#30.- Proposals for the new year

Usually before start the New Year, people sets long lists of proposals for the New Year: stop smoke, going to the gym and stop paying for nothing, take english classes, and an incredible long etc.

I could do the same, but I don't smoke, I don't go to the gym (but I go to excursions often) and I take English classes every friday. For this reason this year I want to set a different proposal.

We're immerse in a big economical crisis (at least is what media tries to convince). I believe that this crisis is moral, etical, cultural and energetic. Hearing all the day bad news makes difficult don't fall in the pesimism. The daily News can turn one self crazy... and the worst is that can convince everybody that this is normal.

For this reason this year I will try to focus on the positive aspects of everything. I will redouble my efforts to do that. This not easy, and requieres a bit of training and the hability to see the things from another point of view, usually "faced" to the vast majority.

But people needs new leaders with a positive discourse, who motive, who generates the inquietude of waking up every morning to build something amazing, a more fair world, who leverages their creativity, potentential, etc...

Let me give an example: here at Spain, the goverment have started to cut the  expenses, because we have been spending more than we could have  spent. Ok, then what we need to do is adjust or equilibrate the spending (adjust vs cut). The good new is that every month the difference between the incomes and the expenses should be less. If we have done the things well, that should be the result. And althought the challenge is big... getting these results would be hopeful. We need another way of communication!

This can be applied to our work. Yes, some companies are in "economical crisis", but I believe that companies are in creative and lack of entusiasm crisis.

Companies are not creative by themselves. Companies are nothing. Companies are a noun given to a group of people that work together. And here is the key point: each of us!

If each of us treats of give the best of one self, if each answer is preceded by an smile, if instead of focusing on defects we focus on oportunities, if we look to build a better and fair world, if we avoid the especulation, .... we could change this situation. And this is something that can start by oneself.

Some key words are important for this year:

* Challenges vs Problems.
* Community vs individual.
* Do more with less: an oportunity to redefine paradigms.
* Choose each word that you use in a communication to use positive words.
* Smile, be educated and respectful more than ever.
* Share, communicate and act in a network.
* Feel proud of leave a better world for your descendants.
* Learn from your errors, and explain it to avoid others commit the same errors.
* Listen your body and give yourself time to listen it: ofte it give signals about which option choose everytime you are in a crossroad.
* Reinvent, renew and rebirth yourself. Everyone of us is able to adapt to these continuous and changing circumstances. The normal is change. We have been changing along the history. The abnormal is don't change.


That's my proposal.

Which is you New Years Proposal? Share it!