One of my most favorite parts of Mitch Albom’s book “The Time Keeper” was:
Try to imagine a life without timekeeping.
You probably can’t…
Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays.
Man alone measures time.
Man alone chimes the hour.
And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures.
A fear of time running out.
Today, I learned that I cannot make yesterday, my today, and tomorrow, my yesterday.
No matter how related they are to each other, none of them happens at the same time, and none of them makes sense, at the time that they are happening.
Today, I learned that there is no better teacher than tears.
No matter how much you try to keep it in, fight it or hold it back, letting it flow almost always, makes you realize how much painful it is to let go.
If you really could let go.
Today I learned that I make things complicated and I make things harder than its supposed to.
Its because I fight for what I believe in.
I fight for those I love.
And sometimes, I fight for the wrong reasons.
Today I learned that I do not have control over many things.
That I do not own much in this world;
That the little I have is not even mine to own.
That life is so fragile and precious;
That family is where it starts and where it ends.
That no one has to be alone.
Today I learned to surrender.
And just let God do the rest.
(As part of this learning, please also look up Oprah Winfrey on “The Color Purple”. I remember having second thoughts watching that video when my friend and colleague, Beni, shared it to me. It ended up worth my time.)
Nung una kong narinig ang MORCON, nagutom ako. Malay ko ba naman na ang ibig sabihin ng MORCon ay Mastering Online Rankings Conference. Hindi lang siguro talaga ako nagppay attention. On second thought, para naman talagang Morcon yung seminar – it’s stuffed of juicy ingredients that made SEO (Search Engine Optimization), SM (Social Media) and SMO (Social Media Optimization) much easier to deal with.
Full Steam Ahead, the book I’m reading, describes a company who is always on the go as “fully powered and moving ahead full force”. It however, also mentions that the idea may also mean a company becoming “reckless and blindly moving ahead in the face of danger.”
I think that an empowered company is one where each member finds “company” as fun and “work” as natural and effortless. It is where learning is a value and open-mindedness a requirement. It is a dynamic whole moved by its parts. What keeps it together is a vision. A dream that involves both the company as an entity and its members as individuals.
Thus, everyone knows where they are going. The destination is certain. But the journey is unknown. The good thing is, nobody has to face it alone.
Since I’ve been exploring dreams and vision lately, it’s quite fitting to consider faith too. I came across an article by Rachel Naomi Remen back in 1993 which is a good read. An excerpt is captured below as well as the url to the said link:
When I was small, about five or six, they were still teaching religion in the public schools. Every week there was an assembly in which the entire school was gathered, and the principal, a fundamentalist, stood up and did a fire-and-brimstone kind of preaching. During one of these assemblies she said it was important that we get on our knees and pray three times a day because we needed to remind God that we were there. She may not have actually said this, but this is what I took away. You had to make Him look at you! Because if God turned His face from you, you would wither up and die, like an autumn leaf… and then she actually held up this large dried brown autumn leaf. As I looked at it I felt such fear, such enormous terror, because it seemed to me, even as a five-year-old, that God had a lot of things on His mind, a lot of other people. And in-between the times I was praying, He might blink and then what would happen to me? I became very insecure, depressed, anxious, and was unable to sleep.
