Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: 23 °C, cool, sunny, and slightly overcast.
It is the beginning of the new working week.
The goal for this week is to define the templates for the sites so that from July on, it is just a question of configuring and customising them.
It is a little daunting to develop so many sites simultaneously; however, in this situation, there is no choice. I brought this on myself, and now I must create professional sites with good layouts so they succeed.
Maybe not all of them will take off, but they are mine. I am getting old and must do something for myself in the last years of my life. There is a big difference between doing something and going through the act of doing it and going to the end and making it work, no matter what.
Sometimes, I think about myself and how I have been through many things, but not really to the end. The school was a success in terms of the quality of the classes, but it was not a financial or economic success.
In the past, I blamed Brazil for its problems. To a point, it is true that economically and politically, Brazil has been at its worst over the last thirty or forty years, with recurring impeachments and corruption scandals, new and old weak economic measures that do not work, and now the threat of a dictatorship looming over us.
Beyond the challenges, a large part of our success is due to us and how we are prepared and perform. No matter how convinced we are that we are sufficiently ready for what we want to take on, we often are not. Then, it is a question of responsibility, resilience, humility in learning and adapting, hard work and luck.
Yes, luck; luck has a part to do with our success.
For the right opportunity to appear at the right time and for the right person, we may have to dig, scrape, and endure to be awarded that ideal opportunity eventually. Still, why is one person at the right place at the right time with the right conditions, etc., and thousands that could have but, for some reason, did not?
What I have noticed about myself on this new journey is that the more patient I am in developing the sites and my work, the more possibilities arise for me to encompass the development of myself and my work, which is good.
I used to think I was dynamic; I am not so sure nowadays, but I am good. All I know is that I have a responsibility to my family and myself to do the best for us in the future. I may not have all the answers yet, but I’m ready to adapt, learn, and grow on the journey.
Monday is a quiet day for classes nowadays. Tatiane has cancelled her 7 am class so I could go for a walk. I am avoiding doing heavy exercise as I have a bad cold at the moment. It is the first time this year. I do not know whether it is a cold, the flu, or even COVID, but it has run me down a little, especially when going to bed.
I am taking a cough mixture and medicine and putting Vicks VapoRub on myself at night, so I should be better in a day or two. I love Vic; for any minor ailment, I put Vic. It sounds stupid, and it is, but sleeping with Vic overnight, the next day, you are better than you were before.
After a morning walk, when arriving home, a quick tidy and classes until 7 pm, between classes I chose the site templates, a good productive day.
In bed by 9.30 pm.
Thank you.
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Richard
