Positive stress and the art of gratitude

Probably everyone heard about negative and positive stress. The positive one is the one that help our growth. But where is that red thin line that will make the difference between the good one and the bad one? In the end, it is just our perception and previous experience that will help us to reach to this conclusion. And we got another curious side effect, in the face of adversity we found ourselves able to do much more than we where thinking we could. In conclusion, we should be gratefull for every problem that we meet in our way. Because every problem has a gift hidden in the solving process. And often we got the problems because we need their gifts. Be glad of having them, because this is how we grow faster.

Last day at work - new beginnings

Today was my last day of work, in a place that make me grow, despite the dificulties. In the end, no place is perfect in the real world. And as a parting gift i give a red rose to every woman and a fancy pen to every man that worked with me in the past months. Why, would you ask? Because i can. I couldn't help myself to notice their reactions, and just this bit, the way in which you accept an unexpected gift, make me know more about them than i could learn in the whole amount of time of working together. I had so much fun. Fat or skinny, young or old, didn't matter to me, every one of them get their gift, and their reactions varied from: "why?" or "must cost you a fortune to do this" to hug without being able to say a word ( in fact she said after a while that nobody ever did something like that there ). I told them that it was a privilege to work with them and after that i just left. Nobody knew that it was my last day at work there until i told them. But at least something very amusing happen. Being the time to end the shift, everyone was going home smiling, full of hope, holding a rose as a personal trophy and we got even random people on the street noticing that and smiling back.
Who was thinking that one person can generate such a shift in a very solid pattern of daily thoughts through an apparently insemnificative act ?

P.S. This is not only a selfless act, but also a variation of the Stop technique developed by Gurdjieff at the beginning of the 20th century.

Another definition of being succesfull

As immortal Bob Dylan said:
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

Everyone agree?

New challenge - adventure mode

Starting from today I will try to be open to at least one adventure every day. Let's see what happen. I will post the most significant ones here on the blog.
Good luck to me!