Do Something!

Someone said that you need to “do something, even if it’s wrong. Don’t just stand there doing nothing. Remember that a poor plan carried out with vigor and enthusiasm can succeed where the best plan in the world which is never executed has absolutely no chance of success. Action of some sort is always required if you want to be successful.”

Help Yourself Philosophy!

Philosophy is a set of basic principles underlying a particular sphere of knowledge. In this book, it is about the guiding principles of success.

        Yet, I desire that this book will sound more practical, rather than philosophical. I desire to have this philosophy of successful living applicable to everybody irrespective of religious background.

This is the Help Yourself Philosophy which expounds principles of success combined with how-to-do-it guidelines.

          Help Yourself is a principle that says: Do something!

Anxious start..

The idea of writing a book started way back in 1992 during my college years as I ponder about the idea of writing 25 goals to happen before you die - given the chance. The inspiration of writing about success came after reading the “Think and Grow Rich” in 1998 which I bought at the National Bookstore.  In the year 2000, I started to write the steps to make in order to realize the dream.

  

I really made an anxious start way back December 16, 2002 by writing the Preface! As was written, “the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

That anxious start - a single step- went on and on, to finish every chapter one at a time. I treaded slowly, went another mile, and, it was theoretically done - for in the first place, I believe it can be done.

HELP YOURSELF!

I desire to write something for the present generation and a legacy to the future generation…a book that would guide them on how to succeed in life! Success became a passionate word for me and of which I wanted to be.

I made a research on how to become successful, why people fail while others succeed. I read everything about the subject - to ascertain how the great men of all ages succeed.  Personally, I interview people, listen carefully to their answers, write them down for future reference and application.

I desire to make a philosophy for successful living - a Filipino attempt to pass on the principles and ideals of the great writers whom I admired most. This would be a self-help book that will serve as a guide to become successful. This is a book which I have the right to say as I let the principles revolutionize my life and the lives of many people. This is a record of success stories. This is an action book that was applied in a human laboratory of which the author has direct contact.  I believe in something and my faith keeps me believing that the principles expressed in this book are sound and practical.

For my hometown: Escalante City

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"Acre of Diamond"


"The idea is that in your own country, everyone has the opportunity to make more of himself in his own environment, with his own skill, with his own energy, and with his own friends. Remember, if you know what people need you have gotten more knowledge of a fortune than any amount of capital can give you. There is a human need; there is a great fortune.

Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life.

To be great at all one must be great in his own place. He who can give to his city better streets and better sidewalks, better schools and more colleges, more happiness and more civilization, more of God, he will be great anywhere.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and what you are, in your hometown, now.

He who can give to his city any blessing, he who can be a good citizen while living in his hometown, he who can make better homes, he who can be a blessing whether he works in the shop or sits behind the counter or keeps house, whatever be his life, he who would be great anywhere, must first be great in his hometown."


[Taken from the book 'University of Success' by Og Mandino]

Thinking Big in Escalante City..

‎                                       "Thinking Big In Small Places"

You can never guess what great things can come out from unknown places when somebody begins to think greatly. As a matter of fact, the worlds most significant thinking was done in the town of Nazareth, and from it there emerged one who would be known as Lord and Master.(Can anything good come out of Nazareth?)


What mattered most was not the town, not the quality of the schools, not the nature of the community, nor the vigor of the synagogue, but rather the person who found in the town, the school, the synagogue and the community something more than anyone else found there. Jesus captured from his environment all the values it offered and then enriched it with his own insight.

Too often we are inclined to feel it is a misfortune when our children, for one reason or another,cant go to one of the great colleges or universities and have to settle for a college of a second rate standing.Yet, the point of the matter is that where people come from isnt nearly as important as the spirit and purpose inside them.

Can anything good come out of Escalante?

Yes!

How?

By thinking big in small places.




[This article was taken from an inspirational book,i forgot the author.tnx]