The Hardest Challenge

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in.”

-Haruki Murakami-

The speed and immediacy of the modern world freely and openly provide unlimited information accessible to all. This is a war to win the minds of our children. «YouTubers», «influencers», «instagrammers» are excellent communicators and strive to offer challenges that seem attractive to young people.

This in itself is not harmful, the bad thing is that many of the messages that remain in the minds of our children end up being unfortunate, toxic and unproductive.Now, the most difficult challenge is actually for those of us who are parents.

In my personal effort in the role of dad I have implemented the project called ALTUMBLUE-2050 /the-project-2050/ (part of this project has to do with ALTUMBLUE website  aimed at sharing key information about positive life lessons), whose objective is to communicate winning experiences to my son.

The desired end state of the project is an individual with 5 specific attributes:

  1. Solid mental state
  2. Persuasive leadership
  3. Sharp decision making
  4. Good health
  5. Peak physical performance

ALTUMBLUE has periodically discussions about these 5 attributes. In this occasion we will refer on the first one.

If we manage to get the right messages installed in the subconscious of our children, an intrinsic motivation will drag them to become strong warriors with a bulletproof mentality, ready to support them to overcome the hard and truly important challenges that life will offer them.

We need to conquer the minds of our children and communicate in a very seductive language lessons of faith and transcendental life experiences that inspire them positively. We have an advantage in this battle, and it is the focus of our communication, I mean that an «influencer» is only interested in influencing to attract followers, a father or mother is concerned with inspiring, we exploit this advantage to the maximum and win in this decisive fight.

According to the September 2016 issue of Time magazine, «Mindfulness the new science of Health and Happiness,» successful people agree that the first activity they do every day is to do a mental training; meditate and seek answers to life’s big questions.

There are currently multiple publications, which the very fashionable mindfulness focuses with more than 106 million publications on the Internet.

Why not imitate the practices of those who have achieved success? It would be worth trying the mindfulness proposition with our families which, in summary, is the action of deliberately using the five senses to fully focus attention on the experience of the present moment through meditation.

Considering the above explanation, I can say that my first approach to mindfulness was at the Delta youth club to which I belonged in my teens. Every Thursday night we learned to meditate.

I am convinced that the best “mindfulness” experience is the one achieved by reflecting deeply with the wisdom recorded in the book Camino of San José María Escrivá de Balaguer, which has 165 thousand appearances on Google, evidently less than the word mindfulness.

Here are some of the valuable reflections of Camino, very mindfulness for its message with special emphasis on the importance of the here and now:

My Top 10 Messages from the Camino book (JMEB)

  1. Don’t fly like a poultry, when you can go up like eagles.
  2. Grow up in the face of obstacles. «Ask that I never want to dwell on the easy.» -I already asked for it. Now you need to strive to fulfill that beautiful purpose.
  3. Don’t be discouraged. -I’ve seen you fight …: your defeat today is training for the final victory. When you and I put the same effort in the affairs of our soul we will have a living and operative faith: and there will be no obstacle that we do not overcome.
  4. If you don’t have a life plan, you will never have order. If you do not get up at a fixed time you will never fulfill the life plan. The Paraclete is at the center of your soul: listen to him and meekly attend to his inspirations.
  5. Behave «now», without remembering «yesterday», which has already passed, and without worrying about «tomorrow», which you do not know if it will come for you. Will. -Energy. -Example. -What needs to be done is done … Without hesitation … Without consideration …
  6. Don’t waste your energy and time, which are from God, stoning the dogs that bark at you on the way. Despise them.
  7. Do not despise the small things, because in the continuous exercise of denying and denying yourself in those things – which are never futilities or trifles – you will strengthen, virilize.
  8. What… you can’t do more!? «Couldn’t it be that… you can’t do less?» Leave your fondness for the first stones and put the last one in one of your projects.
  9. Don’t be afraid of the truth, even if the truth brings you death.
  10. Do not avoid duty. -Fulfill it rightly, even if others leave it unfulfilled.

All of us who are parents try to be extraordinary for our children, we are willing to do anything to inspire them and support them to find a good purpose that fills them with passion. Life will continue to offer opportunities with obstacles, keeping FAITH alive and operational, and surrounded by a good team, we will be victorious of any important challenge of destiny.

In short, most today are concerned with influencing instant messages of a self-destructive nature by their effect, which negatively influences the minds of the new generation. It is our obligation as parents, to counteract the avalanche of useless and disposable messages that reach our children and in some creative and innovative way help them form a productive and noble “digital footprint” that contributes to their mental strength. When the mind is calm and focused, the most difficult things can be done, when not, the easiest will seem an impossible task to accomplish.

Breath to inspire…

Following I also leave the links to some online videos that propose good «challenges».

My Top 5 Challenges “Online”  

  1. Dear Basketball-KOBE BRYANT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O5kVONJUSY
  2. How Great I am- Winning Mindset in Sports  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6xLYt265ZM
  3. Challenge Yourself- From the mindset of a Freediver  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqUmRMaGBAg
  4. If you want to change the world, start of by making your bed-US Navy SEAL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sK3wJAxGfs&t=140s
  5. Speech before deadly push through Afganisthan-MARINES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vj2PMLbZjw

My Top 5 Inspirational Quotes

  1. Omnia possibilia sunt credenti/ Everything is possible for the one who believes –Jesucristo
  2. The brain creates its own future, based on the options it chooses in the present. – Brant Cortright, Ph.D
  3. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it’s because we don’t dare, they are difficult. –Seneca
  4. Men wanted for dangerous journey. Low salary. Extreme cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger. No return is assured. Honor and recognition in case of success. Ernest Shackelton, Antarctic explorer
  5. I have taken steps full of fear, but they have been the worthiest in my life. Anyha Ruiz, Mexicana influencer.

“Life is short enough to have already realized at this point in life that we are not going to be able to take anything with us when it is exhausting our years. However, if we can create the extraordinary happiness that remains after emptying ourselves; after giving the most, the best, and to the maximum number of people, of all that we are capable of doing in an extraordinary way.”

–Gregory Cajina

Bibliography

Escrivá de Balaguer, José María./1934) Camino.

The Editors of Time, (2016) Mindfulness: The New Science of Health and Happines.

Glodstein, Elisha. Descubre la felicidad con mindfulness.