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Mahirap pala pag wala kang gingagawa buong araw. Di mo makita o mapansin o matanggap ang mga bagay o pangyayari na pasasalamatan mo. Di gaya ng pag marami kang ginagawa, parang kahit hirap na hirap ka madami kang naiisip na dapat ipagpasalamat o ipagbunyi.

Gaya ngayon, ano ba ang dapat ko ipagpasalamat? Simple, ang buong araw ng aking pagpapahinga. Ang hangin na aking hinihinga. Ang tubig na aking pinandidilig sa mga halaman ko. Ang mga kawayan na naguumpisa nang lumago sa harap ng bahay. Ang aking mga magulang at ang mga huling oras o araw namin na aming pinagsasaluhan. Ang init ng katawan ng aking asawa na dumadantay sa aking katawan tuwing pagtulog. Ang gisadong monggo na niluto ni ermat....ang inihaw na manok ng chicken bacolod, namit! Ang pagkakataon na ialay ko ang aking oras at sasakyan sa aking paboritong pamangkin habang sila'y andito pa sa pinas. Salamat at dahil ipinagmaneho ko siya, siya ay nakarating ng maayos sa party ng kaibigan niya sa Makati at nakauwi rin kami ng maayons.

Marami pa rin pala akong dapat ipagpasalamat!

Veinte Seis

Ngayon, ako'y nagpapasalamat sa lahat ng biyayang nakamit ko sa araw na ito. Ang simpleng katahimikan, ang oras na ginugol sa aking sarili....ang paggising sa umaga, pag luto ng aking almusal at ako'y nagpapasalamat ng lubos sa paanyaya ni Jemy sa pagdalo sa Museum Volunteers Philippines lecture series kaninang umaga. Buti na lang at nakarating ako sa oras. Dahil dun, nadinig ko ng personal si Celeste Legaspi-Gallardo sa kanyang pagtalumpati tungkol sa kanyang Inang Bayan. Ako'y lubos na nagpapasalamat sa kanya, sa mga mata't pananaw niya sa kanyang kapaligiran, sa aming kasaysayan. Nagpapasalamat ako sa dakilang lawak ng pananaw ng lahat ng tao. Samu't sari, maaring walang kabuluhan sa iba, basta may kabuluhan para sa isa man lang tao, dapat respetuhin.

Nakakaaliw ang mga pinakita ni Celeste, mga lugar sa Pilipinas na di man lang alam, mga pistang katutubo, kakaiba, katuwa-tuwa at higit sa lahat, nagpapasigla sa aking dugong pinoy. Tunay na pinaghalong mundong oriente at occidental.

Lubos akong nagpapasalamat sa pagkakataong pinamalas ni Celeste sa kangyang mga panauhin ang ningning ng kanyang tinig sa kanyang pag-awit ng Bayan Ko. Nagpapasalamat ako sa tinig na ipinagkaloob sa kanya. Napakaganda.

Nagpapasalamat din ako kay Jemy na nagpaunlak at pinakinggan ang aking talumpati tungkol sa aking advokasiya. Nagpapasalamat ako sa interes na kanyang pinakita at sana'y ako ay makatulong sa pag papalawig ng kanyang seguridad pang pinansiyal.

Nagpapasalamat ako sa araw na ito dahil ito'y parang isang pagdidiskubre o eksperimento sa mga maaari kong gawin o gugulin ngayong ako ay wala ng trabaho. Maraming maaaring gawin. Huwag lamang mag panic at mag paka stress. Salamat at kahit sa ganitong panahon, ganitong munting paraan alam ko na umaandar pa rin ang aking utak, pumipintig ang aking puso sa sulok ng aking ulirat.

25 de pascua

Nahahapo, tuliro....parang nauupos na kandila di kaya ng hinuha saan hahagilap ng benta. 6 na yuta yan ang inaasinta. Kailangan makamit, pitik bulag, patay kung patay pero bull's eye ang target na yan sa taong ito.

After all is said and done I really have nothing else to do to make that target collectible except to believe that I will get it and be thankful for getting it which is why I am grateful for everything that made me hit my targets. I am grateful firstly to the Powers that Be for allowing me to realize my targets. I am grateful for all the clients and opportunities thrown my way.

I am also grateful for the positive attitude that is the ever flowing grace that the Powers grant unto me. I am also grateful for not procrastinating in setting all those appointments. I am grateful for the energy that always flows into me, never ebbing, that allowed me to meet my goals, meet my targets, meet my prospects and convince my prospects.

I am also most grateful to all my prospects who all have agreed to meet with me. And I am most ever grateful to my clients and prospects who have listened and learned the good news of financial planning and are now my ardent clients.

I am grateful for having been an instrument for the financial security of my clients.

Thus and because of all those things that happened that I am ever grateful for, I am grateful ever further for all the rewards, accolades and appreciated granted me: I am grateful that I have qualified as Million Dollar Round Table - Top of The Table for this yearending Nov 2011. I am also grateful for the blessings that have come to me that allowed me to purchase a new Accord, a new 60" LCD TV, a new 25" iMac, and the stuff I use for my sales career: a new macbook pro, a new iPad, and a new macbook air.

I am grateful that all these have materialized.

Bisperas, maraming salamat

Today I am grateful for serendipity. I am grateful for my capabilities to put one foot ahead of the next to make things happen in the absence of support. I am grateful for delays I've incurred in paying bills for if I had paid early, I wouldn't have had extra cash to make my insurance sales happen today, the last day to file applications. I am grateful that I was able to finish everything today and for this I am ever grateful to my friends, C & J, who were very accommodating. I am also grateful for the assistance provided by my firm's support people, Josie & Toto, truly accommodating, truly helpful, truly the kind of people to be grateful for....may their tribe increase!

Dalawampu't tatlo

Today I am most grateful for a most bountiful day. I am grateful for my meetings having been moved tighter together. I am grateful for meeting with friends and I am truly grateful for presenting my business to my friends. I am so very grateful that I was able to close 2 sales today with my friends. I am grateful for this glorious grace and bounty from the One, the Universe, the Power, our God. I am truly thankful for this blessing. May this be a watershed of a torrent of new sales coming day on day, week on week and month on month for years to come.

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Is there anything to be grateful today? I travelled almost 150 kilometers to prospect clients and have naught to show. For all intents and purposes, this is a very bad sales day, and it was even a Monday! Whew! What a way to start my sales week.

But is there something I should be grateful for today? A lot. A thousand and one infinite reasons for me to be grateful.

Today I am grateful for a full work day that started at 6AM and ended at 5PM. Though I failed to book any sale or get new names, nevertheless, I was able to devote my entire day to my new career, for which I am grateful because I learned 2 new products that I can use for my sales and a comparison of their features. Truly, how I wish I could buy these products for myself and have more to boot.

I am grateful for this day of no sale as it is a day of learning - how to take rejection, how to keep one's spirits up despite the rejection, how to keep looking forward, never turning back as to do so will turn me to a pillar of salt.

I am also grateful that today I was able to touch base with our relatives in Calulut while I was doing work. Truly this new career in insurance sales is bringing in a lot of boon for me although not in terms of money. I am also grateful for the trust reposed in me by my relatives as they freely shared their personal travails and burdensome journeys.

I am grateful having tasted the palabok offered by my aunt. It was truly delicious, the explosion of flavors coming from the mixture of the sauce, the fried pork, the fried garlic. Truly delicious!

I am also grateful receiving our tenant's notice that they will stay in the apartment only up to March. Although there is a cashflow issue with the refund of the deposit, this means that we could have new tenants. There is movement simulating the movement of cash into our lives. I am grateful that our tenant has found a new and better life.

I am grateful for just being. I am grateful for succeeding in life.

Veinte- Uno mas

Today, I am grateful for :

• a full day together with my partner
• having been able to do work for each other
• having the time to fix some stuff
• having replaced today all the busted lights in my room
• my partner fixing all my the loose bolts of my car's mudguards
• having sorted and arranged the stuff in my tool box
• my partner color my hair, hiding all the silver hair of discontent
• realizing that, oh boy I am still way way wayyyyyy too fat but that believing in my capacity to trim down and burn all them fatties is the only way for me not to fall into despair

I am grateful that I have realized where I have gone wrong in keeping my temple in the best possible state of upkeep. I forgive myself for having done all those wrongs and forgetting to keep my temple pristine. Now my body and I will work together to get to where I have to be in the shortest possible time.

A Veinte Reales

Nalimutan ko bigla magtala ng aking mga pasasalamat ngayong a-veinte ng Pebrero. Nguni't huli man daw......

I am grateful for a day full of possibilities

I am grateful that I now have 2 boxes full of my business cards, my self-promotion.

I am grateful for having attended the seminar on When to Invest and sitting through Efren Ll. Cruz's short topic on PERA, REIT laws. It was a eureka moment for me hearing his advocacy. Now I know an advocacy where I can put my tithe both in silver and services.

I am grateful that there is a group that truly wants to advocate personal financial planning for all Filipinos. Finally, a cause I truly believe in, having been mired in the same problems that the lack of planning gives rise to.

However, I am grateful for a full day albeit sans clients for it was nonetheless full: the visit to my alma mater; the vicarious enjoyment of youthful banter during a prom. To experience the laughter of teenagers is like the tolling of little bells ringing away the layers of time and accumulated worries. How easy it is then to realize that all these ageing, worry, stress and all are really something we choose to put on or affect us. The loss of innocence, the loss of youth is not just a matter of chronos running away but the effect of our choice to mature and decide to wear our hearts on our sleeves: worries, hurts, hardships, challenges....I am grateful that everynight I am given a few minutes to think all these things and realizations for they truly open my eyes, pinupukaw ang mga agiw sa aking pagiisip at muni muni.

I am grateful for a full day coming.

Diez y Nueve

Today I am grateful for the people helping me in my business. Like my partner's mom who is interested in bringing in prospects.

I am grateful for my relatives great and small for they are willing to help, always ready to assist.

I am grateful for tender mercies.....being at the mercy of creditors and debtors for somehow creditors would always give me an extension when really necessary while my debtors may incur a few days' delay but they've never failed to come through at the last hour.

I am thankful for friends who remain so over long periods of time and I am grateful for the passage of time and its ability to heal everything....friends to enemies to friends.....

I am grateful for God's, the One's, the Universe's, the Power's creation. I am grateful for Creation's nature: its chaotic abundance. I am grateful for the diversity of even a single specie: the bucolic bamboo in its thousand facet diversity: pole bamboo, black bamboo, chinese, burmese, benguet bamboos, buho bamboo, golden bamboo, thai bamboo etc, ad nauseam, all of them with noded trunks of varying colors. All reaching up to Ra with faces perpetually bowed towards Osiris.

Diez y Otso

Today, I am grateful for having dialed my partner's number which gave us the chance to talk a bit. I am grateful for the realization that my partner is important in my life.

I am grateful for having driven along the expressway well nigh noon for somehow the heat of that blazing sun seared away all pretensions. That, made me realize how grateful I am for being able to drive a 6 year old car with an AC that is back in good working order. I know how it is to drive without AC, truly the fires of hell on earth. Thank you Reggie my friend for having solved my AC problems just before the scorching drought.

I am grateful for having paid my first check to my instructor for it was an affirmation that what he imparts is valuable knowledge distilled and transferred. I am grateful for such knowledge that now forms part of the tools and skills that I need for my business insurance projects. It is but right that my instructor is compensated for training me

I am grateful for being a lawyer as it has trained me in how to think, assess, and act properly in accordance to what the facts and circumstances require. I am grateful for being a lawyer because it adds to my prospects' appreciation of myself as an insurance agent. I am grateful for being a lawyer because it allows me to use my skills and aptitude to provide better value to my prospects.

I am grateful for the joys of a grilled steak burrito, it sates most deliciously.

Viva Mexicali!!!

I am grateful for buying my red moleskin 2010 planner, which is now my business planner and grateful journal because in buying that expensive planner (forced to use my credit card in violation of my financial laws of the land), I am now starting a joint grateful journal and business planner. Synergy, it is making me prosperous.

I am grateful for having found so many things, events or anything to be just so grateful about everyday!

Salamatan ng Diez y siete

Today, I am grateful for having a partner. I am also grateful for hoping that my partner will be my companion for life, despite both of our pagkukulang at misgivings sa isa't isa. I am grateful sa aking kakayanan to look beyond sa kanyang mga pagkakamali at higit akong nagpapasalamat dahil kaya niyang pagtiisan ang aking kabuktutan at ugaling di maganda.

I am grateful at pumasok ako sa agency kanina dahil diyan napilitan ako tawagan ang mga kilala ko at nakapag set ako ng appointments for next week. I am grateful doon sa tatlong tao pumayag makipag set ng meeting sa akin next week.

I am grateful that I am where I am right now for if not for my current circumstances, I wouldn't realize what I would have regretfully lost in time. And for all these I am grateful to Noel for being the instrument that will allow me to break barriers, to go beyond the glass ceiling of my mediocrity.

and before I forget, I am grateful for having chatted with my friend N who asked for my CV. I am grateful that N will include me in his list of advisors

I am grateful for having started this grateful journal, in the hope that in my darkest days, this journal will serve as my lighthouse to guide me during days of hopeless insecurity.