The Halal Experience

I haven’t written anything on this blog for almost a week. Sigh. I missed writing. There are so many things I have to tell you. My schedule just won’t fit for me to sit down in front of my computer and open my blogger account.

Last week, I have been to three Halal restaurants for two straight days. We had a visitor from Malaysia and I learned that one of them is a Halal devotee. This means that she is not allowed to eat any food other than those with Halal certification. This forced us to adjust to her food restrictions. We ate at three Halal restaurants in the Metro (New Bombay in HV dela Costa street [2/5 stars], Kashmir in Pasay Road [5/5 stars], and Hossein in Serendra Global City [4/5 stars]). 

I never imagine that I’ll eat foods like that here in the Philippines. I went to Malaysia last year and never tasted these kind of foods. But well, I guess that completes my Malaysia experience more or less (Hmmm... I think I should get back to Malaysia to see the view from the Petronas Tower).

Anyway, here are some lessons I’ve learned from that experience.

Be firm with your faith. She could easily choose to eat anything because she’s in a different country (and no one will know except God of course) but she chose not to. She had chosen to stick with her conviction. She had chosen to be faithful even if there are a lot of temptations surrounding her. I admire her faith for sticking to the things she believes in.

Be influential. This lesson goes hand in hand with the first one. If you stand firm with your faith, no one can ever shove you away. The only thing left for others is to follow or adjust with your standards. Just like what happened. We were obliged to follow her food restrictions. 

I hope we’ll be like her.  Even if there are a lot of temptations surrounding us we’ll be able to stand firm with our faith, with our conviction thus influencing more people to follow our lead. 

If you want to influence others be firm with what you believe in.

Until my next post!

eLviN

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Fail Your Way To Success

All of the successful people I know talk about their success stories most of the time but within them are hundreds or even thousands of failures stories to tell. Every failure story is worth sharing because failure transforms us into a better person.

Here’s a failure story I got from the book entitled Switch by Chip and Dan Heath. It’s really worth sharing.

In the 1960s, an executive at IBM made a decision that ended up losing the company $10 million (about $70 million in 2009 dollars). The CEO of IBM, Tom Watson, summoned the offending executive to his office at corporate headquarters. The journalist Paul B. Carroll described what happens next:

As the executive cowered, Watson asked, “Do you know why I’ve asked you here?”
The man replied, “I assume I’m here so you can fire me.”
Watson looked surprised.
”Fire you?” he asked. “Of course not. I just spent $10 million educating you.”

This story illustrates that failing is often the best way to learn. Early failure is a kind of necessary investment.

Every failure gives us an opportunity to learn.

Be a failure and learn from them. See your failures as an investment for your success.

Until my next post.

eLviN 

 

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Time Out!

Last Thursday I was sick. I was unable to go to office for my work. I was on sick leave for two days. I consumed 2 out of my 15 sick leaves in a snap.

Reason?

Too much work and not enough sleep I guess. I’ve been doing a lot in the office - data crunching, data analysis, talking to various markets for reports we require them to submit and a whole lot more. Also, when I got home, I still work as a virtual assistant (answering emails for events).

During the first day of my sickness, my anxiety kicked in. Here were my thoughts.

1. How will I finish the report my boss required me to submit on Monday? I haven’t started it yet! And also, I haven't started on the report due on Friday.

2. How will I send the Inventory report for the week? My other boss will be mad at me!

3. I will be orienting a visitor from Malaysia on Friday, who will orient her?

4. Friday will be the last annual medical check-up day at the office, what will happen to me?

I was having tons of anxieties that day.

It’s really true that too much of everything is bad for our health.

But I thank God for the time He gave me on those two days. Here was God's message to me that day.

Don’t complain about interruptions. When your plans don’t go smoothly, it means you’re receiving a gift. Every interruption is a gift. Open that gift and you’ll receive precious insight, a new way, a better path, an open door you didn’t see before.

So God is really generous, here are the gifts he has given me on those days I was sick.

1. I shared more quality time with my future dentist brother who at that time is at home watching NBA Playoffs. The Thursday up to Sunday playoff games between the Phoenix Suns - Los Angeles Lakers and Orlando Magic – Boston Celtics where very, very awesome and exciting NBA Playoff games. For sure I’ll miss the NBA Finals Game 1 this coming Friday (Philippines time) watching with my brother. (I know you’ll get mad at me because I still watched TV during those times)

2. I was surprised by my soon-to-be-wife Edel. Her gift (t-shirt) is awesome + Andoks (yumyum even though my appetite is not well yet). Her hugs are definitely my pain killer.

3. A loving family who bought me Solmux, Bioflu, and Gatorade. They even prepared food for me (well they always do this one).

4. Enough sleep for my body cells to regenerate and fight the flu virus.

God really gives us time out or interruptions if he thinks we’re overdoing things. When that happens, listen to him. For sure he has greater plan for us.

Until my next post.

eLviN


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