Goodbye 2019, to God 2020 por: Érica Roque

Brief Retrospective – The end of the teenage decade and the beginning of the adult decade

2019 was an intense year, remind ourselves of the roller coaster of emotions that was our teenage years and inviting us to educate our own emotions to the new decade of 2020!!

It brought us many learnings, some of them painful, but with the wisdom of transformation for true evolution.

A year in which we saw many more masks falling, and that was to teach us that it is not worth it to preach one thing and practice another.

BE what you say you are

For 2020, we invite you to “BE”, in fact, your best version of yourself!!

“BE” in behavior what you think and what you say.

2020 is knocking at our doors and coming with 365 new opportunities to practice what we are in fact.

The beginning of a new era

A new decade, and with it, a new era:

The era of transparency, of truth, of separating the chaff from the wheat and getting together with the good so we can be better and stronger!!

Not everything that shines is gold

Salt and sugar look very similar, but…

We need to be careful because if we put salt and sugar side by side without tasting it, we may confuse ourselves. And that’s how it is with many people, situations, or information (fake news).

How many times do we confuse ourselves because we create an expectation based on an image, or by someone having many followers, or speaking well, etc? But the lord of reasons and the almighty “time” comes and unmasks in a surprising way.

Actually, we always receive and perceive the signs, but very often we ignore it, isn’t it?

Emotional Education

The better we know ourselves, the better we become so we don’t fall into catches or traps so easily.

This year I realized how much an emotional education is golden: when we act only by the emotion of the moment, we generally make mistakes that could have been avoided if we had used the brain.

“Listen to your heart but take your brain with you”!!

The so-called emotional intelligence nowadays is due to our impulses, for not thinking before.

For not having control of emotions and for rushing, we often do or say things that we regret later. That is why it is so important to learn to educate ourselves emotionally and intellectually as well.

Educate yourself

You are your best master and teacher !!!

Educating yourself is a daily training that requires patience, discipline, good humor, humility, intelligence, strategy, etc.

Patience: knowing that we are in a constant learning process and that making mistakes is part of it. Don’t settle for it, but don’t punish yourself either. Balance is the goal. If you make a mistake, use your GPS mind, recalculate the route and move on.
Discipline: it’s like physical exercise or learning a new language, the more you practice, the better it gets.
Good humor: laughing is always the best medicine and laughing at yourself is liberating!! Try it, it’s free and the benefits are numerous.

Together we are better and stronger

Humility: in learning from the situation and taking responsibility for everything that happens in our life.
Intelligence: since the emotion does not think, we will use the brain to manage the heat of the emotion and make the decisions without entering the drama or intensity of the moment. Be silent and observe without taking hasty actions. Act and not react!!
Strategy: it serves as a plan or maneuver to reach our goal, and in this case, our best teacher is usually our last mistake. Based on it, we observe the situation, that usually repeats itself, until we learn the lesson. Do it as if we were watching a movie, do not enter in the scene, just observe and after reflecting make the decision.

Meditate – The Power of Silence

Meditating is like taking a shower, if we don’t take a shower for a day or two the smell starts to bother us and with meditation it’s the same.

If we do not learn to be quiet and silent during some period of the day (that is for 5 minutes), without realizing it we enter the autopilot and the external noise takes over making the mess.

Real life as it is and not as we edit on social media

Real life is not that of the social media stories we edit, but what nobody is seeing, other than our own conscience.

May 2020 come for us to practice our best version, as well as physical exercise or a new language. The more you practice, the better it gets.

Simple steps

May we have wisdom when we make a mistake:

First: responsibility.
Second: humility to learn from the situation.
Third: that the light that lives in each one of us knows how to welcome our shadow with the agility of GPS (mind) to simply recalculate the route and learn with the lightness of a child and as adults to transcend for transformation and evolution.

May we be our best version!!

This is my last video of 2019, I hope you like it !!