Plan B, Plan C, Plan D...

“To get something you never had, you have to do something you’ve never done.” ~Unknown

These are the things I aim to do, if my plan A fails...

 1. Try something I’ve always assumed you can’t do but secretly want to try.

 2.  Immerse yourself in learning something new and allow yourself to forget about the limitations of time.

3. Brainstorm for ideas for a new project.

4. Submit your resume for a dream job instead of assuming you can’t get it.

5. Challenge your beliefs about what you can and can’t do. Maybe you are a good leader.

6. Challenge your ideas about how things should work. Sometimes when you decide how things should be you limit your ability to be effective in the world as it actually is.

7.  Look for opportunities in a tough situation. Avoid a victim mentality, and opt instead for a “ready for new beginnings” attitude.

8.  Commit to something you always say you’ll do but always fail to start—and then take the first step right now.

9. Turn your focus from something don’t want to something you do want. This allows you to shift your energy from complaining to taking action.

Great Benefit

I had a major benefit today. I just found the experience of Linda and Luis Nieves that I've once read and was truly inspired. I was looking for it everywhere during year.  And tonight I happened to find it.
Amazing!!!! Brilliant!!!  This couple is one of the major SUA Donor's and their experience deeply impacted my life.  After reading it, i became inspired to contribute even more to this movement of
peace.

Read below...

From penniless to having own plane for Kosen Rufu

Living the most contributive life -
Luis Nieves   

I was so poor when I received the gohonzon in aug 1968 that it seems almost unimaginable today today. I regularly hitch-hiked 50 miles to youth activities, sometimes taking all night to get home.i couldn’t seem to hold a job for more than a week or two- either I would get fired or was too depressed to shop up.
One day my landlord kicked me out of the apartment for failing to pay rent and took away everything except the alter, in lieu of rent. I spent many nights sleeping on the floor, as I tried to work to payback the rent while struggling to attend some days of school. Late night my friend Randy, who had also begun chanting nam myoho renge kyo, would stand guard at the laundrymat, while I huddled behind the machines waiting for my one set of clothing to dry.
I continued to do SGI activities because they gave my life meaning. I remember hitch hiking 35 miles north of Napa California to deliver a gohonzon to a new member. After walking for 10 miles with my thumb out, no one stopped. My clothing was thin, threadbare and then it began to snow.i arrived at the member’s house late next morning , helped enshrine the gohonzon, then hitched a ride back in time for a discussion meeting.
During these years my friend Linda and I did many youth activities together, along with her sister Becky, and my friend Randy. Linda had received the Gohonzon the same day as my mother.
Even though many people in small our town derided us when we shared Buddhism with them, our hearts were filled with joy. We would huddle together in the cold, sometimes very late into the night, reading SGI President Ikeda’s guidance, proud students of Ikeda University. Prez Ikeda’s guidance was so real, so tangible, it gave us inspiration and hope.
Linda eventually got a steady job and bought a very old car which we used mercilessly for youth activities at home and in san Francisco.
Linda and I came to understand that our problems were not revelations of our misery or failure, as people in the town were swift to point out to us. We chose this life to demonstrate the greatness of Nicheren’s Buddhism, the truth of prez Ikeda’s Guidance and the potential innate in ordinary people to become true victors in life.
With the spirit to transform poison to medicine through our Buddhist Practice, our determinations were these-
Because we are so desperately poor, we must become wealthy.
Because we have to walk , hitch hike and drive such battered cars, we must become people who can drive any car we wish
Because school is impossible for us to attend, we must become educational advocates for many young people like us. In other words, we viewed our Karma as our mission for Kosen Rufu/ world peace.
This gets to the heart of why we never ever missed any  opportunity to contribute to the SGI, including  making Financial Contributions. Don’t ask me how we did it- we were so desperately poor. We chanted a whole lot not to miss any opportunity to contribute and do more than we thought we could. When we had no money, which was the norm, we ‘d find working extra jobs, collect old bottles- anything to make a cause for our happiness.
Linda and I were always of the same mind. We made every financial cause selflessly and without expectations, because doing so made us happy. After about 10 years of friendship, and as comrades in faith, we married, realizing how deeply in love we were.
As we continued to live a Cause-oriented practice, our environment reflected the changes that occurred within ourselves. Over time, we got better jobs, better timings and better bosses.
We had beautiful children, and, in 1990, I started an automobile insurance company from our spare bedroom. With quick and sincere service- traits we had learnt and developed through doing SGI activities in my youth- our business grew. Recently, my company completed construction on a new headquarters in Napa, California.
 
This year Linda and I celebrated our 30^th wedding anniv. We now live in a large beautiful jewel of a home we have built in our own vineyards, complete with an observatory. Our home is always open for SGI members and for faith related activities. We now have 4 holiday homes, including one overlooking the bay and across the ocean in Miami.
Linda’s old car has now changed to a custom-made powerful Italian sculpture on wheels.
Our commitment to kosen- rufu remains the same. In order to get home in time for meetings and activities we now fly on our family jet plane. We are privileged now to do everything we can behind the scene to financially support and further president Ikeda’s vision for Soka University of America, a school fostering the next generation of world leaders and peacemakers
Linda and I are more deeply in love and have more fun together than we could have ever imagined. Most importantly, we feel like we have only begun to fulfill our mission for contributing to the growth of the SGI Peace Movement together with prez Ikeda. The best is ahead, and we determine never to give up, no matter what.

Dance Around the World

Great video!

Dancing around the world 

Validation

Very inspiring! Awesome video! Great!!!

Quanto você quer Vencer?

How much do you want to be successful?

Quanto você quer vencer? Você está realmente determinado a vencer TODOS os seus limites?

Pense nisso...

RENovada A decisão

Parar de Enrrolar e Vencer AGORA!!!!

The Journey Continues

I am still on the journey. Now more than ever, I am finding out what I will be doing in the next years to come. First of all, my actions are focused on research everything that inspires me and had inspired me in the past. I'm taking a look at Harvard profile. I know that it is too big of a dream, but who knows. Let's give it a try! Let's dream big together with Sensei. While I try to do the preparation for the diplomacy examination in Brazil, I'll keep looking at my interests. I certain that things will move and the universe again will "sponsor" my dreams!

So, tonight I watched this video of Harvard Business School. I really really like it.

http://www.hbs.edu/mba/the-hbs-difference/Pages/default.aspx

Let's be courageous to dream as big as we can!
Let's be courageous to take actions and make our dreams come true!

Let's do it!!!

I miss blogging!!!

Hey everyone!

Long time since I last wrote here.
I really really miss blogging.
I taking on new challenges and creating new blogs...
But I do miss blogging in here....
So, I'll try to return to here every now and then...

If you stop by, please say hi!!!

See ya!

Apaixonada Pela Magia da Vida

Estou lendo um livro de PNL chamado Poder Sem Limites. Nossa fantastico, espetacular. O autor ensina a produzir os efeitos que desejamos atraves de uma programacao do cerebro.  Com o PNL aprendemos a reprogramar nosso conjunto de pensamentos e crencas para alcancar a melhor acao que nos levara a vitoria. Vou vencer infalivelmente!!!


"Espero que continue a procurar por excelência, pela magia em tudo
que vê, e aprenda como é produzida, a fim de que possa criar a mes-
ma espécie de resultados, no momento que desejar."


"Quando acreditamos com convicção que alguma coisa é ver-
dade, é como se mandássemos um comando para nosso cérebro, de
como representar o que está ocorrendo."


"Certa vez, John Stuart Mill escreveu: "Uma pessoa com uma cren-
ça é igual à força de noventa e nove que só têm interesses". É bem
por isso que as crenças abrem a porta para a excelência. A crença
envia um comando direto para seu sistema nervoso. Quando acre-
dita que alguma coisa é verdade, você entra mesmo no estado de
que aquilo deve ser verdade. Tratadas de maneira certa, as crenças
podem ser as mais poderosas forças para criar o bem em sua vida.
Por outro lado, crenças que limitam suas ações e pensamentos po-
dem ser tão devastadoras como as crenças cheias de recursos po-
dem ser fortalecedoras.   As crenças nos ajudam a liberar os mais
ricos recursos que estão bem dentro de nós, criando-os e dirigindo-
os para apoiarem nossos resultados desejados.

"Se você acredita em sucesso, ficará fortale- cido para consegui-lo. Se acredita em fracasso, sua crença tenderá a levá-lo para o caminho que faz provar o fracasso. Lembre-se: quer
você diga que pode fazer alguma coisa ou diga que não pode, você
está certo."

I've been watching a Japanese drama "Taisetsu na koto ga subete oshiete kureta". I absolutely loved the theme song of the drama. Never paid attention to the lyrics, but watching the drama and seeing all the issues I could really understand what is it about. 

Never think that you are less then fu&%$# perfect! Don't so mean when you talk about yourself. Learn how to deeply appreciate your life even when the whole world hates you or judge you. You are the only one who can take care of your life. Nobody can stand up for you unless you respect yourself. 

Yes, make all the demons go away, change all the negative voices in your head, don't criticize yourself. Instead treasure yourself, respect your life, make all the demons run away and of course and deeply LOVE YOURSELF.