About This Site

I have fallen, I have learned, and I always choose to move on and improve myself.  This blog is for anyone who is looking to do the same, improve every day of their lives, while keeping a clear zen-like mind.

In this blog I intend to communicate honestly and openly about my life perspective, the lessons I gain, and the insight I want to keep for future situations.  I love to learn about learning, happiness, productivity, positivity, investments, and others.  I have dedicated myself to discovering what makes me and others happy.  I try to use this knowledge to help people get out of vicious cycles that lead them to depression, and instead point them in a new direction in which they can improve and take control of their lives.  I’ve learned from my personal experience and by really embracing teachings from friends and certain books.  From “How to Win Friends and Influence People” to “Everyday Zen”, “A New Earth” and “Getting Things Done,” I have learned something from many different publications.  I have applied many lessons to my daily life, and hope to be able to share with others truthfully my life successes and failures, and reasons why I think such events happened.

Ultimately, though, I just want to be like Oprah, or meet her one day.  But I guess we all do.

“All that we are is a result of what we have thought”
- Buddha

About Me

My name is Omar Eduardo Fernández, senior student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Ever since entering such an institution I’ve worked to balance life and work, and I must say, I have had to read a fair amount of self-help, zen, and productivity books.  Hopefully you will learn something from my experiences. :)

I currently live in Cambridge, MA – where MIT is located – which gives me direct access to the great city, Boston.

Picture taken by: Carmel Mercado

I come from a big and humble family from Mayagüez, Puerto Rico and spent my childhood obsessed with electronic games, pokemon and power rangers.  The memory I remember most clearly of my early years was from one day when I was crying at my grandma’s house.  I realized my mom was leaving to work, and I didn’t want her to leave me there so I ran to the porch’s fence and started calling her and pushing the fence of my grandma’s porch back and forth.  Then, out of nowhere,  the fence’s big, fat lock fell on my toe.  I then had two reasons to cry, and a black toe.  My mom left and my grandma put my feet under ice-cold water, just to give me a third reason to cry.

I spent my high school years at CROEM, a boarding school in Mayaguez, PR.  Those years were full of experiences that allowed me to develop emotionally.  The most important thing I learned during those 3 years was to treasure my friendships.  I also learned to carefully choose my friends, aim high, and that there is much more to a person than what you can see at first.  You usually don’t learn some of these things until you wake up in the middle of the night and realize that there is a whole lot of things going on that you never thought happened while you slept.  Boarding school does deserve its reputation most of the time.

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