Packets of Light

I gave my bedroom a little twist so I could have my antique desk right by the window. I love it. It feels so great to study and ponder by a window during the day. Very inspiring. Also, during the night I can see the moon and the stars. 

"Scriptures are like packets of light that illuminate our minds and give place to guidance and inspiration from on high." - Richard G. Scott

Working at Google

Working at Google was an incredibly amazing experience! I loved Google, so many awesome policies... Everyone is very chill and hard working. I learned the IT risk side of Google's products like Google Analytics and Google Clicks. Everyone there is sooo smart, I'm amazed of the intelligence everyone holds there.

I enjoyed free meals, drinks and desserts, Japanese toilets... It was awesome to go to the break room and see all that food and drinks for the employees to snack, that's so cool!

Internship Experience

Sillicon Valley! The capital of technology. I got an internship last year with Ernst & Young in San Jose, California. I looked at the companies EY worked for and I knew that was the place to learn about technology. EY has the the majority of the 10 best companies in the world (Google, Apple, Facebook, etc.) This experience rocks! EY is one of the best companies to work for, I love the people and the flexibility that the firm gives to its employees. I'm learning many things to develop a better professional career and attitude. They sent me to training in LA, it was so great! I also got to meet with one of my cousins I hadn't seen in like 12 years! Life is good!

Exciting Things Happening

I had not even thought thoroughly about the things that are coming to my life this summer. I am thrilled!!!

Life is now and life is great, despite all the challenges that come with it.

April

• I'm playing the New World Symphony, Slavonic dances (Dvorak) and Symphony No. 4 (Tchaikovsky) with the BYU university orchestra. I love the arts with all my heart!
• My good friend Manu, my sister, and my niece are coming from California. They will also help me move to the Bay Area baby :)

May

• Trip to El Salvador

June

• Surprise trip for my birthday
• Internship starts. Yay yaaaay!
• Putting mission papers in

July and August

• Working hard
• Partying hard

September, October or November

• Leaving to serve a mission

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Giving Back

I stop and stare at my world, then I can see more clearly how much I have been given. Instead of me paying the consequences of some decisions, someone else is being used as an instrument to make my life better and happier.

I recognize how easy and fast is to forget the most important things when I get caught up by other important things. I read the other day that the greatest lessons we can learn in this life are lessons "that help us distinguish between what is important and what is not." I always see myself  having more time to do the things that make me happy and spending more time with those I love, but that is in an "illusive and nonexistent future." Instead, I want to find joy now and I want to do what makes me happy now. My family makes me very happy, serving others makes me very happy too. It's time to give back. My family is more important than anything else, I will travel home on May to spend time with my family instead of working to save up more money for the future. I understand I have responsibilities as a woman who is preparing herself for her future family, but life is now and sometimes that is hard to understand or accept. 

Who have you rescued?

I want to be successful like many people out there but I want to use my education, talents and other abilities to bless others who are less fortunate. I really want to be the change I want to see in the world, I don't want to think only about me working in Wall Street or in a big city; I want to see myself making others happy.

My greatest happiness will never be the amount of titles I held as a professional but my greatest satisfaction and happiness will be the people I could rescued.

I hope I can join organizations that help to fight poverty by using business tools,  I had a class today about microfinance and how that has helped in the development of many communities in different countries around the world. I know I can help in so many ways and that I will figure out for sure how my gifts and abilities can benefit a community. The poor are poor because they lack of opportunities.

The reason why I have the opportunities I have so far is because someone with desires like mine decided to hire my dad, who never attended high-school. This person always looked after my dad's family and helped my dad to develop himself in what he was good at. My dad became an entrepreneur and he was able to give his family better opportunities for life. He is a wise man.

Going on a mission

I have decided to serve a full time service mission this fall, now is the perfect time. I don't care how old I am or how old I will be when I get back, the future is so uncertain that I should not care about what the future may have for me, my present is flying by and my life has to be used for something more at this time.

I want my life to be useful for others. 

I Can Do It! Right?

I have to study a lot and put a lot of effort into my classes, work and errands. I like doing what I have to do thinking that I'm doing the best I can but that I can for sure give more than that. All I have in mind most of the time is that "I have to be my best and that I have to give my best." It's hard and it's frustrating when things don't work out the way I want to, but from one thing I am very sure, there has not been an extra effort that I have done that has not been extra rewarded.

Don't let your dreams be only dreams.

This is what I'm talking about:

"You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination." - Ralph Martson

Ode To My Joy

I've been thinking a lot about the things I've done that have required a great amount of courage from my part and I thought, "That was really courageous! What did I have in my mind at that time?! How did I do that?" and then I though that if I have had the courage to do those things in my past that have been for my good, that means that I can do whatever I want. I know it is hard and I have to go through things that require a lot of sacrifice from me.

I have learned so many things thanks to those decisions, things I know I would have not learned if I would have not have the courage to do so. I have also had a lot of fun.

"Do not let the fear of the unknown stop you from anything you want to accomplish."- Claudia Recinos.

Today I heard very wise words that I decided to apply in my life. I feel happy that I get to hear wise counsels to make my life better and improve myself.

Winner: A Big Thing For Me

Competing was a big thing for me. I used to worry a lot about winning and I cried every time I lost a competition. I used to be more competitive than now because I was very involved in a winner-loser setting and I wanted to be outstanding but later on in the general settings of my life like school and work, I care about being an outstanding worker and student but at the same time I just care about giving my very best and becoming the best I can be. I don't seek to compete against people in particular. I think like this: "If the means of giving my very best take me to the 1st place, that is great! If not, I might need to do things differently." I compete only against me towards what I want and where I want to be. I might not always reach the 1st place but it's about giving my very best right? True thing is that there are a lot of people better than me in so many ways, and that is great! I don't worry too much about it, they are just my inspiration and I hope I can be like them someday :) In fact, I loved this great quote from Jeffrey R. Holland, “There are going to be times in our lives when someone else gets an unexpected blessing or receives some special recognition. May I plead with us not to be hurt—and certainly not to feel envious—when good fortune comes to another person? We are not diminished when someone else is added upon. We are not in a race against each other to see who is the wealthiest or the most talented or the most beautiful or even the most blessed. The race we are really in is the race against sin."

 Some of the medals I won from track and tennis. I was all about sports. I started competing in track and tennis in1998. I stopped in 2004 not playing tennis or doing track but playing basketball and badminton. I had an amazing time and I experienced great feelings of victory as well as sad feelings of losing. Sometimes is okay not being the winner but the best of it is knowing that you gave your very best!

About My Blog

I love reading inspirational quotes.

I don't know how can I talk about this, I don't pretend to address my thoughts to anybody... These are just random thoughts that I just want to share. I love creativity and design. I just want to see this 10 years later... I hope my children find it.

I love the stories in my life, I add some claudistic magic to the precious moments haha just because I like them and because I treasure the moments in my life don't matter how insignificant they might seem... They make me so happy.

I have come to understand that it is about me feeling happy with myself and with the people around me. The happiness is in my hands and it depends a lot on the way I manage it. Yes, people in my life make me happy like when I see a friend that comes to visit me after having moved so far away... Or when someone prepares me a surprise or when my sister gets me something I have been wanting so bad (material things? Who cares? But they give you satisfaction, agh) and many other things. Yeah I feel extremely happy when something good happens... But how do I keep it? Yes that's the question... It's your choice! I have decided to be happy and make myself happy regardless of the things that make me worried or sad. No, I don't want to give any space to sadness in my life.

I try hard to forget the bad/sad moments that happen to me and I replace them by doing the things I love. Yes, practice more the things you love... You have no idea! The way you see life will change a lot! I can promise you that!

You will discover yourself and realize that you are awesome even if people don't even know about the things you can do or who you really are. You don't need anyone to tell you how great you are, if you know that about yourself... That's enough! You feel good with yourself and don't need to compare yourself with the rest. You probably would like to have other talents, other circumstances, other problems, etc but what is there for you is what makes you unique, deal with it. Appreciate it, don't think too much about it and stop making your life complicated. Life is short, live it up!

Don't look at behind thee... Keep moving forward, don't even try to go back to make changes, the past is past and you've learn from it. I see every day as a new life. I can be different today... I probably didn't do as great as I wanted today but I will tomorrow. I promise it!