Hello Summer!!!

I am not really a fan of the sun but I am a total fan of summer! Can you hear the beach calling?!? :) I grabbed some images from the web to put into my summer vision board! Hey SUMMER, here I come!

What are you up to this summer? I am pretty sure you'll hit the beach anytime soon, ey? :) Let's all have fun in the sun, guys. Or fun in the shade will do, too. :)

What Do I Really Want For My Life?

I'm reading Bo Sanchez' post today about "Everything You Want Is Found In Your Courage Zone". And he says that before I continue reading I should first list down what I really want in life. He says to write down clearly. Graphically. Deliberately. He calls it defining my success. And being his avid reader and fan, I'm being obedient. :)

Without peeking at his next statement, here I go:

What do I really want for my life?

1. I want to be emotionally and spiritually mature.
2. I want a work that's more on helping to shape lives than to shape minds.
3. I want to have a work apart from my work. I mean something that I like secondly from teaching. I want to have a business out of something that I really love. Maybe accessories, shoes, dress. I also want to train teachers and future teachers. :)
4. I want to give my parents a wonderful travel time.
5. I want to help and see my siblings achieve their own dreams.
6. I want to have a wonderful family of my own. :)
7. I want to be financially independent.
8. I want to help my cousins to have a bright future.
9. I want to be a blessing to others through my service in CFC community.
10. I want to be a living witness of God's greatness. :)

There you go. I've defined my success. I guess these would all include every aspect of my life.

Bo really has a brilliant mind. It's what God's gift is all about. See his post from this link. http://bosanchez.ph/everything-you-want-is-found-in-your-courage-zone/

I Never Saw It Coming

I love retreats! I love the moments of silence even in the presence of many people. The retreat mode inspires me to reconnect with my inner being. I love the reflections the most because I discover lots about myself.

On the Single's Discovery Weekend Retreat last week, we were able to discover our 5 P's - Our PURPOSE, PASSION, PAINS, PLEASURE, AND POWER. I loved that weekend. (More on my discoveries next time).

On the early beautiful morning of the second day, the retreat master gave us a quarter of a catolina, crayons, and an instruction to draw a picture of our lives 5 years from now. I've done this vision of my future few days back. In fact, I've shared my dreams in this blog (pls see: In My Perfect Life). And so, I've finished drawing and coloring in a snap.



I'm not an artist here. But I'm so proud of what I've done because it was heartily made and it speaks the whole of who I want to become and what I want to do and have.

Here it is folks! I need a drum roll here please...



I know what you're thinking. Yeah! Don't mention it. Thank you so much for the generous comments :)

This is truly special in my eyes. It wasn't about the drawing. It was about the state of my heart when I drew it. I was at the point in my life that I was so sure of who I want to become and thus, I poured all my heart and all that I was that moment. It was a perfect picture of my life 5 years from now.



I was so spirit-filled and excited when I shared my vision and I was happy with how my friends responded. They thought I've vividly described my future. And everyone else there had fair share of presenting their visions. Everyone felt delighted about the activity.

The retreat master even had a recap of each of our dreams. She was holding our drawings in her hand..... when she suddenly TORE our dreams, MY DREAMS apart! How devastated I was! I saw her even crumpling my dreams. I found my heart being torn and crumpled as well. I never saw that coming. I never thought my dreams will be shattered. I never imagined a small possibility of not living my vision. I've always held my dreams close to my heart and cherished a big hope that one day, these things will come true... because I'm working on it... because all that I'm doing now are heading to it. How will these dreams not come true?



It was then that I started shedding tears... The reality struck me. WHAT IF? What if, all of what I've imagined won't get real? What if everything will remain dreams? What if there will be many hindrances? What if things will not go the way I want them to? What if there will be people or situations which won't allow me to go this and that path? Woooooaaahhh!

And then, I snapped out. Yes, there will be hindrances. But I'm willing to pursue. Yes, there is a possibility that some of the things won't come. But I'm sure majority of those things will and if not, better things will. And yes, things may not go the way I want them to. But I'm a flexible person. I can accept the things I can't change but I'm determined to change the things that I can.

I've never been this hopeful in my life and noone can take away that vision of a very wonderful future in my heart.

God promises a wonderful future for His princess.. :) To my King be all the glory!

In My Perfect Life

It's two weeks before my birthday. Every year, I have this evaluation and reflection of my life... and visualization of my new year ahead. I haven't started with my evaluation yet but I've found very interesting questions that I would like to take time to reflect on.

I've got these questions from Ate My's blog which she also got from Paul Myers' ebook "Achieve Your Goals" @ esnips.com.

Few of the questions were:

In your perfect life:

-where would you live?
-what kind of people would you like to spend time with?
-how would you spend your time, if you could be doing anything you wanted?
-what would you eat? wear? have?
-would you work? If so, what would you do? If not, what would you do?
-what do you want to learn? to know? to be?
-where would you like to take a vacation? What would you do?


And here are my answers :)

- I still don't have a particular place in mind but I would always dream of having a house at somewhere rural where fresh air and green fields and blue skies are everywhere. It would be some kinda rest house where i could go to during weekends because I still want to work in a city proper. Thus, I want to have two houses :)
- I will be spending so much time with my parents and siblings. During weekends, we'll have lunch together with our own families. I want my children to see my parents often. I'll have regular chit-chats with my lifetime girlfriends about life, family, and business.
- I'm a woman who wants to do so much. So in my perfect life, I would be working as a teacher, a statistician for graduate studies and even at a corporate world (that's just once in a while and when my kids are already in school), having a bakeshop or a restaurant. And when at home, I'll be having a vegetable garden, I'll be a hands-on wife and mom even up to preparing my husband's and kids' baon. I'll be sewing my curtains, bedsheets and pillowcases. :)
- I'm not so much of a meat eater. And I hope in few years, I can eliminate meat and just be a fan of fishes and veggies. I would want to design and sew my own clothes. I want to have my own car so I can go anywhere and take my loved ones for joyrides. (This one is a secret revealed: My wildest dream is to own a resort here in General Santos City. One that would be a family sanctuary.)
- I still want to work. I still want to teach part time. I really want to manage a resort. It seems to be a very fulfilling job, developing a beautiful place for people's memorable moments.
- I want to enhance my cooking skills. I've enrolled in cooking lessons before and I want more! I want to know more about managing a household because I want to be a loving wife and mother of 2 kids.
- I want me and my husband-to-be to travel often. And when we'll have our two kids, we'll take vacations twice a year. Visits to my mother's hometown in Capiz and visits to my in-laws, as well because it's always fulfilling to reconnect with my roots. We'll go to different places everytime and try every adventure. :)


These are my visions of my future. And I can't wait to live my perfect life! :)