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Everyday it makes me mad to see those nonsense comments flooding in my blogs. I get around 100 a day, and its really time consuming to delete all of them. Sometimes, I leave the others to be moderated at a later time. These people are wasting their time, and I don’t know what the heck they are doing and why they are wasting their time when I moderate my comments with effort making sure no nonsense stuff goes through. So, please, don’t ever waste your time. You will only get a 0.0000001 probability that I will make a mistake in approving your nonsense comments which are out of this world. Build backlinks the right way, not by fooling around with other people’s blog. Try to make sincere and related comment in each posts of other blogs, and your comments will surely go through. You might just get golf trophies for being the best commenter, even if you don’t play golf. You know, those cute graphics that other blogs would pass around to their friends in the blogosphere?

I’ve made some researches and found out that the greatest competitor of ebay would be auction. I’ve checked on it to see if its better or the same with ebay when it comes to convenience and the affordability of the items for sale. I like the site, it looks neat and easy to navigate however Auction.ph have a collection of more expensive items. I also don’t like the fact that most pictures are photo shopped pictures and not the actual pictures of the item.

One thing you need to remember in buying items online, specially with clothes. Don’t go for items that have very nice photos but are not the actual item. There are items which have pictures of brochures which appear to be very nice and appealing of course. This will only disappoint you. Make sure you buy those items that have real photos on them so you can make the best decision on your purchase. That’s what I aim to do on my own business too. Provide real pictures of the products so buyers can have the correct expectation.

There are a lot of items here which are being sold such as the Solo Slim, which helps women get their desired body weight. There are clothes, gadgets, toys for children, and a lot more. Looks like a promising site to me. I can see most of the clothes are free of shipping charge. Hmmmm, let me check further into this, and see if I will be interested in selling here too.

I have been hooked up with buying items from ebay. After a week of buying and eyeing on certain items and clothings, I finally took the decision to start selling on it too. Not because I want to earn really big, cause I think you will only get few earnings but these earnings I think are sure since there are a lot of people who shop in this site. Ebay.ph will really make anyone an addict, specially for those who have deep fashion for clothing. You can find a lot of affordable items here. I already bought the items that I will be selling. I even had a few of used clothing which are still in good condition. I already got the mannequin I ordered online at the site too. I got it yesterday, and today my agenda is to take photos of all my items. I’m doing this slowly but surely, since I don’t want to get stressed out and lose my passion in it. I have told myself that this will only be for fun, aside from my purpose of earning extra income. This will be a sort of therapy for me from my stressful job. There are a lot of things you can buy here, from fashionable and affordable clothing, home decors and furniture, beauty products, men’s gadgets down to fat burner, caps, stylish underwear. You can almost sell anything here. It’s really cool. Anyone can surely be hooked up and addicted after your first buy or sell. Whichever way. But most sellers actually start out as buyers.

Who knows, I might just make this big someday?

I can’t wait for my day off. It’s gonna be 5 minutes from now, that I will be off from work and the following 2 days will be my much awaited days off. I am looking forward to having a great time at the beach for my honey’s 23rd birthday. We will be there with his friends, people I don’t know but willing to get to know.

I will be tagging along my little bunny baby girl and I am so excited for her as she has never been to the beach and also it has been I guess 2 years since I last went swimming. I also have a lot of things on my list of things I want to do. I’m sure this will be a busy fun week ahead of me and my happy family .

My baby loves to be busy playing toys. She easily gets bored so I always have to find ways to entertain her. I think she has some kind of short attention span to something. But anyways, I am happy that she has a good memory and even if you tell her something once, the next time you would ask, she would know about it so easily that we are often surprised by her intelligence. I never hesitated to switch her milk from the expensive Enfragrow to Nido Jr. I don’t think its the milk thats making her smart. Its the informal training we are giving her, how we are nurturing her, and of course her genes, which are really good. She has the genes from my very very smart grand father, so I am not worried on this. Furthermore, I am focusing on her emotional emotional intelligence as thats the field where I am weak, and I’d like her success to be easy on her. Emotional intelligence or EQ is far more important in determining a person’s success than IQ itself. There are a lot of academically intelligent people who never succeed because of a lack of practicality and knowledge on how to handle themselves, their weaknesses, failures, strong emotions. I’d like to teach my child responsiblity, knowledge in handling money, how to remain strong in the midst of problems, spiritual strength, and other values such as appreciating life itself. There are a lot of things I want to teach her. But what I notice is she learns best when she sees someone else doing it.

When I thought she wasn’t looking, she was. When I thought she wasn’t observing me doing something, she was. I am surprise cause the next time she sees the thing? She already knows how to use it. Then, she would do it and show it to us. She is a very fast learner. When she hears something from others, she would easily get it and would keep repeating it. In fact, she is 1 and a half year old but she seems to be a lot older to me, cause I can tell her almost anything and she would respond appropriately (of course not as big kids do). I can ask her to fetch a thing for me, to clean something, to put something down, almost anything. She understands now, and I am trying to be careful on what I am doing so she will have a good role model.

Oppps, I made this post a lot longer than I intended again. I still need to finish some tasks on weight loss pills review. So, this is it for now.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to
raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight
years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing
what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer
accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things
that I aspired to becoming.

Anthony Robbins

Managing finances is very tough for a young and inexperienced person like me. But, I know it is never too early to start learning about money management. This would be a great asset now that I have a family. When I do the budgeting, even if there’s enough money, sometimes, it could give you a headache. Seems like you have a lot of things to take care of.

We have saved a little and I am using it now to launch a small business. Very small, with very little capital, but will surely pay off if given enough attention and time. Though, I was pretty surprise at how demanding it can get. I thought it was so easy to manage an online shop, but now, I realized it is not. Now, I have finished shopping for the first batch of items to sell. I have about 22 items already. Great but low priced items. If you are keen and patient enough, you never know how you could turn brand new surplus items into something grand looking. It’s perfect here in Cebu, cause there are a lot of stores selling clothes at very affordable rates that you can resell them at affordable rates too. It just requires time and patience.

I have also bought a digicam at a great value. Though, the battery has to be recharged, it is still a good buy. I like the clarity of the shots and I like the style of the cam.

To add to that, I am also done taking shots of my items. Even if the shots are not perfect, and done in a hurry as I was already sweating so hard while taking them because of the unbearable heat, they still look good to a newbie like me.

Now, here’s what I need to do more. I need to list all my items at ebay so I can start selling them online. I still have to confirm my account, and after that, I will be adding my items on ebay. I hope, it gets the attention of buyers. I will try my very best to deliver high quality but low priced items so they will keep coming back.

With all of this, I want to make sure I don’t think of this as drudgery or a task I need to comply. I have enough of stress in my work. Aside from my main purpose of  generating extra income, I’d like to make this endeavor a sort of therapy to me. Something that will give me happiness and satisfaction for fulfilling something I have always dreamed about.

And hey, by the way, the store is doing good. Sometimes, we even sell up to 500 pesos a day because a lot of people buy Sakto. And we only have a small store, plus we are only catering to our neighbors.

Warning: This post will show or reflect the face of the current reader. Do not be shocked! (and hey, that’s not me)

It’s a  beautiful Sunday today. Even if I already had 3 hours of sleep, it didn’t affect my work that much. My other online tasks such as adding blogs on my new drop list that I will be regularly visiting soon kept me preoccupied with no time to feel sleepy, while waiting for calls. We have plenty of time without calls, as it is Sunday and usually from Saturday to Monday, calls are rare. Then, the battle begins on a Tuesday and then Wednesday and then so on. Glad I’m not here by Thursday, my day off.

Well, for the last days of my day off, I didn’t do much. I rested a lot, took a lot of sleep and contemplated on my life and on my goals. It seems like my goals are keeping me too busy that I am losing sight of the present moments. I have denied so many wonderful moments in our lives, just because I wanted to save up so badly. Even leading to some misunderstandings with the hubby due to some opinion differences. But, as full of wisdom as he is, and as eager to learn as I am, we both communicated.

I came up, with an idea, that it looks like I need to stop my goal of stopping work and being a work at home mom in a matter of year or two. Why? This, stresses me out a lot. It keeps my health at stake. I work and work so hard, overly hard, and save as much as I could, denying some simple joys, just because I wanted to save up for a business ASAP. As in, now na.

My husband doesn’t like to see me restless, stressed out with all my goals. He appreciates all I am doing for our family, but he wants to see me at peace and happy with the life that we have, while slowly working for the life that we want to have (mostly, I want to have). He’s pretty much happy with what we have. According to him, as long as we are together, and we are all healthy, he is fine.

I even, thought he is pretty just lazy to think about our future. I wanted him to be stressed out too. I wanted him to take the burden. But, i realized how selfish this thinking is. I just realized and learned through reading some insight books, that we ought to live a stress free life. No money can compensate peace of mind, tranquility, happiness and contentment.

We are entitled to a stress free life. It is up to us. The choice is up to us.

So, i went on to track the things causing me stress. Slowly, I am eliminating those that doesn’t do me good. I really need to focus more on my health now. My health is deteriorating, specially in the kind of work that I have. If I want to live longer and do more things for my family, I have to take care of myself.

I am slowly, letting go of my dreams one by one. It’s not like what you think. I am not giving up on them, and I will always be a dreamer forever. But, I need to set my expectations of myself a little bit lower, so as to prevent being stressed out. It has been reported that millions of people get sick and get hospitalized because of their self-inflicted condition: stress.

I am detaching my self from its end results. But, I will still be working on them slowly and diligently. It doesn’t matter where it leads me. What matters, is I’m doing what I can without sacrificing myself, my happiness and that of my family.I will be putting my trust in God, and I just have to believe that he has some great things in store for me and my family. God prepares the best things for those who love him.

I think, I also need to free up some of my not so important personal goals to give way to what really God wants to do with my life. All my accomplishments will be His from now. I will be doing my  best in everything and in whatever He hands me over to do, and offer it with all my heart to Him.

People want to be productive as much as they can nowadays. It seems like people keep running after things. More things, the better. More accomplishments, the better. We see someone who have much more than what we have and it keeps us thinking to work harder and harder. Even during these times of economic depression, people are buying more and more. Thus, to meet all these accumulation of things, most people have to work harder.

Living in a city, where most of the people you see are “rich looking”, you can’t help it but to keep up with them. Though, this doesn’t seem to be right, it is harder to resist being part of the crowd. Even if you are earning just right, other people makes you think, this is not enough. We all have been blinded.

I never expected to find my place in a city. I call it my haven and hide out. When I’m too stressed out, I go here in this place. When I have fights with my husband, and I end up walking out, this is the place where I go. It is a park, a big park, where there are lots of people at night. These are people looking to be relieved of the daily stresses of life. You can see families having picnic, some are exercising, walking, running, kids running around but despite having people around, the place is very peaceful and quiet. It is half lighten up and half dark. It is well, mostly dark. The air is very refreshing. This park is surrounded by buildings with lights on them, so it is not that dark, really. There are restaurants here, where a lot of korean eats.

I go here in this place to clear my mind when it is so full and I can’t make good decisions. I come here in this place, to know myself deeper, and to be in solitude. I come here to be revived from the stresses and noises of our neighbors. I come here to listen to God and to be with him.

Because of the profound positive effect of this place to me, I made a resolve to come here regularly. Twice a week by my own, and once a week with my family. I would love to bring baby bless there, cause she loves to walk around and there’s no danger, since its grass and far from the jeepneys and cars. It would be neat to bring a blanket to lay on and outdoor pillows too.

There are very few places in cities where you could relax, but for sure there will be places like this one. We just need to find them. Sometimes, we need to find ourselves too. We need to be in silence so we can be in connection to our true selves. The one which is not dictated by other people.

I encourage you to do the same. I remember way back in my early years, my stress free life. I have always been in contact with nature. Now, I never mind about it, as a result, I tend to be stress out a lot.

Schedule a time for yourself when you can be all quiet, all by yourself. Be in perfect solitude. Free yourself from distractions. Turn off your cellphone, turn the tv off, even the radio and disconnect from the internet. I’m sure this works for everyone else. This is a very important part of our lives.

If you are a busy person (which almost everyone is, nowadays), you have a greater tendy to be stressed out, burned out and depressed. Too much pressures in work, in our family life, in our financial aspect, turmoils in our relationships can make us irritable, irrational, easily upset, depressed and negative. Even statistics shows that a lot of people are hospitalized yearly because of mentally made up illnesses, often brought about by stress.

In my job as a technical support (call center agent) I get a lot of this stress. Being on call for 8 hours, exposes me to a lot of problems that I need to resolve, angry customers yelling and shouting at me, strict instructions from heads such as supervisor and manager. To add to that, is my irregular sleep pattern, as our schedule keeps rotating. Everyday, I wake up at 2 am and have to get to work before 3 am. Imagine, how many hours I sleep every night. Of course I take a nap after work, in the afternoon. Being in front of the computer, for 9 hours can surely make your head rebel, specially if you have an eyesight problem.

Now, my work is not the only source of my stress, but also my family obligations. You could expect that I would be all relaxed when I go home, but no. Most of the time, I have to move and do something. Not really because I have to, cause surely there are people in the house, who can fill my place. But, I don’t understand why sometimes I really feel the need to do some things by myself. I feel like, the world will crumble if I don’t move. People have fallen into this kind of trap: having the need to do things all by themselves and if only we can trust others to do the work for us (if help is available) our lives will be less stressful than it ought to be.

Another factor that causes me stress is our finances. Not that we are really scraping to the bottom. We have been hard working enough to be able to meet our needs. But what cause my stress, is the need to save for our future plans. Because of the current times, I always feel scared if there would be emergencies and unexpected situations like losing my job and not being able to provide for my family anymore. So, I try to save as much as I can so we can start the business I have been wanting to have for quiet a time.

At some point, I would say I am a bit successful, cause even if our money is just enough for us, I am still able to save a bit or a portion of it. But, I have sacrificed a lot of things. Important things to say the least. Present happiness, time for family, contentment, stress free living.

I only was awakened by all of these shortcomings when I had a fight with the hubby. He helped me understand that it is not okay to dream, but what is wrong is when we do it the wrong way. I set my own deadline for it, and that has caused me stress. He said that I have neglected taking care of my health and myself just because of this. He doesn’t want to see me stress out. In fact, he even offered to take care of the financial management to relieve me of the burden. He also encouraged me to look within and analyze my faith in God, cause it seems to him I need to improve in that area. He said he observed I have been relying too much on my own self and my own abilities that I tend to forget God.

This hurt, but it is nevertheless true. I had to reasses my prioties and think about how I am handling my life and all the stressors and challenges that comes a long with it. Honestly, I have been feeling this tugging pain in my chest that occasionally visits specially when I feel stressed out.

I know deep within that it is possible to handle the stresses in my life, in my work, in my family and in our finances. It’s just a matter of handling it properly and following effective systems.

First and foremost, I should never forget that to achieve my goal of taking care of my family, I also need to take care of myself. I have to implement a lot of things for now.

=== >> I need to take rest a lot more, and get the right amount of sleep each night

===>> I need to eat the right foods to be healthy

===>> I need to have a regular time to be alone and be at peace

===>> Pray more

===>> do less but do things that have high impact in our lives

I pray that people who are in the same situations find the same consolation that I have found in prayer and being alone. At times, we have to disconnect from the world and be on our own so we can know ourselves more, understand our present situations, get our head clear, be refreshed and be ready for the next battle.