Joy

Happy Monday! We have gone past the first 100 days since the Quarantine (of varying degrees) started.  How are you?  First off, if you are reading this and your family is still healthy, together and surviving, congratulations! I hope you are grateful.  However, although gratefulness IS a way to have high spirits, not everyone is able to keep the spirit alive when times are difficult.   Although we may have been in this situation long enough to have had the time to reflect, there are still developments and dragging deadlines that seems to stretch us out in many ways.  Financially, professionally, timelines, relationships, even in the little adjustments we make in our lives that seemed temporary but is shaping up to be indefinitely required.   Just last week, I sat down with my own goal lists, accounting and daily plan to TALK to them.  I have in the past week and a half been forced to face them again because I suddenly had the time.  It turned out to be a blessing.  I did not know I was

Happy Monday!  I am not made for social media, are you?  These posts are getting really late in the past couple of weeks. I had to ask myself why I feel so "duh" nowadays.  I read some early blog posts last night and I just felt I was making more "sense" then.  This is not because I have not been reading much, nor is it because I have not been learning a lot with the activities that I am involved in.  Then I realized, there's just too much noise around me now, I cannot seem to filter out information and organize my thoughts as easily as I was able to in the past.   Since I, like many others, resort to social media to connect and be heard nowadays, it was easy to find the culprit.  Me and my relationship with social media.   Although I am now officially managing a profile, a page, and a group - I simply could not wrap my head around the "busi-ness" of the virtual world.  The necessity of communicating and communing with people online is, for lack of a b

Happy Monday!  It's 9:00 p.m. Quite late for my usual morning post on a Monday. One task after another welcomed me today.  It seemed to me like a regular working day. It is easy to forget that things are not yet back to normal.  In my head though, it seems like it is.   We do make our own environment.  It could be a fearful environment full of worries.  It could be a hopeful environment bustling with ideas and prospects. What is before us depends on the environment we have in our head.  In some way, we project the world we have in us.   What world do you have within?  I aspire to have a world of gratefulness... thanking God for all that is within and before me.  I aspire for a world that I can trust... where I can say what I want and be valued for my ideas.  Lastly, I aspire for a world that is not afraid of mistakes... where everyone is a learner and is given a chance.   Bring your inner world wherever you are.  Make no mistake, you always live in a world you create.