3Ls: LOVE, LEARNING, LEGACY...

A Flashback from our conversation in Las Terrenas, and what we are here -in this planet- for:

1/ to love, ourselves, others, nature, our career/craft;
2/ to learn, the most, including our crafts, but not only -as Socrates would say ("the unexamined life is not worth living");
3/ to leave a legacy 

That is why I thought important to show a representation of those, our three missions in life, through three videos from one of my favorites films, about out of my favorites human beings: Brother Sun, Sister Moon, about the life of Saint Francis of Assisi

Love: 
love to others without limitations (yes, also bugs and flowers) and to ourselves; yielding a sense of well-being and the sincere wishing for others' well-being 

Learn: 
building our understanding and competencies in the only effective way possible: day by day, stone by stone, devoting considerable time to it, going through difficulties, learning from/with others 

Legacy: 
love and the capacities that we built employed for what they are for: to help others, who touched by our help, will help others too...a "in saecula, saeculorum" celebration

...and there is no need AT ALL to be one of the greatest humans beings in history to fulfill those 3 missions in life...as our 8-year old friend Antonio Garcia demonstrated us with his love, his learning, his legacy...

DELIBERATE PRACTICE...

OMG! I haven´t written here since Jan! shame on me! ; - )

One interesting insight from this morning meditation:
Ericsson's Deliberate Practice is similar to what the Eightfold Path is:

Plan based on what the experts do and how an apprentice can improve (steps 1-2)
Execution outside of your comfort zone, otherwise experience does not mean progress (steps 3-5)
Continuous, candid feedback (AARs) to inform further progress in the practice (steps 6-8)
...and the whole approach to "life as a practice to perform always better"...("habit of practicing and thinking about practicing")

Maybe Ericsson is Buddhist?  hehe