On Refuel Friday, we use this time to evaluate our week, focus on our goals, and work on ourselves.

By taking a look at our week, we´re constantly learning from our actions and evaluating whether or not they are taking us to where we want to be.

Relax & Enjoy!

We’re coming to the end of the year!

Families are gathering, malls are filled with excited customers, streets are filled with lights and decorations, and there’s a shared sense of excitement and joy as we get closer to christmas.

Though not everyone enjoys this time of the year, there’s definitely some benefits to the christmas fever we’re currently living in, and I suggest we make the most out of it, starting by being grateful.

We’ve gone through incredible lengths talking about gratefulness in this newsletter and today is not an exception.

Gratitude has proven to be the single most eficient exercise to increase self perception of happiness among all individuals, so I see no reason why you shouldn’t try it as well.

Use some of the journal prompts provided in this email to ponder on what you’ve lived, recieved or even taken for granted.

Where you’re right now might not be where you want to be, but there’s alwayus someone else dreaming to be in your position, why not be grateful for it.

Meanwhile, I´d like to appreciate everyone who reads this newsletter.

This project was born out of a crazy idea to share everything I know with the world.

Sharing knowledge is not about giving people something, or getting something from them. That is only valid for information sharing. Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in helping one another develop new capacities for action; it is about creating learning processes. – Peter Senge

I only hope that as time goes by, we’ll gather more people and continue to help others.

On behalf of the Beltran family, we wish you happy holidays!☃️

📖Journal prompts for you:

• What is one good thing that I often take for granted?

• Who do I need to thank?

• What are three things I’m grateful for, no matter how small?

• What is a happy memory from this year?

• Who are three people in my life that I am grateful for?

• Write a letter of gratitude to someone you’ve always wanted to thank ….

🧭Find your path:

Recently, while watching one of Tim Ferriss videos, I stumbled upon a great exercise that I’d like to share with you in hopes of practicing appreciation and gratitude as the end of the year is close.

This exercise was provided by Munib Ali, and it goes something like this:

Think about a time when you experienced something simple.

I can be cooking for your loved ones, staring at the sky or simply watching your dogs play.

Take a moment to truly immerse yourself in that memory. Think about the weather, the sky, the colors, the smell, the noises, every little detail that helps bring this moment to life.

Now that you have that memory printed in your frontal lobe, it’s time for the second question.

Imagine this:

You’re at a hospital bed. Surrounded by family, some of them you recognize, some you don’t. As you’ve gotten older, there’s plenty of family you haven’t met officially, yet, there they are, right next to you when you need it (that’s family).

And as you try to figure out what’s happening in the midst of voices, complains, tears, someone crying in the background and an overall shared sense of sadness, you realize this may not be a good scenario.

And as family continues to stare at you while crying in an useless effort to contain their tears, the doctor comes in carrying some notes with him.

He walks past all of the family members and stands right next to your old and decaying body. Grabs your hand and without further adue, gives you the bad news.

Dear Mr. xxxxx, I have your tests with me and the results are not promising. You have a couple of hours left to live.

That’s when shit hits the fan. Family goes crazy, people start attacking the doctor in an effort to relieve the pain they feel in the hopes the doctor has some good news he might’ve kept for himself. But as everybody loses their sanity, reality hits you harder than a hangover after prom and you realize…

This is it.

It’s crazy how we, as humans, have a shared understanding that death is the only thing certain in our lives, yet we live like that day is never arriving, and when it does, there’s not a single person that’s ready for departure.

And as time goes by, seconds become minutes and minutes become hours. The sudden dread of the emptiness that waits for you starts to eat you from the inside and you’re left to crumble due to the massive weight of regret that floods your mind.

In the midst of all this anguish and grief, the doctor walks back to where you are and asks you one last question.

He says that, technology has gotten so advanced in the last couple of years, that the hospital has recently acquired a new machine which allows you to relieve one of your fondest memories before you go.

But, there’s a price.

So the doctor finally asks:

How much would you pay to relieve this experience?

If you’ve done this exercise correctly, then you’re answer should be somewhere around…

There’s no price high enough I wouldn’t pay

And you’re right to think so.

Some of the most basic memories we have, for me is watching my dogs play in the park on a sunny day, are the most pure and precious moments we can carry with us.

Yet, this get lost in the avalanche of useless media and stress pandemic we live under.

My advice?

Do this exercise as often as you can. You’ll see what you have today is more than you’ll ever need.

📺Videos worth watching:

Heal yourself🩺

🎙️Podcasts you need to listen:

Discipline: How to guide📖