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We have crossed the line of the mid-year, and as I mentioned before, I'm going to take a short review of my year, the pros and cons of my changing process, things I must improve and how to pursue my objectives (or at least try not to surrender). Many of us have planned or fixed new purposes for this year; after hard pandemic months and many backs and forths, we finally have decided to put our lives in the correct direction. But, this process will not be easy; if you, like me, have scheduled your goals, we have probably found in the mid of unknowledge and adrift of the objectives. I remember making a long list in January of this year, entirely on objectives and goals, but now I realize many of them perhaps I'm not going to reach. Because time is limited, and we have a range of options and distractions that make us miss our compass, I have done many things on this list that I am proud of. Last year, I remember I suffered insomnia and pain back. One of the best changes was decidin...

Often we struggle with our thoughts and past; usually, we are overwhelmed with thinking about our faults and choices, and this sentiment is common in most of us. Sometimes is better to let go and move ahead. When we look inside our past, we see many things that could have been avoided; some for lack of experience or our entire responsibility. Failure is the result of walking throughout life; every single action in our life can be a destiny to lose. I'd like to change many things in my past, starting with my career or the younger age when I started college. But, most of these things made me the person I am now; these failures added to my experience and wisdom to learn about them. Many people and situations sometimes don't apport great value in your life, and we are constantly staying in our lives, we neglect the fact that people already finish your time in our lives. I learned many good things about being the person I want to be despite my regrets. And I have learned the act of ...

Then long and hard days, Sunday finally arrives; It's always pleasant to stay in the house and chill out throughout the day, sometimes it is the best option we have, or simply we want to rest at least this day. Usually, on Sundays, I use to take long walks or simply jogging and see the landscapes when I go out of my house. Somedays, I spend my time with family, and just I relax.  Whatever you do on Sundays, It's always the best chance to think about our weeks and how well we organize them. In retrospect, ask yourself, what did I do this week? Is there something I have to improve? How can I manage the next weeks?. By the way, It's almost June; 6 months have passed since I started to structure and define my goal for this year; it's time to see how much I have progressed. I expect to have reached most of my goals or at least to be in the correct way to reach them. Put your things in order, and try to analyze and define your purposes this year; 6 months remaining until 2022...

The Champions League is one of the most exciting and more competitive football leagues; this gathers many of the most valuable teams and best soccer players in the entire world. And the final match collects the sight of multiple fans of this sport. Real Madrid vs Liverpool would dispute in 90 minutes the last match of the competition. They both have an enormous history and previous matches in common and are the most powerful in Europa when we talk about football nowadays. They had to sort out many difficult matches to reach their final match; from the group stage until the semi-finals, they faced great teams from the early stages of the competition. Real Madrid had to play many challenging games with great teams like Manchester City, PSG, and Chelsea. On the other hand, Liverpool had to sort out teams like Benfica, Villareal, and AC Milan. But now, these teams were playing again, like in 2018 when Real Madrid won that previous final. Today was another scenario. Both teams went out on t...

One of the most popular routines we found on the internet is the well-known"5 am routine", which many people ensure to be one of the most influential and life-changing habits. In some cases, they guarantee this routine boosts all your daily way by the simple fact that it makes you get up early in the morning. I was getting up early in the morning, and I barely noticed changes; I indeed have more hours in the morning, which allows me to do many other things like jogging, reading, and cleaning my home. But, the counterpart is that I finish my day exhausted, maybe because I don't habituate to this new schedule. The truth is if we are searching to improve our time, there are many ways to enhance and maximize our routines and manage them effectively. It doesn't matter if you wake up at 5 am or earlier; this routine can turn dull and useless if you aren't organized. Don't push yourself to adapt complicated patterns in your daily life; instead, stay focused on schedu...

    It's almost mid-year, and one of my purposes for this new year was to start to read books to cultivate and develop this new hobby. However, I barely have read a couple of pages of old books. I was indeed reading many articles, magazines and blogs to improve my English reading skill. The lecture is one of the most powerful tools to learn and explore the world from another perspective; the ideas and content a good book can offer are worthiness. Most CEOs and famous entrepreneurs of important companies read at least one book per month; for instance, Bill Gates, co-founder and ex-chairman of Microsoft, reveals to read almost 2 books per week. Reading offers many thematics since finance, technology advances, self-improvement, or simply fiction. Since I was reading articles and blogs, my vocabulary has raised to other levels that no were possible with the help of this.  So, I want to spend my time reading interesting books, obviously in English, to continue my process and i...

We were enlightened to accumulate a great amount of knowledge of distinct subjects; since the early stages of our lives, our teachers, parents and others teach us to memorize content, numbers, formulas, and theory in general; after passing an exam, forget it. Year after year, we had to repeat the same process; even in college, we were educated to learn useless things and then never apply. Most subjects I attended in my career were never put into practice, and neither did some that appeared important. Nonetheless, nobody seemed to be concerned about this fact. As much in high school and college, we didn't receive economic classes or financial workshops about managing money and how to invest or calculate our taxes. As a result, many of us are now with obsolete knowledge and completely misinformed about finances and the economy. Regardless, I know some self-educated people in managing money, investing, cryptocurrencies and forex exchanges (I will write of this last in some future blog...

  Often we fund ourselves in uncomfortable situations throughout our lives, which makes us consider whether it is worth it. Life is not about pleasant moments; it is sometimes full of challenging and unfortunate cases, pushing us to be our best version of ourselves. Frequently, we don't see it as an opportunity but as an obstacle; we put in our head that these cases are unfair situations, and instead, we surrender. We don't realize that sometimes staying in the same place can result in hazards. The problems put us in the correct direction and make us shift. Many of us have to create our own life and career, giving apart our dreams and other activities, spending money on our education or paying a loan to reach our pursuits someday. But this kind of event can us left of our comfort zone and give us a better perspective of our lives. Think again, If only we were living in a perfect world, this place would be a bored and repetitive world. These defiant moments often improve and boo...

There's no doubt that the technology tools and advances play an essential role in our lives nowadays, with these advances often get easy our labours. It depends, of course, on the use that we give it; some of these advances can save even human lives and prevent many other problems and solve them even in a couple of minutes. But, in this chapter of this blog, I will write about how the tech helps me improve my English and many other things. I often thought that learning English was overwhelmed and bored; I used to understand it based on repeating problems, grammar tasks, and listening to the audio on an old CD player. That was the only way someone could learn this language, but it was far from reality. While growing up and remembering my freshman college years, I couldn't remain consistent and dedicated to this language learning process, resulting in embarrassment and boredom. I had no idea how to learn it on my own; the only way I thought I could achieve that was to join a priv...

Since the new and flammant president assumed his new charge, the current government has had ups and downs in its first mandatory year in mid of a pandemic, economic, and prison crisis. Ecuador has rooted problems for decades, like inequity, violence, and corruption, to the point that everyone sees as standard facts. We have habituated seeing the news and found new scandals in politics or related affairs. We choose bad politics, there is no doubt of this, but we have to be more critical of ourselves. We have the politicians that we deserve. Our culture is based on the "survival of the strongest," We often think only about our benefit rather than collective wellness. The new government has launched economic and health sizes in an effort to shrink the financial and health gap that faces our country, all these well-intentioned sizes gave fruit in a short time, but the recession that faced then pandemic and a warned war is a new defiant that the president has to assume and manage....

Father time is implacable; he will always win despite our efforts and how well prepared we are. But usually, we knew some people who appear to be immune to the time laws. I know friends and even relatives who aged very, very well. These people usually tend to be calm and have a balance in their daily routine. They have a good response in stressed situations, and it is peculiar to see them losing control. They always look at the positive side of life. It is uncommon to see them complaining about things that could be different or unfavored situations. Even when you approach to talk with these people, when you end talking with them, you feel the sensation of calm, and in some way, you start to see the difference and the impact have thoughts in our daily lives. One more thing, these time travellers, don't waste much time on social media; they are occupied with living their own life rather than comparing or showing their lives with others. On the other hand, we know some people that age...

Since I started to put my efforts and time to get a band 6 score in my future IELTS exam, I spent a lot of time and dedication to improving and developing techniques that allow me to get better results. I started with the idea that only a few people(mostly young and talented) are capable of achieving a good level of the language overall. I started to review how much I had progressed in my English since I finished college, and realize that I had a little and almost no progress, so as the months went by, I realize that If I want to have better chances in the future I had to learn English once and for all. The way was not easy to walk, there were a lot of troubles and impediments, added the lack of practice and sometimes, motivation and planning made me doubt if I'd want to continue with this learning. But, I figured out a lot of channels on Youtube and a lot of content on the internet that made me change of opinion. I started to listen to several podcast shows, and many of them were ...

Without a doubt, there are many differences when we refer to generations, ideological and emotional are the most notorious differences when used to compare older generations with the actual. Is not surprising that times are changing, for everyone, we've had to adapt to new challenges that daily life gives us.  When we speak about older times and how the people were living in that ages, is common to think that the things were better than the actual times we living. We used to hear that the hard times molded the people in the past and they were stronger than their descendants. The actual generation is more related to the new technology advances, usually, we heard the word "digital natives" used to refer to the actual generation. Gen z and all future generations were born surrounded by technology. Since the early stages of their life, they have grown with a gadget or some tech implement in their hands. Their culture is based on social media, they spend most of their life on ...

In this blog, I am going to talk about one of my favorites movies of all time, "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" filmed in 2013 relates to the life of a Life magazine worker: Walter Mitty, who has the task of sending the last photos of the cover of that magazine. Inside his mind, Walter is living all kinds of situations but in real life is a calm and shy person, something that psychologists called daydream maladaptation. The protagonist is secretly in love with one of his office partners but he hasn't the courage to approach her and talk to her, Walter is constantly dreaming about how was his life if he would the things that he dreams. But, when the magazine announced the closing of its facilities and the decision to make its last printed edition, Walter is involved in many situations and takes action in his life and starts to make things instead of thinking about them.  At that moment, the main character of the movie realizes that life is often simplest than he thought, ...

  Finally, and after months of waiting and redacting, the application day has come to its end, Today (May 17th) I sent my application form via mail to the Embassy of Japan in Ecuador. This has been a long way but full of learnings, I compare this new application with the last year, and I have learned a lot since the last time I applied. I decided to send this anticipated, (despite the last day of sending this would be May 27th), because I redacted all the documents within several weeks of anticipation and only waiting for the last self-review. I don't know whether I passed the first scanning or not, but this time I am better prepared than the last time, I improved a lot in my redaction, the correct form of my present my ideas, and how to highlight to the rest of the participants (or at least I think I tried to). The only thing I omitted was to take the English certification, unhopefully almost all of this month was reserved and the vacant for other exams were in June. So, I hope th...

  As if it were a mandatory I've been always doing the same routine in the mornings, something that allows me to start my day and put my stuff in order. Doing my room is often one of the first things I do when I start my days.  Cleaning and ordering my space comes to be a kind of cult, collect my clothes from the floor, put the shoes in their space and remove the dirt then a long night sleeping. I never left others doing this, for me is a relaxing activity and permits me to care about my personal space. Opening the windows and the curtains to leave the sun passes, making the ambient receives the shine of the light and some of the fresh air, my view from my window is not like a movie, I don't have gorgeous landscapes to see when I approach, but there is something that makes it special, maybe is because I felt like an own view and sometimes the sun is aligned with my window or even the rainy days when I see the raindrops fall throughout my window. Anyway, Is always relaxing appr...

Yesterday, I decided to go shopping to buy a pair of shoes, the last ones I had were worn, so I had the idea to go at the noon and wear some models to decide whether buy them or not. I had the idea of finding something that liked me, but when I went to the store, none of their models convinced me. The lack of variety of models and brands, add the costly of the products, the bad service that I received from part of the staff of the store, spending a couple of hours only waiting for a model to wear, the lack of empathy and customer service from the employees was evident and did me decline my buying, so I decided to write my cousin and ask her for a buying new shoes from amazon, she is in Chicago. Illinois, and soon will back to Ecuador, in two weeks approx.  I was surprised by the variety of products and prices that exist on the platform, there are so many different options and models to choose from only clicking it, and compared with the prices here, these are more acquirable. There...

When I was thinking about writing this blog about the music of Mac Miller and how it impact my life, I didn't know how to start, I have to admit I was a little bit insecure about how can I write this. My first approach to this artist was in the middle of 2019, once I finished college and was working in the jewelry store of my uncle. One of the first music I listened to of him was "Hand me downs" because my cousin who works in this place too reproduced his music, and often played it as background music in the store. At the start, I didn't pay attention to the music but the melody sounded like a mix of various genres, I could appreciate some samples of jazz, lofi, and R&B. After weeks passed, resulted more easily realized when a track by Mac Miller was sound in the speakers, so when I finished working in the jewelry I lost the track of Mac Miller and his music, back then I didn't realize Mac Miller had passed away. Once, the pandemic forced all of us to enclose ...

Is not a surprise when we look for a new gadget or smartphone that is released always comes first mostly in the Anglo-speaking countries and all developed countries around the world. All technologies are released first in this language (English) and after several months or even years that technology arrives in the other non-English countries. English nowadays has converted into a mandatory language if you want to be updated on the technological advances and many other things that come first in this language. For the rest of the people who can't or don't want to learn English, they will are resigned to being the forgotten part of the globe that receives only a part of information and knowledge. Absolutely all advances, for instance: medical, tech, environmental, social, and long etcetera are published and indexed in this universal language, even If you want to visit another country is necessary to know English if you don't know the language of that country that you want to v...

  I am the oldest of three siblings, and life's circumstances and destiny puts me on the road of the 2 fantastic women,  my two sisters always have been very disciplined and constant about their goals, often putting aside other things to get their achieves. Since we were younger, the three of us, have always been different from each other, I, for instance, have a preference for the maths and sports, and I have always been a methodic person, very pragmatic in some cases, in my elderly younger years I had to assume the role of man of the house, often putting other responsibilities aside and focus on the house. I am now an electronics and telecommunication engineer aspiring to get a master's studies abroad. My next sister, the second, was always the quietest and most peaceful of the three, she always manage their time effectively, and balance their life very well, I think she was the most mature of the siblings, she had a preference for the books and languages and she was the mos...

As you must know, the world faces a lot of crises that have affront every decade, eradicating poverty, climate change, fighting against corruption, and inequity, among others. These are objectives that worldwide leaders must incorporate into their agenda if they want to leave a better world. But, what happens with South America? The entire continent is dive into a deep crisis since the last century, and as time goes on, this crisis only worse even more. Most young people, opt for leaving their home countries and starting from scratch, leaving behind their families, homes, and their entire lives. The lack of jobs in the continent added to the economic crisis that faces the world doing the perfect scenario to massive immigration. Many of my partners and people who I know are immigrating to another country or are in a search of doing it. In my case, I'm looking for a scholarship that allows me to get out of my country, and search for better opportunities and quality of life. All this ...

This weekend we celebrate mother's day in Ecuador, it's a date to celebrate and commemorate the lives and memories of our mothers, grandmas, and all the maternal figures in our family circle. I like many others grew up inside a matriarchy family, the presence of women in my family was notorious, and the feminine figure was key in the way I was educated. The hierarchy of my family always was commanded by my grandma, my mom, and my aunts. They were the engine of my entire family, they were a fundamental piece of my life, many times they gave me a second hand when I needed it, or some advice when I was struggling with the typical problems in a life of a teenager. Many times, they fed me and my sisters, even when they have no reason to do that, they always did us feel secure and loved, that is something that I will always feel grateful for the rest of my life. Now, when mother's day arrives, the only thing that passes on my mind is to say thanks, and remember all the maternal f...

I love the meaning of the title, the first time I saw it, was when I was searching for a book for an exam on the IELTS page, the title suggests that you can pursue your dreams if you are willing to improve each day. The searching for better days or a better future is something that everyone wants to reach in our lives, even if we are passing bad days. Our sub-consent is constantly looking for new adventures and challenges, everybody is working on creating their own better future. We worked to ensure a better quality of life in the future, and ensure our retirement when we reached our golden ages, thinking about our future like a utopia, often, I ask myself where will I be in the next couple of years, If any will change or if even will be here. Constantly, I look to the past to see where I was and how different life was, asking myself if doing all of these was worth the try. It is important to start being honest with ourselves, about what we are doing and whether it gives us the results...

Eight years have passed since I started to play guitar, with the hope that I belong to a band someday, I have practiced a lot these years, and I have been perfectioned my abilities related to the music, buying new gears, acquiring new instruments among other things. But I never have belonged to a band, either as an occasional member, the only time that I started to play in a band was in 2018 when I played in a college band but only for one month, my schedule didn't permit me to play for a long time in the noon. Most of my friends that can play an instrument have been in a band or has one nowadays, they say me their experience playing with other musicians and the things that they have learning since have started to play with a band. Maybe, I don't belong to a band because I don't meet other people that require a guitarist, or maybe I haven't been searching, or I don't find a band that plays the same music that I play, whatever is, I believe that I have the capacity o...

  Find months have been passive. Since I left completely the meat, the results were evident, since January of this year I left completely my diet based on meat, and one of the changes that I felt when I started to incorporate a more plant-based on my diet was feeling throughout my day, such discovery was extremely beneficial for me because the most days I was feeling exhausted and with enormous lack of energy.  The second big difference, was improving my skin condition, definitely, my skin was beneficial of that because when I started to be more conscious about my diet, and realise the food that I ingest every day in my life on my diet, would have a real impact on the health of my skin condition, now my skin looks more healthy, with more brightness, moisturized, and overall more beauty. Improve my capacity for attention, would be the third big difference that I felt since I left the meat completely, I'm not sure completely up there but I think that since I changed my focus, my...

Yesterday when my mom and I were driving back after a day together with my sister and her husband, we stopped because a mom's friend was at a cafeteria, she asked for my mom and how was she, and then turned back their sight to me and asked how old am I, with doubt I answer 27, and I realized that I am old. She showed surprise and asked again, she thoughted I was younger than I am.  I told my mom after her friend went out, that I was really ashamed when her friend asked my age, and that made me ask myself about my goals and achievements, and if I was doing something to reach them. And realize that past my twenties my life turns a little predictable and in some way bored. After I finished my tertiary studies  I didn't know what would be the route that my life would take. My life would be a long and non-sense search for employment, with no more aspirations of that, searching to be rooted in some city but never taking risks and going out of my comfort zone. Maybe this was my probl...

  As I said in a previous blog, I will be running for the first time after a long stop due to injuries and the pandemic event among other circumstances, so finally the main day came to arrive and it was a sunny and agreeable day, there were a lot of people expecting for the starting race and many of them as me were running after a long time. I felt calm and relaxing, my friend and I were doing exercises for stretching and previous warm-up before the race begins. The ambient was relaxed and felt like another day but on this occasion we were to run in the streets of our city, crossing from the south to the north.  When the race started at 8 am, many people went out quickly and with a fast pace, I knew that one of the keys to avoiding dropping my endurance throughout the race was to keep my pace until the last kilometer. So, I kept calm and I continued with my tempo, until the 3rd kilometer, many of the people who had to go out quickly now were exhausted  I take advantage of...