About Me — Pedro Teixeira
It isn’t easy to know where to start when talking about ourselves. But I will start where I can remember.
I was born and raised in Porto, a small and very historical city in the north of Portugal known to have great wines, architecture, and great hospitality. I am the second of three sons my parents had.
Raised in humble origins, not used to have a lot, later I understood that a lot was a matter of perspective. My mother taught me early, that being together and eat together every day was already a blessing. My parents never understood money; their generation didn’t have a lot of opportunities to succeed in studies. They learn to live life with other priorities, like family, well-being, and love.
Took me a while to understand that worldview, seeing my friends having stuff caused me some pain and hurt my ego. I was an excellent student, but when I turned 18 and confronted with the decision to keep studying or working for money. My ego prevailed, and I chose money, I did not want to live in poor conditions any longer, I thought.
With 20 years old, I flew to Switzerland in a quest for a better life. To explain my brain back then with a mathematic equation would be like this; loads of money + amazing car + hotwife = Success.
I believed in that equation for three years. Yes, three years isolated in a mountain thinking that equation was the meaning of life, slowly drowning into a hole of negative thoughts.
Fortunately, I was able to see further, and with 24 years old, I moved to Australia.
The initial goal of going to Australia was to experiment, know the unknown. A few months in and I got stuck in the “money web” again, the opportunity arose to work more and make more money, and that’s what I did. Six months in, and I broke my leg. Did I explore Australia? No. Do I regret it? Yes. But I believe in my path.
Forced to fly back to Portugal to be with my family, recovering for five months from my broken leg, brought me so much negativity. The world of sadness took over. I was back to the starting point, with a fractured leg. Instead of enjoying the presence of family and love, I was selfish and thinking about why my life was so bad — consumed by my ego that didn’t allow me to look further. When I found strength on my leg, I had to go again.
Moved to Amsterdam to work in a bar. I never felt happy working in a bar, always judging customers, thinking that I should be the one to be served, not them. My ego was permanently blinding me from the beauty of life and people surrounding me, and instead of accepting the presence of life, I decided to through negativity towards others. I left that job.
Last year, I decided to go back to studies, now I am doing a Bachelor of Music & event management.
Found out, that marketing is becoming one of my passions, and I love to develop projects and ideas.
I am learning how to create value to other people and slowly practice the art of giving.
On my free time, I like to read, watching a good movie and have great conversations with a glass of wine. Writing is something that I found recently. Inspired by a great author Seth Godin, that said we should all write every day. I decided to create my blog and write an article every day as he spoke.
I only shared my blog articles with my closest friends, so they could understand my brain a little bit more, and then from friends and started sharing with people that I recently met, maybe my words could help them in their journey. I am still quite green in the world of writing, but it is a practice that I want to implement for a long time. Maybe this was not the type of about-me that you readers would expect, but I prefer to be honest.
