On this occasion, I am pleased to send you an article written by Carolina Jaimes Branger, with which I have identified a lot because I have similarly experienced what she relates in relation to certain people that they do not properly value the intellectual work that others do. Because of having had several experiences almost identical to what she recounts, I fully understood that the heart of the matter was beyond my own assessment of what that I suppose that my work is worth and beyond what others can believe or think about it is that when you give away your knowledge it is of the type that is the who receives it, tends to unconsciously perceive that it has no value, simply because he received it without having put any effort on his part, but without understanding that the real effort was made by the one who gave it to him, at the cost of having invested and dedicated his energy and his irreplaceable productive time to unilaterally please the other. This applies to who have the erroneous belief that the spiritual must be free, because they believe that by putting the label spiritual to a large number of situations, justify your well-positioned posture. Interestingly, we are all willing to receive without giving anything in return and without doubting that we deserve unconditionally what we receive for free, as if that right was socially established. On this subject the spiritual must be free I have sent several texts in the past (in addition to everything that has been circulating freely on the Internet) and therefore, it should not be necessary to explain again that everything around us and everything we do, in the end is Energy in Motion. Those of us who consciously travel the Search Path that we imposed on ourselves, learned that "Giving" requires "Receiving" for this flow to be equated. No one should be obliged to give, just because there may be a certain public consensus about what should be socially / religiously correct or not. When we give with a wide open heart and expect nothing in return - because we do it with that intention - although we have renounced a fair exchange, Life usually gives us back, not because "we behaved" or "we were spiritual", but because "Giving" works as a kind of mathematical equation or as a chemical formula: it will necessarily generate an opposite energy flow called "Receive." On the other hand, when we give through an exchange that we have agreed in advance, we are sticking to that same formula, but without waiting for the appropriate reaction to occur. We are simply working within the same spirit of "Giving and Receiving", but aware that our Being - through our sense of self-worth - will agree to deliver something that will be valued in its right measure by whoever receives it, as we must have keep in mind that when we charge for something we offer, the counterpart will only receive it after accepting a negotiated or agreed exchange beforehand ”, which means acceptance and conformity of part and part… and that is also“ Energy in Motion in Search of a Balance State ”. Fraternally Mario Liani

“Get your job” by Carolina Jaimes Branger

A month ago a private school in Caracas invited me to give a talk. When I passed my fees, they replied that "they had no plans to pay the talks in the budget." Last week a guild invited me to speak to them - free of charge - at 11 am and at 1 pm I had not started. I left. Not a letter of apology. I shared the story on Facebook and found that I am not alone in this type of abuse.

I remembered one of my many conversations with Ramón J. Velásquez, who last week turned 97 years of accumulated wisdom. On that occasion he told me that Venezuela would only begin to change when intellectual work was valued. "Charge your work, " he told me. And if I do not charge, I do not live ...

I had already had a very bad experience with the owner of a school in Valencia who asked me to give a talk at a seminar that I had at the Pestana Hotel with more than a thousand attendees and charged at the price of a golden hen, because it had been associated with an institute in Caracas to train specialized educators. When I finished the talk he gave me a “thank you for your participation” diploma and when I wrote to him to charge him he told me that “he thought I was not going to charge” and offered to give me “1000 bolivars from his pocket” as if it were alms. A couple of months later I met him at a dinner at the Tamanaco, where he had paid Bs. 25, 000 for his table ... Anyway ...

Among the comments I received to my public complaint, Professor Olga Ramos told me that in the educational world those who organize forums always start from the premise that those who give talks do so because it suits us and that they even do us a favor by giving us an audience. Bernard Horande advised me to always start from the principle that work is paid. And Gabriel Ruda gave me a lesson that I started to apply since I read it:

“I don't like to generalize, but the free talks in my life have had three typical characteristics:

a) They always have logistic problems (when it doesn't rain, it drizzles them)…

b) They have a horrific punctuality (people take it lightly to arrive or not to arrive). In fact, the group usually starts with few people.

c) Finally, people often do not commit to the message (even if the conference is good, a few are disconnected, most are half involved and many were only sitting there).

When you pay for something, there is a psychological effect of: "I have to take advantage of this money." Then they are not late or by mistake, nothing fails in logistics because the organizers know that they are going to demand them and people would almost like to put a direct cable to the speaker's brain.

When someone asks you for a free talk, telling you they can't pay, they have an "attitude" problem that the talk won't solve. There are exceptions, but in my life they have been very rare. Something can always be exchanged, always something in return can offer me ... Your money goes to someone and comes from someone ... You have to pay and collect everything (not just with money) so that the energy keeps moving ... They will go to refute, why your ideas cannot be applied in this environment and why they will continue to be screwed (sorry for the rudeness).

2 months ago, a provincial university with severe budget problems in Mexico, made raffles, sold t-shirts, got television support and moved to an entire city to make the talk possible in just 3 weeks. Of course I made a concession on the fee for being students, but I didn't give away my work. Result?

400 people in the room, paying your entrance fee! They drew their power of achievement ... They showed that they wanted the talk. The energy was unforgettable and they took advantage of every second we shared.

The penultimate talk to a university, I gave it Result? An auditorium of 350 chairs, with only 20 people, despite 3 months of promotion. I said: No more!

If not, see what happens with the things that the towns receive for free… ”

Unfortunately, we are seeing it.

@cjaimesb SOURCE: http://runrun.es/impacto/94957/cobra-tu-trabajo-por-carolina-jaimes-branger.html

Get Your Work - by Carolina Jaimes Branger - Comments by Mario Liani