Thursday, July 21, 2011
Friday, June 24, 2011
How you start your day & the choices you make
This was post Wed 30 Jul, 2003 07:02 pm by BumbleBeeBoogie. It is a very inspiring story. I hope you have a good read.
HOW YOU START YOUR DAY
Michael is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!"
He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Michael was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.
Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Michael and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?"
Michael replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood.
Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or...I can
choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it.
Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or... I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life."
"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested.
"Yes, it is," Michael said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live your life."
I reflected on what Michael said. Soon hereafter, I left my job to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.
Several years later, I heard that Michael was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Michael was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back.
I saw Michael about six months after the accident. When I asked him how
he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins. Wanna see my scars?"
I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through
his mind as the accident took place.
"The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my soon-to-be-born daughter, " Michael replied. "Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or ...I could choose to die. I chose to live."
"Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked.
Michael continued, "...the paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read "he's a dead man. I knew I needed to take some kind of action."
"What did you do?" I asked.
"Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me," said Michael. "She asked if I was allergic to anything. "Yes, I replied." The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, "Gravity."
Over their laughter, I told them, "I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead."
Michael lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice
to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything.
"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
HOW YOU START YOUR DAY
Michael is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!"
He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Michael was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.
Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Michael and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?"
Michael replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood.
Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or...I can
choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it.
Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or... I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life."
"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested.
"Yes, it is," Michael said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live your life."
I reflected on what Michael said. Soon hereafter, I left my job to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.
Several years later, I heard that Michael was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Michael was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back.
I saw Michael about six months after the accident. When I asked him how
he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins. Wanna see my scars?"
I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through
his mind as the accident took place.
"The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my soon-to-be-born daughter, " Michael replied. "Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or ...I could choose to die. I chose to live."
"Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked.
Michael continued, "...the paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read "he's a dead man. I knew I needed to take some kind of action."
"What did you do?" I asked.
"Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me," said Michael. "She asked if I was allergic to anything. "Yes, I replied." The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, "Gravity."
Over their laughter, I told them, "I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead."
Michael lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice
to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything.
"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Dominic's 4th Birthday
It was a great way to spend the weekend with the family. Well Friday wasn't so great because my internet stopped working around 12am (technically it was Saturday morning) and if you're someone who knows me well, you'll know that i'm very persistent. So I tried fixing my internet and it took me until 3:00am to fix it. I then took a shower and slept around 4:00am and man was I tired! Saturday is an early start for us so sleeping late didnt help me at all. We had our breakfast, chitchat for a bit and then it was time to get ready. The Aggabao-Ramos family picked us up around 12:30pm for Dominic's 4th bday celebration at the Canadian Air Space Museum. We picked up the food and headed straight to the venue. We had a great time it was super fast but nevertheless it was awesome. After the party we headed to Mama V's house to continue our celebration. We went home around 9:30pm got home around 10:00pm I was so tired because of lack of sleep so I took a shower around 12:00am and was was looking forward to get some zzz. Then next thing I know our internet is not working again! what the FFF... I had to set up everything again and by the time I'm done it was 3:00am I'm so exhausted!!! Today we stayed home and just relax...
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| Captain Dominic Francis |
Saturday, February 26, 2011
@ Home
I went straight home after work on Friday as I was really exhausted from all the work and lifting from the previous day. My baby went home just before 8pm with Ate She and Adam. We ordered Pizza Hut for dinner and yes we almost finished the 3 medium pizza boxes and only 2 slice left. We helped Ate She fixed the Lacie HD for there laptop to backup all the files, pictures etc. I didn't have any luck fixing Kristen's laptop as it needs to be reformatted or restore to default settings but first she needs to backup her laptop. That's our Friday....but wait there's more. Lol.
Saturday which is today started really really slow... my Baby is not feeling well with sore throat... we're suppose to go out but we just decided to stay home... So i was getting bored and I saw my laptop (Windows) that's been under our bed since we moved in while I was looking for my imovie cd. I tried fixing it a couple of times but no luck and finally I did it! I reformatted it and it worked. I love this laptop it's 5 yrs old!!!! After fixing the laptop me and Mhe did some caulking in our 2nd washroom it didn't take us a long time to do it but we have to do some painting on the walls and cabinet in the summer time. But now its Eat Bulaga time!!!
Saturday which is today started really really slow... my Baby is not feeling well with sore throat... we're suppose to go out but we just decided to stay home... So i was getting bored and I saw my laptop (Windows) that's been under our bed since we moved in while I was looking for my imovie cd. I tried fixing it a couple of times but no luck and finally I did it! I reformatted it and it worked. I love this laptop it's 5 yrs old!!!! After fixing the laptop me and Mhe did some caulking in our 2nd washroom it didn't take us a long time to do it but we have to do some painting on the walls and cabinet in the summer time. But now its Eat Bulaga time!!!
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| My Dell Laptop (5yrs old) |
Friday, February 25, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Swamped Thursday
I started my morning with my Quaker Instant Oatmeal (Maple & Brown Sugar) got my water and vitamins.... then boom!!! next thing you know i have OLG Millionaire Life, BCLC Millionaire Life, OLG Manitoba, Lotto 649 new creative and P12 Central Stills just got approved! On top of the we had to carry 32", 46" & 52" monitors all 90 Monitors. So while converting 100 mov files I had to double check all the content on the DVDs that was sent to us and it was wrong size and can't open the rest. Started animation of P12 Ads for Central and done rendering the files at 3:35pm and sent it for approval. I hope we got an answer today because P12 starts on Monday February 28, 2011...
Monday, February 21, 2011
Day Five of Five Day Vacation
We arrived at Mama's house around 12:00pm. We chilled for a bit and started eating lunch at 2pm we had Salmon with Cajun Spice, Seafood Chowder, Bowtie Pasta with Chicken, Pickled Cucumbers and Mama's cake for dessert... Yummy!!! It was nice to Yudith and the kids (Tristan Beiber and Frida) lol. Kwatog went home with Toron and Braso de Mercedes Cake. Well we did kareoke party: starring Mhe, Butchoy & Adam. We got home around 8:15pm ate dinner because we were both hungry Mama L's Chicken Curry yummmm! Now it's time to rest because tomorrow its back to reality... Happy 63rd birthday Mama V!..This was a great way to end our 5 day vacation Honey! and I'm out.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Day Four of Five Day Vacation
Day four and I can't believe it is almost over!!! Not too busy today, just went to the market with my baby and went grocery shopping for Mama V's birthday tomorrow. I made the Seafood Chowder and Penne Carbonara for dinner. Oh yeah I also cooked some Fishball with Sweet and spicy dipping sauce., yummy! Now I'm just relaxing and blogging...
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Day Three of Five Day Vacation
To start our day three we woke up at 8:30am had our breakfast: coffee, pandesal, yogourt & pancakes yummy. We left around 10:15am to go to Coscto with sister to get her membership card and i'm the secondary card holder; nice i can go to Costco anytime. After getting our pictures taken for the membership card, we walked around for almost an hour and had our lunch in the food court. After lunch, we took the ride the rocket to take us to our next destination: The Ballroom (you dont need a dancing shoes for this place, no no no not at all, but you will need bowling shoes!)at Queen/Richmond. Since we're too early, we decided to wait for Wengpot at Chapters. When Weng arrived we went straight to the Ballroom and played bowling for an hour.(I should mention that I came first place yeah baby!)After the game, we went for a coffee at Starbucks just to catch up with our dear friend Wengpot. Since we haven't seen each other for about a month, we chatted for 2 hours. Finally we got hungry and all were craving for Chinese food. Good ol' King's Noodle Restaurant satisfied our craving, oh yes indeed! I had Beef Flank and Wonton Noodle Soup, Mhe had Congee with Dounut, Sister had Peking Duck, BBQ Pork and Wonton Noodle Soup and Weng had Peking Duck and Wonton Noodle Soup. That was a great dinner! We got home around 8:35pm and it's time to laundry our beddings and iron our white ones; i can't wait to sleep:). But before I snooze, its time to watch Eat Bulaga! Peace out!
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Day Two of Five Day Vacation
Hello Peeps!!! This is the 2nd day of our vacation and boy we did A LOT! Mhe got up at 7:15 took a shower in our second bathroom because we fixed the caulking of our washroom in the master bedroom last night. I took a shower around 7:35am. Left home at 9:10am for our annual check-up. We arrived at the doctor's at exactly 10:00am. It took us a while because there are new tests that they added and we finished around 11:50am. We were starving so we went to the nearest restaurant we can find "Ichiban Sushi". I ordered Udon with Tempura Chicken and Mhe got Chicken Terriyaki and Salmon Roll; that was a good lunch. We finished eating just before 1:00pm and took a little break and left the restaurant to proceed to our next destination. Next on our agenda is Service Ontario to renew my Health Card. There were tons of people when we arrived. I picked up a number and waited, surprisingly the service was really fast. We were done around 2:30pm and off to our next destination to the Toronto Imaging Centre for my Baby's ultrasound; she finished around 4:00pm. A much needed coffee break was needed by this time. Starbucks here we come! Mhe ordered a cold and hot drinks and I got Wanton Soup. we chilled for a bit and we continued our journey to The Bay. We ended up getting some towels as it was on sale 30% off. After The Bay we decided to go home and then there was a problem in the subway so we took the Queen St. Street Car so we can get off at Queens St and Spadina but instead of heading home, we took another pit stop at John and Richmond to watch "Just Go With It" starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston. The movie was really good. If you're in need of a good laugh, then I recomend to watch this movie. After such a long productive day, we decided to head home. We decided to take the bus home as it was super windy and mhe's feet started to ache and I dont think she will be able to walk to our place. As we're waiting for our ride, sister Louie came from out of nowhere as she too was just heading home.
Now we are just relaxing my baby is reading Harry Potter Book 7 and I'm blogging... Cheers! I can't wait for tomorrow we are going to "Ballroom" at Richmond & John with Wengpot!!!
Now we are just relaxing my baby is reading Harry Potter Book 7 and I'm blogging... Cheers! I can't wait for tomorrow we are going to "Ballroom" at Richmond & John with Wengpot!!!
Friday, February 18, 2011
Day One of Five Day Vacation
We Finished our tv show season 6 of The L Word around 3am. It was an awesome show about relationships, friends, love, loyalty and anger. I really enjoyed watching it. Slept around 3:30am and woke up at 10:00am had our breakfast/lunch. Went straight to Mama's house and picked up Adam with Kristen and went to Filipino store but it was already closed. Adam was hungry so we went to Pizza Nova and dine in. Adam got Peperoni, Kristen got cheese and I got bruschetta. Went back to Mama's house and chilled for a little bit. Mhe and Adam played a few rounds of chess and Adam is pretty good at it!we then ate Ate She's Tinolang Manok yummy! After dinner we played with Coco; what a sweet baby doggie. We went home around 7:00pm...
My baby and I already fixed the caulking in our master bedroom washroom so we can't use it for 24 hours...Ordered Pizza Hut around 10:25pm and pizza came around 11:10pm. We ordered a medium Supreme and Orange Pop, very yummy and there's only 1 slice left and Railey had some of the crust too because that's his favourite.
Now I'm blogging... And I'm done LOL.
My baby and I already fixed the caulking in our master bedroom washroom so we can't use it for 24 hours...Ordered Pizza Hut around 10:25pm and pizza came around 11:10pm. We ordered a medium Supreme and Orange Pop, very yummy and there's only 1 slice left and Railey had some of the crust too because that's his favourite.
Now I'm blogging... And I'm done LOL.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
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