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My Mindpower by Paola Knecht

How To Keep Going When Motivation Is Not Around The Corner

Jan 13, 2022
3 min

How To Keep Going When Motivation Is Not Around The Corner

Photo by Luke Webb on Pexels.com Everybody has experienced those days: You wake up and feel low. You don´t understand why; just the night before, you were planning your next day and looking forward to it with anticipation. But then it came a bad night. Maybe you couldn´t sleep as good as you wanted; or simply woke up the next morning and felt down and unmotivated. You walk towards the window and you see its raining outside, big grey clouds dominating the sky. You are supposed

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How To Deal With Writer’s Block?

Jan 13, 2022
4 min

How To Deal With Writer’s Block?

Photo by Kaboompics .com on Pexels.com One of the scariest things about writing is when you sit in front of a blank page and you feel paralyzed. What am I supposed to write? I stare at the blank page in front of my screen for a while. Isn’t it ironic, that when I am doing other things, like cleaning, cooking, or working in another thing, I get hundreds of ideas in my mind about what to write, but when it comes to the time to actually sit and write them, all those great ideas

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On The Road To Transformation

Oct 23, 2021
2 min

On The Road To Transformation

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Many people believe transformation means chaos and uncertainty, but actually, the real transformation comes from a source of stillness. On my usual jogging trail in my beloved forest, I couldn’t stop admiring the wonderful stream of autumn colors- the colors of transformation: The once summer bright green dominating the trees scenery being transformed into different shadows of yellow, orange and reddish… it happened so subtle but at the same tim

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The Illusion of Having a Life on Social Media

Sep 5, 2021
5 min

The Illusion of Having a Life on Social Media

Photo by Anastasia Shuraeva on Pexels.com It was all fun, when I joined Facebook back in 2007. I was about to graduate from University, so it was a very fascinating tool, to have all your friends in one network. There we could post our party photos, exchange information all sorts of events, and talk to eachother. It was a great place to meet other people as well, and learn (or noise around) the life of others. I’m surprised about how popular this way of socialization became

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Parasitic Ideas that are Killing our Common Sense

Jul 12, 2021
9 min

Parasitic Ideas that are Killing our Common Sense

Photo by Rosemary Ketchum on Pexels.com The other day I was listening to one of the recent speeches of the newly appointed President Joe Biden. He was doing a speech in an event in Tulsa commemorating the 100th anniversary of the “massacre” that happened in the city where 300 African Americans were killed. One of the highlights of his speech was the following statement: “The most lethal threat to the US are the white supremacists”. Wow. Very strong accusation to be made by a

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¿Cuál es el Sentido de Ganar o Perder?

Jun 25, 2021
4 min

¿Cuál es el Sentido de Ganar o Perder?

Photo by Engin Akyurt on Pexels.com Recuerdo muy bien aquellos veranos, esas tardes de tráfico densas en mi ciudad natal de Monterrey, cuando mi madre manejaba de regreso a casa y me llevaba en el asiento de a lado. Lo único bueno de estar varado en tráfico era escuchar música. No sé porqué, pero hace poco me llegó este recuerdo a la mente, como un susurro al oído. De pronto, me visualicé de nuevo de niña; sentada alado de mi madre, esperando que el semáforo cambie a verde p

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Declutter Your Mind…Declutter Your Life

Mar 24, 2021
5 min

Declutter Your Mind…Declutter Your Life

Photo by: Paola K; Kyoto, Japan I’m sitting right now in my favorite place in the living room: At my writing desk, gazing at the wonderful forest that happen to be right in front of my house. I took a small break to observe my surroundings: I like to see my living space tidy, clean, organized… nothing should be out of place. That gives me a good feeling, you know? Like a feeling that things are going well. Disclaimer: You don´t want to see the same living space I am describi

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The Compounding Effect

Mar 18, 2021
3 min

The Compounding Effect

Photo credit: Paola K Doing small actions everyday have a compounding effect. This term is widely used in the financial sector to describe what happens to every dollar you put as investment at a certain interest rate which keeps being reinvested and accumulating earnings over every dollar invested over time. We can apply the same concept to the small actions we are investing everyday in the fulfillment of our goals. Derren Hardy, author of the book “ The Compound Effect” defi

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¿Vale la Pena Pagar el Precio de Ser Coherente?

Mar 16, 2021
4 min

¿Vale la Pena Pagar el Precio de Ser Coherente?

Foto por: Paola K, Cape Town 2019 Hoy quiero compartir una pequeña reflexión sobre una palabra que no escuchamos muy a menudo últimamente, pero que es muy poderosa cuando nos decidimos a aplicarla en nuestra vida: La coherencia. Tener coherencia en la vida, conlleva al acto de pensar, sentir, hablar y hacer lo que nos dicta nuestra guía interior, nuestro corazón. Es dejar al compás interno direccionarnos en cada una de nuestras acciones. Es el ser honestos con nosotros mismos

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The Myth of Work-Life Balance

Feb 25, 2021
5 min

The Myth of Work-Life Balance

Photo by Nataliya Vaitkevich on Pexels.com Ohh yes! come to me, work-life balance. The mantra we hear over and over again. Everybody that has corporate, industrious kind of job, knows that this is some sort of aspiring living style… a promised land of balance, prosperity and well-being. Where does this idea came from? Although it appears to be New Age, the reality is that it is a concept that already was used as back as in the late 1800s. At the time, this movement was main

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El Club de los Optimistas

Feb 19, 2021
2 min

El Club de los Optimistas

Ser optimista es una forma de vida. Ver las cosas positivas de la vida y alegrarse de corazón por las cosas buenas y malas que nos suceden, es un acto de valentía. Es aceptar el dolor de la derrota, ver con amor a personas que te han herido. Es saber levantarse después de sufrir numerosas caídas. Es no tener miedo a vivir, y atreverse a ser felíz tal y como eres. Christian D. Larson, uno de los primeros autores y fundadores del “new thought” creó un credo para los optimistas

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La Belleza está en lo Pequeño

Feb 14, 2021
4 min

La Belleza está en lo Pequeño

En un mundo que está obsesionado con el crecimiento indiscriminado y la acumulación material, yo me mantengo en la creencia fiel de que menos, es más. No seré la voz más popular, pero soy una voz de todas formas. Hace unos días, leí en un artículo de economía acerca de los países “ganadores” y “perdedores” que ha dejado la pandemia del “Covid” y las predicciones sobre crecimiento para el 2021. El artículo señalaba a China como el gran ganador, por mantener a los supuestos con

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Vulnerability: Confronting The Fear of Failure

Feb 5, 2021
3 min

Vulnerability: Confronting The Fear of Failure

Have you heard the saying “Tell me what you fear and I will tell you who you are?” Believe or not, your fears could be the gate which conducts you to your real passion, to your real nature. Have you asked yourself, what fear really is? If we look at the standard definition, you find things like “Fear is an emotion that is characterized by an intense sensation of discomfort caused by a potential danger- real or imaginary. It can be manifested in the present or it can even be t

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Find Your Own Truth

Jan 29, 2021
4 min

Find Your Own Truth

Photo by James Wheeler on Pexels.com I am not a believer of mainstream truths. Of course, with the exception of the irrefutable laws of nature, which, are not human made; and most likely are wrongly interpreted by us. I don’t believe in universal remedies. I don’t believe that we can standardize human affairs. Specially in business, this seems like it’s been an obsession for many decades. We have overall what I call institutional “vectors”; different areas of our society wher

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Common beliefs about Money

Sep 19, 2018
6 min

Common beliefs about Money

It´s Monday, 6:00 A.M. You wake up still on a zombie state. You start to move towards your day with the same routine: Get in the shower, get dressed, maybe get some breakfast if time allows and run out of the house to go to work, take your kids to school. Then you take the car or the metro and find yourself stuck in traffic, or struggling to get through the mass of people at the metro station, all of them doing the exact same thing. You arrive to the office at around 8:00 A.M

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Perfil de líderes: Características comunes entre dos líderes que revolucionaron la forma de hacer po

Sep 7, 2018
8 min

Perfil de líderes: Características comunes entre dos líderes que revolucionaron la forma de hacer po

Después de siglos de dictaduras, represiones, gobiernos extractores y en décadas recientes, de una crisis en el sistema político neoliberal que dejó estragos en la estructura social latinoamericana, era claro que se apostara por revertir esta etapa en nuestro continente y comenzaran a resurgir líderes que movilizaran el voto popular para luchar contra las grandes desigualdades causadas por la el fallido neoliberalismo, que lejos cumplir con los beneficios de la globalización

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Attention and Effort: How would you recognise bias in your decision making?

Aug 30, 2018
9 min

Attention and Effort: How would you recognise bias in your decision making?

It never stops to amaze me the brilliant human mind. As I grow older and go through life, I always wondered how we are able to make decisions in our daily lives. We make thousands of decisions on a regular day, sometimes we are able to make them fast, in a fraction of a second, and other times, we need to go through a rigorous process of self-reflection, involving as well other people; We research and look for all available sources of information that we can process in order

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