To keep at your goals

It's the middle of January, the first month of the year 2010. During the new year, it was a time a making goals. And now that it's the middle of the first month of the year, you try to check whether you are inching your way to your goals or not. What's important is that you have the discipline to make it as you dreamed it to be. Make everything possible to make it. It's always right to check your accomplishments everyday if you are making your goal. You have to step on the problems that come your way, the challenges to move you forward your goal and thus, make you a better person, a person better equipped to handle tomorrow's trials. What's important is what you learn from it as a person, to make you a better person, to know better the next time, to use your talents for others and not limit yourself to a job description but to fully recognize your potential and what you can achieve in life. I think it takes the right leadership to make your life right. Do what you have to do in life and everything will follow.

Relationships to foster

I am thinking of ways to connect with people to start something like having a common goal or passion or aspiration. Here are the groups of people:

1. Go to artists. Someone passionate with the arts and use my talents in art. Maybe it be writing, photography, drawing, designing, music, singing, filmmaking. It may mean having to enroll to study an interest and practicing it to make something out of it and make it a career or make money out of it.

2. Go to athletes. Billiards for one. To know the mechanics of how to join tournaments.

3. Go to businesspeople. Share their minds. Learn something about business and put it into practice. Make business establishments and be successful.

4. Go to religion. To sustain you in your spiritual growth. To have a deeper relationship with God and others.

5. Just make friends. Who knows what kind of relationship you will foster.

To have a shared goal makes the journey worth taking. Finding their uniqueness also makes the difference quite interesting.

Formulas for making money

I've got three formulas for making money, so far I have yet to prove or be successful at them. Here they are:

1. Apply for a job. I have overused these formula. Still without any success. Jumped over 4 of them. But I guess no regrets. It was my decision. It's all a learning process. If you have to depend on employment for your sum of money make sure you have enough savings to last you until you finally land a job.

2. Study and then go find a job. I have used this formula also studying computer courses but to my dismay they require a bachelor's degree. How about those who can't shell out tons of money for a long-term study or those who do not have time. Still wasn't successful.

3. Establish a business. With P2000 I can probably start a small time business that I can grow depending on my abilities as an entrepreneur. I guess the basics of making money is that you find something everyday and not wait forever to find something. This I have yet to prove.

Making money and reaching people

Making money and reaching people are related. In this world, it is inevitable to relate with people in order to make money.

I have overly used the formula of applying for a job to find money and without success. Now, I turn to studying through books and magazines and tv shows how to be in business. I like studying to very basics of business which is relating with people to earn something in order to eat something and finding your true passions.

Maybe I need to focus on reaching to people in order to make money. Definitely, in sales you have to contact people. That's also like building relationships with people. I like to have long-term relationships with people if only I can choose to relate with them for a long time. I should not be money-bound meaning not being able to move where there is not money. But that's a hard task. Once I discover how to really do that then maybe making money wouldn't be as hard. I got to take advantage of what's free in this world. I got to reach out to other people concerning my talents and skills such as writing and relate with them. So that I could write for money. In acting, I gotta join auditions, acting groups, talent agencies, broadcasting companies. In play or sports, I gotta reach out to coaches or trainers and ask them about the sport, how to become an athlete, how to play for money.

The basics of making money is maybe this. What do you like doing? Even when you are a kid.
Then everything falls back there.

How to ask people for money? What's your purpose in life?

How to ask people for money? That's another question.

That's something that I have yet to learn.

I have yet to uncover what is the most effective way for me to ask for money. Like what do I value in people? How do I see them in terms of work? What's the work nearest to my heart.
I have yet to discover.

For example, I am thankful to my sister who has bought me this laptop to aid me in writing. I couldn't have done it without her help. Thanks to such a blessing! If not I wouldn't be able to write at least in a computer and that would be much bothersome to write through pen. Couldn't practice my typing skills. I wouldn't be able to say the things I wanna say in a given day since writers have to say what they want to say or so they will have to go through life silent. A writer's ideas should be heard or else they are wasted in the wasteland. Or yet others would say it since an idea which is the same could pop out of somebody else's mind or another writer.

Maybe I see them as lovers. People. I meant to have a close, intimate relationship with other people that I see them as potential lovers, agape, to have a close relationship with.

Maybe I could see them better also as fans for an ability I possess. Maybe it would totally be satisfying if I could be an actor or an athlete and be public to people and at the same time have close relationships with chosen people. It's not all about money. It's yourself. What you at least have to do for yourself. What your heart feels. I have to go public. It's my interest of public relations even as a kid.

Maybe as a communicator. I have to say what I have to say in this world, in this life. All the beautiful things that could be said to a person. About life. About love. What needs to be done. What needs to be said. I have a yearning to say something. Something valuable to life.

To find one's purpose. There are a lot of things to do in this world. You can choose from a billion of tasks. But what does really matter? Does it always have to be about making money? Maybe if I find my purpose in life then I can make money.

Where could I find a few bucks?

I am looking for ways on how to earn a few bucks. But sometimes, especially at the stage of my life I want to do it with somebody or others. Here are a few ideas:

I could sell newspapers everyday since I love the papers. I love reading and I can get hold of all the periodicals available in the country. It involves only a small capital but maybe with small earnings too.

I could sell food. I can cook food and serve or cater to customers who may want to taste my kind of food. I love to cook and eventhough I still don't have money for a culinary arts degree, I do have some cookbooks and so I can put into use my passion for cooking. I could always start with a small capital for some cooked food.

I could sell my writing. I love to write. But don't know where to sell. I have some ideas for what to write like a book or a magazine article, some helpful tips. I still have yet to research some paying companies for a book or an article originally written.

I could go into sales. Lots of opportunity to sell. Lots of products to choose from. Maybe I can put into use my selling skills. Just don't know where to start. I am still unsure yet about selling since that's not my natural talent when I was a kid. Sort of shy to sell. But my inclination to sales is there especially that I want to become financially independent and want to make it big and say something to the world that I can contribute something in terms of sales. Gotta try and try until my heart breaks!

I could study to become a mechanic. Be it a car mechanic or a computer mechanic or a cellphone mechanic. There are short courses out there to study these topics and maybe I can learn a thing or two about tinkering on these machines and even dabble on it for hours in a shop I can own someday after being an expert on these machines. The courses are cheap. Are they worth it?

I could act. Or go into media work. I can act in a commercial and be an extra. That's worth something. I can go into theater or filmmaking. Maybe start as a crew or staff and be in the world of entertainment. Study scripts and stories or even make one. I can also go into freelance photography. Maybe I can write a photographic book under my name.

I could play sports for money. I can be an athlete and play for the country. Like billiards perhaps. There's no harm in trying.

And other mundane things.

Those are my ideas and maybe I can put them into action.

The things I'm gonna be missing when I start working again:

1. Waking up late.
2. Staying up late.
3. Watching tv all day.
4. Going to the mall on a week day, on office hours.
5. Being able to attend to my interests such as art, photography, free seminars in business or on my interests.
6. Playing sports.
7. Entertaining career plans in acting or sports.
8. Entertaining study plans on either a short course, a two-year course or a four-year course.
9. Not having money. Ha! Ha!
10. Devoting time to studying about business even on my own way such as reading business books, business mags, Entrepreneur, watching Bloomberg.

Things I'll have when I start working again:

1. Money. Lots of money.
2. Achievement. To use one's talent in business e.g. accounting job.
3. Peach within oneself (that you are one with the others in the pursuit of industry in this world)
4. Network. To be with friends once again.
5. Contribution. To family, friends and society.
6. Probably a car.
7. A house.
8. Food from delicious restaurants, clothing.
9. Electronics
10. Investments