Are there more opportunities outside?

First of all, this post works much more for people in a country like Peru, where we have been accostumed to think that there are more opportunities overseas, such as United States or Europe. So, when I say PERU, I am referring to my country, but you can look at it as if I was saying the name of your country. Being said that, I can start with my post.


When some people say: "Opportunities are overseas" because here in PERU (replace PERU by "your country") the only thing we have is misery, poverty, burglars and corrupts, IT IS TRUE, and it has been proven to death! BUT... I ask: If all of us know this already... Why is there so many people who still try to discover something that is already public knowledge?! It's like trying to discover the wheel in this century.

I even think that more people than we imagine, is dedicating their life to share opinions about PERU (replace PERU by "your country"), and HOW BAD it is in all of its aspects, including the economics. And everyday, new people "enlighten" us saying something we all already know...

But they stay there... in an opinion... and as in my first post... "WHAT DO WE DO?"

It is at this moment that those "GREAT MINDS WITH MANY OPINIONS" shut up. They say "it is the government's responsibility" or "it is the private sector's responsibility" or "I don't know, but i'm leaving the country".

I ask... If at this exact moment your computer gets a terrible virus, what would you say?
a) It will fix itself, meanwhile I'll use it as much as I can.
b) I will try to fix it and call a technician, so it works like new.

If the answer is a, then just go and live in another country, leave us, we don't need you. We already have a lot of conformists. The government should PAY for the visas to help you go very far, because if you don't want to give a damn about your country, **** off.

And of course, the personality comes with the person, not with the country. So, if you are a conformist here, you will be one everywhere. Moving to another country, you are just "changing the label, but being the same product"

But, if the answer is b, welcome to the club of entrepreneurship.

Of course, there are always false entrepreneurs, who say they will try to do something, but then get tired or don't get the results they wanted IN THE FIRST DAY, and get frightened and return to their "comfort zone". Well you can leave as well if you want, we don't need you.

Man... Each paragraph, we have less and less population. But, What is PERU (replace PERU by "your country")? Its president or its inhabitants?

If we want to live well, we have to CREATE WEALTH, CREATE OPPORTUNITIES, CREATE SOCIETY, CREATE POLITICS, CREATE FAMILY, CREATE ORGANIZATIONS, CREATE TOURISM, etc...

So this is an invitation to STOP WASTING TIME criticizing what has been done, and giving opinions of the same thing over and over again, when we could be using this time to CREATE THE PERU (replace PERU by "your country") WE ALL WANT...

A Penetrating Phrase

This time it wasn't a trip, but a very close person to me, let's call her Jane Doe, who decided to have a short travel to gather with her family.

Jane has always had a good life, thanks to the effort she has put into things with her husband, to maintain a united family through respect, ethics and fighting against conformism.

In Caracas - Venezuela, she found something that would change her way of looking at life totally, and I can say that the result is amazing, not only she has changed, but also her whole family, and little by little with example and perseverance in spite of the detractors, she achieves in helping more people find a new possibility in their lives. And, what is change, but another opportunity inside of us.

The fact that a person can see change as opportunity and another as a threat is personal and depends on the point of view, maturity and the consecuences that this change may bring to his/her life and envirnoment.

Nevertheless, returning to Jane. In her family gathering trip, she tried to express her new way of life, to her brothers, sisters and close family members, the benefits and virtues of change.

As it is well known about families or relationships between people, family or not, the first thing that happens is that you tell something, and the other person (as if it was a necessity) comments in a destructive way, for example: "That doesn't work, it's all fantasy", or "I know someone that does it better". I don't know if they do this because it makes them feel superior or they are trying to call our attention, of maybe because they are envious, but what may be the cause is not the reason of this post.

Between the destructive criticism, there was a very strong one that could kill anyone that has not enough mental discipline to resist it. This was: "The instrument that you gave me a year ago, which is supposed to make me rich, doesn't work and I am still poor".

Please, before you continue reading, take your time, and try to think of how would you feel if you, with the best intentions give thie instrument as a present to the other person so that he/she wears it as an amulet or adorn, and after a few months, they spit it in your face the way this person did.

Well, What happened? How did Jane Doe react to this devastating comment? Well, surprisingly with this penetrating phrase: "You have just made a great investment, built a house the way you like it, you have a prosperous family who can study in a private university, you are not unemployed, you have all your basic services covered, you can eat, and still... you consider yourself poor?"

Really, what Jane told me surprised me a lot. With this phrase, she basicly highlighted the real troubles of people who consider themselves POOR in the world. And it is this: They don't value what they have, even if they have all the physical richness they actually have, if in your mind you are POOR, then you will live POOR forever, because there is no worst poor man than that who has the resources to step ahead but prefers to criticize and complain about life.

Thanks Jane Doe, for telling me this experience, it was very useful, because it has opened my mind. I love you mom.