Podcast 10 – It’s Your Glass: Fill It Your Way
In today’s high-octane modern societies, our lives are trapped in a relentless cycle: wake up early, work hard, return home, spend time with loved ones, and repeat. We glorify dedicating endless hours to work, convinced that more effort leads to greater rewards. Constant connectivity through smartphones and endless streams of information keep us perpetually busy, while marketers exploit our stress with promises of quick fixes and modern-day magic pills. Yet, despite all this hustle, we’re left wondering: Time to do what? Our glass is more often half empty than half full, revealing a troubling obsession with productivity that overlooks the true essence of our lives.
One of the real problem lies in our fixation on shortcuts that offer temporary relief but fail to address deeper issues. As a Contemplationist, it is crucial to shift our focus inward, cultivating a clear and robust “glass” by understanding and mastering our actions with a purpose-driven vision. Without this foundational clarity, our efforts are futile, like pouring liquid into a vessel with a hole in the bottom. By owning our glass, taking responsibility for our actions, and preparing for the unexpected, we can break free from the superficial hustle and achieve true, balanced fulfilment. Embracing this deep, intentional approach transforms our lives from mere busyness to meaningful and enduring legacy.
Podcast 09 – Change Is Inevitable—Why Aren’t You Ready?
This episode explores the inevitability of change, emphasizing how humans and businesses often resist transformation despite its constant presence in nature. While everything around us evolves, there is an inner belief that we remain the same. This resistance to change has led to the many downfalls of industry giants and rulers alike who failed to […]
It’s Your Glass: Fill It Your Way
Own Your Glass: Break Free from the Hustle, don’t break the glass! By owning our glass, taking responsibility for our actions, and preparing for the unexpected, we can break free from the superficial hustle and achieve true, balanced fulfilment. Embracing this deep, intentional approach transforms our lives from mere busyness to meaningful and enduring legacy.
Podcast 08 – Winning Must Be Part of Your Cohesive Vision
In this podcast, Simon Vumbaca, the Contemplationist, highlights how winning must be a natural extension of our cohesive vision of life. Success doesn’t happen by chance but is a result of aligning actions with a clear long-term purpose. By avoiding unnecessary compromises and staying focused on our goals, we embed winning into our very identity. […]
Podcast 07 – From Strategy to Tragedy (and How to Make It Back)
The Contemplationist Insights Podcast – From Strategy to Tragedy (and How to Make It Back). Have you ever seen a perfectly planned strategy fall apart? This episode dives deep into the delicate balance between success and failure, exploring why even the best strategies can derail—and how to get back on track. “Good planning is essential […]
Podcast 06 – The Real Cost of Learning Your Lessons
The Contemplationist Insights Podcast – The Real Cost of Learning Your Lessons We’ve all heard the saying “Errare humanum est” – to make mistakes is human. But what is the true cost of learning from those mistakes? In this episode, we explore the real financial, emotional, and reputational costs that come with every error, and […]
Learning to win: every day is a lesson provided we want to excel
Whether we realize it or not, we are all learning every day. What sets successful people apart—those who continually surpass themselves—is their relentless desire to improve, even when they’re already winning. Imagine an athlete at the top of their game, constantly refining their technique, analysing every performance, and pushing harder every day. That’s the mindset: […]
Podcast 05 – If This Goes On, What Must Come Off?
If This Goes On, What Must Come Off? The Contemplationist Insight – Your go-to source for insights, introspection sparkles and life/business inspiration. A Simon Vumbaca Podcast. SUBSCRIBE!
Podcast 04 – Back to Work – Time to Take Things to the Next Level
Back to Work – Time to Take Things to the Next Level. The Contemplationist Insight – Your go-to source for insights, introspection sparkles and life/business inspiration. A Simon Vumbaca Podcast. SUBSCRIBE!
Back to Work: Time to Take Things to the Next Level
In Europe, August is a time for vacations. Many Latin countries close their doors to normal business and head to the beach. These are times spent with family and friends, recharging batteries. This good habit has, in one form or another, extended to most countries in the Western world. For many, though, me included, breaking […]
If This Goes On, What Must Come Off?
Recently, I reread Sir David Attenborough’s A Life on Our Planet. I highly recommend it. The perspective offered in each chapter is both enlightening and chilling. The anthropological evolution of society is mirrored beautifully within its pages, and the interaction between humans and the world around us is thoroughly documented by a witness who has […]
The Real Cost of Learning Your Lessons
“Errare humanum est.” To make mistakes is human. A very well-known statement that has been used in all sorts of instances to express that errors do happen. The reason errors occur can relate to many things, depending on each specific case. A world without errors would be a world ruled by a lack of initiative, […]
From Strategy to Tragedy (and How to Make It Back)
Good planning is essential to success. Like many others, I am a great believer that preparing for all eventualities, every angle, and possible outcome is the way to have a fighting chance for a great strategy to succeed. It doesn’t matter in what walk of life or business the strategy is for. Failing to prepare […]
So, What Is Really Going On Is…
We all want to do well. We also want others to do well. When both aspirations’ paths go in the same direction, then it is brilliant, and all seems perfect. Sometimes, though, paths that seemed to go in the same direction cross each other in a non-positive manner. One may be tempted to accept some […]
Vote for Me (Blah Blah Blah): A Song on the Electorate-Elected Dance
As you all know, it is not the role of the Contemplationist to comment on political ideology. It is really not something for us. As a Contemplationist, though, reflecting on the impact the last few weeks will have on the short-term future is something fascinating. The current 12 to 17-year-olds will inherit the world in […]
I Have No Idea Why I Did It, but It Was the Right Choice!
Are Your Choices Really Yours? The Subconscious Influences on Our Decisions Pricing a service or a good is an arduous job. You do not want to charge too much, but you also do not want to undervalue your offering. I read in a book on value services that the best way to achieve the best […]
Adversity as Constructive Force
As mostly all of us do, I invested my time in a lot of things, possibilities, opportunities, options of deals with great outcome, companies, projects reviews, technicalities and so on. It all seemed a winning horse at the time and off course worth my time. A lot of the time invested did not turn into […]
Podcast 03 – It Will Happen to You! How Paddy Lowe deals with the Unexpected and Disappointment
This Contemplationist Insight episode looks at the learnings on how to deal with the unexpected and associated disappointments. Guest: Paddy Lowe, from F1 to business extraordinaire: tactics to deal with disappointment. The Contemplationist Insight – Your go-to source for insights, introspection sparkles and life/business inspiration. A Simon Vumbaca Podcast. SUBSCRIBE!
The Real Impact of Technologies: A Television Interview with Simon Vumbaca, The Contemplationist.
Renowned Contemplationist and technology ethics expert Simon Vumbaca was recently interviewed on the Italian television program FvgTech, hosted by Gabriele Gobbo. The interview focused on Simon Vumbaca’s unique perspective on emerging technologies and their cultural and sociological impact on personal development, businesses, life and they overall come to shape the future of our interactions. Simon […]
Money Is Not an Object… Anymore
In business and in life, we like to feel informed. I must confess that since 2008 the degree of business and financial information available and gathered has been growing exponentially. We now have on-the-spot updates and financial predictions that are delivered with such convincing aplomb that we believe they must be accurate and based on […]