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Captivate My Day, San Antonio, TX (2025)

04/22/2023

Each time you look at a painting, you can see something different.

Depending how you feel and what you have in mind on that day, your mind can interpret different meanings of the same portrait.

This perspective is good for paintings and art in general, but may not be ideal for your goals, dreams, and life.

When you do:
* you often start different things without finishing anything
* you are not consistently applying yourself
* your mood is all over the place
* you say one thing and do something else

Your yo-yo, thinking can and will eventually become problematic.

To help centralize your thoughts and vision:
* attempt to write what you really want to achieve
* bullet-point your main goals, ideas, and dreams
* rehearse in your mind the plan you’ve set forward
* talk to others who believe in you

If you take this David and Goliath painting, the message is clear; David got to Goliath’s head, literally lol!

Which means, your goals, dreams, and life can become as clear-cut at this painting.

But 1st, you got to FOCUS and STOP being all over the place.

04/11/2023

Reflecting on what you’ve been doing:
* allows you to gear up toward what’s coming next
* gives you insight on what you don’t want to do
* provides you with a better understanding of what did not work

At the same time, reflecting can also lead you to dwell on things that you no longer have control on. Or may never have had control on, lol.

If that’s the case, what can you do if dwelling comes back knocking?
* Attempt to see what’s the worst that can happen if you keep dwelling on what you’re not able to control
* Create an environment that brings curiosity instead of worries
* Laugh hysterically about what didn’t work (humor is often a good remedy)

The reality is you will eventually dwell on something that you shouldn’t anymore.

But by working on your way out of your dwelling path, you’ll start seeing things differently.

You’ll use your reflective time more purposefully.

You’ll come to understand there’re many windows to where you want to go.

Don’t be afraid to open them!

04/09/2023

Re-centering yourself can seem obvious, but it’s not as simple as it sounds.

To do so, you have to acknowledge:
* how you feel
* what’s the effect a situation or circumstance has on you

And if you don’t, then re-centering yourself won’t work nor makes sense.

However if you want to re-center yourself using art or putting yourself in a calmer environment can help you.

04/05/2023

Eventually, emotions are made to be left out.

There are different scenarios and situations that make you respond the way you do:
• injury can get you feel all type of way
• losing a love one can bring different emotions back to the surface
• being stranded in airports or missing flights can create something within you that you hadn’t seen yet (another deep strength)
• illnesses and sickness can change your emotional perspective

Still, you can choose your reaction.

Even when it is challenging, exhausting, exciting, or nerve-racking, you can see your reaction from a different angle. You can see if it fits the environment you’re in at that time.

When it doesn’t, what do you do? You still “need” to have an emotion.

You learn to trust. Trust those who’ve been where you’ve been. Trust those who know more than you do. Trust those who can help you regulate your emotion.

Avoid those who pretend knowing it all. Avoid those who can “cure” all emotions.

Stay put, the emotions are coming. Then, when you’re ready, let them out.

03/28/2023

When something is not going the way you want to, what do you do?
* do you scream?
* do you cry?
* do you laugh?
* do you stay quiet?
* do you analyze everything?

Research says the way you do one thing is often the way you do everything.

Which means,
* If you are a screamer, then screaming you often do.
* If you are a crier, then crying you often do.
* If you are a laugher, then laughing you often do.
* If you are a quieter, then quiet you often are.
* If you are an analyzer, then analyzing you often do.

From time to time, you may change your handling technique. But for the most part, you are consistent with your method.

But if your method has been a little too taxing on you?

Looking at your situation from different angles can help.

For example, you’re a screamer but decide to become a crier for a little while. It can provide you with an insight that you’ve been carrying the entire world on your shoulder and it’s now time to let it go 👍🏿

Although the above is an example, playing around with the different styles of handling your situations can be fun, empowering, or even scary.

However, if you too scared to change your ways, then you’ll never know that other ways can even be a possibility.

Why would put yourself in such mental prison?

03/25/2023

When do know if you’re trusting yourself?
* Is your mind in a different thinking mode?
* Are you talking in a different way?
* Are you dressing up with more confidence?
* Are you walking with more pep in your steps?

Each person shows their trust development differently. But still, some things always seem to be present when someone trust themselves more than others.

When you trust yourself:
* you’re willing to take more risks
* sometimes you’ll analyze things a little too fast
* your confidence is boosted
* you remove the “what if” and “can’t”from your vocabulary

Trusting yourself is a process. Which means some will be more skilled at it than others and that’s ok.

Chances are, you have to create an environment within and outside yourself that provides room to test your own trusting development.

To create an environment within yourself means:
* to learn what trust is
* to understand that sometimes it won’t work out for you
* to practice your trusting skills
* to acknowledge your trust level

To create an environment outside yourself means:
* to acknowledge that everybody has their own trust experiences
* to observe others’ trusting skills
* to not fall into others’ trusting pitfalls
* to discuss others and yours trusting development

When you realize the importance of mastering the “within and outside environment” explanation
above, you’ve already changed your perception of what trust is.

By that time, you’ve set new trust standards for yourself and others.

Each time you’re encountering a new or similar situation, your trusting skill is being tested. And at that time, you can see the difference between what you used to do vs what you’re now doing.

And as you keep practicing your trusting skill and observing your change, more and more doors will open up for you.

Just be ready to enter them, lol!!

03/18/2023

You may not have realized it yet, but you are living in a very “demanding” world.

Because you’re constantly saying YES, NO, and MAYBE to yourself and others, you’re part of this forever growing trend of demands.

But, there’re different types of demands. And according to which “demanding” world you want to be part of, you may want to pay close attention to your YES’s, NO’s, and MAYBE’s.

Are your YES, NO, MAYBE allow you to:
* Take care of yourself mentally?
* Workout?
* Think deeply?
* Socialize?
* Learn about yourself and others?
* Help others?

Or are your YES’s, NO’s, and MAYBE’s create an environment that diminishes your strengths, potential, dreams, and desires?

You see, the demands you’re putting on yourself or that others are putting on you are not ALL bad and ill-targeted.

It comes down to what type of “demanding”environment you want to live in?

You increase you’re possibility to live in an intentional, goal-oriented, and effective “demanding” world by initially asking yourself:
* What does my mind look like?
* What’s my vocabulary consist of?
* What behavior am I displaying?

By answering these questions, you’re starting to clean up your “demanding” world.

Because when you can:
* Think better, you can speak better.

And when you can:
* Speak better, you can act better.

It’s a domino effect.

You create what you think about.

You create what you talk about.

You create how you’re behaving towards things and people.

Remember, a “demanding” environment does not have to be seen so negatively.

There’re things you can do to create a “demanding” environment that is going to:
* Motivate you.
* Liberate you.
* Inspire you.
* Work in your favor.

But if you don’t allow yourself the creative and questioning time, then your world is going to be negatively absorbed by all its demands.

Which will lead you to remain in your complicated, suffocating, and not expanded universe of yours.

Who truly wants that?

03/14/2023

Think about what most parents want to teach their children:
* Parents want them to dream.
* Parents want them to develop confidence.
* Parents want them to learn independence.
* Parents want them to cheer for themselves.

Think about what most parents end-up doing:
* The parents are afraid to dream big.
* The parents lose confidence after each obstacle and hardship.
* The parents become dependent of others’ agendas and dreams.
* The parents rarely cheer for themselves.
* The parents are so busy catering to others that they forget about their dreams and wants.

Studies are showing the above description is NOT solely characteristic of parents. It is seen in everyone’s life.

Look how it’s start:
* When you are a baby, you want to look at things, touch everything, and taste anything you can put your hands on.

* When you are a toddler, you still want to explore your world. It’s bigger now. You can move yourself to places. You can communicate better.

* When you are a child, your world becomes more stable as you recognize things, people, situations. Yet the thrill to want to test yours and others’ boundaries continues to grow.

And then, something shift within and around you:
* All the No’s
* All the Be careful
* All the It’s dangerous
* All the Hurry up
* All the Slow down
* Etc…….

ALL of that accumulate and bring all your dreams, talks, and conversations you had with yourself and others to become characterize as:
* I don’t know if I can
* Maybe this is too hard
* What if it’s too late?
* But what are they going to think?
* What if it doesn’t work out?
* Etc….

Your world no longer consists of:
* Daring moments
* Taking risks
* Laughing
* Dreaming
* Playing around

ALL the limitations and barriers you’ve created for yourself and were imposed on you deflated the ability you ONCE had to dream big.

ALL of that keeps your mind and vocabulary small.

ALL of that drags you down.

ALL of that weighs heavy on you.

But what if you choose:
* Day after day, to remove one layer of your self-limiting belief.
* Each day, you take away a barrier that has been imposed upon you and your desire to become better.

This day by day or step by step method allows you to see and understand what may have caused you to think the way you do.

In truth, it’s only too late to change when you’re no longer breathing.

Until then, you can still change your destination.

03/08/2023

When you think about fears, think of it like this: life is like walking inside a haunted house. You never know what’s going to happen. 😱😨🥲😝🥵😳

Is there something that’s going to jump at you?

Are you legs going to get grab?

Are you going to scream as soon as you see something moving?

Haunted houses are no joke. And although this analogy is there to make you smile a little, there is a resemblance with living life.

What makes it different is that life is 24 hours long. Not only opened on weekends or late at night. Which means, as you’re living life, there will be plenty of times where you’ll jump, scream, and panic.

The good news is - you don’t have to be scared every second, every minute, and every hour of your day.

You can learn to acknowledge, control, and go above those fears.

When you do, doors open up.

Opportunities are seen and available.

Solutions come to mind.

And a new reality is now accessible.

It is not to say that now that you’re acknowledging your fears and start controlling them that your life is going to be an easy, non-bumpy nor scary road. In truth, at times, it’s going to be terrifying to say the least.

In those moments, and plenty of other moments before that, you are going to be face with a reality. If you don’t change the way that you talk to yourself and others, you’re going to be eaten alive.

People you’ll meet, work with, and connect with will have a feel about you. They’ll start seeing the cracks of your terrifying self.

And when that happens, doors will shut down.

Opportunities will no longer be seen and available.

Dilemma will come to mind.

And your new uncertain, pessimistic, and out of control reality will then be created, lived, and feared.

Don’t wait until then to change what you’re telling to yourself.

03/04/2023

Progress is such an interesting topic.

Each person sees progress differently. And because of that, progress remains a subjective mystery for a lot of people.

However, when accountability comes into the equation, the mystery effect gradually leaves. It is replaced by understanding if you’re not owning up to anything, progress won’t be seen.

Accountabilty is like a clear window; you can see through it. It helps you see if the effort you’ve been putting in are helping you progress.

At the same time, that clear window shows your missed steps and the backward moves that were done. Which gives you further insights that will count toward your progression’s path.

Clean windows:
* provide accountabilty
* show missed steps
* identify backward thinking

Progress happens when you start cleaning your windows, lol.

If you don’t, good luck in seeing anything.

02/28/2023

These days, you hear a lot about reflecting, introspection, insights, and other words of that nature
You may already be mastering such techniques. But maybe, you’re still wondering how to even have time to sit and think for hours
The good news is you don’t have to curve hours upon hours each day to sit and 🤔
Does it help when you do? It sure does. However, I get it, your schedule does not allow you to be that flexible with your time
If that’s the case, ask yourself, what does my schedule allows me to do?
Is it opened for things that matter to me? Or, is it opened for things that matter to other people than me?
You see, reflecting on ourselves, our actions, our thoughts, or on the overall world is not solely reserved to those who are currently making a difference in the world
Reflecting, thinking, wondering, and questioning is reserved to anyone who lives on this planet, which includes you as well, lol
In truth, how can you better yourself without being intentional about what you may want to change or adjust? You’re not able to
Reflection and introspection provide you with great insights. It gives you more things to think about. It helps you see that what you’ve been doing or thinking can always be changed, refined, rethought about, and so on
These are the gifts that many are missing
When you are too focus on “finding time to think” and “making time to reflect”, you miss the whole essence of it all
It’s not about if you have time to sit for hours and think. But more about if you’re willing to listen - because that mind of yours has been asking you to slow down from time to time
But have you been listening to it?
Chances are, not that much.

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