Is everything possible in life?

Here are a few dreams I would like to be possible in my life.
I want to have a million friends. I want to be rich and have gigantic businesses. I want to have a family and kids. I want to have peace. I want to have good family relationships. I want to have foundations to help the needy people. I would consider myself complete when I do have these accomplishments under my belt. In the meantime, if everything is based on the doing then I would certainly do everything everyday in my power to work and work until I achieve my dreams. Every day is a chance to work on your dreams and I thank God for it.
Relationships are important in achieving one's dreams. No one does it alone. So here's all you've got and do it repetitively. Get a taste of everything that is given before you and do it good. Work through God's grace and do whatever is necessary to achieve God's will for our lives.
If everyone has an open heart, willing to give, everything would be easy.

To love oneself

Love is the greatest thing of all. Without love for oneself how can you go on in your life? We all get our love from God. He is the source of love. From such love we get our strength. Everyday we need to fill up our batteries to be able to face the trials that come our way. Without love how can we go on. How can we say to the world that we can. We must be able to do our share of God's work in the world with the love that we receive from the Father. and from that comes our happiness. To be able to attain such contentment, such achievement of finally attaining your goal of finding God's purpose for you. You wouldn't be able to achieve that without love for oneself. Love gives us courage to go on and face life's troubles. We need love to communicate with other people in union with God our Creator. We need love to relate with one another. And to love oneself we learn how to sacrifice for one another as God calls us to be. By loving oneself we open up ourselves to the love that God has for us and we see ourselves now as God sees us. As loving children of God. Full of potential. Full of love. Full of spirit. We are no longer mere creatures but sons and daughters of God. And when we love ourselves we experience how God loves us and we now value the importance of how God sees us. We are important for Him and in Him we can accomplish anything. God has given us all potential and we are like Him in the sense that we can accomplish great things as stewards of His gifts. Suddenly, we can make bridges to make connections, we can move mountains to topple problems, we can accomplish anything we put our minds into. We become happy. And that love because of God makes us complete in Him.

To ask for God's blessings

The world is full of God's blessings. But how can you have a share of those blessings? I guess, you have to find your way to the things that you like to do, your passions, your calling. And then, do them and engage in them and make use of those talents until you make something out of it and make some money. You need to find people who would help you achieve those dreams. Serve the others as you would serve Christ. have a piece of heaven here on earth by what you share with the others as your work, as Joseph's carpentry to provide for Jesus and Mary. There's gotta be a reason for me to be involved in business. My family, my parents were never into business, they were employees. And so, we didn't have any cars, or any colored tv and betamax at the start, never flew a plane for vacations, never lived in a big house. I am somehow reluctant to attach myself into business were it not for the Accountancy degree I gained from business school. But now, I don't have any idea on how to get a share of the blessings that is around. I am unlike Manny Villar or Manny Pangilinan, or Henry Sy or John Gokongwei who are really businessminded and can sell anything to anyone. I am even ashamed to sell. What can I do now? The following days would be most exciting because it is a path of discovery for me about what can I do with my financial goals as a young person who wants also to make it big time in this world. I want to be successful and I am willing to do whatever my mind comes up with to gain riches in this world and make use of my talents. I hope God will grant me my heart's desires which is to become rich in this world because I do not want to end up a street beggar who cannot answer for her needs. I want also to start gaining friends again and do this until the end of my life. I want to be able to do something good for others as I pass this avenue called life and learn all I can from other people who do it easily and in return teach also to others who may have a need for knowledge as I meet them down life's highway. Hopefully, God will give me something as He is the provider for all the needs of all the people in the world. You may just want to ask why others have so plenty and you only have a few. All in all, I will have to solve all these problems and make some money for my family in the long run. Hope I do well, as I commit to becoming a winner in this game of life.

How to discover one's calling in life?

Maybe my calling is not defined in communication arts. Maybe I am called to be a doctor, I just don't have money for a medical education. How do you explain that? Then, maybe i'll just be a businessman, with MBA, Masters in Entrepreneurship, Economics, Marketing or Financial engineering. Should I confine my happiness with what my money could afford? I guess not. It should not be. But I should at least learn how to earn a living and I gotta try everyday. I just got to. If there would be no food for the table, I would just market my accounting services. Sell a few items. I need to make money. Or maybe I can just go for my dreams and be a struggling writer or hit it big time with billiards. I guess what's stopping me is the what ifs. When you are growing older you tend to have analysis-paralysis and you just keep on wondering of the whys and the hows and not just do it unlike when you were young. At 34, I am very happy. My life is incomplete in so many ways, but I know I am very happy and everyday I work on what I think God has given me as assignments in this life. At the end of my life, I will be very happy to be welcomed by God and say to Him that I have done everything I can to the best of my abilities no matter how many mistakes I may have committed by trying to achieve what He wants me to achieve and because of that I knew I did His will. Some more dreams.. want to study law but I figured I have difficulty in reading law texts, still I want to study law even if I don't become a lawyer but once I finish law I know I am gonna be a lawyer, I just know that! Study medicine, if I have the money, study MBA and Masters in Entrepreneurship, Masters in Computer Science or Information Technology. Of course, i am not gonna study all of those. Just 2 or 3. Study cars and airplanes. Cooking, interior design, fashion design, photography and filmmaking. Then, I am complete.

The art of marketing

Some people do it on the market. There is a particular place for products to be shown and sold to other people. But sometimes, there is the not so obvious market which is probably everywhere there are people like homes, churches, offices, classrooms, parks, malls, just as long as there is a place where the seller can meet a potential buyer. That is the market. People just need to meet somewhere so that the products can be sold. Sometimes, in the coffeeshops, sometimes in restaurants. Sellers need to attract buyers so that their products can be sold. They need to speak in such an attractive, informative way that can help introduce to product to a buyer. They need to help the buyer undersstand the benefits of the product and add a little more like creating a good business relationship with the buyer. Selling is a service to the buyer. The seller needs to make good customer service to the buyer. Whatever is the need of the buyer the seller must attend to it. And when everything is covered then there would be no question that a sale can be made. Marketing is just a way where seller helps the buyer know more about the product and answer the needs of the buyer. The buyer must understand how the product would be helpful in the improvement of the life of the buyer. Once this is established it would be easy to make the sale.

My entrepreneurial mindset

These are just some of the things that I want to do in business, to be in business and to achieve my goals financial or otherwise.
Become a real estate agent, be involved in the real estate industry like Manny Villar. Be involved in banking like marketing loans, insurance and credit cards and forex. Set up a company for this, too. Be involved in selling cars, new or second hand, know about the mechanical side of it, car shampoo, tire black, accessories and the like. Food and fashion - culture. Do food dealerships, cook, sell clothes, flipflops, perfumes, set up a restaurant or restaurants in the future.
Things that need to be done:
Find friends who will help me in business. Find the business to learn, study. Study marketing.
What's so interesting about business is that it is about life and the experience of it. I sometimes go back in history and study how our ancestors have done business in the past. They just have markets. And they sell in these markets. Now, we have different avenues of selling including online in our high-tech world.
The problem is in business, I do not want to spend money. I just want to do it free and earn big bucks. If only I could do it that way. Maybe because I am an accountant so I tend to count the costs first. And the sales, since it isn't there yet are unaccountable yet except for projections which are dream figures as of the moment. I hope to learn all these in a couple of days so i could get started. I plan to learn all of these no matter how long as long as I finally arrive at the answers hopefully soon. So I need mentors.

My passions in life

I guess, I have been to easy. I've known from the start my passion that is communication arts. But didn't make that into a career. what if I suddenly make this change of paths and suddenly I would just pursue it. I hope I am still that genius. let's just hope for the better. I don't know how I can enter the world of communication arts, is it a job ad, a connection, attending a scriptwriting workshop, showing up for an audition. I seem to have lack of enthusiasm in pursuing this because maybe in my own way I have pursued it by attending Masscom class in Perpetual, attending a theater workshop with Repertory, auditioning in college for Peta, attempting to join Harlequin at La Salle, writing for the paper in Perpetual and writing for Plaridel and JPIA at La Salle. Those little things. Attending free photography workshop at Town Center and submitting resumes at jobstreet to ABS-CBN opening either as production assistant or accountant. I am semi-tired already. I have tried and have failed. But I guess, I like the challenge so I keep on going. I must find a hard enough reason to continue on doing this or else I would stop. Read a book on scriptwriting by Ricky Lee, Trip to Quiapo. Writing for children's books like Adarna or Lampara. Writing a romance novel. Writing for magazines and newspapers. Writing a blog. I must continue. Write a book or books. I also want to join writing clubs, associate with other writers and learn with them. I also need to study photography, filmmaking and directing. But first, I need to earn money. And that's what I am gonna talk about in my next articles.

The problems in today's world

What matters in the world today? To some, as long as you have money, you're earning, it is enough. I guess, what matters is the quality of life that you have in this world. The kind of relationships that you have. That's what really matters in life. We have dreams and we have problems. We should strive hard to achieve our dreams and try to solve the problems that life throws at us. God has put in our hearts the dreams that we have for ourselves and so with the challenges that come with it, we must try to solve our problems and achieve that dream that we have for ourselves. Relationships play a big part too in our lives. Is there such a thing as unsolvable problems. I guess not. You just have to put bigger faith in God. God is bigger than any problems and He is in control of everything in this world. Sometimes, that is quite hard to believe especially if you have your own problems but that is the bigger challenge. To be able to face life with faith. To believe in God as much as you can and to hope and pray to God for your lack of faith. You just wish to God that He will send you a person, a gift, who will make things work out for you. And you just wish to have fruitful relationships with other people so that you can say that everyday in your life counts. You just wish that your prayers will be answered. I guess, all in all, everybody has got problems but the miracle there is if people are gonna come together and lend a helping hand to someone who is in need. Like for me, i have a money problem. I just wish sometimes that God would send me a person who would hire me or give me a job, money, food for the table. I am hungry. But I guess, I don't announce that to the world ( except now in this blog) so nobody gives me money for food. I am sometimes afraid that in this world you cannot go around without money in your pocket and there are certain things that you choose not to do like accounting work that is freelance or selling outside going to strangers and asking for a sale, but I think I am most willing to do that once I go into sales, is there any other way? i have to take the challenge. This is what life is all about. Successful people have done it once in their lives why can't I? So you see, I need to be willing to give, to sacrifice, for love, for the family and be thankful for the blessings that come my way in this life. Poverty is a major problem in the Philippines and if only you can have sardines and noodles in your dinner table, which we sometimes do, you'd already have a feast if you'd cook 2 noodles with egg and open a can of sardines for two people plus rice plus water. Whew! Delicious and mouth watering. Sometimes, it's just tinapa. Sometimes, eggs. Sometimes tocino or longganisa. But, it's delicious and I thank God for all these blessings in our table. It's easy to work, mind you. What's so limiting is the budget that you need to have for your transportation and food allowance everytime you need to go out. I am still figuring out how to make do with that computation. If it costs P300 to go out daily to go on sales, then that would amount to P6000 for 20 days or one month. That's my out of pocket cost for doing sales. What if that money does not return. What if it doesn't turn to sales? So what do I do now? Nobody gives me a job anymore because they think I am unqualified based on what is written on my resume. They have been doing that for the past 12 years. So what will be the difference now? Hope. Prayers. Faith. And the will to go on. The will to continue with life. That tomorrow will be different from yesterday. And that God will answer all our prayers in a way that will be advantageous for everyone.