Adapt yourself and get sick

In an environment of schemes

you can only be schematic

There are no problems with things, only problems with behaviors that cause the problems, wich define organizational climate.

If your values are not consistent with the company where you work, but you need it to live, you will most likely be to use their adaptive capacity. To a certain extent, you can adapt without discomfort.

But if that point is exceeded, the discomfort settles down and begins consume you daily. Evil thoughts, anxiety, fear, dislike, frustration and demoralization invade your daily behavior and attitude. The week-end or holiday become more than desirable.

What does this stadium?... Which exceeded the tolerance limit, the limit of adaptation. You are in loss, suffering, under stress, say in «survival mode».

If you work in a company where the dishonesty and the schemes are the pattern, you will tend to resist resorting to similar acts. The problem is that if their values are the opposite, prepare to suffer. Even though it fits, what happens is a gradual disintegration of your mind and your psychological framework.

Take note: the higher the adaptive effort, closer you'll feel sick, depressed, stressed, anxious.

What to do? Yes, as life does not end here, there's something to do. Time of change. How about changing company? As Jim Rohn taught, «never underestimate the power of influence. If you hang around with dishonest people, or people who spend a lot of money, or negative ones, sooner or later going to have those tendencies». The reverse is also true. If you live with people who are positive, proactive, honest, straightforward, and sincere manner, you'll tend to emphasize its behavior.

Treating your life and your health is to deal with its surroundings. Is feeding your brain with what make you happy and prosperous. Adapt to an environment that is hostile to your values and you'll be sick. How long will you can handle that? It is always a matter of time.

Adapte-se e fique doente...

Num ambiente de esquemas

só pode ser esquemático

Não há problemas com as coisas, há problemas com comportamentos que originam os problemas, e que definem o clima organizacional.

Se os seus valores não são condizentes com os da empresa em que trabalha, mas precisa dela para viver, o mais certo é estar a recorrer à sua capacidade de adaptação. Até um certo ponto, é possível adaptar-se sem desconforto.

Mas se esse ponto é ultrapassado, o mal-estar instala-se e começa a consumir-se, diariamente. Os maus pensamentos, a angústia, o receio, o desagrado, a frustração e a desmoralização invadem o comportamento e a atitude diária. O fim-de-semana ou o feriado passam a ser mais do que desejados.

O que significa este estádio?... Que ultrapassou o limite de tolerância, o ponto de adaptação. Está em perda, está em sofrimento, está em esforço, digamos que em «modo de sobrevivência».

Se trabalha numa empresa onde a desonestidade e os «esquemas» são o ambiente permanente, para resistir terá tendência a recorrer a comportamentos semelhantes. O problema é que, se os seus valores são contrários, prepare-se para sofrer. Mesmo pensando que se adapta, o que acontecerá é a gradual desestruturação da sua mente e do seu quadro psicológico.

Atente bem: quanto maior o esforço adaptativo, mais perto ficará de se sentir doente, depressivo/a, stressado/a, ansioso/a.

O que fazer? Sim, como a vida não acaba aqui, há algo a fazer. Será o momento da mudança. De pensar em trocar de empresa. Como ensinou Jim Rohn, «nunca subestime o poder da influência. Se acompanha com pessoas desonestas, ou pessoas gastadoras, ou pessoas mal-dizentes, ou pessoas negativas, mais tarde ou mais cedo vai ter essas tendências.» O contrário também é válido. Se conviver com pessoas positivas, proactivas, honestas, íntegras, francas e sinceras, tenderá a sublinhar dessa forma o seu comportamento.

Tratar da sua vida e da sua saúde é tratar da sua envolvente. É alimentar o seu cérebro com aquilo que o/a fará feliz e próspero/a. Adapte-se a um ambiente contrário aos seus valores e ficará doente. Quanto tempo vai aguentar? Porque será sempre uma questão de tempo.

The great singer Sérgio Godinho is (part II)

Here’s my promise. One of the most popular Sérgio Godinho songs, «Liberdade», which means «Freedom». This song illustrates the moment Portugal saw the regime change, in 1974.

So, the first sentence of the lyric is «We came with the burden of the past and seed». Our seed is 800 years of history, and our past is 48 years of despotic regime (before 1974). After that, we needed so much to evolve. The song talks about our basic needs for a start (Peace, Bread (food), Housing, Health and Education), and some problems those needs cause, especially when we reborn from the darkness. Here is the song, and the translated lyrics. Don’t miss too a little summary of Sérgio route.



Peace, bread, housing, health, education

We come with the burden of the past and seed
Wait so many years makes it more urgent
The thirst of a waiting only ends in the torrent
The thirst of a waiting only ends in the torrent

We live so many years talking for the silent
We can only wish all when we do not have anything
Just want a life full who had a stopped life

Aaaaiii There is only a serious freedom when there are
Peace, bread, housing, health, education
There is only a serious freedom when there are
Freedom to change and decide
When people belong to what people produce
When people belong to what people produce

Sérgio Godinho borned in 1945, in Oporto, Portugal. He left the country when he was only 20 years old, to «flee» from colonial war in Africa (Angola and Mozambique). He lived 9 years in Paris and made part of «Hair» musical. His first LP, named «Os Sobreviventes» («The Survivors»), was recorded in France, in 1971, with french musicians and some Portuguese people living in France at the time. He recorded too the LP «Pré-Histórias» (Pre Histories). These two discs were prohibited in Portugal by censorship. Only in 1974 we could enjoy the music on these discs.

The great singer Sérgio Godinho is (part I)

I have to explain why I’m posting in my facebook page so many youtube Sérgio Godinho songs. As a matter of fact, I consider Sérgio one of the best Portuguese singers since ever. Their songs and their lyrics are real master pieces.

After Portuguese revolution, in 1974, Sérgio returned from France and recorded several albuns with what we call «songs intervention». It was a rich era in wich a lot of people could make known their art forms. The called «Fascism» was replaced by a democratic regime. Well, but the time passed and today, after years of hope and prosperity, here we are in a new piece of history. Sad, painful, unfortunately. But unavoidable.

So, Sérgio Godinho, the 1974 interventional singer, remains current. Now, he sings excellent ballads, but the 36 years old songs and poems make history again today. As an example I’ll post two of them. First «Venho Aqui Falar», which means «I Come Here To Talk». Enjoy the song and understand the lyric, valid for any country.



 Lyric:
Today I come here to talk
Of something that goes to torment me
And as much as I think or more I skepticism
How people so socialist
Give up of doing socialism
Is like wanting to make giblet rice
With no chicken, nor rice, nor a pot

Today I come here to talk
Of something that goes to torment me
And as much as I think or more I skepticism
That this great reconstruction work
Looks more like an eviction
Is how to install a window
Shoot first the glasses by the alley

I can not be here tomorrow
But also for what I repeat here
Is that I’m not the only one to think
That what we have is to be together (united)
Together as the grapes in the bunch

As duas formas de controlar as pessoas

Tony Benn, ex-membro do parlamento inglês

Umas verdades duras, cruéis. O sistema mundial está armadilhado. Nada acontece por acaso. E esta crise global é programada. Desvios de expectativa isso há sempre. Mas era isto mesmo que era pretendido. Tony Benn deixa ao de leve alguns princípios básicos da liberdade: Reduzir dívidas ao mínimo, Não ter medo, Fugir dos ambientes e pessoas negativas, que desmoralizam. TV incluída. Atente-se nalgumas citações que seleccionei de uma entrevista de Tony Benn feita por Michael Moore:

«A escolha depende da liberdade de escolher. E, se estiver coberto de dívidas, não tem liberdade de escolha. Parece que o sistema se beneficia se o trabalhador comum estiver coberto de dívidas. Pessoas endividadas perdem a esperança. E pessoas sem esperança não votam. Senão haveria uma revolução. Por isso mantêm as pessoas oprimidas e pessimistas.»

«Há duas formas de controlar as pessoas: a primeira é assustando-as, a segunda é desmoralizá-las. Uma nação educada, saudável e confiante é mais difícil de governar. Acho que há um elemento no pensamento de algumas pessoas: “Não queremos que as pessoas sejam educadas, saudáveis e confiantes, porque ficariam fora de controlo.”

Um por cento da população mundial detém 80% da riqueza. É incrível que as pessoas tolerem isso. Mas elas são pobres, estão desmoralizadas e assustadas. Então, pensam que o mais seguro é seguir ordens e esperar o melhor.»

A great quote

«Quando deixas de ser quem és,

não voltas a ser quem eras»

«When you cease to be who you are,

you won't be who you was again»

Rui Nabeiro (Delta Cafés chairman)

Einstein's Formula for Success

Einstein said «If A equals success, then the formula is: A=X+Y+Z.
X is work.
Y is play.
Z is keep your mouth shut.»

Let's have look at the three variables:
1. Work: Albert Einstein had a tremendous work ethic and because of that gave more to society and modern science than any person in recent times.
2. Play: Einstein, however, did not work 24 hours a day and made time for fun and relaxation. His idea of fun may have been different than yours, but that doesn't mean it still wasn't play.
3. Keeping your mouth shut: I remember the cart story in which a father tells to son: Never forget that empty carts do always too much noise. Silent carts are those that go full and heavy. So we can connect this to peopel who talk too much. Certainly they are «empty». So, who talk the least says the most.

Ron White tells us an allusive story: «A friend of mine complains that the woman he is dating talks too much. I don't know how to break the news to him: The problem isn't that she talks too much; it's simply the fact that he is irritated that he isn't able to talk. Now, let me just say this is not a generic man and woman statement. I am speaking about a specific person I know. His desire is to constantly talk, and because he likes to talk so much, he will talk in circles. If you let him talk long enough he will repeat the same thing three times and then contradict himself. His desire is not to hear but to be heard.»

And Ron White continues: «Albert Einstein, on the other hand, had nothing to prove. He felt no need to be the "Chatty Cathy" he could have been with his knowledge. It wasn't important to him to talk to everyone he met and talk over their heads to demonstrate his IQ. Instead, he learned the value of quietness and solitude.

Shift your mindset from being a talker to a listener. It has been said that you can make more friends in five minutes by becoming interested in others than you can make in five years of trying to get others interested in you! How do you become interested in others? You ask questions and then keep your mouth shut!