Have you lost focus?

My dear English speaker friends....SURPRISE!!! Lourdes has a blog!!! I don't know if happens to you, but sometimes when we finish an International assignment and We are back home, We want to take sometime off, rest and do something new, something different that offer freedom to our minds, right?. Well, last year when I was back home from Haiti and I took 1 month just to be over my bed looking to my ceiling (really Lourdes?) I had the idea to start writing in a blog about things that have happened in my live and finish each edition with a final thought or lesson learned. The goal of this is that apart of making space in my brain, I also wanted readers could learn something, no matter how small, but something, through the facts of my life.

My blog's name is: A todos nos pasa... / It happen to all of us... (in English), The only detail  is that my blog its in Spanish, and that is unfair for my international and lovely folks, so I decided to write this edition in English special for you. The title of this edition is, Have you lost focus? It happen to all of us....

This past 12 weeks I felt stuck because something in my life, something very specific and important for me that was not moving, my plans were not going thru I was seeing my friends moving on-in that aspect, but not me, that made me feel worst. I was seeing the time like a flash light passing in front of eyes and I was stuck, just there...watching.... and started thinking in...WHY? Why not me? Why is she thinner than me? Why is He more successful than me? Why I am not in those pictures? Why I haven't achieve success?....And.... while I was looking for an answer to those questions.... suddenly, I was reading a magazine and found an article about someone famous talking about her past pregnancy, this was her third child and 5 weeks after giving birth she was walking in the runway modelling in a fashion show, the interviewer asked her: How did you achieve to be in a runway looking stunning after giving birth an 8 pounds child just 5 weeks ago???! and she answered: 1. I didn't achieve anything I just came back to my normal body (thank you Heidi Klum) and 2. It was not magic...I fight for it!!!! Those words made me stop thinking in WHY? and made me start thinking in BECAUSE...

An storm of little episodes started coming in my mind and I start to remember my friends/colleges, those that are where I would like to be, working on a Sundays, running around with a cup of coffee, writing reports until midnight, doing exercise, missing lunch, waking up at 5 am, having meeting on weekends....its not that I was missing my responsibilities or not doing a good job, but maybe I was not doing the "extra" to show that I was prepare to receive MORE (responsibilities, success, etc...) I am still a good person and a good professional and probably I was giving the "extra" I just  needed to give the "extra extra" or I was not focus enough....or.. Maybe my success time hasn't arrive? Well, now that I know what I need to do, for sure it will come faster.

People, let's focus on what we want, and let's fight for it! You can't get a new job? its BECAUSE you haven't work enough to get it. You don't get flat abs? its BECAUSE you don't exercise enough (or because that is not your body structure) You don't get to be loved? Its BECAUSE you don't love enough. Sometimes its BECAUSE we are not ready to give away/give up to our stronger thoughts and loose for once to get the victory later....

Maybe We are not focus enough...Next time, less beauty and more fight for it.

Kisses to all, hope you like it. Any questions, comments or recommendations please write to: daianacan@hotmail.com

Love you All!