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| from left: sir john, sir gus, maam elsa, maam lorna & urs truly |
I wrote this in my Journal the day after the Lord has brought us into victory. This one I learned from work and has greatly shaped my values and my perspective towards life in general.
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18 November 2014
5:37PM @ Home
Dear God :)
Let me us eup the last few pages of this notebook thanking and honoring you for your great mercy in all our journey everytime we go to the head Office for Board Mtgs.
Thankyou for a very good year. The Philcom Year as the Mgmt. would say. Thank you for the men and women, all of them who worked hard. thank you for the men and women who assisted us - drivers, janitors, clerks, casuals/contractuals, everybody.
Thank you so much to M' Elsa, M' Lorna, Sir John & Sir Gus. I've learned so much. For this last travel here are what I learned:
- Hard work pays off.
- Work hard with generosity of heart. Grumbling is being ungrateful.
- Honor and thank the people who helped you. Consider every one contributes. Humility is the key.
- Respect and honor your bosses. Do not undermine their authority. Humility is the key.
- Always give thanks. Express gratitude in tangible ways. Be generous with kind words and actions.
- The best way to manage time is to splurge time for God. God first.
- Serve God's people first before your own comfort.
- Honor your family by involving them and letting them in on your life.
- To do more, exercise and eat healthy. Take care of your body and your body will honor you back by sustaining you in a long stretch.
- Quiet your mind first before you panic.
- Learn to laugh andlet go of what you cannot control.
- It is important to spread some laughs.
- Have nothing to do with the cheap desire to boast. Always keep in mind, you are not the universe, you are part of an interplay of the universe. Give due credit to everyone in every situation.
- Exercise moderation - in hard work, in spending and in worrying.
- Relate always. Get in touch with the next person's human side - family and aspirations. The best common ground is what warms the heart. Whether you are the CEO or the driver.
- You don’t (and cannot) know it all. Ask help. Tell the truth when you don't know. But share, always, what you know.
- Explore once in a while. Go outside your comfort circle. See places and people you don’t usually come across with. Learn from the unknown.
- Take time to enjoy the colors around you - pens, notebooks, post its, clips, tapes - be creative. You don’t have to be boring when you're busy.
- Serve those who work for you. Honor them by serving them (e.g. *** *** serving us coffee and carrying our bags for us)
- Slow people are not there to impede you. They are there to teach you to slow down and take notice of what you might have overlooked because you were in a hurry (*'*****)
- It's okay to give - out of appreciation (*'****)
- You are not necessarily weak when you are a good man. when you are a good man, it's okay to show strength. ( *** & ***)
6:03PM
Gotta end this for now :)
My Lord, thank you.
You are the wind beneath my wings.
