1. GIVE UP YOUR NEED TO ALWAYS BE RIGHT
There are so many of us who can’t stand the idea of being wrong – wanting to always be right – even at the risk of ending great relationships or causing a great deal of stress and pain, for us and for others. It’s just not worth it. Whenever you feel the ‘urgent’ need to jump into a fight over who is right and who is wrong, ask yourself this question: “Would I rather be right, or would I rather be kind?” Wayne Dyer. What difference will that make? Is your ego really that big?

2. GIVE UP YOUR NEED FOR CONTROL
Be willing to give up your need to always control everything that happens to you and around you – situations, events, people, etc. Whether they are loved ones, coworkers, or just strangers you meet on the street – just allow them to be. Allow everything and everyone to be just as they are and you will see how much better will that make you feel.

“By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond winning.” Lao Tzu

3. GIVE UP ON BLAME
Give up on your need to blame others for what you have or don’t have, for what you feel or don’t feel. Stop giving your powers away and start taking responsibility for your life.

4. GIVE UP YOUR SELF-DEFEATING SELF-TALK
Oh my. How many people are hurting themselves because of their negative, polluted and repetitive self-defeating mindset? Don’t believe everything that your mind is telling you – especially if it’s negative and self-defeating. You are better than that.

“The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive.” Eckhart Tolle

5. GIVE UP YOUR LIMITING BELIEFS
about what you can or cannot do, about what is possible or impossible. From now on, you are no longer going to allow your limiting beliefs to keep you stuck in the wrong place. Spread your wings and fly!

“A belief is not an idea held by the mind, it is an idea that holds the mind” Elly Roselle

6. GIVE UP COMPLAINING
Give up your constant need to complain about those many, many, maaany things – people, situations, events that make you unhappy, sad and depressed. Nobody can make you unhappy, no situation can make you sad or miserable unless you allow it to. It’s not the situation that triggers those feelings in you, but how you choose to look at it. Never underestimate the power of positive thinking.

7. GIVE UP THE LUXURY OF CRITICISM
Give up your need to criticize things, events or people that are different than you. We are all different, yet we are all the same. We all want to be happy, we all want to love and be loved and we all want to be understood. We all want something, and something is wished by us all.

8. GIVE UP YOUR NEED TO IMPRESS OTHERS
Stop trying so hard to be something that you’re not just to make others like you. It doesn’t work this way. The moment you stop trying so hard to be something that you’re not, the moment you take off all your masks, the moment you accept and embrace the real you, you will find people will be drawn to you, effortlessly.

9. GIVE UP YOUR RESISTANCE TO CHANGE
Change is good. Change will help you move from A to B. Change will help you make improvements in your life and also the lives of those around you. Follow your bliss, embrace change – don’t resist it.
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls” Joseph Campbell

10. GIVE UP LABELS
Stop labeling those things, people or events that you don’t understand as being weird or different and try opening your mind, little by little. Minds only work when open. “The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.” Wayne Dyer

11. GIVE UP ON YOUR FEARS
Fear is just an illusion, it doesn’t exist – you created it. It’s all in your mind. Correct the inside and the outside will fall into place.
“The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.” Franklin D. Roosevelt

12. GIVE UP YOUR EXCUSES
Send them packing and tell them they’re fired. You no longer need them. A lot of times we limit ourselves because of the many excuses we use. Instead of growing and working on improving ourselves and our lives, we get stuck, lying to ourselves, using all kind of excuses – excuses that 99.9% of the time are not even real.

13. GIVE UP THE PAST
I know, I know. It’s hard. Especially when the past looks so much better than the present and the future looks so frightening, but you have to take into consideration the fact that the present moment is all you have and all you will ever have. The past you are now longing for – the past that you are now dreaming about – was ignored by you when it was present. Stop deluding yourself. Be present in everything you do and enjoy life. After all life is a journey not a destination. Have a clear vision for the future, prepare yourself, but always be present in the now.

14. GIVE UP ATTACHMENT
This is a concept that, for most of us is so hard to grasp and I have to tell you that it was for me too, (it still is) but it’s not something impossible. You get better and better at with time and practice. The moment you detach yourself from all things, (and that doesn’t mean you give up your love for them – because love and attachment have nothing to do with one another, attachment comes from a place of fear, while love… well, real love is pure, kind, and self less, where there is love there can’t be fear, and because of that, attachment and love cannot coexist) you become so peaceful, so tolerant, so kind, and so serene. You will get to a place where you will be able to understand all things without even trying. A state beyond words.

15. GIVE UP LIVING YOUR LIFE TO OTHER PEOPLE’S EXPECTATIONS
Way too many people are living a life that is not theirs to live. They live their lives according to what others think is best for them, they live their lives according to what their parents think is best for them, to what their friends, their enemies and their teachers, their government and the media think is best for them. They ignore their inner voice, that inner calling. They are so busy with pleasing everybody, with living up to other people’s expectations, that they lose control over their lives. They forget what makes them happy, what they want, what they need….and eventually they forget about themselves. You have one life – this one right now – you must live it, own it, and especially don’t let other people’s opinions distract you from your path.

Cand am decis sa ma duc la The Avengers nu vazusem niciunul din filmele cu supereroi din gama Marvel, si nici de acum incolo nu sunt sigura ca o sa ma mai uit.  Inafara de Tony Stark, care a facut majoritatea filmului, prin umor si personalitate, nu prea mi-au placut restul personajelor. Inca nu am aflat daca Natasha (Scarlett Johansson) are propriul film sau a fost de umplutura.

Filmul l-am vazut 3D, la Multiplex, ceea ce cred ca a salvat mult din parerea mea despre film prin regie si efectele speciale. Cred ca am devenit cam prea batrana sa ma mai uit la filme cu supereroi, subiectul filmului - supereroi care incearca sa impiedice antieroii din incercarea lor de a cuceri lumea - mi s-a parut cam ultrafolosit. 

Bruce Banner: I don’t think we should be focusing on Loki. That guy’s brain is a bag full of cats. You can smell crazy on him. 
Thor: Have a care how you speak. Loki is beyond reason, but he is of Asgard. And he is my brother. 
Natasha Romanoff: He killed eighty people in two days. 
Thor: He’s adopted. 

Filmuletul - destul de lung pentru ideea pe care vrea sa o transmita - urmareste o firma de curierat pe bicicleta prin traficul din Bruxelles, care se pare ca rivalizeaza cu cel bucuresteam. Numai 4% din participantii la trafic sunt biciclete, poate mai prost chiar decat Bucurestiul. Nu stiu de ce am impresia ca totul se datoreaza europarlamentarilor - majoritatea masinilor prezentate in filmulet erau din categoria high, Mercedesuri si tot felul de SUV-uri.

- 3 tari vazute: Italia, Franta, Monaco

- 10 orase vizitate: Milano, Maranello (Muzeul Ferrari), Serravalle Scrivia (cel mai mare outlet de langa Milano), Monte Carlo, Nisa, Cinque Terre: Monterosso, Riomaggiore, Vernazza; Bellagio, Como.

- 10 muzee vizitate: Muzeul Ferrari (13 eur), Palais Princier de Monaco (8 eur), Pinacoteca di Brera (0 eur - saptamana culturii), Muzeul de Arta Contemporana Milano, Museo di Scienza e Technica Milano (7 eur cu reducere de student), Il tesoro di San Ambroggio (din Basilica San Ambroggio - 2 eur), Museo di Storia Naturale (8 eur), Musei Civici di Palazzo Sfrozesco (intrarea libera vinerea dupa ora 14:00): Muzeo Archeologico, Muzeul de istorie al palatului, Pinacoteca palatului.

- 6 parcuri si gradini vizitate: Jardin Exotique Monaco (7 eur), Jardin Japonnaise Monaco, Citadela Nisa, Parco Sempione, Giardini Publici, Parco delle Basiliche

- 3 alte obiective: Casino Monte Carlo (10 eur), Acvariul din Milano (intrare libera), Domul din Milano (12 eur cu ascensorul)

- 1 bagaj distrus de linia aeriana

‘Hotelul dintre lumi’ - Teatrul Mic, piesa scrisa de Eric-Emanuel Schmitt. Dupa sinuciderea fiului directorului teatrului in cursul saptamanii, teatrul a decis schimbarea piesei la care cumparasem initial bilete, o comedie. Hotelul dintre lumi este un loc in care sunt tinute persoanele in coma, care penduleaza intre viata si moarte, prilej pentru a se gandi la lucrurile importante in viata, a redescoperi iubirea, si de a schimba ceva in vietile lor daca li se ofera oportunitatea iesirii din coma. Schimbarea a fost totusi de bun augur si in ton cu situatia nefericita din viata reala, surprinzand prin oferirea unei viziuni mai largi asupra mortii si incheind cu intrebarea ‘Tu stii ce urmeaza dupa moarte?’

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