Projects and life have a lot in common

Published 10 months ago • 1 min read

When I had no money, I spent my days around people who criticized others.
Now that I have a little money, all I hear when someone talks about others is: “I love that guy,” “He’s brilliant,” “What a machine”, “Qué huevos tiene”, etc.

Failures focus on hating.
Successful people focus on admiring—and finding people worth admiring.

Failures assume malice.
Successful people assume kindness.

Failures obsess over what they don’t like.
Successful people are blind to what they don’t like.

Failures can’t forgive details that successful people don’t even notice.

Failures always have an excuse to justify someone else’s success.

Successful people always find a reason to go further.

And the explanation is simple:
Failures are addicted to dependency.

Because slavery takes away the heaviest burden in the universe: responsibility.

That’s why even when a slave escapes and accidentally makes money, they immediately search for something new to enslave themselves to: meetings, commitments, micro-management.

Look…

This is simple.

If you want to be free, learn to love yourself—because there is no master more cruel than the one inside your own head.

That’s the first thing I’d do if I were living in slavery.

The second? Eliminate every obstacle between what I want and what I have.

The third? Learn. Want more.

Yes.

I talk about life. Your life. My life. And projects. PPP projects. Any kind of project.

Don’t pass the hot potato. Assume your responsibility. Learn. Thrive.

People still believe that to learn you need to suffer.

But no.

It’s more simpler than that.

Lessons about life and projects below.

$99.90

The 15 Top Lessons of a PPP Project Nightmare

Learn about:
The number 1 killer of Projects
Why this was not going to be just "another construction project, mate"... Read more

Get those lessons now

PD 1: If you liked this email, don't keep it in secret and forward it to a friend. They will thank you enormously one day.

PD 2: If somebody has sent you this email and you want to receive emails like this yourself, visit vicentevalencia.com

PD 3: If you want unsubscribe, click the link below.

The Most Expensive Silence in a PPP

You’re the preferred bidder. You’ve survived the RFQ bloodbath. You’ve outlasted two global consortia. You’ve negotiated 1,200 comments on the Project Agreement. You’re tired. But you’re smiling. Because you’re “there”. And your bonus, and your holidays to Fiji, “almost there”. Or so you think. In 2014, the East West Link PPP in Melbourne had a preferred bidder. Contracts were executed. Advisors were celebrating. Many, already paid. Then elections happened. Ahhh… the famous political risk of...

about 20 hours ago • 1 min read

Do you have this super power?

Yesterday I was talking about clarity.Or better said, about simplicity.If you’re not capable of putting it clearly, you don’t have the "pajorera" (faintest damn) idea what you’re talking about. Simplifying is a superpower. How many times have I seen the best technicians we could find for a task make a presentation to a Board of Directors.Charts.Twisted words beyond belief.More jargon… as if it were a competition to see who can pee the furthest.In the end…The sound of crickets. Trying to...

2 days ago • 1 min read

You don't want to be Carlos

Big table. Bigger egos. Billion-dollar numbers floating around like confetti. We are in the middle of a key meeting of a bid for a PPP project. Slide on the screen. The Bid Director clears his throat. “And now, I’ll pass it to – let’s say - Carlos, who will walk us through the interface risk allocation model.” Silence. People start looking to each other. More looking. Some rumours. Someone nervously laughed… Carlos is not in the room. Not in the building. Not in the country. Where the hell is...