Welcome to Breakthroughs in Life!
In summer of 1993, I stumbled upon a multi-billion group of companies that sell packages of Investment and Insurance plans pre-programmed to meet future needs like Pension & Retirement, Education, and Memorial services.
The 6-month probationary contract I entered into with the company as an Independent Entrepreneur taught me good lessons more than it made me richer selling intangible items.
A kind of revealing encounter and at the same time eye-opener took place in a training hall where a gathering of sales people would spend a whole week of rigid training in character building, career development and professionalism in sales and marketing of future promises on paper. Little wonder that the multi-billion group of companies hired a trainor like Mr. Yuppy. For one thing, I personally got impressed with Mr. Trainor's deductive style and approach in delivering his subject matters. Not only that he has got the Big Picture of what and how the Investment and Insurance Industry works, but he has the assertiveness and the objectivity that leave no room for his audience to doubt he really meant business.
Fortunately, I got the chance to have a one-on-one talk and exchange of thoughts and views with Mr. Trainor during our free time. Perceiving that he really made it to the top in his chosen career path, I asked him a straightforward question, "Sir, what have you found and how does it feel living at the summit of your achievement?" As though starlit came flashing from out of the dark, Mr. Trainor's confession made me think twice and over again when he answered, "IT IS LONELY UP THERE, YOU KNOW!"
Friend in the blogosphere, if you are happy with who you've become now, where you are and what you've already gotten, y0u must be so blest to have ascended up the RIGHT SUMMIT of Joy, Peace, Love, Wisdom, Good Health and Prosperity.
KEEP UP!
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Monday, September 1, 2008
Breaking Through the TWIST & TURN of CIRCUMSTANCES
Welcome to Breakthroughs in Life!
To some extent, there's sense is such line as "You are what you read..you are what you imbibe!.."
During my youthful years, reading comics as well as paperbacks about romance, detective stories, adventures, and suspense thrillers occupied some of my leisure time at home.
Being a home-bodied type, I also loved listening to melodramatic series via transistor radio. Television was not yet available in our domain in the farm in southern Mindanao at that time. This was in the nineteen fifties and sixties.
In my junior years in college, my interest shifted to reading more on success stories of people in the world of business and commerce where they made it from rags to riches, so to speak. But on top of my reading interests, the classical discipline I got out my 5-year enclosure in a religious seminary in Lipa City (1970-'73) & Tagaytay City (1973-'75), added sophisticated menu to what I already digested since youth.
After college and seminary life, when I was out on my own in the open secular world of "anything goes" working to make a living, I turned to and loved reading books dealing with success motivation, positive mental attitudes, getting rich quick, and the like. Really, I absorbed so much of the latter dosages that I learned to think "Big", day-dream, and wish for the stars.
By the time I got caught up, felt responsible and held accountable in a commitment which left me no choice but admit as destiny to carry on - Married Life, I was already an ambitious materialist.
Carried away with my vainglorious ambition, the more I got excited when I was already riding a "corporate high horse", at age 33, at the peak of a career ladder in the corporate business enterprise. Meantime, the legitimate and serious demands of marriage and family life were less and less attended. One time, my "Once-charming lady-turned-brooding" partner in life (forgive my negligence) asked, "AM I A MERE DECOR IN YOUR LIFE?"
Well, the twist and turn of events made great difference. It may sound paradoxical, but I eventually found a liberating reason to be grateful for the rocking socio-economic-political quake in the early 1980s - The declining years of then President Ferdinand E. Marcos'
regime.
Sifting though the socio-economic-political crisis was, my mind was quickened to see and realize WHO I AM, WHAT I LACK, WHAT I NEED first and foremost. Then, flashed glimpse of fresh opportunities and new perspective leading to an inward journey, search, discovery and providential recovery of the long lost SELF.
The first major breakthrough in life would then ensue - A New Life Path opened leading to what this blogger persistently uphold in his blogging business as "Cherished Liberty in a Sublime Paradigm".
Friend in the blogosphere, rising above the hardness of one's circumstance makes great difference! There's always a Breakthrough-For-Good ahead of a persistent living soul. Move on in Faith, Hope, and Love!
Call UP HIGH & Claim LIFE - LIFE IN ABUNDANCE!
To some extent, there's sense is such line as "You are what you read..you are what you imbibe!.."
During my youthful years, reading comics as well as paperbacks about romance, detective stories, adventures, and suspense thrillers occupied some of my leisure time at home.
Being a home-bodied type, I also loved listening to melodramatic series via transistor radio. Television was not yet available in our domain in the farm in southern Mindanao at that time. This was in the nineteen fifties and sixties.
In my junior years in college, my interest shifted to reading more on success stories of people in the world of business and commerce where they made it from rags to riches, so to speak. But on top of my reading interests, the classical discipline I got out my 5-year enclosure in a religious seminary in Lipa City (1970-'73) & Tagaytay City (1973-'75), added sophisticated menu to what I already digested since youth.
After college and seminary life, when I was out on my own in the open secular world of "anything goes" working to make a living, I turned to and loved reading books dealing with success motivation, positive mental attitudes, getting rich quick, and the like. Really, I absorbed so much of the latter dosages that I learned to think "Big", day-dream, and wish for the stars.
By the time I got caught up, felt responsible and held accountable in a commitment which left me no choice but admit as destiny to carry on - Married Life, I was already an ambitious materialist.
Carried away with my vainglorious ambition, the more I got excited when I was already riding a "corporate high horse", at age 33, at the peak of a career ladder in the corporate business enterprise. Meantime, the legitimate and serious demands of marriage and family life were less and less attended. One time, my "Once-charming lady-turned-brooding" partner in life (forgive my negligence) asked, "AM I A MERE DECOR IN YOUR LIFE?"
Well, the twist and turn of events made great difference. It may sound paradoxical, but I eventually found a liberating reason to be grateful for the rocking socio-economic-political quake in the early 1980s - The declining years of then President Ferdinand E. Marcos'
regime.
Sifting though the socio-economic-political crisis was, my mind was quickened to see and realize WHO I AM, WHAT I LACK, WHAT I NEED first and foremost. Then, flashed glimpse of fresh opportunities and new perspective leading to an inward journey, search, discovery and providential recovery of the long lost SELF.
The first major breakthrough in life would then ensue - A New Life Path opened leading to what this blogger persistently uphold in his blogging business as "Cherished Liberty in a Sublime Paradigm".
Friend in the blogosphere, rising above the hardness of one's circumstance makes great difference! There's always a Breakthrough-For-Good ahead of a persistent living soul. Move on in Faith, Hope, and Love!
Call UP HIGH & Claim LIFE - LIFE IN ABUNDANCE!
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