Dear blog

Dear blog,
I haven't forgotten you. It's just that I still don't have internet connection in my new apartment...and probably won't for a while.
In the meantime I cheat on you with your younger sister nanoblogging, by updating my twitter page several times a day. Soon I will be bringing you both together.
While I'm away, please don't forget to greet the fellow "terricoleans" who pass by and offer them a thought or two, either written or drawn.
With no further instructions, I leave you til next time. Send my kind regards to your Google host server.

milestone weekend

Long time...writing from my blackberry tonight: first mobile blogging experience. Getting used to the pearl's keyboard. Writing in telegraph mode cause my left finger is yelling at me...and cause I'm doing Twitter lately. That's the "nu thang, y'all know?"
Oh, and milestone weekend cause I moved to a "new" (long story) apartment. Lessons learned?
1. Mom & Dad's infinite generosity towards their children
2. Murphy's law applies to moving too
3. I avoided much of it by remaining calm and positive (law of attraction)
4.general contractors are to construction what copyright lawyers are to music.

Gud nait

Take me to your leader...

Me likey di blog...


The word of wisdom today comes from Seth Godin on this post: if you have anything you´d like to say, tell the world, get it out of your system or simply type, do it. Just once, and see the effect it has on you.

Like Hugh MacLeod likes to remember that Clay Shirky says:

"So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this -- the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast."

Here´s my afraidsumé...

Wishi washi

Here´s another one for the ¨it´s not you, it´s me¨ style of gracefully not getting it... hah!

Dad

Feliz día de los padres papá!!

Gracias por todo.

Business expired

Wrongbal Warming

Turns out it´s not that clear whether an increase in CO2 levels drives an increase in the Earth´s temperature or it´s the other way around.

I can´t find the tiny little post, but if you do, please send it to me. Thanks!

PD. I promise I´ll get better at the drawings, hah!

Mental Model

What´s your mental model?

What dots?

I guess some days it´s harder to connect the dots than others. You lose perspective, or hope, or simply patience...That´s ok, as long as you find posts like this one, by Nick Smith (again).

Flow me...

From life2pointO:

The alternative to planning and organising is to be open to receive. Not in a passive 'do nothing' type of way, but as an active surrender to our inner knowing... and moment to moment engagement with our experience of life as it unfolds before us.

We think that without our conscious control our lives would be chaos. Not so, in truth they would reflect only Love and harmony.

Sort of a self-critique...

Innothon

Have you ever spent 17 straight hours talking about innovation and human dynamics? I just did. Hope I can wake up tomorrow... ;-P

Laif is gud.

Reassurance

Would you like BALANCE with that?

Back from the Dominican Republic. Two words: Alignment (my favorite word lately) and Balance. That´s how you can sum up the benefits of having a Project Portfolio Management (PPM) methodology in your company. That´s what I told the potential client (the purpose of the trip was to tell the success story of implementing a PPM methodology in our Company).

Something I realized during my visit: these people GET IT. I´m talking about the joy of living and taking it easy. Granted they´re a developing country and you begin to see ¨first world-like activity¨ in the city (rush hour, horns, rising prices, etc). But when you interact with them you still get the paused and HONEST ¨Hello, how are you?¨ that all of us fake in the other places I´ve lived in. It makes you smile back to them and CONNECT.

I wonder if it´s because they still have alignment and balance in their lives...

This is a view of the beautiful garden and pool in the Hotel El Embajador.

Island hoping

I just found out Today that I fly to Santo Domingo, D.R. tomorrow at noon. Unexpected, but it´s always a good time to fly away and give presentations on alignment.

No blogging ´til Saturday. I hope to take some cool pictures to post.

Have a great weekend.

¨Poltrona¨ lifestyle

Guannovation

Yes, it´s THE question.

What is Innovation? Lately it seems like the ¨mojo¨ word, but what does your Company understand by innovation?:

a) Keyword in any strategic plan that needs immediate attention in order to be executed ¨as usual¨;

b) ¨Naipes joker¨ word used as an excuse to explore ¨new ways of doing things¨ (read: to postpone important decisions that rock the boat...);

c) Must-have word in the cover of cool business magazines;

I think innovation is a MINDSET. It´s realizing that:

1. We are not in control. Anyone who pretends to be is set for a good deal of frustration.

2. Nothing that got us here is guaranteed to take us there.

3. Yes, we will fail. And get up. And fail. And get up.....

4. It´s a whole new game... in every industry.

5. Connection is what matters. It´s what brings success. Oh, but don´t search for it; rather, open yourself to it. Otherwise it won´t happen.

And aligning everyday actions and decisions accordingly. That is: reconsidering everything, embracing the chaos, preparing to sail the boat of disruption.

Everything else is...well, tonight´s word: guanno . vation.

What is Innovation for you?

¨Cluelessy¨

Wouldn´t it be cool to have such a word? It rhymes with ¨cruelty¨...I guess because it´s cruel not to know yourself...or having the outcome of your interactions with other people be leaving them with that idea.

1,000 !!

We´ve officially crossed the line of a thousand visits!

My first post on this blog was back in October 29. Thank you for coming by, for your comments on and offline. I still suck at drawing on the Wacom pad, but that´s another story ;-) Let´s continue the conversation.

I want to thank all these bloggers for writing on their own voice and inspiring other people, me among them:

Hugh MacLeod
Enrique Dans
Charles Green
Seth Godin
Evelyn Rodríguez
Miss Rogue
Nick Smith

It´s a gud laif. Enjoy...

F.E.A.R., Inc.