Why are you always smiling?

Thats one of the questions that i’m asked every now and then.

Well, i smile cos i choose to. I smile ‘cos it keeps me with the right attitude, openminded and hoping for good things to happen. Some people might not believe this, but its true.

Smiling keeps you with a positive attitude towards daylife situations. Its a fact. Research has been done about it and i truly believe so.

Sometimes i smile when i see a guy with a straight face. I find that very funny. I mean, life’s short…why would anyone walk around with an angry face the whole time? I’m not talking about, you know…we all have bad days from time to time and have a straight face for a couple of hours, but some people look angry everytime i see them.

I really cant understand it. And i still find it funny. People walking with a straight face the whole day…I couldnt live like that. Plus, if your lips dont go up, it means that they are going down..and that will give you a dog face in less time than you think.

People who walk around with an angry face (not worried, but kind of fed-up-cant-stand-my-life-anymore-and-wont-do-anything-about-it-to-change-it face) are funny to me.  And i cant help laughing at that, or at least smiling (hoping that it might click their attitude to a different and better one).

Smiling is good. Sometimes i look stupid walking around with a smile in my face, but who cares. I certainly dont, cos i enjoy it and like it. If you dont smile often, today is the best day to start practicing it. Besides, remember that practice makes perfection, so even if it doesnt have the outcome you’d thought of in the first time, just keep on practicing, and you’ll get good at it.

It will change your life. I know and im sure about it, cos it has changed mine.

How stupid a person can be?

Yesterday i met one of the biggest jerks i’ve ever seen in my life.Felipe Catedra.

A real bastard when it comes to saying useless and hurting comments. Let me tell you a little bit about the background…

So, i recently started working in a high tech lab where antennae experiments are taken place. I didnt know much, and still i have loads to learn, but somehow i did get the work done so far.

Around 2 months ago, we started a new project with a company. The project manager of that company and a teacher related with the lab used to come here every now and then to check out the installations and talk about what should be made and how it should be made.

I worked closely with these two people, helping out and, from my point of view, adding some extra work and valuable info to their ideas. I am the last to come, that’s a fact. I’m working here with a scholarship, but that doesnt make me any different or lower than any other person as i see things.

The lab and another research group that’s working in the same uni had some rough talks in the past years. Things werent looking so good, and they got worse when i came in to fill up a workplace in the Antennae measuring department. That’s it. I came in the middle of the storm. I was right in the middle of the conflict between a research group and a research lab. I was called to be a nexus point between both parties and be used to help things chill out.

I was taking it quite well so far, until yesterday. I was with the 2 people i mentioned earlier as any other time. Talking about the final settings and measurement planning with the project. Suddenly, the head of the research group, PhD Catedra (The emperor from now on) came in.

The teacher started to explain the emperor the conclusions of our discussion, the best measurements to be made and a little bit of the planning to be followed, when suddenly, the emperor started talking:

-I really dont know if you should keep on talking in front of the scholarship guy…he is external to this project, has nothing to do with it and has no experience whatsoever, plus we might be violating some confidenciallity policies of our contract with the enterprise we’re doing this project with…

I didnt need to hear any further. I stood up and left to take a coffee.

I was so fed up at that point…

The story keeps on for a while, but the botton line is:

Felipe Catedra is a jerk and i hate him very much. I cant stand his looks, the way he walks, stands or speaks. I hope i dont see him around often from now on and hopefully he wont say hi to me next time we cross in the cafeteria or in a corridor of the Uni.

A day is not enough

Is there a way to stretch the hours of a day or make them more productive? I guess time management is the key for that. Time management is the answer i’ve been looking for these days. That plus self motivation.

How good is a good planning if the mental attitude is not the right one? How useful is know what you have to do if you dont do it? A plan undone is like a thing unsaid. The only person who cares is the person who didnt do anything or stayed quiet, because as far as the rest of the people know, those things never happened.

A thought not taken into practice is like a tear drop in an ocean. Nothing.

How good are “good intentions” if no action is taken afterwards?

How good is thinking or saying “im gonna do this and that” if you never do it?

“If you want to know where you’re heading, take a look to what you DO rather than what you SAY”

A good plan is essencial from my point of view, but action is the other 50%. I’d even say ACTION is 60%, and planning 40%. Whatever it is, do it. No matter if the plan is bad. Start and re-plan as you go.

That’s what i’ve been thinking about lately, but i’ve found myself with lack of energy to do it. Out of motivation or without enough willingness to start. Am i getting old or is it just a matter of not sleeping enough and feeling tired the rest of the following day?

First things first: I’ll start sleeping at least 7 hours a day from tonight. This way i’ll feel better and with a better attitude towards new tasks. Awaken and alert. That’s what im gonna do.

I’ll go back with the results and write it down here in 3 days time. I’m just writing this so you know what i’m up to and what my plans are.

Thanks for reading!

A Circus

That’s the image i have of my life these days,

You know, surrounded by people watching me and in the meantime, i gotta run the show.My show.

You can see Tigers and lions,  find a clown or two trying to get my attention…

I feel i’m just going with the flow, instead of rowing my boat. It was fun for a time, but i really gotta get control of what i do, when i do it and why i do it.

You know me, i need goals. I’m a goal person and need to have ‘em and feel i’m moving forward closer to them everyday. Do my best aint enough if i dont get what i aim.

Whatever it takes. That’s all i ask for. That’s what i ask to myself. Nothing more, but not a bit less.

Im living my life

surrounded by goals that set

a thick white line.

Wether i’ll make it or not

its my only thought

I know i will

but i need to know

if it’ll take long or no.

Time is running

away

faster every day

That’s a good thought. The other day i was reading a book and the star had to think about 3 things he wanted to change about himself. And so i thought about which 3 things i wanted to change in my life:

1.- Get fit

2.-…

That’s all. I couldnt think about any other thing that i’d like to change in my life right now. I’m running from here to there everyday, so i guess i’d like to make the week 2 days longer, so i can fit everything i want in a week…what would you change about your lifre?

Back

The week away was great. Loads of fun!

Züri

Im here since Tuesday evening…and im loving it!