jueves, 30 de mayo de 2013

What Influences You?


Your Influences In Life 


The world is constantly moving. At times, you may feel like you’re at the center of it all. So many things can influence you, such as a familiar sweet smell as you drive through your old neighborhood, a picture hanging on the wall in your dentist’s office, or even just a color on a billboard.


These sources are at the heart of your day-to-day choices, and have a far-reaching effect on how you live your life as well as whether you’re satisfied or frustrated with your life, overall.
Self-talk — What goes through your mind when making a decision is often subtle and easy to miss, but very powerful. The things you say to yourself in your head can empower you or make you feel completely powerless. They can cause you to pause and think about your next action, or drive you to make choices mindlessly.


Previous Experiences — If your current circumstances resemble experiences you’ve had before, that may push you to make the same familiar choice you made before…or compel you to make a different one. Even experiences we’ve long forgotten can influence our choices years later.

Environment — When you’re in unfamiliar surroundings, you may feel uptight or vulnerable, your confidence might be low which can cause you to make conservative decisions when the opposite might be best. If you’re in a familiar environment, you may feel at ease or empowered, which will influence your choices in a different direction. However, if you’re in a familiar environment where good or bad things may have happened, again, that will influence your emotional state, your thoughts, and your actions.

Senses — What you’re seeing, touching, tasting, or smelling can influence how you perceive your environment and how you feel, emotionally. Sensory feedback is hitting you constantly and can cause you to feel as you did in past experiences, both good and bad, without you knowing why you feel the way you do.

People — Whether through peer pressure, or a fondness toward someone, just being with other people can cause you to eliminate some choices as options and make other choices much more likely for you to choose.

The Future — When faced with a decision, in an instant, you will have considered the potential outcomes of many choices. If you want to avoid a specific outcome or effect, you’ll make a choice that you believe will avoid it. If you desire a specific outcome, you’ll make a choice that you think will bring that potential future.

Media — Things read on the Internet, heard on the news or from a friend, or perhaps read in a textbook or magazine can influence your choices. Sometimes what you hear in a song or on the radio can affect you, and the information doesn’t even have to be accurate.

Your Physical Health — When you’re feeling sick, tired, weak, clogged up, dried out, fried out, or inside out, you may not be at your best when making some choices. You could be so focused on how you feel, that you don’t thoroughly consider all your options and instead make the choices that requires the least number of brain cells to make.

Your Mental Health — This includes your general emotional state, overall, but also specific states like depression, anger, etc. If you’re feeling depressed, stressed out, anxious or cloudy-headed, making rational decisions isn’t likely to be your first concern. Things you may normally care about take a back seat until you get past your funk. If the situation you find yourself in causes familiar and habitual emotions to stir, whether good or bad, your emotional state can directly affect your behavior and the choices you end up making.



You’re constantly being influenced by what goes on in your head and what’s happening around you. Being more aware of how you are influenced can help you think and make decisions more rationally. Consider the effects of your choices by first looking at the causes or influences all around you. Just being more aware of these sources of influence can help you begin to slowly change what you don’t like about your life or begin to mindfully enjoy what you do like about it.





Paseo Chapultepec


Chapultepec


Among all the avenues of the city highlights this by its size, monuments, trees and modern buildings.

It has the wide central median strip, fountains, bronze sculptures of each of Los Niños Héroes and Ignacio Zaragoza, as well as two books on pedestal bronze also with texts by Mariano Otero and Ignacio L. Vallarta, on both sides of  Avenida Vallarta.

Across the street east, between Calle Justo Sierra Morelos can be admired another bronze monument, a bust of the poet Pedro Garfias, the site is known as Rincón Sevillano.
There are many activities and things you can do here and the surroundings, it has a great ambiance day and night.

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The competition between the restaurants, bars, cafes and all the establishments it's really interesting to see, they are always innovating and having new ideas to improve what they sell or even changing the full concept of a place.
There are a lot of places where you can eat, have a coffee or a drink and also for the different moods you are in.  

Daylife

You can find excellent restaurants and places to have breakfast, lunch, dinner or  just a bite. But if you are not looking a place to eat , you can chill in a cafe or just walk around Chapultepec; there are several libraries where you can seat, have a black coffee or whatever you want and relax reading an interesting article or your favorite book.

On Sundays you can enjoy a ride in your bike, your skateboard, skates or just by using you feet in the " Vía Recreactiva" which is a ride or tour in Chapultepec that also covers several areas of the city; this starts early in the morning and finishes at  2:00 pm  Sometimes there are activities near certain areas which are focus on the participants in this stroll.






Here are the some of the most famous restaurants of Chapultepec nowadays: 


 Chez Chouchou
Pedro Moreno 1290, Col. Americana, Guadalajara
Tel.:  38250218
  This place offers french cuisine in its restaurant and terrace. 


Pig's Pearls
General Coronado 79, Guadalajara, 
Tel.: 3825 5933
The burgers( which are the specialty) are delicious, with a high quality meat and the dressings are made with different herbs that give a delightful touch.



La Nacional
Chapultepec Sur 215, between La Paz and  Libertad
Tel.: 38273090
This  restaurant, cafe and bar is one of the most original and creative of the city with a menu consisting of pizzas, burgers, pastas, drinks and cocktails.



 Suntory 
Ave. Chapultepec Norte No. 15 ( Morelos Street)

Japanese restaurant, they also have sushi. It's really great, a little bit expensive, but totally worht it, and it's really nice too.




Nightlife

The nightlife in Chapultepec is amazing, there's always something to do and a lot of places to go... Whether you want a peaceful place or even a nightclub, Chapultepec have it. 

On saturdays theres a typoe of flea market in which you can find everything, from clothes to food or desserts, pipes, accessories, etc. And there's always a band playing music, sometimes is reggae, sometimes it's more punk or rock... it dependos on the performing band. 

Sometimes, every 2 or 3 months there are concerts/ different groups performing in all the avenue and they close the streets for safetiness and to have more control. 
There is also a night ride in which you will have a good and peaceful time riding your bike across the streets surrounding the main ave.



           




I think Chapultepec is awesome, there is a really good vibe whatever your mood is, you will be happy there. All the restaurants are good, also the little cafes are great, you really enjoy having a drink and just talking with your friends in a peaceful environment. The saturdays are my favorites because of the flea market and the musicians preforming on the street. But any day is a good day to go, whether you go in the morning, in the afternoon or at night you'll always find new places that are great choices.












miércoles, 15 de mayo de 2013

Beautiful Guadalajara!!!


La Perla Tapatía


Being a "Tapatío" is awesome, because Mexico is known worldwide because of Jalisco's traditions and mores. Now,  being specially from Guadalajara it's even more awesome. We are rich in culture and traditions, Guadalajara is full of life and color every where you see. We are one of the major cities in Mexico and because of this and our development through history. I am really proud to be mexican and to be tapatia; every time I hear the mariachi I feel my heart beating faster, every time I think in our interesting and spiritual  traditions I get goosebumps, I get an inside cheer and happiness that it's just irrepressible. We should all be proud and we should carry on with mexican traditions, whether is the exquisite cuisine, the folkloric dances, the cheerful songs and melodies or all the costumes of our native people, we must nurture it and keep passing them from generation to generation.

Here is the basic information you need to know of Guadalajara :





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Nickname(s): Spanish: La Perla de Occidente(English: The Pearl of the West), Spanish: La Ciudad de las Rosas (English: The City of Roses)
Motto: Spanish: Somos más por Guadalajara, (English: We are more for Guadalajara)

Location of Guadalajara within Jalisco
Guadalajara is located in Mexico
Guadalajara
Location of Guadalajara within Jalisco
Country Mexico
State Jalisco
RegionCentro
MunicipalityGuadalajara
FoundationFebruary 14, 1542
FounderCristóbal de Oñate
Government
 • MayorAristóteles Sandoval Díaz (PRI)
Population (2010)
 • City1,495,189
 • Density10,361/km2 (26,830/sq mi)
 • Metro4,424,252
 • Metro density1,583/km2 (4,100/sq mi)
 • DemonymTapatío, guadalajarense


Ancient Guadalajara

The name "Guadalajara" was chosen after the birthplace of Nuño de Guzmán in Spain. The town lasted for only a short time at this site. Guzmán, Crístobal de Oñate, Miguel de Ibarra and Sancho Ortiz decided to relocate to a place where there would be more water, fewer dust storms and better transportation. By August 8, 1533 they had moved the town to it's second location, near Tonalá. Two years later, in March 1535, they again moved the town to a new location. After a large attack by natives on September 28 in 1541, during the War of the Mixtón, they decided once more to relocate the city to a more defensible location. They chose Guadalajara's present location, in the valley of Atemajac, along the San Juan de Dios river. 


Added Towns

Zapopan

Tonalá

El Salto

Tlajomulco de Zúñiga

Tlaquepaque 


Here are some pictures of Guadalajara's most famous landmarks through history, basically thru the 50's - 90's : 


Jalisco Stadium 

Plaza de la Bandera

Independence Hall 

La Minerva Roundabout

Plaza Juarez Inauguration 
Guadalajara's Arches

Downtown

Panteón de Belén

Fountain in front of Hospicio Cabañas

Guadalajara in the 90's

Guadalajara Now 

Basílica de Zapopan 

Guadalajara's Arches 

Historic Downtown 

La Minerva Roundabout 

Expiatorio de Guadalajara 

Plaza Las Armas

Downtown 

Daylife 

Guadalajara is like any other city, it has a lot of delicious and diverse restaurants, cafes and beautiful fashion malls. We have also a Zoo and next to it there's a Fun park called Selva Magica.  But if you are looking for something unique you should visit our historical places, such as downtown or maybe a Guadalajara's Suburb, such as Chapultepec, Terranova, Providencia, Ciudad del Sol or go a little bit further and visit Chapala Lake, Tlaquepaque, Tonalá, Tequila which by the way is an excellent choice... and other added cities or places nearby.

Chapala Lake 

Hospicio Cabañas

Andares Mall

Tlaquepaque

Providencia and Terranova Suburbs
Tequila

The Guachimontones

Nightlife 

There are several nightclubs, bars, cafes, night activities in places like Chapultepec and well, it's like any other city, but we have more fun and party a lot!

Lucrecia Nightclub

Bossé Nightclub 

Bike Night Stroll

Chapultepec- López Cotilla Area

Political Life 

The actual State Governor is Aristóteles Sandoval Díaz, member of PRI 's political party.
There's a lot of people unhappy about him being the governor because his lack of experience and preparation and other things about him and the party. But I think we should be more possitive about it and try to be informed about what he is doing to get real information and facts so we can critic with a background of information and to give good opinions. This is pretty much the same with Mexico's president, Enrique Peña Nieto. 

Aristóteles Sandoval ( Governor)

Enrique Peña Nieto( President)

Important Dates and Festivities 

February 14 : Guadalajara's Foundation Jubilee.

FIL( Feria Internacional del Libro) : It´s around autumn and it's the International Book Fair.

Fiestas de Ocubre: They are celebrated in October and it's like a carnival and famous mexican singers present each year. There is also a beauty contest ( just for women).

Romería: Celebrated from May 20 thru October 11. The Romería is when Zapopan's Virgin visits temples and cathedrals in all Gdl, Tlaquepaque, and other towns. 

Candelaria: January 25- February 9. A Christian festivity. 

Día de Muertos: November 1st- Nov. 3rd. These days are dedicated to celebrate our dead ones. The first day is dedicated to the children that died and teh 2nd and 3rd to the adults and elders. People make shrines with the favourite things of the dead one. 

Candelaria Typical Food 

FIL

Día de Muertos Shrine

Fiestas de Octubre

Mexico is a great country to visit and Guadalajara is definitely a MUST! It's full of life, joy and love :)