Destructive or constructive environment?

The environment that surrounds us will greatly influence our decisions and how we react to adversity. It can be made up of elements and people that can support you both in your development and in your destruction. The basis for this all revolves around the objectives, habits and interpretations of each person, where anyone who […]

World at Change

Real-time connectivity and the speed of information transmission are main agents of global behavioral change, we add to this the interests of ideological, political and financial groups, where the user becomes the main receiver and guinea pig of the wave of information that often are distinct from each other, making it difficult to discern the […]

Constancy

Much is said about having discipline through a routine and how strong we must be overcoming signs of tiredness, weakness and laziness. But we forget that we are not machines but organisms sensitive to the environment in which we live and even exposed to feelings that we often have no control over. Therefore, the application […]

Future Professional

I define the professional of the future as someone who wants to carry out activities and skills in both traditional work environment and someone who works in recent environments that we have not yet been able to categorize. Nowadays, after recent drastic changes in ways of working and communication, we realize that there are new […]

Leaders are born or made?

Leadership is a frequently topic discussed by different groups and frequently mentioned in trainings and teaching materials, usually followed by the question: “are leaders born or made?”, but clearly due to the large number of adverse responses we note that there is no correct statement. Based on my experience, I believe that certain people are […]

Feed the Machine

Social Media and other digital applications have abandoned their real purposes since their creation and today have become major channels of exhibitionism, advertising, direction of trends and new behaviors. We currently have around 7 billion mobile devices connected to the internet and we can consider that a large part of this number is used at […]

Digital Employee

Humans are being shaped through technology usage, creating new habits, ways of thinking and interactions, but are business organizations being able to follow the change as the same speed of human transformation? The impacts of mismatching both ends are inevitable since structures in society, including business, are setup based obsolete frameworks that are not able […]

Problems and Solutions

We often face challenges and problems both professionally and personally, the big difference is found in the way we approach to reach a solution. The way of positioning yourself and analyzing the facts can be the great differential in the construction of visions and even in the perception of the scenario around you, in addition […]

Train and Drink Alcohol

Through the global stress increase in recent years, many have acquired new habits, one of them is alcohol consumption, which acts as a reducer of brain activity, affecting motor capacity and impairing memory, and at the same time increases activity in the production of dopamine causing a feeling that something good is about to happen, […]

Cultural Capital

The environment we live and the people around us can drastically influence our lives, this is because we look for references and listen to those who are closest, usually avoiding something distant or very different from our reality or as we can say habitat. Often there is not much understanding when taking different attitudes from […]

Stress Culture

The environment along with its culture has an extreme influence on the way we feel, based on its values ​​we level things we care and eventually things we stress about. Being part of a single environment that dictates the rules makes us value what is often not really considered in another environment. Much is said […]

Consume or Exist?

The information consumption transforms our thoughts and shapes our way of living, thus shaping the interpretation of reality around us and eventually future actions. The ease of access to information can be good on the one hand and bad on the other, with a very high volume we have difficulty on discerning what is true […]

Infinite Consumption

Being happy and satisfied with who we are and what we have is a constant challenge full of ups and downs. Influenced by the culture of excessive consumption and utopian and distant definitions of success, we often forget to live in the present and do not see that we may have everything necessary to be […]

Digital Prosthesis

Almost every moment of our day is filled by mobile devices, waiting situations, traffic, meals or even before bed are filled by digital content. Our restless minds needing new stimulation, the act of knowing what is happening or the search for something satisfying and temporary makes us no longer to be alone with our own […]

Happy Character

Just like an RPG game where the player assumes a character identity in a fantasy or virtual world, many uses the same practice to have their own desired version on social media. The power of filters and the condition of sharing only moments of happiness and achievements, encourage the simulation of a life that does […]

Hate Layers

Why should we expose ourselves so much in social media? Why should people see what I’m eating or if I went to the Gym? Do people really care? Imagine not so long ago during the 90’s how it would be if a person took a photo of his lunch and started showing a photo print […]

Isolation and Sadness – Western Hikikomori

I recently watched an NHK documentary about the Hikikomori, who are basically people who voluntarily isolate themselves for more than six months, without going to school, college or work, and avoid communication with others unless if they live with family members. We can consider Hikikomori as a way of giving up on life, triggered by […]

How to Deal with Failure?

Often during projects or daily personal situations we try our best to reach objectives and have the best results, but as usual, life is complex full of variables full of different decisions, opinions, environments, and unexpected changes. When we gave it all that we got, we must ensure to let things go and watch the […]

Lonely Digital Influencers

I’m tired of seeing other people’s achievements and success over the internet while i don’t have any, but I forget that my achievements are not there for likes or prizes from others but only to myself and my true values. We are all different people with different mentalities, traits, objectives, different ways of being happy […]

Organizational Suffering

Based on Freud’s publication Civilization and Its Discontents, we can compare and deepen the relationship between human beings and their work, where it becomes the main source of their happiness, even with cultural limitations on their performance, this means that the human being must adapt in order to belong to this organization that limits his […]

Digital Drugs

Often when we see people smoking or using any sort of drugs, we tend to create repressive thoughts considering the harm that is caused by such substances, obviously depending on the environment we live, some of them are well accepted based on their purposes, but we forget that silently we are more and more dependent […]

Marketing vs. IT

Technologies advancing at a speed we can’t keep up, before Marketing teams demanded and directed Information Technology (IT) teams to search for new solutions to support their strategies, today we have a different scenario, where numerous tools are present to not only to support but to automate marketing decisions. Big Data, CRM, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, […]

Human Chat Bots

Through mobile apps we communicate while isolate, information goes so fast that is hard to follow and remember. People are not using the internet anymore, but instead the opposite is happening while we feed with all the information as possible a living organism that we label as Artificial Intelligence. Meanwhile human behaviors are clearly changing […]

Screens

Surrounded by people Not noticed Eyes lit up Screens screens screens Disappear Where I never existed

Professional

At least once people have asked themselves what would be the right path or receipt for their professional success. In any career we often see great people who are able to accomplish their deliverables and provide good services but even though are stuck on the same situation over the years. The key to success in […]

Mirror

I look in the mirror, I see myself, I found myself, I see the existing one, I feel strong, I establish a connection, only me and me, nothing exists around me, I feel power, happiness, satisfaction, I see marks, I see the time and realize my vulnerability everything stops and I’m the same as others, […]

Darkness

How do we know if the happiness and success around us is real if so many of those people who live this way are more often committing suicide? Success, money, beauty, luxury, thousands of likes, views and comments, these are the signs of happiness in our current society, but then one who live this way […]

Bipolar

We live in a bipolar world, where having an opinion or a position for everything and everybody is needed, being part of an unique group shapes us and gives us new ideologies, ways of thinking and behavior patterns, revoking and ignoring the multidisciplinarity capacity of the human being.  With this new label assigned to us, […]

Meanless Digital Existence

From distant times, humans had to go hunting to guarantee their existence, exposing themselves into the risks of nature but also evolving their bodies for what we are today. The hunting has change, we don’t need to go outside to face the wilderness with the believe to find a meal to survive, all we need […]

Less Social Media, More Happiness!

Taking in consideration the stress level increase due to the pandemic situation across the world, I’ve decided to review some of my habits in order to improve my mental health. As you may have seen already there are some quotes that mentions we become what we feed our minds, so I took this into consideration […]

How to be a better person in Social Media? The paradox behind of it

Social media is one of the main drivers of today’s society, it leads us to apply trends, discover needs, create behaviors and even feel fear or happiness. Do we really know how much our internet presence impacts society? How many of us take accountability for our posts? How many lives are we impacting through our […]

Creative Leadership on KPIs Driven Businesses

“A creative leader induces others to focus the process and process skills on meeting their challenges. They become consultants or facilitators in the process of solving the challenge rather than giving orders or doing the work themselves. Having transferred ownership, they then help others to achieve their own goals. These creative leadership skills hardly fit […]

How do I get rich?

In a world full of comparison through social media, we get used to think being rich is the solution for all problems in life, but things are not like this, more often we see famous artists or rich people in the news with depression, drug addiction or even suicide. For example, It doesn’t matter how […]

What to do when you feel overwhelmed?

We are often overwhelmed by demands, projects, unexpected problems or any related issues that will take our time away while increasing our daily amount stress. This is a common situation where we want to give our best to do everything or help everybody only by ourselves, disconsidering any help or delegating it for someone else, […]

How to achieve greatness?

Behavior change, reaching objectives, overcoming barriers or anything related to these might be considered daily challenges for most of us, but this can become easier if we accept the reality and embrace the challenges that will come. The most common situation that I’ve noticed is that most people set huge goals or decisions for their […]

When I need peace, I look for nature

Uncertainty and stress are not new to human beings, our ancient ancestors had their share of challenges to staying alive in a world filled with wild animals and unpredictable food supplies, consequently shaping our bodies to set the right triggers in case of any danger. Today, we don’t have to worry about those kind of […]

Where my anxiety comes from?

Nowadays is way too common to feel anxious during the day, and most of the times we don’t know why and where this anxiety comes from, we simply don’t notice our triggers but what we do notice is our anxiety. It’s common not to recognize that our thoughts are a significant trigger, often we have […]

Turning Mondays Into a Better Day

It’s pretty common to feel bad about coming back to our responsibilities after a weekend or even a long period of a lot of fun. When getting closer to to it, specially by the end of the day, the mind begins to be fulfilled with bad thoughts wishing there was no tomorrow. The thoughts and […]

Sleeping less than 6 hours affects your testosterone levels

Living in this world of fast pace changes where sleeping less is an opportunity to be more productive, we can put ourselves in trouble without really knowing the cause of it. We can find a lot of people that are proud of sleeping less than 5 hours or even doing its fragmentation, claiming that their […]

Key Points to Understand and Build Executive Presence

When we talk about executive presence we must consider that it’s not a born trait and instead it is a skill to be developed, cultivated and built. That’s the reason why we always heard that: “Great Leaders aren’t born, they’re made!” Executive Presence is made of how much confidence and inspiration you give to the […]

Is working too much a sign of depression?

We don’t expect that depressed people are successful at work, surrounded by wealth, power and most of time with trophies and prizes. But this is becoming a common issue in our society, and most of its signs are being shown from another type of behaviors. As usual we expect that people who have depression stays […]

Why and How to Wake Up Early

People always ask me why I enjoy waking up early, so here is a complete guide describing why and how to do it! Why waking up early? You’ll make time to dedicate only and true to yourself, because there won’t be any kind of distractions since most of people are sleeping Doing something truly for […]

Brazilian Carnival, good or bad?

Brazil and specially Rio de Janeiro are putting a lot of effort in overcome the economic crisis, but during Carnival Holidays we all have different types of opinions about it, for example if we should continue the parade or parties or use its investiment in another areas. Below you can see the revenue for Rio […]

Choose what is RIGHT!

It’s a inherent for humans to seek comfort in things that appears to be easier or doesn’t have to many risks, however is choosing difficult paths will bring bigger accomplishments. Each small decision we make in our daily basis will contribute to build a new future, in that way fight against your own mind to […]

Prioritize and Execute

Every monday we start a new journey in out weekly triathlon with full email box, several pendencies and different ways of taking away our happiness Nowadays we are surrounded by simultaneous problems, and this might be a risk and will result in failure if we try to solve all of them in just one time […]