Investing in Mexico In the past months I met a businessman from Canada who wanted to invest in Mexico. He has a business of parts for cars, he produces them in his factory in Canada and he has already a sales representative in Monterrey, Mexico for the big car producers, but as the business started to be developed, the requirements for service and goods are just not enough with the current representation, so the businessman realized that is necessary to establish a plant in Mexico. On the other hand, the business man is complaining about the formalities with Mexican authorities to open a business. He says that the legal formalities are too complicated and confused, He's actually working with an attorney firm for the legal aspects and formalities to establish the business, but there are more processes that the lawyers cannot help, i.e. licences to operate the plant, hiring personnel, and special advices about whether to establish the plant at Monterrey, equipment. etc..

Playing tennis.... I always liked to play tennis, but I just have a couple of years learning and playing this amazing sport. I started to play at the end of 2012, I met a coach of my university and we agreed two days a week for training at the beginning due to my job I trained only on Saturdays and Sundays. Unfortunately, my training program least only three or four months because I lost my job and I was unable to continue paying for my classes. By the fall of 2013 I found that there were free tennis lessons for students in my university, the issue was that those lessons were on wendsdays and Fridays at 12:30pm, this hour hand was completely inconvenient if get a job, but the issue was not so big because at that time I started to be an independent consultant, so my schedule was flexible, anyway this hour hand was at the core of working activities. Finally, I decided to enroll in those lessons, but I lasted again just a few months due to I did not find friends or colleagues to play tennis. Was just at the end of 2015 when I decided definitively to train tennis again, whether I got friends to play.

The importance of learning new languages All of us have heard the reasons to learn languages, specifically English, if you are in business, but the reality is that learning new languages is more than get a better job, learning languages opens you new perspectives to approach life and new perspectives to see things. When you are learning a new language, you are studying also the customs and culture of the people from the language belongs. For example, every single people of the world have a sentence to say "This day is beautiful", but each one has different sounds, etymologies and even expressions to say it. For western languages whose peoples are located at different latitudes, such as Spanish, Portuguese, French and English it is very interesting because people use different phrases to say something depending on its latitude. I think also that learning an Asian language, it is very important for every single person on the west because it could help to open your mind even more by studying its etymology and alphabets, it implies to get new ideas of the world, and if you are in business and social sciences, get new ideas of the world results means more probability of success. Learning English it is important, but believe me, every single culture of the world would rather hire someone who speaks it native language than another one who doesn't

Mood and business development I have a couple years hearing from different "gurus" the link between mood and successful people, these gurus argue that there is an important relationship between the level of optimism and the success rate which business people have. If you want to be a successful man or woman, then you should be an optimistic one. The problem with this sentence is that it sounds simpler than it is in reality, because frequently, people could confuse optimism with naivety, and therefore frustrations disappointments start to invade of entrepreneurs state of mind. The point is, yes, you should be optimistic, because recent studies about psychology demonstrate that an optimistic individual is more likely to identify opportunities and discover new perspectives to solve problems than a pessimistic one. So, how to be optimistic without falling into naivety?, that is the point, you should understand and convince yourself that there is nothing impossible in this life, but some things are probable and other ones are possibles, a goal or an idea could go from the possibility to the probability at the extent of your creativity and your disposition to see the problems from different perspectives.

The underlying assumptions to make business There is a lot of literature which are concerned to educate people from all over the world about how to develop a successful business, they talk about planning, innovation, market research, advertising, sales, etc., but If we take a look over the premises that bear our contemporary free-market economic system, you will realize that the issue is simpler because it is just based on the cost-efficient dogma i.e. make money with the less cost at the maximum profit, that's all, your business decisions must take into account that dogma, I am not saying that reading business books are a waste of time, but in a world where time is money, it is inefficient to invest a lot of time studying and reading books during business hours, but it will be advisable to read them after your day's journey. Another issue is planning, a lot plans, theoretical people tell us that have a business plan is mandatory if you want to manage your business, the problem is again the time available for planning, If you are a small business this decision could entail less time for prospect new clients or attend them, but how do you know that you are prospecting properly if you don't have a plan, this is the dilemma.

The importance of epistemology Hello everyone and thank you for visiting my entry. this time I am going to share my opinions about epistemology. Epistemology is a kind of branch that belongs to philosophy and it is concerned with the ways and methods to create knowledge, I think it is one of the most radical and neglected areas of study nowadays, because it questions how people builds their concepts of ideas and the world. It is so sad to see how society today march and develops theories without questioning the underlying causes and we are creating more and more areas of knowledge based on just one assumption or reality, we are just obsessed with the technical evolution overlooking other ways of evolution, or even creating new ways of evolution.Our societies are still based on the rationalistic revolution of the enlightenment, almost 400 years have passed and we are not able yet to create new ways of evolution.

Pollution in Mexico City Mexico city, as well as other big cities in the world such as Shangai, Paris or L.A. has important issues with air pollution. During the past weeks, the city experienced high rates of pollution in the air, detected by the corresponding commission of the government, in consequence, the authorities decided to implement a contingency program, such program consisted in ban a proportion of the cars from the traffic in order to reduce the pollution. These last events produced that the authorities have had retaken this problem and prioritize it. One the measures that the government implemented was to ban at least one day per week a proportion of cars from the traffic, i.e. depending on their plates, some cars cannot go out from their garages, so ones will not go out on Mondays, others on Tuesdays, and so on. Unfortunately, there is a lot of people that are opposed to this measure, arguing that this is not the core of the problem, but trucks and airplanes.

About the utility of marketing research Hello everyone, this time I am going to talk about the marketing research and its utility within the society, more specifically private and public compenies. As you know, I am working as business consultant for a marketing research firm, but sometimes I find it difficult to express the advantages and utilities of the marketing research projects with my clients, because they do not trust on the methodology or would rather undertake a "trail and error" approach. Anyway, marketing research projects has a proven validity of business decisions, but its profitability would not fit for all types of companies and situations to the extent that marketing research projects are somewhat expensive, so it is necessary that the problem under consideration involves a big investment so the marketing research project could be justified.

The myth of racial superiority About one thousand years ago Chinese people were by far the best equipped technologically in the world, the people were self confident about their country, by the 1900's Chinese society were completely on the opposed side, lack of self confidence, poverty and technological backwardness. One thousand years ago Germany and Germanic people were poor and backward technologically and politically, but by the 1900's to the present, they are one of the most advanced societies technologically and politically. What is my point?, I see that the theories which support the idea of racial superiority are mostly based on technological and political advances, something that it is not linked with the ethnicity as I stated before, and with a serious research you will find other examples, such as Egypt and Greece. At the extent that technological innovations and political ideas born from the intellect, perhaps we could talk about spiritual superiority, an spirit that is in the air and move around the societies of the world and with the pass of the time it moves from one society to another give them ideas, self confidence, innovations