Hi there. This Tumblr blog is counting its days and will be replaced with my new home in a few weeks. Why? Because I’ve got a new awesome blogging platform that fits my needs perfectly.

See you soon.

I was not active on this personal blog for quite a long time. Those 6 months passed so quickly working on many things, including Metricious, LiveOpenly, and entire business ecosystem at Idiles. I love what I do, but at the same time daily activities are full of extra work that has nothing in common with pleasure and my true path. Maybe this is natural. Maybe everyone who lives his or her true life comes with many lessons and loses his or her path time to time. Sometimes I feel this. Sometimes not.

But it’s time for me to do even better things in my life. It’s time to go and play to the public, and this fall is the best time. I cannot wait anymore. And I know that Metricious app is part of my dream, so the only way to go is to make it a huge thing worldwide.

This blog is going to change a little. I am going to migrate from Tumblr to Wordpress and gain more power in writing. I have a list of articles to publish, and I want to write even more than before.

Check out my SoundCloud profile at http://soundcloud.com/martynasjocius, I’m uploading my songs (drafts) here. The day is coming when I will be able to record music in real studios.

See you soon friends. :)

Let’s simplify the reality of our society, so that we can see the main, structural truths. There exist two types of people: those who work only because they want to earn money, and those who work because they want to do something important to them. The majority of us belong to the first group. The second type comprises a much smaller group.

So what? It might be not important, if work did not take up 33% of our lifetime, and if it did not influence the quality of the other 67%. But it takes that 33% and influences the rest, leaving work important for 100% of your life.

What happens to people who don’t like their job very much?

• Things that people don’t like create negative emotions.
• 33% of their lifetime these people don’t feel very good— frustrated, unfulfilled, annoyed, stressed, or any other combination of negative feelings.
• These negative emotions can be fought the easiest by not thinking about certain things, ignoring the problems. People get used to not-thinking. Not-thinking becomes their habit.
• So, people don’t think much for the other 67% of their lives, because they usually rest or sleep. Even when awake, they force themselves not to be mindful.
• Because of this huge influence of our work hours, other parts of our life become very dependent on the job we have or the work we do every day. Actually, work hours form our habits, our nature, our personalities, and life quality. And for people who dislike their jobs, this life quality may drop significantly. Money should not determine our personalities, and if we do something that makes us unhappy simply to earn money, is it truly worthwhile?

So, what happens to people who enjoy their daily work?

• They get up easily in the morning, because they are free of the negative emotions that many people have about their upcoming work hours. This creates a huge influence on all-day energy— they don’t need to rest sporadically from exhaustion.
• These people do not go to bed late, because their day fully satisfied them and there is almost nothing more to add to be happy. Could it be that those who go to bed very late are not happy people?
• When these people work on something, they do it passionately, or at the very least, they put all their energy to the task. Why? Because it is important to them personally.
• When they want something, they try harder to get it. They optimize the process, and they do the best they can to achieve results in less time. They really care about the quality of their work.
• When 33% of our lifetime is spent happily perfecting our minds and spirits, the remaining 67% of it absorbs that spirit and quality.

Do you really like what you do? Is the work you do really important to you personally, or do you do it because of your never-perfect salary?

Maybe deep inside you dream about doing something else? If so, please don’t wait for magic things to happen, stop what you are doing right now, and start living your new lifestyle where true magic happens. Only then you will be able to grow as a person and achieve what you really need. If you stay on your old not-so-passionate path, you will develop some really bad habits that will build your entire life. These habits will dominate everything in your mind and everything in your environment. These bad habits will even negatively influence the people you love. Make the immediate choice to change your life for the better— you can make this choice.

This is very important.

What does our society and environment look like when 99% of our people spend their days not thinking about anything, just doing something? It’s not DNA that makes people unhappy, it’s the habits we develop each day, it’s the path that we have chosen. Choose a better path.

Have you ever heard that our education system is out-dated? I’m sure you have. This is something that bothers me.

Our standard education system is not just out-dated. It’s harmful. Before going to school, children are creative, alive– they want to explore the world, they want to try things, they are free inside. How do they act and feel after graduating secondary and high schools?

We all know the answer.

Children are smart and creative. Adults usually aren’t.

We look for rules to follow, because it’s easier. We are full of fears, and we only talk about creativity. We were taught to follow the rules, by other adults who were also full of fear, trained by the same system. And after graduating, the majority of us became factory workers, whatever that factory looks like: bank, web agency, non-profit organization, whatever.

What do we remember from the school times?

I can tell a little what I remember:

• School was so boring! You had to learn things that you knew you would never use in the future, because everything would be completely forgotten in 10 years (only the broken spirit will remain for the whole lifetime).
• School was something in conflict with our nature: we wanted to think, we wanted to create, we wanted to be free, we wanted to build things, and we wanted to explore the world, that’s for sure. But all we got was limited/standardized information and lots of rules to follow!
• At school you were forced to follow the rules, again. When you refused to follow the rules, you got a bad mark or you had lots of other problems.
• At school you were forced to work alone. If during the lesson or exam you wanted to solve a problem in group or you wanted to help others, or ask others for help, you were punished. Everyone involved was punished.

For more than 100 years, the education system was built to make factory workers out of us. And we are not factory workers, that’s for sure. For the last hundreds of thousands of years, humans were free and smart creatures, exploring the world, creating some joy and magic.

Now our economy has changed again, and if you want to achieve something great, you have to unlearn everything you have learned at school. Everything!

Here are a few ways of reinventing ourselves:

• When you do something, do it for society and for yourself.
• Stop following the rules. Filter, change or eliminate them, so that you and society gain the most value and joy from the daily life.
• Become a child again. Explore the world, touch everything, try new things, follow your intuition, and smile a lot.
• Work in groups! We must learn to work in groups again and unlearn being alone. Group work is the best way to achieve results in less time, and also the best way to have joy, and grow inside.
• Learn being creative again, because we were taught to be mediocre. Mediocre people are easy to manage by giving rules to follow, but at the same time they are like zombies, and our society is dying because of our mediocrity. Let’s become creative and invent new things, new lifestyle, and a new, better world.

I like these words from the Depeche Mode song called “Perfect”:

        I didn’t choose, I didn’t pull the trigger
        It wasn’t me, I’m just a plain and simple singer

They remind me that I’m here because I’ve chosen to be here, even if it was not made consciously. Yes, it was me. There is no point to regret anything, because I can choose again and again. This day is full of choices and decisions. I can correct things done by mistake in the past. And things that cannot be changed can be improved next time.

I think this is how human freedom works.

Dear friends,

It’s a short message about my further plans regarding Facebook page, Twitter updates, and my renewed blog.

From now I’m going to write my thoughts in English as a kind of universal language, because I dream to share ideas and talk to people from other Baltic states, entire Europe, and the globe, and often we need unity to break the rules, to break the walls. I hope that English language will fit this need best.

All this is going to be done not for fun, and it’s not a dull marketing technique for doing some self-advertising. And it’s not going to be easy. No. I have some important things to do, and I’m on my way now.

Thank you for responding to posts that you like on my Facebook page at http://bit.ly/mjmusic or on Twitter at http://twitter.com/martynasjocius, and on my blog at http://martynasjocius.com.

By working on my existing and future start-up companies, writing music, playing gigs, and communicating with people I hope to help others find some great knowledge, techniques and resources that I found and/or tested on myself, and shorten their way to realizing what is important to them. It’s a gift that I really dream giving. As I go through my life and continuously learn new things and unlearn old ones, I believe it’s good to share everything that might help others.

Thank you!