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Enya Music is Useful Instruments for Meditation

2011-11-28T06:37:00.001-08:00

Regular and proper meditation can heal and restore the mind from confusion.

Enya is a soul and classical type of singer. Her music canarrange the trouble thoughts because there are times that I can not think ofthe rights ideas what to write. Her music helps me a lot of constructing deepand sound words and it came from the bottom of my heart. I’m meditating throughput it into writing, bunch of words that will came up in my mind when I hearher music because it is really soft, full of feelings and mysterious sounds ofmusic it is unexplainable by words but it can be express through it’s emotions.

Here are the magnificent songs from Enya;

Only Time. As you listen to the intro instrumental here’s the staccato style of cello and the drop of the water and then the enya’s voice it has the combination of lots reverbs and full of blending in a form of her voices. Imagine how arranged the song was? And while you listen to it, your mind is working that is why, you write productively.
Anywhere. This is an upbeat song, if you feel the lazy days, just listen this song and you’ll awake. Feel the percussion beat it’s like you carry a heavy metal and you walk without complaining, and the twitter of the violin and imagine you’re at the top of the mountain and breath fresh air.
On my way home. Intro it is a pipe organ then surrounded by harmonious sounds that makes your eyes circulate it is because it’s so beautiful. And then the tempo changes like you walk happily going through to your homeland.
Caribbean Blue. Wow! First sounds it is like an alarm clock. It feels like I’m going to drink my coffee and then later cook my breakfast. An inspiring melody and it does really can forget bad dreams. It refreshes to a new memory. It creates a new beginning. Just focus on listening to the Bass Sound so cool.
Orinoco Flow. The harp rules this song. Listen to the picking of the harp and hit of the percussions so wonderful try to feel it and you will dance. Then later the melody change into slow but it’s only a while its back to upbeat and you’ll to dance again.

These are top 5 songs that I can recommend but Enya has lotsof songs you can listen to. To be more productive in your external work whilelistening of Enya songs it is better to buy speakers and hang it in the cornerof your room or in your Sala so that the sound will surround more. But if youwork on your computer just use the headphone so that you can listen very wellyet don’t put more volume because it can damage to your ear.

What is perseverance? Stories and Examples

2011-10-21T03:35:00.000-07:00

In life there is what we called change and it is the onlyconstant in this universe. Not all things that can be control but still it hasthe considerations of others that surround you. You are the only one compare tobillions of populations that influence with any kinds of controls and directionsof others. And all I wanted to express is that even if you choose to live inpeaceful and happy life, there are human beings who are actually destroying andwant to stop your beautiful desires and here this is the time, yourperseverance will measure your dreams where it goes.

Here is an inspiring story of a mother with two healthychildren; she is really responsible wife and a mother as functions in thefamily, but she was frustrated with her husband. Her husband is drunkard, abusiveand irresponsible father yet, she is still persists despite of bitterness ofthe relationship with his husband and she did it because of their children andshe protect the sacred of marriage in the church an in God and she is in lovedwith her husband and promised not to leave him for better or for worse. She keepson praying for her husband’s change, until their marriage reached at 70 years,to estimate if this couple got married at 20’s to calculate the differencebetween 20 and 70 is equal to 50 years of sacrificing the husband’s bad character.And their age is in 70’s and their children are already married too. It is reallyincredible and mysterious love story of married couple. If I ask you what comesin your mind if this happen in your married life? Can you survive to live in 50years of marriage with thorns? Or you will give up and married again and find someone to whom will love you back?

And whatever decisions you have made there is alwaysconsequences. If you want to get married again, there will be chance that yournew partner is different as your former one, but he/she has weaknesses also thatsometimes you don’t like it to happen. And if you choose to stick to your oldmarriage life, at first you encounter misery but if you expect and believe inchange someday, there’s miracle happen to you and that is a big reward of your sorrows.

The story that I shared above, measures the true power ofperseverance. If you can still persists, just hold and use that strength to move untoanother step of your life to go for a great true happiness that awaits for you. Andthat is PERSEVERANCE.

Here is an example: You start to make your own business;you risk your life and money, 1 year of your business you stop operating itbecause you think you’re not gaining profit. But before you quit on theimportant things, ask yourself many times and write every problem you feel thatyou encountered within that year and make some countermeasure to overcome andeliminate those problem. Identify the problem first then take actions. Thereare trials that can not be solved alone, rather with many heads.

If you start a thing, you may better finish it until the endof your time because true happiness is always at the end ofthe game and what you get in the middle are those wonderful experiences andamazing lessons in life to keep your more stronger ever.

The Benefits of Civil Marriage and the Importance of Church Marriage

2011-09-16T03:28:00.001-07:00

Marriage it is an agreementof between the man and woman as husband and wife that requires propercommitment of each individual. Marriage is also a contract between persons thatis distinguished by religious tradition and cultural practice.

Nowadays marriage is easy tomake it happen because actually anyone with the position in the communityespecially in the government has the right to be engaged in civil marriage.Like for instance, town mayor he/she implement civil marriage. It is usual forjudges to do this activity and this is really their job. It has a lot ofbeneficiaries or advantages in choosing civil marriage.

1. Costs are cheap. If you are a type of a person who has prioritiesinstead of spending only in marriage but you divert it to much more importantlike buying lots for instance. More of the case if you engage in civil marriageonly the important people can attend like the witnesses, parents of the wifeand husband so costs is less. Whereas church or when held in crowdedcelebration you will pay the costs in venues or the reception where yourvisitors can eat, the food, drinks, wedding dress, souvenirs, cakes and manymore extra costs. In addition to costs, like paying church fees ( priest,lights, choir and etc.), decoration at church, decorations in the receptionvenue, the documents that requires in the church are too many and it is verycostly, Seminars too many in church wedding. After the marriage instead ofbeing happy the condition will be different it turns to frustration due to hugecosts that you bear will pull you down. On the other side, before deciding tospend enormous amount it is better to plan ahead of time and save a lot ofmoney that will not affect your income. And set percentage savings for themarriage. This will be more light way to prevent depression.

2. Processof paper requirements is abrupt and manageable. If both parties of theindividuals are single, you get married one week before the completion of the requirements.Unlike, those who experienced marriage before it is a little bit complicatedbecause it’s need to settle the previous union before entering the newmarriage. Further to that complication, still civil marriage is recommended toprefer.

3. No Seminars at all. This is an advantage to those who engage in dayjob. In seminars demand time and if the event happens on working days the workwill behind. Time is wasted and the income of the day will perish.

In the church marriage it ismysterious but special ceremony and a very conservative and it is cherished byold generation/creation. This way of marriage is based on formalities but it isactually depends on what is the person’s point of view.

In other way of concept, everyindividual can hold formal ceremonies because they also measure their comfortzone, the special place and how it blends the style of the ceremony.

In church marriage, somepeople might say there is a big blessing because the priest is the instrumentof God the father’s consecration. Another is, Self Pride- the church is a largeplace to walk down the aisle so; it is in the mind and the perception of a personthat church wedding is great. It satisfies the total self individual happinessand fulfillment. To choose in church marriage, it manifests the religion and tofurnish high value to more religious people and them appreciate it because theybelieve from the bottom of their hearts. Lastly, it is very important to give highgratitude of culture and tradition and of what tribe you belong to maintain thegroup or the members of the family’s peacefulness and satisfaction, but still it’salways have the balance in implementing to those traditions in choosing what isright and wrong. Marriage is an important instrument, to measure faithfulness,commitment, responsibility and leadership in building a new family in thecommunity as a wife and a husband rule.

How to Stay Focused on your Goals on your way to Success

2011-08-30T07:49:00.000-07:00

If there is one trait that I should have, I would choose the ability to stay “focused”. This is very important to attain success and happiness in your life. Without focus, the road to success will be as blurred as the fog and as dark as the mud. Lack of focus makes you become an inefficient team player, a slow problem solver and a weak person playing in the field. Attaining focus is NOT simple; it requires a lot of things that involves sacrifice, commitment, patience and work endurance. Below are some tips that you can try (I personally tried this myself and they are indeed very effective):

Tip#1: STRICTLY Do ONLY ONE thing at a TIME – if someone advises you to do multi-tasking; they are just wasting your time. Don’t believe in them. A human person can only execute one job at a time at its best effort. Yes a multi-tasking can make you do many things at the same time BUT YOU CAN ONLY EXAMINE, ANALYZE, INVESTIGATE AND STUDY ONE ASPECT OF THE TASKONE AT A TIME. If you do not believe me, try to do many things at once, and you will see that you can only examine them one at a time (it is because you have one pair of eyes, one pair of hands and one brain).
So in reality- multi-tasking is an enemy of focus, it distracts you from examining a certain task with details. Examining task in details are key ingredients to quality, faster work and outstanding job.

Tip#2: Write your tasks in a piece of paper and TRACK the progress on a daily basis- Why? It is very hard to focus when you are not tracking your progress. You should know the answers to the following questions:
a.) What work or tasks that are needed to complete this project?
b.) What tasks that is already completed?
c.) What are my scheduled tasks for today, tomorrow and for the coming days/weeks?
d.) Am I behind on schedule or on-target for this project?
If you cannot answer the above questions because you are not listing your tasks, you are not scheduling your work or not tracking progress; then it is impossible to stay on focus.

Tip#3: Motivate yourself – Motivation plays a strong role in focus. For example, a student who is not motivated in his/her studies will also find it very hard to focus on studying the lessons. Find something that can motivate you in doing the work. May it be inspiration, reason to live, challenge, happiness, etc. As long as it is positive, it will keep you motivating and help you to stay o focus. You can read my tips on how to stay motivated on accomplishing your goals.

Tip#4: Stay away from distractions – have you tried working on a very special, difficult and time-consuming project one night and then the neighbor is playing their very loud music? Situations like this can be VERY hard to stay focused, because the noise itself is very distracting to your concentration when working the project. Look for some quite place where you can concentrate working.

Tip#5: Drink coffee or tea before starting a work – these beverages contain caffeine which helps you to become mentally and physically active when working. This will take out the sluggishness and a little sleepiness (if you are too sleepy; you need to sleep before you should work). If you are concerned about the amount of caffeine, then drink green tea because it has lower amount of caffeine.

Tip#6: Know your attention span carefully – some people can work for 8 straight hours without stopping or resting. But some people can only work for as long as one hour and then feel exhausted. Attention span to your work varies with different people. You should know your attention span and take breaks between it (like coffee breaks). It is ok to have that short attention span as long as you have diverted 100% of your effort in completing the work (of course also following the other tips mentioned above such as doing one task at a time). For example my attention span is only 3 hours. So after working 3 straight hours, I should take a break. Then go back to work after one hour (as long as you feel you are re-energized to back to work) to work for another 3 hours non-stop 100% concentration. If you break your attention span and continue working non-stop, you will become bored and exhausted. Then it will be very hard to stay on focused.

My personal success and motivation quotations that I would like to share

2011-07-31T01:13:00.000-07:00

Most of us rely on quotes from legends and great persons just to get inspired. But the most inspiring quotations come actually from you. Below are my personal quotes that I have formulated, feel free to share it to anyone but attribute my name:

Photo credits: Caroline Espejon

“A successful person knows how it feels to become a person of success because he already knows what it feels like to be a person of failure”.

-This quotation is related to happiness. This is actually a secret to become a truly successful person. The secret is to try failing. It is because failure is always associated with sadness and disappointments but by growing strong and learning from these failures can actually transform you into a successful person. Not only successful but happy as well.

“The hardest solution to a problem is doing nothing at all”

-It is why the moment you bravely took the steps to eliminate the problem and solve it, you are actually making it easier because the moment it does not work; you actually learn something from it. So if you are not doing anything at all to solve your problems, the solution will remain to be very difficult.

“Do not complain why you are feeling bored and not motivated if you did not bother creating a plan”

Plan is what keeps you motivated. It is the day to day basis of your work. If you are not creating a plan in the first place, expect your work routine to be very boring. The primary reason is that doing work without a plan is like shooting your gun in all directions, you cannot hit your target – hence you accomplish nothing. Without a feeling of accomplishment, you will feel bored and de-motivated.

“The race to success in life is like racing in a marathon- those who are slow and consistent will always beat the fast and the lazy."

The lazy persons in this world attempts to do as many shortcuts as they can think to become successful. Only to know that this will lead to frustration, suffering, disappointments and even crime! But those who are patient, no matter how slow is their progress in life as long as they are consistent - will have its place in the throne of success.

“It’s hard to get motivated if you have a lack of sleep”

Do you feel de-motivated? It maybe because you do not have rest; try sleeping and then you feel more refreshed and more active to work.

"In a contest, true winners figure out how to win and how they can do better next time while losers are always complaining that they have been cheated."

Do you know that in a contest, there are always winners and losers? Yet the true winners are busy figuring out how to win next time. But true losers are never satisfied with anything and always complaining about how the weaknesses of the contest and even complaining that they have been cheated.

How to Stay Motivated in Accomplishing Your Goal

2011-07-01T20:26:00.000-07:00

There can be times when you feel bored pursuing any goals in life. This is where it's hard to get motivated to get things going. Below are useful tips that you can re-ignite your motivational energy so that you will not get lost on your path to success:

1.) Make a plan and write it down – writing your daily task and schedule helps you keep guided and motivated because it means:

a.) You have something to do.
b.) You are responsible for those task and it should be done.
c.) Accomplishing those task gives you a sense of accomplishment that boost motivational energy.

Without a written plan, its hard to get motivated in the long run. You can easily distracted with other things in life. Your plan should be something very relevant to your goals. Do not include task which are not helpful in accomplishing your goals.

2.) Work Slowly but surely – pressure in life can add stress significantly to the point that it slowly creeps into your subconscious mind. The result is that it affects your motivation simply because you will become tired of your life. The secret is to work slowly but surely. It's more acceptable to be delayed in your work schedule than to be DE-MOTIVATED because of stress.

By working slowly in those task, it gives you a sense of freedom from pressure, time and concentration which can result to better quality work output. Jobs well done can again increase your motivational energy to keep you going. You might be working slow but adding all those little things you have done on a daily basis can mean BIG in the future.

3.) Pause for coffee break when concentration seems slow – there are times when you can work for so many hours non-stop. There are also times when you feel sluggish and slow. Its natural, you are a human not a machine. So it make sense you might stop when concentration seems so slow. You can drink coffee or tea and do anything interesting to get out of boredom. The maximum time depends on how you feel about your concentration, sometimes one hour break is enough.

4.) Reward yourself – this depends on the individual but the key is to reward yourself for getting the job done. A good strategy is to look at your task list. Supposing there are 30 tasks to be done, now you need a lot of motivational energy to complete those tasks. A good technique is to reward yourself for every 5 accomplished tasks. After completing five tasks; you can take a day off, watch a movie, drink at a bar or anything that can re-charge your motivational energy. Then get back to work, you will continually feel a sense of motivation.

5.) Exercise at least 30 minutes a day- this is one of the biggest secrets in motivation. Exercising can increase your heart beat, release those endorphins which keeps the bad energy (“boring” energy) out of your system. You can run, swim, bike for 30 minutes a day. Doing this can also contribute to a healthy lifestyle, burn fats and keeps you motivated.

Tip: Exercise can be tiring and most beginners will push to their limits which is not OK. The recommendation is to limit your heart rate at 75% of your maximum heart rate so that you will enjoy your exercise and never get tired.

Your maximum heart rate is 220- age. If your age is 30, then your maximum heart rate is 190. Thus do not exercise more than 75% x 190 = 143 beats per minute. You can use a heart rate monitor for this.

6.) Sleep Well – sleep can re-charge lost energy. This includes re-charging your motivational energy. If you sleep enough, you feel fresh and energetic.Six to eight hours a day is recommended for most adults.

How to be Proud of Yourself

2011-05-28T09:17:00.000-07:00

Are you always alone? Does anybody appreciate of what you do?
There are two kinds of person an extrovert and an introvert. An extrovert is a social or outgoing person while introvert is contented and happy to do his work alone. Before you find ways on how to be proud of yourself, it needs to know what type of person you are because, every individual has different qualities.

To be proud of yourself as an extrovert person;
1. Express your achievements by humbly sharing your blessings. Like for example, you are promoted as supervisor and you want to tell your friends about the news, by inviting them to eat outside or having dinner at home is a good sign that your friends ask you what the occasion is. So, it is time for you to tell your promotion and they say to you congratulations it means that they’re proud of you and so you are proud of yourself too.
2. Always communicate the good news. Make your friend always laugh. It is hard to tell a funny story but if you try to do it and it works, your friends will always find you.
3. Be Generous and Helpful. It is very exciting and blessing for you to help others because you make them happy. You can not experience and feel that you are proud of yourself if you are always thinking of your own advantages. Don’t be selfish so that you will know and achieve the true success in your life of being proud of yourself.

As an introvert Person;
4. Keep on developing your talent. Each one of us has a gift. Yet, it really needs a development. Like for example, you really like photography, painting, farming, teaching, police, music and etc. take one step at a time to enhance your talent and the more you have focus to develop your skills it means that you are proud of yourself because you give value to your talent.
5. Always keep neat and fit. Health is very important it is priceless. Love yourself by eating nutritious food especially vegetables and fruits. If you’re over weight or fats your confidence and health is not good so, as a result you are lonely.

To be proud of yourself is Happiness and it is FREE it means is not FOR SALE! Always remember in your mind that the most important and precious here on EARTH is LIFE. So, start to define what is really the meaning of life? And then you will live free like a bird flies up to the sky.

How to Control Anger

2011-05-17T09:08:00.000-07:00

Do you feel angry everyday? To get angry is a good sign as a normal person because you know how to react the things or an event that you don’t really like. However, if you can’t control this feeling, there is an enormous problem ahead of you. To over express your anger it will make you stressful person, you can make trouble, and you will hurt the people around you, and lost a lot of good friends. Can you bear the bad effects of extremely getting anger? These tips are so simple but are difficult to follow in the middle of the fire of emotion.
1. Take a deep breath through the nose. It is a way of relaxing and to be calm technique, if when somebody says bad words you can reply in a positive response. So, the person who hates you will realize how awful her words and then she regrets of being high tempered person. So, because of breathing technique you change it in a better way.
2. Low tone your voice. Most mothers have strong and loud voice because they thought that the children will have discipline through their voice command. It is really a wrong ways to let your children hear the scary voices. Parents, you made your children more rebellious. So, please stop using your voice always in angry style because when times you’re really angry the children will not believe in you because they thought that it is your style. Practice the soft voice with harmony in the house so that you will live in a peaceful and friendly family.
3. Stay away from useless fight. It is all started from comparing personalities, family class, job and career. This is not important and is not helpful to the situation in a family because if you always compare yourself to others achievement, it means you envy and get jealous and once you have the bad behavior you will try to level up to the one you compare with. So, when your partner doesn’t approve your ridiculous decision, you will create a big trouble. Prevention is better than cure. So, if you want to stop the topic then try to say excuse me may I go to the comfort room and don’t go back quickly until your partner will forget it.

4. Say Sorry. One of the reasons why anger will always prevail because of the lack of being humble. It is really hard to say the word sorry, but if you do it for the betterment of all then you save your day.
5. Keep smiling always make the negative thoughts into positive. Like for example, in school you got low score, instead of looking yourself down that makes your day lousy, how about ask yourself a question, How to get a high score? If your mind can’t answer it, then search in google.com you’ll know everything.
Don’t ever get angry because it is like you destroys your body or kill yourself. Everyone knows this, HAPPINESS IS THE BEST MEDICINE.

How to Leave the Past and Live for Today to have a Happy Life

2011-05-05T03:07:00.000-07:00

How to transform the past experienced into a better life;
1. Fail in marriage relationship. Lots of married couple got divorced because of personal problem like third party relationship, overtime of hanging with friends and etc. It is really hard to move on but there is always a way to live and start a new life because CHANGE IS CONSTANT. Here are tips to let it go of the past first, examine yourself what are the cause why marriage failed and promise you never do it again. Second, lists all the things that you make people happy and keep on doing it. Third, escape your old friends, family, and relatives much better you go to another place that is new for you and start from beginning. Fourth, always keep on energetic by doing everyday exercise like jogging and whatever as long as your thirst will flow. And finally, keep on telling yourself that there is always second chance and you are worthy to live a happy life because there is always a beginning and an ending, like morning and night and back to another day of morning.

2. No opportunity to Study College. Many countries in Asia are longing for clothes of knowledge because the only primary needs they provide are the food, clothing and shelter. With the poverty life, education is only the secondary of their needs.
Can you help those children who have a chance to live into a better life? Yes, first, we can help through teaching for free to the kids one to two kids are good start. Second, the poor parents need knowledge too like techniques on how to make good money from their asset like farm, educate the parents the importance of saving, and teach them how to give proper hygiene and discipline of their children. Third, remember that wisdom and knowledge is always FREE all you have to do is find it and learn from what you have gain and College education is only for getting your diploma for an employment opportunity because the true fight never end after college. Finally, keep on reading lots of books that is informative and meaningful because it is will answer you on how to live a better life.

3. No chance to burn body fat. Hey wake up! Can you write all the possible work you plan to do for today? Please write it down now! Do it now. Do you work at the company? How far is that from your home? Is it walking distance? Please walk. Do you have a car? Don’t drive commute is great. If you are not working at Saturdays and Sundays, can you do exercise? Jogging is best for you and your family. Please buy tape measure, and weighing scale to monitor your weight. And you will surprise you get sexy, fit, mentally and physically healthy!

We all know that billions of people have different pasts, the best thing todo is to make your day happy and be strong all the time! Thank you.

How to Use the Time in Effective Ways: Let us eat and Drink for Tomorrow we will Die

2011-04-20T08:07:00.000-07:00

Have you try to waste your time? Have you experienced to be thrifty? Do you believe that life is so short? Are you the one controlled your life on earth? Who made this world? What are the things that you think you contribute to the world? Are you satisfied of your life today? These questions will wake up in your mind how important is your life, in every blink and beat of your heart!
There’s nothing you can do only if you just prepare whatever happens now, later and tomorrow. Many times I’ve always repeated how valuable the time, it is because if you don’t value the time, in every tick of the clock, you miss the important thing that needs you to do.
How to avoid wasting my time
1.Time is your competitor. Time is Free and it doesn’t ruin your life but you are taking advantage of the time. You already knew that we only have 24 hours in one day, but you’d never use it in effective way. A person can sleep 6-8 hours a day but sometimes it depends of the age. If you are in 30’s above, your sleeping hours is decreasing because it is an instinct. So, if you sleep 8 hours a day, you will have the remaining of time 24hrs.-8hrs. =16hours. It all up to you how will you use the 16hours remaining.
I have shown the sample time management as a Full Time House Wife.

2. Don’t fail to commit your Time Schedule. Especially if you are a student there are many disturbances like, invitations of friends to go to party, Watch Movie in Theater, Watch useless television shows, surfing on the Internet without purpose and chat with friends. If you have no focus and commitment of your schedule, then it is better not to plan. So, if you are not planning you are among of the people who waste their time. And you are loser. Do you like to hear a loser? Of course not! So, what are you thinking and waiting for, break your doubt into reality! Common do it now!
3. Review and Recheck your tasks. It is very simple to get a pen and a paper then write the task of the day but, it is quite hard to check the list of what are the things that is already done. The reason why is it vital to always look at your list is that to make it sure and to remind yourself that you are following the task.
4. Be Thankful to God of what you have finished. Try to be realistic when you make a schedule, because if you are out of control to write lists of works then at the end you will regret because you think you’ve never completed your work. Even the easiest task to do you must be proud to put it on your list because everything is important.
5. Keep on doing the good job and keep on improving it. Tomorrow is a new day but the time is always the same 24 hours. If there are things that need to develop on how to use your time effectively, apply it on the next schedule. So, are you ready? This will make you happier to use your time very well.

What is the Role of the Husband in the Family

2011-04-19T07:56:00.000-07:00

Why do people get married? Because they need a partner when get old, and have children. What about yours?
If a person finds a partner, how about he/she choose the parents to live forever? Are you a type of this person to be happy, live and serve with parents?
What are the reasons why some of the married couple love quarrel and get divorced? Because of lack of communications through the busy days, and forced marriage.
Some other said don’t get married because if you enter the marriage life it is like struggling a problem without a solution. Do you believe with this? If you say yes, you are fearful and lack of confidence. Don’t be afraid to accept the challenge if you think that marriage is a test. “Marriage is a game that if you put the hard work, commitment, determination, passion and hope in it, during at the final day you will take the trophy of success”.

So, for those who are planning to get marry someday, you must be knowledgeable to know the role of the husband’s and wives in the family which enables to achieve the trophy of success. If an interviewer ask a wife what is your husband’s work? The wife replies he is at home taking good care of our children; he works in the company, public teacher and a business man. What’s your husband’s job? Is he working or not?
Wherever and whatever is your husband’s position, the wife must be proud of it. Because the real role of the husband in the family is giving the unconditional love of his wife and children, and that is why he is responsible of all the financial and moral needs of the family. The husband is always meant through actions not to express by words. Wives must think twice and understand your husbands if they are not good in household chores like gardening, washing plates, cooking and cleaning the house. These duties are so easy for them; they don’t like to do a work that is so easy and light. Most of the wives will feel disappoint of their husband because wives think their husband are not cooperating the wives. We all know that we can not serve two jobs at a time. So, wives try to do your responsibility and don’t blame to your husband of the job that is meant for you.

Wives, are you happy that you will let your husband to take good care of your children because you think you have the capability to earn more money than your husband? Don’t you know that you underestimated and feel like you step and take his rights? What happen to a person if he/she feels no freedom? It might be a huge trouble coming. There’s a big mistakes if you let your husband stays at home and you will find money for the family. Except if he is paralyzed or he is a disable and that is considerable.
Put all the trust to your husband if you think that you are more skillful wife, try to help your husband in another way and don’t ever forget your responsibility as a wife so that your husband will always be inspire to do everything for his family.
This is very important for husband’s role;
1. Don’t work overtime get back home early.
2. Always express your love to your wife through eating together during meals.
3. Hug your wife and smile, you must be happy.
4. And say thank you for the food she prepares and for taking care of the children.
5. Put all the trust to let your wife make all the money budgeting.
6. Constant communications in everyday life is as important as millions that you have.
7. Constant communications=Forever relationship.

Don’t Judge a Person with regards to Image, of what he chose and the Words he Said

2011-04-14T08:55:00.000-07:00

Do you have opinions? Are you a good listener? Why do people hate people? What are the things you like the most and you hate the most?
Most people aim of perfection like having perfect physical personality with shiny hair, long nose, and smooth skin, tall and sexy but, is it really important to be like this? If you think you are one of being perfectionist you will like this, afraid to face with many people, you always encounter trouble and not contented of things that you are doing although these opinions produces a lot of problems in our lives, but there are types of people like this a perfectionist so the important things to do is accept them and try to help these people to wake up of what is right. We are all here to think about others not for your own self.
On the other way, a person made a wrong decision it is because of the influence of his/her relationship to other with the family and friends. You have to do something good for those who are misguided in their way. Don’t make it a habit to make gossip, make negative comments and looking down. If you do this, you are loser because you are one of that person to whom you judged, it means those words you said to others that’s defines about who you are too!

"God made us two ears the left side is for meaning and the other side is for feeling".
Be a good listener to someone who express about what they feel. Use your all senses the touch, smell, sight and taste because these will be the best way to understand well the opinions and feelings of others. Touch is the most powerful means of communication even though you will not speak and you just touch the person who felt sad, he/she will feel delightful.
People hate each other because of insecurities and ranking of class. Materials things are the temptation and evil that had poisoned the minds of everyone like to wish of having their own Cars, House and Lot, Money, Television, Computers, Cell phones and etc. If you force yourself to have all these things due to jealousy, you will be suffering a lot debt in your entire life. However, if you have analyzed of what you only need so chose the simple life and live peacefully. That does all depend of your decision either you live with lot of debt or live simple and peaceful. We all know in the world that debt is a big problem but why do people chose to be like that? Well in fairness to those who owe money with a good purpose there’s no problem with that. But how about today there’s high percentage today that they’re happy to owe money but when it’s time to pay they escape. So, for those who do business in lending or any kinds of debts opportunity please be careful to lend your money with a good purpose like to use for spending of looking for job going abroad, make small and big business. The lending company or banks must be watchful, aware and thoughtful to give an important advice of what is right and wrong for the people who wish to owe money.
There are things you like the most and hate the most write down all the things that you always do in everyday life and you can’t feel bored with it. Like cooking, gardening, blogging, singing, jogging, reading, spend time with families and watch television. Try to ask yourself if these things that you like are important to you? Sometimes you hate to do a thing that is actually a very important to your life like, responsibility in household chores, develop your talents to the fullest, have regular study, refuse to cooperate and help your parents. It advisable to give value to those things that you hate for because these things might be the way through your success. And it is true that it is difficult to love what you hate and also it’s not easy to forgive and forget. But if you try to change the way you think before, you will change everything inside and out. So, in relations to don’t judge a person with regards to image, of what he chose and the words he said the most important in life is how real are you as a person? Always follow and obey the truth because the truth will lead you the way for a perfect life by live simply and peaceful. Try to feel perfect in good moral values.

What do you Value in your Life

2011-04-08T07:34:00.000-07:00

Why are you afraid to die? What are the things that you value most and you can’t live without it? There are two types of values the OBJECTIVES AND SUBJECTIVES.

1. The value of job. It is not simple to have a stable job. There are many things to do to achieve the job that you aim. You have a lot of sacrifices to go to the office every day from 7am-4pm or until 10pm to have overtime. There’s circumstances will come like, if you are married it is very difficult to handle the time management for your wife and children. Although, you have no problem with regards to financial needs because you chose your job as your priority and it is right that you gain that stability of your job coz you put your hard work into it.

2. The value of money. Money is an instrument to buy our basic needs and wants. It is the primary concern of all the people to find job and business to make money also you will not survive without money. The reason why some people do illegal job just to make money because of its need. The advantage of valuing the money is that you can control your money not the money will control you like for instance, you tempt to steal in the bank, stores and in the government however, if your money will work for you, your life will be is easy, feel comfortable and peaceful.
3. The value of career. What is your career? Career is a profession or job that you are really an expert of that field. A profession to be a full time wife and a mother, this is only a career that sometimes wives are underestimated this because they don’t give more importance, improve and develop to become good rule model as a wife, this career is the most vital to give 100% focus because if you fail to become a good leader in the family, you bring forever failure. Therefore, if you value your career, first come to your mind must be your profession as a good rule model in a family.

4. The value of time. There are lots of quotes about time. Time is like a diamond. Do you value your time? Are you a passive type of person? Do you believe that to wake up early is a way to value time? How do you use your time in effective way? Are you happy when you finish your work on time? Do you have time to be with your family most of the time? Do you and your family eat every meal all the time? Do you usually work overtime? Many questions to ask about time because time is the number one reason of everything, trouble and peace, good and bad, happy and sad, win and lose failure and success. The relationship of trouble and peace in time like if you follow your time schedule about your work to do everyday you will not encounter trouble. If you sleep in a right time you will not feel bad, you are happy if you achieve your goals time by time, if you practice your career everyday you will never lose the fight lastly, you will absolutely fail if you will not give the right value of time.
5. The value of having good moral of inside and out. You will meet a lot of good friends, having good relationship in a family, in a company, schools and or any kinds of organizations. To have a good moral values, is a key to success especially if you have the ability to have self discipline, patience, self determination, self confidence, faith, hope and love not only for yourself but most especially to others.

Note: Practice to break your thought not to worry in materials things, because these are all worthless. The most important you need to practice and have it is your relationship to others. Always say yes anybody will need your help. Volunteer to help!.
God speed to all!

True Colors of Personality Prevail when Challenges will Come

2011-03-26T07:30:00.000-07:00

What do you think what is the meaning of colors? Is it red, blue, orange and yellow? If your answer is your favorite color, then you are exactly right because colors has its own personality, like for instance you chose the color red, as you knew it the red symbolizes bravery, aggressive and love so what colors of personality do you belong?

Every individual has its own personality, that is why it is very important to develop excellent personality traits because our personality will affects our everyday life decisions that it will guides us to do the right and to choose the good nor bad. As a good example to measure true colors of your personality is when you encounter challenges in your life. Every time you face the challenges, you have to be thankful because this is the only way to develop your personality into a better one. This is the moment that you can measure and know your weaknesses and strength just to face the challenges and solve it without fear.

There a lots of lessons you get once you’re in trouble or in challenge; first is you are being able to force yourself to think the way so you develop your Intelligent quotient, second is you know how to control the anger inside and to be cool and relax you develop here the emotional Intelligence, third you practice how to do the way in step by step and fourth, you realize that challenges makes you more stronger than before so you had mold better personality.

Do you think to have lots of wealth; being professionals or highly educated people with regards to their expertise had already attained better personality? A lot of people confirmed that money and gaining master’s degree is not the way of attaining to develop better personality because as you all knew that money without getting it by hard work is evil. Except if you work hard and have a lots of money and you give love of what you are doing, you have passion and you have freedom to do all your works and that’s good personality is. In fact, you can not buy reputation, love, respect, wisdom and freedom in money.

Why is it that when a rich family will go to the house of a poor family, it is very welcome to come inside without hesitation and the poor will offer to their best food for the rich while, the poor will go into the house of the rich is not treated well? In fact, the rich are very capable to give to the poor the high quality food or everything they can give. This is very wrong practiced of personality for the rich family because this means of being unfair and if you treat unequally to each individual, you are about to lose your dignity as a result to have low personality. True colors of personality prevail when challenges will come.

Do you ever feel that a challenge makes you more become mature? Mature means of thinking of others not of yourself. Can you possibly change your bad personality into good? Do you know what colors of personality you have? This is your time to think and analyze well if you are did aware of your personality. So, whatever challenge will come to you, face it, fight for it, solve it, feel it and learn from it. Always remember that God never wanted your material success indeed he wants you to be more mature in achieving to have good behavior because this is the only thing you can bring to his kingdom! That is why, you are very thankful to him for every challenge you are facing because God wants you to be with him forever! “Many are invited, but only a few are chosen”. Once you pass the challenge so, you are one the chosen.

Family: Kinds of Family; Objectives of a Family; Different Problems and how to solve it

2011-03-22T08:34:00.000-07:00

1. What is the meaning of family?

A family is a basic unit of a society. And it contains a Father, Mother, Children, Grandparents and relatives.

2. Identify the different kinds of family.

a. The nuclear family that consist of both parents and children.
b. The extended family that consists of parents, children, and other relatives of the parents, for example grand parents, aunts and uncles.
c. The single parent family that consists of only one parent and children.
d. The sibling family that consist of an older or older siblings and smaller siblings.

3. Explain the nature of objectives of a family.

The nature of objectives of a family is to help each other to provide the basic needs which are the food, clothing and shelter. The father and mother are the one who initiate how to make money to buy all the needs. While the children support the parents to do household chores. Furthermore, a family must also need love and time because it is the root to have a successful and peaceful family and also there must have a strong foundation about religion like to know God because he is the only one who protects the family from all temptations and obstacles. A family is the most important to all human beings.

4. Identify the different problems of Filipino family.

For me the number problem that I know is that being over dependent to a family. Like for example, you have a son and is married, he is still living with you because he depends on you. Second, no family planning a lot of Filipinos has 6 children but their income is only 1000 per month. How can they provide enough food? Third, don't know how to save if the Filipinos realize the importance of money saving their situation might be good. If you start save 1.00 per day and your age now is 25 until you get 70 years old, your money will be 16,200.00 how much more if you save early and you save more than 1.00.? Fourth, Filipino family are materialistic even if you cant afford to buy a car in order to have it you loan from a bank, sss or any agency and you knew how much interest they get from you until your car will disappear you still pay your debt forever. I do really hope God bless me and guide to have a happy family.
5. Give five suggestions on how to solve the problems.

My five suggestions on how to solve the problems is first, being an independent is a key to have a progressive nation. Second, to have a family planning will make a family organized and have an enough food to eat. Third, Filipinos must be able to know how to save for the preparations of tomorrow. Fourth, being practical like for example in our country you don't have to buy car for your go come to the other place, there are jeepneys you can ride and it has affordable fares. Fifth, a family must have constant communication in order to make their goals achieve.

Steps in Problem Solving and Decision Making

2011-03-22T08:22:00.000-07:00

Problem: Earthquakes
1. Lack of high quality technology that can also affect of giving exact information about the disaster when it will occur.
2. Buildings are not standards in terms of materials used. Especially those school buildings in public elementary and high school.
3. People are not properly well informed to drill and prepare of what to do when earthquakes occurs.
4. Lack of evacuation centers for the Filipinos who are homeless and lack of giving proper food nutrition.
Solutions: Earthquakes
1. The government must give priorities to invest the high quality of technology for the sake of the Filipino people to avoid the natural disaster and to minimize the calamities.
2. The government is responsible to review in details and be honest to buy standard materials when constructing a building and they have to check up the buildings regularly and if they detect weak buildings so, the government is always prepare and alert to order for evacuation.
3. To be able to attain and well informed community, it must have a consistency of regular drill so that it will always be remembered of the people.
4. The government will design an evacuation center for each barangays just in case the natural disaster arises. There should always have enough money for food and for the basic needs of the people on time.

E. Decision Making (Do’s and Don’ts): About when earthquakes occur.
Do’s
1. If indoors, stay inside and hide below on your study table.
2. Be careful of aftershocks it will probably the strongest quake.
3. If you live in a sea area, leave your place because there’s probably tsunami will follow go to the mountain place, but make it sure to care while you’re on your way.
4. If you are on the road stop and park in a safety place.
5. If you’re in school go out from your room and stay in your playground.
6. Watch out of falling trees, electricity wiring, and landslide.
Don’t:
1. Don’t shout just stay inside your house.
2. Don’t go outside if the quake will stop because aftershock is the worst scenario.
3. Don’t bring heavy things when you leave the house, bring with you yourself confidence and faith.
4. Don’t try to run fast because your safety is in danger.
5. Don’t be panic when you got out.
6. Don’t make careless moves be watchful and alert.

My Insight: About Problem Solving and Decision Making.

I know how to solve problem by this technique, the problem is very easy for me to solve because the solutions are in step by step. It is very effective way. And while in decision making I can decide right because I always follow what I write. This is very important tips in everyday life because when times of difficulties I use this technique to be able for me to decide well.

I think if you follow what you are planning, it leads you to the right path in your life and you are in always in a safety place. I think there’s always solution to every problem and this problem will make you stronger person. I think I am not here to be happy I am here to be strong.

I feel the fear, tension and pressure when I saw the news in Japan’s earthquake and tsunami. But, I learned that there’s hope after the disaster. I appreciate their techniques of solving problem and decision making that they are fearless, confident and teamwork. Even though Japanese people, are not religious they have the values of being honest and thoughtful. I don’t know what and whom they believe, God knows everything. I pray that they will survive in this calamity.

My Insights: Regarding what I have learned from what I Read

2011-03-22T08:17:00.000-07:00

My Insight: About Effective Communication (Verbal and Nonverbal)

I know that to have an effective communication it makes an interaction more interesting. And it is important to be aware when doing of nonverbal communication because some forms of nonverbal have negative symbolic interaction while verbal communication it has to be aware of controlling the voice because sometimes I am not aware that I talked very loud and with anger tone.

I think I prefer to use and appreciate more in nonverbal communication because it’s easy to understand and it’s more meaningful when I see someone use to communicate to me non verbally.

I feel so over informative in effective communication because it feels like I repeatedly write what I knew. As a matter of fact, it is an advantage to keep on reading and writing the same words because it will stay forever in my mind.

My Insight: About Effective Listening (Emphatic and Active)

I know how easy on how to be an effective listener. By the use of emphatic listening which is when a speaker talks, I form and always create a question in my mind because for me it is a way to develop and improve my understanding from what the speaker’s trying to say. Through asking question, it also develops my intelligent quotient and emotional intelligence. And while in active listening it helps me to give much importance to have focused when somebody is talking. To be able to more effective in active listening, I have to repeat by my own words to what is the speaker’s said.
I think it is the time to realize and change my bad techniques in listening because some instructors discussed the topic and I pretend to understand what is being said but the fact that my mind is empty I don’t understand. As a result, my grade is low and that’s make me sad of having low grades. I hope I can be an emphatic and active listener.

I feel thankful because the truth is I learn new things from this topic. On the other hand, I sometimes denying and keep telling myself that it is boring to search these thing on the net and it is always copy and paste, but my prediction was wrong because even if I copy and paste from others opinions at the same time I learned. And with this insight, it is helpful for the student to enhance our writing skills.

My Insight: About Family Relations (Filipino families and Filipino Family Values)

I know how important my presence when my family needs me. And I now realized that it is better to start the close family ties at early age of the children and to have a strong and memorable family relations, I should have build customs and tradition of my family that enable us to enjoy our family bonding that with this tradition, it will inherit from generations to generations. Like for instance, fiesta celebration if my parents didn’t introduced us this customs how can we appreciate fiesta today?

I think the most powerful values that makes to have a consistent and strong relationship within a family are the family bonding like going to church together, eat together every meals and treat to eat outside during special occasions, have keep in touch and cooperate each others needs at the same time be an independent.

I feel so sad if I observed families are having quarrels in front of their children. I feel hurt because they are not giving value of the importance of a family in a society. Even if they already knew that it is a bad influence for their children but they’re still doing it so stupidly bad values.

My Insight: About The 7 Habits of Highly Effective people.

I know that if I practice the 7 habits of Highly Effective people I attain the satisfaction, contentment and success in my life. Also the importance of having teamwork and cooperation is vital to success. I can not attain my goals if my intention is only for myself. Self centered is not number cause of failure.

I think life is empty without having good relationship with people. Being alone and solitary is worthless. But when you make goals with the involvement of the community, you belong to a highly effective people.

I feel guilty because sometimes I am not being very cooperative; I usually make decisions for the benefits of myself.

Conclusion

Therefore I conclude that every little thing that I encounter in everyday life, it is either a happy type, lonely type there is always a lesson that needs to learn. These lessons are vital to develop your mental, emotional and physical personality. I will always keep on reminding myself in the saying “I am not here to be happy; I am here to be strong”.
To have a strong personality it will enable us to be very flexible in handling different types of problem and being capable to decide in difficult situations.
To have an Effective communication and Effective Listening skills it is a way through life of success. Being successful to have good relationship with your family, problem solving techniques and decision making is the result of effective communication and high effective people.

What is the use of Effective Communication Skills; Effective Listening Skills; Family Relations

2011-03-22T08:08:00.000-07:00

The topics which I presented here are tips to develop the ability of interpersonal skills. What is an interpersonal skill all about? Why is it important and needs to have these skills? We all know that it is an instinct to us to seek for partners, friends and family to be able to express our emotions. That’s why we are meant to practice socializing with people around us in order to achieve our own interests and needs. So, for the people who aim to have successful partners, friends and families, each one of us needs to develop the characteristics of effective communications, effective listening, family relations, problem solving and decision making. These are all the preparations to achieve high skills in an interpersonal skill.
To gain an effective communication you must be very good speaker and a good listener. Through effective communication both of the parties can form nice ideas from which what topics they are talking about because the interaction is consistent and is always in a right direction. It is also that when you communicate you have to use gestures like for instance; raising a right hand for proper salute so, you are telling to the listeners that it is military sign of respect to high rank in position. You don’t need explain to them because they all understand by the way you act. Second, the Thai, Japanese, Chinese and Koreans cultures if they meet Filipino friends before they leave it has a customs to bow to a person whom they meet. And it is symbolized for them a sign of respect and be thankful, they don’t need to say Thank you. And that’s how important non verbal communication is.
In effective listening you must know what the speaker feels about the message that is being shared to you because that person is expecting your opinion and feedback. Why do people share their problems with you? You are blessed when there’s some of your friend tells about his/her problems because it is a sign that you are an honest person and you are a good listener. So try to be a good listener, always think about his/her problem and feel that you are the one had that problem before because to be able to have consistent conversation. You can’t feel bored if you are trying to imagine you had already experienced those problems and is easy for you to give back your opinions and advices.
About the family relations, problem solving, decision making and habits of highly effective people as long as you learn effective communications and listening skills it is not a big struggle for you to solve problems because you already have the skills on how to fight. In this topic you are developing your EQ. Your Emotional Intelligence/Quotient is high because your personal characteristics are so strong. EQ is more powerful and IQ.

What is the difference between confident and shy and how does it affects to you

2011-03-02T05:17:00.000-08:00

Assertive means to be confident, certain, assured and positive while shy means no confidence, pessimistic, self-doubt and uncertainty.
The value of being assertive is vital to all people because to have confident you can acquire highest gratitude, fulfillment, enjoyment and success. In order to attain confidence it starts through socialization by practicing interacting people. Parents are number one instruments that they are responsible to teach their children how to socialize with the other children. In today’s generation most of the kids are relying on television in fact, it is good influence though because some shows in television are educational like Dora, Diego, artzooka and etc. kids can acquire creativity regarding the contents of the show. However, the confidence of a kid is not well attained because television shows belongs to intrapersonal that has no interaction between you and the characters although television influence your personality, values and beliefs system. Like for instance, I have a nephew who always enjoys watching television shows because her mother don’t let him go outside to play with our neighbor’s kid due to his own safety. Based of my observation from my nephew’s behavior or actions at home, he is talkative but in school, he is quite and polite. In other words he is careful of his actions in school because he is not often socializing with people. In relations to have confident, the more you interact with different kinds of people, the better your confident will boost.
The tips to boost confidence are as follows;
1. A proper manner is vital to confidence. Practice to learn good moral character or good manners and right conduct. You will feel comfort if you are in a good and proper way as a child or a person. It all starts at home.
2. Interaction is vital to confidence. Try to socialize and interact with many people either in school, neighbors, church and company. If you are a student, find ways to interact with your classmates, teachers and friends. On the other way, being alone is good when you study but it is better to give time to be with everybody.
3. Expertise is vital to confidence. Talking about professions and careers like musicians, teachers, lawyer, priests and sales manager and etc. it is very important that you have 100% percent confidence because you are facing with many people. You can not deliver the message well if you are uncertain, right there you will feel nervous your body will shake and you can’t control your gestures so, your performance will low. You will gain confidence only if you master your skills with regards to your profession or careers.
4. Positive is vital to confidence. Once you have the skills you are automatic positive thinker. To always think positive, imagine that you are at the top of the Mount Everest. This mountain is the most high so you set your mind always in high mode.

It is necessary with kids to start build confidence because when you get old you will find never find it difficult.

Tips for Success in College and University Studies: Student Guide

2011-01-31T04:18:00.000-08:00

My husband graduated Cum Laude in Electronics Engineering way back year 2002 in one of the most popular university in Cebu, Philippines. Actually as of the time I wrote this guide, I am still studying Bachelor of Arts in Music. I am currently at the second semester in my first year as a university student. The first semester is of course a success, I manage to included as one of the College of Arts Dean List honors.

The following list of tips is for everyone looking for success in their college/university studies. And I do believe that all of these tips can be applied regardless of age, course and school where you are currently studying. Be warned that there is no easy path to success in college education, its all about hard work, perseverance, commitment and patience. And that what's I learned from my husband with those years of experiences he shared to me many times about how he manage to reach honors at end of his college studies. So let's get started...

Tip#1: Always bring an assignment notebook and write EVERYTHING what the instructor needs you to do for tomorrow or coming days/weeks.

Reason: One of the common mistakes student commits when studying college is carelessness and lack of responsibility/focus as a student. Too many times they are too shy to write an assignment notebook because they think everyone else is not doing it. In fact, writing what the instructor needs you to do is a smart way to keep you updated with all the assignments, quiz schedules, reading assignments and examination tips that are vital for your success until the end of the semester.

Tip#2: Buy or secure all books, handbooks and reading materials the instructor “wants” you to have

Reason: This includes the main course textbook,manuals and other references that instructor is using. Sometimes the references (which are books that the instructor does not require) are where most of the examinations are taken, so if you do not have any of these resources you will be having a hard time studying and passing every exams.

Tip#3: The consistent number of hours dedicated to STUDYING everyday

Reason: This does not only apply to school days but the entire days of the week. The main difference between successful and unsuccessful students, is that those successful ones are studying everyday at least 6 hours. While those problematic students only care about studies when they are at school.

Tip#4: Study and understand the topic in ADVANCE before a formal instructor discussion

Reason: Successful students tend to be curious about the the course topic that all of them care to study in advance. It is why it is very useful to have those study materials/references with you. Ask the instructor what are the complete course outline so that you can study it in advance. Of course, since you are new to the topic, confusion is normal. This is where you can write those questions so that the time when the instructor discusses that topic, you can ask that question and have it answered.

Tip#5: Don't be absent even a single session IF possible

Reason: It is because if you are always absent, you miss a lot of scoring opportunities not counting those discussions that are important during the exams.

Tip#6: Participate ACTIVELY in any oral discussion opportunities

Reason: Instructor loves active and participative students. In return, they will give them a good grade for active participation, so make sure you are always raising your hands wheneven a instructor ask the class about a certain question. Passive students doesn't care about the instructor questions, in return instructor doesn't care about their grades. You need to be active during class discussion.

Tip#7. Difficult instructors care beyond grades

In every college studies, there are difficult instructors. These are the instructors or instructors nicknamed as “terror” by students. The truth is that these instructors are just “perfectionist” in any way that they demand the students “respect”, “attention”, “participation”, “time” and most importantly your grades and your smiles. The trick is to study harder if your instructor is difficult and try the best to get good grades during exam. Then you need to be nice to your instructor and don't behave in a way you hate the instructor. Sometimes even academic performances are not enough for these type of instructors. You also need to be behave well in class and show outmost respect to that instructor.

Tip#8: Aim 100% in every exam.

Sounds impossible, but its not. Actually this is a great technique applied by honor students. I mean they always targeting to be perfect in every exam. If they do not actually hit 100% but at least they got 90% or even 95% at least which is still a very good grade. In the end, their average can be very high that they will qualify for honors. Some students will just dream to reach passing grade, and if they miss out that passing mark just a little; they will surely fail.

How to use Divide and Conquer Strategy to Solve a Difficult Problem

2011-01-06T20:01:00.000-08:00

“Divide and conquer” strategy is a great and proven technique in solving problems and completing a difficult project. The following are the five essential tips you can apply the divide and conquer strategy to turn life obstacles into a pathway to success.

1. Define the problem with details

The first step is clearly defining the problem. For example, you are having financial problems in your marriage that results to unpaid debt, etc.

You can address the problem with setting a goal to solve it. You might say as a new year resolution, “I hope next year, I will pay all debts and save 60%of my income.”.

2. Break the giant problem into small manageable pieces

Of course, it may sound so difficult and impossible if you hear someone saying “In the next 5 years, I will become a millionaire”. If you do that, you find yourself lost in the process and more likely you will never be able to attain your goal.

This is where the divide and conquer strategy comes to play. The key is to break down the major goals into small manageable goals. Supposing you plan to become a millionaire in the next 5 years; a realistic goal breakdown would be in terms of yearly goals. An even more manageable approach is to even break it down into monthly goals, for example:

a.) Save x% from your income each month.
b.) Control the overall %cost to x percent per month.
c.) Contribute x amount of dollars to stocks portfolio per month.

Saving, controlling cost and investing a little each month seems to be easy and manageable goals. This little step you are doing each month is what it takes to be a millionaire within years to come.

3.) Persistence, Discipline, Hard work and Focus

Now you have successfully broken down the difficult goal into small manageable goals, the next thing you will do is to work on it. Nothing will be accomplished with your goal if you are not willing to exert an effort.

Not only hard work but a combination of persistence discipline and focus. Let’s go back to the million dollar goal example. To be persistent means you should be able to continue your contributions to your stock portfolio investment each month or doing things to reduce cost per month as well as saving money.

“Focus” is important to keep you track with your goals on a daily basis. This focus gives you the reason to live for the day and work. Take small steps daily, you will be amazed how these small steps can become an integral part of success in the future to come.

Final Lesson: When you encounter a big problem, define the problem into small pieces by breaking it down into small manageable goals. You can then act on these small manageable goals that will slowly solve the big problem in the long run.

Four Reasons why you feel being stagnant in your life

2010-11-28T23:35:00.000-08:00

Let’s face it, you want to grow and be successful. Yet, a lot of us feel that after so many years have gone by, you will have a feeling of being stagnant in your life. So what is wrong?

Below are the primary reasons that you might missed:

1.) You do not set yearly goals in your life.

Importance: Setting yearly goals helps to achieve something after a year. These are very important for success, moving ahead and help you to become focused in your daily activities.

Now that year 2010 is about to end, why not tried to set goals to achieve in 2011. These goals must be very interesting and cover the following important aspects:

a.) Financial goal – how much do you plan to save in 2011? Any cost cutting initiatives? Anything you would like to invest?

b.) Career goals – if you are employed maybe you work hard to get an “excellent” work rating and possibly a promotion. Or if you are a student, be an honor student or if you are writer/blogger why not accomplished writing 300+ quality articles?

c.) Family and personal goals- if you are married, maybe both of you can go to somewhere else you like for a vacation. Or if you are still single, you may set a goal of knowing someone you can trust as a close friend.

You can read these tips in formulating realistic goals and objectives

2) You do not appreciate simple things in life

Other reasons why you feel being stagnant is that you will not appreciate simple things. You love to get more than life. The only problem is that no matter how hard you will try, there are chances you cannot get entirely what you need.

The key is to work hard, get results and be satisfied. As long as you give your best to anything you do, if something goes back as a reward, appreciate it, love it and thanks God for it. No matter how small.

3.) You compare yourself to others

The problem with comparing yourself to others is that you fail to appreciate your mission in this life. If you believe in God, He created you for a reason. This means that you do not need to compare yourself to them because you have your own mission in this world. Accept for what you really are, the key is to work hard, work smart, give your best and try to be the as best as you can be.

Remember that “success” is relative. What you think are successful may not be accepted as really “successful” to others. There is no definite standard so you do not need to compare yourself for success or whatsoever. Define your own success and get it!

4.) You are NOT working smart and hard

It is why it’s so important to set goals. Goals help you to work hard, focused and get results in life. If you are setting goals and not getting results, then you are not working hard.

Sometimes in life, you need to push harder in order to get results. Think and be like a rat. It is because a rat moves fast and when he finds a place that has no food, he will not get stuck at that place, instead the rat moves to another place until it finds food. This means that problems in life are normal, the key is to work hard to get past that barrier and move on to the next step. Do not let life problems control you, you control and finds way to solve that problem by working smart and hard.

Man and the Polluted World

2010-11-16T08:29:00.000-08:00

Bottles, plastic, old batteries, dead mobiles computers television radio, junk cars and etc. where are these things to be place on earth that no one else are affected. Factories in the world are uncontrollable. Abortion is everywhere. Abandoned children are homeless they live in the streets no food to eat. Corruption is in the blood of the people who are in the position but not all. Low minimum wages of salaries like production worker, sales clerk, baker, construction worker and maid or servant. Lack of jobs opportunities to all High School graduates. High tuition fees in College Education.
What is really important in life is to love your neighbor as you love yourself. Neighbor can also possibly mean by loving our mother earth. Where is the love of the people that the place where we live in now is not safe? The mind and heart of the people has polluted feeling of self-centeredness and selfish. Everyone knows to change is constant and it is almost the end of the year 2010 and still there are no changes of attitudes of the people.
Every non living and living things are temporary in this world and that make the people stubborn by loving their useless things. The most dangerous pollution of the world is the greedy mind of the people. There are many rich people are riding their fancy cars that they know nothing how polluted the world. It is better to be a wise man than a rich man. Money will kill your soul if you don’t know how to use it in a right way. All the poor will suffer the natural and human disasters of the world but their souls will last forever.
Try to listen to the song“Heal The World” by Michael Jackson listen to every word he sung and analyze how he really meant to heal the world and try to compare how to heal the polluted world. Through giving and sharing is one of the best solutions how to fight pollution. Pollution is like hunger, lack of opportunities and no proper give fairly treatment to the poor.
What is the image of the world if all the people are selfish and unfaithful of themselves? It is really true to be curious will make you become wise person and you’ll learn many things and is possibly it will transform you to a better person and a better world. Try to ask yourself are you happy if you hurt someone? Is like are you happy if you throw a candy wrapper in the streets? Are you happy that you sit in an expensive chair and you’ll see many homeless families? Are you happy watching your different kinds of expensive cars parked at your garage and you know nothing that all the poor can not afford to buy slippers?
The world is a place to live freely, take good care of natural resources, sharing and giving of material wealth.

Words of Inspirations and Affirmations

2010-11-10T06:13:00.000-08:00

1. I am not afraid when I feel alone; God is always with me in every ticking of a clock.
2. I will not worry of today and tomorrow because God will provide everything I need.
3. Talk to God and he will listen, Ask God and he will answer, Seek God and you will find him in your heart, mind and soul.
4. There is no impossible with God if you surrender everything with him.
5. God knows everything about you and whatever happens to you either you feel it difficult, you have to be happy because in times of suffering the more he is at your side.
6. Try to say thank you to God about the little things to big things in your life.
7. Always be proud of what you're doing because he is proud of you too and happy for you. God is like your parents or loved ones. He needs your love and care.
8. God don't like secrets. He always wants to listen of everything about you stories. And every word that you write and say are all words of God.
9. I am empty without God. He owns everything in me. My body is temporary but my soul is forever.
10. Happiness can't reciprocate money but if you work with full of love you will have both money and happiness.
11. Success only measures on how you are close to God.
12. The reasons of always getting into trouble and have no confident is the lack of trust of God.
13. Every man has weakness and strength God designed us like this because he wanted us to understand each other in this world.
14. Word of rejection is a word of man. Remember God will always appreciate of being humble person.
15. God never ever reject you. He loves you forever and eternally.
16. God will control you mind and heart to do what he is intended you to do. Life is like all types of flowers because of its wonderful colors.
17. God always want your consistent communication

How to transform yourself into a better person?

2010-09-28T22:27:00.000-07:00

One of the important things you need to compete in life is to transform yourself into a better person. “Better person” is to define as follows:

a.) A person that is fully equipped with skills needed to succeed.
b.) A person that understands the unfair things in life.
c.) A person that can find ways to reach his/her goal.

Of course, if you are not a better person, you are far from achieving success. Better person not only will be useful for attaining success but can be applicable to any events in your life.

Events such as applying and winning for a job title, participating in a race, winning a girlfriend or boyfriend or even winning in a local elections takes you to be a better person.

The secret sauce in unlocking the recipe of transformation is knowing yourself. So here are my steps to transform you into a better person:

Step1. Understand yourself. Write down your top 3 talent.
Step2. In those 3, select your strongest talent. The one you are sure you will be able to compete in life.
Step3. Write down your top 3 ambitions relating to your top 3 strongest talent. The ambitions needs to be strongly related to your talent.

Example: These are my top 3 talent and my strongest talent is singing:
a.) Singing = I would like to become a singer/songwriter, composing a lot of songs and a performing artists.

b.) Cooking = I would like to become a home based professional cook, being able to cook for my husband and children.

c.) Dancing = I would like to dance at home, maybe become a home based dancing instructor soon.

Step4.) Now write down the skills needed to succeed for your strongest talent for the other 2 talents.
I assume that at this moment in time, you are not yet an “expert” , so you have to list down all the skills that you need to acquire in order to be considered as an expert.

You need to plan ahead, how you are going to acquire these skills. Is it studying in college? Applying as an intern? Etc.

Step5.) Write down the uncertainties in your selected ambition. Life is unfair, so you need to achieve it. For example:

a.) Not all persons dreaming of becoming an artist can get a recording label.
b.) Not all persons will like your cooking.
c.) Not all persons will be impressed by your dancing.

Step6.) Asked yourself whether you have the guts to accept the unfairness that comes along the way. Are you happy to accept rejections? Are you willing to accept you will not become an artist signed to a recording label?

Step7.) Implement a recovery plan in case your main ambition turns out not according to your plan. So if you won't become a singer for example, can you find some money earning from your cooking career? Etc.

Conclusion: A better person understands himself/herself, understands the cruelness and unfairness of this world and willing to move forward in a positive direction in case anything not good will happen.

Five year business plan template for Success-Long term planning guide

2010-08-30T14:59:00.000-07:00

This is a complete and easy to use five year business plan template. While other templates are complicated, the check list below are made as simple as possible.

While there are different types of business that needs different types of actions to succeed, I have generalized the check items to make it more convenient and applicable in all types of business planning scenarios.

The main concept of this planning stems from the widely accepted principle in quality and business process improvement called as the PDCA (Plan – Do- Check – Act) cycle or Deming circle.

Generally, the main objective of the planning is to plan the requirements of the business – that includes the capital, tools, machines, people, etc to successfully launching your product or business to your customers.

Therefore your five year business plan should consists as follows (you can easily incorporate the check items below in an Excel based template for easier tracking):

First Year: Planning Stage

Check lists:
1.) Design your process or product.
2.) Create a your prototype process or product.
3.) Do a feasibility study of your business focusing on your product.
4.) Identify your target customers.
5.) Identify how you are going to deliver your product to your customer (it is via online store, physical store, face to face selling? ,etc).
6.) Identify the pricing of the product.
7.) Identify the steps to reproduce the product, list down the machines, human resources needed, process/methods needs to be setup, materials needed, location of your factory.
8.) Identify the cost of doing business – identify the fixed costs and variable costs.
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9.) Identify ways how you are going to raise capital. It is using banks, donations, etc.
10.) Analyze your pricing strategy vs your cost of doing business – will it be profitable in the long run?
11.) Finally secure the capital you need to start doing business.
12.) Establish your first manufacturing line (single line is recommended as your business is still in the pilot stage).

Second Year: “Do” Stage
Check lists:

Checklist:

1.) Create your first product that you can sell to the public.
2.) Do you some kind of “early” marketing strategy of reaching your customers? This includes offering your product for free or sample so that your customers can actually taste it.
3.) Do a year round marketing strategy – this strategy basically emphasizes of reaching your customers and earning reputation in your selected business niche.
4.) Execute some advertisements, get some early customer testimonials.
5.) Get product feedbacks, establish your customer support team.
6.) Take note of positive feedbacks and have them included in your customer testimonial lists.
7.) But take more seriously the negative feedbacks of your product, as this will let you further improve the quality of your product. Have them recorded by your quality assurance team.

Third Year: “Check” Stage

1.) Does your expected profits turn out to be comparable as your original plan?
2.) Does your expected product quality turns to have more positive results than negative feedbacks?
3.) Does your operating cost (fixed cost and variable costs) turns out to be comparable to the original plan?
4.) Are you coping up with the competition or still needs to do more to grab a bigger market share?
5.) What are the “quality” related issues of your product as reported by your customer?
6.) What are the recommended actions to further improve the quality of your product?
7.) What are the ways you can cut cost to your business to further increase profits?
8.) Are you paying up the debts on time or out of schedule?

Fourth Year: “Act” Stage

1.) Implement the recommended actions to further improve product quality.
2.) Implement the cost cutting actions.
3.) Implement actions to increase market share.
4.) Implement actions to further improve customer service.

Fifth Year: “Review” Stage

1.) What are the measurable effects of your business process and product quality improvement?
2.) What are the measurable effects of your cost cutting actions to your overall profit?
3.) What are the measurable effects of your customer service improvement?
4.) Are your start to grab a bigger portion of the market share?

Take note this is a cycle, review stage will then become a planning stage, so basically your business plan is a continuous improvement process. This is the key to long term business success.

Machine, Material & Environment can cause stress: How to manage this?

2010-07-16T00:08:00.000-07:00

3.) Machine – Do you know what is the “machine” that relates to stress? It is your own body. Your body needs exercise and substantial amount of physical activity in a daily basis in order to stay active.

It is why if you are always in the bed the whole day or sitting in front of the television the whole day. Your body feels inactive/unresponsive and then can cause a lot of stress.

Try to take care of your body. You might be surprised that if you fail to take care of this body, it can either result you to:

a. Overweight
b. Sluggish type of person
c. Slow type of person
d. Unattractive to look at.

The problems above can result to a more severe form of “machine” related stress known as “mental stress”, which is a problem deeply rooted in your mind and subconscious.

Overall recommendation: You simply need to exercise. This is not actually going to the gym, but at least either (you can select any of these depending on the applicability to your own scenario):

1.) 30 minutes daily walking (speed walking)
2.) 30 minutes of biking/cycling (high speed)
3.) 30 minutes of strenuous in-house activity like cleaning

As long as you sweat too much, it is now OK. If you do not sweat anything at all, it is a bad exercise.

4.) Material – what is this material? It is your food. If you are not wise enough in selecting appropriate foods for your body, then it can surely contribute to stress.

Why? It is because:
a. If you consistently eat high cholesterol. This can have side effects which slow down your body and increases risk of heart disease. If you reach in this stage, I am sure you are pretty stressed out.
b. If you always drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes. It might feel good and advertised as stressed reliever. NO- because if you reach at the old age, you are still the same person but you might be suffering from lung related ailments that can surely be so stressing to think.

Overall recommendation: Eat a balance diet. Eat well but not eating too much. Eat as what is required for your body. You need to drink water, eat some vegetables, and drink some milk. As long as it is healthy, it is good for your body and won’t contribute to stress.

5.) Environment – this is self-explanatory. It is why a lot of persons will go on a vacation far away from their noisy, polluted and dirty work environment.

If you are living in peaceful, clean and calm surroundings, your mind is relaxed and stress free. This is very different with polluted, traffic and dirty surroundings, even as going outside for 1 hour; you feel you are getting stressed too much.

Overall Recommendations: Select your ideal home and working environment. Something which can relax you for quite a long time even you are working.

Remember this equation: Stress free = happiness.

Simple ways for managing stress in your life- Man and Method

2010-07-16T00:06:00.000-07:00

"Stress" is an undesirable result of working too hard or worrying too much. Even more surprising is that; even you do not work or worry too much, you still get stressed. Stress is also a result of having no work at all, as boredom might worry you much as well as periods of inactivity can make your body feel very sluggish.

So how can we manage stress? For around 5 years, I have experimented deeply on the topics of stress in actual, personal and home life. I found that stress is a result of the 4M’s and one E known as:

1.) Man
2.) Method
3.) Machine
4.) Material
5.) Environment

In each of those five factors above causing stress, also needs some sort of different approach in managing stress. Ok let’s get started:

1.) Man – your interaction with normal people can cause stress because of:

a.) Severe mismatch in personality – you might wonder why there are just some people who will simply argue or disapproved the way you handle things. This is normal because there is a severe personality mismatch. One good for another, may not be good for anyone else.

b.) Different backgrounds/work status – it is why it is hard to get along with bosses. It is because of different work status, if you hang-out or talks to your boss, every instructions or disapproval from him/her can cause a lot of stress.

c.) Different marital status – a married person behaves differently from a single. So if a married person hangs-out with a single, like in bars. Things can be difficult to handle and if forced; can cause a lot of stress.

d.) Different cultures – if it is OK for an American to just watch anything in the television. Things are different for a Muslim. So if you hang-out with persons with different cultures, it can cause a lot of stress.

Overall recommendation: You need to limit your exposure to people, it seems that in my 5 year observation, those people who are used to hangout with everyone else are often more stressed/unhappy than those persons that are simply selective in interacting with people and focusing more on quality relationships rather than “forced” relationships. You define that “relationship” not anyone else.

2.) Method – your interaction with the processes in your life

This is very complex; even as simple as how you are sitting in a chair can contribute to stress. In this case, you might change your method on how you are sitting right now, or else strain can accumulate on your backs can cause some stress.

If you are used to wash a massive amount of clothes manually, then this is stressful. So in this case, you might save some cash to buy a washing machine.

Overall recommendation: Do not just ignore of what makes you uncomfortable. What makes you uncomfortable are already causing you stress. You need to find a way to change it as early as possible before it can cause a lot of damage.

The rest of the causes and recommendations will be discussed on the next essay.

Inspirational Quotes about Living Life to the Fullest

2010-07-09T01:09:00.000-07:00

For me I can say that “Life is govern by people quotations and failure to understand these quotations can mean a miserable life”.

Some successful people that lives on Earth leaves some of the most important quotations particularly dealing with living life to the fullest.

We only have one life to live on this Earth, it is our duty to bring out the best in it. So if you relate a specifications to a product quality, or a musical notes to a music; quotations can relate to people.

Below are some of the best quotes I learned in life, in which principles are based upon:

1.) The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do- Leontyne Price

Comments:

Freedom is a universal right and luxury. By doing the things you love not dictated by anyone is already an indication that you MIGHT be successful. But if you are HAPPY with the things you do , not told by anyone (not only “love” to do) then you are really successful.

2.) There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet." William F. Halsey

Comments:
Some people say they are limited, actually NOT; if you are forced by circumstances of which you REALLY NEED TO DO, then you will become a great person. If you want to live life to the fullest, accept some challenges in your life, it can transform you to an invincible person.

3.) He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still - Lao Tzu

Comments:
Just like in a movie which relates to reality, how many times have you seen a master boss villain being successful in slaying the hero? Only RARE, so it means if you want again to live your life to the fullest extent, master your own sets of skills to the fullest and no one can defeat you except God. Be humble before Him.

4.) Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. - Lao Tzu

Comments:
Limit your needs to ACTUALLY WHAT YOU NEED. Plain and simple, if you do not need anything; it's like the whole world now belongs to you. Living life to the fullest again does not mean you need to acquire anything, mansions, cars, fame, luxurious vacations, expensive blah....NO..NO....NO NO... Just get what you REALLY need. You do not need to have anything to own everything. If you find this UNTRUE, dream yourself to be a philosopher also and see if you will become more successful and unforgettable than Lao Tzu.. NOT!

Good time management skills and techniques in the workplace

2010-07-09T00:08:00.000-07:00

Time management is one of the most difficult forms of management in the workplace. Not anyone likes or skilful in managing their time.

As a result, time lost will never comeback and these employees are either forced to work overtime or has a decreased work productivity output. The end result is high employment cost (cost due to overtime), quality is affected (tired workers doing overtime will never produce quality results), employee moral is degraded (especially if the guilt feelings due to unaccomplished or delayed tasks will accumulate over the period of time in addition to frequent nagging by the boss).

Aside from “office politics” and meetings which are the number one time wasters, any employees can carefully manage their time by following a simple, easy and universal approach to time management.

By reading this short guide, you do not need to attend time management seminars which last more than hour (again wasting your time), or any type of boring time management conferences. As simple as having PC and an Excel spreadsheet (even a notebook or any piece of paper will do), one can skillfully manage their time like a professional (not only managers are required but even a cigarette vendor in the streets can benefit in time management).

These are the steps:

Step1: Open an Excel spreadsheet or get a piece of paper (notebook is recommended).
Step2: Make a column and in that first column, write down ALL your tasks assigned to you as well as other tasks that you think you need to do. Do not limit the list according to what has been said by your boss , or to yourself or co-workers, write down ALL tasks even it includes “Checking my facebook account for updates”.
Name this first column as “Task name”.
Step3: Make 3 columns besides task name, name it as “IMPORTANCE”, “URGENCY”, “JOB PERFORMANCE RELEVANCE”.

It should look like below:

Step4: Assign ratings to IMPORTANCE, URGENCY AND JOB PERFORMANCE RELEVANCE columns according to this rule:

Importance column rating;
1- No importance (no relation to company goals)
2- Moderate importance (attainment of other department goals but not your own department)
3- High Importance (attainment of your own department goals)

Urgency column rating:
1 – Deadline is set next month or no deadline
2 – With deadlines set tomorrow or next week
3 – Deadline is today

Job performance relevance rating:
1 – Not related at all to your job description.
2 – Job description and responsibilties assigned to you but not stated in your original employment contract.
3 – Direct job description and responsibilities stated in your employment contract.

Step5: Multiply them altogether like the one shown in the above screenshot. The result total is the overall score.

Step6. Do things first with the highest score and in the decreasing order.

So this means that in the above screenshot, a person should be making yield reports first, followed by defect analysis, attending meetings and finally checking facebook updates when all important/urgent/high related jobs are done already. But if you asked; how come QA meetings deadline is today but the person is doing defect analysis which is next months deadline?

Answer: The fact that you can say NO to any meetings. Just say NO and tell them you have other important tasks to do first. Not a partly yes or no answer.

Sadly, if you are a manager reading this guide, you will observed that not even one of your employees are doing this. Bear in mind that low productivity can also reflect managers performance so teach this guide to your employees and implement strictly as possible.

Training needs analysis methodology–Successful job performance

2010-07-06T16:18:00.000-07:00

If you have a lot of new and old employees and you are expecting the best performance from them, one of the answers is TRAINING. Do not expect them to perform well if you have not trained them COMPLETELY by your department pertaining to the job she/he needs to do.

Training is not always the answer for better job and productivity performances as well as helping employees attain company goals/objectives. In this case, you need to do training need analysis. In this analysis you need to do some sort of interviews, surveys and examination on your employees pertaining to these following core areas:

1.) Job performance problem
2.) Level of technology used by your company preventing them to be efficient and productive on their job.
3.) Issues on company policies affecting their work and needs.

Training needs analysis is an important step that you should do before conducting any types of training methods effective for your employees. The following illustrates the methodology and analysis result summary of sample training needs analysis:

Job Performance Problem:

Job Title: Manufacturing Engineers
Average number of years working in the company: 2
Number of engineers examined: 6
Job performance problem – According to series of test conducted, the company engineers appears to be seriously lacking in knowledge pertaining to this key areas:

1.) Mastery in MS Excel.
2.) Lacking mastery in statistical analysis.
3.) Problems managing his time on a daily basis.
4.) Slow in creating yield reports using MS PowerPoint.

Level of Technology used:

It is also revealed that:
1.) The company purchased advanced software for engineering analysis and statistical computation but the engineer does not know how to use it properly.
2.) The engineers supposed to be working closely with manufacturing technicians. However, since they do not know how to operate the machines, they can hardly suggest for better ways to improve operator/technician performance.

Issues on company policies affecting their work and needs

Company policies are also affecting manufacturing engineers to perform their job properly such as:

1.) Frequent work overtimes and even engineers are force to work overtime on a daily basis.
2.) Several reported violations on company policies by the engineers; it means that they have not completely understood the company handbook.

The above are sample summary of the overall training needs and result analysis. By having this set of data are important because it can help your employees to be successful in their job. Now determine if those problems can be answered by training the employees or suggest other ways to resolve their issues (such as a company policy change).

Important note on the above methods: Instead of providing questionnaire and letting them answer the training needs analysis, it would be much better if you spend time actually evaluating their job performance rather than providing a questionnaire. Sometimes employees will not tell the truth and may not be willing to be trained. It is management responsibility to find the most accurate method in assessing a training needs analysis that actually reflects job performance.

Tips in formulating realistic goals and objectives

2010-06-30T22:01:00.000-07:00

Correctly setting realistic goals and objectives are your FIRST step to success. If this is not correctly done, it seriously affects how you are defining or measuring the level of success you might attained; in the implementation phase of the goal or objective.

One of the best guides in formulating a goal is to implement the SMART technique. It is an acronym that stands for:

S – Specific
M – Measurable
A – Attainable
R – Realistic
T – Time Bounded

So lets examine the real world goals and objectives set by common persons and examine possible flaws in the formulation of these:

1.) My goal is to become a millionaire before age of 30.

Potential Flaw: Although the goal is specific and measurable; one problem could be that it is not either: attainable or realistic. You should be very careful of setting goals like this, so the best way to know if a goal is attainable to make some rough calculations based on real data available (not estimates).

Say for example, you are on the age of 23 at the time you formulated the goal. Then you have yearly salary of $300,000. You actually spend 80% of those, so what is left is 20%. So the savings will be:

Savings each year = 20% x $300,000 = $60,000
Total savings at the age of 30 (7 years from age of 23) = $60,000 x 7 = $420,000

So it means that having a goal of achieving a one million at the age of 30 is not realistic because according to facts, you can only save up to $400,000 at the age of 30; however if you set your goal to $400,000 that would now be considered as realistic and attainable.

Revised goal formulation: My goal to reach $400,000 at the age of 30.

2.) My objective is to finish the entire job completely by the end of the day.

Potential Flaw: The objective is not specific. It is because the amount of task that you need to do is not being included in the objective. Thus because it is not specific; it is not measurable.

Since there are no specific details in the objective, you cannot tell whether the objective is both realistic and attainable.

Say for example, you are planning to accomplish 4 sets of important tasks in a day and the 1st task and 2nd tasks needs 2 hours each to complete and the 3rd/4th tasks need 1 hour each. So the total amount of hours you need to work in a day:

2 hours x 2 + 1 hour x 2 = 6 hours

So if you have 8 hours to work in a day, this objective is somewhat attainable and realistic.

Revised objective formulation: My objective is to complete my job consisting of four tasks at the end of the day.

How to recover from failure all the way to real success?

2010-06-30T21:59:00.000-07:00

I once felt that everything is over and there is no way to recover back and attain success. But something wakes me up to become a stronger person; not the person I used to be before. This “strength” in me helps to attain success for the rest of this life. Here is how I do it:

1.) Reflect what you have done wrong – an honest evaluation about the mistakes you have made is very important. It is because a problem well defined is a problem half solved.

You need to verify that the problem is the exactly causing your failures, below are some ways you can verify it:

a.) Feedbacks from your parents, brother/sisters as well as other relatives.
b.) Feedbacks from your friends, teachers and mentors.

If only one person is always complaining the mistake you have done; this is not verifiable cause. But if two or more persons are suggesting to change your attitude, then you have is a problem. Take note of their comments very carefully.

2.) Plan what you are going to do with your mistakes – for example if you failed your studies miserably then it is a sign that something is causing it such as:

a. No or poor study habits.
b. Lack of determination.
c. Lack of discipline in implementing strict study habits.

If you have verified the causes above as the one causing you to fail as a student, then, just reverse the problem and it will become a solution:

a.) Implement daily study habits.
b.) Be determined to succeed in your studies. It is best you set a goal which you can achieve, in order to create some challenges in your life. These challenges can keep you busy and lets you have a fulfilling life.
c. Be rigid in disciplining yourself to follow through your study habits. This is the hardest part as self-discipline is almost everybody weakness.

3.) Challenge yourself to be the WINNER – if you see yourself positively as a “WINNER” then you will. Aspect #1 and #2 above will not work if you do not have positive attitude when it comes to winning. The truth is that if you:

a.) Know what is your mistake.
b.) Know what to with your mistake
c.) Believe that you can win in your way to success.

Then you have 80% chances of becoming successful. The rest of the 20% will be:

4.) To closely monitor your performance and apply real time tweaks for improvement.

This is another important aspect, the “monitoring” aspect helps you aware if you are making any progress in your life at solving your problems. As simple as a “task to do” list can be a very powerful monitoring tool.

Final tip: The above comprises 100% of the tips to recover from failures and turn it to a success. If you need to achieve 200% of your success level, then the best way you can do this is to further “pray” and “believe in God”.

Life Checklist: How healthy, happy and fulfilling is your life?

2010-06-25T22:27:00.000-07:00

Life is a process, and like other processes ; the quality needs to be checked. If you have experienced working in a manufacturing environment, IT sector, financial and most high demand sectors, they do audit their process through a checklist to make sure everthing is right and the business will continue to be more profitable.

Life is like that. It can be audited also, with this; it is highly possible to know what is wrong with your existing life and how can you improve it further to lived in a more enjoyable, healthy and fulfilling life. This checklist only applies to married couples although if you are still not married you can still answer provided that is your honest answer if you are married person.

Let's start the checklist (answer honestly only “Yes” or “No”):

1.) Does accomplishing tasks that you plan defines success to you?
2.) Do you ever consider your wife or husband as your “best friend”?
3.) Do you believe that failure is normal?
4.) Do you think that accomplishing tasks in the office is more important than establishing connections in the office?
5.) Do you congratulate yourself or you congratulate your team?
6.) Do you exercise at least one to two hours per week?
7.) Are you still learning on a daily basis by reading tutorials on the internet?
8.) Are you not used to be working very far from your husband or wife (such as seeing only one a year or months)?
9.) Do you save at least 20 to 25% of your income?
10.)Do you think your office mates are not important to your success and happiness?
11.)Do you believe in God and go to church at least twice a month?
12.)Do you set 5 year goals? Or leave everything to God.

Criteria:

1.) If you answered those 12 questions all “YES”. Then you are on your way to eternal happiness. You have correctly set priorities in your life according to what is right , moral and good.

2.) If you have 1 to 3 NO answers, then there are chances that your life may mislead a LITTLE into a wrong direction by putting unimportant priorities to work. This unimportant priorities can collide with a more important one.

In this case, you have one unhappy year for every 5 years that comes to your life. However, you can start to be more happy if you change that answer to YES .

3.) If you answered more than 3 NO answers, then you will be lucky to be happy for only once in every 10 yers, and most of those years will be a struggle to you. It is because you are putting wrong priorities in your life and that takes you all the energy, pleasure and fulfillment that you need to experience.

Rare Tips for Happiness: Congratulate yourself

2010-06-25T21:46:00.000-07:00

Happiness is everybody's goal. There is no sense for success in career, business, love and everything without a feeling of happiness.

Let me share you some rare secret to be happy: “Congratulating Yourself”.

Human is always in need to be recognized for his or her achievements and what is good is that you won't even need someone you can celebrate your success with. You can do it yourself.

How?

First, you need to create challenge in your life. For example, say you are an internet blogger and you are aiming for at least $2 a day passive income from your blogs.

Or if you are student, you can create challenge by having all your exams with ratings above 90% as well as no late submissions on assignments and projects.

If you are an employee, you can make sure that all deadlines and projects are meet on time. Also you can even make it as a challenge that you will never received a single customer complaint for the entire month.

As long you have job to do, you can create challenge in your life.

Second, manage your way to success on a daily basis, checked your schedules and daily tasks to make sure you attended and remembered it well. You need to make sure that you are a person of action , not just good in planning and doing nothing.

Third, once you reach the end of the month, assess your challenge if you have achieved it. If yes, then spend one whole day celebrating by the following suggestions:

1.) Do things that you really love. For example, if you are movie geek and Toy Story 3 just came out, watch the movie alone. Or if you have someone you can bring with, it is fine, but make sure that this celebration is for you not for someone else. If you are afraid that someone might destroy your day, do not bring them or else it will just waste your celebration.

2.) Do not ever open your computer for work on that day. This is supposed to be a day of celebration as you are congratulating yourself for the job well done.

3.) Eat well. Go to your most favorite restaurant and spend your money on good foods. This will remove your stresses for the entire month and helps you recharged.

4.) Buy something very important to your job. Now you are on shopping, it is your time you can think of something that will be very useful to you. For example, if you are a musician, maybe you can buy new sets of guitar strings for your old guitar.

5.) Go home early for the day, buy some beers for you and sleep a lot.

Positive Mindset Quotes that can change your life

2010-06-20T16:54:00.000-07:00

Here are my own positive quotes that I would like to share with you. Maybe this might change how you look at your own life:

1.) There is no such thing as “difficult” when you THINK and re-THINK and then write all possible actions.

Example: If you are working on a very difficult project that is limited with your own sets of skills. You then say it was difficult. But have you really think, how you can accomplish it by writing all possible solutions?

If you hired me to construct a building and I am not an civil engineer, then I will just say NO and it solves the problem. Sometimes NO is a possible solution. Watch the movie “Yes Man” and you will learn why.

2.) Happy face always starts with a happy mind.

How many times someone needs to pretend they are happy when their mind is NOT. How many times someone needs to buy lots of luxurious to stay happy? I think if you can be able to control your mind and control what you will need to “picture” out in there; then you can be happy by just thinking you will be happy.

3.) Intelligence may distinguish a person from each other BUT all of them can work HARD

You might feel de-motivated if you feel you are not intelligent enough to do the tasks and you will never succeed. WRONG - in reality; everyone can work HARD. And by working hard everything can be accomplished with patience.

An average minded person that will dedicate his life to a certain work SHOULD appear successful in the long run than an intelligent person with no dedication in life.

4.) A failure is the best opportunity for improvement

Be happy with failures and upsets in life, you are just very LUCKY to know how you will be able to do something else better next time soon without even receiving bias feedbacks from friends, co-employees or even your boss!

5.) To accomplish a lot of work is to think that time is LIMITED

How many persons might say, “Yeah I will just postpone this work tomorrow”? Then after the end of the month, just accomplished a few sets of tasks.

What if someone thinks time is limited? Then you can do many. It is why a common boss technique in employment is to “pressure” their employees to work fast and hard because they KNOW that they can accomplish a lot of tasks in a limited amount of time.

If you are a working in your own, then you can do this without getting harmed (as opposed to boss yelling at you in the office asking for urgent work outputs).

Productivity and Motivation Improvement Techniques: Working at Home

2010-06-20T16:22:00.000-07:00

It is becoming more popular to work at home than to work at the office. This trend is common for those that are making a living out of the internet, example for the following careers below:

a.) independent musician promoting websites
b.) e-commerce website owner
c.) writers/authors
d.) bloggers
e.) web developers
f.) internet marketers

This list will grow in the future, but currently these are the most common professions that make a living out of the online business world. But the main issues of working at home are pertaining to low productivity and lack of motivation.

If you are working at home, you will be easily distracted by any means (example, tempting to check for Facebook updates, talk with other persons at home, playing games or even watch YouTube) because there is NO boss looking at you. You might take this advantage and a privilege but too much of this habit can seriously affect your productivity.

So how you might be able to deal with this issue other than implementing “strict discipline” in behalf of yourself?

The following are my most effective techniques and habits that can substantially improve home office productivity and working motivation in the long run:

1.) Spend at least one day in each month to draft the entire monthly working schedule.

If you are a blogger, you might list down all your blogs and write how many posts you need to write each day. Then put it in MS Excel to list it down from Day 1 to Day 30 (at the end of the month). The same thing you will do, if you are a web developer, internet marketer, etc.

Plan this in advance (for example if you are drafting the June 2010 schedule, do that in the last days of May 2010). Be realistic with your schedules and goals. Remember the S.M.A.R.T goal setting techniques when it comes to effective planning.

Note: In the planning of schedules, do not include Facebook profile updates and Youtube schedules.

Why should you do this? It is because “failing to plan is planning to fail”.

2.) Monitor those goals in a daily basis.

Before you will start to work in each of the day, make sure to review what work has been done on those previous days and marked them “completed”! This will motivate you to work harder in case something has been lagged behind.

You can add new set of tasks provided these are the ones that will make you money and relevant to your work.

Why should you do this? It is because “failing to monitor your work is planning to fail your plan”

3.) Work straight and stop for breaks around 15 minutes depending on your endurance.

So if I have this long list of tasks for the day, what I will do is eat first, drink coffee and then start WORKING! Do not look at those lists of tasks, just start working. Work straight! You will notice how many sets of tasks you will accomplish in just a period of 5 to 8 hours working straight.

I usually work at the earliest hours of the day (early morning). This will provide me longer hours to work on difficult while enjoying the rest day.

Why you need to this? A journey of million miles must begin with a single step.

4.) If your work has been completed, “CONGRATULATE” yourself by taking long breaks for the rest of the day. You can now do anything you want (watch Youtube, update Facebook), go out and take your bike, etc.

The lesson is: DO ANYTHING IMPORTANT FIRST, and enjoy the rest.

General Tips when Travelling to Cebu City Philippines

2010-06-14T00:27:00.000-07:00

If you are not very familiar when travelling to Cebu City, Philippines- then this guide is definitely helpful. I assume that you are travelling to cebu for either:

a. Vacation – there are lot of vacation spots in the Cebu islands.
b. Study – some schools and universities in Cebu are accepting foreign students.
c. Work – Cebu has lots of job opportunities particularly in the manufacturing and IT sector.
d. Important business matters – if you need to travel cebu for business matters, there are lot of conventions done here almost in a montly basis.

General tips ( applicable for any of the above)
1.) Your obvious stop is either Mactan Cebu International Airport or the Cebu seaports. Now this is what will happen:

a. I suggest to board a taxi to Cebu City and find some cheap hotels or accomodations there, it is way to expensive to stay in Mactan based on my experience. The foods there are very expensive also.

Here are the complete list of Cebu city hotels offering cheap accomodation

If you are staying for longer term (more than one month), then hotels might be too expensive, consider renting an apartment in Cebu City.

b. If you are cowboy enough, you can eat at maximum 50 to 100 pesos per meal and your stomache will nearly explode (for those in tight food budgets). I suggest going to Cebu City Larsian and eat some delicious barbecues.

In Cebu City you find larsian food place in Cebu City Jones-Osmena boulevard avenue near Chong Chua Hospital.

If you are in Mandaue city, there is a also a larsian food place in AC Cortes street in front of Kaona food grill.

You can read more about Larsian in the official facebook page here.

c. Do not ride taxi, some are dishonest unfortunately. Especially if you are foreigners or not speaking native Cebu dialect, these taxi drivers will easily take advantage of you and let you spend a lot by encircling the city a lot of times. If you ride in taxi, asked for receipt! This will contain information about the taxi operator and driver which might be useful to file complaints.

The solution is to have little map of Cebu (google it). Then study it as you ride public jeepneys, you can even asked the public jeepney “conductor” to asked for some directions. I can tell you they are more honest to tell real answers to where you should be heading.

Some basic:

a. The jeepney with a tag/route code as 21B (memorize this) is the most important of all. It will pass these very important Cebu City destinations:

a.1. Ayala Center Cebu
a.2. SM City Cebu
a.3. Jones avenue ( of course passing near the larsian in osmena boulevard).
a.4. Santo Nino Basilica church
a.5. Colon area (cebu city oldest street)
a.6.) Travelling from Mandaue city to Cebu city and vice versa.

Some tips if you are coming from the airport, ride a taxi to Jollibee Mandaue city highway. Then once you are Mandaue city highway in front of Jollibee ride 21B to your destination in Cebu.

Most cheap hotels are found in the Jones avenue area. Of course, if you are carrying heavy baggages, then this tip is not applicable.

Precautions:
1.) Do not text or use any electronic gadgets when you are in the public jeepney (never), or wear jewelries, expensive watches, etc. It is unsafe.
2.) Do not put your wallet in the pocket. Instead put it in your bag. Better put some in your socks (really I am serious).
3.) Do not talk to strangers except to jeepney “conductor” , restaurant, foods and the hotel crew.
4.) Do not pay more than 15 pesos when riding a public jeepney. Normal jeepney fare should be 7pesos as of June 2010 with maximum around 14 pesos (from Mandaue to Cebu).

Study methods for college students: Using assignment notebooks

2010-06-13T23:38:00.000-07:00

Studying in college is a very difficult tasks. It is because you need to develop a lot of patience, sacrifices, careful planning (like what A-team does) and hard work in order to get things done. Not only getting things done, but getting it right also.

There are only two objectives in studying college and that is getting good grades and completing your courses.

This short guide will elaborate the methods on the use of assignment notebooks in order to develop a good study habit especially useful for college students.

I suggest you to have one notebook with around 100 or more leaves (the more leaves the better), divide it into parts. The 1st section is the “task input” list and the 2nd half for “daily organized tasks”.

To generate the “task input” , list down all tasks:

a. Instructed by your college professor (example the assignments, projects, appointments or pages/books to be studied).

b. Have in mind studying. For example, you need to study that specific subject a lot because you find it difficult. Write that subject here and as the topic details.

c. Other extra-curricular activities (such as practising schedules pertaining to your activity in university glee club for example)

d. Your daily class schedule, so you will never forget attending important classes (common in college because of irregular scheduling).

This also includes the other list such as time to meet your girl friend or boyfriend, or do some shopping.

This task input should be updated in hourly or daily basis. Marked “complete” for those tasks that are not any more relevant or important to you. For this to be very effective, you need to list down ALL possible tasks that you might think you need to do, again including all possible inputs from your teacher (such as clue where he/she might get the exam).

I have found this page to provide good tips in studying college.

Now you have a complete list of “task input”, it is now the time to organize it. You need to answer to following questions:

1.) What should I do for today? Again you will need to see it from your task input. List down relevant tasks that are needed to be done today, including any assignments, quizes, long exams, important studies, etc.
2.) What time should I need to get this done? Time management, get those difficult things done first before you get tired for the day.

So you will need to put this input in your “daily organized tasks”. An example output will be:

June 14, 2010

1.) Attend the following classes:
a. 8:30 to 10am- algebra
b. 10:00am to 11am – effective communication
c. 1-3pm – trigonometry
d. meet with husband- 3pm-4pm
e. read 3rd chapter on algebra – 4pm to 7pm
f. dine out- 7pm – 8pm
g. doing algebra exercises – 8:30pm to 10pm
h. prepare for effective comm exam -10pm to 12am

Best Snorkeling and Diving Locations in Visayas island Philippines

2010-06-07T19:18:00.000-07:00

Philippines are an archipelago of 7107 islands. It lies near the equator, it is a tropical country characterized by only two seasons: dry and wet.

If you are traveler into these islands particularly in Visayas islands; you might be interested in doing some snorkeling and diving into the Visayas island crystal clear waters.

Below is the best snorkeling and diving locations into these islands based on my experience (best during dry season: February to May).

1.) Balicasag Island Bohol

What you can do: Snorkeling and Diving
How to get there: You need to go to Cebu, Philippines. Then board a ship to Bohol islands via a ferry boat. Then board a vehicle to Panglao Bohol. Once you are in Panglao, you can rent a boat as well as diving/snorkeling equipments to Balicasag Island.

What you can see: Really stunning fish sanctuary and walls of coral reefs.

Cost of Travel:

a. Panglao accommodations are around 1000 pesos per night
b. Boat rental for diving is around 800 pesos.
c. Scuba dive master is around 1500 pesos per dive (do not go with the expensive dive shops).
d. Ferry boat from Cebu to Bohol is around 500 pesos.
e. You can save a lot in food if you do not dine in restaurants.

2.) Malapascua Island Cebu

What you can do: Snorkeling and also Scuba diving

How to get there: If you are in Cebu City, Philippines you need to ride a bus at the Cebu City North Bus Terminal to Maya Cebu. Board a bus with a signboard (Maya-Bagay).

Then, upon arriving in Maya sea port, ride a boat to Malapascua Island. The travel from Maya to Malapascua takes around 45 minutes in boat.

What you can see: If you are a certified open water sea diver, you can see Thresher Sharks in deep waters which can be best seen in the early morning. You need to rent a boat to go to Monad Shoal, a place where Thresher sharks are found. These sharks are big but they are friendly.

There are also numerous reef sharks around Gato Island (within Malapascua reach). You can also have a chance to dive a 1982 passenger shipwreck and a Japanese Naval ship destroyed during WWII.

If you are into snorkeling, you can enjoy the Malapascua sanctuary on garden corals which is one of the best I have seen in the Visayas Sea. The corals reef gardens are a collection of blue, red and a mixture of bright colors, along with numerous species of fish.

Cost of Travel:

a. Bus from Cebu City to Maya- 100 pesos
b. Boat from Maya to Malapascua – 50 pesos (high tide) but in low tide, you need an additional 10 pesos to board a small boat prior to riding the big pump boat.
c. Accommodation: There are some cottages there that charge 800 to 1000 pesos per night.
d. Boat rental for Snorkeling and diving- 800 pesos
e. You can save a lot in food cost if you do not dine in expensive restaurants.

3.) Moalboal Cebu

What you can do: Snorkeling and diving in Pescador Island.

How to get there: Ride a bus from South bus terminal Cebu City to the town of Moalboal Cebu, or alternatively you can ride either a taxi or V-hire.

What you can see: Sea turtles and reef fishes if you are doing wall diving in Pescador .Wonderful coral reefs can also be seen along the shallow waters.

Cost of Travel:
a.) Taxi- 2000 pesos
b.) Accommodation: 2000 pesos per night (not air-condition)
c.) Boat rental- may vary but 500 to 1000 pesos is ok.
d.) Diving equipment rental- similar to other diving locations mentioned previously.

How to Plan For a Vacation

2010-06-01T08:22:00.000-07:00

Bohol Island

During your first vacation in a long travel or trip is not easy because it needs an adjustments in the environment but once you experienced it, you will always wanting vacation. Most people rich or poor likes to go to the beach during summer for a full enjoyment. Beach is great for relaxing; the air is cold, white sands and playing volleyball sport. There are many beauty spots all over the world I suggest Philippines is one of the best tourism in asia especially beach resorts in an Island like, Malapascua Island, Sumilon Island, Camotes Island, Bohol Island, Mactan Island and etc. In every Island there are several beach resorts, much better choose the best beach resorts for your accommodation by reading reviews of the people online. Inquire the rates of accommodation if it fits to your budget. It is advice not to pay any down payment through online by using credit cards because it is too risky and frustrated sometimes. To give cash is necessary. No worries if you can not find a room to stay at the moment you arrive, just keep on inquiring and the more you asks you can choose affordable accommodation. Then, don’t forget to know how to get there; this will help you through easy long travel for a vacation. Beware of restaurants at the beach because their menus prices are too high, it is cool if you eat outside the beach resort and find affordable food eatery. Beach restaurant is great for drinks only during at night. Finally, lists all the important things you need to bring for a vacation like extra money, camera, snorkel, flippers, medicine, extra food or snacks and dress.

Summary:
1. Know the place for a vacation.
2. Quality and rates of accommodation
3. Know how to get there
4. Food to eat
5. Lists all the things to bring

Malapascua Island

God speed everyone!

How to encourage yourself

2010-05-07T09:20:00.000-07:00

When you feel depress it seems you lose everything, out of your mind, high temper, feel laziness, no interest to talk to everyone else and feels nothing. These are all causes of having negative mind. To stay away with all these it all started by you;
1. Talk. Go out to your room and talk someone to whom you trust. Express your entire problem and listen to their response. Remember that we are responsible for each one of us that is why God made a man and woman, to help each other, know their weaknesses and accept with all their heart.
2. Learn from your mistakes. Accept your faults and examine why did it happen to you and why did you do that? Don’t blame it to others because it makes you worst than ever. You’ll have to laugh it and tell yourself of not doing it again.
3. Do your favorite activities, interest and likes. What do you like to do everyday that makes you happy is it ( playing with kids, cooking, drawing, jamming with friends, read books, singing, dancing, playing instruments, swimming and etc… you should make yourself active when you’re at times of trouble.
4. Pray to God. These are step by step prayer techniques it is called “ACTSM” means A-adore, C- contrition, T- thanksgiving, S-supplication, M- meditation.

Quotes: Don’t hate someone to whom you couldn’t give what you need instead of loving them with all of your heart and accept their weaknesses because they are the number one beings who are always ready to talk in times of troubles. Everyone is made for a purpose. Remember try not to abuse those people and learn to care of them. In the future, you may gain more courage and happiness because of what you have done from the past and many people wants to be thankful to you. And when you hear somebody who says thank you, your heart is beating so fast because of unconditional happiness.

I hope guys God will give more blessings to all of us! To be happy all the time! Thank you very much for your unconditional time.

How to be a Good Person

2010-03-10T10:01:00.000-08:00

When I finished saw a movie “2012” I learned a lot about behavior in life. We all know that we love materials things and we all know that when we die we can not bring these all to heaven. Only our souls fly and live forever in heaven. But the question says how can you enter the kingdom of God? To be a good person is enough but how can you do to be a good follower of God. Now I realized that why God made us rich and poor it is because of purpose. If you have all the materials things like money, house, lot and big farm what should you do? And you know that there are many people who are suffering in poverty like no shelter, no food because they don’t have farm to plants crops, fruits and vegetables. You start to help now! There are people who dream to become successful of their ambitions, are you doing something to help them fulfill their dream? Poor people always thinking they are below than rich and rich abuse them. Do you think that is good? You have wake up now bad people it is now time to change. Let your heart feel with love to each other by sharing your blessings and helping to those who are in needs. Finally, not necessarily you help by your money; you can also help by sharing your talent to everyone and serve the people who need it without expecting any return.

I hope I can make your day wonderful! Thank you...

Jeanine,
MAKE YOUR MIND PEACE AND LET YOUR HEART BEAT.

How Do You Spend and Celebrate Christmas Day

2009-12-27T01:56:00.000-08:00

Christmas traditions are very costly. All people must require buying gifts for their families. Christmas is not complete without exchanging gifts and parties. Christmas tree, lights and lantern must be decorated at home and anywhere.
Are you happy and contented if you have all the gifts, parties and decorations? Well, the most important thing for you to know is that peaceful in mind. Do not worry if you have no gift to give or you can not attend parties because all of that is non-sense or a waste of time if only the trouble in mind will prevail and you have enemy. Celebrate Christmas simply by saying greetings to your loved ones, husband, parents, brother, sisters, relatives and friends. Eat together with your family. Do not spend too much money because it is not the real meaning of Christmas. Give love on Christmas day it is not all about gift giving, spending your entire bonus however, it is all about how you spend time with your family.
On the other hand, sometimes some of your family is not coming home at Christmas day, all you have to do is pray for them that they have wonderful Christmas like yours and spend the rest of your time of who are presents with you now. Everybody is affected if you are lonely or sad if you wish to celebrate a wonderful Christmas day, be happy to say MERRY CHRISTMAS! The spirit of Christmas is in your good heart!

GOD BLESS FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND GIVE LOVE OF EACH OTHER.

Choosing the Right Way to Find Money

2009-11-17T07:30:00.000-08:00

You can choose good or bad and right or wrong methods to find money. There are ways to find money in illegal methods like gambling, illegal drugs, stealing and etc. We all know that we have freedom in choosing and doing all things. If you choose these illegal methods, you have miserable life forever.
God will provide you for all your needs. Do not worry. Money only measures your materials satisfaction and not true happiness. The important is whatever your job likes servant, janitor, construction worker, salesclerk, farmer, gardener, dish washer, vendor, fisherman, barber, and etc these are simple but respectful and honest jobs. If you belong with these types of jobs you must be proud, enjoy and keep working in Gods will. There are times trials will come to you but keep on doing right and be happy of what you have and what you have done.
Some people define that money can buy everything even life of a human. But the fact is money can not give you true meaning of success and happiness. It is better to live in simple life, be healthy, have great relationship with your family and work with balance of time.
To become rich is not a sin but do not love money anymore, because money can cause a lot of troubles. It is better to give more than to have and get more. Enough is enough it means contentment.

Thank you for your time! Have a wonderful day!

A True Measure of Family Success- Stays Together both in Happy and Sad Times

2009-10-06T08:30:00.000-07:00

There are occasions that families, relatives and friends are having reunited again like birthdays, weddings, an and fiesta. It is called “happy moments”. Being reunited with families allows you to share your feelings with them, to say “you are not alone”.

Here is an example of a true measure of family that stays together: I am 100% Filipino and I love my country Philippines I am proud to be Pinoy because no matter how poor the Filipinos are; we are always being together both in happy and sad times. Not at all occasions can make you feel happy because there are times when sadness comes to you. A good current example is when we are hit by a typhoon called ONDOY “Ketsana”. Filipinos are helping one another to survive the calamities. It is really wonderful to feel that in times of tragedy; Filipino families stay together all the times especially in difficult moments. This is a true meaning of family that everyone has responsibility to each one of us because in God’s eye we are all brothers and sisters.

And also I would like to say my personal thanks to all the country around the whole world for helping Philippines in times of tragedies. God speed to all of you! We are a big one family and let us make a peaceful world!

In summary, below are some strong traits that you can implement to strengthen the family ties:

1.) Pray together- if possible all the members of the family should go to church together.
2.) Eat together - it is very nice to eat together.
3.) Play together- if there is a vacation, bring the whole family. You can spend less on vacations by simply going to local beaches than going to expensive places like Palawan.
4.) Talk together- talking and discussion is very important. It has been observed that the more time the family members are talking with each other they became close and understand their needs better.

The secret word to family success is to stay and act "TOGETHER".

How do you Define True Success in Life

2009-08-21T07:23:00.000-07:00

To be contented with what you have is the end measurement of success in life. Even if you are poor you must be happy, life must go on and dream. You must count on your blessings and never count all the insecurities. To feel insecure is a weakness and if you use it, life will become miserable.

To prevent this bad feeling, you must not compare yourself to others, not get jealous and don’t fight. Some others say that, to have a lot of money and power is what you will become successful; well it is 50% true and 50% lie it means that there must a balance. If you want to have the 100% true success with your money, you must share your blessings to those who are in need.

If you’re just hiding your wealth in the bank, this is not at all good instead giving it to your family and buys some important things for your own that makes you happy. And remember, Contentment, Sharing and Happiness is how you define true success in life.

However keep in mind that success is relative. Success for a specific person does not translate to success to another. It is why to be contented with what you have is essential if you want attaining success to be as easy as breathing.

Some persons are defining success as different from happiness. While this is true, the ultimate goal is to associate your happiness with success. Success is nothing if you are not happy, or happiness is nothing without success. These two should go together. How to do this is very simple:

1.) Plan your life. Make you want to accomplish things that will make you happy. Do not include in your goals those things that won't make you happy.

2.) Start working for these plans - you noticed that once you have accomplished something in your goal, you have an intense feeling of success and happiness.

3.) Once all of your objectives are accomplished, repeat the planning phase. And then you have unlimited supply of happiness and success, accomplishing these things will give you a strong sense of purpose in your life.

Lastly sharing is the most important element in success and happiness. If you have seen the movie "Into the Wild" which is true story of a loner man that lives in the deep jungle away from all distractions and people. Before he died due to accidental food poisoning from eating a wild vegetable, he wrote something in his notes: "Happiness is not real unless it is shared.." It is why you need to share your blessings, then you have real success and happiness.

Be a Full Time House Wife is a Great Honor

2009-08-05T11:03:00.000-07:00

I am a wife but not yet a mother and planning to have children someday; for now we focus on stabilizing our financial asset to give our children a bright future and for it’s also the good of the nation.

In today’s modern generation; the responsibility of a wife is not really as important as before. Husband and wife can easily work either in private or in public company because they’re both capable to work. We have all freedom.

But if when you are married, husband and wife have different roles in the family. Wife as a “house wife”, takes care of husband and children while the husband is the bread winner, head of the family and role model for their children.

It’s good for a wife to help husband’s livelihood but not making a full time job...
Make your Husband proud of you:

1. Take proper good cares for your husband and children.
2. Always give your 100% full support to your husband.
3. Appreciate him of all his doings and projects either small or big.
4. Show all the respect to your husband rights how he leads as a head of the family.
5. Always tell him I love you, hug and give your sweetest smile.
6. Make him always feels that you need him all the time.
7. Show him that being a full time wife is a great honor.
8. Always remind your husband that prayer is big power to every trial encountered.
9. Always give thanks for all the blessing you have received.
10. Always reminds that God is the center of the family.

I hope I can touch one’s heart of every woman and become a proud wife in the world. I gathered all of these from my experiences to my families, relatives, friends and reading a book. See to be a housewife is a great honor. And it’s time for a challenge…

Thank you very much my dear readers!

How to Find True Happiness in Many Ways

2009-07-26T09:41:00.000-07:00

There is no such thing poor or rich in this world if we care and think of others need. God commands us to love one another.
Here are do’s and don’ts tips and ways on how to find a true happiness:

Don’ts;
1. Self-Centered- Always think of your own needs.
2. Pessimistic mind- Expect worst and hopeless.
3. Jealousy / envy- Compare you to another.
4. Doing something that can hurt a person’s feelings especially when can him/her cry.
5. Fighting for your own good and for your own satisfaction.
6. Always feel worried.

Do’s;
1. Share- Allow your neighbors to borrow and use your things.
2. Give- Offer your extra blessing to someone’s in need for food, clothing and shelter.
3. Thoughtful- Express concerns of others need.
4. Always do things that can make people happy.
5. Always help and think of others need.
6. Love your parents all the time.
7. Love your husband’s| wife’s always.
8. Love God above all.

I hope I can hear your comments soon. Thank you my dear readers!

How To Make Your Parents Proud of YOU

2009-07-22T11:07:00.000-07:00

1. Help your parent’s livelihood everyday. This is one of the best parts of your experience in life especially when you are at minor ages from 6-17years old. The past cannot be changed but we call it history. So, my advice does not ever give problems to your parents. Make them proud and happy parents.

2. Stay away from scary and dangerous vices. Like DRUG ADDICTION, SMOKING & OVER DRINK LIQUOR these will lead you to have miserable life forever. Always remember your parents are always there to support you emotionally, spiritually and financially. Do you believe that YOUTH IS THE HOPE OF THE NATION? So, please always be a good child and make your parents proud of you no matter what happen.

3. Give your 100% Respect and 100% Love to your parents at all times. Parents are bad leaders sometimes but this is not the reason why you don't give them respect and love. Please accept their weaknesses; parents are worthy to give 100% full of respect and to give 100% full of love. Believe in me your parents are so special a very special because only parents can give unconditional love. Parents are ready to sacrifice for the good of their children.

4. Give your big smile. Your happiness is your parent’s happiness. Parents want to see their children always happy.

I love my Mama Teresa and Tatay Isidro... I am very proud of my parents!!!

I hope I can hear someone who shares their family life experiences.

Thank you my dear readers!!!