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The Greates Miracle In The World

2011-12-04T22:07:00.000-08:00

From: GOD
To: Me

....You are my remnant.

It is of no avail to ask, haven't you know, haven't you heard, hasn't it been told to you from the beginning; haven't you understood from the foundations of the earth?

You have not known; you have not heard; you have not understood.

You have been told that you are a divinity in disguise, a god playing a fool.

You have been told that you are a special piece of work, noble in reason, infinite in faculties, express and admirable in form and moving, like an angel in action, like a god in apprehension.

You have been told that you are the salt of the earth.

You were given the secret even of moving mountains, of performing the impossible.

You believed no one. You burned your map to happiness, you abandoned your claim to peace of mind, you snuffled out of the candles that had been placed along your destined path of glory, and then you stumbled, lost and frightened, in the darkness of futility and self-pity, until you fell into a hell of your own creation.

Then you cried and beat your breast and cursed the luck that had befallen you. You refused to accept the consequences of your own petty thoughts and lazy deeds and you searched for a scapegoat on which to blame your failure. How quickly you found one.

You blamed me!

You cried that your handicaps, your mediocrity, your lack of opportunity, your failures...were the will of God!

You were wrong!

Let us take inventory. Let us, first, call a roll of your handicaps. For how can I ask you to build a new life lest you have the tools?

Are you blind? Does the sun rise and fall without your witness?

No. You can see...and the hundred million receptors I have placed in your eyes enable you to enjoy the magic of a leaf, a snowflake, a pond, an eagle, a child, a cloud, a star, a rose, a rainbow...and the look of love. Count one blessing.

Are you deaf? Can a baby laugh or cry without your attention?

No. You can hear...and the twenty-four thousand fibers I have built in each of your ears vibrate to the wind in the trees, the tides on the rocks, the majesty of an opera, a robin's plea, children at play...and the words I love you. Count another blessing.

Are you mute? Do your lips move and bring forth only spittle?

No. You can speak...as can no other of my creatures, and your words can calm the angry, uplift the despondent, goad the quitter, cheer the unhappy, warm the lonely, praise the worthy, encourage the defeated, teach the ignorant...and say I love you. Count another blessing.

Are you paralyzed? Does your helpless form despoil the land?

No. You can move. You are not a tree condemned to a small plot while the wind and world abuses you. You can stretch and run and dance and work, for within you I have designed five hundred muscles, two hundred bones, and seven miles of nerve fiber all synchronized by me to do your bidding. Count another blessing.

Are you unloved and unloving? Does loveliness engulf you, night and day?

No. No more. For now you know love's secret, that to receive love it must be given with no thought of its return. To love for fulfillment, satisfaction, or pride is no love. Love is a gift on which no return is demanded. Now you know that to love unselfishly is its own reward. And even should love not be returned it is not lost, for love not reciprocated will flow back to you and soften and purify your heart. Count another blessing. Count twice.

Is your heart stricken? Does it leak and strain to maintain your life?

No. You heart is strong. Touch your chest and feel its rhythm, pulsating, hour after hour, day and night, thirty six million beats each year, year after year, asleep or awake, pumping your blood through more than sixty thousand miles of veins, arteries, and tubing...pumping more than six hundred thousand gallons each year. Man has never created such a machine. Count another blessing.

Are you diseased of skin? Do people turn in horror when you approach?

No. Your skin is clear and marvel of creation, needing only that you tend it with soap and oil and brush and care. In time all steels will tarnish and rust, but not your skin. Eventually the strongest metals will wear, with use, but not that layer that I have constructed around you. Constantly it renews itself, old cells replaced by new, just as old you is now replaced by the new. Count another blessing.

Are your lungs befouled? Does the breath of life struggle to enter you body?

No. Your portholes to life support you even in the vilest of environments of your own making, and they labor always to filter life-giving oxygen through six hundred million pockets of folded flesh while they get rid your body of gaseous wastes. Count another blessing.

Is your blood poisoned? Is it diluted with water and pus?

No. Within your five quarts of blood are twenty-two trillion blood cells and each cell are millions of molecules and within each molecule is an atom oscillating at more than ten million times each second. Each second, two million of your blood cells die to be replaced by two million more in a resurrection that has continued since your first birth. As it has always been inside, so now it is on your outside. Count another blessing.

Are you feeble of mind? Can you no longer think for yourself?

No. Your brain is the most complex structure in the universe. I know. Within its three pounds are thirteen billion nerve cells, more than two times as many cells as there people on your earth. To help you file away every perception, every sound, every taste, every smell, every action you have experienced since the day of your birth, I have implanted, within your cells, more than one thousand billion billion protein molecules. Every incident in your life is there waiting only your recall. And, to assist your brain in the control of your body I have dispersed, throughout your form, four million pain-sensitive structures, five hundred thousand touch detectors, and more than two hundred thousand temperature detectors. No nation's gold is better protected than you. None of your ancient wonders are greater than you.

You are my finest creation.

Within you is enough atomic energy to destroy any of the world's great cities...and rebuild it.

Are you poor? Is there no gold or silver in your purse?

No. You are rich! Together we have just counted your wealth. Study the list. Count them again. Tally your assets!

Why have you betrayed yourself? Why have you cried that all the blessings of humanity were removed from you? Why did you deceive yourself that you were powerless to change your life? are you without talent, senses, abilities, pleasures, instincts, sensations, and pride? Are you without hope? Why do you cringe in the shadows, a giant defeated, awaiting only sympathetic transport into the welcome void and dampness of hell?

You have so much. Your blessing overflow your cup...and you have been unmindful of them, like a child spoiled in luxury, since I have bestowed them upon you with generosity and regularity.

......

On that reasoning you are the most valuable treasure on the face of the earth, for you know who created you and there is only one of you.

Never, in all the seventy billion humans who have walked this planet since the beginning of time has there been anyone exactly like you.

Never, until the end of time, will there be another such as you.

You have shown no knowledge or appreciation of your uniqueness.

Yet, you are the rarest thing in the world.

From your father , in his moment of supreme love, flowed countless seeds of love, more than four hundred million in number. All of them, as they swam within your mother, gave up the ghost and died. All except one! You.

You alone persevered within the loving warmth of your your mother's body, searching for your other half, a single cell from your mother so small that more than two million would be necessary to fill an acorn shell. Yet, despite impossible odds, in that vast ocean of darkness and disaster, you persevered, found that infinitesimal cell, joined with it, and began a new life. Your life.

You arrived, bringing with you, as does every child, the message that I was not yet discouraged of man. Two cells, now united in a miracle. Two cells, each containing twenty-three chromosomes and within each chromosome hundred of genes, which would govern every characteristic about you, from the color of your eyes to the charm of your manner to the size of your brain.

With all the combinations at my command, beginning with that single sperm from your father's four hundred million, through the hundred of genes in each of the chromosomes from your mother and father, I could have created three hundred thousand billion humans, each different from the other.

But who did I bring forth?

You! One of a kind. Rarest of the rare. A priceless treasure, possessed of qualities in mind and speech and movement and appearance and actions as no other has ever lived, lives, or shall live.

.....

Count your blessings.

Proclaim your rarity.

Go another mile.

Use wisely your power of choice.

And one more, to fulfill the other four. Do all things with love...love for yourself, love for all others, and love for me.

Wipe away your tears. Reach out, grasp my hand, and stand straight.

Let me cut the grave cloths that have bound you.

This day you have been notified.

YOU ARE THE GREATEST MIRACLE IN THE WORLD

From the book "The Greatest Miracle In The World" by Og Mandino

Is It Possible To Create Brain-Like Computers?

2011-11-19T06:22:00.000-08:00

From my previous posts, you'll learn I've mentioned TED.com several times that was because
that site TED.com is an online gallery of most intellectual, powerful and inspiring people in the world. All(almost) of your life question in every area was someone who had the answer.

The video below was about Kwabena Boahen, a researcher,a scientist, an engineer and a big thinker who first got fascinated with computers when Kwabena was just a teenager.

According to Kwabena Boahen, our brain can process 10 quadrillion bits of information per second using a minimal power of a laptop computer. WOW! For a piece of lump, it was unarguably that our brain was the most powerful computer in the world.

Super-computer

[Image Source:https://asc.llnl.gov/computing_resources/bluegenel/]

Kwabena also said that there's a computer with the brain-like capacity, the fastest computer in the world was called Blue Gene with 120,000 processors can also process 10 quadrillion bits of information just like our brain. But in order to get these features, Blue Genes needed a tremendous power of half of a megawatt.

However, Kwabena's talk was in the year 2007, so the information on that year was not accurate as of today. 'Cause as you knew how our technology advances in a very fast pace. Just awed by how God created a super-efficient computer that even humans can't figure out how to create this kind of computer. Well, as of now.

Be awed as well. Watch the vid below.

Way below. ☺
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10 Characteristics of Successful Entrepreneurs

2011-11-17T22:49:00.000-08:00

I found this moments ago while exploring the our company forum site. Though I'm not yet a full-pledged entrepreneur I find this useful for aspiring ones like me and a good refresher for those who already had their own businesses.

Below were the list of 10 characteristics of successful entrepreneurs. I tried to find the real source of this in the internet but not lucky enough. Anyway here's the list:

1. Think success. To attain the kind of success that you want, you need to dream big. Every success story starts with big dreams. You need to have big dreams for yourself - which you want to be somebody rich, famous or fulfilled. You need to have a clear vision of what you want to achieve. But it doesn't stop in dreaming alone. You should actively visualize success in your mind that you can almost feel it, touch it or it is within your reach. Play this image back at every opportunity. What does it feel to triple your current income? How will your life change? What will your business look like if you achieved the million-dollar mark?

Successful entrepreneurs possess an attitude of openness and faith that you can have what you want if you can simply envision it as the first step on the path of action to acquiring it. Management gurus have taught us the power of visualization - seeing yourself in your mind as having accomplished your dreams. If you want to be a successful writer, envision yourself signing books for a throng of people who have lined up to have your autograph. If you want to be rich, picture yourself in luxurious surroundings holding a fat bank account. And the process of envisioning success for you should be a constant activity! You need to think that you are successful (or will be one) every single waking hour. A personal development coach shared me her secret to help her continuously visualize her goals for the moment: when climbing stairs, recite your goal with every step you take. So if you want more money, say "I will have money" in every step of the stairs. This technique will reinforce your goal and keep it fresh in your consciousness.

2. Be passionate with what you do. You start a business to change any or all part of your life. To attain this change, you need to develop or uncover an intense, personal passion to change the way things are and to live life to the fullest. Success comes easily if you love what you do. Why? Because we are more relentless in our pursuit of goals about things that we love. If you hate your job right now, do you think you will ever be successful at it? Not in a million years! You may plod along, even become competent at the tasks, but you will never be a great success at it. You will achieve peak performance and do what you have to do to succeed only if you are doing something that interests you or something that you care about. Entrepreneurs who succeed do not mind the fact that they are putting in 15 or 18 hours a day to their business because they absolutely love what they do. Success in business is all about patience and hard work, which can only be attained if you are passionate and crazy with your tasks and activities.

3. Focus on your strengths. Let's face it; you cannot be everything to everybody. Each of us has our own strengths and weaknesses. To be effective, you need to identify your strengths and concentrate on it. You will become more successful if you are able to channel your efforts to areas that you do best. In business, for example, if you know you have good marketing instincts, then harness this strength and make full use of it. Seek help or assistance in areas that you may be poor at, such as accounting or bookkeeping. To transform your weakness to strength, consider taking hands-on learning or formal training.

4. Never consider the possibility of failure. Ayn Rand, in her novel The Fountainhead, wrote, "It is not in the nature of man - nor of any living entity, to start out by giving up." As an entrepreneur, you need to fully believe in your goals, and that you can do it. Think that what you are doing will contribute to the betterment of your environment and your personal self. You should have a strong faith in your idea, your capabilities and yourself. You must believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that you have the ability to recognize and fulfill them. The more you can develop faith in your ability to achieve your goals, the more rapidly you can attain it. However, your confidence should be balanced with calculated risks that you need to take to achieve greater rewards. Successful entrepreneurs are those who analyze and minimize risk in the pursuit of profit. As they always say, "no guts, no glory."

5. Plan accordingly. You have a vision, and you have enough faith in yourself to believe that you can achieve your vision. But do you know how to get to your vision? To achieve your vision, you need to have concrete goals that will provide the stepping-stone towards your ultimate vision. Put your goals in writing; not doing so just makes them as intangible fantasies. You need to plan each day in such a way that your every action contributes to the attainment of your vision. Do you foresee yourself as the next Martha Stewart of hand-made home furnishings? Perhaps today, you need to see an artist to help you conceptualize the new line of hand-made linens that you hope to launch. Intense goal orientation is the characteristic of every successful entrepreneur. They have a vision, and they know how to get there. Your ability to set goals and make plans for your accomplishment is the skill required to succeed. Plan, plan and plan - because without which failure is guaranteed.

6. Work hard! Every successful entrepreneur works hard, hard and hard. No one achieves success just by sitting and staring at the wall every single day. Brian Tracy puts it out this way, "You work eight hours per day for survival; everything over eight hours per day is for success." Ask any successful businessperson and they will tell you immediately that they had to work more than 60 hours per week at the start of their businesses. Be prepared to say goodbye to after-office drinks every day, or a regular weekend get-away trip. If you are in a start-up phase, you will have to breathe, eat and drink your business until it can stand on its own. Working hard will be easy if you have a vision, clear goals, and are passionate with what you do.

7. Constantly Look for Ways to Network. In business, you are judged by the company you keep - from your management team, board of directors, and strategic partners. Businesses always need assistance, more so small businesses. Maybe the lady you met in a trade association meeting can help you secure funding, or the gentleman at a conference can provide you with management advise. It is important to form alliances with people who can help you, and whom you can help in return. To succeed in business, you need to possess good networking skills and always be alert to opportunities to expand your contacts.

8. Willingness to Learn. You do not need to be a MBA degree holder or PhD graduate to succeed in your own business. In fact, there are a lot of entrepreneurs who did not even finish secondary education. Studies show that most self-made millionaires have average intelligence. Nonetheless, these people reached their full potentials achieved their financial and personal goals in business because they are willing to learn. To succeed, you must be willing to ask questions, remain curious, interested and open to new knowledge. This willingness to learn becomes more crucial given the rapid changes in technologies and ways of doing business.

9. Persevere and have faith. No one said that the road to success is easy. Despite your good intentions and hard work, sometimes you will fail. Some successful entrepreneurs suffered setbacks and resounding defeats, even bankruptcy, yet managed to quickly stand up to make it big in their fields. Your courage to persist in the face of adversity and ability to bounce back after a temporary disappointment will assure your success. You must learn to pick yourself up and start all over again. Your persistence is the measure of the belief in yourself. Remember, if you persevere, nothing can stop you.

10. Discipline yourself. Thomas Huxley once said, "Do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you like it or not." Self-discipline is the key to success. The strength of will to force yourself to pay the price of success - doing what others don't like to do, going the extra mile, fighting and winning the lonely battle with yourself.

Must-Have and First-Have Tools for Your PC

2011-11-16T21:57:00.000-08:00

Tools to make your cyber world a better place
[Image Sorce:http://www.flickr.com/photos/99472898@N00/4856986697]

For weeks I'm been scratching my head because my PC was so slow and sometimes that piece of marvel will suddenly shutdown out-of-the-blue.

Einstein said that "Insanity is doing the same thing but expecting different results" so I have to stop scratching my head and do something about my beloved companion.

I told my mother to find someone who can fix my PC and so she did as every loving mother will. Great news my computer became okay as it was new but unfortunately my files was gone. Though my files in my PC was gone it was still okay with me and tell you why later.

Below were the list of my personally must-have and first-have tools for my PC:
1. Updated Web Browser
Go to whatbrowser.org to know if you got the latest version. You can also get the latest version form that site of your Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, etc.

Note: I suggest you to have multiple browsers if you need to log your email at the same platform like YahooMail and Gmail at the same time. Example is logging 3 different Gmail accounts in Opera, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer all at the same time.

2. Spybot -Search and Destroy
Software that detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers and sold to advertising companies. Spybot-Search and Destroy is absolutely free. Not bad!

Get this useful piece of software at http://www.safer-networking.org/en/home/index.html

3. K9 Web Protection
I got this from a blog post of a preacher named Bo Sanchez who post about this four years ago. Though is somewhat a long time ago especially in cyberspace time frame. I find this useful in a very personal and deep level. Bro.Bo admitted that he got this porn addiction for years. I also admit I had too. This tool is a great protection for young ones as well as for yourself.
We don't want to be defeated. NO ONE is vulnerable enough. By the way, K9 Web Protection is also useful to block malwares, spywares and scams lurking the net.

Note: When you install K9 Web Protection, find someone you trust that can hold the password

Get now this extremely must-have protection at http://www1.k9webprotection.com

4. DropBox
I told you later that all my files in my PC was deleted. I also told you that it was fine with me and DropBox was the reason.

DropBox was useful. Never let your computer to not get this or at least any similar platform. DropBox was used for the purpose of file back-up. When you install DropBox in your PC, you will get a DropBox folder where anything you saved in that folder will be saved as well to the DropBox server somewhere in the internet.

I got so fascinated with this tool that I made a slideshow presentation on how to install DropBox in your PC. If you're very techie you might be annoyed 'cause my tutorial was soooo step-by-step. If you had zero idea about DropBox then this tutorial was perfect for you. Go to http://www.1pinoyblogger.com/2010/10/how-to-use-dropbox-to-back-up-your.html

Note: Another incredible feature of DropBox is you can send large file(let say 1GB?) from your email and even in private message in FaceBook.

Get a back-up of your precious files at www.dropbox.com

The Best About This Tools
They're all FREE! Awesome right? :)

Internet Marketing Tools To Improve You Customer Service

2011-11-14T14:25:00.001-08:00

2 days ago, we saw the anticipated bout between our pride Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez. We saw what's the majority of viewers did not expect, another controversial finish. Though some got disappointed I'm happy to see how they gave all they got. Even in moment after their heads collide they still manage to punch each other in that very instance. Ooops, now with the topic.

Did you notice when you buy something like medicines or magazine there is something like "For comments or suggestion call us at ______(fill the customer service phone number)" that is because the manufacturers knows the significant value of feedback from customers. For improvement and more customer satisfaction, creating good relationship is a must. Even in business.

The internet made that purpose more cheaper and convenient. I got this when I bought an October issues of Entrepreneur Magazine in 7-Eleven.

I found some of the links they share in that particular article in the October issue of Entrepreneur Magazine as broken links. Anyway, here's three great internet marketing tools to enhanced customer relationship online:

1. Disqus(disqus.com)

A real-time comment system that let you know when someone response about your article or blog post via email. This is good to save fair amount of time by not always looking at your site if someone gave an insight 'cause you'll be notified via email message.

2. IntenseDebate(intensedebate.com)

This is another real-time commenting platform, but what differs IntenseDebate from other similar platform was this tool will let you carry the conversation even email and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.

3. ShareThis(sharethis.com)

This platform lets you post a link via email in famous sites like LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Digg, Facebook, Twitter, Google and Yahoo.

You can try this tools and made your branding with your prospects and customers improve dramatically.

Do What You Love To Do Even If You Don't Like To

2011-11-12T12:07:00.000-08:00

Last week I got a five day long vacation. It's not the Boracay out-of-town kind of vacation. By the way, if you're a non-Filipino(Pinoy) who don't know what in the world Boracay is then I suggest you to borrow some power from the almighty Google.

This is a great chance for me to do what I loved to do. I read books, sing with my guitar, attend business presentations, talked to my neighbors, seek advice from my mentors, eat, exercise(a bit), post some blog posts in a very personal way of writing with no respect for grammar(haha).

Being back again to work was not a pain-in-the-neck to me because I was rejuvenated doing things that I love to do. I do not hate my job, it was a great blessing to me for three years and counting but I had to admit that I hate to do some of the things that I'm currently doing there. Some self-proclaimed wise people will asked you to resign on that job and find something that your so passionate to do. Actually based on my experience, I may read that question in some books or online articles or heard from a seminar but none had really asked me to do that personally.

It was me who asked that question to myself. I been thinking on doing things on my terms but for years I'm not sure on what were the things that I will do even if would not be paid to do it. Some love music, writing, dancing, joking, spitting, climbing tall buildings, drinking vinegar, opening beer bottles with their teeth, watching sunset, feeding crocodiles, organizing rock concerts, licking lollipops, ironing curtains, washing dishes, waving to strangers, eating seedless grapes, volunteering in blood donation, adopting cats, counting stars at night(obviously!), creating Facebook applications, collecting anime' action figures, surfing, exploring to underground rivers(you can visit Palawan in the Philippines to see the world's most wonderful underground river) and many simple and out-of-this-galaxy things that we can think of that we can do.

Asking yourself what you love to do was for me an extremely valuable question to ask. Maybe it's like asking yourself what on earth am I here for. I know that many of us asked that to themselves. Though the question is simple yet the answers don't seem to be that simple really. In this world were people were so busy keeping up to merely survive to provide to themselves and their family, sometimes we don't even bother to think of the answer to that question. Yes, we still think of what-if things but some situations forced us to just follow the flow. I've been in that and it was really difficult to fight the status quo. We work to live but the situations on where we are right now forced us to do the vice-versa instead. We don't want to challenge ourselves to do some things that might benefit us and other people in the long run. We're satisfied wearing old shoes 'cause their more comfortable than wearing a new one.

I can say right now that I do the things that I love to do even if I don't like to. I can't blame you if you were confused by that. It's so contradicting I agree. My point was we sometimes find the answer to the question "what do you love to do?" but somehow we failed to do so because we don't like the price that we had to pay for. I like blogging but sometimes I don't do 'cause I don't like to exposed how I speak my mind, I don't want to be laugh-out because of my ideas(and with my grammar though I'm improving), I feared that no one will care or even bother to read and sometimes I think I'm just wasting my time. Though I don't like to do that because of some reasons but I still managed to do it. None told me to do this but I did 'cause I love to.

Did I said that I hate some of the things that I currently doing in my job? Well, I did. To make myself safe when my upper superior out-of-the-blue read this post(blink). Though I don't like some of the things at work, I still do my best ensuring that I'm not wasting the money paid for me from my company thinking that was investment for my character and values. I love the people there which were backbone of any company.

My practical advice would be when you were in a situation where you want to quit your job but you can't because you and your family need to survive. Please don't quit but do some things outside of that work that will help you find more opportunity to do the things that you love to do and gave yourself a favor by avoiding being a zombie. We're human beings and not human doings.

The late Steve Jobs brilliantly quote:

"Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things."

Steve Jobs creates new ideas precisely because he had spent a lifetime of doing unrelated things. Steve Jobs studied calligraphy in college, meditated in an Indian ashram(I think this an Indian version of yoga) and evaluated The Four Seasons hotel as value for their customer service.

So what Steve Job saying was it is so hard to connect things when you're not challenging yourself to do anything except your work.

This is just an opinion. You can agree or disagree. I would be be more than happy for any comments. :)

Just some add-ons. Hours after I wrote this blog post. Our country's pride Manny Pacquiao will soon emerged with another great Mexican fighter Manuel Marquez. This day will be again a more peaceful Philippines 'cause every Filipino even our pasaway kababayans(troublesome fellow Filipinos) stop on what their doing just to watch how our Filipino champ knocks-out his opponent.

The Wonderful Underground River of Puerto Princesa

[Image source:http://www.new7wonders.com/archives/wonder/puerto-princesa-underground-river]

Another thing that will made Filipinos to be proud of. The New 7 Wonders of Nature had finally announced their list although provisional for now. Our very own Puerto Princesa Undergorund River had made it to the list. You can go to new7wonders.com for more details about these incredible wonders of nature.

The Awesome Brain Magic

2011-11-10T20:32:00.000-08:00

Does It Matter To Learn What's Behind The Magic Tricks

When you were a kid, do you remember how you were fascinated by magic tricks. Some magicians use coins, some use deck of cards, we saw bodies sawed in half and there's so many tricks that blown us away.

Today, you can watch TV shows revealing the secrets of magic tricks. With the internet you can type-in the name of the magic trick then kaching!, you discovered what's behind the trick.

If you were the magician, would you be happy that more people now know something what supposed to be known only by you? If I would be asked with that question, my answer would be "It doesn't matter." Performing magic tricks is just one form of entertainment, as long as you entertain your audience then you had greatly done your job.

If your performing magic tricks and somebody yells from your audience "Hey! I knew that trick!"

Well, that really doesn't make any difference. Not unless you've done that trick yourself. You'll be fascinated by what you had done.

That greatly relate in life. Some people knew the tricks. When you show someone the trick, they will impress you by saying "I knew that trick! Actually, I knew that long time ago."

If you knew the ways to live your life the way you want it to be. Like being financially free, having great relationships with friends and family and being spiritually nourished. Would you perform the trick. Actually, the word "trick" doesn't fit. I would use instead the word answer or solution.

If you knew the answer or solution to your problem. Would you do something about it?

Mentors as Magicians

There were magicians that joyfully reveals their magic tricks. I called them mentors. They reveal everything they know that you want and need to know. They offer solutions and answers that can address whatever mess you want to clean up.

Sometimes, we already knew what's about our mentors offer. The only difference was from the result the audience who practice the trick with the audience who yells "Hey! I knew that trick!"

I know this is easier said than done 'cause sometimes(most of the time sometimes) we're not sure which is the right trick for us. I can only suggest that we must not limit ourselves by avoiding mistakes. We will always made some bad decisions but that was okay. Just forgive yourself and move-on to learn new magic trick.

Another word for not doing the trick is "fear." I admit I had a lot to deal with this word just like most of us. "Fear" is always within us. Could be a blessing if use properly. Would you kiss a cobra? Would you drive a car without using seat-belt? Would you wear helmet when driving a motorcycle? Well, some of us will. But some of us won't that is because of fear.

I just want to say that the virus of fear can't be deleted in our software. We can scan the virus though.

The Awesome Brain Magic

This video is mind-boggling. The trick is like hypnotizing, mind-reading, mind-control freaky kind of trick. The performer uses our brain to trick our body. These reveal how powerful our mind was. Please watch to know why you should agree with me. I found this at ted.com. You can decide on your own if this for real. Hope you enjoy.

Two Pillars of a Good Life

2011-11-09T18:34:00.000-08:00

For a month now, I've been doing another business. This is another breakthrough for me and I'm enjoying it as much as I'm learning new skills and gaining more wisdom. I'm using the business model called MLM or Multi-Level Marketing and I joined though I'm a bit hesitant at first. I'm no different from other people who hates being sold-out to something but what makes me join in this is far more than about the money itself.

I found four reasons:
1. I learned business skills through attending their sales training, product presentation and listening to my mentors.
2. I improved my socializing skills 'cause direct selling means talking to people.
3. I've done some things that I'm so ashamed to do before. One example is selling my product to the security guard where I'm currently working on.
4. I also got the support from the team. Or I mean my up-lines and cross-lines.

One of the things I learned is in order to sell effectively is you must believe so much to the product. Actually, that's the fifth reason---I do believed in the product. By the way my product is health supplements and I gave some of them to my co-workers, my mother, my father, my aunties and some of my friends so they can learn how effective the product was.

Three years had passed since I begun my journey through my financial freedom and I admit the pace was so slow though I gained so much wisdom in the past years. But results is the name of the game, I can tell all the benefits to all the people why they need to find a sideline or any kind of business but they won't believe me 'cause I'm not credible enough? Why? That was because I had nothing to show for now in terms of having good amount of money from my endeavors.

I learned that I need to exposed myself more with the right people. The people whom I can learn about the business skills that I needed in order to succeed.

Another thing I learned was because the product was health supplements. Through listening to my mentors in that MLM company and attending product presentations that I realized how important our health was.

I got these personal problems that I'm battling for years, I shared these to some people and I'm now ready to share this in this blog. Sharing this I believed can help someone who's also been in my situation besides that I will gain more peace of mind which is more important that getting applause through pretensions and hypocrisy.

I'm been into alcoholism and though I don't become delinquent, I felt guilty after. I loved my friends and I also don't want to let them down every time they invite to have a drink to lessen the stress of our routinized job. For a while I enjoyed it! Then months later I come to think to quit 'cause I'm feeling of not being true to myself any more. Imagine I attended SFC(Singles for Chirst), a Christian community then I became drunk the day after. Don't get me wrong please, drinking alcohol was not devil's advocates, I know of people who's much more alcoholic than me but still consistently attending prayer meetings every week. It is that I come to think that is one of the reason I'm in the slow pace to success. I compromise my values. Good thing I know God is not condemning me. I believed that His grace is far more greater than my bad habits.

Though my case is not one-in-a-million, I know I had to stop this.

The reason why God let Adam be tempted by Eve to eat the forbidden fruit was because He love us. I haven't attend a single class in theology, maybe this came-out of me through my life experience. I know God love us so much that He hadn't take away our dignity(the freedom of choice).

Ok here's the 2 Pillar of a Good Life, haha....

1. Wealth

2. Health

Do I need to explain? LOL.

Let us love our bodies by being healthy. Be wealthy as well. Be blessed and be a blessing to other people.

I know I had to learn more in life for a long time. Actually, this won't stop unless I unlearned how to breathe.

I learned already a lot though. With that I thanked God.

One Site You Must Know To Detect A Scam

2011-11-08T18:30:00.000-08:00

Hate scams! [Image Source]

Internet has been a great blessings to lots of people(lots and lots of people actually) due to free relevant information that internet provides. The internet also made our world small in terms of communication---Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Yahoo!Messenger, Gmail, Ning, Webinar and all other forms of online communication that we can ever think of.

Internet can also be a source of illegitimate information.

I personally believed that everything is good. (Do you?) What makes some things bad? The good question might be "Who makes some things bad?" 'cause every good things had became bad through other people's bad intention.

Personally, I was scammed before and it was a lesson learned for me. If you've been in my shoes before then you know how it feels to believe in sweet but empty promises of having a better life. I still believe that there's plenty of good and genuine mentors that were really passionate in helping other hopefuls(including me).

In the Philippines just like in any other countries, there were government agencies to get info about the legitimacy of the people or the organization offering events, seminars, online courses or any products(either tangible or digital).

I loved hopping blogs, forums, social medias and websites. Since I learned internet marketing from my mentor Jomar Hilario, I learned how to made good use of internet. I stopped playing online games that consume an average of about 6 hours(that's a conservative estimate) a day. I learned that instead of wasting time and wasting money, then why not make the time to learn something like reading inspiring blogs, business blogs, watch inspiring videos and listen to inspiring audios. Some that I can recommend---JomarHilario.com, BoSanchez.ph, TED.com, SethGodin.TypePad.com, HarvEker.com and videos from YouTube of Jim Rohn, Zig Ziglar, Tony Robbins and other motivational speakers.

Internet is awesome. My computer is awesome. Business is awesome. Free information is awesome. Using with bad bad intentions make them awful.

So to get to my point. Every time you encounter a name of a person or a company that offers something, you can due your diligence first in identifying a scam and a legitimate by going to this site---> http://www.ripoffreport.com. Ripoff Report was where people send reports of scams, law suits, complaints and frauds. The name of the person who scammed me once was also there.

The down side that I can see is if the scam artist is new(or got a new name) then probably you won't find that person in that site. You can do the first report instead.

Just some hint, maybe you're asking "what if someone is just making a bad publicity?" then you must also read the reactions of your fellow readers. Bottom line is you must always do due diligence no matter how credible the person you think he is not that because you're suspicious and paranoid but because you're wise enough. Hope I made a good use of internet for you. :)

3 Must Skills To Learn Get A Virtual Assitant Job According To The Demi-God of Internet Marketing

2011-11-07T16:50:00.000-08:00

Such a long title 'cause I want to make it as catchy as possible. The demi-god of internet marketing, Seth Godin which was the world's most popular business blogger suggest that in today's world the rules of getting a job especially in a small company was different from the traditional way---sending resumes, going to HR and getting interviewed personally.

Actually, the message was not really only for virtual assistants but for any job-seekers of small companies where the hirer and owner was the same person. Yap, from companies that you've never heard of.

No more intro, straight to the point, here's the 3 most important skills.

1. Learn to sell

2. Learn to write

3. Learn to produce extraordinary video and multimedia

I suggest you go to the main source of this article, just click here to clarify more why this was the most suggested skills to learn according to Seth Godin.

Remembering Steve Jobs: The 7 Innovation Secrects of Apple's Greatest CEO

2011-10-05T23:39:00.000-07:00

If you're about to buy or to check out Apple products like iMac, iPod, iPad, iPhone and some other applications like iTunes. You might be surprised that you would see this if you visit apple.com.

Still, Apple's known for simplicity but you can clearly get the message of the picture. Steve Jobs as many of us knows had been battling pancreatic cancers for years and today it had ended unfortunately.

I've been fascinated just like the rest the world by the Apple product and how incredible the company that was lead by Steve that made competitors behind. If you notice people were only fascinated by the product company and not by the people behind the product. Today geeks, entrepreneurs and some average Joe were all interested to Apple's CEO and on what another exciting thing will this modern Tomas Edison will do next. It's just so sad to think that has to end but the lessons that Steve Jobs will last forever just like the legacy he leaved in the Apple company.

I accidentally find this slideshow showcasing Steve Jobs' brain in terms of innovation. This was Steve Jobs' insanely different principles that put the world in awe. There's too many words to describe this amazing man. Thank you Steve for giving your best to the world.

Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs

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No More Re-Postings

2011-09-01T23:32:00.001-07:00

Few months later, I challenged myself to do a hundred blog posts in 30 days knowing that I already some blog posts already created. As I said in my blog post entitled "After A Hundred Blog Posts" and I meet my quota but not quite. I only done that just because I do a lot of re-postings.

I realized that I'm just fooling myself so I can just say that I did finish the challenge. Now I decided to delete the duplicates. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with doing that. It's just that I want to be more authentic and also doing so much re-postings even I don't have a lot of blog posts as of now. A lot means really a lot like a thousand blog posts. Well, if a got a thousand blog posts then it's easy to do re-posting without even almost noticing but I decided no more duplicates. I'm looking forward though that might take years to a have a unique thousand blog posts.