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"The palest ink is better than the sharpest memory."TurnWritehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12482540638940248098noreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1956417794381212353.post-38422752005088552021-08-07T18:37:00.005-07:002021-08-07T18:37:58.841-07:00Intentional Communication: Gentle is Effective and Strong<div>I've observed, there are many people who stress themselves out just by the way they express their thoughts and feelings.</div><div><br /></div><div>There are many ways in expressing our minds and hearts. But many tend to forget, or maybe essentially don't understand, that there are proper and effective ways in expressing them.</div><div><br /></div><div>»You don't have to blabber a lot to be understood--you will just feel tired and seem toxic.</div><div>»You don't have to raise your voice--you will not be heard, you will not be pleasing to the ears.</div><div>»You don't have to exaggerate, appeal to emotion, or engage argumentum ad hominem--you will just be not credible, and next time they won't believe you anymore.</div><div>»You don't have to discredit or belittle the other person just to be right or to make point [that you know better]--no one would want to talk and listen to you. Yes, they seem listening, but they're not.</div><div><br /></div><div>To communicate your feelings and thoughts effectively and for people to want to be around you and to listen and talk to you... remember:</div><div><br /></div><div>~be calm</div><div>~empathize or be considerate</div><div>~tell the truth even when it hurts and be direct, in a diplomatic or humane manner</div><div>~know when and where to talk and when to stop talking</div><div>~don't raise your voice; instead, improve your arguments</div><div>~a soft voice is far more effective than a loud voice</div><div>~don't let your emotions get the best of you</div><div>~most importantly, think before you talk</div><div><br /></div><div>Let us strive to be good communicators of our thoughts and feelings, and more considerate of the people around us. This way, we help in our own little way foster a positive environment for others, especially the little ones who look up to us and imbibe what they see that we do.</div><div><br /></div><div>Letsl us teach the kids that:</div><div><p dir="ltr">°Shouting, quick to anger, talking a lot and unnecessarily, putting others down, doesn't want feedback, or always wanting to be center of attention--not strong.</p>
<p dir="ltr">°Gentleness, controlling emotions and temper, knowing when to stop talking or be silent, lifting or pulling others up, wants feedback and constructive criticisms, and working silently--strong.</p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p>TurnWritehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12482540638940248098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1956417794381212353.post-64200010775535237242021-06-17T09:30:00.015-07:002021-08-04T02:35:38.436-07:00Happiness is Relative<div><br /></div><div>Different generations, different definitions of happiness. Different people, different sources of happiness.</div><div><br />Many people equate happiness with success when in fact they are two different things and are both relative to each individual.</div><div><br />There are those who associate happiness and success with job title, status in the society, and salary. There are others who break free from the stereotype and find happiness in their discovered purpose or simply in what move their souls. Some measure their success based on how well they perform their chosen roles in life.</div><div><br />Happines--like life and love--is what you make it. </div><div><br />It is you who discover or decide what makes you happy and feel alive. As you live your life, you will discover what pumps you up, moves you, gives meaning to your life, inspires you, makes you look forward each coming day.</div><div><br />Interestingly, as the saying puts it: different strokes for different folks. Simply put, happiness does not have an exclusive, hard-and-fast meaning or way of finding and achieving it.</div><div><br />What is even more interesting is that finding and sustaining happiness is an endless pursuit.</div><div><br />Usually, happiness changes or evolves with time, circumstances, place you're in, or people you're with. Your happiness may also be fixed already, and you just have to sustain it.</div><div><br />In discovering your own happiness, do not let other people define it for you. Find your own happiness or decide what, where, how, and even why your HAPPINESS is. If you have same sources of happiness with others, great. If not, it's totally fine.</div><div><br />Some of the keys to finding your own happiness are:</div><div><br />1. Discover your talents and interests;<br />2. Know which area/field you excel at;<br />3. Find out what relaxes you and gives you peace as you continue to grow as an individual;<br />4. Know your goals and priorities in life;<br />5. Enjoy what you're doing without thinking of competition;<br />6. Have time-off to enjoy yourself and recover;</div><div>7. Find out what your purpose or vocation is;<br />8. Consider your loved ones as you embark in your pursuit of happiness... but never let them be the only factor in deciding what makes you feel alive, grow, and do things;<br /><br /></div><div>In short, know yourself in a more intimate and meaningful level. More importantly, maintain balance in all aspects of your life. </div><div><br />No matter what pace, level of ease, place, etc you discover that make you feel alive or that work best for you, press on them.</div><div><br />In this day and age, more often than not, "meaningfulness" and "purpose" give us long-term and genuine happiness, and "gratitude" sustains the [source of] happiness that we discover.</div><div><br />Empowerment and inclusivity have become the "in" thing, and competition and individuality have become passé.</div><div><br />What works best for you in attaining your happiness may not work for others, and that's totally okay.</div><div><br />There is no fixed standard, no time or age limit, no certain place, no season in finding happiness. It is you who discover, feel, and work on your own happiness. Others don't find, serve, and sustain it for you.</div><div><br />Happiness is discovered by going out there, knowing yourself better, and living your best life. But remember, sustaining happiness is an inside job.</div><div><br />So go define and find your own happiness, and share it with the people around you.</div><div><br />If you have already found yours, I'm glad you did. If not yet I hope you find your happiness in what you do, in places you visit, in people you are with, and in every single day you get to live.</div><div><br />When one is happy, she/he shines.<br />Go spread your light.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><br /></div>TurnWritehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12482540638940248098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1956417794381212353.post-59594402723191216862021-06-16T21:20:00.013-07:002021-09-21T21:09:51.130-07:00Out With the Old; In With the New<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-w2oqdnJCcyo/YMrU-oYqNoI/AAAAAAAABVE/PlLK2hIcC3Mfuc681Ic4XP6eJSsSXkzwACNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="678" height="133" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-w2oqdnJCcyo/YMrU-oYqNoI/AAAAAAAABVE/PlLK2hIcC3Mfuc681Ic4XP6eJSsSXkzwACNcBGAsYHQ/w200-h133/image.png" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Change comes with time.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Or maybe, time requires change.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Among the things that change over time is how the human race perceive, define, approach, and live life.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Few decades ago, the approach was individualistic. Competition was normal. Being famous and powerful was applauded. Owning mundane things was ideal. Grandstanding was a way of life. Money was the goal because it was thought to have made the world go round. I say so because I observe many older people are like these--a combination of these. They have these distinct characteristics.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />At present, people magnify the importance of good health, being kind to oneself and others, inclusive growth, inner peace, living harmoniously with others, freedom over money. Now, money is just a tool, and freedom is the goal--time and financial.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />The paradigm shift resulted in the revolutionary mindset and approaches of the new generation, among them are as follows:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />-Inner peace is the new success.<br />-Gratitude is the new asset.<br />-Energy is the new charm.<br />-Humility is the new strength.<br />-Grit is the new strategy.<br />-Connection is the new attraction.<br />-Faithfulness is the new sweetness.<br />-Healthy is the new lifestyle.<br />-Calm is the new mindset.<br />-Happiness is the new rich.<br />-Spirituality is the new wellness.<br />-Self-mastery and self-respect are the new power.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">May this new set of perspectives and ways of doing things work in your favor as you live through this new era--without completely leaving the old ones behind, such as the dignity in hard work and the importance of self-sufficiency and resourcefulness.</div>TurnWritehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12482540638940248098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1956417794381212353.post-61702496100671729322020-08-19T17:48:00.000-07:002020-08-19T17:48:58.075-07:00Reminder to Self<p><span style="font-family: courier;">It's been a while since the last time I wrote an article here, and I'm feeling the itch to write again🙂</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">I'll start off with my reminder to myself on my birthday in 2019.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">I hope this list would remind you some good things too.</span></p><p>To self...</p><p>1. Cultivate an attitude of gratitude.</p><p>2. Take good care of yourself and the person next to you.</p><p>3. You are who you respond to.</p><p>4. Value good health--physical, mental, emotional, financial, and spiritual.</p><p>5. Mind your own business.</p><p>6. Always choose to be kind; decide to be positive.</p><p>7. Learn and forgive.</p><p>8. By empowering and enabling others, you empower and enable yourself.</p><p>9. Meet people. Every person is different and has different life lessons to teach you.</p><p>10. Your personality is your business card.</p><p>11. Understand that life is a complex series of joys, difficulties, and triumphs, because when you do, then the fact that life is complex and difficult no longer matters.</p><p>12. It's okay to commit honest mistakes sometimes. Just learn and grow.</p><p>13. Be kind to yourself. Be responsibly free and happy.</p><p>14. Continue the process of learning, unlearning, and relearning.</p><p>15. Just love.</p><p>16. Appreciate in public, reprimand in private.</p><p>17. A soft voice is more powerful than a loud, angry voice.</p><p>18. Don't hate, be indifferent.</p><p>19. Value peace of mind and good sleep at night. A clean conscience is your best pillow.</p><p>20. Prioritize and prepare.</p><p>21. Respect other people's time.</p><p>22. Be vocal in a respectful and dignified way.</p><p>23. If you want to change the world, improve yourself.</p><p>24. Learn when to stand your ground and when to yield.</p><p>25. Sometimes it's better to be silent. Discern when.</p><p>26. Help and never count what or how much you give.</p><p>27. Help others help themselves.</p><p>28. Constantly nurture your body, mind, and spirit.</p><p>29. Enjoy hobbies. Spend an hour a day for things you do not know or are not expert on/at.</p><p>30. See friends and connect with them in person. Create good times you can laugh at in the future.</p><p>31. Travel, see the world, be spontaneous, and learn.</p><p>32. It's okay to fail, be wrong, break conventions.</p><p>33. Help an elderly, encourage a child, support your peers, and challenge yourself.</p><p>34. Listen more, speak less. When you speak, speak love and spark hope.</p><p>35. Don't be afraid to challenge some rules.</p><p>36. Express appreciation and gratitude.</p><p>37. Sincerity, honesty, and respect nurture healthy relationships.</p><p>38. The brave apologizes.</p><p>39. Humility is key to many hearts and doors.</p><p>40. Be comfortable about/with yourself.</p><p>41. Laugh at yourself.</p><p>42. Keep going, even if the road is rocky, winding, or steep.</p><p>43. Recognize that you cannot do it alone.</p><p>44. Solicit feedback and open-mindedly and positively deal with criticisms, constructive or not.</p><p>45. Always have a me-time once a week.</p><p>46. Let your friends be themselves and be happy for their successes.</p><p>47. Protect the environment and respect animals</p><p>48. Fame, money, and power are never the goals; but a dignified, productive, and chill life is.</p><p>49. Do not dignify a wrong conduct by replying or reacting.</p><p>50. In everything you do, always wear the white hat.</p><p>51. To change the world is to improve yourself.</p><p>52. Hang loose yet have class.</p><p>53. Make at least one person blessed each day because of you.</p><p>54. Grow up but not old.</p><p>55. Always make time for family.</p><p>56. Do good and make mother proud.</p><p>57. Wherever you are, always communicate with God.</p><p>58. God's faithful servant and warrior, not a worrier.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>TurnWritehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12482540638940248098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1956417794381212353.post-10802448233416109612014-09-28T07:53:00.002-07:002020-06-23T22:07:12.559-07:00Morning Hush<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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The sound of the city is gradually fading in.</span><br />
<br />Take time to be SILENT. LISTEN to your body, to the small voice in your head.<br /><br />
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morning comes, we tend to rush on everything. Immediately after opening our
eyes, we jump off our bed and zoom our way to the bathroom. We miss to enjoy
the beauty of the new day—the comfort of the soft and fluffy bed, the aromatic smell
of the coffee, the natural disinfectant of the sunlight, and the fresh thoughts. We
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;">We rush thinking we could avoid the
things we cannot control that could ruin our entire day. There's the traffic, car
malfunction, or the silent demanding boss who expects us to be earlier than her
6:30 am lonely time.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">It's
good and right to start the day early. It gives us ample time to prepare for
the day. Remember: failing to prepare is preparing to fail.</span><br />
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waking up earlier than the rooster and moving like Flash is not enough.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;">Wake up rushing results in starting out feeling
stressed out early in the day, with a fazed mind and your heart beating fast, that puts you on auto-panic mode. When we rush, we tend to forget something or to push
the wrong button or to pour our coffee on the office desk.</span> We commit small errors that
have some negative impacts on our mood and productivity level.<br />
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state of mind when we start our day is important. It is the key to setting the landscape of our day.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Waking
up with a serene state of mind, composed mind, and clear vision of the day help
us get through the bumps and hurdles of the day gracefully and productively.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Slash
the <s>morning rush</s> and start with a morning hush.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Wake
up 15 minutes earlier than necessary. Stay lying on your bed, meditate or pray
or just simply put things in perspective til the 15 minutes run out.</span></span></div>
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Sit on your bed for 5 seconds, still holding your smile. Play feel-good music,
then start doing your thing. Whether it is having coffee or breakfast first or taking
a bath first, make sure you spend the time pumping happy hormones.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">While
sitting at the dining table, talk to your loving partner or crack joke with
your housemates or share a good story with your kids.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">In the
bathroom, make mental notes of your today's plans or small goals, or revisit
your best feeling yesterday, or shake off all the negative emotions of
yesterday and , then start with a clean slate, or just simply think of your
dream house.</span><br />
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quality of your first 15 minutes in the morning is essential in creating the
vibe of your day. Then follow it through by living out a positive and driven
disposition.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Have a good breakfast.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Arrive at work ahead of time.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Clean your work area and prepare by gathering your thoughts.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Greet your colleagues good morning or give small positive notes.</span></li>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Give yourself time to settle after waking up. Listening to the
small voice within you or connecting with your Supreme Being early in the
morning puts things in perspective. Calibrate your senses by feeling, smelling, hearing, seeing, and tasting the beauty of the new day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When you go through the day deliberately, you become aware and alert</span><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.3636360168457px; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">—</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">you see the minute details of the day.</span><br />
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through the day with peace of mind does not mean complete control of things and
smooth day; but living through the day with calmness despite uncontrollable
situation, with joy from within, and by respecting the events, people, and things
around you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">Relax. Start early with a me-time contemplating or meditating or praying.</span><br />
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yourself of self-made anxiety.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">You
have a choice</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">—</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to be happy or to be unhappy: to rush or to slow down.</span></span><br />
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gives us the advantage of having "options".</span><br /><span style="background: white;">Don't just start early.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;"> society.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Without respect, differences or tiffs will grow into fight,
battle, or even war. Differences, diversity, and even change are part of a
colorful and beautiful gift of life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">To illustrate simply, a couple with three children would
raise three different persons with different personalities, different
mannerisms, different habits, different perspectives, and even different
systems of doing things. Without respect, every single household in a community
within a city comprising a province in a certain country within a continent of
this big world (catching a breath) will be in disagreement with other
households.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">No one can totally and perfectly control another. One cannot
totally imprint to another his own set of beliefs. It could seem to work at
first, but sooner or later the other person will attempt to break free.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Exercising one’s will is part of human nature. The more one
is suppressed, oppressed, controlled, limited, curtailed, all the more one
wants to take off.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">If we want our loved ones or those under our responsibility
to improve, the most we could do is to become the living example of what we
want them to learn, and in the process, respect the person they are becoming
into—whether it is the version we want or not.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Vicissitude is a staple ingredient of time, of growth, of beautifully living our lives, of breathing life to our set of values.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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plays a major role. Discussing which religion is best or the original is like
discussing which comes first, chicken or egg. But one thing is sure, RELIGION
WILL NOT SAVE YOU. IT’S HOW YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE AND TREAT OTHERS THAT WILL SAVE
YOU.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">No God wants killings, especially of the innocent. Even those
who don’t believe in God, their consciences repel the evil acts—killings,
tortures, taking advantage of the innocent.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">I have my own fair share of religious diversity in my environment,
but we live in harmony because of respect.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="background: white; color: #0b5394; font-size: 12pt;">My mom was born Baptist,
grew up practicing Seventh Day Adventist beliefs because she studied in an
Adventist school, and she married my father who was born a Roman Catholic, grew
up devoted Catholic, and died a devout Catholic. Since getting married to my father in 1980, my mother remains a practicing Roman Catholic until now.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">My mom’s brothers and
sisters are Baptist, Catholic, and a Muslim. My father’s siblings are all
devout Catholic.<br />
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When I was in college, I lived with friends who are agnostic, atheist, Muslim,
Catholic, Methodist. I got involved with a Protestant, Catholic, a Buddhist,
two Muslims, and an agnostic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">When I started working, I
lived with three good people who were agnostics, and one was even my roommate.
Our Muslim organization brod who lived next door always stayed at our place,
and there was totally no issue. They all know I was actively serving in my Catholic
religious community, yet we all lived happily under one roof.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">I have a very dear friend
who is polygnostic. To each his own. Just practice what you preach, and live out the values/tenets/dogmas of your religious affiliation, then others might be
inspired and follow your lead.</span><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: blue;">One cannot say he is better than the other and only he will enter the blissful eternal kingdom because of his religion, or because he has a god/God.</span><span style="color: blue;"> Many times, those who don’t publicly profess their
faith are those who are actually kinder, more compassionate and understanding,
and have deep personal relationships with their Supreme Being. Being religious is different from being spiritual.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Heaven starts where you are now.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">In the worlds of politics and corporate, competition can be
healthy and power is part of their existence. But in religion, competition has
no place and the only powerful is the Supreme Being.</span></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Isn’t it better if we all learn from our history—both from
the good and the bad—and to move forward with our lessons learned and build a
life that is truly civilized and harmonious no matter what our religions are, the
colors of our skins are, the structures of our faces are, our social statuses
are, our languages are, our body types are, our preferences are, our beliefs
are...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">It is easier said than done. But if we want to create and
nurture a better world, we will understand that differences and difficulties are part and parcel of progress. Once we understand this and respect others, then
hardship in taking part to build a better world no longer matters.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Respect others and be responsible member of the immediate
environment you find yourself in.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">LIVE responsibly. LOVE others. LAUGH heartily.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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woman-man--is downright social evil of injustice and poverty. International
news about the mid-east is emotionally and mentally cathartic and constipating
at the same time.</span><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />
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respect is something one cannot impose, so is religion. Religion, when lived
out, naturally inspires others to live the kind of life it teaches.<br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">No God, whatever one's religion/belief is, desires
the opposite of peace, kindness, compassion, mercy, and love. A person is
deemed a reflection of his God. (Islam is a religion of peace and love, so is
Christianity. They both believe in the history of Abraham and Jesus. Genuine
Muslims and Christians believe in peace, love, compassion, mercy, and respect).</span><br />
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hungry, no practicing faithful (of his religion) will kill his brothers for his
own ideology.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">Heaven's expanse starts from where you are now. How
you treat the people around you is your heaven or hell. Make-love-not-war that
is.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>With even bigger work place now, these roles have expanded into international ground where trailblazing women change the mindsets and actions of others; lead international brands and companies with thousands of employees; influencing households across the globe; and managing the entire nation.</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No more men’s world. Period.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cmg77zJ3X3A/U03RvUfXxOI/AAAAAAAAAlU/iuFNKmIjYTs/s1600/joyfulheart2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="196" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cmg77zJ3X3A/U03RvUfXxOI/AAAAAAAAAlU/iuFNKmIjYTs/s1600/joyfulheart2.jpg" width="400" /></a><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is so nice to see many empowered women at the
forefront of corporate management, political leadership, legal administration, scientific
studies, fine and performing arts proliferation, and many other industries.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">When you watch CNN, you can see Park Geun-hye, Dilma
Rousseff, Angela Merkel,</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US">Cristina
Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner, Julia Gilard, Hilary Clinton, Michelle Obama,
Queen Elizabeth II,</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US">Thokozile Masipa, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When you open books you can read about Cory Aquino,
Indira Gandhi, Amelia Earheart, Grace Hopper, Mother Teresa, Maria Montessori, Cleopatra,
Mary, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When you surf online, you will be amazed by Arianna Huffington,
Tina Brown, Jill Abramson, Anna Wintour, Miuccia Prada, Gisele Bundchen, Tyra
banks, Sushmita Sen, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When you scan through broadsheets you will find Sheryl
Sandberg, Janet Napolitano, Helen Clark, Sonia Gandhi, Indra Nooyi, Virginia
Rometty, Mary Barra, Amy Pascal, Ertharin Cousin, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When you turn on TV you see Christiane Amanpour,
Oprah, Angelina Jolie, Beyonce Knowles, Jessica Soho, Samantha Brown, Taylor
Swift, Monita Rajpal, Sisaundra Lewis, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The time has come when the clear and perceptible
boundary between colors, races, and even sexes have gradually evaporated with
time. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The border is not completely eradicated yet, as some
other nations are still bound by their longstanding traditions and cultures on
how they treat and deal with women in society; nonetheless, women empowerment
has been a productive effort far and away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This social campaign [or even personal struggle for
many] to stop the discrimination against women and the limitations set on women
in terms of opportunities, rights, privileges, and even duties have been in
existence since time immemorial.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mythology and legend used to be the only world where
women were hailed as powerful and influential.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But now, it is very encouraging and inspiring to see a lot
of girls, ladies, and women excelling and leading in various fields—sports, politics,
arts, corporate world, mass media, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks to the great women, both in the international
arena and household alike, because they have continuously proved that women can
do more than domestic activities through the lives they have lived and the way
they have raised their daughters. Not to mention, those secured men who
acknowledge the capabilities and strength of women also paved the way for the light
of women’s brilliance to shine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because of them, we now enjoy this era where we have
the power and freedom to go beyond the backstage and speak our voices and
exercise our rights; share the same board room and platforms with men; and conduct exhibitions with equal space with
the other sex.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Women then and now have played roles in shaping the
minds of the people, leading a pack, influencing the people around them,
managing affairs and finances—all these start at home.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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into international ground where trailblazing women change the mindsets and actions of
others; lead international brands and companies with thousands of employees; influencing
households across the globe; and managing the entire nation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Having read and watched documentaries about the lives
of these powerful women at home and around the globe, I have noticed common
attributes:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta;"> </span><span style="color: red;"> <i> 1. </i></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;"><i>Balance your mind with heart. Work deliberately and with keen mind, but
deal with people with considerate and kind heart.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> 2. </span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">Know yourself and be familiar with the little voice inside you. Discover
your gut and instinct and work with them. Women’s instinct is reliable.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> 3. </span><span lang="EN-US">Be confident. Fake it until you make it. Even if you don’t know what you
are doing, just fearlessly, creatively, gracefully, and deliberately do it.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> 4. </span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">Take accountability. Be clear of your responsibilities. When you know
your responsibilities and the consequences of your actions, you channel your
energy on a particular goal and become efficient in doing the tasks.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> 5. </span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">Don’t be afraid to fail—and learn from them. When you fall, stand up
with grace and class. Failure polishes our character, purifies our intentions,
strengthens our core, enhances our endurance, and makes us wiser.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> 6. </span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">Be compassionate. Treat people how you would like to be treated. Your
colleagues aren’t machines, just like you they commit mistakes and fail
sometimes.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> 7. </span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">Prioritize. Know the important and urgent things. Be disciplined to
delay gratification—eat the cake first before the icing. But girls that we are,
just enjoy what’s at hand!<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> 8. </span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">Don’t be afraid to be vulnerable. You are human, you have emotions. We
are privileged that our society is more open seeing women cry, compassionate,
and empathetic. Your emotions make you creative and interesting.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> 9. </span><span lang="EN-US">Live a balanced life. Be the best mother, the interesting wife, the model
boss, the cool officemate, the motivating competitor, and the approachable
person. Bottom line, live a purposeful and colorful life!<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> 10. </span><!--[endif]--></i><span lang="EN-US"><i>Be you. Be comfortable of your skin, your height, your figure, your
features. If you don’t love and respect yourself, no one will.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In women's world, it is not lonely at the top.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-f5-D2IgGpws/U03RuDjmAyI/AAAAAAAAAk4/TJSLtgPRARk/s1600/17m.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-f5-D2IgGpws/U03RuDjmAyI/AAAAAAAAAk4/TJSLtgPRARk/s1600/17m.jpg" width="213" /></a><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s good how systematic and innovative women can be. Because
women are born with invisible friendship cuff with other women, many women who seem to be competitors are
actually good friends behind the camera like Donatella Versace and Miuccia
Prada. Also, many business executives traverse conference table from purely
business discussions to motherhood stories to personal interests and vice
versa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Women love to share ideas, give pieces of professional
and personal advice, exchange parenting tips, update children’s new trips or
interests, gossip about husbands’ funny habits, and open up their
vulnerabilities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let’s celebrate our womanhood! And continue our quest
of empowering others, both men and women alike.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: magenta;">It is in women’s DNA that we care about others and are
compassionate of others, we inherit this from our mothers and we grew up seeing
this in our big sisters, grandmothers, and aunties.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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ladies, and women suffering from modern slavery. There are estimated 27 million
slaves around the world and most of them are females who are being exploited
for sexual labor against their will and the average age of victims is 12 years
old. So let us stand up, be involved, and support others to break free from their
sufferings even in our little ways. Nothing is too small in helping others help
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TurnWritehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12482540638940248098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1956417794381212353.post-48913208224369530672014-04-09T17:39:00.003-07:002014-05-07T14:35:21.190-07:00Living (In My Dreams)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.363636016845703px;">Your face is molded to my hands</span><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-APg5c7Xa50k/U0Xldf-ltqI/AAAAAAAAAjw/r-audJT_yyI/s1600/images+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-APg5c7Xa50k/U0Xldf-ltqI/AAAAAAAAAjw/r-audJT_yyI/s1600/images+%25282%2529.jpg" /></a><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Your smell lingers wherever I go</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Your voice sings on repeat in my ears</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I don’t wanna concede</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I don’t wanna move a bit</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I don’t wanna wake up from my magical daydream</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Peeking, glancing, staring</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">All I could do</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Peeking, glancing, staring</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Nervous,scared, petrified</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I wanna come close</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I wanna smile</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I wanna say hi</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Peeking, glancing, staring</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">All I could do</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Peeking, glancing, staring from afar</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Always rushing to
bed</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sleeping even in the train</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Because it’s only
in my sleep where</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I hold your hands</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I kiss your hair</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">You so gently
whisper in my ear</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Because it’s only in my day dream where<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">I tell the world I love you<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-j1iMNpMs46o/U0Xlak3_hnI/AAAAAAAAAi8/awc0KJKjCWU/s1600/0213_9_13_teen_puppy_love_460x306.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-j1iMNpMs46o/U0Xlak3_hnI/AAAAAAAAAi8/awc0KJKjCWU/s1600/0213_9_13_teen_puppy_love_460x306.jpg" height="212" width="320" /></a><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In my
fantasies we belong to each other</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In reality you’re
but a dream</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Peeking, glancing, staring</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Always stolen</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Peeking, glancing, staring from afar</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I don’t wanna wake
up</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In my sleep, In my
daydream</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Constantly</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Peeking, glancing, staring </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Stolen, uh huh, stolen </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Get some help, I’m a thief</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Peeking, glancing, staring from afar<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">One day you, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">You’ll be stricken, smitten</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">No more stolen</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Peeking, glancing,
staring</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">You will
notice me, and not the girl who<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Constantly breaks your heart<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dTTjzzfD2ZA/U0XlcAe0lAI/AAAAAAAAAjc/y8VenG06C98/s1600/Puppy-Love-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dTTjzzfD2ZA/U0XlcAe0lAI/AAAAAAAAAjc/y8VenG06C98/s1600/Puppy-Love-2.jpg" height="213" width="320" /></a><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I don’t wanna wake up</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In my sleep, In my
daydream</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Constantly</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Peeking, glancing, staring </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Stolen, uh huh, stolen </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Get some help, I’m a thief</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Peeking, glancing, staring</span></span><span style="color: red; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b><i>‘‘ Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.’’ ~ </i></b></span><b style="color: red; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>John Keats</i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: red;"><i>Some teenage puppy love right there... :-)</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Been in the mood of writing poems recently. But this one I wrote months back and was originally written in Filipino, because I intended to submit it for a song writing competition, but I wasnt able to send for some reason...</i></span></div>
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TurnWritehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12482540638940248098noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1956417794381212353.post-75070662224247608952014-04-06T09:58:00.004-07:002020-06-17T08:00:24.371-07:00Bold<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You keep on toiling, go on
aiming<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N8lNi7F2j6I/U0GFuwaeprI/AAAAAAAAAhA/k8XKKqF9IgE/s1600/EarthFromSpaceStation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N8lNi7F2j6I/U0GFuwaeprI/AAAAAAAAAhA/k8XKKqF9IgE/s1600/EarthFromSpaceStation.jpg" width="320" /></a><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You keep your feet moving, forget about living<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You realize you’re
just where you should be<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because the world you’re
standing is itself constantly moving<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even if you stop, the
world continues<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So why tire yourself
to keep up on the same track that everybody is taking<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Go break free, get
yourself a breakthrough<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Trust yourself, like
how I trust you<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Be bold<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Put on that red polka
dot dress,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Be your own stylist<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Swim against the
current,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Enjoy the splash of
the raging water on your face<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ride on top of the
bus,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">See the breathtaking
view of the cliff sitting beside the ocean<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-go-XGw7V0Zo/U0GCyqSy8nI/AAAAAAAAAgo/NpitSGTRE90/s1600/IMG_9495.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-go-XGw7V0Zo/U0GCyqSy8nI/AAAAAAAAAgo/NpitSGTRE90/s1600/IMG_9495.jpg" width="320" /></a><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Be brave<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Drive the truck,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Be in charge of the
wheel<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dive in the ocean,</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Be the smallest fish
in the vast water<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Touch the clouds,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don’t just dream
flying<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let go of the traveled
path<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Make your own trail<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Leave a mark<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The world is
constantly moving<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sunrise will shower
its blessings even if you’re asleep<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The sun will set even
if you’re not ready<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RR3FP-4nj14/U0GEdYScl7I/AAAAAAAAAgw/BkJ8LUOUO2A/s1600/sky-diving-wallpapers_9205_1440x900.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RR3FP-4nj14/U0GEdYScl7I/AAAAAAAAAgw/BkJ8LUOUO2A/s1600/sky-diving-wallpapers_9205_1440x900.jpg" width="320" /></a><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You will never ever
stop midnight to crack even if you try<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You will just never
ever<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So be brave.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Be bold.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Be you,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just the way He sees
you<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Beautiful, strong, and
free<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don’t just be a
passenger,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don’t just be the biggest
fish in the aquarium<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Go breakfree, get
yourself a breakthrough<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Live!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Move at your own pace<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don’t be a pushover<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don’t let others’
expectations choke you<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let go of the travelled
path<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Savor the tastes of
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Meet all the emotions
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just the way He sees
you<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Breathe love in and
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just live and love<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Surely your life will
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Surely your love will
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<i>I wish I were a musician so I could arrange this poem into a song.</i><span style="font-family: "wingdings";">J</span></div>
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<i>I made this for a very good and dear friend on her 28th birthday... today!</i><i> </i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>It is not always about our convenient time. Sometimes it is about the proper and right time of nature. And all the time, it is about God’s perfect timing.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">There’s a time for everything under heaven, a wisdom in the Bible goes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We know it is true. But sometimes we try to forget it or neglect it or
deny it, just for us to pursue what we want or to put off something we need to
do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Time can be viewed from various perspectives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Like one may say, “Wait for the right time, patience is a virtue.” And one
would retort, “But time is gold.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">However we view time, one thing is sure—time makes things sweeter and
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">An orange fruit can be sweet when it is eaten when it is ripe. We may
choose to (a) harvest it when it gets big but still yellow-green and wait for
it to ripen before we eat it; or (b) wait for it to freely fall off the tree,
when it is naturally ripe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In either circumstance, the fruit will naturally ripen on its own and it
has its own time to mature and get sweet—our part is just to wait. Or for a third
circumstance, we can also (c) pick it the moment we get excited seeing the
green young fruit. In this case, the fruit is still sour and bitter, and is not
filled with its natural nutrients.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Many of our circumstances in life is like this orange fruit, may it be a
relationship with family members, with friends, with colleagues, or even with strangers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In order to taste the natural sweetness of this beautiful life, all we
need is just the right timing. Waiting for the right timing does not necessarily mean you have to sit still or just hover around. Right timing is your capacity to prepare yourself, train yourself, sharpen your skills, or purify your intentions while waiting for that moment to hit the target. Simply put, you don't just force nature to adjust for your convenience; instead, you dance with nature</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Right timing does not mean stagnation. While you wait for one thing; you instantaneously equip yourself to be ready to receive or achieve that thing you are waiting for and you enjoy the other facets of your life. This is why timing is an art and discipline.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Your time frame depends on your purpose and
acceptance of the situation, so either you:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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the lurking potential opportunity and work around it—which is of course risky for some
endeavors; or<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The third circumstance of (c) taking action without waiting and
contemplation is a sure way to waste many opportunities—of growth, of new relationship,
of new business.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">You may have lost sight or courage to wait a minute more or go an extra step and you may have felt tired, wounded, or fed up of waiting... remember, a forest that has suffered and has been exploited heals itself on
its own. Don't snap or lose morale, just take a break and time itself will reenergize you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Even without any human intervention (cover up relationship, drinking spree, revenge, getting even, etc), </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">just leave the forest alone and let nature do
its wonders, the forest will grow lush and thick faster than you think it
would. Like when you scatter seeds</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">—y</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ou don’t know how they grow overnight, but they just grow into sprouts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Same with life, whatever aspect of our lives has been abused (physically, emotionally, financially, spiritually), if we leave it in the hands of God and let God do His wonders, we will be amazed on how He heals us and brings us back to vitality.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">So whatever it is that you are going through right now, that you are
waiting for, or looking forward to… consider this:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“There is wisdom in waiting. The things you may not understand right
now, when they finish their purpose in your life, will make you understand life,
others, and yourself better. When things happen how it should be, the result is
sweeter and better.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A wise lover knows when to talk and when to listen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A wise investor knows when to buy and when to sell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A wise general knows when to attack and when to retreat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A wise king knows when to punish and when to forgive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hHNmOtxkhM4/UzvTPnmrLBI/AAAAAAAAAf8/GElNMWe8Jr0/s1600/images+(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hHNmOtxkhM4/UzvTPnmrLBI/AAAAAAAAAf8/GElNMWe8Jr0/s1600/images+(2).jpg" height="224" width="320" /></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Timing is special skill. It doesn’t mean you have to wait long all the
time… Timing is just a matter of finding joy or productivity while waiting; of
taking one step forward to in order to take two steps forward; of feeling the
pain now and seize all the lessons so you can start dancing tomorrow; of compartmentalizing
things—enjoying one thing, while waiting for another thing to mature to
sweetness, while cracking another opportunity to be waited for.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It is not always about our convenient time. Sometimes it is about the
proper and right time of nature. And all the time, it is about God’s perfect timing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Life is more wonderful and colorful if we know how to wait and until
when we should wait. Let go and let God! He is in our every circumstance, and
His hands are working in our every situation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Be in the now. Be willing to wait while enjoying what you have now,
where you are now!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Live your life. Deposit the experiences to your Bank. Withdraw them any time you need to draw the lessons or feelings that can fuel your passion. Gain interest by making good use of your experiences.</i></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Invest now.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Secure the future—not only
yours, but even your descendants’.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Imagine yourself in a deathbed.
Cruel idea? Not really. It might even save you from thousands of regrets. If
you would look back on how you lived your life, would you smile or frown?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now snap back to
reality.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Establish your own
bank! Your own bank of experiences, where you deposit your lessons learned,
failures, your dreams, your successes, what have you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In your own Experience
Bank, be your own CEO. Be your own teller; your own ATM; and even your own
security guard.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Start monitoring your activities,
your life transactions. In this way you’ll be in auto-active mode. Because you
don’t want to be zero or in the red, yourself will naturally make activities
that will propel you to progress instead of getting stuck at where you are now.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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a game on your phone or on the internet and you just suddenly get hooked on it
because you want to beat the best score? Same thing could work if you will consciously
monitor your life transactions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Closing your eyes and
recall the week that was. Would you want to see a dark blank image or hear a
story on repeat each week? Of course not!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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your heart and mind buttons. Just like in real banks, you also have to "know
your customer" or the KYC policy. Ask yourself what you want to achieve in life
(finish this course, invest in that business, travel to this continent, earn
that much…name it!). Then plot your personalized map or timetable on how and
when you will get them. Be realistic in setting your goals and timelines, and
be deliberate with your actions—short-term, medium-term, and long-term action
plans.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Go out of your nook! See
the world. Learn from people from various walks of life. Visit places. Have a
taste of different cultures and subcultures.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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your observations will inspire you in ways you do not expect and many useful
ideas will just pop out of nowhere. If you will constantly move and progress,
all these fruitful activities—simple and complex alike—will snowball and incur
interest that will make you a million-dollar worth person without spending
even a tenth of it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you have no money
to finance any activity, it’s okay! If you don't have a college degree, it’s
alright! In your own Experience Bank, your own CEO doesn’t care. You can still
become a client, an investor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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money or don’t have a diploma, the world is so big and limitless, it can
offer you wide array of opportunities to fulfill your goal. You just have to be
determined to achieve your goal and be purposeful with your actions. Look around
you, do you know Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Henry Sy, Lucio Tan, or any drop
out or rags-to-riches in your place? Learn from them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You see, your imaginations,
your experiences, and your generosity can grow your worth. By doing something,
you only gain, you never lose any.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I cannot tell how you
must live your life. You are your own boss, your own captain. You are your own
CEO remember? But what I can tell you with certainty and confidence is, you
can be victorious! You can be worth more than a million!<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just have a goal. Own it. Do something about it constantly.</span></span></div>
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priceless and cannot be stolen from you. They can even gain interest by putting
them to good use and sharing them with your kids, who can learn from them, or
even try or improve them, and pass them on to their kids to further improve
them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Live your life.
Deposit your experiences to your Bank. Withdraw them any time you need to draw
the lessons or the feelings you had that can fuel your passion. Gain interest by making good
use of your experiences.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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guard who has the duty to control what may be deposited and at what given time;
what may be withdrawn and when; and who may come with you in the bank.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Divide the page in halves lengthwise. On the left column, write the “Things I Am Thankful For” (at least
10 things that happened during that day). On the right column, write the “Things
I Am Thankful For (yes, same time, but these are the things that you claim to
happen and you feel that is happening already. Attract them, think of them, and
your body will naturally respond to get them). Do this daily to reinforce them.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By writing
down your goals or dreams, you have a clear picture of where you are now and you
can devise ways on how to get to your goal on a specific date. There may be many ways in skinning a cat, but be specific about your goals and timings. This timetable/map will serve as your guide, as your compass, in knowing where you are as you
progress towards your goals or dreams.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This will
serve as your bankbook. Whenever you
learn something, observe something, realize something, write it down. In time
you will need them. This bankbook will keep a record of your experiences, so
don’t hesitate to write down both the “ouch!” and the “wow!”, and the “no!” and
the “yes!”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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schedule, just keep on moving whatever your mood is. Do not worry about your
future… just live where you are, your future starts now. Invest there, grow
from here.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>“…your heavenly Father
knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and
all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about
tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.” ~ Matthew 6:32-34<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Every detail in your life has a reason and purpose, and the story of your life doesn’t end yesterday nor today. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Don’t live a boring and unproductive life. Don’t just exist. Live! </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Paint a good life.</span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Mural is a large piece of artwork, usually painted on
a wall or ceiling, in which the architectural elements of the given space are
harmoniously applied into the master piece.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xKUu8jChoWY/UtY58tqTuzI/AAAAAAAAAeM/ZJXw815mgdk/s1600/05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="283" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xKUu8jChoWY/UtY58tqTuzI/AAAAAAAAAeM/ZJXw815mgdk/s400/05.jpg" width="400" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When you stand close to a Mural, you can see the
details—the beauty of the skillfully painted intricate details or the
imperfections of the strokes and the hues. When look at it a few distance away,
you can see the entire picture—the work of art formed by the combination of the
plain and elaborate details and of the dark and light colors and the
combination of the imperfections.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Life’s like it! A Mural.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When we examine our lives daily, sometimes we don’t
see the reason, or we can’t see the purpose, why some things arrive in our
lives or certain events happen to us. But whenever we try to step out of and
detach ourselves from the situation, we gradually realize the reason why such
things or events happen to us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The mural is the beauty and meaning conceived by the
skill, imperfections, dark, and light elements of our lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Living our lives daily is like painting the smallest details
of our own murals. We have failures, successes, heartbreaks, breakthroughs, disappointments,
victories to tell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Some parts are dark colored, others bright. Some
portions are complex, others simple. Some painted on the corners, others on the
center. These elements have their own right places and own roles in your life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-087eoxzDZRw/UtY58e2umoI/AAAAAAAAAeY/4X7lbbrTuwY/s1600/Nowart.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-087eoxzDZRw/UtY58e2umoI/AAAAAAAAAeY/4X7lbbrTuwY/s400/Nowart.jpeg" width="313" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Because the mural is so big, some dark parts could
mean non-sense when you look at it closely, or some strokes seem out of place.
But when you take steps back, you will see how the dark parts harmoniously
blend with the light and bright colors and the beauty it adds to the entire piece,
or how the senseless strokes magically form the elegant images of the mural.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">So whatever the previous years painted in your vast
mural, don’t sneer, they are just part
and parcel of the master piece that is not yet complete. Don’t stay content
either. For as you live each day, the meaning and beauty of the mural is
revealed in half concealing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">You are in control. You hold the brush and the
palette. You can always make the entire master piece become the image you
envision it to be. Or, if in the middle of the course you have a change of
heart, you can always continue and paint your story the way you want it to be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">You always have a story to paint, a life to live.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">So jump off your couch. Don’t just analyze and plan.
Move and progress, so once your mural is complete, it will tell a beautiful
story of your life—just the way you intended to live it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">You are the painter, you are in control. But God gives
you the skill and the imagination. So pray for His guidance and wisdom in order
for you to interpret well the things that you have just painted (past) and so
you will have the skill and genius to continue incorporating in it the right
elements (now) to achieve the vision that you want to achieve (future).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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actively, not passively and safely. When we let ourselves experience and
explore the various emotions out there we learn more and appreciate life from a
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joy, good health, prosperity, and victories! Be grateful for every thing that
will happen… God has prepared the beautiful story of your life already. You just
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between the chains of mountains. The golden orange cotton cloud is gradually
eating the light blue expanse. Life is starting to fill the
surroundings</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">—</span><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">chickens clucking, birds chirping, goats bleating.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Unique,
the outcast tiger cub, cheerfully jumps off his flattened thick grass bed
and greets the baby goats good morning.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">The
kids, with their unkempt clumpy fur, look at each other and laugh at Unique in
chorus.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Unique
was found by mother goat alone, wounded, and helpless in the prairie, so she
decided to bring him home and to raise him well like her own.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">It's
been months already since unique lived, played, and worked with them but the
goat's ways just fail to be imprinted upon him.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">He
cannot bleat like how the goats bleat. He doesn't like the taste of the meals
of the goats, but he just keeps it to himself. His coat and body structure is
different from the goat kids he plays with.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">The
kids always make fun of Unique because he is different—big and guttural voice, stripy
fur, thick but few whiskers, big paws, sharp claws, stocky body. So Unique
thinks that he is ugly; he is unacceptable; he is weak; he is cursed. Unique
becomes the laughing stock in the prairie.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Unique
starts to develop self-pity and inferiority complex, and other self-images that
breed negative attitudes. The once cheerful and friendly unique now becomes
aloof and insecure.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">One
day when the goats and Unique go up the mountain to play. Each brings a bag
full of leaves and grass since the season is dry.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">The
goats laugh at the way Unique walks and the way his tail moves. Unique cannot
talk back since they will just keep on laughing, this time at the way he
bleats. So Unique contains the anger in his throat. When the goats start to get
tired from playing on their way up, they start eating their food. Unique, on
the other hand, is still full of energy and his food still untouched, partly
because he doesn’t like it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">When
they are halfway through up, the goats' bags are already almost empty. They ask
Unique for some food as his bag is still full. Unique refuses to share his
every time they ask him for some food.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Unique's
back is starting to ache while the goats are starting to feel hungry and weak,
yet the goats keep playing and laughing on their way up as they keep on making
fun of Unique's manners of walking and bleating and his seemingly unflagging
strength. The heavy throb in his chest makes him want to tear them apart; but
the voice of his mother goat talking in his mind stops him so.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Seeing
a river, they all stop for a drink. Unique sees his reflection on the glaring, clear, slow running water. He realizes not only are his voice and coat
different from theirs but also his face and size. Unique feels even uglier and
more insecure after seeing his reflection. He feels so inferior and unblessed.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">To make
himself feel better, he seals his bag so tightly so the leaves and grass will
not fall from it as they climb and so the goats will feel the pain he feels
even just by means of hunger. Unique feels bad about what he is doing to his brothers
and friends; but his anger and insecurity shoot up that he'd rather see them
hungry than share food with them.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Some of
the goats faint as they move up the hardly trailed ridge; others stop at some
point to find food; until only Unique remains walking up with aching back and all
alone.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Unique
reaches the pinnacle, and no-one else.<br />
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Unique
looks around. He stares at the vastness of the field below. He realizes how big
the world is and how ugly and weak and different and lonely he is.</span></span></span><br />
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</span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">In his
sadness, Unique sobs. Until he cries so hard that his voice trembles til it
cracks a roar. Unique is surprised of what he hears. He gets scared of the
voice coming from within. Another roar comes out of his throat. He chuckles in
curiosity and fear. He thinks the monster inside him is coming out due to his
uncontained anger. He just cannot control it, he keeps on roaring as he cries
in pity and fear.</span><br />
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">To his
surprise, a bleat fades in with the gush of the wind from behind. It is mother
goat trying to comfort him and thank him. All the while, mother goat was
following them as they played and climbed unaware.</span><br />
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">"Don't
be sad because you're different," quips mother goat. "Unique, you are
special. You will never be like any of us no matter how hard you try because
you were born bigger, stronger, and faster. Thank you for doing your best to be
one of us."</span><br />
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Unique’s
sadness now melts to confusion as to why his mother goat is saying he is
special and is thanking him. Before he talks in disbelief and further skepticism,
mother goat tells him the truth—how she found him and who he really is.</span><br />
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">"I
love you that's why I brought you home and cared for you. I saw your goodness
and potentials that's why I trusted you in a lot of things, including how gently
and carefully you treat your brother goats, who belittle you and laugh at your differences,"
says mother goat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">"You are meant to
do other things than what we are doing. Your brothers are surely better than you
in doing our thing. Your roar will never be good enough a bleat. All this is
because you are born for another thing. Listen to the beat of your heart, it is
telling you who you are," added mother goat in assurance.</span><span lang="EN-US"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Unique
brushes his face on the face of his mother goat. He is moved by the sincerity
of his mother goat's words and the love she has shown him since the day he can
remember.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Now
Unique forgives his brother goats and friends, and most importantly, he
forgives himself. He now embraces who he is and starts to unlearn his unfounded
self-image as he begins to build a new self-image established on acceptance(of
who he is), gratitude(for what he has), and forgiveness(for what his
self-pity and insecurity made him to be).</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">"Go
out in the open field, my son. Discover your voice, your strength, your beauty,
and your role and place in the field," mother goat encourages Unique.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">In
gratitude and respect, Unique thanks mother goat and kisses her goodbye.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Unique
checks, once more, his reflection on the
river. He practices his unsteady roar and runs and leaps as he reaches the vast
open field. Unique feels the lightness and joy of being his own self. He now
appreciates his strength, his size, and the purpose of the stripes of his coat.</span><br />
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Still
in awe of his abilities and potentials, he realizes that the reason why his
back ached as they climbed the mountain is not because he was lacking energy
but because he never unloaded his "baggage" due to trumped up self-pity,
insecurity, anger, and selfishness.</span><br />
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as Unique accepts his whole being—both what he can and cannot do—he also gains
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<span style="background: white;"><i>Friends,
go out, experience the world, and push yourself to the limit... Perhaps the
reason why you feel awkward or your voice cannot be understood or others see
you differently or you don't fit in is simply because you are different... Be
bold. Your "bleat" will never be good enough if you are meant to
"roar." Discover what you are made of, treat yourself as how you are
to the eyes of your Creator, and grow where you should be. Seize the day as how
He sees you!"</i></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="background-color: white;">I am
so happy I am here again! I have been very busy, happily busy, for the past few
months that I was not able to write an article... I have a list of entries to
write, though. I just need to buy time to sit and type. For now, enjoy the fable
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Greed allures one to obliviously live in the allegory of the
cave, making one forget the beauty of light, authenticity, and freedom...</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Janet Lim-Napoles is in
the ridiculous conflict of being a victim, a medium, and a beneficiary.
Whatever the real story is, the result of her choices and actions is just about
to unfold.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) is so hefty for a body whose task is primarily and gene<span class="textexposedshow">rally to make laws. For me, PDAF should be abolished. The budget must be wisely rechannelled
directly to the LGUs, educ/health/youth/livelihood/<wbr></wbr>environmental projects,
and marginalized groups and legit cooperatives of farmers and fishermen.
Provided, there is a wise set of standard and safeguards for the budget
allocation, project execution monitoring, and post-execution evaluation...
Sadly, legislative is the one which can pass or approve such bills.<br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">Whatever we say now, our remedy to our political
diseases is found in elections itself. This is one of the reasons why we should
know very well the candidates for public office and vote very wisely during
elections.</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">For now, we are just spectators of the political
exhibition and acrobatics.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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pre-Civil War practice of giving slaves a barrel of salt pork as a reward and
requiring them to compete among themselves to get their share of the handout. A
barrel of salt pork was a common larder item in 19th century households, and
could be used as a measure of the family's financial well-being (<span style="background: white;">1919, Chester Collins Maxey).</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Stress wreaks havoc on our mental, emotional, and physical health. Stress narrows our capability to think clearly, enjoy life, and function effectively. It hampers us in our journey toward our goals.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time flies so fast!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are now in the second half of the year. I bet many of us need to reboot or refresh…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the busy and fast-paced world we are living, stress, burn out, tension, strain are just some of the popular words we hear [and experience] almost everyday, may we be at work, in school, or even at home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If we are living with high levels of stress, our entire well-being is being put at risk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stress wreaks havoc on our mental, emotional, and physical health. Stress narrows our capability to think clearly, enjoy life, and function effectively. It hampers us in our journey toward our goals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Difficulty is part of life, and this difficulty is the one that makes us feel stressed out. We cannot just shut “difficulty” down or be blind about its presence. The good news is, we can manage it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Take charge of your stress! Do your best to prevent, reduce, and cope with stress.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The key to enjoy your life in the midst of hustle and bustle? EQUILIBRIUM. A balanced life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below are some of the easy-breezy strategies that can help you combat daily stress.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Managing stress is all about taking charge—of your thoughts, emotions, environment, and your manner of dealing with everyday difficulties.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Identify your limits and work around them. Accepting too much responsibility eats up most of your time and energy. Don’t spread yourself thinly; otherwise, your assets (skills, talents, and good attitude) will become your liabilities because your deliverables would become of less quality, or eventually you feel tired and abused, or your health could suffer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Limit the amount of time you spend with your emotional vampires, or those who consistently cause or bring you worry, anxiety, irritation, or complications. If you still cannot prevent them, handle them lightly and don’t allow them get into your nerves by just letting them be and just deal with them diplomatically (like if at work), and do your best to stay focused at what you need to accomplish at that very moment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Think ahead. Figure out ways on how to deal with the situations that may arise when scenario A, B, C, or D happens. Don’t push yourself against the stress wall and be stuck, instead, find ways on how to climb it and get to the enjoyable side of life. “Preparation” reduces, if not totally eliminates, stress in every situation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you get easily upset over a certain topic and you often find yourself arguing with people over it, just stop bringing that issue up or simply excuse yourself from the conversation to prevent conflicts that might burn you out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Know your priorities and schedule your daily tasks accordingly. Distinguish between the “should” and the “musts”; and the “urgent” and the “important. Eliminate the unnecessary tasks. Don’t manage time for it will always be 24 hours a day; instead, manage your tasks efficiently and effectively.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Accelerate</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> your life. Constantly <b>go to God</b> and surely you will continuously <b>grow in every area of your life</b> and the people around you will see the <b>glow in your heart</b>.</span></span></i></div>
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difficult!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Heavy words? Not anymore!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Now that we have encountered Jesus, we know that when we are being
emptied it is because God wants to fill us with new and better blessings and
when we are stretched, He just wants us to grow. So now, when life throws us
dirt it’s okay. We simply shake it off, shake it off, and shake it off; and use it as a platform to step
upon until we emerge victorious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We are living in an era and area where almost everything is instant,
where people are mobile, and where the demands and dynamics of daily life have
evolved with time. At one point, we have become slaves of our work, unhealthy
relationships, financial incapacity, family issues, personal insecurities, or
other problems that dry our spirits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We have become stray, hungry souls in the modern jungle of
glass-and-steel skyscrapers of the present world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Walking down the memory lane, our experiences a month, a year or years
ago may bring pinch on our hearts, deep breaths, or tears in the corner of our
eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Thanks to our merciful and gracious Father Lord God, He called us in
ways and times unexpected to give us new and better lives for us to do good and enjoy blessed
lives. (He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. ~ Titus 3:5)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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care, and enlightenment that propelled us to do our best to become obedient to
God’s word, to have better relationships at work and at home, and to be channels
of God’s blessings wherever we go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We now have new and better perspective about life and reinforced
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Whether by responding to a friend’s invitation, reconnecting with God
due to necessity, or personally choosing to renew personal relationship with
God, it is by no accident that we are transformed. We were all hand-picked by
God and are now renewed in spirit and heart. It’s just up to us how we will
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We are all works in progress!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Embrace your potential not your past. (</span><span style="background: #FFFEFD;">But one thing I do: Forgetting what is
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Your past does not define you. God can take all your imperfections, so
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Close your eyes. Take a deep breath. Remember the old days—what you were
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can truly tell how your life has changed. Perhaps, you have already moved
forward and are now aware of your bigger and brighter life ahead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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will continuously <b><i>grow in every area of your life</i></b> and the people around you will
see the <b><i>glow in your heart</i></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Accelerate your life! Move onward and upward. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i><b>Know what you want. Live up to your clear vision and work your way right through it. People are drawn to leaders who have compelling vision and help others forge their own visions, and who help others help themselves.</b></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Growing
old and growing up is much like commanding a ship through the vast ocean of
life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As
we set out—to drift around or to purposely achieve our goals—our actions and
decisions affect the lives of those who are on-board our ship (our families,
friends, and even the strangers we meet somewhere). Our every action has ripple
implications on the lives of others, whether we know it or not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This
power to affect others is what makes us an influencer, a <i>leader</i>, whether we like it or not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Being
a leader, we need to be clear about our visions and press on them no matter what;
in the same way a ship captain needs to be clear about his destination and sail
towards the flickering lighthouse, stormy or sunny.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We
don’t need an official title, a crown, a salary, a cloak, or a badge to think
of ourselves as real leaders or, subtly put, influencers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A
brother or sister who takes care of his/her other siblings is a leader. A
teacher is a leader to her students. A traffic enforcer is a leader to a
crossing pedestrian. And the most noble of all leaders, a parent who leads
his/her family every single day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">You
are a leader! When you decide to lead your own self to your new and better
self, you are a leader.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">When
others see your transformation, these people who also want to become better
naturally gravitate towards you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wisdom
of Proverbs 29:18 says, “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” On the
contrary, no one can stop someone who is clear about what he wants. People
follow leaders who know exactly what they want.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sailing through this life, we need people for various reasons: to help us
adjust the sails when we get out of focus; to talk to when we feel crazy; to
man the bridge when we have to take a break, among other things. When we dock
for some pit stop, we need to deal with strangers or some new friends.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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put, whatever we do and wherever we go, we will be dealing with people and
build relationship with them. The way we connect and relate with them could
make or break our journey towards our destination, our goal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hence,
before we set out for any destination or goal, it is very important that we
prepare for the journey. Be clear on where you exactly want to go and when
exactly you want to get there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Some
of our plans may be dispensable. But planning per se is indispensable if we are
to precisely know our direction; get to our destination efficiently; overcome
unexpected storms; to be responsive to emergency calls; and arrive at our port
of destination safely.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pulling the anchor, we must know where the lighthouse is so we have a clear
reference point of our destination as we sail off the coast.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">First,
be clear about your <b>vision</b> (the <i>what</i>). Know exactly what you want. An effective
leader is clear about his vision. If you don’t cast a clear picture of your
future, you will be fixated on your past. God can take away your imperfections,
so don’t stay there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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be clear about your <b>values</b> (the <i>why</i>). Have your values intact. If you
want to win the fight against temptation, you have to decide to win long before
it arrives. Decision-making is hard only when you’re not clear about what is
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right. Lead others by example. Live up to your clear vision and work your way right through it. People are drawn to leaders who have compelling vision and help
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the people around you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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TurnWritehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12482540638940248098noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1956417794381212353.post-49515337965291621652013-04-03T22:44:00.001-07:002013-04-15T11:21:32.574-07:00Thinking Out Loud in My Boudoir: Escaping Reality<span style="color: magenta;"><br /></span>
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<b><i><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">This will always be the reality and you can never escape it: you are in charge of your choices (mind) and your happiness (heart). </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Freedom is a gift. Reality is a guide. Do not escape freedom and reality.</span></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="background: white;">When we were kids we wanted to grow old and assume responsibility, we were curious about a lot of things and wanted to try them.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="background: white;">Now that we are adults, we want to be like
children</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">—</span><span style="background-color: white; color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">consciously or unconsciously. We want to be stress-free,
problem-free. We want to be free from responsibility.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">I remember just a little over the death of my
father, my perspective of a lot of things changed and I started to become aware
of many things, perhaps necessity dictated and demanded. I believe that was the
first turning point of my life, and my “official growing up” was way too early,
or so I believe.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Part of my new perspective then was that I should
be grateful and excited when I recognize I have a trial. When I feel
uncomfortable—pain, difficulty, negative emotion—I thought I had new things to
be thankful for and to look forward to. I have new things to learn.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">When I was a kid, trials or challenges or problems
meant new experiences, new lessons, and wisdom.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">As I (we) grow older, we think we have had learned
more than enough about life, that we are better equipped after all the various
experiences we have gone through in life. So we stop being interested about life
and we start avoiding pains and stress brought by problems thinking we've had
more than enough.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Little do we know that our knowledge of things, our mind map of our lives and our future, needs constant revision, and sometimes major revisions.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">We all know that growth</span></span><span style="background-color: white;">—</span><span style="background-color: white;">in any area or aspect of
our lives</span><span style="background-color: white;">—</span><span style="background-color: white;">requires pains and taking responsibility as we face our problems.
Yet, most of us we ignore this obvious fact. As a result, we avoid
responsibility and suffering.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">What we don't realize is by avoiding
responsibility and suffering, we either let our problems grow as we hide them
and deny them, thinking they naturally go away; or we let others handle them
for us.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">By doing so, we either unconsciously pet our
problem like growing a monster we're too scared of or we give away our liberty
and control to decide for ourselves. Consequently, either way, we keep our
problem and we hamper our own growth.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">As adults faced with problems, we tell ourselves
now:</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">1. It's all my fault, but I'm tired of this. I
will let it be, anyway all this shall come to pass. (Blaming oneself)</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">2. It's his/her/their/this world's fault. I have
no control over them. Why should I bother myself with his/her/its mess. The
heck I care. (Blaming the world)</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">If we will not take the time to look at things or
situations, we will not be able to identify the source of the problem and the
significant problem we need to solve.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">With our era, where everything is fast paced and
new information is available everyday, we must be willing and deliberate in
equipping ourselves with skills and knowledge to be able to keep up with time
and grow with it.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Let us engage ourselves with our peers. Observe
and learn from others.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Most importantly, nurture our relationship with
our very own selves. Let us take the time to know ourselves better</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">—skills, weaknesses, strengths, potentials.</span><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Let's live in the now. Face reality. Take
accountability. Embrace and accept ourselves. Know, feel, and believe that we
are valuable whether people around us perceive us as such or not.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One day we will be surprised, solving life's trials and managing our time for pain and pleasure becomes natural and easy for us. What will be more surprising is, we will naturally become more grateful, blessing expert, and happy persons.<br />
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<span style="background: white;">When we know in our deepest fiber that we are
valuable, then we start realizing our need for constant growth and the
importance of taking hold of our freedom to choose and decide for ourselves are both indispensable parts of having a good life.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">And the result?</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">We become more willing to experience pain and we
become more open to new things because we know that through them we become
capable of understanding and helping ourselves, and it's ripple effect is we
become resilient, understanding of others, generous, and happier than ever...
All because we grow and refresh our perspective.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">There will always be people and situations that
will make our lives difficult, and that's the reality. Our pains or discomfort
will always be part of our lives as long as we breathe. Hence, we need to
constantly recognize those which are necessary problems and unnecessary ones.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">To do that, we must take time to spot the source
of the problem; make ourselves comfortable with it; take reasonable time to
study the necessary problem; focus; solve it; and learn from it.</span></span><br />
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<o:p><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i><span lang="EN-US">Thinking Out Loud in my Boudoir</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US"> is a column for some of my random thoughts that, perhaps, other ladies my age are also experiencing or thinking of—whether from same vantage point or another. Or maybe, just maybe, it’s just my own voice reverberating in my own world. I will do my best to discriminate my reason in this column, and just write spontaneously the first things and thoughts that a normal lady could think of. Just writing as I think...</span></i></span></o:p></div>
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TurnWritehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12482540638940248098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1956417794381212353.post-64626760112015872532013-03-29T00:00:00.003-07:002013-03-29T03:27:04.240-07:00Sure, You Can Make It!<br />
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each of us is given built-in skills that will enable us to be better and to
better enjoy this good life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sure,
we are the captain of our own lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We
can become whoever we want to be. Truly, we are not given equal amount of
talents, skills, and other gifts gifts; but surely, we are all given the same
amount of time each day—24 hours. Whether too long or too short for you, we can’t
do anything to adjust its length.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Time
is equally given to each of us—rich-poor, young-old, girl-boy,
literate-illiterate, good-bad. 24 houts a day; 525,600 minutes a year. Period.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Time
is fixed. But the good news is, we can diminish or increase its value by how
we make choices and how we act upon our choices.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Learning
and maturity should be directly proportional to our time alive, our age. But we
all know that a big chunk of humanity is not a reflection of it. I’m not
discounting myself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WyXWhIyX2as/UVU54Vx84vI/AAAAAAAAAXU/KAuQ_xedEaw/s1600/images+(6).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WyXWhIyX2as/UVU54Vx84vI/AAAAAAAAAXU/KAuQ_xedEaw/s1600/images+(6).jpg" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">If
we look around, we will see many people who have become skilled and empowered
in their chosen fields, and some in the
places they found themselves. However, there are more people who are otherwise
or who don’t enjoy the lives they are entitled to enjoy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We
sometimes catch ourselves quipping, “She’s brilliant. I wonder why she ended up
like that,” or “He’s diligent, but it seems he toils today to feed himself
today so he can work tomorrow.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">(Setting
aside those people who are able to get what they want because they know how to
manipulate people for their own advantage, or see things as “delegation” when
in fact they know in themselves that they intentionally make others do things for
them, or get to finish a requirement by doing 20% of the work…)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
legit achiever knows four basic things: diligence, focus, responsibility, and
sharing. The self-made achiever is like a house built on a rock, strong storm or
raging flood comes, it stands firm. Wherever you put him, whatever you ask of
him, whenever you need him, he can deliver well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>I. Diligence</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Being diligent doesn’t
require exceptional IQ. What one needs is only common sense and initiative. Being
diligent is being able to discern what an ordinary prudent man would do in a specific situation. Diligence is also
the ability to delay gratification and do some a-little-tightening-here-and-a-loosening-there.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">A diligent person
would ask himself what shall I do first; what is the most efficient and
effective way in doing this; will I bypass or disrespect or hurt someone; what
degree of care is appropriate.</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">More than being industrious, a diligent person thinks of the implications of his actions before he executes his action plan.
He eats first the icing before the cake, I mean, he does first the things he
doesn’t like most so he can enjoy the rest of the day doing the things he
likes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>II. Focus</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K0byMbpT5TU/UVU54Llgn0I/AAAAAAAAAXY/73PQBkuEGlI/s1600/images+(7).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: blue;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K0byMbpT5TU/UVU54Llgn0I/AAAAAAAAAXY/73PQBkuEGlI/s1600/images+(7).jpg" /></span></a><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">A purpose driven and
dedicated person knows his goal and he presses on it every single day. He knows
where he should end up. Whatever the weather is—stormy or sunny; whatever kind
of road he is taking—bumpy or smooth—his mind, feelings, words, and actions are
all oriented to his goal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">A focused person is
not discouraged or demoralized by trials or failures. Instead, he is fueled by
his challenges. For him, another trial means another platform for him to stand on
so he could see things from a better vantage point. He sees failure just as a
delay to his goal or sometimes a detour so he may take a better path towards
it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Being focused is
being able to see clearly what you want and seeing it steadily through layers
upon layers of distraction. <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>III. Responsibility</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Acceptance of
responsibility is being open to challenges, pain, heartbreaks, and other uncomfortable
emotions associated with growing up, achieving, and victory. Responsible
persons know that trials, challenges, or problems don’t go away unless you
yourself work through them, or else they will remain a hindrance to your growth
and victory.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Some people deny to
themselves the problems they encounter; others acknowledge the problems but do
nothing about it hoping the problems will just go away. But the responsible
person acknowledges his problems, sits down and studies each problem for a
reasonable time, make an action plan, and face the problem properly—right time,
approach, and means—based on his evaluation of the situation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">A responsible person
knows that when he avoids the legitimate suffering that results from dealing
with problems, he also avoids the growth that problems demand from him (Peck).<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Learning is the twin
of responsibility. As in taking on responsibility for what one feels, for what one
ought to do, for whatever situation one finds himself, one will always surely
learn whether he fails or succeeds.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i><br />
<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></span></i>
<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">A responsible person's mentality is, "Either you win or you learn."</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>IV. Sharing</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">An empowered person
shares what he learns. An empowered person is someone who becomes who he is
because of what he has gone through in his life. He has a personal account to
share about his journey from rags to riches, or from being a victim to being
the philanthropist, or from being the last to being the first, or being the nothing
to being the superstar.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Having a first hand
experience of the essential polishing in life—from thinking of a dream to being
diligent to pursue his dream and making it a goal; to being focused and
dedicated to his goal; to taking on the responsibility for every circumstance
that leads him his goal—an empowered person knows the feeling and thoughts of
one who is also driven to legitimately achieve their goals, which enables him to empathize and believe in them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">A small mind will
tell one that his dream ridiculously difficult and he will not achieve it
because of he is poor or he is not intelligent or he is ugly or he because he
is who he is. But an empowered person will encourage one to pursue his dream,
pray, and work hard and that if others can do it, he too can do it and may even
do things better.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Sharing is a mechanism
that multiplies and scatters good things in life. Sharing is the system which
makes giving away good things come back in better packages, better quality, and
sometimes more in quantity. Simply put, sharing makes good things last from
generation to generation.</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Whatever
our statuses in life are or wherever we are and whatever we want to achieve, it
is possible to achieve our goals if we are willing to do our part and focus our energy and
resources on the goal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Intelligence
and money are not reasons to pull you down or to hinder you from achieving your
goals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1fnUbUIdeCo/UVU54fY-kzI/AAAAAAAAAXQ/_P0mHnSx2u4/s1600/images+(8).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1fnUbUIdeCo/UVU54fY-kzI/AAAAAAAAAXQ/_P0mHnSx2u4/s1600/images+(8).jpg" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Everyday,
within 24 hours, do something that contributes to achieving your goals. If you
want to be a teachers, entrepreneur, priest, lawyer, doctor, or corporate
executive…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Think
like one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Talk
like one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Act
like one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
you think of, speak of, read about, or do in a day will make a difference in
the quality and essence of your 24 hours and 525,600 minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dream.
Believe. Feel. Receive. Thank. Share.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">…and
thank God for the each brand new day He gives you to become better, do better,
and become step closer to your goal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">One
sure thing, you can make it if you believe and want it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Never underestimate your capacity and never underestimate God's power.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pray
and work hard! You can make it, I know!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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TurnWritehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12482540638940248098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1956417794381212353.post-67839494226558550302013-02-17T10:20:00.001-08:002014-04-07T10:49:33.663-07:00Prisoner<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were young and free</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Enjoying our burgeoning</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/---BL8gdDCnM/USEfVG6ufBI/AAAAAAAAAW4/trQ1uRrijhI/s1600/569109374_2b904ec6fd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/---BL8gdDCnM/USEfVG6ufBI/AAAAAAAAAW4/trQ1uRrijhI/s320/569109374_2b904ec6fd.jpg" height="320" width="250" /></a><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You held my heart</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gently you stole it from me</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn’t see it, I didn’t see it</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Til I noticed</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You took me wherever you wanted to go</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Never letting me go</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now I was a prisnoner</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A prisoner of your love</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your cell was the best place</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I myself didn’t wanna go</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanna be a prisoner</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A prisoner of your love</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were young and free</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Enjoying the spring time of our lives</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You walked into my life</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn’t see it, I didn’t see it</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Til I felt you running</span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Running in my head</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And thumping my heart so fast</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You locked yourself up</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Threw the key</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Never leaving</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Never stopped thumping my heart so fast</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You were a prisoner</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A prisoner of my love</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I woke up one day</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Still a prisoner of your love</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The cell I didn’t imagine this
way</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes it’s cold</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I laid on the ground alone</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Waiting for your gentle arms</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wrapping them around me</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes it’s too small</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I stayed on the corner</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sharing the chamber</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With two or three more</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I woke up one day</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Still a prisoner</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now finding the door unlocked</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hesitating, stumbling</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hesitating, crying</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you for making it cold</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’m now enjoying the time of my life</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>Just a simple February art :-) I noticed I haven't written any poem for quite a while. I wish I were a musician so I could arrange it myself and sing it after saying, "hit it!"</b></i></span></div>
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TurnWritehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12482540638940248098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1956417794381212353.post-28148550672358867502013-02-16T17:01:00.002-08:002013-02-17T02:34:45.521-08:00Thinking Out Loud in My Boudoir: Sweet Tooth<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>It’s not how much money you spend for the surprise, rather, how much of yourself you put in it.</b></i></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I chuckled upon hearing that kindergartish
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for me.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The statement hovered in my head. I wasn’t
sure why the guy asked it. What I’m sure of is it made me think like a
six-year-old who just saw her crush playing with another girl along the
corridor.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought to myself, “Love’s sweetness goes
beyond the taste buds. It flows down the heart and stimulates the senses.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">The munchkin in me retorted, “Sugar is
forever sweet while love sometimes gives bitterness. Touch</span><span lang="EN-US">é</span><span lang="EN-US">!”</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Love or sugar. Flower or chocolates. Home-cooked
dinner or fancy 12-course dinner date. Massage by your bare hands or Swedish
massage in a hotel.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whatever your dominant love language is—words
of affirmation, service, gifts, quality time, or physical touch—the important
thing is you express your true feelings out of joy and with sincerity… fine,
with real love.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don’t worry if you’re still a student,
unemployed, or just not as wealthy as the other guy. Girls, ladies, women—whatever
body type we have at the moment (because we, I for one, don’t grow old, only
mature with age *winks)—what matters to us is the thought and the deliberateness
of actions of our significant others’ expression of love.</span></span></div>
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rather, how much of yourself you put in it.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Uhm, like a dark chocolate or a kiwi-strawberry smoothie, love’s bumps
and dents and even heartbreaks, or the other sources of bitterness or sweet-lemonading, are what make love’s taste just right…</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's the numerous feelings, tastes, and colors that love brings and teaches that make the next moment or next romance or next relationship better tasting and vibrant. It's the quintessence your expression of love and the authenticity of your feelings still weigh more to a she-heart.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’ll go for love. It may not be forever
sweet, but it sure does not cloy your appetite and melt your icing to waste or
harden your boring caramel to death.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"> <i> 1. </i></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US"><i>Telling us the basic “thank you”
“sorry” “I love you” “you are special” is a very good way to hearts. (Words)</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><i> 2. Surprising us with your simple personally
cooked food, whatever its taste, makes you better looking. (Service)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><i> 3. Grabbing anything for us on your
way home, like as grand as a sachet of coffee or as fancy a hand sanitizer, is
like watering our blooming hearts. (Gift)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><i> 4. Sitting beside us as we watch
TV, waiting for us in the salon, or accompanying in the department store—whether
you’re just acting you’re awake or enjoying or cool with it or not—makes you a
bodyguard, correction, a security blanket which makes us feel safe. (Time)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><i> 5. Simple gestures as wrapping your
arms around us while watching TV, holding our hands while crossing the street,
stroking our hair to sleep just make you seem like a gentle wingless angle. (Touch)</i></span></div>
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degrees. Some of us just don’t admit it, but there is that someone inside us
who still wants to feel special no matter how nagger, hysterical,
dominant, snooty, nonchalant, cool, we may seem.</span></span></div>
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right measurement of love’s sweetness in different situations and days and
moods and…</span></span></div>
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TurnWritehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12482540638940248098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1956417794381212353.post-9639559622582224302013-02-07T06:32:00.001-08:002013-02-07T10:36:01.992-08:00My Two-Cents Worth: Sex Ed and RH Law<i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: blue;">PROVIDED! Provided that the teacher is one who is specially equipped with proper knowledge, training, and moral consciousness in properly teaching the course. FURTHER PROVIDED, that sex ed will be taught in school at the right or proper time ascertained by an expert in the matter.</span></b></i><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Why many people can say it out loud? A crime? Wickedness? Nah… You're not violating any law when you say it... Nor you sin just because you say it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Sex. A taboo for some, perhaps.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">There was a forum in my Alma Mater and some of the senatorial candidates were asked about sex ed being a school based thing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">With the advent of recently approved RH Law, I think it's but fitting for the government to push through school based sex ed in Health subjects or classes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">School is a more, if not the most, comfortable, informative, responsible place, I presume, where this topic can be discussed with the students openly, honestly, and positively. I believe. PROVIDED! Provided that the teacher is one who is specially equipped with proper knowledge, training, and moral consciousness in properly teaching the course. FURTHER PROVIDED, that sex ed will be taught in school at the right or proper time ascertained by an expert in the matter.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Now that we have RH Law, we should implement it productively and effectively; and part of doing that is to utilize the appropriated money for sex ed properly. (If not, a huge chunk of the budget will just go to condoms and pills; or, god forbid, to the pockets of some public officers.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Since RH is now a law, we cannot just go against it nor be unmindful of it just because we don't agree with it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">RH being a law now, we have to make ways on how to effectively implement it to live up to its purpose and embolden its wisdom.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">On the aspect of sex ed, we have it since a looooong time ago anyway. So now, with the budget appropriated for RH that trickles to sex ed, then we should make sure sex ed get the attention it deserves.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Sex education is a double-edged sword. It can either soil the innocence of the youth and desecrate the supposed to be one of the best things, sex; or teach the youth what is beautiful and make them desire what is right (as Plato treated education).</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Improve the old ways of teaching sex ed. Train a special set of teachers because it’s a sensitive topic for a [conservative] Christian country like ours; more than that, it will greatly affect the future of the youth. Print quality books. Come up with a well-thought of curriculum to precisely target the objective of the law.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I mean, not just teach it... But teach it properly with the guidance of authorities in the field. Yes plural. Authorities composed of experts in anatomy, biology, psychology, sociology, morality, and even a lawyer I believe. This is to make sure the students will have the right information they need on the implications of their every action--physical effects, social implication, legal consequences.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Not to mention, the relevance of having a set of responsible, ethical, professional, and willing well-trained set of sex ed teachers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Common sense dictates that we shouldn't just depend on the educational institutions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The family, especially the parents, have the fundamental and significant roles in shaping their children's character, personality, values, integrity...name it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">RH Law is now here. Now, what we need to do is use it for the good it is aimed at.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">And oh, did I not say, "scientific learning can be taught, but character cannot"?</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Parents’ active roles in guiding their children is very important.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">School's supplementary yet equally important role in teaching the students the proper and right thing is undeniably as crucial as the parents’ role.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">So I hope, rather than still ranting about the RH Bill, let us all move forward and breathe life into this law for the best interest of our posterity.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2013 midterm elections is in the offing. Many
politicians—newbies, oldies, re-electionists, public servant, or public savant,
what have you—are fired up... I mean, “excited”; not ready to fire their guns,
you know.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s just but high time that we know some
of the basic and important provisions of the law that we always hear in the news
and we even comment on... [Yet] we ironically and sadly, fail to familiarize
ourselves with.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So watchdogs, before we cast your votes
this coming elections, let us first understand some provisions of the law
related to public officials and their performances of their duties as public
servants.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Article 217</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of the </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Revised Penal Code</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (RPC)
talks about </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PRESUMPTION OF MALVERSATION OF PUBLIC FUNDS OR PROPERTY</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We always hear in the news that politician
X had a road project which gone worse even before it existed; mayor Y received
millions of royalties from a natural resource found in his jurisdiction but
there was never a project done until his term expired; or governor Z kept on
building infrastructure projects but the buildings were always substandard and
not in keeping with the budget the projects reflected.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What really is malversation?</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Etymology of the word is traced from Middle
French <b>malverser</b> or to be corrupt;
from Latin <b>male versari</b> or male as
in badly; from Indo-European <b>versr</b>
or to behave. The word was first used in 1549 (Merriam-Webster).</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The lexicon meaning says malversation is a
misbehavior and especially corruption in an office, trust, or commission
(Merriam-Webster); corrupt behaviour in a position of trust (Oxford);
wrongdoing (Cambridge); behaviour that is illegal or not moral (Macmillan
British).</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Under the Article 217 of the RPC, the acts
punishable as <b>malversation</b> are:</span></span></div>
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funds or property</span></span></li>
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abandonment or negligence, permitting any other person to take such public
funds or property</span></span></li>
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malversation is otherwise called as embezzlement or taking of funds/properties for
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, you may ask what makes an act a crime
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are still other acts of malversation
other than those mentioned above. But all these acts have common elements that
make them felonious or in violation of the RPC.</span></span></div>
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reason of the duties of his office</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">That those funds or property
were </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">public funds or property</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> for
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<li><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">That he </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">appropriated</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">, </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">took</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">, </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">misappropriated</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">, or </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">consented</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">, or through </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><i>abandonment
or negligence</i></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">, </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">permitted another</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is very important to note that what is
controlling is the nature of the duties of the public officer, and not the name
of his office. Also, the term “public officers” embraces every public servant
from the highest to the lowest positions. The RPC wipes out the standard
distinction in the law of public officers between “officer” and “employee”. Hence,
a temporary performance of public functions by a laborer makes him a public
officer.</span></span></div>
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custody or collection of public funds or property may be held liable for
malversation.</span></span></div>
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the official capacity or by virtue of his duty. Thus, if a public officer had
no authority to receive the money/property and he misapporpriated it, what he
committed is estafa not malversation.</span></span></div>
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malvesation under Article 217 of the RPC.</span></span></div>
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officer to account for the funds or property and the officer cannot provide the
funds/property, then the law presumes that he has put such missing funds or
property to personal use.</span></span></div>
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the fund/property with malice or through negligence or imprudence, it doesn’t
matter... Once the essential elements are all present, he is still liable for
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necessary in malversation. Actually, damand merely raises a presumption. So whether
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build a better community… province… region… better and promising Philippines.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's February! It's
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, everyday should
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ladies, and women, February is a special love month. (Or is it just me?)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a grade school
girl, February 14 was a special time for me to make a personalized Valentine
card for my parents. The one with two stick persons holding a heart and with
more small hearts above their heads.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to early 20s, the entire month of Feb was just so special and the month was
just really short of days for cooking special gimicks and surprises for the one
I loved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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now, February is still much like when I was in the immediately preceding phase,
except that now is just more fine tuned in many aspects and inclusive, and of
course much better.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bottom line, whatever
stage we're in, we ladies are just inherently expressive of our feelings and we
love loving.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So you guys, don't be
irritated or intimidated nor be indifferent. Reciprocate the actions while they
last. Be surprised if your woman does nothing to make you feel loved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yet love life isn't
exciting without a dash of laugh out of surprise, ounce of laugh out of
amazement, and a liberal sprinkle of laugh of out joy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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But for us girls it's simply love itself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Us girls translate
our overflowing joy, excitement, and "kilig" with a controlled laugh
when we can no longer contain our feelings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5ir9rmCFRyQ/UQvTvELpmcI/AAAAAAAAATA/aK8mr9LZerM/s1600/408320_10151385852170218_1409610493_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5ir9rmCFRyQ/UQvTvELpmcI/AAAAAAAAATA/aK8mr9LZerM/s320/408320_10151385852170218_1409610493_n.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you're single dear girlfriend, don't worry. After a long relationship, I'm now happily single too! Enjoying the time of my life--the positive and productive freedom and me-time I have between a
relatively long relationship (past) and the real thing life-long partnership (future). Things are simply refreshing and enlightening in many ways I didn't imagine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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my loved ones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's so easy and
handy to express love when you truly love the person--family, friends, special
someone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So hey hey hey you
(and me), what are you doing right there? Go and surprise your loved ones with
a simple I love you note, cookies you baked, flower from your garden, what have
you...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">February. <b>F</b>orever <b>E</b>xcited to
<b>B</b>estow and <b>R</b>efresh <b>U</b>nconditional <b>A</b>dmiration and <b>R</b>espect with <b>Y</b>outhfulness...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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February should be. Expressing love... not only for your BFs or GFs, but also
to those you admire and respect.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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TurnWritehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12482540638940248098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1956417794381212353.post-62420265534777757352013-01-27T11:22:00.001-08:002013-02-02T06:56:59.298-08:00Thinking Out Loud in My Boudoir: Ladies' Excitement<br />
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random thoughts that, perhaps, other ladies my age are also experiencing or thinking of—whether
from same vantage point or another. Or maybe, just maybe, it’s just my own
voice reverberating in my own world. I will do my best to discriminate my reason in this column, and just write spontaneously the first things and
thoughts that a normal lady could think of. Just writing as I think...<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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things right now…and one of them is having this column, so ta-dah!</span></span></div>
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ladies’ “excitement” for the things we want.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am guilty of this crime, and sometimes
even fall victim of my own crime. That’s why I am so cautious and deliberate
when it comes to the more serious stuff (heck yes, this rationalization has no
space in here *winks*).</span></span></div>
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complicated and chaotic, because from there we learn and become wiser and life
gets more colorful. OR, is it just
another lie we tell ourselves to assuage our guilt or the pain or for us not to
see ourselves stupid?</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That’s one of the privileges of being a
“she”. I mean, it’s okay for us to be openly vulnerable, to fall, to commit
mistakes, to cry…and just brush things aside and laugh things off or cry things
away with our girlfriends.</span></span></div>
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being passionate is that we shouldn't make ourselves overly
passionate. Yes passion, excitement, zeal, desire—whatever and however you call
it—they’re all good, but not when too much.</span></span></div>
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wonderful life ahead of me. I’m
passionate about my law studies, about my dream of becoming a diplomat or
working for an NGO, having a wonderful family, and the list goes on. Shoot
girlfriend you also have a long list of the things you want to have and want to
be.</span></span></div>
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place to visit, new book, even first love making… but we don’t usually think of
failing, betrayal, falling apart, etc; maybe because they block off our
excitement, which is a very good feeling, right?</span></span></div>
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better to lie or fake even just once; then another one; and another one.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So whatever way it is we choose to take in
order to get what we want, have fun but be responsible.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eHpGv9DH84w/UQV8RMtJDGI/AAAAAAAAARE/RBbe5hnohKM/s1600/glee___girl_power_by_distorted_checkers-d309sw4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eHpGv9DH84w/UQV8RMtJDGI/AAAAAAAAARE/RBbe5hnohKM/s320/glee___girl_power_by_distorted_checkers-d309sw4.jpg" width="282" /></a><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’m not saying we do this or that.
Different strokes for different folks, right? And I respect your choices. What
I am just saying is we better get them with openness reflecting who we really
are and with honesty about what we really want, and always always always take
accountability.</span></div>
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fun—and sophistication.</span></span></div>
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fun—and dignity.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just in case we stumble in excitement, just
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you… because there’s nothing much more liberating and empowering than to be who
you really are, a lady who knows what she wants and isn't afraid to get what
she wants. :-)</span></span></div>
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