Skip to main content

Fly With Me

"...walking gets too boring when you learn how to fly..." I LOVE these lyrics from Shakira's song Gypsy.
They describe how I feel about my Life journey since 2014. I feel like I have learned how to fly! I am not soaring yet and actually I probably am still learning to fly but I am definitely not walking anymore. And let me tell you, walking IS boring when you learn how to fly. Let me explain and by the way, WELCOME to my blog and my website Vida805.com

My name is Maria Guadalupe Hernandez (I know double/triple whammy with the name...I'll share the story about my name on another post someday) but I prefer to go by my nickname Mari. I like Mari better and it helps to differentiate myself from the thousands, if not millions, of Maria Hernandez's out there.

I bought the domain (Vida805.com) in 2016 knowing that one day I would get around to sharing with others, especially Latinos in the 805 area code (Santa Barbara and Ventura peeps), about the "secrets" to living our lives successfully. Living our lives successfully means (to me), having a purpose, knowing and expressing our passions and innate gifts (this equates to fulfillment), having fun (this includes laughing and smiling as often as possible), enjoying the journey, dealing with obstacles, struggles, challenges, losses and curve balls as they come but not letting them keep us down, moving past our comfort zone, being life-long learners, growing, having dreams/goals of all sizes (especially BIG ones) and most importantly dancing all the way (I know some people may not agree with the dancing piece...but OK, everyone has a right to their wrong opinion ). Seriously, the dancing is optional, the rest I don't think is.

These principles of success (aka knowledge) have existed for thousand of years yet very few people actually know about them and much less, know how to apply them to their lives consistently. This knowledge is what I want to share on this Vida Inspiration Blog and it only took 2 years!

p.s. It probably goes without saying but I'll say it anyway, these will be my personal opinions based on my personal and professional experiences. Some of the information and views I will share are sure to rock some boats, make some people uncomfortable (when looking at or reflecting on their own lives), anger others and/or some will just disagree and that is absolutely OK, thank goodness we don't all think alike. And for those peeps out there who feel inspired or feel there is some truth to the knowledge/secrets that I will share please stay the course, be persistent and consistent. Remember, genuine lasting change (transformation) does not happen overnight. The caterpillar struggles and probably feels like it's going to die before it completes its' transformation. And also the caterpillar had no idea that walking was boring until it learned to fly...join me in flying, there's a lot of joy and wealth to tap into for ourselves, our loved ones and this world. I feel like I should say "Si Se Puede" y pues si, Si Se Puede!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Rubber Hits the Road

“Life's challenges can either make you or break you. Let them make you ". Billy Cox I wrote in a prior blog post that enjoying the journey of Life entails several things including, "...dealing with obstacles, struggles, challenges, losses and curve balls as they come but not letting them keep us down..."  Back in April of 2018, when I started my blog post and wrote those words, when I was getting my new business project Vida805 off the ground and was getting ready to self-publish my book, my Life changed drastically. That's an understatement, it was more like a major curve ball came my way. I was truly blindsided by Life's circumstances. I am not sure if I am ready to process all of what happened and how it has affected my life and the lives of so many other people. Not because I am not ready to disclose the details, I have been open about it (there was no way not to be) with family, friends and acquaintances but more so because I am still processing i...
2 comments
Read more

Improve or Play?

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” ― E. B. White If ever there was a quote that I can 100% relate to, it is this one. Actually, I have a long list of quotes that just hit me in the gut with the truth they speak (to me) but I do love this one from Charlotte’s Web author E.B. White. I have noticed that I have always had this battle going on in my life, since age 18 when I decided to be a professional social worker. “Work hard, play hard” was another way that I lived this quote and all through my teenage year to early thirties, I did just that. As the years have gone by I have realized that my desire to improve the world and play has not diminished, try as I may. And believe me I have tried not to care about improving anything but myself. But my compassionate heart (sometimes I think “Yeah thanks Mom” in a sarcastic way) and the “rescuer” in me always seems to rem...
1 comment
Read more

The Most Important Years

"Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the Man"  Aristotle I have always known but mostly in a back-burner type of way that my life work, my true contribution to the world would someday revolve around teaching youth about the importance of sex education and family planning and as a result of having a healthy acceptance and understanding of these two very important practices, they would someday practice conscious parenting and as a result of that, the world would become a different place, a better place. As every child born into this world would be truly wanted, truly loved, cared for by its' parent or parents during the most important years of its' life, provided with all of the resources needed to nurture each child's true potential and natural tendency towards wholeness, love, brilliance, kindness and compassion. Of course at age 17 when I made this commitment I didn't know the term Conscious Parenting but I do remember saying to myself, ...
1 comment
Read more