Peace kit 1st part – I have shared these with many people, now easier to do it!
There are some books, musics, places that are part of our life transformation, some “kitsch”, some meaningful, but for each one of us, they mean differently. In my life, there are many circumstances that have changed me, or that have changed my way of seeing the world, and they have set the path on which my life is nowadays going through… I can say that today I am much more mature, spiritually speaking, making myself a much calmer, happy and peaceful person, which does not mean that I do not have my moments, when I am spinning of and wanting to disappear or make some one do so, hihihi! Well, no more delays, here is the transformation 1st story! The first book that has changed me and has made great difference in my life, to see more the positive side to try not to over think things and to know that there is always a happy end, and as my mother used to tell, if you are still not happy, it means that the end did not arrive yet. 1) I was walking at a shopping center, after a terrible break up with a boy friend, I was really lost, I was at my first real nice job and I had to be better, but as always I could not do so… Window shopping was something that relaxed me, and walking through the window of a book store, a book fell from the place it was and I noticed its color, I entered then the store and while I was checking the books, a nice gentleman took a book, with the same colors from the one that I have seen falling – he then handed it to me commenting – “it really did something to me, you should take a look, in case you are not looking for something specific!”… Well, this was the book: Don’t sweat the small stuff – and it’s all small stuff (in portuguese “nao faca tempestade em um copo de agua”) http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Sweat-Small-Stuff-Its/dp/0786881852 Each chapter has a lesson, one can read it opening in the morning and then going through the day with this learning. I did it differently – I had post its blue and green and I was tagging the chapter according to the benefit that it would give me professionally or privately. One nice chapter tells us that our thoughts are the “kings” – they are the ones that make us feel bad or good, and in adapting – domesticating them, we would run our lives and be much happier, and it tells us to do an experiment, to think on something very very nice and to try to feel bad, angry…. try it – impossible!!!!! WOW – this was the beginning of my long travel to positive thoughts and how to calm down the mind and the life by keeping bad thoughts very distance!! (The ones familiar with Yoga will notice that this is the principle of Yoga – calm your mind, control it “Citta Vrtti Nirodah” in order to find peace – “Samadhi”) I have, since then, shared this book with many people, and one boss of mine gave this book as a Christmas gift for all the organization in Brazil and the same happened in Portugal – after this I probably shared this book with dozens of friends!! Everyone should have this book to check sometimes!! 🙂
Dream Tulum – Honeymoon??? Paradise at the Riviera Maya!
This hotel Azulik cabañas is just great, it is a dream, we have stayed exactly at this cabaña, which has a bath tube outside and at the terrace overlooking the sea, just a dream. The Hotel has all ecologic systems, there is no light after 22:00 and energy comes from the sun, there is nice massage, and close by you can see many interesting places. Cenotes – these are so so nice nature beauties, look this for example: http://www.cenotedosojos.com/ This is common in the Riviera Maya, but this is special, there are caves which are filled with water and you can enjoy them for many hours!!! Coba – Maya sites, pyramids: http://mayasites.com/coba.html Not so known, this ruins are simply AMAZING and you have to give it a day, it is incredible and you have to be brave and to go up to each pyramid, it is worth the view, and the energy there is amazing!! Sian Ka’an ecologic reserve: http://cesiak.org/ Another day that you have to take, from Tulum, you follow the road, not paved, and with a 4 wheels drive you will arrive there in around 2 hours and the road is wonderful. The reserve is so beautiful, you have to plan to arrive before 9 or 10 am and then rent a boat, so you can dive with the dolphins, turtles and be able to then see all the beauties that this place have. If there is still time, the lighthouse slightly further after the village is a beautiful place to go!! Well, there are still many things, but with this anyone can already enjoy, I have to go, my husband is dead tired and wants to sleep, so, nite nite!!
Leadership – is to serve others, be there for your team, colleagues!
Among many books, readings that I have found, this book had inspired me, and, of course, was given to me by my mother, who always looked for business books which could help my work! O Monge e o Executivo; in Portuguese – The Servant; in English – is a wonderful book about leadership, but the real one, the one that you really would like to live, mainly reflects the kind of boss that anyone of us would like to have – so, the one we should always try to be! The difference of this book is that it brings you to think over and see other sides of being a leader, and how much does the private life influence the professional life, indeed, what we are in our private life can not be different from the professional one… I loved to see that with this book one can be sure that being good, doing the best for the others and living a life to serve others is really the best leadership path one can choose! I was happy to understand that my attitude to help and to serve my team, my colleagues is not a lack of ambition or a competitive disadvantage, but more a very big competitive advantage!!! Here is the link to the book in different languages!!! In Portuguese: http://www.amazon.com/Monge-Executivo-História-Essência-Liderança/dp/8575421026 In English: http://www.amazon.com/Servant-Simple-Story-Essence-Leadership/dp/0761513698/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1303436110&sr=1-1
Can competitive corporate world live together with spiritual, good hearted people???
For several years I have questioned myself how could one go up the corporate ladder and keep his/her values and still live a spiritual life keeping a good hearted attitude… When I started my yoga teacher course last year, here in Mexico, many people questioned me about my work, my position and my ambitions, it was almost like one had to choose between good and evil, good being yoga, spiritual life and evil being having ambition and working on a corporate world… Another time, I went to a retreat of yoga and raw food, in a small city close to Budapest, the lady who was the hostess was wonderful, lead us through an wonderful yoga class and taught us great dishes full of flavor and only raw food – this was all during the first day. …Then out of the blue, a conversation about “how bad corporations were and how bad pharmaceutical industries could be” came to our table – I was silent for a while, until I had to react, and me being me, I had started to talk about values and how I loved to work in the pharma company with which I was for the last 12 years, which at the time I was General Manager… Well, not well done, the environment became difficult and I finally left during the night, as I did not feel comfortable. These were some examples of episodes that took place in my life and they were not the only ones and for sure there will be many others to come. The difference is that I found my place in the corporate world and I found my style and attitude – I found peace with my way through the corporate world and I know now that I can live my values and spirituality working where I work and climbing whatever stairs I want there – and probably my attitude can bring “light” and comfort to many people who have the same doubts, conflicts! Many colleagues know that this has not been easy, and know my conflicts that appear time to time, but sooner than later I always come back to my heart, to my believes, to my spirituality – and everything always ends up better than started! Whenever, wherever, you work, whatever position you are at or are reaching for, you can always be good, have your heart where you want, and if you are consistent, strong on your believes, you will always end up being recognized and will be lead to a place where you will be helped and you will help others to go through the same wonderful path!!! …Yeessss, you can live your spiritual life and work in a corporation, indeed this is what the corporations are looking for!!!
Brand yourself – how to do it indeed!
As I have mentioned, I attended a Workshop some weeks ago, in which William Arruda taught us, around 200 women in New Jersey, how important to brand ourselves was! http://www.williamarruda.com/ Indeed I have to tell that all of it was too much for me, some Latin not so much “cyberfriendly”, but I scored nicely on the cathegory of branding yourself – meaning, I have a facebook account (very alive), I have a tweeter account (not at all alive), I have a way of living that can make me very characteristic… All was too much, since it told you to build your own website, blogs and do things, basically on the internet, which would be the most important for your own professional brand… …and now, here I am – yesterday I became “owner” of myself, I have bought my domain the larabezerra .com; .net; .com.br; and .org – much easier than I thought! To buy your domains go here: https://www.marcaria.com/ To do your own blog I have asked for my husband help (he had also helped me with the domain – Thanks Ré!), go here and help yourself!! https://www.wordpress.com/ Well, these were the 2 first steps for me to enter the “cyber world” and own myself on the web – hope this will help someone! Take care all of you, and happy Easter! Lara
Hello world!
Finally I decided to build myself a blog! This was some days after a great workshop I have attended and it was teaching us to brand ourselves – check link on the moderator of the workshop. I have, then, asked myself – brand myself, or indeed have something to help me remind of things that are worth? 🙂 I am going to bring here everything that I find important for my private and professional life! I am going to post here tips, thoughts, ideas and this will be my new diary! Hope this journey will be nice for you also! Anyway, for sure for me it will be!
