The Step In

I am pleased to announce that, effective last month, I have joined Honeywell and will do my best to serve Performance Materials and Technologies ( ) business as a Sr. HR Generalist.
Since one of my friends had a cute reaction once hearing the news: “Are you really going back to the ? To Honeywell?”, let me just say this: “Thank you, Honeywell, for enabling me to go !”

When starting the latest chapter of my story, The Step In (www.thestepin.com), which will remain an for , my own and others, I left the corporate environment when I truly felt I completed a professional cycle.
I was ready to wear more of my favourite hats, the one of inspiring and supporting people’s growth. I have joined it again this month hoping to put this hat to its next best use, this time by serving PMT business people’s growth.
So, to new chapters of our stories and old and new hats, or better said now, the future is what we make of it! 😊

“Self-expression is central to existence. Without the sound of human voices, without warmth and color in our lives, without attentive glances, Earth is just an insensate rock suspended in space.”

"1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows" is Ai Weiwei's manifest for and freedom of speech in an autocracy like China.
A story of life, his and his father's, that intimately speaks about endurance, defeat, , art as a vivid argument for saving our own , and... so much more.
As for Ai Weiwei's art (snapshots included), they have their own stories to tell. Just take your time and listen to them. 💙






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A smart and easy-to-use toolkit, grounded on humanistic psychology principles, that might be of help when navigating whatever "bumpy waters" 😉 we find ourselves in.
So, whether we choose growth, we allow it to choose us, or maybe we are somewhere in between, this book has some more questions for us, gently reminding we already have the answers. 😊

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redesigned Maslow's pyramid as Maslow's sailboat of needs in his Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization. I guess we could all use sailboats for our growth journeys. 🙂
's new book, Choose Growth, comes with a "growth sail guide" too.💙 Coming next.

“Life isn’t a trek up a summit but a journey to travel through a vast blue ocean, full of new opportunities for meaning and discovery but also danger and uncertainty. In this choppy surf, a clunky pyramid is of little use. Instead, what is needed is something a bit more functional. We’ll need a sailboat.”

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🌱"Your job is just to make the cars and sell them and make them better every day...That's all. It's a lot."
🌱"If something really upsets you, go for a walk around the factory. Get an ice cream cone."
🌱"Be unfailingly polite to everyone."
🌱"Be BORING! You don't need to add any more personality. Only detracts from the mission."

Read the email billionaire Ron Baron sent Elon Musk telling him to stop tweeting when angry: 'Get an ice cream cone. Just don't use Twitter' "Be BORING!" Tesla investor Ron Baron told Elon Musk. "Enough excitement about the business. You don't need to add any more personality."

A pragmatic article about how to get back into the game.

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How to be a better loser | Psyche Guides As a competitor, you can’t avoid the hurt of losing. But you can learn ways to bounce back stronger and more motivated

“Living is the journey from not knowing to knowing, from not understanding to understanding, from confusion to clarity. By universal design, you are born into a perplexing situation, bewildered and you have one job as a human: figure this s*it out.”

“Life is . We are all waiting until we have deep , wisdom, and a sense of certainty before we venture forward. But we’ve got it backward. Venture forth is how we gain knowledge. The universe only teaches through experience. So even when you have the slightest clue what you are doing, you just have to take a deep breath and get on the damn bus.”

If you want a do-it-yourself manual about , well, the resilience of figuring out the job of being human, please read Will.
It is a about how to take “the damn bus” over and over again in life’s learning journey until reaching your goals... over and over again. 🌱
It is a book about life, love, and hope, lived through the lenses of the to always get better at it, any of it, I meant all of it. 😊


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Since we have been challenging more and more the term 'normal', here's a bit of history behind the birth of 'normal' and about its 'grandparents', Norma and Normman.😊

Worried you’re not normal? Don’t be – there’s no such thing | Psyche Ideas The history of ‘normal’ tells a tale of prejudice and bad maths. The most usual thing about people is how much we differ

Sashiko ("little stabs") is a beautiful Japanese metaphor for any growth process whose goal is not to hide the "repair" but to celebrate it.

Could the art of ‘sashiko’ help to mend our frayed world? | Psyche Ideas The Japanese art of ‘sashiko’ celebrates the rough edges of life. Could this be the patchwork solution for our frayed selves?

Who do you want to be when you look in the mirror?

When we look in the mirror When we look in the mirror, who do we see? [A note I sent to a young friend.] The person we see when we look in the mirror is the person we become, the person we fight to defend and persist with. I…

Did you get out of bed this morning to search for the meaning of life or for a cup of coffee?
No matter the answer, here's a Sunny Nihilist's perspective that might twitch the way you look at your coffee, or your morning, or your life and mostly the meaning behind of it all. 🙂

It might be a refreshing exercise 'when feeling under meaning's pressure'... even if you chose coffee, or tea, like me. 😉

How to be a happy nihilist | Psyche Guides Exhausted by the modern pressure to squeeze meaning out of every moment? Here’s a radical way to reset your priorities