36 Days More - Living Your Dream

I just came from work, and the first thing I did was to turn on the laptop, log in to my blog and post this. It's 10:46 in the evening and dinner can wait because I have to tell the world that I just had experience what it feels to do the thing you love the most at its best...inspiring people!

I spent the rest of the afternoon having a talk to one of the supervisors of my team and it was so fulfilling that I can feel living my dream of touching lives and motivating people.

It started with a little chat about a small business start-up. I was struggling not to sleep while typing a report and he was beside me working. And so I opened up to him what I shared to another employee which was also his neighbor of starting up a distilled water distribution in their place. I opened to him the idea, its an open market, with little investment, and semi-passive income. He was so thrilled of it and I told him to strike on it tomorrow because it's his day off. You would really notice his face lit-up with enthusiasm. And I was even more motivated to share to him my insights because he kept on with the conversation.

The turning point was when I shared to him what I have been doing - the 1 million 90 day challenge. His face was totally puzzled. Explaining to him of becoming a millionaire without the money was like explaining molecular biology to a 5 year old. But soon, with just the right examples, he was able to see my point but was not able to grasp it.

But the magical thing of the experience was what was happening to me! Words just came out so smoothly! I can't believe how my thoughts was singing in harmony with my words that little by little he was listening very intently and was smiling as he was realizing the truths I was sharing him. My beliefs, my values, rich attitude, millionaire mindset, and all other good stuff in this blog.

But for me this was for me the best part...

He asked. "Wait sir, lets talk about how can you actually get that 1 million."

"You see, before you get to the "how", you must clearly establish the "why". Why do you want to get the million? Okay, ask me why I want to get the 1 million"

He was smiling, and shaking his head and said, "Okay."

But I responded, "No, come on, ask me why do I want to get the 1 million."

"Okay, okay. Why do you want to get the 1 million?"

"I know how you feel right now. I know you feel so good about what we've been talking, am I right?"

He laughed and shook his head.

"You see, that feeling you have right now, if I don't have that million, I can create that feeling to only one person at a time. But I have that million I can inspire more people. With the million I can go to other islands and places and inspire people their. I can help more people, teach more people, and spread that very feeling you have right now to more and more people. And I cannot do that if don't have enough money......"

I paused. He smiled.

"And this is my "why". So you see, no matter what obstacle comes in my way, with this "why" nothing can stop me. I will achieve that million no matter what!"

That was not scripted. Not practiced. It just went out of my mouth deep from my heart.
And at the back of my head I can see how great it is to live your dreams.

37 Days Left - The Power of Delegation

"If others can do it...let them do it!"

That's the power of delegation!

Having been a supervisor for around 8 months, its only on the 8th month that I have finally embraced the fact that it's my power to delegate! Imagine for the past 8 months it would be me who would go up and down the offices to get the memos..it would be me who would type and mail their reports...it would be me who would drag and carry stocks and clear the bodega!

I don't know why, but I have been trained in the past for servant-leadership. Well, I never had a mentor or idol on company-based leadership and so bad for me, I took it literally. Actually, I thought it was very effective, which it was really, people to see me as one of them. However, it became too much like one of them, they started taking advantage!

"Sir, could you please print this for me...."

Not until I joined the the Internet Marketing Workshop Seminar - the life changing seminar last April. On which one highlight was the power of delegation. We had this activity of writing down everything we don't want to do and how can we delegate it. This idea was the core of the book 4-hour Work Week a book by Tim Ferris, putting a system into everything that it all goes auto-pilot.

And so, I directly applied this aspect to work and, whew, it was differently effective! For the first time, I was not afraid to call someone to go to the office and get the memo for me. At first it was a strange feeling, "Hey, I can do this, but why am I letting them do it...?" goes over my head often. But hey, its my job to delegate!!

At first it was challenging, why? I have to teach them one by one. I have to teach them how to use the computer programs, how to make the reports, I have to assign people and responsibilities, and set-up a well-established system that goes automatically. I did this for 2 months, and the results are fantastic.

I am now able to do a lot, in such a little time. I am also practicing it too in my shirt business.  It's on auto-pilot too, a division of tasks, maximizing the internet, set up a system, with dates and deadlines, no inventory, cycle profits and all goes smoothly. A true example of a semi-passive income.

Soon I will be working 4 hours a week and earning more than what I earn now. Would you want that? And it all started with accepting the fact that you may be the best but you still need the rest.. that's delegation.

38 Days More to Go - I Love My Job! Huh??

You got me right! I LOVE MY JOB!

After all the previous controversial posts - Wish I was a College Drop Out and My Confessions- I had a little twist on my mindset. You know, it's all a matter of looking at it. Rather than sourgrape and complain, I chose to take a different perspective. But why a sudden change?

I'm not just trying to training to be one great motivational speaker. I am into a new move...Coaching.

It all started after one of my employee forged a document to excuse her not reporting to our store but another store. Since its her first time, so what I did was counseling. But it turned out to be a life changing counseling.
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She has been with the company for quite some time, so I was really expecting much from her. But unfortunately, she's showing attitude below standards. Burn-out and familiarity and no-fulfillment results into one employee who starts the "chatroom". And so what I did? Very simple. Told her frankly that she's one of the best, but not becoming one. Told her she has a lot of leadership potentials and I can guide her to become one. And empowered her with opportunities that make her more fulfilled of her work.

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm just so proud to say, I've got one employee back on track.

All these came out while I was reading the book Top Performance by Zig Ziglar. I have been really longing for one leadership book and this book was the answer to all my prayers.

At my work, one of the demotivating factors is the lack of someone I look up to. Maybe a there's one or two but no one has been really my idol at work. So I don't really see any point in staying long in the supervisor's station right after lunch. I just get out and read a book. And I don't really have a mentor or a REAL boss at work, a boss I'd offer myself to be harassed. None falls under my qualification. And also, there's not motivation going on. So its  really all by myself.

I used to say that no one is tapping my back. But Kuya reminded me not to worry because HE is tapping my back.

And so, hard to admit, I still belong to the rat race BUT I'm still making the best out of it or shall I say, exploiting it. I have all the opportunity to hone my leadership skills and all other things needed to become one effective people- manager. But still, Hanz remember, this is just a STAGE where I need to go through, I should keep track on my goal. Savor every moment. Be optimistic of every moment.

39 Days Left - Why I Don't Watch TV Anymore

I don't watch TV anymore!!
I will only use it if I watch Movies that are WORTH MY TIME!

Here are my 8 reasons why I dont watch TV anymore:

1. NEGA-TV-TY. 

I really get a strange feeling of negative energy oozing out of the television everytime news is aired. It's all about crime, violence, catasrophe, economic turmoil, and all other bad news. In result, it creates, "useless anxieties", you get stuck, you get afraid, pessimistic, and you become stagnant.

2. SEX, DRUGS, and VIOLENCE. 

Why not LIFE, WEALTH, and HAPPINESS? You can't see these in telenovelas.

3. THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOWBUSINESS

Why follow other peoples lives that people don't even know what's going on in the lives of their own sons and daughters! The life behind the screens of their movies is still business! They are only making a fool of people following them. And you see, the lives you are following are lives with divorce, adultery, intrigues, scams, love triangle!And they stick to it every Sunday afternoon! Why not follow the lives of actors/actresses SUCCEEDING in life makind a difference to the world! oh, are their any?

4. EMPTINESS

When was the last time that you watched a TV show and you felt so good about yourself, or you learned something great that made you so motivated to action, or it changed your life???

5. TIME SPENT ILL

With all the time spent in watching TV did it "produce" something good out of it? Or the day just went by faster?

6. MAKES YOU FEEL SO SMALL

Aside from the fact that most TV figures negatively affect people's self-esteem, TV makes the icons there on top of their world and you are just below, one of their million fans. Your world revolves around them. But actually, you should be the one on top of your world!

7. IT'S NOT REAL

TV creates a world with the main objective of creating money, not for you, but for themselves. Ask yourself this, imagine you are in a big house, with all cameras around it, and the whole world watching at you, what will you do? Okay so you say you will try to be yourself, to be who you really are. But don't forget everything else it not! All the challenges they give, the scenarios, are designed to create a show that will keep people on watching and texting and create them more money! Its a REALITY but its a TV.

8. TV IS NOT MADE FOR YOU..ITS FOR THE NETWORKS, ADVERTISERS AND PRODUCTIONS
At the end of the day, who is happier, fulfilled, and richer? You or the TV networks, actors, and producers?

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"So who cares, if I watch TV...what's with all this fuss??!"
Actually, no one cares.

Just don't stick too much on the boob tube.
And make sure you're not missing the other great things the REAL world has to offer.
(except for the World Cup and Kerygma TV though, got no choice! hehehe)

40 Days More - The Secret of a Store

I want to share to you a secret I discovered working in a store...

You want to know about it?

Tell, me you won't tell anybody, okay? Sure?

Ready?

I'm not publicizing this blog post, so if you were able to ready this, you're very very lucky!
This truly is your day! So ready for the secret?

Here it is...

41 Days More - I Wish I Was a College Drop-Out

"Have you been absent lately?"

"Nah, not yet, I don't want to skip classes, our prof told us he'd give additional .3 to our grades if we would never miss a class."

"Really? .3 is big enough! I won't skip classes too!"

"Good. I'll try my best to be on the dean's list this semester."

"Oh, I'm pretty sure you'll get it."

"I want to become a CPA like my father, take it as a pre-law too. Imagine, I'm a CPA and also a lawyer!"

"Awesome!"

I had a smirk while listening to these two college boys while in the locker room of the gym. Oh, I really miss going to school. And if I'd get a chance, oh boy, will I cut classes! 

Back in college my world was the library. Lets say, I'm more of a nerd, a nerd hunk to be exact. hehehe There were only 3 places I know in school, the classroom, the Campus Ministry Office, and the Library. But I spent most of my time in my kingdom - the library.

I was pretty diligent too, never missed a class, attentive in discussions, cursed myself if I get 3 mistakes in an exam, I studied and read a lot, I was the typical A-student. And so I graduated an A-student. And everybody was happy. But looking back, shocks! I missed most of the good part. Hanging out and wasting time with friends, laughed out loud, group cutting classes, being scolded for trying something new, ran off to play games, and a whole lot more. And right now, I regret, I'll never ever have a chance to experience them.

Sad part here, though I became an A-student obviously I ended up an A-employee. Great job, great pay, and of course GREAT responsibilities. But no matter what I do, I'm still an employee UNDER an employer UNDER the punch card UNDER the 15 day salary cycle UNDER someone who gets rich everyday because I work hard for them. Not the freedom I expected from an A-person like me.

Another "sadder" part here is that only about 10% of what the A-student learned was applied to his being an A-employee. Ouch! Where's the 90%? In the trash bin together with the test papers!

(Oops, the optimistic Hanz has something to say, "Thanks to the training you had with your professors and collegues, you were able to sharpen the right attitude though. And don't forget, thanks to becoming an A-student you became an A-employee -hehehe- and so you had just enough salary to support your family!" 

 "Okay, 'get your point" the writing Hanz agreed.)

And I regret, "If only I was learning in college what I am learning right now, then I would've been an enlightened millionaire in 7 days!! I could've been an A-employer already! I would've developed my core gifts earlier and I could've touched millions of lives at my age right now!"

Listening to those two teens, inside me was screaming to tell them, "Don't take it too seriously, skip classes time and again, enjoy college. You don't need all those stuff to succeed! Drop out boys" 

Oh well, I wished someone was telling me those words when I was in college.

(But wait, the optimistic Hanz has something to say, "Remember Hanz, someone still has to become a teacher, an engineer, a CPA and a lawyer, right? The world needs them! So just chill..everything has a reason.")

42 Days Left - Focus on My Preaching Skills

Things had been quite different lately, especially on the way I manage my work and my team. Like what I said, I'm now focusing on harnessing my skills in writing and preaching or putting it simply: touching lives.

As you know, we have been writing much on our upcoming book. So how about my preaching skills?

Simple, I give simple talks  to my people in anyway I can.

Every morning we have a pep-talk. And honestly for me, its just the most awaited part of my work! Pep-talk is where the whole team would gather around discuss what happened the previous day, share to them the events and plans, or any other important information dissemination. But instead of all these, what I do is to share them  stories, and positive inputs about work and about life and life purpose. Most of them came from not-so-well-off families. Financially struggling, and lack direction in life. And it's such a great feeling looking at them listening intently and seriously when I talk to them about life truths and principles!


My common topics would be that they are all  meant for greater things - living beyond the ordinary. I also give much emphasis on how important for me their tasks. All they have to do is to perfect their small tasks and responsibilities and leave the rest to me. As long as they perfect that then we can bring the whole team forward. I would keep on reminding them, for the past 8 monhts, if you can perfect the small things then can you be able to handle bigger things.

Improvements? Not much. Maybe it would really take enough time and individual focus. But what I'm confidently sure is I have made them uplift themselves from not just mere workers but team members. Plus, the respect I gained from them is assuring.

Aside from the pep-talks, I also shoot some simple truths if I can in our conversations. When they complain, give opinions, or start a talk, I always, in any way I can, inject to them something positive. Those moments that they would bow their head in silence and smile. Gotcha!

And so, instead of complaining on my work as in my other post, there's something I look forward to everyday. It may not be much, but the experience is gratifying. Plus, I get to focus on my life skills. Remember, what you focus on grows!

43 Days More - The Super Amazing Power of Choosing

We already distributed our shirts!!! Wohoooo!!

It's June 18 and we distributed our shirts in a middle of a concert Fete de la Musique held at the Ayala Terraces! Imagine, with super cool bands, and all the lights and all the crowd. (Actually, we never thought that there would be a concert held on that day! Great!) 
And you know,  how many came?

ONLY 6!

Of the 20 who ordered only 6 came! Imagine?

Not bad for starters eh?
We didn't really expect that a only this few came but hey, we had one great mini reunion. We really had a lot of catching up to do with our classmates back in the seminary. Talkin' about the good ol' days is just wonderful!

You see, we really are very optimistic of this. We would really say to ourselves, nothing can stop us! 
Dro was even running on time because our printer started working on it 6 hours before the scheduled release due to some setbacks. We released the shirts an hour late of our set schedule. But still we are positive that we'll find a way of having these picked up. Discouragement is not in our vocabulary!

Today, I choose to CHOSE. 

No matter what happens, bad or good, it's still up to me on what would I do about it. This is one great lesson I learned when I got a copy of Zig Ziglar's book, Top Performance...

In life we chose, whether to react to life - which is negative. Like for example, if the doctor said that the medicine you took reacted on you then that's not a good symptom. But if we respond to life - which is positive then it's the other way around. When the doctor says that you respond to your medicine, then that's an indication that you are healing. 

So no matter what happens in this shirt business, we would respond to it no matter what! People not showing up, messy prints, cellphone loads going zero, we won't react, we respond! And for me, this is the best way to succeed in business, and also in life.

(I started applying this today at work, and hey, with all the headaches lately of peoples attitudes, today was brighter!)

So how about you, will you respond or will you react?

44 Days Left - Not Just Any Ordinary Business

Few nights ago, lying in bed sparked one great idea, and i texted it to my partner Dro. It went our something like this...

"Dro, why not sell all our shirts for a cause? Ain't that cool? Like, we are already doing something good, why not do it God's way?"

And so we did!

The thought sprang from someone who commented on Facebook and asked if the X-sem shirst we are selling are for a cause. We told him this...

"Good afternoon, bro! Thru dis we aim to relive the moments we once had at Don Bosco. And eventually, continue to live in Don Bosco's way. Helping out in any way we can, together with all the exsems of don bosco. Last May, we had a litlle project of giving school supplies to the children of Maghaway, Talisay City. There was only a handful of us then. But with this, we can have a bigger network and thus, handing a bigger chunk of help or support. :) "

Actually, we are planning in one project where we could put in a chunk from the X-sem shirts profits. We would be supporting DBYC (Don Bosco Youth Center) in their continued projects in Maghaway - a little village located going to the mountains behind our seminary. We promised them a simple blackboard that they could use in their catechism.

Dro and me are really looking forward for this. We have made the arrangements and done canvassing a good deal for the blackboard.

And so, this would be our direction: sell t-shirts with a cause. We really want to institutionalize this and make it our own brand. We both are so captivated of the idea of, if you are already doing something why not do it for something greater, something more meaningful!? Right? Don't just stick to the norm, be different, be unique, be cool!!

Currently, we are both brainstorming what would be our best company name, share us if you have any ideas! We'd surely appreciate that, and if it gets approved, you'll get a free shirt! Game?

45 Days More - Diamonds In My Backyard

Just weeks ago, I found a big diamond in my backyard! And right now we are harvesting it.
And I wont tell you about it!

Just kidding!

I’m talking about my second business: selling shirts we sell online through Facebook. Let me tell you a little story behind it.

As all millionaires are, you can never be one unless you have a team. And so I teamed up with my classmate back in high school and my friend for over 12 years now, Leandro. (The biggest guy in the center of the picture..hehehe) Good thing is, we have the same mindset with regards to wealth and finance. So working out with him was no problem, and he became my official co-millionaire.

One Saturday evening two weeks ago, we juggled up all possible ideas where we could strike one powerful business plan. Tell you, it was not easy. We covered everything from internet to real estate and we still hadn’t hit jack pot. We have been squeezing our creative juices for 2 hours already and there was nothing. Tired we just talked about our experiences in the seminary. Yup, you heard it right! I was a seminarian of Don Bosco for 6 years, 6 wonderful years.

And we hit, jackpot! We will be selling t-shirts for ex-seminarians! The big diamond lying in our past! We just got the simplest yet most promising business plan ever! So we spent the next 30 minutes planning and exploring all possibilities with energy and enthusiasm.

We wont be having any problem with the market because we already have one strong one. We are a member of the Facebook group Ex Sems of DB with 300 plus members, so the market is just a click away.

Start-up? Just plain creativity and the internet. We conceptualize a design of a letter X similar to that of WWF to come up with something attractive yet with attitude. However, we added our seminary’s motto,” Ecce Ego Mitte Me”, which means, “Here I am Send Me.” This was made to have a sense of identity to our buyers thus making them have a need to get one.

We also came up with a brilliant marketing plan. The first 10 to comment on Facebook gets a big discount. And tell you, it was just so effective! It would have been better if we would have a pre-launch program like announcing to the group that there is something huge coming. However, we posted it just a day before. No worries, next time we’ll do that.

An additional strategy too was given by Kuya Tony, sell only a limited number of shirts. We decided to print only 99pcs. Why? This would create a sense of urgency to the buyers if we say that it is a limited edition! Thanks Kuya!

And so last June 11, at 8:30 in the evening we launched the X sems shirt! And just before midnight we already had the top 10! Simply great for the starters. We even had 2 from Luzon already!

Orders have a cut-off on Tuesday and they will be released on Saturdays where we would be meeting in a place to distribute the shirts to our buyers.

We would be releasing it 2 days from now, and I am just so excited..


I really can’t believe that all this is just in my past, behind me. My diamond is just in my backyard! And with this, we already have a lot of great ideas coming after this. 

By the way, you might want to know where who’d manufacture our clothes. Again, part of our past, in our backyard. The father of our classmate in the seminary, who also was one Ex sem!

46 Days More - Win-Win in a Win-Lose World

Practicing Win-win in these times is just a tough challenge!

A week ago, I offered a split-win-win of deal between our other branch with a wholesale of one customer, they double-crossed us.

Months ago, a customer broke a 5k worth of vase which he accidentally kicked. Screamed at us. I offered win-win, begged she would pay, even just half the price knowing our in-charge who was just their standing assisting them would get from her pocket the other pay, but she got away clean. She would pay only if we see each other in court because she's a lawyer. So everybody in the department paid for the 5k including me.

Yesterday, I faced one angry customer. She bought a plastic table and a few minutes later came back and returned the table saying that there was a crack! And yes it was there. As standard, my team would always check all possible reasons for that to occur. Three of my personnel, the one who assisted, the one who took the item from the bodega and our check-out confirmed that when they packed the item it was all clear. And if they'd notice anything they'd obviously see it.

She breaked all hell loose, raising her voice and started to tremble really bad. I was just patient, trying to ask her all questions as to what had happened, made a clear walk through. But she shouted at me asking what am I implying if I continue to ask questions, that she caused to break it? "I am a professional, if I was the one who broke it, I wouldn't have asked to replace it!"

So who did?

I continued to ask questions as it is part of making an incident report so that we won't be the one to pay the damaged table. I tried to test her and until she reached her limit, maybe a little conscience would whisper at her. In a while, she did...reach her limit  And so I decided to have the item exchanged.

All I really want was a win-win. If she really did break it, all I need is the details of what happened so that I can make a decent report. She gets her table back, and we make it clean that we are not liable of the damage.

After that, I traced the exits where they went prior to noticing the damage for they reported that it was the security guard who noticed it. And so I did in all exits. And found out that, none of our guards saw a damaged table.

My conclusion. They passed through our guards, becuase in their receipts there was a stamp, damaged the item outside in riding the taxi, rushed back, talked all the bull, screamed at everyone, lied at me, and went home happy and glorious, and would be "chismising" to their friends of their triumphant endeavor in our store.

But inspite all this, I am happy and I am proud that I am different from them. I don't need to step on people just to get what I want. I don't need to scream and treat them with disrespect because they are just salesclerks. I think win-win. And I do win-win. I manage 112 personnel and all my decisions are win-win. It's very tough in this business but hey, I'm different. I'm proud. I'm effective. I'm clean. I'm a Winner. A True Winner.

47 Days More - Upcoming Best Selling Author

A string of amazingly God-designed events lead me into where I am at this very moment. Writing as a co-author of Bo Sanchez new book. Imagine??? I was a nobody a month ago, and right now, I'm working on this big project! Part time!

Like, what I said in my previous post how I figured out my talents, being a jack-of-all trades but master of none, I have pointed out my best option for a life skill - my Public Speaking and Writing Skills. Perusing through Bo's blog I found one of his past article, How to Fulfill Your Life Purpose, on how to identify your life mission. All you need to answer this 2 important questions:

1. What do you love to do?

2. Where do you excel?

As in the jack of all trades post, I wrote a bunch of talents I have - art, music, etc. and they boiled down to two - writing and public speaking. (Wait, I would like to officially change public speaking into Preaching. I found out how lousy I am at being an emcee - public speaking, but I ace at teaching and training people!) Luckily, my writing and preaching skills are the things I excel at!! And you know what, these are also the skills Bo's top skill in his talent inventory!!

That's why writing this book, has been such an amazing experience! I may have doubts on this venture, but no one's gonna stop me from striking on this! If this goes well, of which it will do, then this is really what I've been looking for!

Each and every day, life has been more meaningful!

I'll tell you more about the book soon!!

48 Days to Go - Many Believed I am a Scam

Yep! I have been trying to analyze why traffic is always low in this blog. I checked at feedjit, and lo! I only have so few a visitors from Facebook. Where are my classmates? my colleagues?  my friends? (gosh, I forgot, I never had that a lot of friends back then, loner Hanz) Not much is interested with what I'm into. They missed that this is a transition of a life time! Oh, I pity them... I got this God Whispers from Bo Sanchez exactly right after thinking of over this... 

Dear Hanz,

Be content with what you have, but never be content with who you are.  When you go about earning money, it isn't money that you really seek, but the growth of character that you build in you.

Keep growing,
God

 
P.S. Many do the opposite: They're content with who they are but very discontented with what they have.  Be different,Hanz. 

This is my God Whispers for today.

Amazing, right? I'm really amazed of every time I open my God Whispers I always read thoughts that exactly suite to my current situation. And this time, the 90 day challenge continued to build in pressure in me, most especially in the legendary war between my work and the opportunities I miss while being there! Inside of me has this burning fire that says, "You're worth more than this! Never be content with who you are right now!"

I would like to quote the PS.:

P.S. Many do the opposite: They're content with who they are but very discontented with what they have.  Be different,Hanz.  

 They do the opposite. Hanz is different.

49 Days to Go - System Down

System Down! System Down! Alert! Alert!

For the first time in weeks, I came home without opening the laptop. System Down!
No, not the laptop, me!

I really didn't notice but I have been sleeping less than 5 hours straight for 5 days. So my body got it's toll. I started having a hard time comprehending things, missed out the words, I can't even speak in plain straight english already and I became so irratable. Like in the jeepney, I was about to elbow the person beside me on his face because of his smelly armpit, and I almost damaged the bar handle of the jeepney because I was hammering my coin for his music is too loud and lousy. People stared at me.

When I got home, took a bath, prayed and dozed off immediately. I promised myself that it would be the last time I'd get myself into that kind of mess.

"If you lose your sleep, you lose a lot: you lose your temper, you lose your creativity, you lose your comprehension, you lose the magic, you lose the great moments life has to offer, you lose the essence of time, you lose the opportunity, and you lose yourself."

50 Days More - My Second Business-Shirts and Internet Marketing

Ladies and Gentlemen, presenting to you my second business...

About 2 hours of brainstorming.
Less than a week of planning.
1 hour of designing.
Phone calls here and there.
A Facebook Page - Xsems of DB
And this is it..

We launched it at 8:30 in the evening...just before midnight we already had 8 orders....and counting...

Not bad for starters. Nice!

Interested? PM me.

51 Days to Go - Do Something Different, Break the Monotony

I just had one of the most wonderful evenings ever! My trip back home from the city became one spectacular moment. Why? I did something so out of the ordinary, something I've missed doing in a very long time...PLAYING IN THE RAIN.

Yes, and it feels so great!! I cannot describe the feeling! I missed this so much! I mean, the water dropping all over me. I opened wide my arms and turned and turned. The feeling of the cold water running through my face was marvelous. As I closed my eyes, cherished this one moment when rain really poured after a long drought and warmth these past month, I begin to see flash backs of my childhood days when we would run like crazy during the rain, splashed the puddles, and shout at the top of our lungs.

I haven't had this flashback for years already. Just now in my adult life I was able to reminisce the happiness of being young. Its innocence and excitement. No worries. Its freedom is incomparable.

God, is so marvelous. Listen, I just discovered this today! I just realized that God is so great that He made a way to water trees!!!! And as He was watering his creation, He did so to me. And I say, "Bring it on! Shower me with your blessings so that I can be just the very best You wanted me to be!".

The feeling is rejuvenating. (Jan, you should try this! Too bad, you got sick) With all the pressure I brought to myself lately in this 90 days challenge, experiencing this simple yet amazing way of nature to keep the cycle of life turning is the pump, the boost, I just need to keep on.

You should really try it. Stop the monotony. Do something different. Celebrate nature and you celebrate life.

52 Days More - Out of the Rat Race

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....So this is how it feels to be out of the rat race.

Had a fresh home-made spa bath, no worries, no rush baths because no one's going to be late.
And oh, the first time in such a long period that I've heard the birds chipping! Such a wonderful moment!
Listened to my favorite playlist, with Falling Slowly from the movie "Once" playing right now sparking romance back into my life. (Wait, let me text my Dabby how much I love her)
Took a good breakfast. Slowly! Consuming every bite delightly.
Had a good laugh with my Dad a while ago.
And of course, a cold glass of Hanz's best Iced Coffee!

Wohooo! This is my first real day-off in months where I spent daylight in our house!
Such a wonderful thing!

So this is how it feels....Magnificent!

The only thing lacking here is tickets for the trip this weekend to Paris, and the reservations for FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Gosh!! And the talk I would give tonight at the Millionaire Conference. Oh, I had to check on my Ford Escape, got some harsh sounds on the back. Wait, let me answer the phone, hopefully this would be the 12th house I would sell this week. I would have to drop by Western Union later today, another $2K from the ever generous Mr. Google Adsense. 

This is so great. I can see it. I can feel it!

53 Days More - My Confessions

I won't be advertising this post, no links whatsoever. Its too personal and controversial. This is only for the dear few people who subscribes and follows this blog.  

In the past weeks, everyday at work I always have little revelations about myself. And lately, this has been the most controversial of all..."I don't like my job!" Why?

Let me recount the reasons in out-of-my-mind order:

1. I don't want scolding people! I just hate it! But I have to because they are trained or hardwired to move if you reprimand them first. I don't know, maybe I'm just too soft that's why I don't get the results. But I am soft! That's me! I can't be rough and tough on people! HAHAHA! Your so weak hanz!

2. I want to bring out the best of everybody but I cannot because a good number of them just work not becuase they're good at it but because they have to look for money. So you can't expect results.

3. The system is faulty. The best example is, "If one is on-leave, everybody fails."

4. And I have the burden of solving 1,2,3 to be an effective supervisor.

5. I just hate the fact that my master is the punchcard!!!

6. No offense, but I really feel lonely. Especially every lunch! Yes, everybody is great, but I don't know anyone who can relate with me. (You're right, I am the youngest) And this is also the same reason people avoid me. (By the way, I hate trash talk.)

7. Being up there - in my position - is lonely.

8. No support group! It's so difficult to work with no one backing you up. Or even guiding you. If I have a project or program I have to move heaven and earth to make it happen - alone!

9.  I recently discovered that I cannot do routines and monotony. That's why you would see me in all departments! (Yes, I hate periodic nonsense paper works)

and the hardest it....

10.I have to face 1 to 9 everyday with a smile on my face, thinking positively, and being proud of my team.

Imagine?

Okay you can call me weak, perfectionist, with low social skills, and needs to read more self-help leadership books. But hey, that's me! I am the soft good guy who hunts people's potentials and make them proud of it. Yes, I honestly can brag that I have DONE A WHOLE LOT for the company but deep inside I am empty. Yes, I have learned so much and helped a lot of people and employees but I'm still where I am yesterday. Yes, people speak good about me and expect me to be on top sooner or later but I haven't spoken good about myself lately. Yes, I have a good salary, (and I need it..hehehe).

Writing this post has been tough, an eye-opener, and someone-would-fire-me-soon, but I'm just so full of this thoughts. Okay, the company has brought good things for me too, I could list 79 of them in this post, but these thoughts are the heaviest. Oh okay, okay, maybe I'm just too engrossed lately of passive income, and envy Jan who earns a lot semi-passively doing what he loves and gets to travel with Kuya always. But maybe, just maybe, that's the kind of life I want. No, that's what I really want!!!

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... I'll just leave this thoughts hanging and see how they settle. Maybe I am too emotional or too logical in these at this time. Let's have time take its role.

When the water is clear, then can I see.

54 Days More - The Truth About the Secret

I know most of us have read or watched "The Secret". So I'm pretty sure you can relate on this post. But if you haven't well...hmmmmm...secreeeeeeeeeettttt...

For 2 years I have been applying the Law of Attraction. Wanna know where? when? and how?
Before riding a jeepney!!!
(a public transportation vehicle in the Philippines)

At first, I didn't believe it but if I'll never try, I'll never know. It started with curiosity, trying to see if this Law of  Attraction really works. After taking a shower in going to work I would visualize that as I am coming near the waiting shed of our  village, the jeepney for my route would already be there waiting for me.

You see, there are only two jeepneys available for my route 10H and 10C. The former is usually filled with passengers because it goes to SM Supermall, and it's also the best route in going to the north of Cebu. While the latter has the fewest trips in our town. So getting on time at work has is quite a challenge for me.

And so I did my visualization, even in my way to our gate and out and walking to the shed. For the first week. It was inconsistent. Sometimes there's luck while sometimes none. But on to the following week, it happened straight for 3 days. Motivated, I continued until everyday the jeepney - with a big smile - I would hop in the jeep without waiting for more than a minute.

It even came to a point where I can literally ask a 10H to wait for me rather than a 10C. And when I asked for a 10C. Lo! There it is!

Then I got an idea. Why not try it on the pedicab? A bicycle with a cab that is the usual transportation in a village. Just on my first try, I got cabs waiting for me!

I literally felt powerful....for a time.

I noticed that there would be times that things are not just working out the way it is. I powerfully focus and visualize but when however still I get to walk out of the village on foot under the sun or I would be waiting for 15 minutes just for a jeepney. Worst, I get late!!!

Thinking and looking at it. I figured out what's wrong...

1. I missed my visualizations and focus. Obviously, it won't work.

2. But this is the main loophole, I usually miss the jeepney or get late when I leave home 30 minutes before my time at work!!

Of course!!!!!

This is my discovery about the truth on the Law of Attraction:

No matter how much you focus and visualize, if you don't help yourself and you take no action, you'll never get it! 

And so I have to end this post so that I could sleep early and wake up early and leave for work early so that when I visualize powerfully I can dictate the universe that the jeepney that would be waiting for me would be a 10H - color blue!

55 Days to Go - The Poor Dad

My mind still cannot understand how certain people think!
"You help them but they just won't help themselves! "
Yes, I am angry but composed coz I'll end up busting they keypad of my sis' laptop.

Jimi, one of my father's workers, lived in "the mansion" as what his neighbors called during my dad's visit in their place. Yes, a mansion as it is, though slightly bigger than the neighbor's pig pen, he has 3 children 12, 10, and 2 years old. Unfortunately, his wife is pregnant of the 4th. And It is good to note that his wife is blind due to the infection brought by a cyst.

Imagine, everyday they eat for all their meals "lechon baka" (roasted beef) and "lechon baboy" (roasted pork). However, only the name is sumptuous for these are the names of the best selling one peso junk food.

His daugther, Jenny Rose, is going high school this June. While his son Tyson, the 10 year old, will soon be a member of Akrho and will be enjoying the group's benefits of free coffin courtesy of St. Peter in 5 years time.

Desperate, he went to our house a couple of weeks ago bringing the pics of his children and offered them for adoption. As my mother recounted, "He was like selling puppies!" Being an answered prayer, my parents agreed to take in Jenny Rose. You see, we have been looking for help here at home for quite a long time. My mom is the real-life-working-mom-chef-entrepreneur-buyer-seller-government-offices-goer-helper-of-her-burdened-brothers-and-sisters-disciplinarian-cook-5am-daily-mass-goer-amazing mother of all. Indeed, Jenny Rose would be a great help to lessen her arthritis and headaches.

And so arrangements were made and they brought Jenny Rose three days ago. Everybody was very excited most especially my sister. She gave her most of her dresses and stuffs looking forward to becoming an "ate". My mom got her her room and they were planning to enroll her this week at school. She was indeed a great help especially with the 5 pages to do list of my mom.

But just today, after going for a visit at their home she texted us that she won't be coming back. She said she missed her family. ( A 15 mins,7 peso ride away from our place)

"I cannot comprehend how someone who is literally handed a blessing, a lifetime opportunity, right into her hands threw it all away. I don't know why. You help them, but they don't want to help themselves!!!!" This is what my father said as I heard the news.

Just writing this post, I realized how good the world is. It is full of amazing, endless blessings and opportunities. And these blessings are dying to help you, longing to get noticed, opportunities are hungry for our attention. BUT only man shuns himself from all these. Runs away from blessings. Throws all opportunities away.

I will never forget what Kuya told me the from our first meetings..

"I have helped a lot of people...but only a very few deserves it"

And now, I understand.

56 Days to Go - New Biz in the Making!

No one can contain my excitement lately. I think we just hit the gold mine just behind our backyard! Yep! Just behind our backyard. Buried in my wonderful past is a golden opportunity. 

Right now, Dro and me are still digging it slowly. Planning and sourcing possibilities and options. No room for mistakes here. We have came up with a million dollar idea..simple yet great! We have the perfect niche. A very solid and unique market that is very promising in this treasure hunt. Plus, we need not much capital!

Everything is still being cooked, slowly but surely. We need to come up with a strong marketing plan and a stable logistics procedure about delivery and distribution. One step at a time. We both super feel excited. I'm so dying to tell the world...

but not now..not now...

57 Days to Go - EVERYBODY PLEASE READ THIS!

I was shocked and speechless after a couple of my friends mentioned at me saying that this website looks like another million dollar SCAM!!!! EVERYBODY PLEASE READ THIS!!!!

"Why don't you set a goal to become a millionaire?"

He didn't say, "Set a goal to become a millionaire for the million dollars."

He said...

"The million dollar is automatic...

set a goal to become a millionaire for what it will make of you to achieve it,

for the person you would have to become: knowledgeable, understanding the marketplace, 

learning to improvise, overcoming difficulties, solving problems, bringing value to the marketplace, 

all the stuff you must learn, and do, and become to be a millionaire."

He said, "If you do it right, that's what's important to become a millionaire."

He said...

"Then once you get the million dollars you could just give it away...

because what's really valuable is not what you got but what you really became..."

-jim rohn

58 Days More - Jack of All of Trades , Master of None

I am very grateful that God created a creature like me. I can say that I can do a lot of things. Here's a few of them:

1. I can draw and paint

2. I play the guitar quite well

3. I can compose and arrange songs

4. I can create and edit videos and movies

5. I can act

6. I can write articles

7. I can speak in public

8. I can dance (?)

9. I can counsel and give a good advice

10. I can mold clays

11. I can clean a house superbly!

Looking at these, I have said that I can, but however I didn't say that "I am very good" at or "I master this and that".(By the way, if you're interested of my skills you can contact me and we could make some good business..hehehe)

Ideally, if you have a business it should be something where you can be very good at. It should be your forte. The aspect where you are the master. Lately, these days, I discovered what my forte is. I'm not sure yet but I'm having a strong hunch that it is.

Here are the top 5 of my abilities that I can say has the potential to be my "forte"

1. Drawing and Paint

2.Guitar and Music

3. Making Videos

4. Writing

5. Motivational Speaking

Which among these can be a very great tool for me to inspire people being my life mission?
All.

However, which among these can I do all day without getting paid and still get good results?

Guitar and Music, Writing, Motivational Speaking.

However, which among the three can I see myself clearly where I can inspire a lot of people easily?

Writing and Motivational Speaking.

These two can be the very tools I can fulfill my mission in life. I still can't distinguish which of the two will stand out, but I've got a feeling they both come together. This two will be my focus for the next coming months. I haven't got any feedback of how good am I at public speaking but the feeling I get when I see peoples faces just astounds me. However, I'm really not confident of my writing skills but with Kuya and Jan's "discovery" and acknowledging of my capabilities high sky rocketed my enthusiasm. (Super Thanks!)

So let the door of words, thoughts, and speeches be formally open.