Truckers' strike in Brazil - Part I Innumerable trukers are on a strike in Brazil. Thousand of them are stopped on the roads asking for changes in the policy to better price the oil. In the last months the Brazilians are dealing with daily increases in the these items. The brazilian government adopted the policy to keep the prices in accordance what happens abroad. Acting this way, seems to be reasonable and responsible from the international economics point of view and stockholders. On the other hand, we have the population and, inside of it, the truckers. In Brazil the majority of the goods are transported by roads. The railroad system transporting are almost extinct. This is the result of a policy lauched in the 70’s. It benefited the transportation by roads and the companies related to them. At that time, the railroads were big, but they didn’t reached all places in Brazil. The investment to this would be have enormous, thereby the government decided to bring car manufacturers and didn’t improve the existing railroads and trains. Therefore, the Brazilians are extremely dependent on the oil and gas. As a result of the new policy, if the oil’s price is increansing, the truckers, to keep their profit, also have to transfered the costs to the contractors. It seems simple, but the situation is achieving one unbalanced problem, because the final price can’t be daily changed by the truckers. So, to deal with this they decided starting a national strike.

Can stereotypes define who you will be? I used to say to my friends don't call their children of bad things like lazy, dumb, trouble-makers or other curses. I believe when you label someone, mainly if they are children, the message can be fixed in the mind of them. They can believe that they really are what their parents or others say to them: they never do the right thing; they came to this world to mess up their parents' life, old siblings or relatives; they will gather with bad guys; they won't produce anything of good and so on. All the things we say for the people, doesn't matter if they are children or adults, can affect them in a particular way. Everybody is sensitive for statements, god and bad. Sweet and bad words can bring a diverse feeling for a person in different ways, for instance, let's say that one boy didn't take the best scores in the school and their parents reprimanded/rebuked him for this. For one point of view it's ok. Let's now imagine, the same boy is on the street with other boys and they start to fight one each other. The same boy win the fight and realize his is good on street fights. What does he can think about the two situations? Maybe he will based all their future actions supported by force. He probraly will prefer to answer as if he was on the streets where he is respected because your strenght. The situation previously cited assume that a good or bad word can define the behaviour of a child or adult. The example is simple, especific and without a lot of context, but I really believe in it. What do you think about it?

Good things of living in a big city I live in a big city, in reality one of the biggest city in the world, São Paulo, Brazil. Here, as a lot of big cities, we have many problems. Issues that are not unique Brazilians or Paulistanos (term to refer to people or things from São Paulo). So, our problems are bigger or are in lower proportion like cities that has more than 5 million people. But despite of all the challenges, to live here have many advantages. Here we find things and opportunities that we sometimes don’t find in small places. Below I will describe some good things: An advantage to live in a big city is that you will find good hospitals, schools, universities and courses. If you have interesting in improve your knowledge and skills living in big cities can easier the way; Another benefit of living here is that if you are looking for a job, you will find many companies. Here in São Paulo we have big local companies and inclusive multinational companies; With to that a positive aspect of living in a place with more variety of companies the salary/incoming can be higher than in small cities. A good point that we can’t have forget is that because of the millions of people who live here the contest is also high; My final argument of living in a big city is that you must to find the appropriate place to live. It is good if you are living, working or studying close to the company, schools and other spots, definitely your life will be very good. Because of this my advice is that if you intend to live or you are looking to buy a house choose the place not too far. Spending much time commuting to work, school or other meaningful places can easily stressful you. Spend a little more money buying your place, maybe at first you will find madness because the mortgage, but with the time you will be thankful. Wellington

Tips to change Information in Habits - Part 2 This is the continuation... 3 – Reduce the information in 3 vital habits He describes that we need choose 3 goals that you have to implement. It is important understand that the goals also can be related with your personal life.Maybe you also want change something in it, this techniques are not only to improve your professional goals. He says that we can use this technique to change everything that impacts our lives. For example, lets says that you want to spend more time with your friends or family, why not dedicate part your life, scheduled some hours or minutes to do this. This seems weird at first, but lets be real with us, we don't do this as we liked to do. Sometimes we forget and never spend time calling people who are really important for us. We have to remember that before the professional life comes the personal. They in fact impact our lives for our lifetime. 4 -Track you “arena time” – Track yours steps. We have to track our plans so that we can reach ours goals. Sometimes only to say in determined day I will call my mom, I will workout, I will study English for 15 minutes it isn't enough. We have to plan and measure the time that we will spend doing this things and, of course, we have to do. He says that we have to plan our everyday. Maybe is to much, but again, lets be honest, sometimes we spend much time thinking and this is a big obstacle that we have to overcome. We have to put aside this behaviour. We have to implement, we have to do. 5 - Iterate and improve the habits After implement a habit we have to analyze if what we are doing is enough. If not is necessary to change something. The goal is to do the things that will impact our lives, turn out the information in habits to achieve what we want. This mindset have to be constant, have to be ongoing. Only this way in the end of the day, why not to say, in the end of ours lives, we will look back and enjoy the results of what we learned and implemented. So, as you see, what I am trying to do here is this. To do. One of my goals is improving my English, so that I will be able to assume new chalenges in my life. For me English is a tool, is not the end. It is something that will allow me interact with people from different parts of the world. Improving my English I will be able to take more information and wih this to create habits and improve my life. At least I think this way. Below, follow the link of the video on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2DBYo_HeVU

Tips to change Information in Habits - Part 1 Tips to change Information in Habits I just watched a video from a guy talking about how to turned up information in habits. He tries to teach how to change the a passive habit to an active habit. He says that is easy to receive information, watch videos and to do nothing. We all do this, but the sucessful people do more. They turn all what they learn in actions. They put out the information and try on a daily basis change their lives, so that they can achieve theirs goals. When the habit becomes part of them they don't feel that they are working. In the majority of the cases that work turned a pleasure. His method describes 5 tips to turn the information that you receive passively in habits. I will try to describe them below: 1 - Read to the high level ideias: Don't stop in every word. This means that you have to catch the main ideia of the information. You have to attain in the information's core, so that you will after implement what you learned. In few words, more than to receive passively the information you have to be a active person. 2 - Map the ideias, categorized them, organize the information: After receive the ideias it is necessary identify the mains topics, the main message. Creating a skeleton will help you to organize all the information received. This will help you to remember all what you read and in fact to persue what is more interesting to create a habit and change your life.

The first! Recognition! This is my first note here. I note for myself. I hope to write good, well, in a way that who read this think, wow, this guy has a great future. Maybe he can to be a great English writter, even though English is not your native language. ... For someone this might seems to want more than I can, but I'd like to be a big writter. To put down my words, to say things to the people and they think that I can help them. Of course, when we do things like this in reallity we are looking for something that in a way is ,I believe, to asking for help. Some people say that a writter, a sing, an artist and politicians, in general are looking for recognition, fame and money. But, in fact, I believe, this guys and other kinds of activities are related with self-recognition, one way to cure our lives, soul and self-need. They o we, I include myself, wish to be wanted, needed for someone or something for the world. Am I wrong?