Live Life to the Fullest – Epilogue of Meaningful Life Adventure

“Keep striving to outdo yourself with each post. As much as you can, maintain a level of quality to keep readers coming back”

Love to start my week with organizers and students who are clamor for e-commerce learning.  Actually this invite came from a fellow blogger who cannot accommodate the request because of other commitment came along.  She posted it to us for those who were interested to pitch in.  I volunteered to share myself to students up north and my passion to blogging.  There were others who also volunteered and glad that I was picked among them.

Miriam College is celebrating their Business Week with a theme “Amplifying Modern Pinoys Through E-Commerce”.  Graduating students took the responsibility to organize the event – getting students involve by attendance, setting the venue and picked the speakers for each topic.  Considering their hectic schedule, they still find time to focus on timely trend outside keeping them aware what is really “in”.

I got my fair share and here were some my thoughts:

When I started to involved myself to blogging, more and more were interested how we did it. Great that I got mentors and bloggers’ group around me to continue this passion even I am just starting to slowly monetized with it.  Actually, it is not more on monetizing.  It is more on passion how you will surpass each learning you got.

These were my five tips I gave:

• Strive to know everything as you can

• Be passionate on what you are doing

• Write what you feel, be honest

• Always take responsibility

Crowds were also participating when you see them lot of questions and writing while they were listening to you – a fulfilling yet notable experience to share again myself to the future yuppies.

With every single person I come into contact, I can either giving love or not.   Based on what I  give, that is what I receive.

Not only on Valentine’s day, give love to others through kindness, encouragement, support, gratitude, or any good feeling.  Definitely, this will come back in multiples.

Look for the things you love in a relationship more than you notice negative things,  Constantly, it will appear as if something incredible has happened to the other person. You have to be happy to receive the happy versions of other people!

The force of love presents you with a whole array by choosing to love.

Life is presenting every person and circumstance to you so you can choose what you love and what you don’t love. When you react to anything you are reacting with your feelings, and as you do, you are choosing it!

Changing the way you feel is easy compared to running around trying to change the circumstances of the outside world. Change your feelings and the outside circumstances will change!  This is how I perceive my love to be special.

Spread the love of life!

I Choose…
to live by choice, not by chance;
to make changes, not excuses;
to be motivated, not manipulated;
to be useful, not used;
to excel, not compete;
I choose self-esteem, not self pity;
I choose to listen to my inner voice,
not the random opinion of others.

“Take every chance you get in life because some things only happen once. Do now that makes you happy.”

The first time I saw this commercial that talked about the 100-year old man who made a visit to his newborn great grand daughter, the values and authenticity are so real. I will not lost a chance on commercials that astonished me which gave substance and meaning to the viewer. I did several posts about commercials or videos which is not only viral but give the meaning of life. I am not paid with this but basically I am endorsing it to convey the real meaning of the message within.

This gave me a goose bump nostalgic moments. We were a family that grandparents were very, very close to our heart that reminded my lolo (grandfather) who were died 10 years ago. I am still lucky I have with me my grandmother, my Mommy Lola which we fondly called. Her wisdom and being healthy gave the manifestation of zest for life. Her joys were still very heart warming to us.

For me, it is not more about the Coke commercial. It gave a move to a goal in life, finding what makes you happy, its secret. Time passes very quickly and before we knew it, another day has passed by. Take every chance you get in life because some things only happen once. Do now that makes you happy.

I also love to share this full of quotes about what Life can offer:

Life can seem ungrateful and not always kind
Life can pull at your heartstrings and play with your mind

Life can be blissful and happy and free
Life can put beauty in the things that you see

Life can place challenges right at your feet
Life can make good of the hardships that we meet

Life can overwhelm you and make your head spin
Life can reward those determined to win

Life can be hurtful and not always fair
Life can surround you with people who care

Life clearly does offer its ups and its downs
Life’s days can bring you both smiles and frowns

Life teaches us to take the good with the bad
Life is a mixture of happy and sad

So…..

Take the life that you have and give it your best
Think positive, be happy let God do the rest

Take the challenges that life has laid at your feet
Take pride and be thankful for each one you meet

To yourself give forgiveness if you stumble and fall
Take each day that is dealt you and give it your all

Take the love that you’re given and return it with care
Have faith that when needed it will always be there

Take time to find the beauty in the things that you see
Take life’s simple pleasures let them set your heart free

The idea here is simply to even the score
As you are met and faced with Life’s Tug Of War

~ Author Unknown

My name is Lolo Mario and in my 100 years of life,
I have been lucky, lucky to have been born like you
To have friends and family
To live a happy life to this day
You have been born in challenging times
The world is a big place
It’s so easy to get lost
To guide you, my advice is simple
Go find what makes you happy
Time flies by so fast
Don’t waste it on non-sense
And no matter where you end up
Don’t forget where you came from
Looking back on all my years
I am grateful for every moment spent
With my friends and family
Now I can see that 100 years
is not nearly enough time
To spend with them
Happiness is your birthright
Your friends and family will help you find it
For 100 years of happiness, thank you very much!

Year 2011 is a chapter that I was so thankful.  Basically, it is not yet an end.   It maybe rich with turnarounds of ups and downs. Definitely, my story is just starting as I continuously playing the beat of it.

Got to woke up early and getting ready myself for work tomorrow.  Yes, I am excited and preparing things to bring.  Well,  for this another year, 12 months of anticipated brand new experiences.  There were many resolutions, stuffs that I love to do more.  From here, I cannot decide what would be the first.  Do I have to list, gather or collect?

As I sit down,  I am considering to start all over with a clear and open mind, no baggage at all.  I don’t need grudges, fears and even guilty feeling.  I just let it go.  I am viewing myself to more commitments and fulfillment, how I will spend my time and what I can give more.

Preparing my two companions – Belle De Jour Planner 2012 and Figaro Coffee Notebook. These are my push and I am listing down everything  – my constant reminders that will put into writing.

I have to decide now spending more time to life that my heart is unceasingly love to do.  No room from the past that holds me but more on the lessons learned.

It is up to me, to us to take the initial steps.  No holding back.  Focus to make it happen the best year of our lives. All are always filled with endless possibilities.

“Thank you Lord for the gift of life.   Always keep my loved ones to continue to grow in body, mind and spirit.  Let me remember you always by being strong, focus and disciplined.  Be with me Lord, bless me.”

Spending our family’s first day of the year by having a mass in Paranaque at the National Shrine of Mary Help of Christians which was also near to our next family reunion. I miss this church as I vividly remembered friends from Salesian Congregation and working way back to Don Bosco where we gathered for special occasions especially if nuns and priests will be ordained.

Visiting a church also is my way to do reflections – a personal gratitude to the Lord for all the blessings and offer my simple prayer.

“Thank you Lord for the gift of life.   Always keep my loved ones to continue to grow in body, mind and spirit.  Let me remember you always by being strong, focus and disciplined.  Be with me Lord, bless me.”

Four questions that lived me to value life more that I learned from Don Juan de Marco Movie:

• What is sacred?
• What is the spirit made?
• What is worth living for
• What worth dying for?

All answers are just the same – only Love.

And from from this day on and the rest of my life, Carpe Diem! This only means rejoice while you are alive, enjoy the day, take the most of what you have and  it is later than you think.

Amazing to know that simple quote like this has been around for thousands of years anecdotes by Horace of Ancient Roman poet 65 BC- 8 BC and still can take half a lifetime to really understand and now put to use.

So hurray in living life to the fullest!

“Don’t feel bad if you already broke your New Year’s Resolutions. Make a New Week’s Resolution and start today.  You can do anything you put your mind and heart to.”

Happy First Blog Anniversary to my dear, dear Live Life Fullest – www.livelifefullest.com.

Remember my ever first post with Live Life Fullest (LLF) – http://livelifefullest.com/2011/01/01/opening-new-book-of-my-life-for-2011/?  LOL  How time flies!  I never expect that I will reach this far.

Yes, setting up a blog or website for me is very, very easy.  But maintaining to keep my content  journal up-to-date is the challenging part.  I was in my comfort zone and every time flied a day, I was a bit guilty for not pursuing regularly my passion to share.  Overall, it is exciting.  I survive for one year!

A new beginning indeed and given I am taking the initial steps to go for another year, I am definitely “IN”!  As long that we are starting and putting our hearts annd mind, it is just ok.

I would like to share with you a quote that I just read about “Beginnings”.

The single most important decision you can make is to begin.

Begin even if you are afraid. Begin even if you don’t know how things will turn out.

Begin ESPECIALLY if you are terrified of beginning.

The only real difference between someone who “made it” and

someone who will always wonder “what’s making it like?” is that

someone who “made it” BEGAN and then NEVER LOOKED BACK.

For the dedicated journeyer – there is no plan B, there is no attachment to outcome, there is no end point.

People who end up living the life of their dreams follow their intuition,

they know that death is coming and act as if today is the day they will meet death.

When you die to your fear’s daily then you can be free.

Free to go on the journey your heart is dying for you to take.

Begin your journey today. No more fear.

No more “what if’s”. No more wondering what its like to be someone who made it.

Don’t worry about making it. Worry about never starting. Start NOW!

~ Written by Mastin Kipp

Yes, I am ready again for new dreams, goals to pursue, hopes and challenges….Absolutely, this will be another great year ahead!

Hopefully, this is the year I will become stronger, braver, kinder and unstoppable. This year I will be fierce. Cheers guys as my one year for blissful year in living life to the fullest will become always a reality.

“Christmas is “FOREVER”, not for just one day, for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf. The good you do for others is good you do yourself.” ~ Norman Wesley Brooks

To everybody who like this page, friends and readers, wish you all a Merry Christmas. I, too have lot of learning as I continuously applied living life to the fullest to stay positive and focus in everything. The blog posts become my guide which become special to me.

Share your Christmas gifts to everyone.

To your enemy, forgiveness.
To your opponent, tolerance.
To your friend, your heart.
To a customer, service.
To all, charity.
To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect.” ~ by Oren Arnold

Again, Merry Christmas!

Wish all the wonderful yet joyous time with your loved ones. Remember, you are always loved!

“The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other” – Burton Hills

Christmas tree will always be a highlight to each others home during this Yuletide season.  It was a gathering and a tradition for us in a family where each of us placed those ornaments one by one together with the gifts around wrapped with joy and enthusiasm.

The same also with the mall.  Christmas tree is always the highlight. Since I was already here for the  Grand Festival of Lights, I got to witnessed also a new holiday attraction at the San Miguel by the bay at SM Mall of Asia -  a 75-foot Christmas Tree was lightened up.

Whow, the Christmas Tree was illuminated with more than 100,000 Firefly LED bulbs making the whole bay so bright and colorful.  To make it more lively, there were street party, fireworks, carnival festivities and whimsical celebrations of performers on stage.

My worry?  This is a power-consuming celebration considering the implications on the environment.

But not with Firefly Electric and Lighting Corporation (FELCO) LED earth yet eco-friendly bulbs. Firefly’s LED Christmas tree uses the latest lighting technology which is five times more energy efficient compared to the regular incandescent bulb.  The bulbs also contained no mercury components and is proven to withstand impact, vibrations and disruptions.

I cannot wait to bring my family here to see the Firefly Christmas Tree.  I know they will surely love the vibrant and sparking lights.

Anyway for children, the size of the tree doesn’t really matter.   Big or small, we can celebrate the gift of  life as a present to each others heart.

Again, thanks FELCO for providing a venue where Filipinos can bond and enjoy family time in this season of love but moreso attractions that is environment friendly. 

For more information about FELCO, visit their website http://www.fireflyelectric.com/

“Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles.”

My parents believed us when we were young that there is really a Santa Claus. I still vividly remembered they will asked us to wrote a letter to him to asked those special gifts we love to receive for Christmas. I love to believe it is true because these were my fondest childhood memories I cannot forget which I also passed the same traditions with my kids.

Reminiscing Santa is a wondrous part of connecting Christmas most especially if we will have a sneak peak of his home – the North Pole!

After my meeting in the northern part of the metro, I got a chance to visit Santa’s snowy village. Actually, it is a kinda a tour at the Sky Garden waterfalls façade of SM North Edsa that captured me the a giant Santa & Mrs. Claus Kissing and exchanging gifts. Cute!

Even kids were not here, the child in heart in me let me tempted to go from one displays to another. These were the places that I visited along the routes:

• Santa’s Den

A miniature house where Santa and Mrs. Claus are staying which truly encompasses the yuletide season with Christmas tree around, chandelier in red and a lot more spectacular displays that identify its true meaning.

• Mrs. Claus Kitchen

 Touring Mrs. Claus kitchen and seeing how she prepared her baked goodies is just one of the yummiest displays.  Since Santa and the elves are  pounding away preparing gifts in the toy shop, Mrs. Claus spends countless hours baking goodies as a treat.

• Santa’s Mailroom

This is Santa’s mailroom where all kids wishlist are collected.  Note that each letter is collated alphabetically!

• Reindeer Barn 

I still remembered all the names of Santa’s magical reindeers -  Rudolf, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder, and Blixen who flies with him  to bring the gifts flying around the world.

Other displays that I have seen were charming reindeers lined-up in the den.

Everyone have unlimited opportunity to visit each houses inside and outside take a photo opportunity just to experience Santa’s pool of fun.

What more best is seeing these people smiling which makes the ingredient of what a Yuletide season really means!

I will definitely bring my family and relatives here!

Below is the whole map for the North Pole Experience.

Visit their website at www.smnenorthpole.com and facebook at www.facebook.com/smnedsa

Holiday Mall Hours Schedule:

December 2 to 30 – 10:00am to 11:00pm
(except on Dec 3, 10, 16 to 23)
December 24 and 31 – 9:00am to 7:00pm
January 1 – 12:00nn to 10:00pm