Riga and taxis

My visit in Riga started with quick ride on taxi. I rarely use taxis, while this time was an exception. I just picked one next to the airport and go. BMW, probably 530 and a racer-attitude driver without much of speed limit considerations. I got to the city really quickly but expensive. On the note about that I have later discovered an app called Taxify, which is a Baltic alternative to Uber and is at least 3 times cheaper than regular taxi. If you travel to Riga, I highly recommend Taxify – download the app, setup payment and you’re good to go, just as Uber.

The conference notes

My travel purpose was so-called business conference with idea of personal development, where members of my family were coming to Riga too and motivated me to join the event. So this part of my article will be quick insights of the things which most of us already know and understand, just worth to reminding it to ourselves.

Leaving all circumstances behind, I’ll just drop off quotes of my notes that I took, perhaps you will find anything valuable from that list.

  • Money is not everything, dreams and goals are.
  • Most of stuff is not needed in your life
  • Simplify your life for certain period of time to push your own business further
  • Become a core person of your business to head growth direction
  • Mentor more junior people to speed-up growth as well as develop yourself faster by being mentored by greater
  • Many businesses are easy from concept side, but none of them work without the hard work
  • Dealing with feeling of failure is about absorbing the new material and knowledge
  • Development of your skills and personality leads towards growth of your business and naturally income too
  • You have to like what you’re doing to be successful
  • Think beyond the language, grammar or literal expressions. Always look at a bigger picture, greater scale. Get outside of your own box.
  • People are longing for recognition to feel happier, not necessarily money in the first place.
  • Appreciate people, recognise people for their achievements, even the very small ones. Be honest, don’t lie, follow ethics.
  • Build associations for people to drive them.

Many more may follow in future posts.

Walking around Riga city

My notes are probably one kilometre length, however I share only a very short list of insights. After all I had some nice time to explore and walk around Riga, get to the top of probably the oldest Church in the city and take some nice panoramas from up there as well as on the streets.

Short story continued in the photo gallery below!