Do not give up, but make daily choices

If I could go back, and give just a single advice to my younger me, I think it would probably be: be an observer all the time, do at least a little step everyday, do not stop, but make daily choices. You would probably say that it is not just one advice, but the reality is that, at least for me, it is all related. And, answering a possible other question, this advice is the reason I stopped writing in this blog frequently.

I have been in a daily effort to recover the lost time: lost using computers and smartphones the wrong way, lost doing nothing, lost just because, with no specific reason, I decided not to put myself into action.

And, some day, while chatting to myself, I asked: why not to focus on yourself, other than trying to be accepted? An the answer put me back on the road of self deployment. I started this blog, came back studying IT, English, and so many other subjects, like cybersecurity.

When you start a journey, you will soon get to the point where you realize that you do not have all to tools and knowledge that are necessary. That was my case! I firstly saw myself in front of an enormous book, with all kind of data that could be good for me. But what about the time!??

The reality of time: it is limited! We do not have 24 hours a day, because we have to sleep. You have to eat and do other things, like giving attention to kids and wife, in my case. The other problem: you are not mentally and physically prepared. Its is a long run, not just a few steps.

So I observed, I continued to do little steps everyday, I did not stop, but I had to make some choices, and one of them would be to use the time of writing here, to study some other things.

Just to share: I started studying network and security, but chose to dig a little into cloud, and, doing so, I got my first achievement: an AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification! Than I came back on network/security, still mixing with Cloud.

That old guy that did not have time do to anything new some years ago, started to wake up before 6 am, and now I am back on muscle training, exercising my body for almost a month, already getting some results; the plan for now is not to became mister universe, but to look nicer in the mirror! ☺ And, guess what? This will make me stronger for the long run.

I have been saying is this blog, and the other one in Portuguese also, that the speed is not the most important thing, but the direction. You will have to be patient, and you will have to understand that you will not get the results immediately, specially if you, like myself, lost time not doing what you should have done. First you will have to get the results of your bad actions, not the sweet fruits of the right planting.

But it is possible, and I am here to already prove it to you. You want to make a turn or to something new? Start it now and go on. It is just a matter of being a consistently observer, a daily doer, to have persistence and, everyday, make good choices!