{"id":9235,"date":"2026-06-01T00:20:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T23:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/?p=9235"},"modified":"2026-06-01T00:20:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T23:20:25","slug":"ajustando-las-velas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2026\/06\/01\/ajustando-las-velas\/","title":{"rendered":"Adjusting the sails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, reviewing my Google notes, I found this quote I wrote down some time ago with the intention of sharing it in the blog:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>The pessimist complains about the wind; <br>the optimist expects it to change; <br>the realist adjusts the sails.<\/p><cite>William George Ward<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What do you think? It\u00b4s a good reminder of the different attitudes we can adopt when facing problems in life: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We can play the victim and complain about what\u00b4s happening to us (but without doing anything to change it)...<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We can cave in, and naively hope that things will get better by themselves...<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Or we can take action, and aim to make the best out of the situation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This also reminds me of a book I read years ago (which I later donated during one of my decluttering sprees, something I regret), titled <em>Who moved my cheese?<\/em>, by Spencer Johnson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through telling us a story about some little mice and a maze, the author highlights the importance of not becoming too comfortable assuming \"the cheese\" (= whatever we desire in life) will always be there. Instead, he encourages us to stay alert so as to detect when change is coming, knowing that it\u00b4s natural for some fears to appear as we don\u00b4t know how the change will affect us, and to try and adapt to it quickly, because being open to change (= believing the change is going benefit us) as opposed to resisting it (= believing it\u00b4s going to damage us) can bring us very positive results and valuable learnings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How easy is the theory, isn\u00b4t it? \"Don\u00b4t be afraid and embrace change; it will turn out well for sure\". The practice is an entirely different thing: fears don\u00b4t dissolve magically just by the mere fact that we know they\u00b4re there. But, using the appropriate tools and doing the necessary work, we can get to understand and manage our fears much better, so that we can take ownership of our own decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are you currently going through, or do you think you may soon be going through, a period of change? I am; we could say that at this moment, my cheese is moving. Or rather, the wind is changing, and I\u00b4m trying to find the best way to adjust my sails...<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_20240609_001946.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"676\" height=\"507\" data-attachment-id=\"9234\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/img_20240609_001946\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_20240609_001946.jpg?fit=4000%2C3000&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"4000,3000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.75&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;AC2003&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1717892384&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.745&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.025&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_20240609_001946\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo of a page from one of Disney\u00b4s \u00abJunior woodchucks\u00bb books, featuring Donald Duck and his three nephews dressed as pirates in a pirate ship&lt;\/p&gt;\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_20240609_001946.jpg?fit=676%2C507&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_20240609_001946.jpg?resize=676%2C507&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_20240609_001946.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_20240609_001946.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_20240609_001946.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_20240609_001946.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_20240609_001946.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_20240609_001946.jpg?resize=16%2C12&amp;ssl=1 16w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_20240609_001946.jpg?resize=676%2C507&amp;ssl=1 676w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_20240609_001946.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_20240609_001946.jpg?w=1352&amp;ssl=1 1352w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Double page photo of one of the <em>Junior Woodchucks<\/em> books my sisters and I used to read as kids, featuring a fabulous pirate ship. Can you tell that I have zero experience in sailing? I may have to ask my friends Se\u00e1n and Dee for a crash course on the basics.)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoy, revisando mis notas de Google, me he topado con esta frase que apunt\u00e9 hace tiempo para compartirla un d\u00eda en el blog: El pesimista se queja del viento; el optimista espera a que cambie; el realista ajusta las velas. William George Ward \u00bfQu\u00e9 te parece? Es un buen recordatorio de las distintas actitudes que &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2026\/06\/01\/ajustando-las-velas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adjusting the sails<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3116429,"featured_media":9234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"BinaryWords - Ajustando las velas \/ Adjusting the sails","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"\u00bfQu\u00e9 haces t\u00fa cuando cambia el viento? \/ What do you do when the winds change?","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4990,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiracion-inspiration","category-general","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3DPtR-2oX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":797,"url":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2022\/03\/28\/violinistas-en-el-metro\/","url_meta":{"origin":9235,"position":0},"title":"Violinists in the subway","author":"binarybea","date":"28\/03\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"La vida est\u00e1 llena de peque\u00f1os detalles, de esos que pasan desapercibidos cuando estamos ensimismados pensando en otras cosas, que es la mayor\u00eda de las veces. 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