Hurrah to rest :)

It seems a little bit odd for me to be sitting here at the balcony of our hotel typing on Blogger thru my iPad right on top of and almost beside the blue clear resort pool and the gushing waves of the blue sea. My wife is attending her lecture, the kids are already having their classes so they were left home, and here I am alone in the room just pondering on what to do.

It's a bit odd coz just days or even hours ago, my mind is filled up with so many things to do and self guilt as to why I'm not accomplishing everything as planned out. Is it my old habit of postponing things again at the helm? Hmmm, let me work at why I don't think so...



So far, I was already able to take a step forward as far as medical pursuit is concerned. Had already fulfilled & submitted the requirements to be a member of the prestigious American College of Physicians. And as of last week, I had received an official email from them confirming me now as an official international member. :).

It was not just the title I was after. What lured me was the perk of being able to access all the full text journals of the Annals of Internal Medicine (whether past or present) and their other resources which certainly would help me a lot with my practice and in my teaching. So far the past few days I had been actually been busy downloading some PDFs which some I had come to and were indeed very good material. I hope that as I intend to share them with the medical residents, they would have the enthusiasm to appreciate them and use them in their training.

As for my online marketing ventures,  I was able to get involved with a low entry network marketing company with good products which is also backed up with huge online resources to boost its marketing and pay plan. I felt it was a good fit for my brother in law and my wife's secretary whom my wife and I are trying to help. So we got them in and in the past few days had managed to enroll too my other 2 sis in laws and placed them in my bro in law's downline. I missed attending their online marketing seminar this Saturday and missed clinic too but in exchange was able to attend my niece's daughter's birthday and saw our son dance with her.

Enough mumbling.....it's now time to go back inside, rest so I could clear my mind for the following days and be more in tune with my life purpose (or maybe in tune with the latest hits on Myx or what's up at HBO). I believe I should take heed of what Tim Ferriss says, "Less is not laziness". Doing less meaningless work so you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness. Focus on being productive rather than busy.

I have a full week ahead once we get home but for now it's rest time......... :) Why slave, rest, and retire when you can do the mini retirements and enjoy things at the moment . The next few posts will be about achieving results by not necessarily being busy.

Hurrah to rest!!

"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day..."   -   Robert Frost          (tsk tsk tsk)

Why marketing may be a divine act

I had always been dreaming of succeeding in a business ( online or offline) that would provide real value to many people while making good.  But behind this would certainly be a tremendous amount of marketing and selling. I initially hate the idea really of chasing your friends and relatives to present some product and make them feel guilty if they would not buy from you.


I came across this article by Ms Pamela Brunner on Mother Teresa which changed my perspective on this. I would now be sharing this with you word for word. :)

Was Mother Teresa a Marketer?         By Pamela Bruner

Do you transform lives, and the world, with the work that you do?

If your dream is to make a difference in the world with your work, and you've made that work a business, then yes, you're a transformational entrepreneur. (Just to be clear - this includes coaches, healers, artists, authors, speakers, trainers, service professionals, and more...)

And marketing probably feels like the worst thing in the world to you. After all, it's manipulative, pushy, inauthentic, and only designed to benefit you, right?

Not if your work benefits the world.

Consider the path of Mother Teresa. She raised millions of dollars for her work. She was one of the most successful marketers of all time, spreading her message, raising money, and making a difference. 

But she wasn't raising money for herself, right? She was raising money for others, so it's completely different.





Consider this:
1) When you run a successful business, you will hire people to help you. These people benefit from your successful business.

2) When you run a successful business, you have the ability to give away more money. (Last year I donated more money to charity that I earned in my first year of coaching!)

3) When you run a successful business, you raise the level of the economy all around - that's something the world needs.

4) When you run a successful TRANSFORMATIONAL business, you change more lives than you do if you run a struggling business. Those people go out and make the world a better place - that's a significant ripple effect!

So market like Mother Teresa - be relentless in sharing your message. Tell the world what you do, and why you do it. Change lives. Make money. Keep some, invest some to help your business grow, and give some away. Some people will criticize you, and some will bless you. Your mission is to keep sharing, and keep transforming lives.

Here's an assignment:
Set a goal for how many people you want to reach with your transformational work this month, and this year. Now 'chunk it down' - how many people do you have to talk to this week to be on track with your goal?

When you market, things happen. When things happen, you change the world.

I'll let Mother Teresa have the final word:

"People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable.
Be honest and transparent anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People who really want help may attack you if you help them.
Help them anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt.
Give the world your best anyway"

The two things in life amigo..

My sincere apologies as I was not able to post the past three days while I was away due to problems on internet connectivity and my device. Well here I am, recharged and ready to zoom :)

I'd like to share first this funny string of words with logic, this was delivered perfectly by Tessie, one of the best local tourist guides we've met. Yep there will always be two paths..

TWO things in life amigo..

It's either you live or die...

If you live, well and good.
If you die, there are two things..

It's either you become soil or fertilizer..

If soil, well and good.
If fertilizer, it's either you become a tree or a vegetable..

If a vegetable, well and good.
If a tree, it's either you become wood or paper.

If wood, well and good.
If paper, it's either you become a writing paper or toilet paper.

If writing paper, well and good.
If toilet paper, it's either you are used by a man or a woman.

If by a man, well and good.
If by a woman, it's either you get used in the front or the back.

If it's at the back, well and good.
If it's at the front, you will gladly say "I have not died in vain..." :)


Let's relax a bit, see you tomorrow....

The struggle to build good habits

Just woke up at about 7:30am and realized that I've missed a pretty important event. I had been invited by Dra Dizon 2 nights before to join in the "Ta Run Na Abe" ( Come on Let's Run), a 2.5, 5 ,10, & 21 km marathon/ fun run organized by a medical organization (group of Family Med MDs) which supposedly had started at 5 am this morning....

Nah, running is not for me, and yes to support that, my companions here at home are still in cloud 9 snoring. I would just get a tiger look if I woke them and forced them to go with me. I've been telling them esp my better half about the event and what if we join in just for fun. Yep my invitation entered their left and exited their right ear.. :( . It looks pitiful if I alone would set off for it in Clark so I rested my case.

Though well rested I still feel I've missed a lot and so I turned on that threadmill machine & in spirit, joined them marathoners while watching David Foster (The Hitman and Friends DVD). The music is superb and keeps me to the beat, it distracts me from being tired though I just have to stop at 2.8 km in 30 mins ( a pre set program). I'm not an endurance conditioned man. Besides I don't have a cardiac monitor attached on me...

It was always my goal to remain healthy but I just had an attack of an irregular heart (atrial fibrillation) December 2005 after having had a drink in our Christmas party. A series of tests while being confined showed that I have a bicuspid aortic valve, a 28% stenotic obstruction in my right coronary artery, and hypertriglyceridemia. My world literally stopped during that time as I always limited myself from doing physical activities, just walking gives me chest discomfort. I felt depressed not being able to help my wife with our daily bread. Yep, one sad thing about being a doctor is you may earn much bigger while working but when you stop (like when you get sick), nothing will go in.

But then I recall my good friend-colleague Edgar telling me, "Hey, you're still too young and you have small kids to look out for. Don't let this control you.". When this got into me, I suddenly realized the truth in what he said. Though I've been on maintenance since then, am glad to be almost always symptom free for the past 7 years. I've been "fortunate" enough to have fatty liver, GB stones (had a laparoscopic cholecystectomy in 2009), & kidney stones  (had shock wave lithotripsy in Dec 2011) but what the heck, I remain committed to reach a ripe old age of 90 so I could still meet & even play with my grand kids.

I'm formulating an exercise plan despite my toxic schedule as a practitioner, my patients are not quite benign nowadays (have had 4 intubated ICU patients this week :( ). It's hard but will be using some tools to achieve this, I'll be sharing them in the next posts (tools I learned from success mentors). Yep, there's the diet thing, I eat like a true blue Kapampangan, salty and fatty foodstuffs are really hard to resist especially when all the people in the household crave for them and that our helpers are great cooks. That's an extra challenge to use tools upon.

Good luck!!

What's with this blog??

It's my first day to blog again in about 2 years! My previous blogs were more of the cut and paste type, heck mainly to create an advertisement filled page for others to click on and for me to earn (how sad). Well mainly it's because I barely have the time to write. Too much preparation gets you into analysis paralysis. Now I just know I have to place my fingers on the keyboard and let it flow...

Why did I create this blog? What's with the title? There are billions of super blogs out there, who would take the time to glide their eyes on my piece? Well I can't answer all these. I just have to share what I learn, see, experience daily and just write, write, write.

What to expect here? My hopefully daily journal  1. as a father  2. as a medical doctor-internist ( nope, no medical lectures here!! But yes to tips and uncanny experiences) 3. as an aspiring online entrepreneur ( delving into internet and online affiliate businesses worth exploring, the very good ones will be share with you), as a network marketer (lots to spill on the groups I've joined in), 4. as an inactive licensed realtor ( I'm still updated on the good projects, thanks to my local realtor society), 5. as a traveler ( the world is a colorful and strange place!), 6. as an investor ( thanks to Mr Kiyosaki of Rich Dad, Poor Dad who I virtually met in 2005 thru his book, money is not evil and scarce as I thought it was), and more importantly 6. as a life and success learner ( I actively strive to be taught by mentors like Jim Rohn, Jack Canfield, Brian Tracy, Bo Sanchez, Jomar Hilario, Larry Gamboa, etc and even pay subscription fees to learn from them. And yes, in my following blogs I'll just lay some for you to take in.

When a candle is lit, it should be placed far out in the dark to fulfill its purpose. That's what our life's lessons are supposed to be, to be a lightpost for others.

Feel free to comment and give suggestions! We are all learners here.

PS: To avoid spamming and VERY violent counter comments (I hope none :), I will have to moderate them before publishing.

It's the start of a new adventure!!