25 tips for a better life (english only)

1. Take a 10-30 minute walk every day. And while you walk, smile. It is the ultimate anti-depressant.
2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day. Buy a lock if you have to.
3. When you wake up in the morning complete the following statement, ‘My purpose is to __________ today.’
4. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
5. Drink green tea and plenty of water. Eat blueberries, wild Alaskan salmon, broccoli, almonds & walnuts.
6. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
7. Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip, energy vampires, issues of the past, negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
8. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a college kid with a maxed out charge card.
9. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.
10. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
11. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
12. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
13. Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil the present.
14. Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
15. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
16. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: ’In five years, will this matter?’
17. Forgive everyone for everything.
18. What other people think of you is none of your business.
19. GOD heals EVERYTHING, in HIS time.
20. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
21. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.
22. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
23. Each night before you go to bed complete the following statements: I am thankful for __________. Today I accomplished _________.
24. Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed.
25. Don’t take it personal or sweat the small stuff…and it’s all small stuff.

What is christmas...?

In the last week I have been wondering a bit about the meaning of christmas, as joke I said that is that day of the year where everybody wears mask and make jokes around...that is carnival...but I now stop and think just when people are putting back the trees and the lights and I guess also at christmas people put on a mask professing to be nicer people and give gifts around that most of the time are bullshits then jokes...maybe also Easter and valentines day have the same meaning...I have been told by my Philippino colleagues that in their language Xmas is Pascuo or at least pronounced like this that reminds the Latin word for Easter, Pasqua...
Gunta asked me, if we have a kid will you play the role and keep the magic of Christmas alive?
I had actually asked this to myself few days before and I replied: I guess I should, but then I have to take part of a system or circus that doesn't belong to me...


Nell'ultima settimana mi sono chiesto un po' circa il significato del Natale e come battuta ho detto: ma è quel periodo dell'anno dove tutti vestono maschere e fanno scherzi in giro?? Ah no quello è carnevale....ma ora mentre la gente mette a posto alberi luci e presepi mi soffermo e penso che anche a Natale La gente veste maschere dicendo di essere più buona e da regali in giro che molte volte sono cazzate, proprio come gli scherzi... Magari anche la Pasqua e San Valentino hanno lo stesso significato... Mi è stato detto da un mio collega filippino che il Natale in filippino si traduce Pascuo o almeno pronunciato così...
Gunta mi ha chiesto, se avremo un figlio farai in modo che il magico del Natale sia vivo e che giochi la parte?
Mi ero chiesto alcuni giorni prima la stessa cosa e mi ero risposto: credo che dovrei, ma allora devo entrare a far parte di un sistema o circo che non mi appartiene..