Do not be money bound

Can you actually do it? For me, it is really a great challenge to make money, maybe for others it isn't. It's been 12 years and so it doesn't help that people do not entrust you with responsibility like offer a job to you or any money making plan. Is it possible to not be money bound. In every move, you need money. You cannot go out of your house without money so you need to figure out how to get them. Just any ideas. I can write. I can teach accounting. I can accept accounting jobs freelance. I can accept full time accounting jobs. I can sell. Just anything. I can pursue my big dreams. I can connect with other people. I can just connect, connect and connect. As I have said before, if I had a million friends, I would never go hungry or grow poor without any material blessings. The concept of sharing has got to rub on me when you have lots of friends. I think one main cause of poverty is isolation. Isolation from other human beings of this world. If you've got lots of friends, opportunities come around easily. They come knocking at your doors. Plus, you get to share what they have. In all honesty, you need not much money to keep up. Just something minimal. But if you're gonna enjoy the luxury you need much money. And some of the most pressing needs in this life are expensive like cars, homes, food, quality food, services, medical bills, insurance and businesses. So you gotta have money, poverty is not an excuse. All the more, you need to exercise your power to work, to alleviate your poverty. But when you lose all hope, just don't lose all the hope you've got, you gotta leave something for yourself and your family and get up and exercise your working muscles. And people could be kind, they can help you if you are in dire need. Just call. So now, do you have ideas on where to get that moolah. Just keep on reaching for it!

Some ideas on how to enjoy life:

Go to mass everyday and ask for 150 a day allowance for transpo and food. Mondays to Fridays.

Volunteer to do something helpful for the needy, one that is your passion and interest.

Connect with the world.

Work, it is a divine responsibility.

Take a hint: What would have been your course in life?

I am forever acknowledging that fact that I am an accountant. But I hated it so much, it stuck. For the longest time, I have been applying to accounting job openings but to no avail, I am always unsuccessful in it. Honest to goodness, I don't know what God wants of me. If this is not for me then, at least can He give me another thing, something else to get my hands busy with, for blessings to overflow to me? My taking up accounting is just one side of the puzzle. It is already a given. But to insist on it is something else. I think it is a mistake to insist on it. It is like a violation of my heart. A violation of my mind, my spirit. If it weren't for the money, I would definitely be writing. If I have food on the table all the time, I would be writing. I would be writing about people what else? That is the most interesting thing to write about. I would be writing blogs, and scripts and books and cds. I would definitely be a writer.

But since money is involved, I was always wondering if business would be a given. I know my interest in business is somehow involved in my study of accounting. Sometimes, it has the same feeling as doing accounting that is why I question myself if business is really my passion.

Maybe, i could find other jobs that are equally rewarding financially like playing billiards or taking acting jobs. But that's all I could think of. I better decide if I am still gonna do it. Sooner. Not later. Time is ticking. Anyway, I would like to think that I have all the time in the world to do and accomplish my dreams. But I guess there are certain things that can be hard to do when you're much older so I have to think about that too. Anyway, goodluck to me again. And goodluck to all who are chasing their dreams in this life.

Goodluck to being a writer.

Goodluck to being a businessperson.

Goodluck to being an athlete.

Goodluck to being an actress.

To count the change

I still count the change. For me a peso or 5 pesos can go a long way like for tricycle fares or gulaman from a siomai kiosk or the change of 5 pesos in a purchase of clothes or other necessities in a mall. I count the change. 1 peso can go a long way like if the cheapest food I can buy is still affordable by my wallet. I like change coz as they say if there's no change there is no 1 peso and there will be no 100 pesos.

With change, I can buy my favorite newspapers and siomai or a candy bar or bottled juice drink. With change, I can still go home to my family without running short of money. There's so much I can do with change that I am thankful that God gives me change to spend. Could you imagine, 200 of those loose peso change amounts to my daily allowance to go to a mall for three to four hours, not even a whole day. That's how expensive it is to go out nowadays, so it is very important to find a job that will give you those change to spend .

I know I am guilty. I want to earn big. Sometimes, I am not content with change when it comes to earnings. But maybe, I can change my philosophy on that. Maybe, from now on I can start acknowledging change as income. Maybe, I can sell processed meat, rtws, perfumes, car shampoo. Just some of my ideas. I just don't know how to start them because my mom would never (ever) go into business with me. Just because she doesn't like business. For her, business is like gambling, a bad vice or habit to quit. She's got a negative thinking about business. She foresees the problems and never acknowledges the earning potential. She's forever the employee. And so, we'll never come into terms with each other. I am the businessminded type but can't seem to start anything, maybe because I lack money, I lack the exposure, I lack partners. That would be my downside. But if I have money, I would definitely be in business. I hope I do not lose all the opportunities just by waiting in vain for the one opportunity. There is no perfect condition to start a business, you just go to start one. I hope I can start one soon. I hope I can keep my word in this blog.

Use your gifts

The only way for people to get out of poverty is to use their gifts. God gave gifts to people and so they must use them to serve the kingdom, to serve the community of God. There are so many talented people in the world like singers, dancers, actors and actresses, athletes, businesspeople, investors, doctors, lawyers, reporters, priests and preachers. It's good to know different successful people who are well-known so that people can imitate what they have done in the world. People like Warren Buffett or Bill Gates, John Gokongwei or Henry Sy, inventors and others who are admirable people to imitate. The only difference that they have is that they continue to do their thing everyday and they are successful in it.

I hope I can be successful too. I look up at job ads to find out the different job openings in our country. I hope to find more avenues to open up to me where I can make use of my talents and for that reason find a job to be successful at.

For me it's writing, business and religion.

I hope I can find more opportunities in these disciplines.

A person who has musicality can become a musician.

A person who has talent in acting can become an actor or an actress.

A person who has intelligence can study and break into the field that he/she wanted.

A person who has talent in business can be successful in business.

A person with good communication skills can become a communicator or a writer.

The opportunities are endless.

All you've go to do is to open yourself up to these opportunities.

Hope to God in all things

I just hope that i have all the answers in the world. People carry their own problems in the world and if you could just give answers to all the problems in the world then I would gladly help them. I have my share of problems too and I think I would be able to solve them by gaining financial independence. I have to clear out my schedule in order to do the things that I am planning. Aside from full time work, I would like to really get involved in real estate and so I am making this a long term career. I hope that God would arrange my schedules coz just recently I signed up to some writing jobs but I don't know if I will get accepted in these jobs. I don't know if I am able to do all these things but it seems that I am running after money once again and so I have to prioritize things.

I have to also work for my own independence. I hope somebody teaches me how to find money fast without going into monkey business. My deadline is sort of 2010, that there's gotta be a change that will happen to me in this year. At least I gotta keep trying until I achieve my goals. Money should not stop me. I have written in the past blogs about my plans and so I hope I am able to do all those. What I am really after is the money that I am gonna be making.

People have many problems in the world and so somehow you just want to serve God and find meaning to your life and to your day by involving yourself to the lives of other people you want to help. But money is my main concern and so by doing a job, I would certainly meet people and have new friends.

Plus, I gotta be talkative and learn how to deal with all types of personalities including my family and strangers. I just wish all my inhibitions will be gone so that I can be this magnetic personality that I dream of. There is this one exercise before which asks what one thing that if you change in yourself will have this positive impact in your life. I guess, my personality, my being a go getter and being positive towards things. Being good to other people and not having inhibitions. I just wish to have a changed life after this.

Money has to come. And so I would imitate those who find it easy to find money. Some change has got to happen to me this 2010 or if not I will not stop trying even if it's beyond 2010. We've got one life and so if I can make use of all my life to keep on trying then I would not stop no matter what happens to me. Everyday is a new day, a new challenge to overcome. A new day to offer up to God everything in our lives.

You do not know exactly what will happen in your life and so I must learn how to accept these changes that happen in my life so often. Change management. I got to learn to jump on opportunities too without taking so long and learn to time manage everything and keep my schedules just free and open and not so thick and busy so that I will still be open to God's promptings and calls during my life.

What will make you happy?

Sometimes, you go on in life and it's as if there is something missing. I guess, you just have to involve yourself in the lives of other people around you. There are so many people around the world, if only you could love them all and share your self with them and God's love you will not be lonely anymore.

I have this dream that I am not working on and it seems like this is the missing link. I am not an actress and an athlete because I have decided not to go for them anymore, not now.

But it seems like my happiness is totally dependent on achieving my dreams. I have not achieved these two dreams and that is why I am wondering maybe they are truly the missing link in my life.

I've had broken dreams before like not being able to study law and not being able to study medicine and I thought I would be able to do that. But unfortunately, as I have already said in my blog, I think I don't have the skill to make money so i couldn't afford a medical education and cannot be a doctor.

Before I used to think that anything that I put my heart and mind to I'll be able to achieve but now it seems impossible and that is why I am at a loss.

All I could think of right now is to have a job so that my life will move forward already, coz it had been stuck at least that's the way i feel it for the longest time.

That's why I have this blog.

So that I can celebrate being myself, being me.

And hoping that I meet friends along the way.

What's your passion?

I have yet to discover mine, but if things are just right then maybe my passion is writing, communication arts, acting, showbiz, advertising, films, videos, people in life, magazines, books, media, internet, communication. That's my big thing.

And then, there's business.

And then, there's religion.