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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.

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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.

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I think that some people find dreaming a luxury they cannot afford because of the realities life is making them face everyday. Some find it preemptive – a source of disappointment and some, foolish or stupid – a childish rant against nature.

I believe that dreams make things happen. We’ve heard of people who are able to do extraordinary things in spite of physical or mental disabilities, natural disasters and even material constraints and we call them heroes. Will you say that these people are only heroes by birth, by chance or by opportunity? What can stop us from being heroes, if not ourselves?

How do you dream? Isn’t it supposed to be natural? What happens if you wake up? How can dreams happen if you’re sleeping?

I believe that the natural inclination of our mind is to dream of something that has already considered everything we have been exposed to. This is different from the dreams we get while sleeping and going on REM. The dream I am talking about is one’s ability to project an image (that’s not there of course) and making it happen. It’s nothing different from the story described here. Perspective is a critical aspect.

We must learn to dream, believe that we can achieve it and make it happen – not for everyone to see, but for us to feel fulfilled.

There was once a sinking ship and the captain has made a bold move of literally abandoning ship in spite of the fact that help was coming. The group on the board, however, felt otherwise. Not everyone can swim and none of them were prepared to face the problem alone. If they jump, each will wait alone, afloat, amidst a raging storm and dangers of the sea, but if they stay, well, the ship was going to sink anyway, at least it wasn’t going to blast into pieces. The least they can do was stick together.

Meanwhile, a lifeboat was dispatched. It came across the captain and then came to pick up the rest of the crew. The lifeboat can only bring them to a nearby island, where a couple were setting up a raft all of them can use to get to a bigger ship. The crew was disappointed. The rescuers also said they couldn’t promise a safe haven nor could they promise a smooth journey. It was disheartening but the crew, decided to try.

The waters were still unfriendly and they keep on getting pushed back to where they started. The crew hesitates to move forward.

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Nature and the rest of the world, works together in a cycle and undeterred spirits and a unified group, with complete faith in each other and in God, will always win over anything, even that which seems impossible for most.

“We cannot move forward until we lose sight of the shore.”