Don't stop believing and chasing your dreams!

Just do it and chase your dreams! Turn those dreams of yours into a reality. Once you have chase it, go for a better and bigger one. Don't stop believing to your dreams and goals no matter how hard you fall. 

Remind and focus on it and stand up again and make your impossible dreams turn into something doable. Little by little and even if there is uncertain still there is something happening, there is a progress without us being aware of it. 

Young and old, we are in for an adventure all the time and set yourselves for new beginnings instead of endings. In addition, ground your dreams and goals with spirituality and practicality to build a strong foundation making those impossible dreams becomes possible.

Sogga's Touch no jutsu!

 

I know you are in deep pain Floppa.

After I saw a video of Sogga touching Floppa's chest on YouTube by Cult of Flop, it makes me inspired to write a small dialogue between the two.

Sogga have mastered a new technique after watching Naruto called "Touch no jutsu" putting a paw on an irrate friend in order for him to calm down and release the evil chakra.?

Sogga's Touch no jutsu

Sogga: Floppa, I know that you are in deep pain. Let me remove that for you my friend. (Placing its paw on Floppa's chest)

Floppa: It's not bloody working! Sogga stop this nonsense jutsu of yours. I'm not buying it! Hiss!

Practicing Solitude on holiday season is not that bad

 It is a common tradition that during holiday seasons we always spend our quality of time with our family, friends and colleagues. We enjoy family gatherings at home or even doing some festive activities outdoors. Most offices go for Christmas parties, and everyone have their own share of presentation numbers, antics and making contributions when it comes food, drinks, games or even simply helping with the cooking and tidying up with the host.

Holiday seasons brings nostalgia to those people who have transitioned to a different lifestyle for example Filipino Overseas Workers (OFW). Before they go abroad, they got used to visiting loved ones for the holidays however now that they are far from home, they miss their family and friends and the lively atmosphere that they once get used to. Now that they are in another country, they have to start celebrating holidays either from themselves or with a new group of people. Life continues to go on.

In Western countries we also encourage some people to visit those who are lonely and vulnerable groups like the elderly, people with disability, children on foster care, the prisoners and those who detained and people, people with addictions, chronic poverty and lastly those who have mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression and others. Even on these circumstances that they have, they do deserve human connection and it is normal for us to seek that love and the need of being belonged.

However, for those who spend their Christmas and New Years alone some people cannot help but formed some assumptions towards these groups of people. They think that those people in isolation are all lonely.

Here is one of the classic examples of statement that some people assume when someone is alone during holidays.

- Until now, she doesn't have boyfriend, yet I bet her holidays will be lonely.

True that there are many reasons why some people are on their own during holidays and at some point, might feel loneliness.

For example, having unsupportive and toxic family and friends that they choose to distance themselves. Those who need to work or doing charity and community works during holiday festivities, loss of a loved one. For some, holidays can be overwhelming that they need to follow old traditions that are against to their current values and priorities in life. There are some people who fear of overblown spending while others have a different expectation that when things start to run on a different course, they feel upset and loss their motivation to believe and start again.

On a positive note, there are others who prefer to be alone because they simply enjoy it especially for some Introverts who spends time alone to recharge and find happiness on stillness, simplicity and calmness. Some people are confident in their own skin and being open to new explorations. Just drinking a warm cup of Hot Choco without distractions alone already brings joy!

Unless we are aware and understand their stories and it would be best not to give any assumptions and understand where people are coming from before we judge them as lonely.

If we are starting to have fears of being in isolated, we have to begin making it as a friend. What I meant by it is to see your situation of being solitude in a different light.

By being solitude, it gives us the opportunity to prioritize our self-care. We sometimes tend to meet the expectations of other people from us without knowing that we are stretching ourselves too thin and it make us lose our authenticity to ourselves and it does affect our health. In practicing self-care, we value both our physical, internal and our mental health.

Practicing solitude also helps us to discover and reflect more about ourselves from our strengths and weaknesses, our boundaries, things that we care and value and is there anything that we need to improve or change by that?

There are some instances that we are overloaded with many tasks to do and once that we didn't reach people's expectations of us, our self-worth depletes however by doing Solitude you are able to develop compassion towards yourself and others because being alone, helps you to slow down and view things with further clarity and on a bigger picture.

Solitude also provides us the strong focus on our goals. Instead of focusing on negativity around you for example dealing with gossips you focus within on what you build for yourself.

And lastly being in Solitude makes you seek God and gives you the time to deepen your relationship with the Supreme Lord and improve the quality of relationship to your loved ones and others whom you encounter towards your journey in life. Living Solitude balances everything and it doesn't alienate yourself on others. You are making yourself heal and have peace within yourself and others.

Do we still think that Solitude is a bad thing? For me, it is about time to learn something from it and make it into good use.

The benefits of using Receipts for my things to do list instead of an organizer or the Daily/Yearly planner.

 

An example of a Daily/Yearly Planner

When I was in High School and College I enjoyed collecting or buying Yearly planner or Organizer for my day-to-day activities. I love its colorful designs of it especially it is a book bound however later on I realized that after a year this Year planner becomes a clutter, there are some pages that are untouched and I was thinking that most yearly planners are expensive and every time that I am going to throw them on the bin, I could imagine the cost of this item and instead of using this amount for other important expenses then there we go, all of them goes to the bin!
From there, it makes me have a decision of not buying or accepting Yearly planners but instead use whatever resources that I have and that's either clear Bond paper, a Scratch paper and lastly the receipts.

Fifth, once you have accomplished all the task for a particular day, you can simply throw it away using paper bins for recycling.
Then lastly, you can write ideas that inspires you and that is something that you can keep on looking forward to in planning your activities for the following day and make sure that you are planning for your daily task and activities keep it in line with your main goal and set your intentions for the next day.

Sometimes, these receipts provide me the motivation to work hard especially if I saw the cost of the purchase written on the receipt was costly.??

There are also times that we fail to finish the tasks that we have written there however we shouldn't be too frustrated and dwell too much on those tasks because we have to be reminded that there are things that take time to manifest that's why do everything you can and for those unfinished business you can get back to work on it. If we try to rush things sometimes it produces wrong results that is why we need to carefully plan our time, money and resources. Our day-to-day list would help us keep on the right tract with our goals despite of world's uncertainty that we encounter, and it is also our way of evaluating what are things and commitments that is working or not. Have a great day and spend your time wisely.

Using this kind of humor or similar wouldn't do any good for Vegans to spread their message across

 

On Facebook, I found this post some may have a laugh out of it however this doesn't do any good for some people who takes them seriously.

I commented about this post and here are the contents. I do hope that Vegans and Non-Vegans try to end division and arguments to prove their worth and see a bigger picture instead.

You may try to encourage them to accept the significance of being a vegan or vegetarian, but this kind of humor doesn't do any good to persuade them to respect what Vegan stands for.

Being Vegan is all about spreading kindness and peace and not making others feel hostile and be divided because our belief is the absolute truth and reality.

We wouldn't earn respect and making others persuade if we mock or belittle other people's choices.

Respect begets respect.

If they do change because of this way that is because it is out of fear or just pleasing us but don't see the significance of it to themselves and to the animals that we've been trying to protect and soon they are back to their old ways.

As Vegans we patiently help those people who really wanted to transition for something better and understand those people who are struggling with this and see where they are coming from.

Those Meat eaters may be harsh on us, but we don't equate it the same because we have a strong conviction that we follow, and we see things in a bigger picture. Let our good actions be an example for them to change.