What's Your FDA?

Nope, it is not US Food and Drug Administration, although it works similarly to that.   Something that is responsible for your well-being.

So what's my FDA?  It means two things for me.

1. Food for Daily Achievements
2. Faith, Decision, Attitude

Food for Daily Achievements

What are the thoughts you feed your mind everyday?  Are those healthy, happy thoughts?  You don't want to feed your self with foul and rotten foods, do you? So why feed it to your mind?  Remember this:

"For as he thinks within himself, so he is." - Proverbs 23:7

May second FDA is this:

Faith.  What is faith?  Let me share with you what The Cebuana said to me this morning.  She said, "If we are all shown the way with light, how are we gonna learn to grope our way in the dark? trusting that God is right by our side, walking in the dark with us?" I think it is a declaration of faith in itself. If you will agree with me, that declaration is somewhat embedded in this passage, I think:

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of

things not seen." (Hebrews 11:1).

Having the courage to walk in the dark knowing that God is with us. Not asking how are we going to reach our destination but trusting God to show us the way.

"Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me."- Psalm 23:4

Decision.  Yes, faith is good.  But I think that it will not be enough without putting a firm decision to go along with it. Decide what you want.  Decide that you want to achieve it, whatever it is that you wanted to achieve.  Your decision should not only be a mere want.  It should be a commitment.    T. Harv Eker, author of The secrets of Millionaire Mind, said that rich people are committed to being rich while poor people simply wanted to be rich.  The same is true for people who decided to be happy or successful not only in material things but in everything in life.  Commitment.

Attitude.  How do you respond to the circumstances? How do you face challenges?  How do you accept temporary defeats?  How do you handle temporary successes?  That is your attitude.  Whether you like it or not, your attitude will dictate your success in life.  Motivational speaker Zig Ziglar said,

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude”

So what do you feed your self today?  Make sure that you consume Food for Daily Achievement by indulging in Faith, Decision and Attitude.

Have a great day and Live the Good Life!

The Aim for Perfection

"Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable."- Lord Chesterfield

Nobody's perfect. Yes, maybe that's true. Probably, at least no one here on earth.  But there is someone who is Divinely Perfect, our Father who is in Heaven and with Him, I think everything is possible.  If He wanted us to be perfect, who are we to say "No!"?

"Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect." - Matt. 5:48

Let perfection be our goal in life. It doesn't matter how many times we've tried and failed.  What matters is that we continue trying and trying until we achieve what we want.  A word of caution however, as Albert Einstein once said, in our effort to be perfect let us guard ourselves to becoming insane.  Einstein said that insanity is doing something over and over again and expecting different results every time.  Don't get me wrong.  I didn't mean that so as not to be called insane you should expect the same result. No! What you should be doing is changing your approach.

I remember motivational speaker Les Brown when he said, "Practice Makes Improvement."  He didn't say perfect, he just said improvement.  But I guess that if every time you try to improve on your self, the goal and eventually the end result will be perfection.  

People may say to you that perfection is like shooting for the stars.  Don't be bothered by them.  Even if we might miss the stars, we might hit the moon anyway.  So just keep on shooting at 'em. 


Let me leave you this thought for today and start Living the Good Life (just in case you haven't started yet)!

"...knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.  And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him. - James 1:3-5 (NASB)

How Big is Your Ego

Just a short message because I am in a hurry and I don't want to dwell too much on this topic.

Why?  Because the more I will dwell on it, the more it will consume me.  What is this that I am talking about? My ego.  Let me share with you what happened today that I believed bruised my ego.

Who's into facebook? Are you into facebook?  Well, I am. Most of the time, I make it an outlet of my thoughts and a channel to reconnect with old friends and loved ones.  It works wonderfully for me.  But not today!

As I was scanning pictures of my friends, wondering how they've been so far in life, I saw a picture of an old friend.  With his family, he looks so happy, touring the world and living the good life.  Then flashes of memories float around my head.  I remembered the days I've spent with this person, a wonderful and hard working person.  But, as far as I could remember, that person is no better than me.  My ego yelled at me saying, "it's not fair!" That's what I thought at that moment.  So it got me thinking, "how could it be?! How could he be more successful than me? Does God favoured him more than me?" My ego was deeply hurt because for me life isn't fair.

I turned off the monitor immediately.  I don't want to have those thoughts hanging around in my head.  It won't bring me any good.  So I said, maybe there's something he's done that I didn't.  Maybe, he took the courage to take charge of his life while I spent my life taking the safe and comfortable road.  I don't know.

But as I contemplate on these things, my wounded ego started to heal, slowly but surely.  A soft voice whispered into my head and said, "to everything there is a season."  God does not play favorite, afterall. My time will come.

Whatever pain, heartache, disappointment or discontent that you are facing right now, think about this,."What was the true cause?" Could it be that it's all because of your wounded ego?


Stop hurting yourself. Stop tormenting yourself.  Just take that moment of silence and listen to that voice within you and telling you how to Live the Good Life.  God and ego, two words both with three letters, choose which one would you listen to.

"Cease striving and know that I am God..." Psalm 46:10 (NASB)