Two Steps Back

I found another solution for burnout: you need to learn to believe that you are a longer match than what you were taught.

One planck at a time.

And you know how to access that dimension? Stop acting strong. Say what hurts you. When it hurts you.

Disconnect the auto-pilot and see how long you can keep your plane in the air by being yourself.

No fake smiles, no “politeness” just for the sake of politeness.

Your life is fully about you. Everything that happens to you and around you, is about you. Take it personally!

Sit down if you feel like you can’t take it all in anymore. Someone will eventually show up for you.

Your parents won’t let you (anymore) alone in the store if you don’t come when they want to leave.

Try this exercise right now. Go to the information centre in any mall or hypermarket and tell them: “I think I am lost. I lost my parents and I don’t know where to go. I don’t know what to do with the huge debt that they left me”.

See how they handle the situation.

There is a phone calling ceaselessly on vibration at one of my neighbours and nobody is picking up.

I can hear the vibrations through the walls.

Meanwhile, last night I dreamed I said Yes to marry someone. They put a red string with 3 loops on my finger.

Should I call 112 and ask them to check on the apartment where nobody is answering?

Of course I won’t, because I am afraid if I do, I will be the one that will get in trouble.

Because this is how “the system works”. They downgrade the one that has the guts to put the finger on the issue rather than to actually take accountability and fix the issue.

But that’s ok.

More lessons for my daughter. 😎

A true leader knows when it is time to delegate and outsource.

Even if the solution is not orthodox. Because she is catholic.

You know what they say by “more Catholic than the Pope himself”.

Another loophole. Sometimes the world might think they lost you. But you finally found yourself.

To make room for others in your life, sometimes you have to be less than 1.

You should have seen her face when I asked her to type 0.75 in that excel cell and then I explained to her that there are numbers even smaller than 1.

And she asked me “but what about that mathematics only with letters that you told me about?” That dream that I shared with her when I was teaching someone about limits.

Soon, honey soon. Maybe too soon.

Yet still. Much sooner than expected. The future in the mirror is much closer than it appears.

A true mentor is the one that gives you the safe space to share your struggle and then enough time to understand that the solution was already in the same body of text, but you couldn’t see it.

Because you need to understand first that 1/3 is bigger than 1/4. And you need to connect the dots differently. You need to learn from someone else’s mistakes, because life doesn’t give you time anymore to make yours.

One day you will get it.

It’s actually not that deep. And it’s not just about the rice with milk.