Author: David Viñuales

Leaders are readers: Rebuilding the reading habit

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Have you ever heard that leaders are readers? Reading “can improve intelligence and lead to innovation and insight”, and you’ll find that well-known world leaders, influencers, entrepreneurs, etc, usually share large lists of books that they had read yearly.

As I mentioned in my new year’s resolution post, rebuilding my reading habit is one of my new challenges. In this post I would like to share some details about my plan, and build and share the list of books I want to read for this year 2020.

Doesn’t mean that I don’t read at all, I really do, but mostly articles and posts published through LinkedIn, Twitter, Reddit, etc. They keep me up to date, … Read the rest!

Sergeant Tom Highway and the emotional intelligence

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Recently watched on TV the film Heartbreak Ridge, produced, directed, and also starred by Clint Eastwood. I really loved this movie, I’ve seen it many times. But what has this movie and his main character to do with emotional intelligence?

Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway is one of his famous starred characters. A very tough guy, seasoned, the marine leader that everybody wanted to see in a film. And as usual it is so well performed by Clint Eastwood.

It’s my will against yours, and you will lose.

Tom highway

At the time I was watching the film, a reference from a book came to my mind… Some years ago I bought I book named “Search Inside Yourself: … Read the rest!

Morning exercise. Why?

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Morning exercise is one of this year’s resolutions. Nothing unusual, like many other existing goals that anyone could set. But anybody could feel curious and ask me: Why should I change it to mornings? Are there any real benefits of waking up earlier for doing workouts?

But, before answering these questions, I might go to the resolutions post. There’s a personal goal here. Last year I achieved an awesome goal of being consistent with exercise at home with the help of the Freeletics App, mainly doing the workout in evenings or nights, and only in the morning on weekends.

The reason to move this to the morning as a daily routine is very easy to understand: is … Read the rest!

New Year 2020 Resolutions

New Year’s resolutions: Bye 2019, hello 2020!

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Writing a blog takes time and it’s easy to lose the track, lose the commitment, not being constant, run out of ideas, or just to give up #NoExcuses. At some point, I decided to not continue with it (but I kept it).

Today I want to write about this new year’s goals. One of them is continue with the blog, so that’s why I am writing these lines today. Been a long time since my last post here!

But before sharing this year’s goals, let’s talk about what happened last year, a little retrospective…

Year 2019 Resolutions

  1. Health: Get in shape, lose weight. Had spent a year without any physical activity or regular sport.
  2. Learning: Finish ThePowerMBA, and continue
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Una nueva aventura: ChollazoViajes.com

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En estos últimos meses estoy participando en la puesta en marcha de una startup, una agencia minorista de venta flash de paquetes de viajes llamada Chollazo Viajes. Es a la vez mi estreno en el duro mundillo del emprendedor en este país.

Comunicado de prensa sobre la puesta en marcha de ChollazoViajes.com

No me es un modelo de negocio demasiado ajeno por la experiencia acumulada en Privalia (venta flash), y debo admitir que también me ha servido mucho de ayuda todo lo aprendido en Localnomad.

Esta nueva incursión viene cargada de nuevas experiencias, algunas buenas y otras malas, que trataré de relatar a través de mis próximos artículos.

En general, está resultando una aventura tan complicada como apasionante. … Read the rest!