Food for Thought: Discovering Your Passion

Everyday I'm sharing my friends in the mobile world inspiring quotations I got to read from books and blogs. It is called Food for thought. Before, it started out as a text message from my fiance Edel Ramilo, however, since I'm the one reading books nowadays, it is my time to share daily messages to my friends. My friends are loving it! Since they are loving it, I want to share Food for thoughts here in my blog as well.

So here it goes.

"Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last."

I got this nice quote from Nicholas Spark's Dear John.

This quote is telling us that we need to do our passion and at the same time be satisfied with the results we are getting. In that way, we can have total satisfaction.

But most of the time, we are stuck in determining our passion.

I would like to focus my thoughts on finding your passion on this post.

HOW TO DETERMINE YOUR PASSION?
Photo from Hugh Mcleod's blog GapingVoid.com. 

I remember a facebook wall comment from my mentor Jomar Hilario. He is suggesting that to know our passion, we write down hundred things we love doing. Then try it out one by one. From that list, we can determine that thing we are very passionate about. The thing that enables you to enjoy waking up in the morning even though there are a lot of resistance to do that certain task (cold weather, lack of sleep, etc) is your passion.

By the way, in doing this exercise don't limit yourselves with what is real and what is not. You'll be surprised that anything is really possible.

I remember last year, Edel and I realized one of our passions. We realized that we love to travel. We are passionate to conquer the world by visiting beautiful places, meeting new people and experiencing different cultures.

We had no budget for travel by that time but I told her that "don't worry, before this year ends we will go to Cebu". Do you know what happened? Days after that, we received a text message from our friend looking for ten volunteers who will facilitate and lead delegates all over the country on their historical field trip to Intramuros and Cebu. We immediately said yes!

It was an amazing experience. And by the way, that's my first trip to Cebu and it was for free.

Until my next post!
eLviN

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My Wedding Proposal Song to Edel Ramilo

Here's the song I used for my wedding proposal to Edel Ramilo. I first heard this from Animoto song library while creating the surprise video. Here's the lyrics.


To Show You My Love
Mike Schmid

I wanted to write you a song
A song you could sing forever
And I wanted to rhyme
And to bend phrase and time
Into something clever
But you deserve something better

If I could make all the mountains spell your name
And all the old streetcars dance in the rain
And promise to hold you for all my days
It wouldn't be enough
To show you my love

I wanted to write you a verse
Of all of the things that I love in you
Of your beautiful smile
And the truth in your eyes
And the way you always knew
That you deserved something better

If I could make all the mountains spell your name
And all the old streetcars dance in the rain
And promise to hold you for all my days
It wouldn't be enough
To show you my love

And when I'm ugly
I know you love me
And you know all of me
And I wouldn't wish that on anyone

If I could make all the mountains spell your name
And all the old streetcars dance in the rain
And promise to hold you for all my days
It wouldn't be enough
To show you my love




Nice song right?

Stay tuned for my next post, I'll detail what happened during the proposal.

Madly in love,
eLviN


PS. You can create awesome videos as well online using animoto.com. Here are some videos I created using animoto. For sure, you'll love it!


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