Are you the kind of person who wants to succeed, BUT you are having so much difficulty getting there?  Do you really want to succeed, BUT you don't know where to start?



Many of us have these ideas. However, ideas are just ideas if we don't know how to turn them into practicality.



LET US TEACH YOU HOW TO BECOME SUCCESSFUL with our workshop:

DARE with DESIRE







Topics:



> How to develop the right attitudes for success

> How to enhance your self-awareness

> How to create new ideas to innovate and change

> How to distinguish motivation from inspiration

> How to harness the power of networking to create wealth



If you still continued reading, perhaps you have just been turned off by the word, "networking." To be honest with you, I was turned off by this word as well!  In fact, I still feel uneasy hearing or saying that word from time to time. Over the years, it has had such a negative connotation to it. But even the biggest businesses are into networking.



Think SM - they have a network of vendors, suppliers, and buyers. Their SM advantage card is a kind of networking. They just know how to do it better than us.



Think Let's Face It - they have a tarpaulin that says, Refer a friend and earn cash! That's networking!

Think of real estate agents - They refer you to a condo or house which is not theirs, and they get a commission. They ask you to refer your friends to them and you also get a commission. That's totally networking!!!



Think of group buying websites like Ensogo, Cashcashpinoy, or Metrodeal: The products and services are not theirs.… Continue

"The weak can never forgive.  Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."  --Mahatma Gandhi



Life is filled with heroes and villains.  And in order for these heroes and villains to exist, victims must exist.  At one point in our life, we have been victimized in one way or another.  Whether it was from a backstabbing friend, a conniving colleague, a reckless lover, an abusive family member, a lying politician, or a mean teacher.

 

Victimization can also come from someone we know so well.  Someone so close to us.  That person could be your best friend, your boyfriend or girlfriend, and your husband or wife.  We feel betrayed because harm is the last thing we expect from someone we love so dearly.

 

There are many ways we become to "feel victimized."  These feelings manifest into jealousy, disappointment, depression, and anger; if these feelings are not curtailed at the very beginning, it could turn into, worst of all, hatred.  We play in our minds over and over again how this person has betrayed us, and we could no longer trust this person.  When this trust is gone, love is gone.  Hatred looms over us.

 

We want to shout out, "How could you?"  We want to scream out expletives like, "F@ck you!"  The pain becomes unbearable.  We think of running away.  So far far away that no one would find us.  We stay in the room for days, even months in the house.  We think of murder.  We think of ending it all.  The pain is just so unbearable.

 

I have had many instances when I felt victimized and betrayed.  I gave everything.  And when my hope and dreams were taken away, I felt everything was taken away as well.  I wanted to nurture that hate that was growing inside of me.  I wanted to run away.  I wanted to end everything.

 

I listened to music that made me feel the pain even more.  The more I listened, I thought, the more I would come to hate and get over it.  I…

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A few days before 2011, I resolved to completely remove rice out of my diet.  I also wanted to reduce my carbohydrate consumption.  Why?  I wanted to lose some weight, especially around my stomach - my belly.  Today, a woman who attended our seminar in Nueva Vizcaya commented how I was fat back then and how I looked "sexy" now.  Haha.  That means my diet has worked!  

 

Therefore, I am advancing to the next round.  I have lost some weight, but I also stopped going to the gym and I have lost some of my muscle mass as well.  Therefore, I need to start lifting weights again.

 

Also, I want to keep going further with my diet.  I actually thought I wouldn't eat rice until January 22 only, but I am going to continue with this trend.  

 

Next, I am going to start running more.  I really want to be healthy this year.  Of course, being healthy will manifest into looking good and feeling strong as well.  So here's to a better health and a better body!

What do you do with your trash after eating?  Do you bring it to the trash can?  Or do you just leave it there?

 

In the US, we don't leave our trash at the table.  We clean up after ourselves.  We bring it to the trash can.  

 

Here in the Philippines, I've observed that almost everyone leaves their trash behind.  There have been many times when I had to clean the table for others because it was the only table left that is not occupied.  Sometimes, I have to eat next to a table that is so messy and gross with leftovers and dirty napkins.

 

The picture on the left is one I took earlier.  I was at McDonald's earlier, and there was mess everywhere.  I had nowhere to sit!

 

Some say that it's okay to leave your mess because it gives the workers a job.  My response to this is that it reduces the quality of service, and when service is poor, there would be less customers, which in turn leads to less hiring.

 

What do you think about this situation?

Meet Chris

by Susan V. Ople

Ople Center, former Senatorial Candidate, and Daughter of the Late Senator Blas Ople

Manila Star Bulletin, Philippine Panorama

January 16, 2011



From time to time, Our Times features interesting men and women who abhor mediocrity and prefer to lead lives that contribute to positive change. Chris Delacruz is one such person.



Young, articulate and bold in the pursuit of dreams, Chris founded his own school in January 2007. The American Institute for English Proficiency combines critical thinking with English proficiency lessons to enable students from all walks of life learn the rudiments of effective communication.



Chris had to improve his English as a a little boy when half of his family moved to Hawaii from Ilocos Norte when he was just nine years old. His grandparents who have long made Honolulu their second home petitioned his father, himself, and another sibling. It took seven years before his mother and two other siblings were able to follow, thus completing the family.



Looking back, the Delacruz family did not lead an easy life in Hawaii as new emigrants. Chris described his family as “very poor.” “We led an impoverished life in Hawaii. At eleven years old, I would deliver newspaper while going to school, living on tips. I also did yard work and cleaned homes of rich people.”



Growing up, Chris encountered all kinds of discrimination, strangely enough from Filipinos of his own age. “They were cruel. They made fun of my strange accent and way of dressing. I was considered as “fresh off… Continue

What are your dreams?  Are they clear?  Or are they hazy?  At night, we dream, of love, success, and family.  Some of our dreams are wild and adventurous, and some of them we call nightmares.  In the daytime, we have what we call "daydream."  We look out the window and wonder what is life going to be like?  Yes, we have two kinds of dreams.  The dream that we have when we're asleep or daydreaming and the dream that we have which we call our destiny, our goals, our Personal Legend.

 

I have just read The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, and I am re-learning the importance of chasing after our dreams, no matter what.  I have also come to realize that dreams are what keep us going day after day.  The pursuit of this dream is the pursuit of happiness.  

 

When I was young, I dreamed of becoming a lawyer.  After practicing law, I wanted to be a public servant as a city councilor, a mayor, a governor, a congressman, a senator, and finally a judge.  I held on to this dream until I graduated from college.  Obviously, I am not any of these.  I traveled a different path, and I now co-own an English school, American Institute for English Proficiency, and a Filipino restaurant, Adobo.ph.

 

So did I fail in my dream?  Did I not achieve my Personal Legend?  Do I have a different Personal Legend?  In Paulo Coelho's book, I learned that I needed to listen to my heart.  I learned that I also needed to read "omens" or signs that would help see the way.  In restrospect, I realize that I did listen to my heart; I remember the omens that pushed me to come to the Philippines.…

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When I was a kid, up to my freshman year in college, I was very skinny.  In fact, I was called many names like siit (fish bones in Ilocano), skinny bone jones, and kuttong balatong (skinny mongo in Ilocano).  I don't know how that word "balatong" got in there; I guess it just rhymed with the other word.  I wasn't anorexic skinny -- just skinny.

 

I always thought that being skinny took away from my power as a person - I thought that no one took a very skinny guy seriously!  Fortunately, I studied very hard and was able to get high grades; I was honor society president, class president, debate captain.  I even played sports, got into theater, and hey, I was the homecoming king!  But I was still skinny, and I didn't like being skinny!

 

I ate and ate.  But no matter how much I ate, I was still very skinny.  Skinny to the bones.  I thought I would be skinny forever.

Then college came.  All of a sudden, I started to gain weight.  I started to work out.  I gained a little more weight.  Little by little, I gained.  Meal after meal!  It was working!  A combination of stuffing yourself to the limit and going to the gym three or four times a week did the trick!  Before I knew it, I was at my ideal weight for my height: 5'9, 155 pounds.  I actually put on some muscles.  I changed so dramatically that when I went home after the school year, my family could not recognize me at the airport when they picked me up!

 

When I came to the Philippines, everything changed again.  At first, I lost weight again!  Then when I got comfortable, I stopped working out,…

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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end, as the song Closing Time goes.  And as 2010 comes to an end, a new beginning in 2011 is brewing.  What is in store for us, nobody knows.  It has not yet be destined or predetermined, except by God.  But even God would want us to shape our own futures first.  As the final days of 2010 approaches, are you thinking of how you our going to mold your 2011?

 

For me, everything starts in the mind.  That is why I believe in the Law of Attraction so much.  What the mind can conceive, the body can achieve.  I will do my very best to think of what I want and forget the things I do not want.  I want only positive things and positive people around me.  And even when others become negative, I will do my best to be positive and concentrate only on the good things that are yet to come.

 

For example, I want to have more abundance, in health, wealth, and yes, even looks.  I want to be more active, to have more money, and to be better looking.  I want to travel more, meet more people, and have better things.  I am going to focus on what i want, not what I do not want for even Mother Theresa said that she would join a peace march, but not a war rally.  And when I get the good things that I want, I want to share them with my family and friends.

 

Speaking of family and friends, I want to visit them in Las Vegas and in Honolulu.  They have not seen me for over four years now.  It's time to share stories once again.  Some of them, I have not spoken with.  Some of them, I kept in touch via this wonderful world of online social networking.  I wonder where they are now, what they are doing, and where they are going.  I want to see them again, to laugh, to sing, to dance, to eat...

 

I am…

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