Best things are the smallest ones.

With the arrival of 2020, it’s time to do a step forward and play a little bit more to achieve some new objectives.

There are still lots of things to do in order to put in practice a bunch of notes I took during the last year.

2019 was a very intense year regarding my professional life and career. I started the year taking a very strong decision – close my own tech company I started in 2011. There were 8 hard years of intense fighting with a very competitive market with a tiny amount of resources. Even when those hustling days are gone, I learned a lot about to be more responsible, resilient, focused, and mainly, I learned we can’t be in all fronts at the same time. It’s humanly impossible when we want to face all the things with the same kind of devotion. And for me, it only really worth when you put everything on it.

While in the process of closing the company, I decided to try to work as employee after so many years working for myself. It was not easy during the first months. I needed to change so many things in my daily routine I was used to do, and one of the hardest parts was to learn to work in a team of very young people.

One year passed and I’m so grateful for every single small thing I was “forced” to do. And who forced me? Me, just me and my own growth.

You know, when you decide to do a big update in your life, and it was, with no doubt the biggest I made ever, you start to see new viewpoints about lots of areas in your own life. I did so many progress in my personal life just because my professional life changed a lot. I can’t be more glad about me at this time.

Another big achievement I did during 2019 was about cleaning friendships that made no more sense to me. I’m just writing about this because I really believe this can be a very good lesson to learn for all of you, even I’m not an example. I realized sometimes you surround yourself with people during so many time, considering them as friends, but when you start to squeeze those relationships, you start to understand it really doesn’t worth your time and effort. Yes, I learned last year, more than ever, everything you do needs to worth something. Don’t only think value as money or some kind of physical interest or opportunity. There are lots of more interesting pleasurable things to enjoy in your life. Best things are the smallest ones.

So, an important lesson I learned was to take care and put real effort on things, even the smallest, you really believe and can make you a better and happier person. But wait, some things can take their own time to result. This last is another important one I learned.

Now regarding The Classics Workshop, it was a very soft and silent year. One more time, we can’t be everywhere. For good and for bad, things are as they are.
With the end of the year I started to think more about this project. What it really is and what I want it to become more valuable for me and for the others. This project started in order to document and create content about my passion with classic cars, with no ideas about how to make it grow and how I could monetize it.
With my professional life absorbing my entire day and sometimes some part of the nights, I was like creating some random things regarding my classics. Mainly ending the restoration of a Piaggio Vespa and a bunch of very tiny projects I had no time to document and publish. Posted some photos on Instagram and that’s it.

I wish this year will be the stabilization one, in general. My professional life keeps going good and now I want to focus my personal free time creating content about progressions on my classics and a bunch of nice things I want to show you. With no fears of judgement as I had in the past. We all have or had this feeling when we start to realize a text we are writing will be read by a bunch of people. You know there are haters everywhere :). One more lesson learned is that we really can’t please everyone. And this is so so real.

Backing to The Classics Workshop, created a new logo, putting some color and soul on it. I can tell now this new logo is more the soul of the brand I ever wanted to create. Lets see if it works. By the way, let me know in the comments.

Another goal I’m purposing this year is to practice more my English (I’m Portuguese). That’s also why I’m starting to write this first 2020 post in English. Sorry for anything not so well written.

For now I don’t want to annoy you with a bigger story. I just can promise you, everything is from the very inside of me (as always) and from about what I’m feeling right now, with no planning to write a good movie story. 🙂

Hugs and kisses,
Carlos