Yes, I'm a virgin...

Donation virgin, that is.

I haven't donated money on my own since I started working in 2009. Yeah, I did churches, fundraising concerts/bingos/bazaars and street children but this time, it's the big leagues and I'm just proud of myself for doing it.

I don't have much and donating the amount I donated, well, let's just say I gotta work more hours to get it back but honestly, it felt great!

I don't know if this is some kind of unconditional love gesture kind of thing but I know what these people are going through with the Maring aftermath. I've been in that same position 4 years ago: No place to stay, no change of clothes, nowhere to get food, no water... I wouldn't even wish for those things to happen to my enemies, no matter how much I hate dislike them. It's just an unfortunate position to be in. Being able to help them stand up from where they are now in my own little way...well, that's just priceless.

PS. I would've volunteered, too, if I wanted to but I have things to attend to ie. my sick daughter.

PPS. I'm sorry if this comes across as being full of myself but I'm just proud I did it, okay. This is me, patting myself on the back for a job well done.

Let's Move & Let's Love

Agape. Unconditional love. This is the most important form of love that can ever be given to someone and I vow to give this kind of love to random people for the rest of my life.

I've been thinking about how I will actually go about this. After all, it's love that doesn't ask nor expect anything in return... Well, I am a mom and that automatically - for a lack of a better term - counts but I want to do something for other people. Someone I do not know. I know that I can do something that involves a non-profit organization but I want something simpler.

Okay. Here's what I will do: For the remainder of the year, I will pay for at least one person's jeepney/FX/tricycle fare everytime I go out. After all, I've done this a number of times already. I usually do it for the person who has a lot to carry or is with a baby or a grandparent or with a person with disability. Not that I am trying to brag or anything; it's just that I know how it feels like to commute with something or someone in tow.

For next year, I will come up with something better like, probably, share my umbrella to someone who doesn't have one when the rain is pouring or split a cab to someone running late. Unconditional love doesn't have to be grand or expensive. All you have to do is think about how you can help another person without holding it over his/her head like some kind of debt that you can encash any time in the future.

Love and every act of love is universal that it can transcend any barriers and United Colors of Benetton wouldn't have come up with a better concept for their next line of fragrances. Benetton challenges us to go out and make someone feel loved  as they launch their two new fragrances, Let's Move for men and Let's Love for women:


How about you, what act of love would you willingly give to your neighbor? To your loved one? To your friends?

Agape.

I want to help all the people I can in my own little way so I am posting the next PSI Basic batch schedule here. It's the anniversary batch, there will most probably a whole new curriculum for this batch. The previous batches were fabulous but this is supposed to be the best. Of course, 240 is the best for me but it's PSI so there isn't much of a difference.

PSI Basic Leadership Success Seminar Batch247: Aug. 25-29, 2011 ANNIVESARY BATCH

Tentative Venue: 5/F Soliman Corporate Center,  2182 Chino Roces Ave., Makati City
Investment: Php 11,088

For details pls. contact Camille at 0917-7231976; 0918-5785981 or 621-6132

I guarantee you, Php 11,088 is NOTHING compared to the lessons you will learn and the strategies that will be taught to you to get what you want. Plus the experience pa. The best. If you feel that the seminar did you no good, your investment will be refunded. There will be free pre-seminar orientations available, too.

Batch 247 Coffee Orientation

August 11, 2011, 7PM at 6/F Soliman Building

August 17, 2011, 7PM at Dulce Latte, Quezon Ave. cor. Sgt. Esguerra, QC

I repeat, these coffee orientations are FREE. This will be an overview of what will be happening in the main seminar and you can decide here whether or not you'll attend the seminar itself. This will be worth your time. Itataya ko ang pangalan ko jan, as Kris Aquino would say in one of her ads.

I am a PSI grad and my outlook changed and my priorities have been rearranged since I attended this seminar. Most people who haven't attended this seminar don't understand how empowered I am after I walked out Soliman. It was probably one of the highlights of my life and I couldn't thank the people who encouraged me to take the seminar enough. (Hi Kuya Delong and Ms. Mares!)

If I had all the money in the world, I would enroll everyone I know to the PSI Basic Seminar. But while I'm on my way there, this will have to do.

Agape.

This is an excerpt from one of the newsletters I received from the PSI mailing list. I want to share it with my readers and I hope you all will be enlightened by this the same way it enlightened me:

Attitude is the thing you have total control over in your life. You decide. You choose. You can wake up each day and decide what attitude you will take into each moment you are faced with. You can even decide moment-by-moment what attitude you will bring to each circumstance. Do you know that your attitude at the beginning of a task will affect its outcome more than anything else? The bottom line is that you are either the master or the victim of your attitude. The choice is up to you. Relish the power and joy of that choice, every time you make it.