sundry time

I have a book entitled Just When You Think You Can't Do It... Do It! by Sir Francis J. Kong. I would like to share some bits of information that he wrote in the book, just in case you also like to know...

• Men can read smaller print that woman; woman can hear better. (beware of that)
• Coca-cola was originally green. (sprite and mountain dew had followed)
• It is impossible to lick your own elbow.
• The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
• Each king in deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spade-King david, Heart-Charlemagne, Clubs-Alexander the Great, diamonds-Julius Caesar.
• And if you love math, you might be thrilled to know that 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.
• If a statue in the park of a person on the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. if the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
• Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
• Question: Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?, Answer: Their birthplace.
• Q: What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printer have in common? A: All were invented by woman.
• Q: What is the only food that doesn't spoil? A: Honey.
• Q: What What trivia fact about Mel Blac (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic? A: He was allergic to carrots.
• It was accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, thus the word honeymoon came from.

We can get too many information, data and ideas by means of reading, practice of good listening and communication. "We are drowning in information bet we are starved for knowledge.", this is true, isn't it? Truth be told by Arthur Wellington that "Wise people learn when they can... fools learn when they must."

Another one from Edward de Bono "Ideas are the spectacles through which we look at data in order to see information. Data is useless until we look at it through an idea - only then it become useful information."

Maraming Salamat.

dependence to interdependence

Today is the 109th Philippine Independence Day and it just happen that this week I also started reading Steven Covey's well-known 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (only posible by doing it...i hope i can cultivate all of them) He said, a person should move progressively in the context of self maturity from dependency to interdependency. Interdependence is a matter of choice, we must achieve independence first before we choose interdependence. (...thanks to those who fought, atleast now we have it... really? do you? think again!) Winning private vitories must come first before public victories. I hope I could share the same thought in the near future. (maybe after reading and applying the book I guess)

Maraming Salamat at Mabuhay!

power of confidence

I got this formula from the website of Kaz Maslanka. He is also an artist and an engineer. I like his style because of his ability to relate mathematical equation into personal maturity context. Pretty amusing isn't it? He called it Polyaesthetic Work but the thing that got my attention is what he called Mathematical Poetry. You can find more here.

Read how he relate Power Equation into Poetic Substitutions:

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m = Your diamond strength, crystal bravery a faceted fortress tempered by your self-love
delta v = From the cold insecurity of night to the sun shaking your hand each morning while your heart drums life's confirmation song
delta t = From temporal neutrality to that split instant your intuition knows . . . eureka!
x1 = Celebrating your victories, the transformation to deity
x2 = Lying in your crib, frightened of your mothers sneeze
y1 = Forged impenetrable through triumph
y2 = Soft as your baby butt

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For full substitution of P = E/t to P = (m(delta v/delta t)((x1 - x2)^2 + (y1 - y2)^2)^.5)/t Please read this link.
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In full form:

P = (m(delta v/delta t)((x1 - x2)^2 + (y1 - y2)^2)^.5)/t

Power of Confidence = (Your diamond strength, crystal bravery a faceted fortress tempered by your self-love)( From the cold insecurity of night to the sun shaking your hand each morning while your heart drums life's confirmation song/ From temporal neutrality to that split instant your intuition knows . . . eureka!) ((celebrating your victories, the transformation to deity - Lying in your crib, frightened of your mothers sneeze)^2 + (forged impenetrable through triumph - soft as your baby butt)^2)^.5/From temporal neutrality to that split instant your intuition knows . . . eureka!

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For me Power of Confidence is our ability to believe in our own self-worth. Start from Believing and then Do It!

excellence #6/7:

excellent discipline

Discipline in the Greek resemblance to the word “gemnatsu” where came the word gymnastic, which literary means, “the ability to subordinates the selves. Every successful person in the world read their biography, they are the people of discipline because there’s no shortcut to success. It takes perseverance to have discipline.

It takes people who are not afraid of rejection. It takes people who will not afraid of failure because failure is not final therefore it is not fatal. Failure is an event it is not the person. Person who understands perseverance they will succeed because they are the discipline people. It also takes time to have an overnight success.

excellence #5/7:

excellent expectation

Excellent people have high expectancies on themselves. Losers never have it. Excellent people always think “what will I do to learn more?” Only excellent people force themselves to study. It’s not just to earn a degree but to learn and develop ourselves. One of the famous motivational speaker, Denis Waitley said “If you want to be a handicap for the rest of your life in the 21st century economy, be computer illiterate. Peter Drucker, the father of modern day management says this, “The 21st century illiterate is no longer the one who cannot read and write, the 21st century is the one who does not have the capacity to learn, relearn and unlearn”. Logical, an average human knowledge double every three and a half years, do you know that?

Commercial muna, take 2...

Losers and winners, they have different expectation when it comes to money. Loser will always say “Pare, pera yata yan!” Winner will always say, “Pare, pera lang naman yan eh” Because winners understand there are more things important than money. Dignity of labor, word of honor, respect, faithfulness to the family, service to our country, those are the things money can’t buy.

excellence #4/7:

excellent motivation

Do you know what excellent motivation is all about? “It means letting your mind, and your heart dwell on the right thing”. There’s a shortcut word on it that is called INTEGRITY.

Sometimes integrity is only good to your ears, but it’s very hard to apply in real life. Well, if that's your philosophy I give you an advice, try to consult your bestfriend Merriam, whose last name is Webster and look up that word INTEGRITY and you will be surprise to find out what that word simply means, “a mathematical term that connotes wholeness” That is you’re the integral part of the whole. It means “NO CRACKs” It means our walk matches our talked, our life matches our lips. It also means “When I say I’ll do, I’ll do what I say. What I say I mean, I mean what I say”.

We are the only country that connotes to be, the only Christian country in the part of Asia that according to the United Nation survey, we are no. 2 in corruption. Maybe that would explain the reason why this country is still suffering from poverty right now. Maybe we are lack of the word intergrity.

The greatest motivation that we can have is whenever we find our people trusting on us. It’s not just thinking of the salary or the money. I always believe that money will depreciates over time or will devaluate its value but character will appreciate over time. You’re reputation, your credibility and your name must be protected above the money. One thing about integrity is that you cannot mandate is, you can only motivate.

Any business along the way will fail but with excellent motivation you will never fail to have an absence of integrity. Perhaps integrity will always starts with the children. Children will not believe 100% you will say, but they certainly believe 100% they see. They do. Some people say “You can fool a fool, but you cannot kid a kid” That’s integrity is all about.

(Inspired by Mr. Francis Kong)

vous pouvez le faire*

"If you think you are beaten, you are,
If you think you dare not, you don't
If you like to win, but you think you can't,
It is almost certain you won't.

"If you think you'll lose, you're lost
For out of the world we find,
Success begins with a fellow's will-
It's all in the state of mind.

"If you think you are outclassed, you are,
You've got to think high to rise,
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.

"Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man,
But soon or late the man who wins
Is the man WHO THINKS HE CAN!"

*YOU CAN MAKE IT!