I love my BHF Derik, my Mom and Dad, Monica and Marco, the rest of my family,my best friends, no matter what we go through and no matter how much we argue because I know, in the end, they will always be there for me.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. I am so thankful for all the people in my life.
Give love and receive love.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Give
Laying in bed with the hubby on this fine morning in LA and we stumbled upon a Kobe Bryant Commercial: Fight Homeless in LA. 40000 homeless folks in this city.
It got me thinking about how many people are suffering/dieing from lack of food, medical care, and shelter.
I pray to God for them every night and although I don't have all the answers and all the money in the world to help every single being, I know that I can make a difference by giving back to my community and society.
It's during the Holidays when I feel the most compassionate for the poor and less fortunate. I imagine myself being in their situations - rather than being with family and loved ones. Me being in a shelter, old folks home, on the streets fighting for my life... lacking the love and warmth that most of us are fortunate to have on a daily basis. I would be so grateful to those who showed me they cared enough to feed me.
I am so grateful to those that have made it easier for me to find spots I can donate to. Selfless acts of kindness makes this life worth living; knowing that we each can take a step back to take a look at what we fortunate people can do to make their worth living is an awesome feeling.
I want to share some of the places Derik and I involve ourselves with in hopes of maybe allowing others to share a small piece of your heart by giving a little back.
The American Red Cross- I figure a simple donation every quarter will help. Also blood donations help! The Red Cross offers neutral humanitarian care to the victims of war, the American Red Cross distinguishes itself by also aiding victims of devastating natural disasters. You can also register to receive text messages from the red cross to inform you when donations of blood or money are needed asap during a natural disaster. Awesome! www.redcross.org
One Warm Coat - Donating coats to help families / children stay warm during the cold season. Why NOT? Every year, Derik and I will gather our coats that we know we will not pull during the 4 months of winter and commit to donating them. onewarmcoat.org
Second Harvest Food Bank - Donating canned food to the less fortunate. I'm always complaining about how full I am after a good meal. If I can afford to eat and cook meals for myself and my family, why not make a difference in another family's life? Find a donation center near you. Around October/Novemberish each year, Derik and I will purchase 2 bagsfull of cans from Big Lot's - 50 cents to a dollar a can and donate to local drop offs. FeedingAmerica.org ...also there's the SVC Turkey Trot who also benefits to Local charities including the Second Harvest Food Bank. svturkeytrot.com
Derik, Darin, and I have committed to making it a family run every year; the morning of Thanksgiving. A nice family run before eating great meals and it benefits the less fortunate? Wow, amazing!
If anyone has any recommendations please let me know. Sharing is caring. We all can make a difference by doing one simple act of kindness.
It got me thinking about how many people are suffering/dieing from lack of food, medical care, and shelter.
I pray to God for them every night and although I don't have all the answers and all the money in the world to help every single being, I know that I can make a difference by giving back to my community and society.
It's during the Holidays when I feel the most compassionate for the poor and less fortunate. I imagine myself being in their situations - rather than being with family and loved ones. Me being in a shelter, old folks home, on the streets fighting for my life... lacking the love and warmth that most of us are fortunate to have on a daily basis. I would be so grateful to those who showed me they cared enough to feed me.
I am so grateful to those that have made it easier for me to find spots I can donate to. Selfless acts of kindness makes this life worth living; knowing that we each can take a step back to take a look at what we fortunate people can do to make their worth living is an awesome feeling.
I want to share some of the places Derik and I involve ourselves with in hopes of maybe allowing others to share a small piece of your heart by giving a little back.
The American Red Cross- I figure a simple donation every quarter will help. Also blood donations help! The Red Cross offers neutral humanitarian care to the victims of war, the American Red Cross distinguishes itself by also aiding victims of devastating natural disasters. You can also register to receive text messages from the red cross to inform you when donations of blood or money are needed asap during a natural disaster. Awesome! www.redcross.org
One Warm Coat - Donating coats to help families / children stay warm during the cold season. Why NOT? Every year, Derik and I will gather our coats that we know we will not pull during the 4 months of winter and commit to donating them. onewarmcoat.org
Second Harvest Food Bank - Donating canned food to the less fortunate. I'm always complaining about how full I am after a good meal. If I can afford to eat and cook meals for myself and my family, why not make a difference in another family's life? Find a donation center near you. Around October/Novemberish each year, Derik and I will purchase 2 bagsfull of cans from Big Lot's - 50 cents to a dollar a can and donate to local drop offs. FeedingAmerica.org ...also there's the SVC Turkey Trot who also benefits to Local charities including the Second Harvest Food Bank. svturkeytrot.com
Derik, Darin, and I have committed to making it a family run every year; the morning of Thanksgiving. A nice family run before eating great meals and it benefits the less fortunate? Wow, amazing!
If anyone has any recommendations please let me know. Sharing is caring. We all can make a difference by doing one simple act of kindness.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Pretty Girls and Rich Dudes - Too Funny
Sometimes I do analyze why a not so good looking guy ends up with a hot girl...or why a not so good looking girl ends up with a good looking guy...this read is pretty funny.
Amazing reply by J.P. Morgan CEO to a Pretty girl A young and pretty lady posted this on a popular forum:
Title: What should I do to marry a rich guy?
I'm going to be honest of what I'm going to say here. I'm 25 this year. I'm very pretty, have style (http://g35driver.com/forums/#) and good taste. I wish to marry a guy with $500k annual salary or above. You might say that I'm greedy, but an annual salary of $1M is considered only as middle class in New York . My requirement is not high. Is there anyone in this forum who has an income of $500k annual salary? Are you all married? I wanted to ask: what should I do to marry rich persons like you? Among those I've dated, the richest is $250k annual income, and it seems that this is my upper limit. If someone is going to move into high cost residential area on the west of New York City Garden ( ? ) , $250k annual income is not enough.
I'm here humbly to ask a few questions:
1) Where do most rich bachelors hang out? (Please list down the names and addresses of bars, restaurant, gym)
2) Which age group should I target?
3) Why most wives of the riches is only average-looking? I've met a few girls who doesn't have looks and are not interesting, but they are able to marry rich guys
4) How do you decide who can be your wife, and who can only be your girlfriend? (my target now is to get married)
Ms. Pretty
Awesome reply:
Dear Ms. Pretty,
I have read your post with great interest. Guess there are lots of girls out there who have similar questions like yours. Please allow me to analyse your situation as a professional investor. My annual income is more than $500k, which meets your requirement, so I hope everyone believes that I'm not wasting time here. From the standpoint of a business person, it is a bad decision to marry you.. The answer is very simple, so let me explain.
Put the details aside, what you're trying to do is an exchange of 'beauty' and 'money': Person A provides beauty, and Person B pays for it, fair and square. However, there's a deadly problem here, your beauty will fade, but my money will not be gone without any good reason. The fact is, my income might increase from year to year, but you can't be prettier year after year. Hence from the viewpoint of economics, I am an appreciation asset, and you are a depreciation asset. It's not just normal depreciation, but exponential depreciation. If that is your only asset, your value will be much worried 10 years later.
By the terms we use in Wall Street, every trading has a position, dating with you is also a 'trading position'. If the trade value dropped we will sell it and it is not a good idea to keep it for long term - same goes with the marriage that you wanted. It might be cruel to say this, but in order to make a wiser decision any assets with great depreciation value will be sold or 'leased'. Anyone with over $500k annual income is not a fool; we would only date you, but will not marry you. I would advice that you forget looking for any clues to marry a rich guy. And by the way, you could make yourself to become a rich person with $500k annual income. This has better chance than finding a rich fool..
Hope this reply helps. If you are interested in 'leasing' services, do contact me....
Signed,
CEO
J.P. Morgan
Amazing reply by J.P. Morgan CEO to a Pretty girl A young and pretty lady posted this on a popular forum:
Title: What should I do to marry a rich guy?
I'm going to be honest of what I'm going to say here. I'm 25 this year. I'm very pretty, have style (http://g35driver.com/forums/#) and good taste. I wish to marry a guy with $500k annual salary or above. You might say that I'm greedy, but an annual salary of $1M is considered only as middle class in New York . My requirement is not high. Is there anyone in this forum who has an income of $500k annual salary? Are you all married? I wanted to ask: what should I do to marry rich persons like you? Among those I've dated, the richest is $250k annual income, and it seems that this is my upper limit. If someone is going to move into high cost residential area on the west of New York City Garden ( ? ) , $250k annual income is not enough.
I'm here humbly to ask a few questions:
1) Where do most rich bachelors hang out? (Please list down the names and addresses of bars, restaurant, gym)
2) Which age group should I target?
3) Why most wives of the riches is only average-looking? I've met a few girls who doesn't have looks and are not interesting, but they are able to marry rich guys
4) How do you decide who can be your wife, and who can only be your girlfriend? (my target now is to get married)
Ms. Pretty
Awesome reply:
Dear Ms. Pretty,
I have read your post with great interest. Guess there are lots of girls out there who have similar questions like yours. Please allow me to analyse your situation as a professional investor. My annual income is more than $500k, which meets your requirement, so I hope everyone believes that I'm not wasting time here. From the standpoint of a business person, it is a bad decision to marry you.. The answer is very simple, so let me explain.
Put the details aside, what you're trying to do is an exchange of 'beauty' and 'money': Person A provides beauty, and Person B pays for it, fair and square. However, there's a deadly problem here, your beauty will fade, but my money will not be gone without any good reason. The fact is, my income might increase from year to year, but you can't be prettier year after year. Hence from the viewpoint of economics, I am an appreciation asset, and you are a depreciation asset. It's not just normal depreciation, but exponential depreciation. If that is your only asset, your value will be much worried 10 years later.
By the terms we use in Wall Street, every trading has a position, dating with you is also a 'trading position'. If the trade value dropped we will sell it and it is not a good idea to keep it for long term - same goes with the marriage that you wanted. It might be cruel to say this, but in order to make a wiser decision any assets with great depreciation value will be sold or 'leased'. Anyone with over $500k annual income is not a fool; we would only date you, but will not marry you. I would advice that you forget looking for any clues to marry a rich guy. And by the way, you could make yourself to become a rich person with $500k annual income. This has better chance than finding a rich fool..
Hope this reply helps. If you are interested in 'leasing' services, do contact me....
Signed,
CEO
J.P. Morgan
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Reviewing The Landmark Forum
I'm a well grounded person with the most loving hubby, the coolest 13 month old son and my BFF boxer doggy to go home to everyday. I have a wonderful career and the most awesome staff ever. I am blessed to be able to live a lifestyle I only dreamed about living. All the materialistic things I have I can say I've earned through hard work. The value of Family and friends are much greater than these things. I believe that God's always got my back.
Even with being blessed with having amazing things happen to me in my life, I've had my moments of re-evaluating my life as a teenager or an adult trying to figure out who I really am and how to overcome feelings of irritability and frustrations with obstacles and differences in my life. I've been through counseling sessions off and on for about 10 years, wrote in my journal, talked to friends, went to church.... And they have all been wonderful experiences...so I thought; Until I was introduced to the Landmark Forum. A couple of friends told me about it 8 years ago and I recall them telling me that once I take this class, my life would be transformed forever. They were studying at Yale at the time and it helped them overcome obstacles in their college life. As amazing as it sounded, I was seeing a life coach at that time whom I felt helped me to find the answer to all my questions I had about my life. I've read all the self help books you could imagine and they also had me thinking 'Oohh and ahhhhhhh, I get it'.
8 years passes by. I've matured, I've been through many ups and downs.
I've built meaningful relationships and have had my share of disappointments in life. I couldn't say that my view of seeing the world was any different after
The counseling sessions and the weekly trips to Borders.
I was reintroduced to the Landmark Forum 10 months ago by my hubby's boss. He encouraged the hubby to take it and told him he'd even sponsor him because he has never been so impacted by a forum in his life.
The hubby thought about it and thought about it and forgot about it. Without him knowing, I decided to sign him up and he was NOT a happy camper.
With 500 smackeroos already invested in it, he had to go.
Without going into too much detail, the reason why I felt the need to sign my hubby up was because he works from home and he would complain to me that he hated it. I told him that if he is inspired and gets something out of the 13 hour a day course on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, then I would take it too.
Not only has gone from hating working home to loving it; his performance has sky rocketed. And a bonus, our communication skills... AWESOME!
So now. Let's talk about my experience.:)
I took the Forum during my maternity leave in September and the experience has been PHENOMENAL. One of the breakthroughs I had was in my work performance. Previously I had spent a lot of time being frustrated with my boss and the higher ups who didn't understand that sales is not as easy as they think didnt know how hard it was to achieve budget. I had decided that they were "wrong", and that I was going to have to work "outside the system" to pursue the things I was passionate about.
What I got from the Forum was that making others wrong accomplishes nothing, and once I stopped making them wrong, I could take ownership for my experience. Based on this insight I got the power to create my experience at work however I wanted it to be. Rather than being resigned to frustration and dissatisfaction, I suddenly had the freedom and the tools to completely alter my environment, enabling me to do what I was passionate about. To take a single example: I would NEVER be able to be the top closer in the nation. Are you kidding me? I've just taken on this position at my work as a consultant. We are the 5th largest center in the nation and there are over 80 centers to compete with. Most of the centers are smaller and it's easier for them to achieve their goals.Hello? Whereas before I would have been resigned to being dissatisfied, post-Forum I realized that it would be way more fun and fulfilling to create a competition for myself. Because I no longer saw the higher ups as being "wrong" I could build powerful relationships with them, and one of those relationships enabled the best experiences of my life, where I got the Regional Vice President to email me that I have set a new standard for our consultants in the region. I not only over exceeded in my sales by 150% but also won # 2 in the nation... And number 1 in a huge
competition.Won $3500 bucks!.. And brought in 5 figures in commission for the past 2 months.
That was one breakthrough of many that I got from the Forum, and I've successfully applied the training to many other areas of my life.
My relationship with my sister is on a whole new level as well as with my bro, Dad and Mom. Oh btw, sis and Mom took it too and they were blown away. LIFE ALTERING.My hubby and I hardly ever argue and when we do, let me tell you it is resolved faster than ever now. Our photography business has been amazing since then too.
It was definitely one of the best investments of time and money that I've ever made. I was blown out of my socks.
The last thing I have to say is no matter how many books you've read, no matter how many degrees you have,no matter how much money you make,no matter what disciplines you have studied, no matter how perfect you think you are,the Landmark Forum is going to seriously give you the best orgasmic feeling you've ever had... For life
Even with being blessed with having amazing things happen to me in my life, I've had my moments of re-evaluating my life as a teenager or an adult trying to figure out who I really am and how to overcome feelings of irritability and frustrations with obstacles and differences in my life. I've been through counseling sessions off and on for about 10 years, wrote in my journal, talked to friends, went to church.... And they have all been wonderful experiences...so I thought; Until I was introduced to the Landmark Forum. A couple of friends told me about it 8 years ago and I recall them telling me that once I take this class, my life would be transformed forever. They were studying at Yale at the time and it helped them overcome obstacles in their college life. As amazing as it sounded, I was seeing a life coach at that time whom I felt helped me to find the answer to all my questions I had about my life. I've read all the self help books you could imagine and they also had me thinking 'Oohh and ahhhhhhh, I get it'.
8 years passes by. I've matured, I've been through many ups and downs.
I've built meaningful relationships and have had my share of disappointments in life. I couldn't say that my view of seeing the world was any different after
The counseling sessions and the weekly trips to Borders.
I was reintroduced to the Landmark Forum 10 months ago by my hubby's boss. He encouraged the hubby to take it and told him he'd even sponsor him because he has never been so impacted by a forum in his life.
The hubby thought about it and thought about it and forgot about it. Without him knowing, I decided to sign him up and he was NOT a happy camper.
With 500 smackeroos already invested in it, he had to go.
Without going into too much detail, the reason why I felt the need to sign my hubby up was because he works from home and he would complain to me that he hated it. I told him that if he is inspired and gets something out of the 13 hour a day course on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, then I would take it too.
Not only has gone from hating working home to loving it; his performance has sky rocketed. And a bonus, our communication skills... AWESOME!
So now. Let's talk about my experience.:)
I took the Forum during my maternity leave in September and the experience has been PHENOMENAL. One of the breakthroughs I had was in my work performance. Previously I had spent a lot of time being frustrated with my boss and the higher ups who didn't understand that sales is not as easy as they think didnt know how hard it was to achieve budget. I had decided that they were "wrong", and that I was going to have to work "outside the system" to pursue the things I was passionate about.
What I got from the Forum was that making others wrong accomplishes nothing, and once I stopped making them wrong, I could take ownership for my experience. Based on this insight I got the power to create my experience at work however I wanted it to be. Rather than being resigned to frustration and dissatisfaction, I suddenly had the freedom and the tools to completely alter my environment, enabling me to do what I was passionate about. To take a single example: I would NEVER be able to be the top closer in the nation. Are you kidding me? I've just taken on this position at my work as a consultant. We are the 5th largest center in the nation and there are over 80 centers to compete with. Most of the centers are smaller and it's easier for them to achieve their goals.Hello? Whereas before I would have been resigned to being dissatisfied, post-Forum I realized that it would be way more fun and fulfilling to create a competition for myself. Because I no longer saw the higher ups as being "wrong" I could build powerful relationships with them, and one of those relationships enabled the best experiences of my life, where I got the Regional Vice President to email me that I have set a new standard for our consultants in the region. I not only over exceeded in my sales by 150% but also won # 2 in the nation... And number 1 in a huge
competition.Won $3500 bucks!.. And brought in 5 figures in commission for the past 2 months.
That was one breakthrough of many that I got from the Forum, and I've successfully applied the training to many other areas of my life.
My relationship with my sister is on a whole new level as well as with my bro, Dad and Mom. Oh btw, sis and Mom took it too and they were blown away. LIFE ALTERING.My hubby and I hardly ever argue and when we do, let me tell you it is resolved faster than ever now. Our photography business has been amazing since then too.
It was definitely one of the best investments of time and money that I've ever made. I was blown out of my socks.
The last thing I have to say is no matter how many books you've read, no matter how many degrees you have,no matter how much money you make,no matter what disciplines you have studied, no matter how perfect you think you are,the Landmark Forum is going to seriously give you the best orgasmic feeling you've ever had... For life
Friday, November 4, 2011
It's Good to me
It's too short. I'll say it again. It's too short. *sigh* It's unpredictable. It's nothing. I create it. I give it my meaning. It's good to me. It's now. It's an awesome gift ..Life.
I'm living it and it's now.
Thank you God, seriously. I am living a fulfilling life and honestly don't know sometimes why I deserve this. I truly am blessed.
I'm living it and it's now.
Thank you God, seriously. I am living a fulfilling life and honestly don't know sometimes why I deserve this. I truly am blessed.
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