my life/travel concept.
Last friday, a friend shared to me, how afraid she was about not resulting anything in her life. Afraid to have a full life fighting for her goals and then not get anyone.

Her sharing reminds me a comment from a cyclist, an eternal rival of Lance Armstrong at tour de France who won 7 times.
After all career biting to get the Tour de France without success, a journalist asked this cyclist: "what do you have in the end?"
He answered right away: "the most important thing is not to enjoy the end, but how enjoyed the all travel. And damm, the travel was so great!"

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Learning point:
The Most important is not enjoying the end, but how I enjoyed until the end.

PHOTO 2 - Leaving Montevideo and Uruguay
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This is my answer to Seba that asked me in Punta del Diablo beach in Uruguay:
"what do you take from your experience in Uruguay?"

In the end I want to feel that I enjoyed all moments in my life as it should be.

In the end, in "Seba's" case with Uruguayan case I won mainly a different way of living.
Today:
- I take mate once a week;
- I can't eat cow meet anymore as it sucks in europe;
- I feel more that want to create family;
- I live more happy and less nervous;
- I know how lucky I am to have a car;
- I learned new ways of negotiation;
- I got new excellent language, spanish;
- new points of working view.

And I changed in the end my way of living, not because I have to, but essentially...
...because I enjoyed all these moments in Uruguay as it should be.

Today I can say that I enjoyed all moments.
And I am continuing doing it!!!

4th April 2010
Francisco Miguel Sousa

Strange

2010-03-02T23:54:00.001Z

Nice Pictures from Montevideo, Uruguay.
Nike promotion...

I lived 50 meters from this iron weird stuff at the picture bellow!!! :)

Sunscreen

2010-02-19T01:24:00.001Z

Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of '97... wear sunscreen.

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be IT.

The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.

I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded. But trust me, in 20 years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.

You are NOT as fat as you imagine.

Don't worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Sing.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss.

Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself.

Remember compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch.

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don't.

Get plenty of calcium.

Be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they're gone.

Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't, maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't, maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself, either. Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's. Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.

Dance. Even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.

Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.

Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good.

Be nice to your siblings; they are your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but for the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography in lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.

Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one might run out.

Don't mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen.

Michel Houellebecq

2010-02-18T22:26:00.000Z

Today I read a book about Michel Houellebecq and actually a lot of things made sense.
In the middle of 5 degrees in Albufeira, Portugal, nothing better than a book to take a rest time and charge the batteries for all battles will come in the future.

I will leave you today with a reflection...
Enjoy it.

The Hope of a Deep Relationship

We know people for years, even decades, get used to avoid personal problems and important issues, but keep the hope that later in better circumstances, they may just address these issues and problems.
The hope, always deferred, for a closest human and complete relationship never completely disappear, because no human relationship is satisfied with definite limits, restricted and rigid.
It remains, therefore, hope that we'll find a relationship "authentic and profound." And it remains for years, even decades, until a brutal and definitive event (usually a thing as death) comes to tell us that it is too late, that such 'deep and authentic relationship', whose image had loved, also not exist, not exist, as the others.

Michel Houellebecq, in "Particular elements'
Biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Houellebecq

Albufeira view reading the book...

Buenos Aires, one comment...

2010-02-03T23:52:00.000Z

Buenos Aires, one comment!

In November I was in Buenos Aires and actually some part of the travel change my point of view.
When I passed by taxi from the neighbourhood Boca to BuqueBus, I passed from some street where all houses were ilegal and with only bricks without any structure or organization.
Then I asked the Taxi driver: How can the people live with this walls and without glasses in the windows or roof...
Taxi driver: They live better than before... before there was no wall...

One weekend in Tranqueras, Uruguay

2010-01-31T02:43:00.000Z

One weekend in Rivera - Tranqueras
December 2009

Now I am in Portugal going to Lisbon by bus from Albufeira.
Well, as all trips by bus that I take, memories comes to my mind...
Now it came one lovely...

...Lovely this weekend.
During the last moments in Uruguay of 2009, I had to knew totally how it looks the North of Uruguay.
After my experience in Paysandu, I was curious if all cities were the same or not...

Juan Suarez, my boss at the company Arkano, invited me and I couldn't refuse such a excellent opportunity.
The trip actually began as huge adventure. Why?
I was not going at the same bus as Juan.

In the middle of confusion, Juan told me to go until "bica" parage.
During all travel the weather was terribly awesome.
I never saw so many lightfalls, strong wind and raining at the same time.

Between probably the 566th lightfall and 567th, I slept.
Big mistake.
Juan was trying intensively to call me to say that it would be better to stop at the station.
As I would arrive before him it would be better to arrive at 5 am at some lightly place.
Result: I was sleeping until the driver left me at Bica place.

The employee woke me up. He took the bag to the floor and when I realized I was alone with a bag inside the water hole in the street, I thought something like: "shit!!"
Bica place is one of the quite places ever.
With one parage and one house in the middle of no where.
As it was 5 am, nobody was even passing the main street.

Fortunately my cell phone was working, I saw the Juan's message in the windy rain..
He told me his mother will pick me up right away.
Cool.

Then I sit at the less wet place and wait...
...
...One car...
...I stand up and look for it. The car had noisy music and the guys inside were smoking joins.
"Hmmm, let's hide" I thought...
...Car passed...
...Lightfall happened close to the house. My eyes got even bigger..
...
...Jipe came... And as was hiding, waiting for some call. Yes was the mother of Juan.
...
...Inside the car, she spoke how was afraid about myself, as the wind already damaged the region, with floods in consequence of the strong rains.
...

Juan's father at his landscape

Uruguayan meet comes from here you know?

Country Reports

2010-01-31T02:35:00.000Z

http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/imr-ri2.nsf/eng/gr-01000.html

For the Chivito Canadiense Fans, who sent me a lot messages... this music is for u all...

2010-01-26T23:14:00.000Z