God has blessed me so much

God has indeed blessed me so much. I know I have a life. Apart from so called work in this world. God has separated me from the rest of the world who need to go on business just to have work, just to earn money. For me, working or doing activities just for the sake of earning money is not a very viable or interesting thing for me to do. God loves me in so many ways, that I felt He wanted me to share stories about love, peace and joy to other people so that He will be know by others and how good He is to other people. God loves His children so much that He died for our sins. Now, we enjoy the benefits of being saved by God. Let us not add to his weary. Let us love God in return for all the blessings that He gives to us.

I felt that if I am gonna make money, I might as well love what I am doing or doing what I love. I could not leave writing anymore as I have discovered how healthy it is to really engage in your passions. If you are born to do it, then do it. You should not substitute something for what you truly feel your passion is for the sake of money, you will never succeed by that. You should do what your heart tells you to do for it rewards you in so many ways immeasurable. You get good health, you don't have high blood pressure, you don't do the things you are not willing to do. You sleep good at night. You eat your favorite foods without having to feel overindulging or wasteful. You are just about right in the eyes of God. And He is pleased with you.

When he makes you sick, that means He wanted you to do something. Choose something that doesn't hurt you. Choose something that freely flows out from you. Choose something that you could live with. It is hard enough to establish that which you would consider as your purpose in life. I think I have found my purpose in life. And it took me this long to finally know it. But the more I try each day. The more I realize how right my life is, even without work. Work should not be a means to earn money. Work should be a means to be purposeful, to do your passions, to help out the world, how do you present yourself before the world. If you needed to be an actor, so be an actor, if you needed to be a writer, so be a writer. If you needed some money, do something you are willing to do for money. But don't make the mistake of making money as you sole target for living, for doing work. You will become a slave to it and i think God doesn't want you to do that. Man cannot serve both money and God. You have to choose.

Money is necessary, but there are things more important than money. The love that you feel for others, the smile on the child's face, the innocence of the child. The flowers in the garden. The refreshing feeling of water. The sunshine in the early morning. The cool breeze of the early morning. Do not busy yourselves just because of money. Busy yourselves with the important things in life. When God gives you a chance, do not over do it. Do it as God presents it to you and toy around it a little bit to your liking and start doing it. Do not be overwhelmed by work for you can get tired easily. Make sure that you are doing what you do for the right reasons and don't forget that family and friends come first.

Been out

Been out to Makati today. Went to a training on how to sell on ebay at the Aim Conference Center, food was served, very informative and engaging and very much inviting to go on selling at ebay. We were encouraged to sell on ebay the day after.

After this, went to Glorietta 5 for the Sales Recruitment Event of Ayala Land. Wanted to work for the company for a very long time coz I used to work with them during the early parts of my career. Now, I am coming back. A chance to come back into to company and a chance to focus and build a career in the industry. I hope I am chosen for this. With divine providence and destiny.

I chose this because it is one of the career paths of being a Registered Financial Planner and as early as now I would like to carve a niche in the practice of being an RFP. I pray that God would use me in the new given task. I earned this chance to take up RFP by writing a grant proposal and I was granted. I am now given the chance. And I would do my best with the help of God to use my skills to prosper and develop what I would be learning from the 2 months or 8 Saturdays scheduled for the RFP seminars this 2011.

I have been writing a book about God, money and success. And hope this is the continuation of what I started early one since last year December since I gave away books of an RFP to my family for financial literacy. I believed that the country needs very much the education it needed about finance, how to handle money, how to make more of it, and how to be rich with the right mindset and not just to be rich for the sake of getting rich but for the purpose of also helping out their families and friends.

The Value of Money and Money as a Value

I think I am coming down with coughs. I was constantly thinking about money and how to make it. I have lots of plans in my mind. I think most of which I cannot accomplish all at the same time. And now, when I am sick, I feel that health is really wealth. Sometimes, you try to be busy and want to accomplish so much, and what in exchange for money. But then are you really aligned to what God wants you to accomplish in this life. Sometimes, when I think about it it is more about the sacrifices that we do for God and not solely what we wanted just for ourselves. Those could be just selfish acts. But when we sacrifice, we do it for God, we do it for others. Like for example. Joining a big company. But then in the process you lose your heart, you lose what you initially set out to do like maybe delivering talks or time to write those book ideas. Those book ideas are really divinely provided to you and not just a product of your idle imagination. God could be saying use these talents so that you can prosper and you can glorify Me.

What are you thinking? Each morning, what is it that you wanted to do. Is it solely just making money, or is it doing your passions. I am in the stage of my life where I am about to start something big. A big step towards progress and development. But I believe God has prepared me for this time in my life. Emotionally, psychologically, socially, religiously, relationally, God has prepared me all this time for this chance in my life. To reach out to others, to be with others, to help and serve others, to connect with others, to be friends with others. To be proud of who you are irregardless of seeming mistakes or miscalculations in your life. We must accept who we are because we are all different, and the experience that we have is what we carry with us, what we contribute in the forum. This is our offering to the Lord. Our lives. Our marvelous lives. Although it may be imperfect. Although it is still a work in progress. Although it seems we haven't accomplished something sufficient.

I am passionate about studying. And all this time, unemployed am I, I devoted my time to study, study of business books, business tv shows, business newspapers, business seminars. I learned all that I could thru what I can afford. And God has given me the greatest and most expensive education. Because He is my Teacher. He personally teaches me about business. He is my Professor, my Coach, my Mentor. What could be greater than that? And all I have to do is just to follow His will. That is my tuition.

And it's been exhilirating. First-hand knowledge from God. Whew! It's like Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, Oxford, London Business School put together. Great! And I am still a student. Thank God. For He continues to improve me day by day. Thanks God. And my classmates, my customers, my fellow businessmen, the writers of the mags and books that I read, the suppliers, the creditors or banks, my fellow sales staff and more. God has been so great!

And so what really matters. Is you accomplish your tasks and not lose your values in the process. Being at home most of the time, means you want a home-based business more than travelling 4 hours everyday, such a waste of time.

So next time, when you think of what you want to do for the Lord, think about your heart, think about your values. God is speaking to you through these silent messages. What matters most to your heart.

For me, working at home means I could visit the garden whenever I wanted to just to pause for a break from my desk work and just flatter myself by this gift of flowers, aesthetics that Mama Mary gives to me or Jesus. God loves that much. How about you, how does God love you?

Does God love you by giving you money to afford that education program you chose for yourself? Does God love you by giving you food whenever you go hungry? Does God love you by buying you fashionable clothes or shirts for you to wear and look good in? Does God love you by making you engage in your hobbies and enthusiasm?

How does God love you? Once you notice that love from God, you will rejoice for you will realize how much He loves you in the biggest or smallest way, may it be expensive or just cheap in money value, it doesn't matter because all of these are God's gifts to His children. And what matters is that God communicates and expresses His love for us through these gifts that come from Him.

And in return, we accept these gifts and we rejoice in its goodness!

Happy loving to everyone and let us return God's love by being loving and grateful for all that He gives to us.

Amen.

Job Fairs and other plans

I went to Glorietta today for the Manila Bulletin Job Fair. Lots of companies. Tomorrow, I will be going to a call center in Alabang. Actually, if I can go to two call centers, then that's even better. On Friday, I will go to G5 in Makati for Ayala Land interviews and probably drop by Anchor Land Holdings in Trafalgar Plaza. I want to concentrate somehow in a career in real estate.

This April and May, I will go to the RFP seminars at Oakwood Premier at ADB Ave. in Ortigas. It's gonna be for 8 Saturdays. After which, I will be working to get my RFP certification. Wish me luck.

As of now, I don't know if it's gonna push through, I am thinking of becoming an active member of Picpa, the association of Philippines Certified Public Accountants. I want to attend also a Risk Management seminar which is P1500 for a member on the 11th of April.

I plan to attend seminars of day8.org. There's gonna be an Aspiring Entrepreneurs Roundtable, How to Defeat Goliath of the industry, Internet Marketing and Network Marketing. Some have fees, while the others come for free if you purchase a book by Josiah Go.

Have to go on writing, have to go on writing talks, for God and life and money. Have to work on my internet marketing activities to earn something from it. On Saturday, there will be an ebay.ph selling seminar. Hope I could earn something from this business activity.

I hope I could learn to finish a book in one week. Plus, I have to write ebooks as well. And hope to get them published. But the moolahs also have to come in simultaneously.

This year, or in the very near future, I am planning to take up some online courses about life coaching. Cool!

Finance education

I went to the Wealth Summit 2011 @ the Megatrade conference rooms. On March 26, 2011 I will be attending Chinkee Tan's The Awakened Millionaire Seminar. On April and May 2011, I plan to attend the RFP program. This should help a lot in financial education and to promote financial education as well to others.

I hope to be successful in it. With God's help and teaching. After all, it is God who is ultimately teaching me about financial education. I should just learn how to apply it in my real life, personal life. I should just begin using my financial education for myself.

Tomorrow, Josiah Go will have a talk on Strategic Innovation. It's gonna be a marketing seminar with my Fundamentals of Marketing book by Josiah and Chiqui Go. Great book!