I believe that one of the realest things about me is that I am a person who likes to share his intimacy, not so much his privacy, which is where people have concentrated.
Talking about Daniel when he is not on stage, I am a man who likes and enjoys loneliness, not desolation. I am tremendously a dreamer with a very good sense of humor. I am very peculiar and I love the tragicomedy of life but I am a little afraid of the dreams I have. I suffer from insomnia and I hardly sleep. I am a perfectionist in everything I do and sometimes this makes me suffer deeply.
I could tell you about all this and tell you that I see it as a virtue, and what many people consider a mistake, I see as an opportunity or as an advantage.
Daniel Habif Interview Miami
1.- What is your mission in this life?
My mission in this life is to love until my chest bursts. Love in all its forms because I realize that in my heart lives an entire universe and I am someone who is willing to consume itself for its purpose of life. My life purpose has been transmuted and changed, love remains as the main essence, and of course, serving and inspiring others to fulfill impossible missions and pushing people to build dreams that they believe go beyond their own competences.
I am someone who is obsessed with transforming people for good. My purpose in the end is one day to be able to see God face to face and for that I work in the finite world, to see if I can achieve it.
2.- What are the biggest factors that have helped your process and your success?
The acceptance of who I am and the daring of being who I am. Paying the price of authenticity, that has been one of the most difficult processes. Pain has been a great construction tool in my life, I have never used it as a platform to become a victim but as a catapult that helps me level up, you know?
I am someone who seeks to catalyze everything that happens in life. One is always making history and above all one makes history in the failures, and depending on how each one lives the failures or those mistakes his story changes you know? It is a constant process, I do not buy the successes of yesterday and I do not believe in success. In fact, success, I call him a liar. He is usually a great liar (success), and when you start to believe him, things start to go to the wrong place.
3.- How does your wife contribute to this process?
My wife is the pillar of this project. Many people wonder how I got here and the one who has the answer is my wife because she is my cane, she is my bulwark, my wife is my life made a woman. We have complemented each other incredibly and she is the greatest gift God has placed in my life. She contributes in every way, beyond the professional world, she does it excellently, with a lot of passion, a lot of patience, a lot of diligence. She is a woman with hundreds of imperfections, but who has learned to love all thousand pieces of a man. Daniel Habif is a weird guy and this woman learned to love all his pieces equally, so imagine how she has contributed to this life project. My wife is a woman who is my base and is the woman who came to the feet of God and for that I will be eternally grateful.
4.- What are your daily habits of success?
I have a habit of not giving up dear, I have a habit of being brutally disciplined and not returning home without having done something good for other people. I also have other bad habits, I don’t like sleeping, I hold on not to close my eyes, I have other terrible ones as if there would be no tomorrow. I am brutally gluttonous, I feel that one day I will wake up brutally fat with everything I have swallowed for the last 15 years of my life and I will weigh 400 lb from one day to another. I have the habit of forgiving unforgivable things, those are my habits.
5.- If you could do things again today, what would you do differently?
I would only do something different, probably, to have received Christ before. I have thought deeply and who knows if it would be the same today if I had received it before. Everything that has happened in my life has happened surgically, but I would choose the same family, the same father, the same mother, the same wife, the same friends. YES, you know what? The uncertainty in my life has been one of the greatest provocateurs of good things. I would not like to change anything at all.
And since you mentioned your Father… How is it that you, after he died, gain strength to continue climbing on stage and continue living with the desire that you live and continue to love people as you love them?
Look, my Father’s death was undoubtedly one of the most painful events of my life, but sadness is a divine appointment with God, and I know that I will see him again. I understood that I had to honor my life, stop suffering and crying miserably. I learned to endure the pain with dignity and as I mentioned, for some strange reason, the pain has been part of my gasoline. I cried and shouted from the inside of course, and there are days that his memory is a blow to the chest and sends me to the floor, but that’s good because that sadnesses help us recapitulate our life and look at another perspective. I think I will see him again and then I would be very ashamed to see him again and tell him that I cried all my life and he will tell me, but you knew that there is eternal life, what the hell were you doing crying? I’m very embarrassed to waste time not getting beautiful memories to be able to tell them in eternity. I’m not going to play that game of telling you that I don’t cry when I think about him, when nostalgia floods me, well I honor it and allow myself to cry. I am not a person who resists suffering, on the contrary, I let him live inside me, I smile and so I say goodbye by saying, well, see you in a month or a week. I don’t know when I get back, but for now, time for you to leave.
6.- What is the most difficult decision you have taken to this day?
All the decisions I make every day are difficult, but I think the most difficult decisions are the ones I never made. Those are eternal. Look, not making a decision is having made the worst decision in your life, because at least when you make a decision, even if it is wrong, it is taking responsibility for your actions and does not become a maybe or an almost, I believe that these things are terrible for the human being. I have made many decisions for not having made a decision and that has led me to torment myself many times. Those stories that are interrupted by one should have kissed more, should have forgiven him, should have called him, should have hugged her more, should have laughed a little more, should have said no, all those decisions you did not make and that time itself, pushed you to make them wrongly. I think they are terrible.
7.- What is the best advice you have been given and who gave it to you?
The best advice was given to me by my wife and it was: It is time to return to God.
8.- What advice would you give readers so that what they want in life becomes a reality?
That they do not care what the world says about them, but to please care about the world. That they do not kill their ideas before they are born, that they do not prosecute their ideas and that they never think they are silly ideas. Pray daily because it is the best battle platform. May they serve every day of their life, that they serve with passion, with talent, with their gifts in their home, in their society, in their homeland. That they laugh, they laugh a lot about everything so that if death finds you, then at least it finds you laughing and frightens her and in one of those moments she doubts in taking you. Forgive, for forgiveness lightens your burden a lot. Forgive ourselves. Learn from mistakes and in the end love, that I feel is the most important advice that human beings can receive, love, love, love with all your strength, with all your heart, with all that you are. Do not dare to live a life without love, without passion, please do not dare. And I also give you the advice my wife gave me. It is time to return to God.
Do not dare to live a life without love, without passion, please do not dare. And I also give you the advice my wife gave me. It is time to return to God.
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