Do people still use a CV nowadays?

I personally never had a CV and I’m sure I’ll never have one! I just don’t trust a CV. Putting myself in the pants of an employer I’d never read this stuff.

I don’t care about what school you went to and what diplomas you have as long as you appear to be smart, optimistic and you love what you have to do.

I’d never hire as a PR a lady who just finished college! I’d rather hire as a PR a guy who’s still at high school or even skipped high school but in the past he was or he still is part of a great project.

I’m sick of people saying: “Employers are stupid, they only hire people with experience… So how can we, students, ever get hired?”.

Well, that’s your problem! I know children who have tons of experience in different stuff and they are only 15 or 16. They are not even close to start college! They could be hired by big companies!

So, common, if you want to get hired stop working on you CV. It’s just bullshit. Work on your experience and visibility in the tribe you want to be part of.

Start doing SOMETHING!

I started thinking of this subject a few weeks ago when a friend of mine told me that she found a job for me. I asked: “How come?! Who is that crazy guy?”. (I wasn’t even looking for a job!)

The guy has some online shops (one for computers, one for smart toys and one for coffee, tea and spices!) and he liked me after my friend showed him my CV. And yes, that was a newspaper article about me.

Now you will probably say: “How the hell do you want me to get into the newspaper?”. Weeellll… I told you, start doing stuff and you’ll get there!

Stop looking for recipes!

Don’t fear your fears!

So what’s your number one fear? Most people are most scared by public speaking.

I actually heard that more people are scared by public speaking than by death… So at a funeral most people would rather be in the coffin then say in front of all the people some nice words, true? True.

But most of the time people who know their fears have another fear… and that’s the fear of telling people you have fears.

For example I’d like to be able to play my guitar in front of many people, but I’m really scared by this experience. And I know this is one of my worst fears, but I’d never tell to anyone about it. Actually I encourage people to play their guitar in front of a crowd knowing I’d be really fucking scared to do it.

So… yes, I know, I’m a stupid hypocrite, right? I tell people to do stuff I wouldn’t.

But that’s wrong:

There are TWO STEPS one has to do in the nice process of escaping a fear.

Nr. 1 – Know your fear, be conscious of the fact that it’s a fear and don’t be scared to tell everyone about it.

Advertise for it as much as you can. Make this till you feel no more discomfort. Do it until you are no longer ashamed of it.

Nr. 2 – Act, do what you are scared of.

Are you scared of public speaking? Well, try and exercise public speaking wherever you can! This is the only way of escaping this fear right before you’d actually really have to hold a speech in front of a big public.

Are you scared of telling your boss you want a bigger salary? Tell everyone you need a bigger salary! They will encourage you to talk to your boss.

And so on.

But just don’t fear you fears. A feared fear will never be escaped!

Two Steps To Success

I know it sounds funny and incredible in the same time, but I’m not kidding… I know the two steps to success. And yes, they apply in any domain! It could be love, health, business or anything else!

First step, which most people believe that is the easy step but is actually the hard step, is believing. Yes, BELIEVING.

Sounds easy, but it’s actually hard as hell.

Let me give a simple stupid example:

Let’s say you want a salary raise. Do you really believe you can get it? Are you doing what a person who gets a raise does? Do you believe you deserve it? I don’t care if you deserve it or not, but do you believe (from your own point of view) you deserve it? Would you, if you’d be your own boss, give yourself a raise?

The secret behind those two steps is that actually there is only one step you have to do: and that is believing.

Because if you achieve the first step, the second step – DOING – is just going to happen without your permission.

Let’s complete the example although I know you will think it’s crazy:

If you believe you really deserve a raise then something incredible will happen. In most cases your boss will simply give you a raise and that’s it. But probably you’ll take action without even realizing – and that action could be anything like: you wanting to make your own business and your boss stopping you by giving you a raise or you simply going and asking your boss for it.

(Although in the case of you wanting to make your own business I’d suggest you ignore the raise and just make your own business.)

Believing is hard, but looking at all those who pray all day at an invisible thing called “God” should make believing much easier.

Simple explanation: Look back in your life for a big change. Anything. Did you find it? It should be something you really believed in… Now, in this moment, you believe it just happened… but search for the moment when you started doing something to achieve what you believed in. It can be hard at the beginning but I’m sure that if you struggle a bit you’ll find out that you actually, without realizing it then, took a decision which made a difference. Why? Because you believed enough.

I assure you that from now on you’ll be conscious of all the small actions you take when you believe enough in something or someone.

Now have fun with the success you are going to make.

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Do what you want to do, not what you have to do!

Living in the 21st century is hard! And I know it ‘cuz I’m here with you.

Sometimes you gotta’ do what you gotta’ do, even if you don’t wanna’ or you don’t like it. Am I right?

So why do it? For the money you’d say. You have too feed your family. Yup, that’s right. But I assure you that you can feed your family by working on something you like, on a passion or so.

Sooo, I don’t want to talk about this, but I want you to do a small exercise for a week, every day.

1. Find a nice chair in a comfy room and sit on it.

2. Close your eyes and relax. Don’t fall asleep but try and achieve Zen. Ok, I’m kidding, I know you can’t do this, but just give it a try (and fail again!).

3. Now you will probably think of stuff while on that chair.

4. DON’T DARE to move or start doing something you REMEMBER YOU HAVE TO DO!

5. Just relax and if you are relaxed enough (it will be harder in the first days of the week) you will think of something you’d like to do.

6. GO AND DO IT!

It could be anything. Play with a child, talk to your pet, watch a movie, play a game. Shortly the 21st century will come after you and you will remember that you HAVE TO DO SOMETHING you dislike doing. But you have to feed your body… I know, I know.

Theoretically, if you do this exercise right, you will someday soon get rid of the “doing and hatin’”, and you’ll discover there are stuff you can do and like … and even get money for it.

But, if you won’t ever get there… don’t panic. At least you had fun. ^_^

Is cheap medicine good?

In one of my previous entries I said: “You can’t be ill if you don’t want to be ill“.

And on the exact same concept I’d say: “Cheap medicine is better than any other medicine!“

I’m the kind of person who refuses pills of all kinds. Huge headache? I don’t care. I live with it till it fades away! (Ok, maybe I take a pill once in a while, but that’s when I’m too busy with other things which for I can’t concentrate on fighting with the headache.)

I believe that our body is controlled by our mind 110% of the time. So when I have a headache for example, before taking a pill I try my best to fight it with my mind.

This is what others may call “The Placebo Effect”. I know that a good cup of tea will probably make me relax and the headache will fade away. I also know that from pills my headache disappears instantly. Combine the two ideas and what you have is a Vitamin C pill with the huge effect of a normal headache painkiller pill.

How come it works? Well… I can’t explain it… but I know it for sure: IT WORKS!

So think twice before letting modern medicine into your life. Try fixing yourself without pills and antibiotics. And I’m not writing this small blog post because I think pills harm us, but for me it’s also a huge exercise. This is the way I prove myself I control my body.

Cheap medicine is better than any other medicine!

When a headache appears, just smile and laugh for 30 minutes, ignore the pain, stay happy and it will leave you alone.

Reason to be happy?

Ever asked someone “Why are you so sad?” and did this someone answer “Do I have a reason not to be sad?”?

It happened to me and that’s when I had a revelation. Throughout our life we are being taught that we act the way we act for some reasons. We are happy when something nice happens, we are sad when something bad happens and we probably don’t do anything if nothing happens.

But isn’t that a wrong attitude?

Do we need a reason to be happy or should we be happy as a default setting?

Forget it

Ever seen children being sad, crying, fighting with their parents in shops for toys and so on?

Ever seen that those children again after about ten minutes? They are not sad, they are not crying anymore, they forgot about the whole situation with the parents and they are probably thinking: “It’s ok, they’ll buy me a toy next time we enter a shop.“.

Ever seen people fighting with other people, swearing or just being mad on one another and neeever forgetting the situation?

Do you think children have a short memory or do you think they have a reason for not being sad for more than 10 minutes? Why do children forgive their parents?

Well, they know a secret we don’t know.

Anger makes me tired

Do we all have stupid little secrets about ourselves?

It’s not like I am actually hiding the strange stuff I do home after I drink a cup of coffee, but I feel like I shouldn’t tell to the whole world about the way I am transforming when I’m too happy or angry.

Am I the only one who sings like Adam Sandler in this movie when alone and happy at home?

Am I the only one who can’t wake up in the morning after being a bit angry in the night?

I just found out that anger makes me tired. And I am not the kind o person who actually shows his anger. If I’m angry, I’m hyperactive. I work a lot, I am really productive and I sometimes start singing really loud. Just like Sandler in the video.

Sometimes I just think that I am crazy or something. I never asked a doctor if my behavior is normal.

Sooo… am I the only one feeling this way?

Little criminal!

I’m not an eco-freak … or, ok, maybe I am a bit of an eco-freak, but is it just me or a 10-years old kid throwing garbage in the middle of the street is a criminal?

What why am I wondering about a kid when I see daily thousands of people throwing their cigars on the streets?

There was this commercial where children where doing what their parents where doing. It is happening here, in Bucharest. Almost everyone is throwing garbage on the street and with all this eco-education, children are doing it too.

So I was walking on the street when a ten years old kid left right in the middle of the sidewalk some garbage and started laughing with his friend (who, as you already thought, was bigger than him).

My reaction was this: “Hei, kid, why did you do this? You think it’s funny? Go and pick-it up!”.

No, nothing happened. They ignored me both and walked away.

So I screamed: “You want me to pick it up for you?”. That’s the moment when the kid turned at me and said: “No!”.

But that’s what I actually did. I picked it up and through it away.

What’s wrong with those children. And those people. Is there a fetish with throwing stuff on the streets?

Funny or not, today Seth compared “childish” with “childlike”.

You can’t be ill if you don’t want to be ill

So let’s say you wake up on an important Monday morning and you see it’s raining and the sun is mostly absent. What’s your first thought?

Don’t answer. I know you will think that it’s an ugly day. Because we’ve been taught that if there is no sun and it’s raining it’s ugly, but if there is sun when it’s raining and we even spot a rainbow or two it’s just a perfect day.

But that’s so wrong.

If I told you that you can’t be ill if you don’t want to be ill what would your first thought be?

Don’t answer. I know you will think I’m crazy and that’s impossible.

But you are wrong again!

In our short life we’ve learned things we don’t even think about: “if it’s raining and there’s no sun, it’s an ugly day”, “illness can’t be controlled by a person”, “if I say I’m sorry I will be considered a fool” and so on.

Those things, thoughts and ideas are deeply inserted in our subconscious. They live there, in our subconscious, and control our lives.

Is it really a bad day if it’s raining? It’s not. But think about it this way and your subconscious will make it a bad day for you.

Is it true that if you don’t want to be ill you won’t be ill? It’s true if you believe it’s true.

Henry Ford once said: “Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.“

I can’t remember the last time I was actually ill, but I remember the last time I had a running nose and a headache. Absolutely everyone near me was behaving like I needed help. My mother and my best friend were constantly telling me that I am ill and I should be in bed. I refused to listen to them knowing I’m actually fine. I rejected the pills they wanted me to take and in less than 24 hours I was perfectly healthy, full of energy and I didn’t stay in bed a second when everybody thought I should.

You have a running nose and a headache? Then you are ill. Right? WRONG! Your subconscious is fooling around.