On Making Decisions

If the consequence of a  seemingly complex decision is small, just go ahead and make a bloody decision! Every moment lost in getting more facts for a simple decision is considered a failure!
The first thing that you have to consider in making a decision is to understand the risk involved in the event of a
 failure.  If the risk is relatively small, be courageous,  take charge, and decide! If every you fail, you fail fast and get back up faster.  - Gary Coombe, P&G Europe Group President. 

Yesterday I thank God for...

Yesterday, I thank God for Good Doctors and Good Neighbors.

Thank you for good doctors who connects with patients at a personal level while being objective with diagnosis and treatment.  

Thank you for good neighbors who looks over your household when you're away. :)

Prayer Works

I can vividly remember 2 instances in my life where I prayed really hard. First was when I was taking my CPA board exams,  and the next was asking for children after 3 years of being married.

While I didn't become a CPA like how everyone, including myself, thought I would be, I ended up with P&G, a great company to work for with a strong sense of Purpose, Values, and Principles, which made me feel proud to work for since day 1.  Have I been a CPA, I could have left P&G after 3 months and worked in an auditing firm and eventually faced the brutal world of a praticing CPA.   Ending up in P&G is something that I consider as an answered prayer because I ended up getting what I really wanted which is something that I didn't initially realize.  

Next was when I started praying for Ebeth and I to have a family of our own.  It took years of prayers, patience, and maturity before God granted us not just 1 but 2 children (twins!).  After almost 9 years of being married, we were finally granted our wish.  It took a lot of patience in prayer as it moved  me to complete a Christmas novena mass in 2014 for the very first time in my 36 years of existence.  Even though my prayer wasn't answered in 2014, I again found myself completing another set of Christmas novena masses in 2015,  Little did I know that after a months, Ebeth will become pregnant, and we eventually got blessed with twin boys last September 26th! This made me realize that apparently, each "simbang gabi" set that I finished  corresponded to one baby! :) hehehe.

These 2 stories are a testament to the power of prayer and persistence.  I'm currently writing this for myself to remind me that prayer DOES work.  We just need to have the right character and mindset while waiting. :) 

How to enjoy every life stage you have

Todays inspiring read from my daily Kerygma emails as written by Obet Cabrillas.  This will help us become contented and happy at all the 3 stages of our lives.  Have a great day everyone!

     "The young has time and energy but no money; the middle-aged has energy and money but no time; the old has time and money but no more energy."

       So here’s the challenge. Deliberately live a happy, healthy and holy life so that: When young, we maximize time and energy serving mankind (while investing money); when middle-aged, we maximize energy and money to have time; then when we’re old, we have plenty of energy, time and money to share.

       Success is all about preparation. The Lord calls us to be childlike — a person maximizing his capacity to grow and bless

The Power of the Human Mind

"Friends, we have more power over our bodies and our lives than we think we have—through our thoughts and words."

-Anonymous

Message from outgoing P&G Executive

"Do not fear failure too much. Trust yourself. Trust your team mates. YOU control your own destiny so “IT IS ALL UP TO YOU - and US”" -Hatsunory Kiriyama

Materialism

"Materialism is prevalent because the societal norms teaches people to be consumers at a young age.  buying things we don't need all to feed the ego.  You can drive an expensive vehicle, but at the end of the day its still just a car.  You can buy a flashy watch, but in reality all it does is tell time.  People are more concerned with image and feeding their egos than being a beneficial person to society.  Investing money on the outside to appear a certain way to others, yet forgetting to invest in yourself to becoming a better person.  People spend their whole lives working to attain materialistic things using their accumulation of materialism to validate their existence, but when you die, you can't take any of it with you.  Don't let this system turn you into a vanity slave, realize you're worth much more than that.  feed your soul not your ego."  (Published from "House of Fifty")