Leaders 2014

Leaders... Be aware of what kind of leaders are you creating... Claudia Luna

There is a reality ... As sad as it may sound, truth is that not everyone can lead, and there is no substitute for natural talent... 

Only people full of virtues, that work very hard to achieve and is detach from criticism and flattering, can be free enough to open paths for others 

People with deep knowledge of themselves, that have traveled not only the world but also the intricate mazes of their minds... 

Those that have the courage to face their weakness, and yet remind strong. That failed and recovered, failed and overcome, failed and keep trying... 

Not everyone is an example... We learn from all but not all inspire us...

Leaders are extremely energetic and full of passion... A contagious kind of passion... 

They are open to try new things, not afraid to lose control and detached from results, although victory oriented... 

Those who have faith and surrender to the natural forces, for me will be God, for other will be the universe.

Because we are only instruments and we shouldn't climb to altars that don't appertain to us... 

All is vain if you don't have clear your mission. If you don't know why are you here for ... Then you are just surviving... 

Losing your time... And everybody else time... 

Leaders are committed. And busy with a propose. They don't spend hours in distractions, only a few minutes to oxygen... And keep going. 

In a world of unlimited options, of infinite possibilities, either you focus or you perish. 

And your lost is not an individual lost... One single soul that not reaches its dreams, affects all humanity. As well as one angry man can destroy thousands of fellows. 

And remember New Year ... New beginning. Always!!! 

No matter how difficult, erroneous, mediocre has your life been before... 

January still will start from

1 ... January 01 . Day one. 

As well as tomorrow starts from 00:00.

As well as next min, check your clock, starts  from 0. 

Meaning a new beginning every second. 

Make it worthy. Make it right Be wise. 

And never jeopardize your integrity, your sanity, your dreams, your time... 

They seldom be recovered. 

 

Be aware... Wake up... Reflect... Search... Move 

This are my wishes for you in this holidays ... 

God Bless you... All love 

Claudia Luna 

President Argentina's Investors Hub 

www.argentinainvestorshub.com

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www.loscaminosdeclaudiamoon.blogspot.com.ar

The wind in my face

I know fear ... But passion drives me

What can I say to move you from inside... 

Which melodies are the ones that sound sweeter to your ears... 

Where do I have to travel to find your heart ...

What's the signs of the words that matches your language... 

Where in your body is located that irresistible point of not return... 

Do I know you... Or are you still hidden to me ...

Free Soul

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

Charles Bukowski

The Genius Of The Crowd Charles Bukowski

Picasso's Genius

Metropolitan Museum of Arts. New York 

 

There is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average

human being to supply any given army on any given day

and the best at murder are those who preach against it

and the best at hate are those who preach love

and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

those who preach god, need god

those who preach peace do not have peace

those who preach peace do not have love

beware the preachers

beware the knowers

beware those who are always reading books

beware those who either detest poverty

or are proud of it

beware those quick to praise

for they need praise in return

beware those who are quick to censor

they are afraid of what they do not know

beware those who seek constant crowds for

they are nothing alone

beware the average man the average woman

beware their love, their love is average

seeks average

but there is genius in their hatred

there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you

to kill anybody

not wanting solitude

not understanding solitude

they will attempt to destroy anything

that differs from their own

not being able to create art

they will not understand art

they will consider their failure as creators

only as a failure of the world

not being able to love fully

they will believe your love incomplete

and then they will hate you

and their hatred will be perfect

like a shining diamond

like a knife

like a mountain

like a tiger

like hemlock

their finest art

Charles Bukowsky

Spanish .- Traducción 

El genio de la multitud 

Hay suficiente traición y odio, violencia,

necedad en el ser humano corriente

como para abastecer cualquier ejercito o cualquier

jornada.

Y los mejores asesinos son aquellos

que predican en su contra.

Y los que mejor odian son aquellos

que predican amor.

Y los que mejor luchan en la guerra

son -AL FINAL- aquellos que

predican

PAZ.

Aquellos que hablan de Dios

necesitan a Dios.

Aquellos que predican paz

no tienen paz.

Aquellos que predican amor

no tienen amor.

Cuidado con los predicadores

cuidado con los que saben.

Cuidado con aquellos que están siempre

leyendo libros.

Cuidado con aquellos que detestan

la pobreza o están orgullosos de ella.

Cuidado con aquellos de alabanza rápida

pues necesitan que se les alabe a cambio.

Cuidado con aquellos que censuran con rapidez:

tienen miedo de lo que no conocen.

Cuidado con aquellos que buscan constantes

multitudes;

no son nada solos.

Cuidado con

el hombre corriente

con la mujer corriente.

Cuidado con su amor.

Su amor es corriente, busca

lo corriente.

Pero es un genio al odiar

es lo suficientemente genial

al odiar como para matarte, como para matar

a cualquiera.

Al no querer la soledad

al no entender la soledad

intentarán destruir

cualquier cosa

que difiera

de lo suyo.

Al no ser capaces

de crear arte

no entenderán

el arte.

Considerarán su fracaso

como creadores

sólo como un fracaso

del mundo.

Al no ser capaces de amar plenamente

creerán que tu amor es

incompleto

y entonces te

odiarán.

Y su odio será perfecto

como un diamante resplandeciente

como una navaja

como una montaña

como un tigre

como cicuta

Su mejor

ARTE.

Charles Bukowsky

The Saviours of the world... James Allen

Dreams are memories of your future, waiting for you to have the courage to wake up... Claudia Luna

The dreamers are the saviours of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers. Humanity cannot forget its dreamers; it cannot let their ideals fade and die; it lives in them; it knows them as they realities which it shall one day see and know.

Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven. The world is beautiful because they have lived; without them, labouring humanity would perish.

He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it. Columbus cherished a vision of another world, and he discovered it; Copernicus fostered the vision of a multiplicity of worlds and a wider universe, and he revealed it; Buddha beheld the vision of a spiritual world of stainless beauty and perfect peace, and he entered into it.

Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all, heavenly environment; of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to, achieve. Shall man’s basest desires receive the fullest measure of gratification, and his purest aspirations starve for lack of sustenance? Such is not the Law: such a condition of things can never obtain: "ask and receive."

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your Vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it. You cannot travel within and stand still without. 

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. Chance is not. Gifts, powers, material, intellectual, and spiritual possessions are the fruits of effort; they are thoughts completed, objects accomplished, visions realized.

"Only the wise man, only he whose thoughts are controlled and purified, makes the winds and the storms of the soul obey him".

James Allen 

Who I am... By Claudia Luna

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy... Quote from Hamlet 

I only path to victory. I don't hesitate or doubt because, even when is not an easy way, even when is full of, often confusing crossroads, and sometimes, almost impossible  high hills to climb, I trust God... I trust myself. 

I will never quit my path. I may fall many times along the way. But I will always pick myself up, dust myself off, and keep walking, with the conviction that I will succeed, or die trying. 

I have no time for explanations to those around that don't understand my reasons. And since I am immune to criticism as well as flattering, I do not care for approval. The only approval I need, is from my conscience when I go to sleep at night, and the face I confront in the mirror every morning when the day starts. 

 That my friends, is hard enough to deal with, to additionally,  put ourselves in such a jeopardy of trying to please others. 

I only make myself fundamental questions. How should I live..? What's my propose in life..? What do I really want..? How can I love more..? 

I don't go through life as a reckless individual that can't  measure the precious value of being alive. The huge responsibility of surviving even one more day, when others, maybe better than us, couldn't make it...

I only ask myself questions which answers are going to improve my way of living. I don't hang out with shallow people, reject frivolous, not time to waist. I share my spiritual mission with all, open my hands to help all, but the ones that can't appreciate it, I leave aside, and keep moving, with out resentment. 

I do not stay where I am not happy. 

And that includes not only strangers, but sometimes friends and family. 

Since my past hasn't been easy and my future remains still uncertain, that leaves me no other choice than to live today. And I live with an inner voice always whispering in my ears: "You're going to die", not for a day, not for a season, but forever...

In front of that naked truth, I focus on  what really matters, and let go the useless. 

Even when I have an immortal soul. My time here, in this body in this space and time, is measure. So I will squeeze it trying to get the best of it. 

Later will see about heaven and hell, religions, philosophies, etc. Now all I have is me here, in this container... 

When I feel too important. I remember Sagan and that video about the earth being a small point, viewed from the space. 

When I feel too small, I remember we are not dust, but magic.

And trying to balance both, I go day by day living the maximum.

I laugh a lot, mostly at myself. I don't take anything so seriously.  Humor is the ultimate relaxation method. I laugh so hard... Even to this writing. 

I don't fight to win the truth. You can have it! Is yours! ...

I don't fight to have the reason, my reason maybe not your reason. And that's ok !!

I don't fight. Period! 

I am easy going. I just don't care! 

I like not controlling, the uncertain, doesn't scares me. Is so little what we really control, that feels stupid trying to know it all... 

And I believe in love. Not as a childish crash or as a spiritual "I love you all" mode. 

I believe in love as the greatest conquest, the ultimate truth of humanity, as a miracle, as a reward for the strong...

 And my love is deep, passionate, sexy, profound and yet easy and funny... 

And that to me, folks, is what life is about. We have been created to be together, there isn't pleasure in loneliness. You can learn in solitude, you can get wiser, but if you not share you don't enjoy... 

So my heart is open. Even to the risk of broken it. I will not preserve myself of being hurt, by quitting to the adventure of loving... 

I will give and give and give. And my soul will expand !! Hopefully I will be loved in return. 

No more to say, just thank you and good fortune!! And I will find you now and then, to  celebrate  life... 

Claudia Luna 

 

  

 

 

Coffee, dreams and Work. By Claudia Luna

In the only place "Success" comes first than "Work , is in the dictionary...

5 am ...House in silent... Best time to think.. 

A cup of colombian home made coffee on my night table, and still with the taste of the last dream, but not clearly remembered. 

The eco of a word, woke me up... four letters of one of the most used vocables ever, so full of content and that triggers a different emotion or "motion"in each of us, according to how we are related to it... "Work".

Happiness when you are passionate about it, when you do what you love... 

Disenchantment when is just what you got to do, in order to pay the bills... 

For living or for survival, you Work... 

And in any case the point, the conclusion, leads to the same. Nothing can be accomplished without It.

So my suggestion, as much as I dislike advises, would be... Get out there and get your work done. To change the present you don't like, to built the future of your dreams, to change the world - or your world at least- or simply just to enjoy your passion... To create. 

Work hard and remember: In the only place Success is before Work is in the dictionary... 

Put on your best shirt, wear your best smile... Enjoy  your work, nothing builds better your character... You are alive, one more day, one more chance... Create your destiny

Claudia Luna 

Invictus...

Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the Pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll.

I am the master of my fate:

I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley

Plan B . The great deceiver.

I don't have a plan B. It distracts me from plan A. Will Smith 

One of the problems  of our century is to manage"Time"...

There are too many options. The road diverts in so many ways that gets confusing without the certainty of where you are headed.

That's why I don't believe in  having plans B. You lose focus and end up jumping only with a safe net waiting to catch you in case of failure in the "jump". 

Of course is terrifying leaping in the unknown... With so many probable outcomes.

But you know the saying... "Not risk, no gain"... 

There is a great amount of magic in the secret geometry of chance, and commitment in your idea, is all you need to trigger the stream of events that will lead you to success. 

Conmitment is not the heavy burdened word you think. Is your warrent card... Is the tool that will help you to keep focus, and focus  lead to  consistency and this to achievement. 

Plus only when you are embedded in your idea, you are present, you can see it fully, you respect it. 

So... Time is priceless. Commit, focus, act... 

Claudia Luna 

There is a Mission inside a Vision... By Claudia Luna

   
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality...

If you are a visionary, the one capable to see beyond the horizon line, to climb the mountains, to the top, just to have a better view of the world, and instead of doing something better with all that passion, you just use it to feed your ego, you are as useless as the mediocre man, that decide to stay inside the box.

There is a mission inside the vision. 

Your duty is to find it. 

Do something better... I will help. 

Claudia Luna 

www.laredmediagroup.com 

The psychology of the decision making, creative and innovative thinking

What impulse us to more..?

Why are we not fulfill just by accepting thing as they are..? 

The reasons behind the bold, scares the conformist. The creative urge of the artist inside all of us, wins the battle against the man inside the box. Should I stay or should I go..? Doors are open. Inviting you to change your vision, to create your outcome or re- create your today... 

Claudia Moon