Entries for June, 2008

June 1st, 2008

fickle lover

Is it possible to love the God and love the world.
James says otherwise.
Friendship with the world is hatred toward God.
But
I thought that this is my playground and i'll always be home

I love God.
Though I also love other things.
God is a jealous lover.
He has every right though
But I love another too
Sometimes even more
how unbearable!

why are you so downcast oh my soul?
why so disturbed within me?

I’m a fickle lover

Eternal youth,
Infinite passion,
Pleasures subtle and secret,
Wild joys and wilder sins
- he was to have all these things.


Posted by wxyz at 10:39 PM | make me smile

June 7th, 2008

take note of your villains

take note of the stories
in your head the novels
typing it's way away
take note of the characters,
the allies,the villains
especially the villains
Posted by wxyz at 12:04 AM | 2 smile

June 17th, 2008

quotes

“If you are missing passion in this business, it is quite frankly probably because you are too self-centered. You are thinking with a mindset that says, ‘What’s in this for me?’ I think it is a little hard to get passionate about yourself and helping yourself; but isn’t it easy to get excited and passionate about helping your friends, your family and other people! When you can help someone else achieve their dreams, it suddenly is very easy to get passionate about wanting to help others…in fact, you just want to get everyone to listen and catch the vision because you KNOW you can help them. Now, you’re talking passion. And it fuels energy you never knew you had because you just are so…well, passionate about what you are doing!” Steve Lund

“We are all looking to better ourselves. If we’re not, we should be. With that mindset, let me impress upon you that no matter in what endeavor you are pursuing, it all evolves from becoming a better ‘inside person,' embracing opportunities to develop qualities and virtures that are within you but not yet fully developed. I know of no better vehicle to develop such qualities than network marketing. It gives you the tools to become your best while at the same time helping others to do the same. That is a force for good!” Sandie Tillotson

“Staying focused does not have to be boring. It does require self-discipline but the secret is that you design your business so that it is enjoyable as you go, that there is fun along the way.” Blake Roney

“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” Mark Twain

“One of the most frustrating sentences that somebody struggling with this business, can hear is, ‘You just need to be more passionate.’ It causes them to look inside of themselves for that dial. ‘How do I turn up the passion’ dial here. How do you become more passionate about something you’re not passionate about? What we know is that one of the Success Formula elements is that you gotta be passionate about what you’re doing or else you’re not going to be able to give it full energy! And so, in this business, if you don’t feel passion, then you probably don’t understand the business. This is a business about helping other people. Your friends, your family, your associates are worthy of your passion, of your very best efforts.” Steve Lund

“The evolution of our own success does not stop with us. It becomes an example for our children, and that formula for success then can become generational.” Sandie Tillotson

“Everyone has fears. I’ve never met anyone who did not have fears. I have fears. Public speaking is one of them and is a good example of what I do to overcome the fear or at least manage it. It is all about positive thinking for me. I have to make the voice with the positive thoughts talk louder than the one with the scary negative thoughts. I use music. It is incredibly powerful in my life to help me get in a positive mindset, good mood, optimistic and ready to go. Everyone’s tools will be different but whatever you use, for me it is often music, it still comes down to replacing negativity and fear with positive thinking and optimisim. Even how you view an experience afterwards, the same principles apply. If only one person shows up to your business opportunity presentation, is it a failure? Not if you focus on that one person and you know you did your best in offering them something to improve their life. Not if you value the experience of getting to practice your presentation and learn from any bumps. It’s all good.” Blake Roney

“I stay active in this business to make sure that the dream doesn’t begin to disintegrate in some way, or that people don’t lose track of what’s important. I stay so that I’m doing something that isn’t just selfish, because I think that a selfish life just turns into an unhappy life.” Blake Roney

"Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." Thomas Jefferson

“You have to do more than just tell someone you care about them and want to help them be successful. It requires doing your best and being the best you can be.” Sandy Tillotson

“I’ve seen lots and lots of people come through the business who have all the talent in the world and who would be great at this but, a month into it, they’re distracted and off they go to the next thing, because it’s just more fun. It seems to me like everything on earth requires the ability to stay on track, consistently working, working, making your entrepreneurial endeavor come true.” Blake Roney

“If somebody comes into our business and is struggling with an issue of self-worth, I would say a couple things to them. One is, “You’re confused and deluded, because you are of great worth.” I believe that socially, I believe that intellectually, I believe that religiously. That, every person has enormous worth. Secondly, I would say, this is a perfect place for somebody like that to come and work through that confusion. The Nu Skin family is sort of self-selective. People come here both because they have that need of confusion about their self-worth and because they’ve got the answer to that need. And by watching other people who exude self-confidence and exude a love for other people and who embrace other people and their dreams and desires and so forth, those behaviors, those mindsets are contagious. They’ll rub off on that other person. And so people who come into this enterprise sort of shy and withdrawn find that their lives are improved by getting outside of themselves, because other people are doing it and therefore, it’s a comfortable environment to do those things. And they go away forever changed.” Steve Lund

“There’s an enormous element of discipline involved in the business, where people have viewed the world long-term and consistently work toward their dream past the first week. When the excitement wears off at the second day in this business, or the first time you do a meeting and two people show up, when you are tempted to think, ‘Gee, that was fun while it lasted,’ there is an enormous need to discipline yourself and just consistently pursue your goal.” Blake Roney

“Always do what you are afraid to do.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Part of business is adversity. Everyone who tries to do a hard thing is going to run into challenges. Blake has a philosophy that has been very helpful to me. He views business as problem solving. If there were no problems to making money or to building an organization or whatever, then everybody would be doing it. And there would be no opportunity there because everybody would already occupy that space. In order for an opportunity to be real, in order for a business to be real, there have to be obstacles to success in place that keep other people from getting there. So those who climb the mountain and who actually achieve the success aren’t people who just accidentally discovered some obstacle-free course to success! They didn’t just land on the top of the mountain. They climbed. They probably had some falters and stumbles but always got back up and kept moving forward, upward, regardless of the challenges. It’s rather, people who faced obstacle after obstacle and then worked through them who taste the joy of success.” Steve Lund

“We all need someone to believe in us. But that ‘someone’ can just be YOU. Belief in yourself is all that is required to taste success. The fair-weathered fans will arrive shortly after your first million does.” Troy Dunn

"I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse." Florence Nightingale

“Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.” Mark Twain

In the beginning days of Nu Skin International, we were in fact a couple of people with a great product, a clear vision, and a steep learning curve. What kept us going in those early days was the simple fact that we never quit…well, not on the same day. There were moments that we may have felt like it but that is the beauty of team work. There is always someone there to lift and we all need that from time to time. Then we have opportunities to be the hand that lifts.” Sandie Tillotson

“I feel like I get to do an enormous amount of good, even beyond all the incredible success the distributors get to have and the good that the product does in the world. Opportunities to help feed starving children in Africa really keeps me passionate and I never doubt my ‘WHY’. Also, it is really fun to me. And I want it to be fun to my children, and so I stay in the loop so that I can get as much of that kind of stuff done as I possibly can, in front of my children, hoping they can ‘catch the bug’.” Blake Roney

“I have never met a successful person who didn’t include prayer as an ingredient in the recipe of success.” Troy Dunn

“This one makes a net; this one stands and wishes. Would you like to bet which one gets the fishes?” Chinese Rhyme

“Entropy is a law of physics that basically says that nature tends toward chaos. And it takes energy to not degrade, and go with the flow, and end up at a low place rather than a high place. It takes energy to turn that natural tendency around and go forward. And so, the success that people achieve in this life, sometimes it’s simply a measure of how much energy they’re willing to apply to bring an excellence to their life, as opposed to letting gravity simply carry them down to mediocrity.” Steve Lund

“Once you’ve set your mind to do something and refuse to allow other ideas to distract you from your decision, then you’ve created a snowball effect. And you choose to make that a snowball of exclusively positive ‘can do’ thoughts. Sure, negative ones will try to sneak in there, but give it no energy, toss it out and return your thoughts to that excitement and determination that is such a positive force in driving you towards your purpose and passion. Then, nothing can stop you unless you quit.” Sandie Tillotson

“There is an important question people would do well to ask themselves at the end of every day. ‘What made me feel good today?’ Now, that doesn’t mean, ‘What was fun today,' because something can be fun but lacking passion, but everything that makes you passionate is fun.” Blake Roney

"It is pivotal that each of us seriously reflect on what feels good in our lives, what feels right, what makes us think, ‘I really like who I am’. That is where our passion lies.” Blake Roney

“No matter what today’s activity is, part of our mindset ought to be, ‘How can I add a little more value to this enterprise? How can I add a little more value to what we’re doing today in order to squeeze more out of life than we are right now?’ That means we do not settle for doing as little as possible. It means we do and give as much as we can. That is the difference between mediocrity and excellence. It is a choice.” Steve Lund

“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.” Mark Twain

“In order to be the kind of person others will want to follow, you have to become that kind of person. It has to be part of your heart. It has to be part of your soul. People can tell when you genuinely care about them. You can’t fake that.” Sandy Tillotson


Posted by wxyz at 09:47 PM | make me smile

Confessions of a TV-sitted baby

I love watching television. I must say I’m one of those tv addicts that would always respond- what did you say?- in a zombie –like manner to whoever was trying to talk to us.

TV watching


It occupied most of my younger years. Waking up every Saturday morning, alone in my parent’s room, turning the tv on. I can still feel the coolness of the just-off-ed air-con. I would watch GMA 7’s line-up of Disney cartoons starting with the squirrels and Uncle Scrooge and the three Donald’s nephews, Alladin and my favorite Genie and then Winnie the Pooh with his orangeness stripety heart Tigger.

I’m one of those television kids, raised, instructed, baby-sitted by the tube.

It's a bad yaya. That's why when i was in third year high school, i started to dislike the TV. Well, I abhorred television watching as a senseless activity. I blamed it for my lack of social life, creativity, and small mind thinking. I would envy the lives of the people i see in the small screen. After hours of watching it, I would cringe in frustration when i compare what the people in the screens are doing and what i was doing, which was to watch them.

Don't ever hire it again as a yaya!

Recently, i became addicted to it again. Just for stress relieving. It eventually became a bad downward cycle again.

Then, after being too jaded....
I decided to cut it off a little, turn it down a notch, as some would say.

you have to cut off

from the things that detract you from your path.

Thankfully today, I slowly pulled away from it and amazingly I can already feel it’s effect. My head is clearer and I can focus more on what I want.

How bout the internet?

Friendster, tabulas, multiply, wringing out whatever the world wide web could give on the latest subject of your infatuation, delight, interest.

yep! turned it down too.

I’m here.

There's a different kind of presence with the self without the distractions, the loud voices that clamor for your attention.
You notice details.
The mental processes are no longer fragmented and lost into nil.
Thoughts become a continuum of ideas to feelings to sensations to ideas to feelings to sensations.
You're more sensitive to the Spirit inside you.
You're more sensitive to yourself and to others' feelings, tendencies.
i want this to continue and not end.
I'm excited of the possibilities of this snowballing to greater consciousness and productive results!
Posted by wxyz at 11:57 PM | make me smile

June 20th, 2008

journey of a leader

self-discipline

the first and best victory is to conquer self.
-Plato, Philosopher

A man without decision of character
can never be said to belong to himself....
He belongs to whatever can make captive of him.
John Foster, Author

---

i need self-discipline.
i need focus.
i know i have talent but i need to pay the price.
i need to eat my veggies first before dessert.

i want both lives.
double standard?
double life?
why either/or?
why not both?
rich people think both, right?

i want to drink cold beer and savor the taste of cocktails and i want to have a flat waist.
i want to smoke, smoke, smoke and i want a clear, flawless skin.
i want to be lazy and i want to be wealthy.
i want to be with myself and i want to enjoy people.
i want to do all these and i want peace.


Another voice answered:
i don't think that concept applies in this case.

----

why

remind yourself of who you are
and who you want
and why you're doing what you're

---

be do have

who do you must be in order to have what you want to have?
Posted by wxyz at 10:42 PM | make me smile

June 22nd, 2008

eddie romero said,
"it's not about why i do it.
it's a compulsion.
it's part of me."
Posted by wxyz at 08:01 PM | 1 smile

generosity

a friend of mine said,
truly successful people are generous not only because of their philantrophic endeavors but because they are selfless.
it's not about them, it's about others.

i'm learning to be selfless.
i'm too self-involve.
it's counter-intuitive,
counter to my tendencies.
love for others.
lose myself and then
eventually find me self in the process
Posted by wxyz at 10:34 PM | 1 smile

June 24th, 2008

banyan tree

purchase Alan Fletcher's book
Beware Wet Paint
go to the brown page,
Banyan Tree
it's printed in a computerized hand-writing of Alan.
he calls it rigor mortis AF.
Posted by wxyz at 11:35 PM | make me smile

the dreamers

watched the dreamers earlier.
eva green reminds me of martha
martha kinda looks like eva green.

contradictions
can't live without 'em.
-
don't let anyone still your joy.
-
self-doubt, isolation, rejection.
symptoms of resistance.
keep at it,
you're on the right path.
Posted by wxyz at 11:39 PM | make me smile

June 25th, 2008

p.s.

p.s.

this site, i must confess,
is a very selfish one.
as people would say it:
it's like me thinking out loud.
i talk about myself,
my world, how i see it
as it should, as it must,
as it is, whatever it is...
this is where i let the thoughts that percolate
inside my head
occupy a far bigger space than myself;
in a slightest way,
it's self-giving
to myself and to others who care to read,
but more so, perhaps, intently so, or subconsciously,
to myself.
and so pardon me if i delete your comments.
i guard my mind like it's a treasure chest.
i guard it cause i know anyone could put rubbish in it...
well, nothing has meaning except for the meaning we put it..
and so for me rubbish is anything that's not beneficial for me.
and as a judge of my own judgements
and myself i allow myself these indulgences.

--

my, why do i still explain myself?
oh well.
hehe

we could go on and on
but then
you're opinion of yourself is much more important that anyone else's.
except ultimately of God's, whether we,even i, like it or not.

thankfully, he knows it already.
Posted by wxyz at 12:19 AM | make me smile

June 26th, 2008

toughest person to lead

myself!
what is the toughest area to lead yourself?
doin what you should do when you don't have to do it/ or when you don't want to do it.

if you don't follow yourself, why would anyone want to follow you.

decision making is overrated.
decision management is underrated.

what a leader must self-manage:
1. emotions
-good leaders know when to display emotions and when to delay them.
-whether you delay or display your emotion must not be for your own gratification. you should ask yourself, "what does the team need?" not "what will make me feel better?"
-if a leader doesn't manage his/her emotions, the communication in the organization becomes stuffed. subordinates may not want to talk to you about certain things, etc.

2. time
-time moves whether you like it or not.
-you can't really manage time.

3. priorities
80% of your time - work where you are strongest
15% of your time - work where you are learning
5% of your time - work in other necessary areas
Posted by wxyz at 12:20 AM | make me smile

Free Time

by Ron White

A few months ago, my friends and I were having dinner. The topic of
success came up and I remained silent. I wanted to hear what they had
to say. Someone who had been my friend for over 20 years spoke to the
group, however, I knew his words were meant for me. He boldly
proclaimed, "Success is all luck...luck...that is all it is!" He then
looked at me as if to say, "You are a lucky man and that is it."

I didn't say a word, however, I confess that it hurt. He was one of
my best friends and although it wasn't a direct quote -- he was
telling me that he didn't respect my success because it was all luck.
In other words, he could have done the same if he was just as lucky.

I mulled this over for a few days and then let it go. What could I
do?

Then about two weeks ago my truck window broke and I had to park in
his garage for the day to stay out of the rain. I was stuck at his
home for six hours. During this six hours, I watched five of his
friends come over and they all watched the comedy channel and
consumed adult beverages for 5 hours. It was driving me up a wall! I
wanted to go for a run, write, read a book, goal set, strategize or
spend time with someone that I loved. Instead, I wasted 6 hours
watching the comedy channel.

I am not suggesting that watching television or the comedy channel is
a waste of time. Most certainly not. However, it was obvious that
this was their daily routine. Then it hit me!

Success is not a result of luck. It is a result of how you spend your
free time!

He and I both work hard, the difference is when my work day is done
my free time is productive and his is not.

My 6-CD Memory in a Month program was created five years ago in my
free time. Every month I get checks in the mail because of this
program and I will never have to do a single bit of work again for
it. Five years ago I did the work in my free time. Five years ago my
friend was watching the comedy channel and today his mailbox is empty.

Success is a result of luck?... No, success is a result of how you
spend your free time.

Ron
Posted by wxyz at 08:07 PM | make me smile

A Note To Cheyanne

by Ron White

This is something I wrote to my 4 year old cousin Cheyanne when I was
30 years old. I have edited it for this article for the lesson that
we as adults can learn from her.

Cheyanne,

If we stay as good of friends as we are now, I know you will read
this one day. You said something in the car that made me think. I
asked you if you were looking forward to preschool starting.

'No!'

'Cheyanne, why not? Don't you want to meet some friends and have some
kids at your birthday party? All you know is adults.'

'I don't want friends at school. I want friends at McDonalds!'

It brought our conversation to an abrupt halt. Because, Cheyanne, I
am a 30 year old man and sometimes I don't want friends at school
either. I also want friends at McDonald's.
There have been times in my life when I chased the McDonald's
friends.
To this day, women from McDonald's still cause my head to turn.
Sometimes I let the happy meal distract me, instead of the delayed
gratification of the degree. Sometimes friends from McDonald's seem
fun and carefree and friends from school seem boring.

Of course, these are metaphors and I am not talking about fast food
or degrees. Cheyanne, it is the same at 4 as it is 30. Human nature
tells us that we need what is on the other side, the forbidden, or
what doesn't take much effort. Human nature tells us that what takes
work and moves slower can't be fun. But, that is wrong.

Life is no happy meal. It isn't instant gratification. It takes the
discipline of school but the reward is so much more than a chocolate
sundae and a Hamburgler slide.

Cheyanne, I hope that you want the friends that it is initially hard
to want. I pray that you want the friends who will be there when the
happy meal is over and will walk with you towards faithfulness, self
control, success, hope, hard work, goal setting, focus, self-
discipline, honesty, integrity and love.

I don't claim to be a wise man, a poet or a saint. But, my heart
beats as loud as thunder for the things that I believe and I believe
to my core that delayed gratification is the hardest thing to teach
yet one of life's most important lessons.

I love you very much Cheyanne. I have 26 years on you and I struggle
with the same thing. However, who you surround yourself with will
determine the outcome of your life. Make the choices VERY carefully.

You have to live with the choices you make.

Your Favorite Cousin,
Ronnie
Posted by wxyz at 08:07 PM | make me smile

the quickest way to failure

is to try to please everybody.
yes, and i finally agree! haha
Posted by wxyz at 08:27 PM | 1 smile

in response to my insecurity

a few days ago,
i subjected myself to a sinful vulnerability -
bitter envy.
just a few moments ago,
i tested myself,
curious how i would react,
i indulged myself,
peeking in others' worlds
especially people whose lives
i wish i have.
i'm surprised that i'm not suprised of my reaction.
i felt that envy was starting to birth itself
when all of a sudden,
i was happy for them.
happy is too cheery a term.
hmm "content" would be a better term.
they're fighting their own wars
and they're reigning over their Resistance.
really, sincerely,
great for them!
cheers!
now where's the wine?
haha
(Steven Pressfield's voice still resonates.)
i realize, their achievement, their being,
doesn't affect my ability to create my own creations
and my ability to be my being.
in fact, they should serve as an inspiration and testament for me
of the satisfaction in overcoming one's Resistance.



Posted by wxyz at 09:17 PM | make me smile

artists

puros events!
they're always creating.
never resting,
and when they seem like it,
they're onto the next project.
Posted by wxyz at 09:57 PM | make me smile

passion

law of the farm
belief.
work.
time.

product of the product.
emotional response,
delivers visual result,
highly consumable.

Passion.
Nu Skin is in my life.

Passion, any very strong feeling, a great liking, a great enthusiasm, which one feels a very strong desire or liking; an emotion so very strong that it empowers one.

Ponderings:
How can one have a very strong feeling for if nothing is going against it?

Yes, i think it's possible. challenges are there to test are passions if it's really true, or perhaps they are there to fortify it.


gusto kong maging
musikero,
photographer
filmmaker
dancer
painting - ok lang hindi
sculpting
actor
Posted by wxyz at 10:47 PM | make me smile

bottle it up, sara bareilles
taya, up dharma down
we give in sometimes, udd
faithful, go west
bleeding love, leona lewis
the selecter
Posted by wxyz at 11:00 PM | make me smile

June 27th, 2008

happy

happy now.
Posted by wxyz at 02:10 PM | make me smile

i found you

finally,
things led me to you.
you write me with your words.
each one of them wringe me into tangibility.
you look at me and see.
you know you know.
you touch me with what you know
as we are the same.
Posted by wxyz at 03:53 PM | make me smile

June 30th, 2008

Truth

Wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction.
Narrow and straight is the way that leads to life.


But isn't straight and narrow boring.
My, i'm twisted.
I like company.
I want that long and winding road.
Perhaps it's wrong.

I got it all mixed up.
Truth is truth.
I can't try to conform it to my preferences and declare the Real thing wrong because it's inconvenient for me.
(I'm not talking about that relativity stuff, positive thinking and all.)
I should conform to the Truth.
Ages and ages,
beginning until the end the Same.
Cause ultimately,
as what He has promised,
that's where ultimate joy is.
In Him.
Posted by wxyz at 12:00 AM | 1 smile

should i really settle this

my
should i settle this already?
what am i going to do?
shux
Posted by wxyz at 12:45 AM | make me smile

July 1st, 2008

focus on what you want

it's what you want that drives you.
focus on it.
negative can only be harmful.
it's funny that our minds can only focus on the thing we focus on and ignores the don't's that we don't want.
make the picture so clear in your mind.
Posted by wxyz at 01:50 AM | 2 smile