WORRY

my friend called me the other day, he told me that he is in a bit of a bind, he was having some problem with his supervisor... i asked him what is it? he is being asked t do administration work on a new software, a software that he is totally unaware of...

apparently the new software was introduced during the seminar that his supervisor attended and there were a few training modules that was discussed, and they need to evaluate if they can use it, his boss is recommending the software to the company and his boss wants to him check it out...

i told him to tell him the truth and avoid the consequences, his boss attended the seminar about the software and he should worry about it not him... i reminded him that honesty is the best policy and he should take other people's mesh... i hope he heed my advice...

quotes to live by:
Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God, and so there’s no room left for worry thoughts. - Howard Chandler Christy

FEAR

it seems to be a dreadful word... and everybody seem to deny that they do fear something one way or the other... i don't see any reason to fear anything, provided it doesn't make a paranoia within yourself...

for me i fear i lot of things.... one thing that i fear most is not to be able to provide for my family's basic needs... the fear of waking up one day that i am no longer capable of doing what i love to do most, the fear of not being able to fulfil my calling, my purpose...

these fear are the things that keeps me on my feet, the very same things that makes me strive ever harder. to cling to my faith and to do the utmost best... though i heard one famous line before "fear nothing but fear itself" i wish i could do that....

Quotes to live by:
Every day I wake up a little afraid. Only a fool is never afraid. - Ron Meyer

GOALS

people used to ask me how do i manage to say away from my family for so long... working overseas entails long hours of being away from all your loved ones... staying alone in your room after the long and tiring hours at work....

i have a simple answer at all times... and that is "i have goals that i set, and this goals are the one that keeps me striving even harder... i must admit there are times that i ask myself how long do i have to endure... why d i have to undertake all these things, times you have to fight the longing, the homesickness that befall me, but during these most trying times, when time seems to be against me, that is the time i envision my goals and ways how to achieve them...

i know that this is only a short lived undertakings, and keeping my goals in the horizon, and spicing it up with faith and prayers keeps me focused....

Quotes to live by:
The one thing worth living for is to keep one’s soul pure. - Marcus Aurelius

MOTIVATION

they say all of us has a reason for being... and i firmly believe that we are all here for a reason and all of us has purpose for being at where we are at any given time.... i also firmly believe that we are only doing what we are doing for a specific reason... and that reason is what is motivating us to survive our daily chores and activities regardless of how difficult and tiring it mat be...

for some it is their ambitions that motivates them, for some it's their family.... and others like me is for both, simply because my ambition revolves around my family.... and they are what motivates me...

Quote to live by:
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. - Baruch Spinoza

DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US

have you ever wondered how come we seem to be continuously striving so hard??? harder than what you think is what you are capable of doing??? how many times were you asked to do things for others that you are compelled to do simply because you are afraid that you might loose your job.. has it ever dawned on you that these simple little things that we feel doesn't really matter that much, actually means so much if you sum up all these little things???

a good example was a drifting faucet that i found in my friends house when i stayed there overnight ... i told him that its a big problem if the water keeps on dripping overnight, and even asked him how long has it been like that... he told me that he can't exactly remember but it is more than a month... so i dared him that it needs his attention then.... he told me that it was nothing so i asked him to put the plug on the bathtub before we go to sleep and we'll so next day how much water will accumulate....

astonished as he was, he didn't realised that a drip of water every 3 seconds can fill up a bath tub, short of spilling over in 8 hours time.... so right there and then he called his land lord and asked him to send a plumber as soon as the weekend is over...

i told him that finally he made a decision that is not only for him but for all of us... considering how water is getting more difficult to come by everyday, especially in desolated area.... so its best to do things that are good for all of us... there are other things that we can correlate this...

quote to live by:
Skills vary. We must … strive by that which is born in us. - Pindar

INSTINCTS

the basic requirement for survival, in the world we live in right now is trusting your instinct... many times, based on my personal experiences that my instinct proves me right...

on several occasions that i have encountered, and that i need to decide on things, i have to in my inner self and fortunate enough my instinct proves to be right and saved me a lot of trouble and even saved my live....

some people call it the sixth sense, some calls it the third eye... but i believe it is what we call instinct .... all of us is given this capability, unfortunately not everybody has managed to fully develop it and take advantage of it....

i must admit it takes me a while to trust my instinct, but to date i have learned to listen to my inner self and trust my instinct.... and it was all worth it....


quotes to live by

Systems die; instincts remain. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

DECISIONS

in our daily life, a lot of things happens around us... and most of the times whether at work, at home or at places we go to there are decision that need to be made...

i remember when i was working as a project engineer in charge of a major project in Mindanao... there was an incident that needs major decision but i was 100 km. away from my home office. and there were no phone available in the site, my two way radio wasn't working because i am in the middle of a ridge... t

i know that if i don't make the decision right there and then, it may mean the whole project, so i made the up my mind and told myself that if not now it will be never, making that decision proves to be worthy as it eventually made a great headway on the project.... fortunately before the day was over the owner of the company that i worked with arrived on site to visit us and check on progress after a month from his last visit, he was really surprised of the progress, he asked me who authorized me to proceed with out discussing it with him... i told him i authorized myself because i can't reached him....

i thought he will be angry because it wasn't what we agreed before, but was surprised to be told that there is really no wrong decision, depending on the situation at hand you need to make up your mind and at that time it is the best decision... and was glad that i made it rather than loosing thousands of pesos in indemnities....

to date, i still tell myself that have i not made up my mind to be decisive, i will not be where i am right now...

quote to live by,
Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. - Peter Drucker