New Horizons

I am afraid that despite the great week I had, overall, today is just one of those days when nothing is right. I have an unexplainable bad mood.

I mean yesterday was the end of maybe the most successfully project I have ever contributed too. After words I had a great time, surrounded by good friends, play guitar, having a bottle of good wine and so on. And now here I am at home, Saturday night, not feeling like doing anything.

It's unexplainable. U know, this word - unexplainable - wasn't exactly part of my vocabulary until a few months. I always had some sort of explanation for the things that are going on in my life but now it's more and more obvious that I DON'T have that anymore.

Despite of my vision for this year, that as I said helps a lot, I found myself overwhelmed by the intensity of life these days. Last year I have decided not to be such an extreme workoholic anymore and to pay more attention to other, more human aspects of life and so far I did it unexpectedly well.

There's only "one little" problem with all this. All this process of defining a vision, sticking to it and so on, automatically produced major changes; in a way that's absolutely normal. But some of the changes are getting really hard to analyze or extract learning points from. I feel like there's something happening with me, something that is rather overwhelming and that I cannot really figure out.

The last six months I found out some answers and solutions that I've been looking for probably my whole life. I finally see the results of the last two or three years of struggle for professional and personal growth. But solving those ones automatically brought a new set of big questions to be answered.

Wise people would probably say that I should let the time solve everything. Another thing I'm not exactly good at since I got used in having this control freak attitude over my life and always feeling like I have to do something. But maybe this is actually one of the cases I should let myself go with the flow and see what time would bring.

Changing i guess,
Marius.

P.S. My mood got better writting though :)

Benefits of a vision

Here I am again, writting mood is on, let's see what we have on the blogger menu today:) Lot of stuff happening in my life right now but time is short so I'm just gonna talk about one of them.

This period of the year is recongnized as among the most hectic in AIESEC and yet I have been able to find some time for myself. You wouldn't know what a great accomplishment that is for a born-to-be-unorganized guy like me :D

For the first time in my life I can constantly achieve the goals I am setting. I have at some 10 - 15 things on my daily agenda and it's a great satisfaction to see that i can check them all or at least 80 % of them at the end of the day.

Being able to walk your talk and knowing that most of your schedule sustains your long term developmentis a great feeling.

It's amazing what setting a clear vision and keeping it in your mind all the time can do to you. Setting a vision for myself for 2006 turned out to be a great decision.

Not very modest I know,

Marius.

The Re-Imagine Manifesto!!

I read yestarday an incredible manfiesto from Tom Peters. Here are some quotes.

They say "life is a marathon, husband your strength"
I say "life is a sprint, begin planning your World-beating Me Inc. start-up TODAY"

They say I'm extreme.
I say I'm realist!

They say I demand too much.
I say they accept mediocrity and continuos improvement to readily!

They say "Peace, brother"
I say "Bruise my feelings, flatten my ego, SAVE MY JOB!!"

They say "we seek Harvard MBAs"
I say I seek Certificate free "PhDs" from the School of Hard Knocks

They say "Integrity is important"
I say "tell the unvarnished truth, ALL the time... or take a Long Hike"

They say "plan it"
I say "try it and DO IT!"

They say "radical change takes a decade"
I say "RADICAL CHANGE TAKES A MINUTE!!"

They say "Built to last"
I say "Built to soar, we're all dead in the long run... leave your Insane Fantasy"

They say "the man is not nice"

I say "times are not forgiving"

They say "we can't all be a brand"

I say "WHY NOT!?!"

They say "we can't all be revolutionaries"

I say "WHY NOT!?!"

Why not indeed,

Marius.