Stay inspired! Letter to my collaborators

Today is a special day, the new challenges mean that I must take on a better opportunity. In a week I will no longer be your immediate boss and one of you will succeed me so that things do not stop and also so that they acquire the freshness that the changes demand. Although I will be around here, I will surely have less time to see them in the territory as often as I used to.

So, in order not to do it when they are no longer my direct collaborators, I take advantage of the youth of the night to write a few lines that I have previously released in pills. Aware that some will read it late, also understanding that some may not be known to be alluded to due to my stubborn anonymity.

First, thank you for taking responsibility for a good amount of my successes. By paying attention to ideas that are sometimes crazy, sometimes illusory, others as common as the obvious common sense. Also thank you for ignoring me when you have considered that my initiatives could be refuted, for having innovated against my will only for the security of knowing what they were doing with greater property.

Others have already said, few times in these development processes are so many results obtained with so little resources. That shows the talent it represents a team that was born from more than 300 technicians contracted temporarily for less than 150 dollars per month, from where 32 initially came, then only 16 And to the extent that the transfer of sustainability requires they became only 8. Polishing them was not my responsibility, I barely had the idea, the rest was achieved by their persistence, discipline and the charisma of three mentors who were part of their character, human warmth and technical knowledge. I admit it, some of them already brought a lot of this and there was no shortage of those who did not allow themselves to be helped or it was difficult to continue. Thanks to the boys for not leaving pregnant women on the way, to the girls for not leaving many broken hearts in the municipalities.

I am honored to see the potential that one day I saw in their eyes now turned into tools with which they will do things greater than ours, especially with less pain. Now they know which of their mentors they would not repeat, but also everything that they would replicate to the tired ones because it is a guarantee of success, whether or not there are cutting-edge technologies.

Although not everything has been easy, we agree that the knowledge and experience gained is invaluable. It must be exploited because there are very few shortcuts to achieve it other than the natural time of trial and error and, the wisdom for the opportunity that is often not repeated in the same way.

So my final messages, not only to the last 8 but to all those who went through this process but by chance find this text:

Do your best not to lose your inspiration in what you do.

Like the first time they had a cadastral card in their hand, still smelling of printing ink. Like when they saw that the compass moved the numbers backwards, like when they touched the GPS and realized that it was not an MP3, when they made their first course in AutoCAD and a good topological cleaning in Microstation Geographics. Just like the day they faced for the first time a group of new students, a strong mayor, an AK47 in the jungle of those who opposed the cadastre. Put that passion into everything you do, with the roughness of leveling the total station tripod, the gentleness of grasping the connecting cable -the one that did not hurt, of course-.

Do not stop aspiring to be a little bigger than it is who instructs them.

Know how to value those who inspire you, praise the abilities of others to be great. Be passionate about learning something new every day, even those simple things that bring good results in this life; such as spelling, writing, good handwriting, order, family closeness, reading, good coffee. Especially the good humor in UTM format, authentic as we do in Zona 16 Norte.

Suffers enough to strive to meet the requirements that this life requires.

Know how to value what you have at home, children only grow once.

Stress and time pressure are no excuse to stop making a call. A pat from the boss will never return a lost laugh on a family movie night… even if we fall asleep in the middle of the movie. Feed the spirit, tell people how much they are worth, if it is necessary to use the corny, do it because the day of your death will be what you will remember.

Inspire yourself, aspire, value.

And if one day we meet in a cafe, it will be good to laugh at this life that goes by very quickly. The coffee will always taste good, according to values ​​in Nueva Frontera, with María helping to serve the food.

With love. Don G!