November 10th, 2009 admin Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
Hi as you can see in this graph from Google Insights, the interest for gifts in the US is declining. Now, may say that the interest for online gifts is declining, however, it should be in the rise. What is happening? Well, I think that a better indicator that the DOW JONES is how people’s interest for gifts is. Why? Well, ultimately companies make their most money during the holiday season and most people purchase the most amount not for themselves, but for gifts. People are willing to spend even what they don’t have (credit) to buy things during the season to make their loved ones feel special. Read the rest of this entry »
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December 12th, 2008 admin Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
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November 3rd, 2008 admin Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
Difficult times don’t bring out the best in people. Is hard to ask a sinking person to think about anybody else other than saving himself. The economical crisis is showing the real character in the people around you, and in myself.
Producing value for others is not an easy task. For most people, their lives are completely tied up to their jobs. Their jobs provide the security of sustainability and affordability of social anesthetics like shopping sprees and Friday’s dine out.
My questions today revolve around: why do we all live so attached to the pursuit of money? why is it that we believe that with more money our life would be easier, safer and better? I have the impression that most people in their death beds don’t look back and say: “I would try to live longer so that I can make more money”.
A life in the pursuit of “more” is a life full of absolutely nothing. If I live my life as if I was awaiting for a destination I would miss my life completely. Because life is really the trip.
The worst part about it is that I pretend that my only problem is lack of money when in reality deep inside I know that the real lack is faith.
If you take two people and send them to a deserted island: To the first one you give a million dollars and to the second you give a reason to live, who do you think that would last longer?
We are like money hungry robots with junk-filled garages. We associate so much pleasure to the act of getting that we have forgotten how does it feel to give something to somebody else.
The paradox:
I want to work hard to get more money. The more money I get, the more things I buy. The more things I buy the less money I end up with. So I have to work more for more money.
In the end, I have neither money nor life. It is a pretty clever distraction.
Summarizing: Our entire lives we sell our time in exchange for money. Money that we plan to use to buy a better life. But at that point we have no time left.
Is like working at Disney World. Waking up every day and working hard. When you retire, somebody asks you if you enjoyed the rides and you reply: “I didn’t have time to enjoy them”.
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