Resumiendo

Here I am, at home...

Home in Rotterdam. Since some time ago, I have decided to call home wherever I am at the moment.

During the last days I have discovered a lot about myself. I want this to be a selfish post from myself to myself. I want to write here those key things that I have realized now that I have had the chance to slow down. Write them here to make sure that while I write them down I grab them and place them in my routines, in my habits.
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I have learned that people around you matter. The ones that are around you influence the world you live in. No matter you lie to yourself many times saying that it doesn't work that way. So be careful of the people you hang around with - they can be the best inspiration or the worst nightmare.
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You don't change people.
You change yourself and that changes people, just because.
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Your world is what you want it to be. If you don't like it, move! If you like it, enjoy!
You don't need to spend your life in complaining. It is better to smile.
So, look for the things that make you smile.
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Loneliness is a good company.
Not all the time, not forever, but definitely is a good friend that I need to visit more often.
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Living life fast is the new trend. I kinda like it.
Not stopping to let things sink is not healthy anyway.
Balance is needed everywhere, not necessarily happens continuously, but it needs to be found.
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Love is not about a relationship.
Love is about love.
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Don't be scared about the kind of person you want to be. Let it emerge, it is within you.
It is within me! I am already that that is fighting to 'be' now.
Gandalf is awesome!
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You are a beautiful person.

That summarizes 2006 inside me.

Remember.
Forget.
Let it go.
Let it come.

Dey

OUTSIDE? I am not outside!

This is how it happened in my mind, after one week...

I did stand up, I went to the middle of the circle, took the 'talking piece' and said...


This was OUR circle...

Rain fell in a monastry. The young monks gathered their things and ran quickly inside the temple. Looking back the last of them noticed an older monk still sitting out by the gate. "Master, why do you stay outside in the rain?", heshouted. The master replied,
"Outside?... I am not outside".

It seems years ago, but it was just one week ago that I attended the Art of Hosting seminar (www.artofhosting.org)


The magic place where the experience was hosted!

It seems years ago because things have sink in me as if they have been there since always, since the beginning of time, since the beginning of my life. And most probably it is that way. I knew it all, but I forgot.

It was hard for me to keep up in the team spirit that was being built within the participants. I felt outside, in the rain.

It was necessary one conversation, just one conversation - open and honest - to realize that I was not outside!

Thanks to all of you that allowed me to be here and there, with no criticism, giving me the space I needed so badly, giving me the time to center myself again and get grounded. Today I feel my balance has returned, and that gives me power, power and even bigger responsibilities.


The warrior and the midwife in all of us, screaming out loud to us - 'let us co-exist!'

Thanks for listening...


should I add anything here?

For sharing your stories...


So easy to forget...

For caring and smiling - without pushing, without trying hard, just letting it be.


I am not outside, neither alone!

Let the circle be open, always...

And I went to the center, I put the 'talking piece' back and I sat.



Me, just shinning... it si good to be, just that, to be...

Dey

PATHS on my calendar

I use a dayly calendar to keep myself on track of all the things that together comprise my life... It is a calendar on diversity. Every day there is a message, something simple and cool. i.e. yesterday's message was: "SONG. Is there any song on your mind? Find the lyrics on the internet and lear to sign it properly!" Somedays is about a traditional festival in different cultures, food, etc, etc...

Today the message was:

"PATHS. In the woods some paths look very used and you think if follow them you could come out somewhere, because apparently many people already went there.

But sometimes you discover they do not lead anywhere and you have to go all the way back!

Well, if everyone goes back the same way, the way look used, but they do not lead you anywhere!

I wonder if it is only with wood paths..."

I believe sometimes you have to take a risky path, a path that doesn't exist, a path that you have to create for you and for others after you.

Lately I have been finding myself more and more as a path creator.

It is a lonely way of living, but a regarding one.

Take the risk!

Choose to create your own path!

Yours,

Dey

The creation of Spaces

Monday and Tuesday this week were a blast for me!

I got the internal feeling that I didn't want to come to the office anymore... and I wasn't sure why. I like my job, I like what I do, I love the idea behind every single second that I spend at the office, with my team, with my dreams, with my day to day contribution to make a better world around me, for me and for others.

My day to day contribution to make this world a better space to co-exist with others...

And I review the whole process as a film. I sat down and visualized the complete process from when the alarm rings every morning and I wake up till I sit down at my desk. And I got shocked when I became aware that I didn't like the space we call office, where I spend most of my time lately.

I decided to make a difference!

Today, I am happily working in our AI office. It looks beautiful, clean, full of live! There are flowers and plants all over the place, we have a corner to play criket, ping pong table, a clean kitchen, 'It's up to you!' posters around...

Today the office breath a new atmosphere, for me and my team.

This space invites us to come and enjoy what we do, because we love what we do, but also because the space is a open invitation to joy and excitment.

Check work working space, your room, your home. See how can you create magic around you, that helps a lot.

And send us postcards from your countries to have in our office, we have designed a special place for them here, we want your presence in our space.

After lastest team days, I discover that appart from cooking, my magic is also about creating spaces, and I have been helping my team to re-decorate their rooms, their home here in Rotterdam.

When was the last time that you got to a place and you felt that call to relax and actively enjoy life?

Remember that moment and be aware of the power of magical spaces. Be aware of it and transform the spaces around you, and through that
support yourself to keep up that inner smile that makes you sooooooo beautiful.

Yours,

Dey

Something I read and touched me...

I was just looking for nothing in internet, trying to disconnect… Goggling different key words, taking a look at different people blogs, people that I don’t know and that I will maybe never get to know… It is weird when I write about it, it is like finding life through other people’s lives; but it is not… I assume.

While going here and there, from Pakistan to Honduras in the reading of those blogs, I got to read the following, I don’t know if it is original from the owner of the blog or not, I don’t really care, I just found it beautiful, non-unique, common sense and very touching.

I hope it is a present for you as it was for me when I found it.

We need to be told we are loved! I love you because you are reading my lines now. Smile and accept that I am loving you!

Dey

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The text I found:

You can`t make someone love you, all you can do is be someone who can be loved, the rest is up to the person to realize your worth. We spend too much time looking for the right person to love or finding fault with those we already love, when instead we should be perfecting the love we give.

Free your heart from hatret;
Free your mind from worries;
Live simply.

Give more.

Expect less.

My hope for you is that you will finally discover the happiness within you.

When you feel down because you didn`t get what you want, just sit tight and be happy, because I thought of something better to give you.
My friendship.

It is like wine, it gets better as it grows older.

When something happens to you, good or bad, consider what it means.
There`s a purpose to life`s events, to teach you how to laugh more or not to cry too loud.

Extracts from a poem by Heinz Shalloff.
Thanks for being an inspiration with your written words.

What's the world made of?

Beauty!!!

This is the first answer that comes to my mind after IC 2006.

And leadership then is about discovering the beauty within you in order to be able to discover the beauty within those that you are leading. Helping them realize how beautiful they are. Isn't that simple?

It has been not easy for me to get to this very simple conclusion. I don't know if it is going to last, but at least it is the most powerful revelation of the last years.

I write these lines and my body gets so full of gratitude that I feel it is going to explode. I feel extremelly happy and fulfilled.

I give thanks to life for containing me when I jump in it.

The happy boy of today.

Dey

In my way to Tuscany...

I wrote this in my way to Italy for planning week...

Today is the 3rd day of the month of July. A group of corageous young people are heading to Italy to sit around one table in which decisions for the future of the world are going to be made. Today AI 0607 Team is enjoying the way to the AIESEC INternational planning week.

It is 9:44 am. I wasn't able to sleep at all last night. A huge storm of emotions took possesion of my brain and my body. And I decided to polish all the little details in the agenda.

Passing through each one of the dialogues that are planned, defining the free times, the breaks, envisioning the joy and the excitment, the time passed by so fast that in a wink the sun was on my window. I smiled.

I am writting down this words in the train. While making an enourmous effort to rest, my eyes flew through the window and I continued having a massive amount of images coming to my mind, flash backs, little premonitions, images from the present, form the here and the now. It is such an immense gift. such a pleasure.

I free myself, set myself free of the expectations of other and fly with my eyes, with the images that now are mine. I travel and I enjoy.

Things are turning to be simplier every day.

I wish I will be able to bring my team to a next level of existance, all together, including me.

I wish and I commit.

Today I am hungry, I am anxious, I am impatient, and I am calmed. Weird paradox that tells me everything will be as it is supposed to be, and I trust the path.

I see my team, I see ilussions in their eyes, hope transpires from their smiles and they feed me back with pure and incredible energy. I need to share this with them, I will do so today night.

The path is set, the destination is clear. It is our role to make it simple and easy.

Let's strive for that. Here I go.

For a bright year.

Dey