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;)

The most important lesson in life

People are not toys

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...

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

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.

Cleaning up...

Right now the fate of AIESEC Cluj is beeing decided. The commission is counting the votes which will decide the next LCP and the determine the key factor in the transformation of the LC in the coming year. As minutes pass and votes are counted I am the only left in the empty plenary to finish up cleaning. Some one told me this days that cleaning out is like making order in your soul.Strangely I feel it...
I feel at peace with what happened because only what was meant to be will be.
Strangely I feel liberated and empowered to enjoy this moment as it is a celebration.
Every change is an opportunity for growth so after tomorrow a new chapter starts in the book of an already success story: FOAIE VERDE CLUJ.
Can't wait to open a bottle of champagne and celebrate:)