I heard the word “Adversity” first time when I was a child, watching the Disney cartoon Mulan. Towards the end of the story, when Mulan just left the Imperial Palace with the great ovation from the croud for having rescued China from The Huns invasion, the Emperor watches her leaving with attention and turns to…
Category: Personal Development
Reflexiones de fin de año
Un año más que está por finalizar. El cierre de una década y el comienzo de una nueva. Como cada ley natural del universo, cuando un ciclo se cierra da pie al comienzo de otro nuevo ciclo. ¿Qué experiencias te dejó este año que está por concluir? Para mí, cada final de año representa un…
Decisions…Decisions…Love vs. Fear
“May your choices reflect your Hopes, not your Fears”- Nelson Mandela One of our most valuable and unique capabilities as humans, is our ability to make decisions. It is a well- known fact that we make on average 35,000 decisions per day . We might or might not be fully conscious about it, but actually, our…
The Accountability Mirror
Photo by fotografierende from Pexels If there is something that really define us as humanity, and set us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom, is our ability to convert thoughts into things. If a man really sets…
You are made of stars…. literally.
I decided to honor and reverence this statement, by making it the title and the soul of my blog. Not only because literally and scientifically, we REALLY are made of stardust. The whole Universe, is the result of the explosion of a star. This fact fascinates me, not only because of it´s marvellous scientific story,…
El precio de ser vulnerable
El ser humano es vulnerable por naturaleza, pero nos cuesta aceptarlo. La vulnerabilidad no es algo bien visto en la sociedad actual, que premia a los fuertes, a la perfección y a estándares ideales de belleza y comportamiento. Sentirnos expuestos, es algo que la mayoría de nosotros intentamos evitar a toda costa. ¿Porqué nos es…
Make silence a new habit to improve your life
Silence is magical. It is regarded as one of the highest faculties of wise men, yet in the modern world we seem to be giving silence not enough importance as it deserves. What does it bring, to remind silent for few minutes a day? James Allen, one of the pioneers on the field of Self-Development…
What is on the other side of Fear?
I know it is not a pretty story. It is a self-reflecting story, and those stories can hurt. How many times I desisted on doing something I really wanted, just because someone I cared a lot, like my partner, my mother, my best friend or my teacher told me that I cannot do…
El amor irracional… ¿Te hace ser improductivo?
Ahh, el amor. La madre de todas las fuerzas de la naturaleza. La fuerza más poderosa e influyente, no sólo en los seres humanos, si no en todo ser vivo. ¿Cuántos de nosotros no hemos experimentado este amor irracional? Ese amor loco, que no conoce sentido ni lógica. Que te inspira a hacer cosas estúpidas…
A trip to the Caribbean Sea… and Mindfulness
I have a long term love affair with the Caribbean Sea. It doesn´t matter how many times I see it, I never get tired of contemplating its unendless beauty: Those many shades of turquoise, the white and fine sand that feels at your feet like playing with sugar. Every time I contemplate the sunset…
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