TURNING POINT
Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better. - King Whitney Jr.
“Go back to Italy. There’s no future for you here in the Philippines”, quipped my brother when he sensed my decision to stay in our country permanently. “Future” is one dream for thousands of Filipinos who wanted to go abroad, seek greener pastures and live well: materially!.
It’s official - I’m staying and am joining the ranks of the ordinary self-employed in our country. Everyone is asking me why in the world I’d risk leaving a stable job - with great people, good economic compensation, better retirement benefits, secured health insurance, etc. - for something with no guarantees or unstable life.
The best answer I came up with: I want to know how the story’s going to end, and I can’t do that without a serious commitment to STOP COMPROMISING.
Inside of us have these competing desires or needs between security and independence, oftentimes, we always end up halfway between them, resulting to frustrations. I have to make a choice and take an overwhelming risk and courage to face an awful or an embarrassing failure.
I believe it is not yet too late to believe in working and living with minimal stress using our creativity, intelligence, and authenticity.
This is another important chapter in my life. My passion is driving me to make a new page, here is where the magic begins. The price of admission is high but I’m sure, miracles will supply me the resources I need for my endeavor.
CHANGE QUOTES
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world. - Tom Brokaw
It is never too late to become what you might have been. - George Eliot
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Andy Warhol
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. - Carol Burnett
Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix. -Christina Baldwin
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. - Harrison Ford
Things do not change; we change. - Henry David Thoreau
Nothing endures but change. - Heraclitus
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Tolstoy
Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests. - Lance Armstrong
The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of heart. - John Welwood
Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat. - Caroline Schoeder
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstacy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. - I. Krishnamurti
Nothing is easy to the unwilling. - Thomas Fuller
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain. - Maya Angelou
The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates the “virtual reality” we experience. Such ‘knowledge’ is so thoroughly a part of our world view that it simply would not occur to most people to question it. Yet underneath this reality is another, sub-institutional reality in which very different responses are simply acted out. This is the reality in which everyone, until very recently, lived. - David Schwartz
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. - Marilyn Ferguson
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. - John Steinbeck
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don’t, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. - Jessamyn West
The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created–created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination. - John Schaar
Don’t fear change, embrace it. - Anthony J. D’Angelo
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. - Goethe
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions. - William James
Change in all things is sweet. - Aristotle
If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now. - James Hillman
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers. - Unknown
When you blame others, you give up your power to change. - Dr. Robert Anthony
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. - Robert Frost
A reporter interviewing A.J. Muste, who during the Vietnam War stood in front of the White House night after night with a candle, one rainy night asked,”Mr. Muste, do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here alone at night with a candle?” Muste replied, “Oh, I don’t do it to change the country, I do it so the country won’t change me. - Andrea Ayvazian
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Hi Ate Ros! I miss you a lot and I miss this blog of yours which is food for my thoughts, especially my spirit.
And after literally months of silence, I’ve come back to the blogging world (and I’m using my old web address).
I’ve always looked at change as something more of a risk than an opportunity. But at the back of my head, I always thought, “hey, I’ll never know until I change.”
May you always be blessed in whatever changes you’d be subjecting yourself to. And oh, since you’re already here in the country, we might cross each other’s paths one day.
You’ve got courage and optimism on your side. Those are two essential qualities to have if ANYTHING AT ALL is to happen in the way you envision that it should. Great quotes as always, Long hiatus from your last post but well worth the wait. Good Luck to you. Remember always that luck wished at you from strangers has more magic than some. P.S. May I steal your last quote?I loved it.
” Everyone is asking me why in the world I’d risk leaving a stable job - with great people, good economic compensation, better retirement benefits, secured health insurance, etc. “
ma di quale paese parlava questa gente ?? dimmelo che ci voglio andare di corsa :-)):-))
..with great people ….non credo si riferivano all’italia
…good economic compensation ….no no non e’ l’italia
better retirement benefit …..di certo non in italia
secured health insurance …pregando di non finire nelle mani sbagliate :-p
insomma hai deciso ? cosa ne pensa il tuo gatto , gliene hai parlato ? :-p:-p …prima ho lasciato un commento ma sembra sparito …o forse deve essere prima autorizzato …non so , vabbe’ ci sentiamo dopo , ciao ciao :-p:-p
certo lavorare senza capo e’ bello , e’ tutta un’altra cosa , posso capirti , la liberta non ha prezzo :-p
quelli che ti chiedevano come puoi lasciare tutte quelle sicurezze per venire a vivere nel tuo paese …bhe non so se sono al corrente di qual’e l’attuale situazione in italia :-p:-p non mi pare ci siano tutte quelle sicurezze :-p:-p ….ammeno che uno non faccia l’avvocato , il medico , il manager , dirigente d’azienda ..allora bhe si e’ diverso .
Io ibig disisyon , giting, matapang Ross
ingat ka , ciao ciao
( chissa che ho scritto , speriamo bene :-)) :-)) :-)) )
Jake,
I’m glad to see you back and like you, I have been out of the blogosphere for many months.
Sure, we can cross our paths if we want too
Cheers and goodluck!
Hello Milena,
welcome to my CAN!
Yes, I believe in magic wishes blown by strangers. May the Good Wind bless them always.
You can take any quotes you want to and I’m glad you left your encouraging marks on my site.
Thank you.
Nanetto bello,
grazie di nuovo per il tuo buon umore. Sì, la mia gatta mi ha dato l’autorizzazione di lasciarla con un Re senza trono
Spero che puoi venire qui nelle filippine così posso vedere il mio nanetto che sta diventando bravo in scrivere filipino e in inglese. Sono sicura che hai una belezza filipina che ti insegna a dire certe cose.
Grazie per la pazienza…il nostro matrimonio sarà nel prossimo …chi saprà?
Stami bene, ok?
..con un re senza trono …mmm non so se riesco ad interpretare bene i tuoi messaggi esoterici :-)) :-))…
Ohhh siiiiiiiii mi piacerebbe tantissimo venire nelle Philippines , da qui mi piace tutto , il posto la gente …non so perche’ ma credo mi sentirei a casa …forse in una vita precendente ero Filippino , chissa :-p
Sei sicura che ho una bellezza Filippina che mi insegna a dire certe cose ??? hahahahah sai mi e’ venuto da ridere quando ho letto questa frase !! sai perche’ ? …perche’ la mia bellezza filippina e’ un uomo 40enne Filippino , che vive in Germania , sposato con una donna tedesca hahahah per ora e’ la persona filippina che sento piu’ spesso , incredibile ? bhe in effetti mi meraviglio anch’io !!! :-)) :-))
avrei preferito non risponderti qui
per non uscire troppo fuori dal tema del blog ma non sono sicuro puoi vedere subito il mio messaggio …controlli spesso la tua email ? dove posso scriverti ? cosi’ ti dico altre cose .
Beata te che sei nelle filippine , qui e’ tornato berlusconi , ma pare che agli italiani piaccia cosi ..bho !! mi sa che chiedo informazioni su cosa serve per chiedere asilo politico alle filippine , sempre se accettino nanetti , s’intende !! :-)) :-))
Un bacione grande grande
e un abbraccio ancora piu’ grande !! :-p
ciaoooo
ross!
are you still back in manila?! email me naman! you must be doing good as evah! as in wala nang updates! hahaha
Inang!
What a big surprise! Sabay pa kayo ni Chuva, na inspire tuloy akong mag post about my friend’s story …ayan me update na yun blog ko dahil sa inyo
I am always in Manila…doing good kahit hindi rich
Thank you for dropping by…