Thursday, February 13, 2014

Less Work, More Experiences

A majority of my work revolves around mentoring want to be entrepreneurs who are tired of living in the “employee” lifestyle and have reached a point in their lives when they are willing to take a risk on becoming either self-employed or start some sort of bigger business or invention. Although I never encourage depending your livelihood on an invention’s success I know scores of people who want to pursue that. This entry is for you, inventor and entrepreneur to be.


Less work, more play. This ideal is pretty simple once you put a few thoughts together. If you spend your days at your job going through the grind, then the commute home to then deal with family burdens or home ownership tasks such as leaky faucet or grocery shopping or if you have a side business you will never get a chance to stop and clear your mind to take in more insight on your activities but you will also not “have” time for fun experiences such as with family or friends or by yourself. Ideas are sparks of imagination trying to tie objects of your life in a simpler format  often solving simple problems creatively but creativity for ideas cannot be scheduled so you can’t expect to have an ingenious idea by simply forcing yourself to think of ideas while you drive, unless the idea you come up with happens to deal with a problem you encounter when driving. Robert Kiyosaki, a world renown author and financial teacher, invented a runner’s shoe pocket from his years of running around his neighborhoods. Steve Jobs notoriously decided to create what came to be the IPod from hating Walkmans so much. You can’t schedule your brains activities but you can create time to expose your brain to different experiences and problems to increase your chances of sparking great useful- million dollar ideas.

-Humberto Valle
www.Unthink.Me
@officialunthink

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Busy is a Drug...



#unthink

Stop being busy

Is time we stop the glorification of "busy".

Thinking back, I was having dinner with a few of my friends, is Saturday evening and we are sitting in this "fancy" local eatery discussing random topics such as family health, world news, our hobbies and a recently lost GCU basketball game when the conversation begins to shift into our professional lifes. There is an accountant, a web designer, a free lance writer and myself, a business owner and consultant. - What have you been up to? Any new contracts? I asked- How was your year? Then everyone almost at once begins to respond stating how their year was busy, and it was great! The web designer then complaints about how he had so much work that he had no chance to spend a lot of time with his family or even go on a vacation, while the accountant wished he had a better year so he could even have that option - he worked so hard all year and couldn't even afford a weekend retreat.  The talk transitioned a bit into all of us kind of just bragging in one way or another how busy we were, and how busier we were hoping to get this coming year when I realized; that we glorify being busy. Does it give a meaning to our lives? rank us higher in a social status? How about less being busy and more being productive? I think that if we were to really time ourselves and give ourselves accountability we would get so much more done and then busy would turn into a word we hated rather than bragged about.

For 2 years now I have been carrying a timer in cell phone and for each task I need to complete, specially creative tasks, I turn it on and even if has no time limit it accelerates the process and helps me manage my time. Is little things like these that help me become more productive and be less busy. I rather brag about how much free time I have. - Last month I didn't do anything!


Humberto Valle #unthink

Less Being Surrounded

Clutter develops a sickness that overtime affects your body through stress.
More in solitude. Part of your stress can be directly linked to always being surrounded by people, work and what is worse sometimes even just surrounded by things. I hope that if you are reading my blog and I am working with you is because is because you have reached a point in your life where you have finally decided to get that one goal reached and are willing to work for it; but stress can hinder the biggest of efforts. I like to say that we are all geniuses, just not all the time, even Einstein who is known for his magnificent genius wasn't a genius all the time and about everything but is widely known that the biggest reason why he was able to do amazing work was because he took walks, often alone. Monks live in solitude in order to find meaning of their human powers, spirituality and life but you don't need to live like a Monk you simply need to start giving more value to the idea of being alone. Spending time alone allows to refocus and brainstorm about how the tasks for the day or the week are going to be accomplished while providing us with what is more important reflection, comparing our efforts with those of others in your life. How can I empower myself while helping others? What is my ultimate goal in life? why haven't I reached my monthly goal? Do I have a current mission? If I work so hard, why am I still living pay check to paycheck? Why am I so scared to break up my unhealthy relationship?

Less television, radio, news, parties, bars, driving, pets, etc.

More yoga, meditation, painting, reading fictional books, coloring, napping, exercising and even eating.

Some benefits from solitude:


  • lose weight
  • better health
  • stress free
  • creativity
  • problem solving
  • reflection, we get to know ourselves
  • understand, your way of life and possible changes
  • unwind and finding peace
  • reflect on accomplishments and lessons
  • time to negotiate with ourselves for things we want or want to get rid of 
  • learn to appreciate what we have, expose ourselves to minimalism.
-Humberto Valle #unthink
www.unthink.me

Less Television, More Free Time

Television can be fun sometimes but it can also stop you from achieving your goals. I know scores of people who spend countless hours of their lives in front of the television, some spend the entire weekends watching shows, specially football games. Television companies are dedicated to tricking you into watching more television as possible because they make money off your time- the more you watch the more money the make off their ads. On a personal level, the more television you consume the less you are producing yourself which leads you never being able to accomplish anything. I have a friend who spend entire weekends on the couch watching football games, he fails to see that even though he dreams of having a business, earning more money or even learning further skills to make more money he is not able to do any of this because of his time spent in front of the television.
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Spending less time watching TV yields more time for family activities such as teaching your kids the importance of producing crafts, money management, outdoor games, interaction with each other but if you are eager to start a business or continue your education further you can spend more time reading books, lessons and how-to articles such as on entrepreneurship, business tax breaks, computer programming, leadership and even mediation.
It saddens me to see people complain about having such little time available because they work too much, but fail to realize that their TV addiction is preventing them from greatness. They must also put other time aside like family time to instead be productive and so their families pay the toll for poor lack of time management and lack of dedication. Get rid of your television and you too can find yourself being extremely productive and being more satisfied with your everyday.

STOP GIVING UP YOUR LIFE TO THIS:




-Humberto Valle #unthink
www.unthink.me

Random thought...

Our life is full of meaning but since the moment we are born the definition of us being human beings is diluted with consumerism and by the time we are all 20 we have been exposed through so much greed, hatred, and confusion forcing us to think that we have a purpose in life and that purpose often involves working until the day we die, "saving" money, have a  family and work harder so we can provide more things for them. Unthink is unlearning all of this and re learning the meaning of our own lives. We have the power to refocus our lives and give it more meaning while working less but enjoying life more and in cases even earning more than before. Free your mind with the art of less and become a greater you.


-Humberto Valle #unthink
www.unthink.me