This is something I’ve learnt not long ago. I used to wait for the right moment and for motivation to start a project I always postponed. In the past few years, I flipped things around: I started doing things without being motivated, and that took me further than waiting for motivation ever did.
How did I learn this? By going to the gym, setting schedules, and not listening to that little voice inside that whispers you to quit. Exercising is the easiest thing to drop. If you have a bad day, extra work, feel sick, or have a date… the first thing you scratch off your list is working out. Why? Because it takes consistency. In 2024 and 2025, I’ve worked out four times a week, every single week, without excuses. I won’t explain the benefits of doing sports here, but let me say this: I encourage you to do it.
Setting schedules was a bit easier. I started with something really simple: read at least half an hour before bed. This also impacted my sleep positively, keeping me away from infinite scrolling before sleeping. For the past two years, I’ve read almost every night — even on New Year’s Eve. I started simple, and then kept adding things.
What do I need consistency for now? My degree. I’m trying to get an online degree while working full-time. So far, it’s going well, but sometimes I really want to quit. I tell myself: “You’re just fine as you are now, why would you put yourself in this situation?”
Shut. The. Fuck. Up.
Don’t listen to that. Don’t sabotage yourself into mediocrity. Go further. You can. You just need consistency.
If you’re struggling with something, stop waiting for motivation. Just show up — consistency will take care of the rest.
See you around :D
This is my first Salesforce-related post. I will assume that you
have no programming/Salesforce background.
What are cases? A case is a customer's question, feedback, or issue — e.g., more information about an
order,
something wrong with an invoice… something like that.
This summer, before taking holidays, I was working with cases from a big telecom company. They had some
features already developed, and it
was my job to fix them. It was a mess. For context, Salesforce has some rules while coding,
like do not query the database in a loop because you might reach a system limit, do not concatenate
loops, use lists to loop
through records...
Every single rule that I had been taught was being broken in what was developed. In this project, we had
Email-to-Case, Web-to-Case, and
some triggers when cases were created/updated, and also emails about cases were incoming (in case you
don't
know, triggers are automation
that do something when a record is created or updated — e.g., a case is created and its type is Email,
you
can automatically assign a case
status).
When a case was created, madness began. There was plenty of automation that didn’t have any filters on
it, so when
a case came in, it activated
a "create case" trigger (that was also calling an Email Message trigger), more than 7 flows (without
filters, as I already told you), and, of course, Email-to-Case or assignment rules.
This has been one of the most challenging tasks I have done. It was like trying to separate every single
spaghetti from a plate of spaghetti. Also, every time I got that spaghetti, I had to ask the client if
this spaghetti was what they asked for,
and almost every time they would rather have tortellini (this sounded better in my mind).
Right now, everything is working fine and smooth in the dev environment, so you might think it is done.
It is
not. For sure, something will break when I go back to work in September. This
is something that usually happens in this field: something stops working for no reason, without changing
anything from one day to another. So, September should be the time to fix and upload to
production — which, for me, is a perfect fit.
September, time to fix and go up.
Thanks for being there :D
I have been on vacation for 2 weeks now,
And I have two weeks left. In the past 3 summers, my vacations have been pretty much the same:
reading,
staying at home
and relaxing, and watching movies. My fiancée is a nurse, and she gets the best contracts in the
summer
so, usually, we spend
the summer away from our home, because her job forces us to move out every summer for the past three
years now.
The first summer was a bit frustrating but I kinda love it now. I am alone every morning in the
summer
and just like that
summers have become a personal/internal growth and self-focused time. In the 2023 summer, I was
focused
on reading and gaming. I caught up on some games
I always wanted to play like Final Fantasy VII, The Last of Us and God of War. I also read and
finished
some of Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere
novels and one of the funniest books I have ever read and I cannot stop recommending, Guards!
Guards! by
Terry Pratchett. The 2024 summer was about gym and staying healthy (and I also found my favorite
fantasy saga, The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb).
This 2025 summer has been about cooking. Yes, cooking. I do not know where it comes from, but I
really
enjoy cooking. I have made some Spanish
traditional recipes (I am Spanish), some Japanese cooking, and my last "performance": tiramisu. Some
dishes came out good, some regular and some
really great. I was talking about flavor, not about how good the dishes looked. That is my next
thing in
my to-do list.
What will 2026 summer be about ? Who knows...
Because I love to learn.
I have always tried to learn new things like drawing, playing the guitar, cooking, design... but
I
always drop the lessons or I feel I am not good enough for what I am learning.
This has been very frustrating and I have been quitting new hobbies since I was 15, when I
started
to
take guitar lessons.
Trying to fix this kind of behavior, I started reading and it was a game changer. In 2021 I went
to
the
cinema to watch Dune and I really loved it (I have studied cinema and loved movies since I was
16,
but
my internship in a TV production was cancelled due to coronavirus back in 2020). I felt so
trapped
in
that universe Denis Villeneuve created that I needed more right after I left the movies.
So, I went to the bookstore and bought the first trilogy of Dune, by Frank Herbert (and yes,
this is
a
recommendation for you to start reading :D).
When I finished the first book it felt so amazing, my brain learned how to start something and
finish
something. It was not easy, because I had never have the habit of reading, so in my first month
reading I was doing
6 to
8 pages a day (the first Dune book has over 700 pages). I have been reading to this day and I
will
never
stop, because of how I am programmed: I need every now and then some reminder that I am capable
of
finishing things (and also I have found some wonderful universes and stories I cannot be
grateful
enough
for).
So, why am I really here? Because I have finished a web developer course. It was easy, just an
hour
and
a half, but I really really do not like web design. I am a developer, I work with Salesforce, so
I
knew
how to code most of the stuff that is going on, but I hate everything about web design (maybe
hate
is
really a strong word, but we will keep it that way until further news).
What can you find here? I have no clue. I will write about my work, the books that I am reading,
movies,
my life and maybe more. Or maybe less.
Thanks for beeing there.
See you :D