I am happy to share with you a record of successful failure. As I went over the tale I learned the value of ‘keep trying’ and it gives me inspiration to strive. Here is a classic example of failures turned into greatness :
A young man ran for the legislature in Illinois, and was badly swamped.
He next entered business– -failed and spent seventeen years of his life paying up the debts of a worthless partner.
He was in love with a beautiful young woman to whom he became engaged–then she died.
Re-entering politics, he ran for Congress, and was badly defeated.
He then tried to get an appointment to the United States Land office–but failed.
He became a candidate for the United States Senate–and was badly defeated.
Two years later he was defeated by Douglas.
One failure after another–bad failures-–great setbacks; but in the faceof all this, HE KEPT ON TRYING and became one of the greatest men in all history.
Perhaps you’ve heard of him. His name was Abraham Lincoln.
*Frank Bettger, How I Raised Myself From Failure To Success
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“A dull ax requires great strength; be wise and sharpen the blade.”
The old man said, “I was not resting. I stopped to sharpen the edge of my axe and adjust my handle.” He went on to explain that because the young man never stopped to sharpen his edge he labored more and accomplished less.
There is one to whom God gives riches and property and honor, and who lacks nothing the heart could desire; yet God does not grant the power to partake of them, but a stranger devours them. This is vanity and a dire plague.
Ecclesiastes 6:2
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY | QUEEN @Forbes
“Sunset Ballad” is life’s wisdom written by one of Asia’s richest and most influential businessmen, Li Ka Shing of Hong Kong. It was published on September 11, 2020.
When he was suspected of being seriously ill, he wrote the Sunset Ballad on his bed. He regrets that many things in life are realized too late.
Li Ka-shing, from Rags to Riches, is a Hong Kong business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. Li is the 30th richest person in the world as of June 2019 with an estimated net wealth of US$29.4 billion.
Li is workaholic and famous entrepreneur. He had been the richest man for many years.He retired in 2018 at the age of 92 years old and began to enjoy life.
(Wikipedia)
SUNSET BALLAD
🍏1. We are born with nothing, no more and no less, and finally to return to nothing. Be as natural, normal and at ease as possible.
🍏2, Don’t aspire to acquire surplus wealth at sunset years. Those who have such intention are rather confused or crazy. Just consider what belongs to you before and after death. One has to wake up and stop fooling ourselves.
🍏3. Be contented. Have fun and enjoy the sunset years. Do not be exalted if you’re rich neither too worried if poor. Take it along as naturally and savor the freedom.
🍏4. Don’t forcibly demand, neither compete. Life is like a dream or fleeting cloud or smoke. Look at the vast and empty sky and land, we are just a tiny speck drifting within.
🍏5. The sun is empty so is the moon. River water forever flows eastward (in China). Farm and house too are empty, continually changing owners.
🍏6. Love becomes naught, relationship too disappeared. Finally all will go into the crematorium. Even gold and silver, one doesn’t grasp to take along after death.
🍏7. Reputation, honours and profits disappeared into sweet dreams once the eyes shut down for good. Whatever gains or losses dissipated, life is like a drama.
🍏8. No more minister status, no more the power that came with it. No one can remain in the ministry for life. Rich or poor, the final is void. That is nothingness when curtain of life drops, be aware of that.
🍏9. The four seasons will rotate, so will the high and low tides. Every family has certain difficult mantra to recite. Do not burden unnecessarily with worries.
🍏10. Raising and educating children are responsibility and duty. It is a blessing to be able to help. Children and grandchildren shall build their own future, do not be duty bound by them. It is far more a blessing to take good care of our own wellbeing during the sunset years.
🍏11. Man hustle and busle about earning a living like bees collecting honey. Just wonder the honey is made for whom, ever thought the life-long hard work will end up in naught. Be more liberal and accommodative, think rationally to avoid disputes.
🍏12. From a distance hospitals are like heaven, curing so many patients. Viewing from close range hospitals are like banks raking in lots of cash. Getting inside the hospital is like getting into prison. It is far better to take preventive measure well in advance.
🍏13. Health is an invisible asset, health enhancement is bank saving, contracting a disease is a bank loan and re-payment, serious illness can cause bankruptcy. These are earnest facts of life and to be regarded seriously. Do not let this happen, it will be too late to regret.
🍏14. It is better to stand alone to enhance immunity rather than to lie down and be cheated. If you don’t take care of your health, you will be supporting doctors and hospitals.
🍏15. A life span is too short. Do not get bogged down with money worries. Tons of cash wouldn’t buy a sun which doesn’t set. Loads of silver and gold can’t exchange for health. Life and death is fated and wealth too. If it has been fated that we will be wealthy, it will be. But if it’s fated otherwise, it is pointless to crave for it.
🍏A point worth reiterating is that the children and grandchildren will and should carve out the path for their future, there is no need to slog like buffalo and horse for them. A life span is really too short; it is advisable to take life plainly and light-hearedly.
🍏Fame and gain are just like drifting cloud, extravagance and luxury are momentary exuberance, in rapid glimpses of fleeting time, hair will turn grey to white, churning all past event. 🏛️
Alrighttt! Ooooh yeah… Imagine the clown is a symbol of fun, joy, happiness, or lively life? Of course, children and adults as well would love to see the clown.
The clowns give the audience a down to earth entertainment. The message they bring, even for a short moment, is for us to be happy, to enjoy life, fall in love, and have fun.
Every day we are bombarded at social media platforms with stories of inspiration, motivational quotes, new knowledge and ideas, trainings, amazing videos, and teachings to guide what to do and how to do things that matter in order to make life productive and fantastic.
Learning to pick it up and let it go can expand the breath of our mind. Being able to see far ahead and do the right thing can elevate our lives. The ultimate goal of those activities is to share happiness.
Happiness is the most beautiful thing in the world. Life is so easy around when one is happy, and by working joyfully, there is nothing that can’t be achieved.
By enjoying without owning, a man can always be happy.
BORED? KEEP ON ROCKIN’. 🍏
Life ends when you stop Dreaming.
Hope ends when you stop Believing.
Love ends when you stop Caring.
Friendship ends when you stop Sharing.
Balance Sheet of Life
COCO ROD VILLARUZ | ILOILO CITY rodpvillaruz@gmail.com
“Realize that true happiness lies within you. Do all things with love.”
— Og Mandino – –
Nowadays, how much one possess, say a lot of things, is the standard measurement, if not all, of living happy. Could material things make one happy?
One is moved by personal urge to acquire and enjoy the temporary benefits of material things. However, all these possessions are like a piece of heavy metal in the luggage, it can be weighty.
Human desire to possess anything is tempting. It is a sign of greed. It may bring sickness to the body.
"Beware! Don't always be wishing for what you don't have. For real life and real living are not related to how rich we are."(The Book of Luke 12:15).
I remember the story of the Great Temptation, when the adversary took Jesus to the peak of a very high mountain and showed him the nations of the world and all their glory.
He said, "I'll give it all to you, if you only kneel and worship me". (Tempting)
But Jesus rebuke him, and he went away. (The Book of Matthew 4:8-10).
What on earth are scientists all doing just to discover something in vitro? What's the point when astronomers spend their time lying on their backs looking at stars? Are they trying to spot happiness out there for mankind?
Happiness comes from the heart.
One heart must have rhizome to be able to blossom and bear fruit. It must have hope to be able to achieve professional success.
Here’s the ‘roots of wisdom’ that would interest you to know:
Go after a genuine life by treating others with SINCERITY.
Go after a virtuous life by embracing others with KINDNESS .
Go after a beautiful life by adorning the world with BEAUTY.
Go after a harmonious life by discovering prosperity in PEACE.
Go after an insightful life by enhancing your place with KNOWLEDGE.
Go after a joyful life by enriching daily life with HAPPINESS.
Footloose. Happy feet. Strive to be happy. Free living of not possessing will give happiness.
HAPPINESS IS POWER 💪
“I came naked from my mother’s womb and I shall have nothing when I die. The Lord gave me everything I had, and they were his to take away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.”
WEAK is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions;
— Og Mandino —
I HAVE A DREAM
I’m happy to share my dream of an angel. This is a true story as described in the first paragraph. However, the whole narrative is a product of my faith linked to the Book of Numbers 22, when the Lord caused the donkey to speak! It’s amazing!
At that time of night when I was lying on my bed facing the window. I fell asleep and in my vision I saw an angel. When I lifted up my eyes, a man clothed in white glowing linen, his body and his face were like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, was floating outside the window with a drawn sword in his hand. He has a striking form in its all white glowing appearance. His entire body, including his back, hand, and wings were all flaming in white. Very bright.
I was afraid that my feet became frozen. In my trembling lips, I asked, “Who are you?”
He replied, “I was dispatched by the King to act in his name. I command you to go with me to a place in the desert so you must see great things which you do not know. Come, let’s go.”
He held my hand and we travelled at tremendous speeds, far exceeding the limits of the physical world. And we arrived within moments to a land in the desert. The land was very hot in temperature. I saw a lot of arid, open soil and rocks and not much grass and plants.
When I was about to asked him of the region, he’s lost. He’s not around and I saw myself standing alone with my feet on the sand.
And then I saw a great occurrence.
At a near distance, up there, were messengers of King Balak of Moab, riding on camels travelling to see Balaam, the man of God. I came and joined the caravan with them in thoroughfare. It’s late in the afternoon when we arrived, and Balaam invited us to stay overnight.
In the morning, Balaam got up, he saddled his donkey and started off with his men, the servants.
In the road, Balaam and two servants were riding along, and his donkey saw an Angel of the Lord standing in the road with a drawn sword. The donkey bolted off the road into a field, but Balaam beat her back onto the road.
Now, the Angel of the Lord stood at a place where the road went between two vineyard walls. When the donkey saw him standing there, she squirmed past by pressing against the wall, crushing Balaam’s foot in the process. So he beat her again.
Then, the Angel of the Lord moved farther down the road and stood in a place so narrow that the donkey couldn’t get by at all. So she lay down in the road! In a great fit of temper Balaam beat her again with his staff.
Then the Lord caused the donkey to SPEAK !
“What have I done that deserves your beating me these three times?” she asked.
“Because you have made me look like a fool!” Balaam shouted. “I wish I had a sword with me, for I would kill you.”
“Have I ever done anything like this before in my entire life?”, the donkey asked.
“No, ” he admitted.
Then, the Lord opened Balaam’s eyes and he saw the Angel of the Lord standing in the roadway with drawn sword, and he fell flat on the ground before him.
“Why did you beat your donkey those three times?” the Angel demanded.
“I have come to stop you because you are headed for destruction. Three times the donkey saw me and shied away from me; otherwise I would certainly have killed you by now and spared her.”
(Reference: The Book of Numbers 22)
Upon hearing what the Angel spoke, my spirit came back to my physical body and I woke up. And I saw sunshine. It’s a beautiful Sunday morning.
I named the place, where an Angel of the Lord appeared to me, Roder which means “the Lord is my strength.” 🍏
Leave fortune and misfortune, success and failure, to the hands of heaven.
— Confucianist —
When the drought of life prevails around, then a man raised his voice, “I need help. Where are my friends? I can’t see them. They’re not around. As if the shadows of old friends cross far in distant lands.”
“I heard some of them heralded my downfall to my disgrace, they laughed at me, and stave off against me of my threadbare”, he mourned.
Incidentally, upon hearing of a man’s misfortune, a stranger guy came to the man. He looked him straight to the eyes full of compassion and mercy. Suddenly the wind blew softly, as if in a romantic candle-lit wedding night spent at a lovely garden, as the stranger guy moved closer in silence beside the man and put his hand on man’s shoulder and said, “Definitely brother, friends are many but one in a thousand a confidant. He is like a shelter, a treasure or a life saving medicine. If you find one get hold of her.”
“Here I am, your friend, now if you allow me to come inside your house I will make a covenant of friendship with you”, a stranger asked.
“Yes Sir, you’re welcome to my place”, the man replied.
And the guy smiled. He throwed his arms and embrace the man, and said, “From now on, I will be with you always. I will teach you the right path of life, I will give you my blessings and my treasures you need.”
Keeping on the promise, the man was restored eventually from adversity to opulence. And the golden sunlight near noontime creeps into his room through the window lattice, and sparkles in all directions with translucense.
He gazed at the sun’s bright and clear natures as if he could recognize the dazzling colors that intertwine with one another, and then pursue its untraceable motions.
Always, he remembered the promise. The man felt the joy, with tears of strength, knowing his friend raised him up and placing his name in the list of successful candidates. 🍏
Look! I have been standing at the door, and I am constantly knocking. If anyone hears me calling him and opens the door, I will come in and fellowship with him and he with me.
Muscle can split a shield and even destroy life but only the Unseen Power of Love can open the hearts of men and until I master this art I will remain no more than a peddler in the market place.
Without LOVE I will fail though I possess all the knowledge and skills of the World.
– Og Mandino –
The future man is not modelled by superman or wonder woman. He is one who has a compassionate heart. He has the seal of love. He is a noble one, gentle and honest.
THE FUTURE MAN allows others to be right, and be willing to be wrong. It melts the coolness of hearts.
THE FUTURE MAN allows others to be great, and be willing to be small. It eliminates arrogance.
THE FUTURE MAN allows others to have things, and be willing to go without. It straightens out attachments.
THE FUTURE MAN allows others to be happy, and be willing to suffer. It models true leadership and stands as a symbol of hope to everyone.
No armors and the cleverness of men can defeat a compassionate person – the man of the future. 🍏
Even while we were still there with you, we gave you this rule: “He who does not work shall not eat.”
The Book of 2 Thessalonians
YOU’LL NEVER WALK ALONE | GERRY AND THE PACEMAKERS
At that time, my father was happy in knowing that I got my first job. He advised, “Now that you are starting to earn for yourself and for your future family, make it a habit to keep in mind – don’t forget to bring home the bacon.”
In my ignorance, I thought my father would like me to eat bacon regularly. The truth was, I hadn’t seen yet what bacon looks like, and even tasted the texture in my younger days. I only heard that at most the rich can afford to buy this food.
Now I’m happy to share this idea in my first encounter that bacon tastes very good when served with fried eggs.
At work I heard the charge from our head of sales when he said, “Howdy folks. How y’all? What the hell yuh waitin’ for? Let’s act now and delve into the market. Bring home the bacon at the end of the day.”
It is all about achieving something effecting to – hitting the goal. To work hard and deliver what is expected to be done.
This expression is apllicable not only in sales undertaking but also in every department of any organization in pursuit to achieve something.
Throughout my career life, I used to serve the bacon to make everybody happy and was excited to hear from somebody in the team, “Wake up guys, I bring home the bacon.”
The bacon tastes better when everyone in the team has to partake of it. 🍏
Mr Frank Bettger, the author of How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling, shared this poem which maybe it will do something for a person. Here’s an inspiring poem, written by Herbert Kauffman and has a good title – Victory.
You are the man who used to boast /That you'd achieve the uttermost, Someday. You merely wished a show, To demonstrate how much you know /And prove the distance you can go...
Another year we've just passed through. What new ideas came to you? How many big things did you do?
Time... left twelve fresh months in your care /How many of them did you share /With opportunity and dare /Again where you so often missed?
We do not find you on the list of Makers Good. /Explain the fact!
Ah no, 'twas not the chance you lacked! As usual--YOU FAILED TO ACT!
This is atrue story write-up. The actual scenario transpired during my first job interview that opens my career journey into the future.
🌿When I woke up this morning, my mind flashed back on college days. In my course curriculum, a Social Political Thought, though interesting, I didn’t like it most. But honestly I learned, struggled and hardly came to an end.
I discovered how the 13th century philosophers like Rene Descartes, Emmanuel Kant, Thomas Hobbes, and St. Augustine discussed and popularized the meaning of‘love‘.
During the initial job interview, I was young and fresh then at a multi-national pharmaceutical company, the control panel asked me what to talk about. I replied with a soft smile and said, “I wanna talk about love.”
The grapple started with all eagerness and enthusiasm. All the time in the world was bequeathed upon me to show my knowledge of the subject.
I presented my piece in confidence, with feelings, and passion to impress. In eye to eye contact and belly to belly set up, I saw how attentive they were to my impromptu, having the smiles while listening to my eyes. Obviously, a street boy looking for a job had just delivered entertainment to their expectations. My heartfelt conveyance was driven smoothly with some fresh points sealed from four walls of the academe.
Being weird, as it seems, in thought patterns and provoking ideas that I had, I was hired as Pharmaceutical Service Representative (PSR) . It was my first career job launch, specifically in sales at age 22.
Two decade past, I encountered what true l o v e ❤️ means, and here it is 👇
LOVE is very patient and kind, never jealous or envious, never boastful or proud, never haughty or selfish or rude. Love does not demand its own way. It is not irritable or touchy. It does not hold grudges and will hardly even notice when others do it wrong. It is never glad about injustice, but rejoiceswhenever truth wins out.
IF you love someone, you will be loyal to him no matter what the cost. You will always believe in him, always expect the best of him, and always stand your ground in defending him.
*Corinthians 13:4-7
Yes, love is so wonderful that it is hard to define. But it is easier to tell how one acts moving in love.
Let’s be of the opinion, love never fails. It will never cease to exist. New knowledge and understanding may correct things we once believed but love is not up in the air.
Love is a true gift of heaven. Hold on to your heart with truth. 🍏
There is no need to say everything you know. Do not believe everything you see. Digest everything you hear. Process your every encounter on tbe spot. Sift and filter through sediment ; overtime, your energies and capabilities will be strengthened & can give rise to Great Things.
Anonymous
This article was inspired from old song, If I Had A Hammer by the group The Seekersin1958.
CONTROL is a function of management which helps to check errors to take corrective actions. This is done to minimize deviation from standards and ensure that the stated goals of the organization are achieved in a desired manner. (Wikipedia)
A leader has to impose guidelines to the team or an individual within a business entity to perform specific actions and avoid another set of particular actions so that they can reach their destined target.
Throughout my career life I've been in sales management and business operations from diverse fields (pharmaceutical, school, insurance, direct selling) to experience how the excitement of hitting targets were done. The glory of it, there was no situation that I never did.
💡Indeed, success is possible when a team leader handled best the situation and walk with one's participative spirits and winning attitude. Teamwork. Having the will even small matters can be turned into a major event.
Herewith are three contributing management controls while work is in progress. The hammer, the bell, and the music. 🍏
THE HAMMER
When the standards were established, hammer out activities in hardwork and discipline to do a wholesome deeds.
THE BELL
Ring the bell as a warning, not to give way to jealousy and conceit. Instead, encourage everyone to practice compassion, kindness and patience. If one unable to be patient in little things, how will one be able to do the great work of helping one another.
THE MUSIC
Music and song deliver comfort to the soul. They help alleviate tensions and pressures. Give your soul with bits of accommodation to music and a song and you will feel clear and full of delight. Relaxed.
Early to bed, and early to rise. The more you sleep, the more fatigue you feel. First rest the mind, then the body. After sleeping, you will become beauty. 🍏
Here is a story where a plot was arranged to bring the message of hope. Creating awareness regarding heaven, as mentioned by Jesus “in my Father’s house” extracted from the gospel written in the Book of John 14, the Books of Hebrew 1 &Revelation21 & 22.
HEAVEN is a real place where the people of God will live one day. In fact, heaven is where God and the angels live. (Bibleinfo.com)
Brother John, who just came back from the future notified me of what he saw. He said, “I bring you good news from the wondrous city. I saw heaven, it is real. Heaven has a solid real estate.”
‘Yes. Great.’ That’s how my reaction to describe.
And he narrated to me what he saw and heard from a strange place – – –
During that time, it was a season when magnolia flowers blooming on the branch tips and crimson sepals dyeing the mountain red, beside a deserted cottage in the gully at the island of Patmos, one by one they bloom, and one by one, they fade away.
The moment in my vision I saw, I was in the spirit and I flew.
“The winds and the flames of fire took me to a towering mountain peak, and from there I watched that wondrous city. It’s beautiful and great”, he added
Then I walked down near it, and as I entered through a gate I saw the walls were broad and high circumspected by the winds and fires.
Amazing! The main street was pure, transparent gold, like glass. Everything was gold and precious jewels.
Such was a glorious place permeated with only the fragrance from the throne of God and the Lamb. I saw a river of pure Water of Life, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne coursing down the center of the main street. There was no night there, no need for the lamps or sun, for God is the light.
It was a stunning moment when I saw the awesome face of God.
I saw the bright Morning Star. He is preparing homes to ready for his people’s coming.
The Lord told me, “Tell the churches of what you saw. I am coming soon!”
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A WONDROUS CITY
This wondrous city was filled with the glory of God and flashed and glowed like a precious gem, crystal clear like jasper.
The city itself was pure, transparent gold like glass! The wall was made of jasper, and was built on twelve layers of foundation stones inlaid with gems: the first layer with jasper; the second with sapphire ; the third with chalcedony ; the fourth with emerald; the fifth with sardonyx; the sixth layer with sardus; the seventh with chrysolite; the eight with beryl; the ninth with topaz; the tenth with chrysoprase; the eleventh with jacinth; the twelfth with amethyst.
The twelve gates were made of pearls - each gate from a single pearl! And the main street was pure, trade gold, like glass.
No temple could be seen in the city, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are worshipped in it everywhere. And the city has no need of sun or moon to light it, for the glory of God and of the Lamb illuminate it. Its light will light the nations of the earth, and the rulers of the world will come abd bring their glory to it.
👂Nothing evil will be permitted in it--no immoral or dishonest--but only those whose names are written in the Lambs's Book of Life.
*The Book of Revelation 21
Valley of Colors, Trinidad, Baguio City, Philippines
DON’T JUDGE EACH DAY BY THE HARVEST YOU REAP BUT BY THE SEEDS THAT YOU PLANT.
– Robert Louis Stevenson –
KISS AND SAY GOODBYE
Every time I finish writing a micro-article at INSIGHTS INTO THE FUTURE , it would feel as if I had just trailed a rugged road, excited but having a question in my mind. Will somebody get uplifted?
“Nah nah,” I said. I think to consider that within a flash of one’s moment, having stumbled many times, one finally realizes that it is most difficult to become enlightened to the meaning of ignorance.
Nevertheless, once the article is published in different media platforms what awaits ahead will be an oasis.
There’s a very good reason for this. As far as I can tell every article that I made is on the flight path for one towards the future.
Whatever learnings one has acquired from reading, one may establish a good stand everywhere and at all times.
In learning, there are too many hours one spent with a lamp until when rooster calls at morning hours, the best time for one to strive forward.
If one doesn’t learn hard while his hair is still dark, it will be too late to regret when his hair turns grey. One has to gather blossoms while he may at youthful days, and don’t lay until only empty heart awaits.
Effort, hardwork and determination are gifts from heaven.
Time to shine now! ⌚
T I M E
THERE IS A RIGHT TIME FOR EVERYTHING :
A time to be born; A time to die. A time to plant; A time to harvest.
A time to kill; A time to heal. A time to destroy; A time to rebuild.
A time to cry; A time to laugh. A time to grieve; A time to dance.
A time for scattering stones; A time for gathering stones. A time to hug; A time not to hug.
A time to find; A time to lose. A time for keeping; A time for throwing away.
A time to tear; A time to repair. A time to be quite; A time to speak up.
A time for loving; A time for hating. A time for war; A time for peace.
There's nothing better for a man than to be happy and to enjoy himself as long as he can;
That he should eat and drink and to enjoy the fruits of his labors;
INSIGHTS INTO THE FUTURE 🌿 
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