Can’t wait to be with the 2,000 plus people attending the seminar this afternoon at SMX. My thanks to the organizers Inspire and Salt and Light for their help and contribution. No one ever succeeds alone. Even Batman has his Robin and Lone Ranger had his Tonto!
If you want to feel rich, just count the things money cant buy. Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give. says E.A. ROBINSON
There are the givers and there are the takers. The takers of course they eat better. But the givers, they sleep better. And the takers have higher cholesterol. Have a Great day today!
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Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.” says Mark Clement.
One winning principle we can all cultivate for life is this: Always give more than what we’re paid for. Those who keep on counting the hours and counting the wages are never happy and worst….they never grow!
Happy growing today, this week and the rest of your life.
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Feb 192012
Our country has gone through many kinds of crisis. Crisis that are both man made and considered acts of God. Which in my opinion is a very bad term. Why is it that we call a sad natural catastrophe an “act of god” and then when times are good and victorious we credit it to ourselves? Maybe this is something we should think about.
Anyways…. We have a very strange way of getting through the different crises that have came our way.
A few days after typhoon Ondoy, I joined a relief operations group and we rode a small Bangka and visited the far places of the flooded areas in order to distribute relief goods. Guess what I saw? Water that has gone beyond house roofs with people practically staying on top of their roofs yet you still see a smile on their faces.
They say that as a people we are resilient and I think we are. But being resilient alone does not make us stronger. We need to evaluate the experience, learn from it and be determined to prevent the same problem from occurring in the future. This is why this material I got from the Internet really made me laugh. It is entitled: “21 Thoughts to Get You Through Almost Any Crisis.”
Now here is a warning. Do not take this material seriously. This is part sarcasm part plain humor. Following this material will be totally disastrous so take this as something humorous and again, do not take it seriously.
Here is the material.
21 Thoughts to Get You Through Almost any Crisis:
1. Indecision is the key to flexibility.
2. There is absolutely no substitute for a genuine lack of preparation.
3. Happiness is merely the remission of pain.
4. Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.
5. The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant.
6. The careful application of terror is also a form of communication.
7. Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world.
8. Things are more like they are today then they have ever been before.
9. Anything worth fighting for is worth fighting dirty for. That’s bad.
10. Everything should be made as simple as possible but no simpler.
11. Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. Oh how I believe that.
12. I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.
13. Suicide is the most sincere form of self-criticism. And it’s the biggest cop out too.
14. If you think that there is good in everybody, you haven’t met everybody.
15. All things being equal, fat people use more soap. Now that’s being politically incorrect.
16. If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.
17. One-seventh of your life is spent on Monday.
18. By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends.
19. Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
20. There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.
21. Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
Comedienne Lucille Ball says: :The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”
Again, do not take this seriously. Of course all form of lying is sinful. But here is the key. When you go through a crisis, pray. Never forget that God is in control. Keep your mind clear and put your trust in God. This is the only part of the material that is serious and truthful.
So learn the lessons.
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Some people are what I call “The Plan B” people. While I value the importance of being prudent and prepared, some people would always go to option 2 when they have not exhausted their efforts into their original plan.
Statesman and businessman George Shultz says: ‘The minute you start talking about what you are going to do if you lose, YOU have lost.” Don’t quit too soon. Takes a lot of discipline to go through this.
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Somebody says: My wife suggested a book for me to read to enhance our relationship. It’s titled: ‘Women are from Venus, Men are Wrong. It doesn’t have to be this way. Takes a lot of discipline to have a very successful marriage.
I am so excited to speak on marriage this afternoon at St. Scholastica Westgrove. Have had years of this in actual experience and is included in my bio-data. 
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Had a wonderful time with The Ilocana and my associates in HongKong and now that I’m back tonight it’s off to Bacolod tomorrow morning for another talk in the afternoon. God is gracious!
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With barely 10 more days to go and almost 2000 people attending the seminar on Feb. 24. It is so encouraging to know that so many people value learning and discipline.
It’s amazing to know that the word learning is so close to the word earning. It is one endeavor where one does not suffer loss.
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Here is an old and sobering story: When a victorious Roman general arrived back in Rome, he was given a hero’s welcome and a triumphant parade of victory. But a philosopher was hired to ride beside him in the victory parade. As the victor acknowledged the cheers of the crowd, the philosopher kept whispering in his ear: “You are mortal. You are mortal.” Focus on God the Source of all good things.
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Feb 112012
A FRENCH PROVERB SAYS: “None so busy as those who do nothing.”
But what about being too busy all the time?
The truth is if you are too busy to relax, then you are too busy.
Technology is a big culprit behind the reason why we become so busy.
Just think about this: Do you remember the predictions about the paperless office and the leisure society? Between 1999 and 2002 global use of paper increased by 22% and we now seem to have less spare time than ever. We are also sleeping less than we used to, down from 9 hours per day in 1900 to 6.9 hours today. Indeed, the benefits of the computer age can be seen everywhere except in the productivity statistics, because we are inventing new ways of making ourselves busy.
Still, being too busy seems to be a badge of accomplishment and a picture of importance. When people invite me to give a talk I pull out my Iphone, check over my calendar and see my white spaces occupied with activities. People are impressed. They see how busy I am.
In fact there is a running rumor going around the corporate world that it takes them one year in advance to be able to get a booking from me. This is of course grossly exaggerated but it does take quite a few months lead time to have me schedule a date for a speaking or a training engagement.
And then I go home, exhausted and wondered how I could have packed so many activities in so short a time.
But this is not an exclusive condition for me.
The obsession with “busyness” can be seen in the way the work ethic has invaded childhood. Children must be kept busy at all limes. As a result, they are becoming overscheduled and we are cre¬ating a cohort that cannot think for itself, a generation of passive, risk-averse citizens and comfortably numb consumers with almost no imagination or self-reliance.
Children today are expected to do so many hours of back-breaking homework. And then rush off somewhere to do music lessons. And parents today feel that if they do not push their kids hard enough they may not succeed.
Watch what happens when summer season comes. Parents get paranoid and they feel nervous seeing their children idle. And so they enroll them in summer courses, sports programs, summer programs just to keep them busy.
Is busyness now an important element to life and living? Could we not get used to moments of quietness so we can pull our acts together? As I ask these questions I am actually asking myself.
Consider the following new terms:
TMI or Too much Information better known as information overload has a distant cousin, too much choice (TMC). In a nutshell, humankind is producing an excess of stuff. The amount of new information we produce today is estimated to be around 2 billion bytes annually. That’s (very roughly) 2 billion bytes or about 20 billion copies of a typical thick book. The average large corporation similarly experiences a doubling of the amount of information it produces annually.
Information is no longer power; power lies in the ability to attain and maintain attention. I am not an alarmist but what I want people to know is that the pace of life will continue to increase and we need to learn how to be quiet.
This is why my first hour of the day is spent on quiet time. Prayer and meditation of Scripture to bring sanity to my being.
Busyness may not be a good thing when it is done in excess.
Learn to be quiet. Learn to spend time in solitude as I certainly will this coming holiday season.
So don’t just do something, stand there or better still, sit down and be quiet.
