3 things I've loved this week

 

Image source: taken in Valli del Pasubio

This week was full of news and good habits!

1. On Tuesday morning I went walking with my friend M. He lives in a beautiful little city at the foot of the mountains.

2. I received my first official order for a book translation from English into Italian! I'm so happy! I got to work immediately and I finished the first ten pages in only 8 hours.

3. I saw a roe deer in the field in front of my home. What a beautiful sight!

Image source: taken by me.

How was your week? Did something particular happen that you would never forget? Tell me in the comments.

Have a nice new week!

Emily

Netflix Series Review - Dark

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"Dark" is a German Netflix original series that talks about time travel. It's divided into 3 seasons and it's currently closed.

2019. In the small city of Winden disappear two children. The following researches reveal mysteries and secrets about four families: the Kahnwald, the Nielsen, the Doppler, and the Tiedemann. Moreover, during the researches happen some strange events like the falling of copious birds and strong and strange electric pulses that blow the electricity all over the city. Most of the older inhabitants remember that the same events also happened 33 years before when disappeared another child of the Nielsen family.

The first season is articulated on three timelines, each one distant 33 years: 2019, 1986, 1953. I found it slower than the others, but the reason is simple: there is a high quantity of information. 

The second season space out between the year 1921 and the year 2052. It's slow, but like the first, it's still full of information that finally seems to lead somewhere.

At last, the third season comes back in time until the year 1888. Into the second to last episode were included a tracking shot of other years that let us set the last pieces of the story. I found this last season very quick and sometimes a bit overwhelming, but still great!

The end is beautiful, surprising, and that I've never imagined because, like the protagonists, I thought that all the events would start from a point but they started before instead.

The entire series is based on the auto-consistency principle that says, essentially, that the past is immutable and so anyone would come back to change it, will be led to get it done again (see "Novikov self-consistency principle").

Have you seen the series? What do you think about it? Would you like time-traveling? Let me know in the comments.

See you soon

Emily

Networkers

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"Networkers" are people who work in Network Marketing. They are active and positive people who prefer to find solutions instead of problems. They know that what they get or lose is their own credit and no one else's.

I think there's a common wrong idea about Networkers. Many times I hear about Networkers like "those who earn a lot doing anything". If that were really the case, they wouldn't work in Network Marketing! Networkers need to be constant and patient. Success doesn't come by itself in one day! In effect, they're very similar to business owners in traditional companies. 

Many people don't like Networkers because they consider they're demanding. It's not Networkers fault! Networkers are so satisfied with their company and its products that they can't help but talk to everyone about it, even with those who have already talked about it several times (usually family and friends).

So, what do Networkers really do in their job?

• A Networker promotes a company and its products that he or she loves, in which he or she trusts, and with whose customers and colleagues keep a great relationship.
• A Networker makes personnel selection because everyone can do Network Marketing, but not everyone has the right motivation to do it.
• A Networker helps to grow up his or her inexperienced colleagues because his or her growth depends on that of their colleagues.

And what Networkers need to work?

Only a tablet, or a smartphone, or a computer and a very big dream. It's the most important thing because it's the fuel of any Networker.

Have you ever heard about Networkers? What do you think about them? Would you like to start a carrier in Network Marketing? Let me know in the comments!

Have a nice day!

Emily

Amazon Series Review - The Boys

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It took a year, but finally, my boyfriend convinced me to watch the first TV series of "The Boys". As it came out I judged it badly, thinking of it as an absurd parody of superheroes, but I had to change my mind instead.

The series starts with the homicide of the protagonist's girlfriend, by a superhero. While the protagonist has to decide if he has to accept or not the offer of the superheroes, an ex-agent of the FBI contacts him offering him help to obtain justice.

They plan to put a bug in the meeting room of the superheroes, to find out if it was really an accident, but they're found out by one of the heroes, that block and try to kill them. They succeed in knocking out, capturing, and hiding him. Unfortunately, the hero saw their face and don't want to free him because he could continue hunting them, or worse, he could tell everything to the leader of the heroes.

After the hero exploded, they discover that the hero who killed the protagonist's girlfriend is involved in superhero drug trafficking, so they want to catch him. Meanwhile, they find out also that superheroes weren't born like superheroes, but they were created in a laboratory, thank the same substance that they use like drugs and that the drug traffics, ends in the hands of some terrorists who are trying to create an army of super-terrorists.

I wasn't completely convinced about the seriousness of the story, so I started to watch it taking it lightly, but since the first episode, I've put away the thought that it was absurd. This first series is interesting, especially because it doesn't show classical good superheroes, devoted only to charity, but it shows how humans would really react if they keep superpowers in this age of social media: they would think more to impress and receive "likes" than seriously save people.

Have you seen the series? What do you think about it? Ant what do you think about a similar vision of the superheroes? Do you agree? If you awake one morning with Superman's powers, how would you use them? Let me know in the comments.

See ya soon!

Emily

Network Marketing

Everyone has done Network Marketing at least once in his/her life! Have you ever suggested a restaurant, a movie, or a professional to relatives or friends? Did you know, at that moment you advertize that restaurant, movie, or professional? We know better it as "Word of Mouth", free and essential for companies, especially for those new that need more to make themselves known. The Network Marketing is the paid version of "World of Mouth".

Advertising made by advertising agency costs, it's a fact. To decrease this cost, a company proposes to its customers (ourselves) to suggest its products in exchange for a profit on the turnover we bring to it: the company acquires new customers meanwhile it helps us create a small payday or rounding the salary we still receive from our work. And this is only the beginning!

Sometimes it happens that a relative, or friend, needs to round his/her salary and asks us to help him/her to promote the products of the company, as we're doing. At this point, the company decides to give us a further reward because we're helping our friend to do the same for us, and because, in this way, we're helping our company to increase its turnover. The most the company gains, the more it can reward its customers-collaborators.

This system doesn't only bring more turnover to our trusted company, it brings also a profit to us, which is never stable, but tends to increase. It's about a meritocratic profit that we acquire based on our commitment. Has it never happened to you to complain about a co-worker who receives your own pay and works half of you? With this method, such a situation can't occur! Everyone only reaps what they sow.

Summing up: Network Marketing is a paid "Word of Mouth", based on how much we chat.

What I love about...Spring

I love Spring, it's one of my favorite seasons: full of colors and life. You can find new energy everywhere and you can use it for the best activities you prefer: running, walking, working, cleaning, and so on. 

Some weeks ago, before they forced us to stay at home, I went out for a good walk and had to take some pictures of those colorful flowers. 

This is also the period of Sakura blossom in Japan. I'm following a FB page where they're publishing some beautiful pictures of cherry trees blossom. It's so suggestive. One day I will go to Japan, and I will see this beautiful event with my own eyes.

What do you like about spring? Is there somewhere you would like to visit, more than others, in this period? Let me know in the comments.

Good night lovelies

Emily

There is something new...

There is a new lifestyle for a new me.

I reached a point of no return and I could do nothing more than take a few steps back.

First of all: I started a healthier diet. I decided it was time to see a nutritionist and let him to suggest me the better way for losing weight. And he suggested me very well! In 5 months I have lost 10kg, and I'm still losing weight! I'm very happy and satisfied.

In the second place, I needed to change my job. I was no more able to effort all that pressure from those 2 cold persons I worked with and I was no more able to accept to work for making richer rich people. I want to make real my dreams and no one except me can realize them. So I started this healthier and beautiful new job.

Now I'm spending more time at home (quarantine or not), and I'm dedicating more attention to my self-care and family. When we can go out, I go on walking almost every day, and when we can't go out, I do some workouts twice or three times per week.

In this period I found again my passion for cooking, so...I often prepare something delicious.

Well, I'm printing again with the 3D printer. I'm so happy. We had some problems with the machine, but now we fixed them and we're printing again almost full time. The theme of the moment is Pokémon.

I also discovered a new passion: nails and everything concerns with them. I really like nail art, and I'm trying to do always something new. My boyfriend's mom is always ready to offer herself as cavy giving me the possibility of exercise on someone else's nails.

Well, what else? Nothing more for the moment. I'll write something new soon.

Good night everyone.

Emily