Hello world,
And by that I mean everybody reading this blog, everybody not reading this blog and all who never heard of it. Sometimes is good to just say hello to those people in your life you wish to make smile or just remember as they were next to you when you needed them, maye you should also say hello to all the people you meet and don't know, who knows were your next friend is waiting for you.
What is so special about today and the positive beat of the first paragraph. Well nothing much, it is just an average Wendsday before Thursday, a regulare office day like a lot of others. Unless you choose to make it special. The secret is to set a goal for the day( even a small thing) strive for it and once it's done you'll see it's a lot better. It can turn an ordinary day into something exciting if you make reaching that goal an adventure.
My goal for today was packing up my backs for home before 8 o'clock. It may seem silly building a day around a moment when the bags are all packed up and ready next to the door, however if you play it like an adventure it will seem like one.
How often do we play and make our days exciting with small things?
So world what is going to make tomorrow exciting for you?
Looking forward for a new exciting day.
Goodnight world. Meet you someday....
miercuri, 16 decembrie 2009
vineri, 20 noiembrie 2009
Proud of my team
During my AIESEC life I had the pleasure to work with 3 different teams. Every time it was a different and exciting experience. What is really exciting about changing teams is that every time you can start fresh, you can rediscover and challenge yourself within the team. However the more teams you change the least excited you are or trully apprecitate the gift of beeing part of group of individuals working together for a common purpose.
Today was hard to leave the office. It was 12:20, I was already late for catching the train towards Cluj, and everybody else was still in the office working for NPS and making sure that things happen. As I turned towards the door I couldn't help smile thinking about each one of them and the experiences that we had together.
I can't believe that we have worked together and shared an apartment for 9 months. I can not imagine a day without Iulian waking everybody us up with his ususal "Goood moooooorning" or going to the gym with the guys. Somehow my team has become a big part of my everyday reality that we build together as the MC of ROMANIA.
I know we are so different and then again this is what makes us unique. I know that each one in the team will always give 110% for making things happen and having all this in mind I can't stop smiling while thinking about it.
Proud to be part of this team and really happy I have the chance to wrok with them...
Today was hard to leave the office. It was 12:20, I was already late for catching the train towards Cluj, and everybody else was still in the office working for NPS and making sure that things happen. As I turned towards the door I couldn't help smile thinking about each one of them and the experiences that we had together.
I can't believe that we have worked together and shared an apartment for 9 months. I can not imagine a day without Iulian waking everybody us up with his ususal "Goood moooooorning" or going to the gym with the guys. Somehow my team has become a big part of my everyday reality that we build together as the MC of ROMANIA.
I know we are so different and then again this is what makes us unique. I know that each one in the team will always give 110% for making things happen and having all this in mind I can't stop smiling while thinking about it.
Proud to be part of this team and really happy I have the chance to wrok with them...
marți, 10 noiembrie 2009
The simple things
Apparently this blog was not meant to be updated constantly rather than in moments were the intensity of feelings is rushing trough myself. Last week was different, from all the other weeks in the MC. It all started on Friday when I went home and spent a week-end with my parents. I really don't remember when was the last time we talked about the small things in our lives and just hang out togehter. We managed to also play Catan which is a huge acomplishement considering that we haven't played anything together since I think 2 or 3 years ago. Monday and Tuesday I went to Cluj were I met my brother, my best friend from AIESEC and my girlfriend. A flower, a book, a coffee, random moments and all of them smilling. They are some of the most important people in my life and it felt unexpectatly really good to see them smile.
Beeing back into AIESEC Cluj is like a whirlwind and beeing chair for the 3SOME RTS is like a tornado in itself. When I entered AIESEC Adisor, the chair for my RTS, was half the reason I stayed in the organization and I hope I may have done the same for some of the new members. Meeting again Tzutzu mic, Vlad But, Cips, Ioana Sirca, Emil, Adi Rusu, Clau and Alec, people who in different moments in my AIESEC life have ment so much for me, showed me how valuable are those precious links to those people who are close to your heart and how easy it is to forget about them as we run trough life.
My greatest satisfaction was to see the smiles on everybody's faces when the conference ended, going trough the sugarcubes and seeing a happy faci team.
Beeing with Anda for this entire week was like I never left for Bucharest. It all felt so natural and so right. Jumping between faci meetings, plenaries or having random talks together over a pizza or a coffee felt like nothing bad could happen and out of all the things out there called life this is how it should be for us.
Right now I am on the train running from Cluj to Bucharest, where another world is waiting for me. Somehow I feel that for the last months I have been trying to keep this two worlds separate and felt like living two parallel lives.
Tomorrow I'll try to clash them and see what happens.
Beeing back into AIESEC Cluj is like a whirlwind and beeing chair for the 3SOME RTS is like a tornado in itself. When I entered AIESEC Adisor, the chair for my RTS, was half the reason I stayed in the organization and I hope I may have done the same for some of the new members. Meeting again Tzutzu mic, Vlad But, Cips, Ioana Sirca, Emil, Adi Rusu, Clau and Alec, people who in different moments in my AIESEC life have ment so much for me, showed me how valuable are those precious links to those people who are close to your heart and how easy it is to forget about them as we run trough life.
My greatest satisfaction was to see the smiles on everybody's faces when the conference ended, going trough the sugarcubes and seeing a happy faci team.
Beeing with Anda for this entire week was like I never left for Bucharest. It all felt so natural and so right. Jumping between faci meetings, plenaries or having random talks together over a pizza or a coffee felt like nothing bad could happen and out of all the things out there called life this is how it should be for us.
Right now I am on the train running from Cluj to Bucharest, where another world is waiting for me. Somehow I feel that for the last months I have been trying to keep this two worlds separate and felt like living two parallel lives.
Tomorrow I'll try to clash them and see what happens.
vineri, 17 iulie 2009
building up tables
This is what we did yesterday night together with Ela, Cristi and Beldi in our new MC office. Since we are moving and budget allocating for this is 0 we try to make the most out of the resources we have. We used the pieces of wood from a book shelf drawer to build up 3 new tables. I believe we spent close to 4 hours working on this home-made project. I can tell you it is not easy to build up furniture but it can be realy great if you do it with the right people.
Having the satisfaction of a job well done we left the soon to be office at around 12 and I kept thinking about to things:
1. There is no substitute for work regardless and no thing such as a free ride
2. If I ever want a cheap and awsome team-building we just have to sit together and "build our own tables"
Hmm...this could be an ideea for furniture artisans for a second line of business;)
Having the satisfaction of a job well done we left the soon to be office at around 12 and I kept thinking about to things:
1. There is no substitute for work regardless and no thing such as a free ride
2. If I ever want a cheap and awsome team-building we just have to sit together and "build our own tables"
Hmm...this could be an ideea for furniture artisans for a second line of business;)
luni, 13 iulie 2009
duminică, 12 iulie 2009
same new blog
One of the commitements I took this week-end was to keep this blog alive and well fed:) for me. To be a constant reminder that sometimes looking into the mirror is all it takes to get things going and to share some of my thoughts with those who are interested in listening to stories about the adventure I want to call "My life"...
a million dollars week-end
Or at least this is how I feel it was after coming back from the first week-end I took for myself in almost 2 years. Living for AIESEC is an amaizing experience and very rewarding but it's not going to last for ever, while living with myself may take a while. In the last 2 days in Sinaia I got the chance to better understand myself and who I am, I got to see how the dots of my childhood experience are reflected in who I am today. I know the last posts where more about changes and theory about change rather than action. Somehow that's how I felt, I have passed trough a period in my lifetime where I was really great at telling people what and how to do but I forgot to experiment it for mysef.
I want to stop living in fear of what might happen if or what do other people think about that because I really don't want to reach 30 and wonder why I haven't tried certain things or to realize that what people thought about it is not that big of a deal and they don't care that much.
With this it starts and I will let time be the judge if I am able to make it happen how I really want and feel...
I want to stop living in fear of what might happen if or what do other people think about that because I really don't want to reach 30 and wonder why I haven't tried certain things or to realize that what people thought about it is not that big of a deal and they don't care that much.
With this it starts and I will let time be the judge if I am able to make it happen how I really want and feel...
marți, 27 ianuarie 2009
On rules and limitations...
The first ones are just made to regulate certain activities and tell us what a specific society thinks are the right behaviours. While the second one are the invention of people who at one point have stopped trying and just told the world it is impossible to go beyond a certain point.In life you have a choice to follow the rules of your society and stick to what other tell you it is the limit and you could live a happy life.
I found out lately, like most AIESECers, that I am most of the time a misfit of the world around,challenging the system and the status quo. Looking deeper I believe it is a matter of choice. If we can choose the background of our gmail page and even our nationality why can't we just choose the society where the rules fit best who we are?
In few words.The essence of 24 years of enjoying life and 10 lines above:
1. If you don't like the rules break them, you only have on life so why don't live it by your own
2. Limitations are something that people tell you and have nothing to do with what you can achieve
3. Wake in the morning smiling that today you are going to make your own rules and set your own limits of achievement
I found out lately, like most AIESECers, that I am most of the time a misfit of the world around,challenging the system and the status quo. Looking deeper I believe it is a matter of choice. If we can choose the background of our gmail page and even our nationality why can't we just choose the society where the rules fit best who we are?
In few words.The essence of 24 years of enjoying life and 10 lines above:
1. If you don't like the rules break them, you only have on life so why don't live it by your own
2. Limitations are something that people tell you and have nothing to do with what you can achieve
3. Wake in the morning smiling that today you are going to make your own rules and set your own limits of achievement
luni, 26 ianuarie 2009
On changes...
They say that change is the only constant thing in our life and also somehow all the management literature has somehow consecrated that people cannot and should not change who they are. Accept who you are, focus on your strengths, you can not change.
700 years ago people thought it was impossible to cross the ocean. 100 years later someone did it.
80 or so years ago people said it is impossible to land on the moon, 40 years later the first people were landing on the moon.
60 years people though it was impossible to run a mile underneath 4 minutes, 10 years later Roger Bannister did it.
If we can prove that our paradigms, our physical abilities are nothing more than perceptions and limitations of our mind. Why can't we choose who we are as person? Why can't we change and re-imagine ourselves?
Why wait 10 to 50 years for someone to say what I know today. Change comes from the heart, from belief and strong alignment with our actions. My choice today is, what someone is going to make a fortune in 25 years or so writing about it, to be the person I choose to, rather than who I was meant to be.
700 years ago people thought it was impossible to cross the ocean. 100 years later someone did it.
80 or so years ago people said it is impossible to land on the moon, 40 years later the first people were landing on the moon.
60 years people though it was impossible to run a mile underneath 4 minutes, 10 years later Roger Bannister did it.
If we can prove that our paradigms, our physical abilities are nothing more than perceptions and limitations of our mind. Why can't we choose who we are as person? Why can't we change and re-imagine ourselves?
Why wait 10 to 50 years for someone to say what I know today. Change comes from the heart, from belief and strong alignment with our actions. My choice today is, what someone is going to make a fortune in 25 years or so writing about it, to be the person I choose to, rather than who I was meant to be.
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