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.

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.

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!

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.

Reflections and thinking on Good Friday

Just watched the marathon of Ghost Whisperer on ch. 23. I liked it a lot. I wish sometimes that I have the gift to help spirits do their unfinished businesses here on earth, to see them, and to communicate with their loved ones their unsaid messages and to help them find their peace. I wish I was just like Melinda Gordon. It would have been an interesting life.

Watched also the 10 Commandments. Various tv shows for reflections this Holy Week. Prayed a lot too. Rosary, Way of the Cross, St. Jude and the Chaplet. It's been a good experience this holy week. I wish to share it and make change with the people I come in contact with. Hope and pray that life is safe as always and have peace, good health, good wealth and good intentions. What more can you hope for in this life.

I hope it is not just about making money and survival in this world. Money is still a problem for me for I don't think I have money making skills but I do know how to write and advice about money, maybe it's just that my moment hasn't come yet. I do believe that God provides when He wants to and He just hasn't given me much yet in all those years.

I hope people change after this Holy Week, good intentions and purposes of everybody living in this world. I hope they change and no more evil in this world, I pray. Lord, have mercy on us. Peace to all fellowmen. All are brothers and sisters in Christ.

Fasting and abstinence also make a great sacrifice for God. It is also a good sense of discipline for the body to achieve also good health, good in mind, body and soul.

There are things that I want to change in me after this Holy Week, a good sense of everybody and of course money making skills, I pray to God. And continued reverence and relationship with the Lord as we journey in this life with Him. May everybody be good! Amen.

Ideas for life

I seem to be running out of ideas on how to find work. I know I can apply but this seems to be a repetitive activity that I have been doing for the past 12 years and frankly, I'm kinda tired of it. If only rejections would beface me again. Just because my resume looks that way. Just because I had short work experiences which happened while I was young and don't know a thing about staying long in a company. Why do they judge resumes that way? I wish I could say otherwise, but the past ten years of my life has been great and have no complaints except that society seem to oblige people to work and if you have no work they kinda look down on you, at least to some people. I'm gonna continue this article after the Holy Week, cause it seems like complaining and I don't really have anything else to write except my feelings towards my unemployment because you need money everyday. And it affects you if you don't have money everyday because you can't go anywhere without money. I am just wondering, I am no different from the celebrities being shown on tv and yet I don't have work while they continue to dig up money or treasures in this world. I just wonder where I can get my own treasure? If everybody rejected you for 12 years now except the ones that accepted you because of your family, what would you do?As I have said I am just gonna continue this article after Holy Week. I would try to change during the Holy Week and learn more from the recollections, the reflections on tv shows and books to read and maybe have a change of view about life afterwards. Blessed Holy Week!

Holy Week 2010

It's Holy Week 2010. I like Holy Week very much because it reminds me very much of how I used to spend this week in my mother's hometown and just celebrate the week by watching procession of life size statues of saints and other Holy Week activities such as the pabasa, senakulo, stations of the cross, confession and watching movies such as the Redeemer, The 10 Commandments and so on. Things changed now, we don't go home to our hometown anymore during the Holy Week but we just celebrate it in our home and do religious activities and still enjoy tv shows shown during this week. I like it also because this is a week for God and people and the world are just a bit holier and I just wish it would be Holy Week all year round or Christmas. What is very important is that we give a week to Jesus and how He saved mankind and we reminisce this event, our Salvation, in this very week. It is also a time to ask for forgiveness for our sins and just ask for mercy in our lives from God. It is also a time to ask for blessings in our lives, for lives changed and we strive to change for the better as we strive to become like Christ in our dealings in the world we live in. It is also a time for courage to stand up for Christ as we put Him first in our lives and adore Him in this week and strive to be courageous in our lives that we offer to Him. I hope this Holy Week would be as meaningful to all as it is to me and the others who strive to keep their lives holy and live their lives for God.