Entries for December, 2006

December 3rd, 2006

Two days ago, the time when typhoon Remigio struck Manila, a thought struck my mind.

we've been informed of the dangers of the coming storm if we don't prepare ourselves.We heeded it even in the most trivial way of celebrating that it's an extended holiday for most of us.

what about the dangers of not planning our future? has anyone warned us of that? i think very few. or are we programmed to go through life by default, in a routine? carried by wherever the wind and waves take us?

have you thought about it? If in the next five years, you could have the ideal life you've always wanted, what would it look like? what wuold you be doing? who would you be with or no longer with? hehe where would you be?

Like, "10 years from now i'd be... doing... so right now i'm gonna...."

i mean really planning it. i mean really putting it down on paper.

mine is still on the works, what's yours? =)
Posted by wxyz at 09:49 AM | 2 smile

December 6th, 2006

Within a decade, i can't wait to be able to (not in any particular order):

1. Live in New York City/LA/Barcelona for six months to one year (depends if i like it there or what) out of my own money.
2. Go to Ushuaia to see the lighthouse and have a picture there
3. Drive along and camp in a desert preferably the Sahara
4. Feed a giraffe in Singapore (and in Africa)
5. Go to Egypt and relax in the Nile and visit the pyramid tombs
6. Go to Yellowstone Park and meet Yogi Bear! hehe well, Old Faithful
7. Buy art works (esp. good furniture and paintings)
8. Go to Murano, Italy and try hands-on glass blowing (apprentice for a glass artist)
9. Drive and own a VW Beetle and/or VW BUS, the old version
10. Go around the world to the best vineyards and taste some wonderful wine (although, i could do this in my 30's na)

*bold ones, by end of 2007 =)

Some other things i'd be doing with my life:

1. Study art the whole day. Buy pieces i fancy and incorporate it in my loft and in my house.
2. Ride a hot air balloon.
3. Still creating some glass works and pottery
4. Produce/Direct/Act/Create basta wonderful films and short films
5. Something related with old folk's home - we'll make it a fun and fulfilling place for them
6. Surfing
7. Play golf
8. Collect chess pieces (Walter! dahil sayo addict na ako)
9. Drive 4x4's in a desert
10. Take my parents and Lizzie travelling
11. Travel with friends around the world
12. Live in different places in the country
13. Teach
14. Make my country proud
15. Play in a band
16. Still doing the business and helping others become successful in theirs and living to their best and achieving their own dreams
Posted by wxyz at 11:33 PM | 5 smile

December 13th, 2006

What are you using your energies for?

"Use (your) energy for your dreams. Together we can create something bigger. Let's go for it."
-Kimie and Naoki Hongo

"Share your wealth with your family." - Roney

"Don't give up." - Granddaughter of Clara McDermott

"Making this world a better place." - literally not just a dream but a reality.

"This business does work and gives us an unlimited platform to walk with. The only limitation is inside of us. Your perception is your own limitation. So use your imagination and positive thinking attitude to move yourself to any level, to any freedom you want." - Dr. Lang Chou

Wow what great people these 20 Million Dollar Circle members! I wanna meet them someday. humble, down-to-earth, successful people with a sincere and true desire of helping others live the best life ever, as their reward, they have the best life they could have.

The path they've taken is the same path i'm gonna have to take to get there. There are no shortcuts.

I should stop delaying my dreams, my success, my family and my friends are waiting for me.

I wanna get busy having a great and exceptional life, more than just dreaming about it. I wanna work hard 'cause i know this time working hard matters, cause i'm in the best and fastest vehicle in the world.

"Nothing is easy. But hey, who wants nothing?" Some wise words from Donald Trump.

Quality in my work. No more last minute. No more shortcuts.

Sometimes i still cringe when i look at my thesis (and all the other things that i know i could have done better). i know it's not the best that i could have done with it. i was still tempted to revise it the day before the defense. but heck, ayaw ko na maulit ulit yung last term. i still feel off with the kind of work i presented. i know i could have done better. but i didn't touch it anymore, just because i have to trade it for something bigger.

seeing others performing less than their best in anything is disappointing. but it's worse to see myself perform less than my best. it's not that i'm a perfectionist, but having that kind of habit is like stopping myself short of becoming the best i can be. i know. i feel it. i feel like i'm stealing a piece that will continue to build myself upwards and onwards to something better and better.

but it's so easy really easy and pleasurable occasionally to go after other things.

argh, i have to choose now. even while my energy is high and my strength is high.

"People fail from within not from without. Stats show that inability to delay gratification leads to failure. People fail coz they do what's fun and easy instead of what's hard and necessary. They do what's tension-relieving instead of what's goal-achieving." - Bryan Tracy

Anne, it's like getting out of drugs. it's like getting off the habit. it's like being part of AA. it's like obeying God, remember? Forget regret or life is yours to miss. No day but today. There's no time to start but now.

love what you do and it will love you back. you'll love it i'm sure. you're just lazy. lazy people always make excuses. you can make excuses or you can make money, you choose, but you can't have both. you can make excuses or you can be happy. but you can't have both.

would you let her go? would you let someone else betrothed to her? or would you go and enjoy her fruits?

this is your life.
are you who you wanna be? is the world everything that you dream it would be?
more than bent on getting by all right?!

don't be afraid to make mistakes. that's how we learn. go and make all the mistakes you can.

"I continued to do things that anybody can do. But the point is I continued to do what everybody could do. The path is not necessarily easy. I think the result is the result of how hard you try and it does not work if you're the only person trying very hard. I worked together with many people and worked together until we all succeeded." - Takeko
Posted by wxyz at 01:54 PM | make me smile

December 29th, 2006

"there are those glorious humans who understand that love simply is, it comes, it possesses us, we allow it to rule our thoughts and steer our living ... regardless of what we keep cozy in our underpants .... "
Posted by wxyz at 11:46 PM | make me smile