This post is about my first tattoo and the experience I underwent through. Plus what does the tattoo means – many people have asked me what it means.

My experience wasn’t all that painful – as a matter of fact, it was pleasurable. I think that I’ve developed my abilities to channel the pain as something pleasurable due to how many times I was sewed as a kid. I also have this thought on my mind that I read years ago and I retained it for the moments that I need it: “Pain is the weakness leaving the body”. Another fact that didn’t stress or a nervous breakdown was the tattoo artist I went to. He’s very clean, and he let me know of everything he was doing and why.

“Tattooing is about personalizing the body, making it a true home and fit temple for the spirit that dwells inside it….Tattooing therefore, is a way of keeping the spiritual and material needs of my body in balance.” – Michelle Delio

Now I want to talk about the significance of the tattoo part by part.

First thing that people ask me is what does the Japanese letters around the circle means, but more on that later. I am a fighter and I practice martial arts since I was 5. Those words in Japanese are the Bushido – the life code of the samurais. Traduced it means “the way of the warrior”; being a fighter is not simply a sport, for me it is a way of life that I have practiced for a long time and I implement constantly in my daily life. The letters are the 7 virtues of Bushido: Rectitude, Courage, Benevolence, Respect, Honesty, Honor and Loyalty.

Moving on to the circle with the three identical symbols: it isn’t 3 sixes, or a sharingan, or Sasuke’s curse. This symbol is ubiquitous on Buddhist and Shinto temples all over Japan. Its name is tomoe, meaning “turning” or “circular”, referring to the motion of the earth. The tomoe is related to the yin yang symbol and has a similar meaning, representing the play of forces in the cosmos. Visually, the tomoe is made up of interlocked flames (or magatama) resembling tadpoles.

The Tattoo in my back is one of the most common tomoe emblems and haves three flames (triple, or ‘mitsudomoe’), but one, two, or four are not uncommon. A mitsudomoe reflects the threefold division of Shinto cosmology, and it’s said to represent the earth, the heavens, and humankind. It is often associated with the Shinto war deity Hachiman.

To wrap it up, the circles with the dot on the center of the tomoes. That symbol is utilized in many ways around the world, many of them in a religious sense. Called a “circumpunct”, it represents the sun and a Sun God (called Ra in Egypt), gold (as in alchemy), a (unbiblical) archangel (Kabbalah), emotional restraint, and the creative spark of divine consciousness within people linking everyone to the creative mind of a universal “god” thus making each persona “co-creator” (astrology). In the complex symbolic system of Hinduism and Buddhism, the bindu (dot) represents the male force. Together, the circle and the bindu symbolize the spiritual merging of male and female forces.

I utilized with the significance of the three. The first one is called An Ordi, the symbol of the Divine Order, representing chaos, light, life, freedom, good, happiness, infinity, and existence. The second is The Huichol Indian’s Eye of God. The third circle’s meaning is more symbolic and deep to me. It symbolizes emotional restraint: tending to keep one’s thoughts and emotions to oneself: controlled, noncommittal, reserved, self-controlled & will power.

“When the designs are chosen with care, tattoos have a power and magic all their own. They decorate the body but they also enhance the soul.” – Michelle Delio

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I took off my mind several projects which I believe were not necessary at this point in time and to bring forward new projects I have in mind. I hope that, in a few months, the first facet of this change will emerge – wait for updates and new posts. Take care and I hope to hear from you.

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Let it be noted that this is not a book for you to stop working and start procrastinating – it’s a book that teaches you to gain more time and suggest what to do with the time acquired. It also helps and advises you how take control of your life and get out of the 9-5 and even the “Rat Race”. It is for all types of readers from fathers or mothers, single people to young entrepreneurs like me.

Another thing I want you to think about this book is that it tells how the author does his things, Tim explains his techniques and some of them seem so crazy that it could be believed to be impossible. When you read it, you realize that you can’t follow everything exactly as he says – it’s more for reference, so you can extract what is necessary for you and you can create your own system. For that last thing I say, I’d like to apply one of my favorite quotes:

“Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind; be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; you put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; you put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” – Bruce Lee

The 80-20 Rule and the DEAL

In the beginning of the book, Tim tells his story about what happened before taking decisions to get out of the 9-5, persuading us to understand why we need this book and what we can do with what he proposed. The book is based or centralizing most of the time in the “Pareto Principle”, also known as the 80/20 rule. It states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. However, the book proposes the 80/20 rule in a different way – 80% of your productivity comes from 20% of your time, and the other 20% of your productivity eats up 80% of your time. The author uses this as a starting point and surrounded most of the ideas in the book by this principle because, after Ferris learn about this rule, he began his life of NR and lifestyle design.

The fundamental complement of the 80/20 and the proposed variant has of the Ferriss Lifestyle Design system, where most of the Pareto Principle is implemented, is the DEAL. It’s covered across the four chapters of the book, each of which explores one of the components to this lifestyle design.

Definition from getrichslowly.org review:

• Define your objectives. Decide what’s important. Set goals. Ask yourself, “What do I really want?”
• Eliminate distractions to free up time. Learn to be effective, not efficient. Focus on the 20% of stuff that’s important and ignore the 80% that isn’t. Put yourself on a low-information diet. Learn to shun aside interruptions, and learn to say “no”.
• Automate your cash flow to increase income. Outsource your life — hire a virtual assistant to handle menial tasks. Develop a business that can run on autopilot.
• Liberate yourself from traditional expectations. Design your job to increase mobility. This could mean working from home, or it could mean using geographic arbitrage to take mini-retirements in countries with favorable exchange rates.

Extract and Use

Like already mentioned, this book time tells how Tim organizes his life to get out of the 9-5 and create all the system he used now. We cannot use everything exactly as Ferriss proposes it. However, a lot of his ideas can be used, such as:

• How to be more efficient with e-mail.
• How to reduce clutter from your life
• If you can’t define it or act upon it, forget it.
• Life exists to be enjoyed — the most important thing is to feel good about you.
• Why we need to look out side the 9-5 and the Rat Race
• Better and cheaper travel

Final Words from me

The 4-Hour Work Week is a good book. I found it useful and even implemented several things that Tim proposed in my productivity system. And Even I am planning to create a company that runs in autopilot, like Ferriss proposes. I reiterate that this is a book to extract useful things – not to follow everything exactly as Tim says here. My recommendation is to read it carefully, take your time and take what most applies to you.

Here I give the link of some more extensive reviews of the book and my source apart from the book to make this review:

www.getrichslowly.org – Book Review: The 4-Hour Workweek
www.thesimpledollar.com – Review: The 4-Hour Workweek
www.davidseah.com – A Review of Tim Ferriss’ “The 4-Hour Work Week”

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I know my English writing skills are not this good but that’s why I have this website in English, I want to perfect my skills. I hope you understand everything I say. Any suggestions or questions contact me or leave a comment.

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In this past 9 days from august 4, many things have changed in my life. From my relationship status to my appearance. In this post I will try to say what is happening with me and talk about the changes in my life.

My Makeover:

Recently after I break with my girlfriend, I decided to reorganize my life and make some changes between my changes there was makeover. I cut my hair after 3 years and half, I added a new piercing, because I think that not only cutting my hair was going to cause the impression that I wanted to give. I increase the intensity of my exercise routine because I want to rip my body. On Monday 10/agosto/09 I had a photo shoot with Nvdia Photography because he want to add a male model to the portfolio and I want to expose my new look. The new photos will be on this site on Sunday 16 and for my other sites on Monday 17.

Love, Depression & Hope:

I think I am entering in to a depression, today august 13; 9 days have passed since I break with my girlfriend. This week I had many ups and downs in my mood and my mental state, like I lost my appetite for several days and which knows me knows that I eat like a beast, I have two weeks without exercise, I not being able to getting her out of my mind and I can’t not sleep because of insomnia. These are the side effects of love and when you are focused on a relationship and you most have to end the relationship for any reasons just for third parties. The quote of Kahlil Gibran – “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation” is totally true. I knew I loved her and that she was very important in my life but I realized how much I really love her when I began to feel that she was moving away from me and it’s possibly I lost her forever. Love at times it becomes a curse especially when for some reason you cannot control your emotions and when you know he wants to be with you but he can’t because other people “her parents”. But today grew a little hope in me. After 9 days, I saw her, I kiss her, I hug her and talk to her, we make an agreement and if all goes well and the two fought for us and do everything. I hope we can finally be together again and achieve all the dreams we have. I hope she can overcome all obstacles, if she fight, in the end we will be happy. She thinks she’s weak and cannot fight but I have faith in her, like me she can do everything, she just need to think in what she feel for me. When the people who love me include it her, ask me why I don’t leave everything as is and walked away. I think in everything that’s happening with it her all the sad and happy moments and what I learned from it, in all that time I been fought for us, I think In something I hear once “you can’t fail, if you don’t give up – The Last Kiss“. I tried to be strong all my life and fight for what I want at the moment she it’s what I want and I will fight for her until she does not want to know more about me or until my last breath. Give up is not an option, fail don’t exist and what don’t kill you make you stronger.

Restructure of my life:

The decision to break with my girlfriend was very difficult. I take that decision because I don’t want her to have more problems with her parents because of me, but now I think it was a bad decision because if we don’t come back together at the end, she will be unhappy just as I will be with out her or even more unhappy than me. To try to come back at some time with her, I decided to restructure my life and make some changes as a complete makeover, rebuilt my productivity system, my way of managing money hope handle money more efficiently now, change my exercise routine and I add more goals to my life. I was having problems to start putting everything to run. But this morning situation gave me motivation at some point, it was just a little hope, but made me understand that I have to start and puts my plans in motion. For the agreement and the plan we assemble today, become a completed success and if God wants we will be together again.

Some of my goals:

• Start my business
• Rip my body
• Write a book
• Become a philanthropist
• Become independent
• Make more art
• Improve my English and French skills
• Complete many of my projects
• Make contacts
• Fight in MMA
• Be healthier
• Get a tattoo
• Learn web design
• Invest in stocks
• Read more books
• Cultivate my spiritual side

I know my English writing skills are not this good but that’s why I have this website in English, I want to perfect my skills. I hope you understand everything I say. Any suggestions or questions contact me or leave a comment.

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