Rommela Untalan is a writer, blogger, starting businessperson involved in business consulting/life coaching and counselling and various businesses. You may wish to contact her thru her email ellauntalan@yahoo.com and txt thru 639214309870. If you've been helped by the blogs, you may wish to send in your donations/learning/educ fee at a future UB bank account. Thanks.
Monday, May 10, 2010
How to meet a guy
Someone once said that to meet a guy you must constantly think of him - the one. It never worked out for me. Or maybe, I just didn't do my assignment. Maybe, I didn't attract him. Hope to meet you in my dreams and hope to have kids with you someday. If I wouldn't meet you in life, then maybe someday in heaven. But what will I do the rest of my life here on earth? I don't know?
Cool doodles
I wish to start writing with blogs. Then, write children's books, scripts and books. Maybe write for magazines and newspapers also. Study acting, filmmaking and directing. Writing too. Then go into business during my spare time, lots of different, diverse business. Spend a lot of time with other people, get to know them. Maybe, become an athlete too. These are just plans, I don't know how to materialize them and monetize them. Money is important. Life is important. Relationships in business, family, friends are important. You just wish to feel good about your life. And for me, it is about God fulfilling His promises towards me and giving me a full life as He promised in the bible. What makes you feel good. Career. Love. Family. Business. Religion. Friends. Money. It's all a search of what you want to do with your life. Hopefully, you bring something beautiful into the world as you take this journey and you help other people along the way. I think i have been doing that for the past years of my life that is why I am saying nothing is wasted. Not everything is about jobs or money. Sometimes, you just need God to guide you in your life, how you live your life everyday and hopefully you don't do something bad to other people. What is in your heart? What is in your mind. I cannot say that my life is complete but you know sometimes it is complete without money. And I am very thankful for that. Knowing that you have done good to people. I just wish that people wouldn't take advantage of one's weakness and put it for their own selfish use. I wish God would protect weak people from those who pounce on them and try to kill their spirit. Love should be the ultimate goal in life. God is love. I pray for a miracle!
Cool outings
I cherish the outings that I have with my mom and my aunt. I am trying to rebuild the relationship that I have with my family. Sometimes, you just go to what is important in your life and you don't plan things to happen. You just spend time with them and even though you plan to sometimes just spend time working in the office for let's say 12 hours, you still long for the vacation that you're used to not because of vacation's sake but because you enjoy spending time with your family and take good care of them. My mom is in retiring age and I hope to be with her more but now at the present I am gearing towards working coz I need to have money so I would be spending my offtime with her and spend the rest working. I am not used to that anymore. I am more used to 4 hour work day and spending the rest for leisure time, valuable time to be spent with family minus money. How to go about it. I've been used to this and it was not planned it just happened and I guess in life things are just the way they are. You don't even know why they consistently hesitate to hire you. Nothing's wasted anyway, much so with time. I have done incredible things with the time I had and I don't know if people will understand especially those who have dedicated their lives in working but somehow I am not even proud that I am unemployed, but I am proud of the things that I have achieved in not working for 10-12 years now. It's not a habit but to find yourself relaxing is one of the very important achievements I've had in all those 12 years. If you're gonna work accounting work at a young age while you have other dreams, dreams of becoming an actress or an athlete, it seems not worth it. You have to give in to your passions. Only, I have not achieved my dream for it seems far fetched. Now, I was wondering whether I'd still be an athlete or an actor or maybe study directing and filmmaking. I want to study too writing. All the things you could dream of in your life. I should achieve them. Accounting just went first. And everything just didn't fall into place yet. Is it ever too late? Let me see with the circumstances that I have in my life right now. Am I really for business? I guess, I am for the arts. If only I would try one more time. Just one more time. Plus, I gotta work on my future family plans too. I am getting older, am I? Anyway, money is important and that's why I try to solve it everyday. It is just too hard. God, grant me your will, whatever it is, for as long as I trust in You, You would give to me what is best for me. May I be able to overcome these problems and become a winner!
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Cool happenings
I recently went to the GoNegosyo Summit and learned about different businesses. I saw Loren Legarda, Cynthia Villar, Gladys Reyes, Marides Fernando, Vicky Belo, Pacita Juan and heard the voice of Eric Santos sad to say I didn't see him, I was listening to a talk in the seminar room.
I similarly went to a negosyo fair by Buy and Sell and learned about different businesses and Ultima Entrepinoy meat processing skills and car shampoo mixing seminars all at affordable prices.
At a mall nearby, I chanced upon a new friend which I think is awesome because I need to meet new friends that way. She just talked to me about business in the mall in a few seconds or very few minutes and we're off. I hope to meet new friends in this way because I tend to be always with old friends and not engaging anymore to things that would add life to me. I hope I wouldn't be boring in my life anymore always measuring everything in terms of what I could afford and where I could afford to go to. I always maximize my few pesos of allowance from my mom and something's got to return.
I think this time I am really gonna try to sell something. That's a good start. And when I get the feel of it then maybe it will become a learned skill and then I will build my businesses. Hopefully.
I am still gonna write and attend a few seminars which I could afford and let's just see where the money will roll.
I need to make relationships for I am very interested in them and making the most out of my life to the points where I could afford it.
Judging on what I have or ask from my mom, I do enjoy everything that is made available to me like magazines or books, cable and internet, malling, newspapers and conversations with my mom and some family and friends. I just wish to continue with the flow of life and I feel that I have to do something or at least I could quit trying to prove something and just go with the flow of life.
Nothing has changed, making money is still a challenge for me cause for me I don't want to use any of my money for starting business. I want to use other people's money. I find it expensive and costly. If only I could go out in one day with P0 in my wallet, I will. And then, make something like P10000 in a day's work. I would be very happy with that. Is happiness connected with the money you make. I bet it is. But it should not always be the case. Earning just to have the comforts for me is enough. If it is very hard to earn money then that would be enough. But to earn a million per month is something that would make me very happy and rich. That means security for me. So if I have only a few pesos won't I feel secure? Maybe, if earning more money means security for you but to have no money is like walking in a strange land where people adore money because you cannot do anything without money, have you tried that? You cannot have shelter, food and drink and even clothes without money so money is very important.
In that case, I should learn to ask for money. Not work. I am working. With this blog. With the journal I am writing. With my mom. With the things that I read and watch on tv. With my family. With my friends. But asking for money. I should learn how to ask money from strangers, the group of people that would become my co-workers or business friends. I work but don't get paid. For example, I study accounting and business but nobody pays me. It should not be for free because I exert effort in doing those things. I am working. I am preparing the soil. I am planting the seeds. I am watering the plants. I gotta start with something. Something i am willing to give. i hope to do everything that is out there for me to choose from.
I gotta start with something. I gotta learn how to ask for money. I reason out with my mom when i could have used that sense in a talk that I could deliver to teach other people or to write books which I could sell for a price.
What I am praying for is to have the initiative and the creativity to start on something. I need to learn how to ask for money. How's P100000 for a talk. Or P500 for a book on business. Or a million on a business advice. I gotta learn how to ask for money.
I similarly went to a negosyo fair by Buy and Sell and learned about different businesses and Ultima Entrepinoy meat processing skills and car shampoo mixing seminars all at affordable prices.
At a mall nearby, I chanced upon a new friend which I think is awesome because I need to meet new friends that way. She just talked to me about business in the mall in a few seconds or very few minutes and we're off. I hope to meet new friends in this way because I tend to be always with old friends and not engaging anymore to things that would add life to me. I hope I wouldn't be boring in my life anymore always measuring everything in terms of what I could afford and where I could afford to go to. I always maximize my few pesos of allowance from my mom and something's got to return.
I think this time I am really gonna try to sell something. That's a good start. And when I get the feel of it then maybe it will become a learned skill and then I will build my businesses. Hopefully.
I am still gonna write and attend a few seminars which I could afford and let's just see where the money will roll.
I need to make relationships for I am very interested in them and making the most out of my life to the points where I could afford it.
Judging on what I have or ask from my mom, I do enjoy everything that is made available to me like magazines or books, cable and internet, malling, newspapers and conversations with my mom and some family and friends. I just wish to continue with the flow of life and I feel that I have to do something or at least I could quit trying to prove something and just go with the flow of life.
Nothing has changed, making money is still a challenge for me cause for me I don't want to use any of my money for starting business. I want to use other people's money. I find it expensive and costly. If only I could go out in one day with P0 in my wallet, I will. And then, make something like P10000 in a day's work. I would be very happy with that. Is happiness connected with the money you make. I bet it is. But it should not always be the case. Earning just to have the comforts for me is enough. If it is very hard to earn money then that would be enough. But to earn a million per month is something that would make me very happy and rich. That means security for me. So if I have only a few pesos won't I feel secure? Maybe, if earning more money means security for you but to have no money is like walking in a strange land where people adore money because you cannot do anything without money, have you tried that? You cannot have shelter, food and drink and even clothes without money so money is very important.
In that case, I should learn to ask for money. Not work. I am working. With this blog. With the journal I am writing. With my mom. With the things that I read and watch on tv. With my family. With my friends. But asking for money. I should learn how to ask money from strangers, the group of people that would become my co-workers or business friends. I work but don't get paid. For example, I study accounting and business but nobody pays me. It should not be for free because I exert effort in doing those things. I am working. I am preparing the soil. I am planting the seeds. I am watering the plants. I gotta start with something. Something i am willing to give. i hope to do everything that is out there for me to choose from.
I gotta start with something. I gotta learn how to ask for money. I reason out with my mom when i could have used that sense in a talk that I could deliver to teach other people or to write books which I could sell for a price.
What I am praying for is to have the initiative and the creativity to start on something. I need to learn how to ask for money. How's P100000 for a talk. Or P500 for a book on business. Or a million on a business advice. I gotta learn how to ask for money.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
To find a job
You need a minimal amount of money to at least cover your everyday expenses to be able to do what you need to do in order to do your work. For me, I get it from my mom. Or if not from my sister. I haven't proven my money making skill yet so I continue to struggle. Maybe, I am able to do what I want to do like attend fairs and seminars, read entrepreneurship and finance reading materials but I am not making any money. So it doesn't count right. I have to discover where I am good at and concentrate on that. I just can't understand that God has allowed this gap in funds in my life. Unfortunately, when opportunities were knocking on my door I saw them as accounting work and not as opportunities to make money. But that was before. Now, I want to become a millionaire. I hope I can meet the right people and friends along the way. There are just some important things in this world that matter more than just money. I now go back to the bottomline of whether it is just all about making money in life. For without money you cannot go on to live. I hope it is not all that. Jesus said in His gospel, the flowers are beautifully dressed by God and that animals and plants, nature are fed by God and they need not worry about their food. How is that for humans? I worry about money. I was taught to do so. I had an accounting education! Maybe, I just need to do it. Just do it. What I value more than making money is having the right relationships. And then, making money. I don't know how to make money without seeing it just a play or a game like in Ragnarok. In Ragnarok, you can be an entrepreneur, a merchant! Or you can beg on the streets and it's fun. I was having fun in playing with making money before that I didn't take the opportunities that came my way. Now, I can be serious. I hope to succeed. There's a lot I can do when I have lots of money. First, I'm gonna share it with others. Then, I can do certain missions in life like helping other people, something noble. I have to have the right mindset in order to succeed in business. I hope to always be successful.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Everyday grind
Everyday you meet all sorts of problems and challenges in your life. The ones that you have no solutions are still there to continue to challenge you like lessons to be learned in your life. For me, my challenge is to make money. God made me intelligent but for some reason, He didn't equip me with the skill to make money. There's some missing chapter in the money-making gift He gave me. Sometimes, it is tiring already, but you continue with the flow of life and you continue to roll with the punches, everyday. It is really a challenge. If there are Bill Gates, Donald Trump, Robert Kiyosaki, Bo Sanchez, Warren Buffett, Henry Sy, John Gokongwei, ordinary people who can make money, make a living, I hope they can rub off on me a little of their money making skills and hope not to be a street urchin in the future. Maybe, I am missing out on the first rule, socialize. Imagine, if I have millions of friends, I would be a millionaire, no jokes! In the meantime, I can stop being an accountant, and stop counting money as in expenses to go out and eat lunch for my allowance in doing sales everyday so that I could sell something and expect profit in return. The world is my school. The books, tv, internet and people are my teachers. It's an open university of life and I am enjoying my life to the hilt!
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Easter blog
Christ has triumphed over death. We must have new hope. This is the message of Fr. Jerry Orbos on the Easter Vigil. We must have hope. Hope for our lives. This easter, it is the start of something new, continuing our mission here on earth, with lives full of hope. I want to start anew with this message in mind. Do away with the sins that you have committed in the past for Christ brought it with Him unto death and now He is resurrected.
I would like to start anew this easter with the insights I have about my life and basically life here on earth. I want to particularly apply it to my life after having gone through the activities I have done this past three days.
For starters, I want to start fresh with people. I want to gain a different point of view wherein what matters most to me would be people and not just money or material gain. I guess, I should also try to have a life other than the belief that I am only as far as my money goes which is not too much. Because, of that I have a few outings, gimmicks, social life which are costly and no activities such as study. I want to create a new schedule for me wherein I would meet new people and enrich my life more than it was before. I don't want to be stuck up to applying for a job and not being accepted in jobs. Rather, I want to start on my own even if I don't have money, I'll ask for money just so that my life will move on and not get stuck like a car that has no gasoline.
Finally, I hope to welcome all the blessings that God would give me for I prayed for life from God. Life. Meaning, new friends, old friends, acquaintances, relationships, family, husband, future family. I hope to get my life started.
There are several things that one can do in life but the overall picture is love somebody, help somebody. I hope to meet the right people, if not help all the people deserving of help because you have to be careful in who you trust. If only all people are good. Of course, I am forever hopeful that everybody has cleansed their hearts with the help of God. So that the world will be a brighter place to live in.
I would like to start anew this easter with the insights I have about my life and basically life here on earth. I want to particularly apply it to my life after having gone through the activities I have done this past three days.
For starters, I want to start fresh with people. I want to gain a different point of view wherein what matters most to me would be people and not just money or material gain. I guess, I should also try to have a life other than the belief that I am only as far as my money goes which is not too much. Because, of that I have a few outings, gimmicks, social life which are costly and no activities such as study. I want to create a new schedule for me wherein I would meet new people and enrich my life more than it was before. I don't want to be stuck up to applying for a job and not being accepted in jobs. Rather, I want to start on my own even if I don't have money, I'll ask for money just so that my life will move on and not get stuck like a car that has no gasoline.
Finally, I hope to welcome all the blessings that God would give me for I prayed for life from God. Life. Meaning, new friends, old friends, acquaintances, relationships, family, husband, future family. I hope to get my life started.
There are several things that one can do in life but the overall picture is love somebody, help somebody. I hope to meet the right people, if not help all the people deserving of help because you have to be careful in who you trust. If only all people are good. Of course, I am forever hopeful that everybody has cleansed their hearts with the help of God. So that the world will be a brighter place to live in.
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