My motivation on doing so many things (including blogging) blossomed on New Year’s Day. I heard mass on the first day of the year not only because I was tasked to sing the Responsorial Psalm but because I had to take that time to glorify and praise God for all the blessings that we have had received for the year 2011 as well hoping for another great 2012.
So how did the ignition happen? Allow me to give you a flash back about what happened on my 10-days-off vacation…
Everytime I go home to Bukidnon, there is no internet at home and the channels on our television are very limited. One of the things to bring is always a book or 2 for me to be preoccupied (Just to give you an idea about me: Movies do not make me preoccupied, they normally make me inefficient). One of the 2 books I brought with me is entitled, “Do Not Sweat Small Stuff at Work”. Reading that book is like being “accupuncturized”, there were so many times I had to sweat at small stuff at previous work thus pinching my both my heart and ego at the same time it was a very great realization that will have to be actualized in my new career, thus hurting myself in order to heal. The book taught me a lot of things and one of it includes re-visiting New Year’s Resolution.
I am always a New Year’s Resolution fan girl. I don’t get frustrated when few things on my list didn’t happen because I believe that as long as I’m given another chance to live another year, that resolution will probably be achieved. Another very important reason why ought not to be devastated is that because God may not have approved to my plan because He has a lot of better plans for me (Please read Jer. 29:11 for this matter).
The book gave me wonderful ideas on how to renew and re-factor my NY’s R but when I checked the list, there so many things my active and wanderer mind could have ever imagined (My NY’s R is kept as a secret right now but I will have to divulge that one of the resolutions is to do blogging J). After I’ve rechecked my list and read them all and it turned out that the biggest challenge I had in my mind after re-reading all those was, “How do I go about starting”? In a very common scenario, many people failed their dreams and ambitions because they fail to answer that question. My resolution would end up the same if eventually I couldn’t answer the same question.
It’s true when Jesus said, “Knock and the door shall be opened” – Mt. 7:7. I had always been ambitious and this time, as a new chapter awaits me (which is my new career), I don’t want to make my ambitions set to a mediocre level. I want to be very well-driven as much as I need to see results. I don’t want my resolution to remain on my papers and go dust in the wind so I had to ask God to please enlighten me with a simple yet very challenging question. My prayer didn’t take months to be answered; it took only days and He answered my prayer exactly on New Year’s Day through His instrument, our very brilliant and inspiring Parish Priest, Fr. Bob.
The ignition on how to make a list of things to do turn into action; a reality; a success, is taught, said and explained very briefly in Fr. Bob’s homily. If you happened to know John Maxwell, you’d know how keen he is and how inspiring he is with all the books he had ever wrote and how many millions of copies he had ever sold (if you don’t know him, turn your search engine on and type his name, Google is a friend you know ;) ). When he was asked as to what his secret was on his success, his answer was simple. I couldn’t remember exactly how Fr. Bob quoted his answer but in a more general tone, John Maxell didn’t have any secret at all, he simply started doing what he knew he could do and made a habit out of it. He started with bits and bits of work and when they were compiled, surprisingly they made up a book and that book made him earn billions.
In all these, I learned that we are not expected to do great stuff when we start. So how should we start a dream? We start by doing things in a small way, the smallest things with great love, passion and drive. Most of the successful people didn’t make a great leap and made their dreams come true. They started by making mini but continuous steps and they never let the fear of failing kept them from playing the game. This is now how I’m inspired and driven. I am not going to make my actions as extravagant, I just have to be a minimalist but a minimalist with maximum passion in everything I do, making me hope that all these inspiration I have drawn from the instruments God has given will be utilized and actualized, not just initially but all the days He’ll be giving me. –Fin-
