My Thoughts and Ideas

In my Auntie’s thirteen years of teaching, she have cried several times not because of personal problems but because of her students’ irresponsibility.

Each year, she always encounter students without regard for their studies. They seem to view school as a temporary relief from their parents’ constant nagging and don’t even recognize the significance of education to their future. They only live in the present and lack foresight.

To inspire them in value education, she inject success stories of people who have struggled hard before they were able to rise up from poverty. After listening to her sharing, most of those who do not care of their academic performance have become responsible.

There is value in keeping a low profile and being silent. It prevents embarrassment, you commit less mistakes, it gives you time to think, it makes you look intelligent and it helps you learn.

According to personality tests—I am a certified sanguine-choleric. I love to get attention, be the life of the party, be hungry for recognition and work with a lot of people. I am a people person. But I also go for results and I drive it. Many times I am wrong but never in doubt. I am not a person who wants to keep a low profile.

I once had a vivid dream I’ve never forgotten. I was riding in a car, sitting in the front passenger seat. Suddenly, the vehicle got into a collision. In slow motion, my head whiplashed onto the dashboard.

But what surprised me was the next scene. At the moment of the fatal impact, my body slumped on the dashboard but my spirit continued the motion from the whiplash and recovered. I had crossed the threshold to the next life seamlessly.

I woke up from that dream and realized that I had been given a preview of what happens when a person dies. Life doesn’t cease; it continues on but just takes another form.

My husband and I have had the privilege of working with farmers. We found out one thing: the planting is in different season than the reaping.

This truth is also true at work… I didn’t get to be manager overnight. It took years and years to finally pass my tests and graduate.

We were miserable in our business for more than two years before we got going… A growth process inside out had to take place.