ARTHELO PALMA: LIFE

Magnifying live microbes or bacteria

2020-12-12T09:06:00.001+08:00

Seeing some microbes and tiny particles. We are surrounded by an infinite number of these entities but we feel safe from them because we don't see them. Man's dangerous enemies could be the things he doesn't see.

But on a number of points, he also needs some of these microorganisms to survive. This is how mysteriously complex the Designer of the Universe designed life. Understand that the reality of life is not just about finding money or what to eat, searching for or upholding a love life, performing or achieving our career, etc. There are many things we don't know and remain to be unveiled. God continues to work in mysterious ways every day. We will have to remember that. To Him be the glory forever.

Life Is Like Photography

2016-01-02T15:45:00.001+08:00

by ARTHELO PALMA

Life is like photography! You heard it right. It requires the right exposure to light to capture the best impression of the subject there is. In view of the fact that light is indomitable, adjustment is compulsory to gain the finest picture.

If you want to have a good image from both God's and people's perspective, you're the one who should adjust with all modesty. Don't lie in wait to find others initiating it first for you. Do this in such a way that it's void of all hints of hypocrisy. Carry this out not to impress, but to build good relationship for God's glory. If you'll make this, I just could imagine how wonderful it be to be part of your circle.

"My son, do not forget my law, but let your heart keep my commands; for length of days and long life and peace they will add to you. Let not mercy and truth forsake you; bind them on the tablet of your heart, and so find favor and high esteem in the sight of God and man". - Proverbs 3:1-4

It's wonderful to find favor in the eyes of God and man. Creating the best impression of yourself from the point of view of other individuals is a remarkable treasure that thieves can't steal. It's good to live a life free from the grim influence of duplicity. You'll live a life full of integrity. You're unafraid to no one else because you're not hiding anything that would stand against you.

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The Five-Minute Rule - A Time Management Strategy

2014-10-07T18:03:00.000+08:00

by Arthelo Palma

I know it's hard sometimes to get yourself working on a schedule or a deadline. The thought of hurrying yourself to it might be daunting or even frustrating, which might be hurting your strong will at some point. Provided that nobody will finish it for you, then such leaves you with no choice so you need to get yourself freely involved in it. Go for no second thought. You certainly need to get a high level of motivation at first.

As an individual facing a long day, here's what I usually do in order to at least begin and find myself working at ease on a schedule or a deadline for a certain task (Especially if I feel not doing it).

The five-minute rule

It's easy to employ this rule. All you need to have to find yourself freely starting a task at a fast pace are your clock and a short flash from it.

I need to keep going, so it urges me to at least start working for five minutes and only to find it's already inconvenient to stop at some point. I call this five-minute rule as "the point of no return" because it's simply the moment that establishes my speed and the endurance to wrapping up something for the day.

Within five minutes, just force yourself running on something relevant to your scheduled activities. Then after that short moment of try out you'll find yourself already at it, even at a fast pace and getting much involved. At this point, your mindset or strong will has dictated that you simply need to keep going. No turning back is necessary. So just go on and enjoy it!

Heidegger’s Definition of Thinking and Its Implications on the Philippine Government Leadership

2014-09-19T18:26:00.002+08:00

by Arthelo Palma

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I am deeply disturbed by the thought that the Philippine government is truly a haven of corrupt leaders, at least from the point of view of ordinary or typical Filipinos who in many occasions overheard it on the media or just from simply around the corner coming from the same ordinary people.

What disturbed me is not the actual thought why these fraudulent politicians exist, but the point if they really are thinking. On their part, if they cogitate, thinking should mean "nothingness" based on the point of view of Martin Heidegger. This must also remarkably signify finding themselves far from being devoid of the shield of immunity from the distractions of this world, such as fame, wealth, success, superficial happiness and many more, which according to the idea of Heidegger are vital sources of false sense of security.

Nevertheless, I see that these public leaders are not thinking at all, because if they do, they would have never allowed it to pass that they would be living in a society where majority of the people cannot even simply address their basic and vital needs in life, that is, to suffice their requirements for daily survival and make both ends meet at the end of a long day.

If these officials are thinking, they should have thought that everything they do for their personal intention and to meet their false sense of security could create a boomerang effect, hitting them back that hard sooner or later. If they truly care, they should have thought that everything bad that they will initiate for now may boil down to their poor leadership, which remarkably is an issue that can literally destroy their integrity as public leaders. Thus, a leader who does not really care for his people is not thinking at all. In the same way, a leader who secures first his integrity or any relevant selfish gain is not thinking. At some point, he will have to first defend or take a great leap to full or satisfy himself, which might not be truly what is vital in leadership if one will base it on the idea of Heidegger about what thinking is all about. In this case, such leader is only showing an example to the people the important strategy on how not to lose the battle even if it means not telling the truth. So imagine a society like this. A leader who is not thinking is a great recipe for destruction.

"The Wheelchair Strategy"

Concerning this, I remember how the issue of rice shortage prevailed over the media when former President Arroyo was about to be charged due to linked grave misconduct or anomalies in her administration. I simply would want to stand that it was just a cover up in order to waylay the public from digging the real heart of the matter. By then until at present, the strategies to cover up ones’ self are evolving in the Philippine context. Today, the “wheelchair” strategy is so prevalent. This is the common strategy of the public officials or leaders to conceal their shame and to eliminate the possibility of finding themselves “literally” locked up in jail. So they just simply want to secure a “VIP treatment” for themselves, at least to compensate the shame and continue boost their ego or pride. This is such a waste of money and a great mockery to our entire sociopolitical and judiciary system.

Self-poisoning!

In the Philippine setting, the real sociopolitical and economic issues sound like as if we were all living in the same aquarium, sharing same water, space and food, but what these corrupt public officials or leaders were doing was they truly try to poison the entire artificial ecosystem with their selfish ambition to have more. With what they did which continues at present, they crudely are trying to ignite fierce rebuttal against the concerns that are coming from the deeply angst-ridden individuals who are truly thinking for the good of everyone. Now, the story ends up to some higher officials held up to face before the court of law on the ground of plunder, betrayal of public trust and for doing unconstitutional policies which at some point from the past may just have been strongly ignited by mere personal intentions, down to their defeatist level of mentality for they are used to not truly thinking at all.

The Irony!

However, it is ironic that during the national or local elections many of the Filipinos are quite zealous to elect feisty and intelligent public officials with unprecedented credentials or background in public service (For sure, many Filipinos are not used to thinking too). On the other hand, I see that many of these highly elected and honored public leaders are not truly thinking at all, even if they might have reaped badges for themselves that may be truly a cut above the other. Why?

My first point is that for as long as these leaders try to think of themselves first, they are not seeing, but might just be at least trying to close their eyes for the possible real implications in the future of their prevailing actuation. These leaders act like businessmen. Many business people love that their gain burgeons to secure a good fortune for themselves. However, in their capitalistic ideals, they forgot to consider that they were just trying to harm the distribution of wealth, which leads to the actual scenario today where the poor become poorer and rich richer. Since there are many poor who are exploited to the full and a few well-off individuals, the distribution of wealth is not balance, leading to high rate of crimes, especially related to financial concerns because many people are starving to death. For instance, business tycoons are threatened by kidnap-for- ransom groups or torts, and this is simply because of their greed for wealth. Now, I see that they are not truly thinking as they might have not fully literally realized at some point the future implications of their personal desires.

Second, had the majority of the Philippine government leaders decided to pursue real thinking from the past and consistently to the present, the Philippine government should have long been flourishing in the world. That is the kind of idea I see when the thought of Heidegger about “thinking” would sink in to my entire system of thinking. Heidegger was quite popular about his idea of what “thinking” is all about. For him, one must not be enslaved by his or her own ideas. I am convinced that these Philippine Government leaders are enslaved by their own ideas; one is the idea on how they can place themselves a cut above the other, which is something I see as a great peril in leadership.

As for now, let us move it into the point that I consider myself thinking because am not doing it for the justification of merely satisfying my own pleasure or need for thinking, but to see exactly the world or at least the Philippine setting in particular, as it is. A remarkable basis of my point of view, as already stated, is simply widely heard across the media. The anomalies perpetuated by the highly controversial politicians or public leaders are from time to time headlined on the national television or into broadly published local newspapers. This must help justify my point, the TRUTH!

About the Author

ARTHELO P. PALMA is a PhD in Development Research and Administration.

Jesus Christ said, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me" (John 14:6).

Praise For "Remarkably Ordinary"

2014-06-05T07:26:00.001+08:00

by Arthelo Palma

I have no other most important words to say about Remarkably Ordinary than the ones existing in my thought that it’s a modern precious literary gem trying to showcase a strong reflection of life. Susan Harris has remarkably depicted her affinity for seemingly small things around us in her writing, while making the most meaning of them, which connects to the innermost part of one’s being. This is where the small things we might have thought to have made a difference!

I can simply relate with Susan's views, because her inspiration obviously is rooted from the simple to major events of her encounter in this life’s journey. What she simply is telling her readers is to never waste the opportunity to reflect on even small things in life, because they have the purpose of transforming one's being, at its best. This only will be realised when one is keen to listen or observe around and connect even simple things to life’s present situation.

Susan is therefore a rising modern-day life’s guru, trying to inform us that even the small events or things can be the best teachers of our lives. We need her piece of thought because in the modern-age technology people have momentarily forgotten the past and the importance of understanding the basic things forming life for good. People are looking forward to futuristic events and Susan’s piece of thought is a reminder that even the good small things from the past are connected to where we are now placing or heading ourselves.

There’s a vital message in Susan’s Remarkably Ordinary and it’s a piece of treasure to those who learned to appreciate the beauty of life and even to those who still want to learn more about the enigmatic existence of life.

I thank God for using Susan Harris, the one we have today as a rising inspirational author of our time!

How To Say 'NO' To A 2 or 3-Year Old Child?

2013-12-20T14:44:00.001+08:00

by Arthelo Palma

Most of the time, many working moms and dads may not be there for their children. But a longer time at work is not an excuse that they could not perform that quality discipline for their children. Here's an important advice to help working parents balance their personal life.

A two or three-year old is already advanced in his physical, cognitive, language and emotional or social development. Just like an adult he becomes frustrated when not understood, and may scratch, hit, bite, and push other children. And here's the most difficult part. As experienced, my two-year old son doesn't want to be refused because he wants his own way and that will be the primary source of his becoming upset if his wants or desires will not be gratified. When his mom and I say "No" it triggers him to a sulking tantrum. A child this age can be difficult to reason with.

Most of the time he loves to discover many things and here where the danger comes in. He loves to experiment and grabs hold of everything that might potentially harm him. Saying 'NO' will always be the easy way to do, because you don't want your child to get hurt. However, a constant action like this to your child may also potentially harm his creativity and other general development, because the things he does are normal for his growing years. What he needs is a patient and smart parent to guide him through this stage of his development.

So what will you do when your two or three-year old child begins to write on the wall?

I find a great mistake in here at first when I decided to inflict punishment on my two-year old son. It was a great mistake that I will never do again. Never inflict pain on your children when you see they start to write something on the wall and begin to mess up your home with their creativity. There is a great chance that you are more likely to eliminate their creative development. The second time I saw my child writing on the wall, I called up his attention and showed him a sincere gesture to stop what he was doing. Then I supplemented that action with a positive approval just to let him know that writing is good by giving him a piece of blank paper where he can write on it instead on the wall. After a few minutes, he showed me what he did and I was happy to see that he was trying to tell me that what he just created was good. With a striking positive approval on my countenance, I showed him a sweet smile, switched my arms around him and told him it was awesome and perfectly wonderful! Keep it up my child!

So here's the rule of thumb

Parents are to encourage and motivate their children the right way. It's not easy to become a parent because disciplining our children the right way is a must. We have to make sure we constantly push the right button. A two or three-year old child can be difficult to handle. But as they are constantly in motion, their span of attention to something is very short. This means that you can easily direct their attention to other things. So here where your strategy sets in. If your child grabs hold of your laptop or mobile phone and you want to say no, now is the time that you have to direct his attention to something beneficial. You can either give him his favorite toy, show him something outside, or other means that will change his focus. You can even invite him to other productive stuffs like showing him how to clean up a mess. You have to take control. Don't allow him to take control of the situation. If you do, you're just trying to raise a child that will soon end up a strong willed. Sooner or later when he grows up, everything will just bounce back to you. And sure you don't want it to happen. Do you? MIFL

"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it". - Proverbs 22:6

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Why There Is A Need To Learn About SADNESS And HAPPINESS?

2013-11-30T02:49:00.002+08:00

by Arthelo Palma

By ollie harridge under CC BY 2.0

Just as our body has to grow from birth, our emotion takes a process of development too. So here are the reasons why we need to learn about sadness and happiness.

1. Normal people don't love discomfort. Sadness brings discomfort. Thus, aiming for happiness instead of sadness has become necessary as part of our growth or development.

2. Our body appreciates happiness, because it's designed to respond that way especially to most comforting events. However, this doesn't prevent our body to experience how it feels to be sad, because such mechanism is for us to identify the value linked to happiness. This allows us to appreciate good moments and create positive actions that will not bring us to troubles and discomforts. This gives us a certain level of maturity along the process.

3. We need to be happy for us to survive. As happiness is considered a human positive experience, it therefore encourages us to be motivated to improve our attitude. These are all essential components of our future success.

4. Happiness may lead human to desire for eternal existence. As happiness may continue to encourage us, it therefore will lead us to be inspired to aim for good things in life and eventually the idea of eternal existence. Notice how humans have been inspired to know more about aging and how they can potentially delay, alleviate or stop its process. You should know that this is inspired by the human happiness.

5. Happiness is a balancing requirement that establishes development in all areas of our lives. For example, you learn to do the things you love doing today because there might be associated level of happiness with it. Such action leads you to your growth and development as a person, but the bottom line prior to achieving this is that you feel happy in what you do.

Aside from these point of views, I'm sure you have personal reasons why you long for happiness. Please feel free to share your thoughts.
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Why MONEY Is Scarce Or Abundant In You?

2013-11-30T02:27:00.000+08:00

by Arthelo Palma

By Andrew Magill under CC BY 2.0

A person like you deserves to earn more, as you have many needs to satisfy, but it's hard to make both ends meet as for you money might be a scarce or limited resource. It's possible that you might begin to ask yourself why others are able to earn more and you're not. In the event that you're earning more right now than others means a responsibility or opportunity for you to provide good inputs to help others.

There are some reasons why the ability to earn money might not be equal among people. These will allow you to see why others are wealthy and others are impoverished. Now consider the following questions to help you evaluate your financial status.

1. Have you experienced being wealthy? People who experienced more wealth are likely to engage themselves in making more money in the future than those who are exposed to poverty from birth. Although there are also people who started from nothing financially, but they were inspired to make a difference to change for good. However, whatever may be the circumstance, everyone has the choice to become rich or stay in poverty. We all have the choice to make our life better.

2. Are you prioritizing wealth? People who succeeded in accumulating more wealth have fully taken into account the idea of affluence. This points out to a familiar Biblical principle 'wherever your heart is, there you'll find your treasure'. Now you may ask yourself how much you have truly prioritized finding wealth. If you make finding money a priority, but still you find yourself impoverished and wanting more, now is the time that you don't just stop to consider the point of making wealth a priority. You have to consider another perspective and that is to be our next point.

3. Were you able to assess every opportunity? People say it's good to strike the iron while it's hot, but we need to add to this and that the one who must strike must assess the degree of benefits linked to that action. Opportunities are everywhere around us, but many people did not make it to evaluating each of them so that they ended up choosing actions that might have prevented them to grow to the full in wealth. Wealthy people like Gates, Zuckerberg and Winfrey are at some point were able to assess the opportunities they are in, which led them to the path where they are now.

4. Are you allowing yourself to procrastinate most of the time? Setting aside a thing until later holds a person back to acquiring more wealth. As they say, 'Time is gold' and this means that a time failed to be managed would have to result to poverty. The book of Proverbs illustrates this point via the character of the ants. Ants store food in the summer and what they have accumulated during this season will make them survive rainy days. People doing like this attitude must have a character coming from the basic foundation, which is mostly overlooked and this is going to be our next point.

5. Do you love discipline? People who love discipline are at some point trying to be disciplined in all aspects of life. Discipline is a choice, allowing us to achieve positive attitudes that will bring us beneficial results rather than harm. People who lacked discipline are primary targets to be harmed, for they will be vulnerable to immerse themselves in at least one of these poor habits and lifestyle, such as those linked to laziness, addictions, drugs, sex, alcohol and gambling. These can help us explain why it might be truly harder for a person to accumulate real wealth.

I know you might have something in your mind at this moment and that includes other personal reasons you have on why money is scarce or abundant in you. So please feel free to share your thoughts.
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Why You Don’t Want SADNESS?

2013-11-29T05:25:00.002+08:00

by Arthelo Palma

By Vic under CC BY 2.0

I want to share some important thoughts concerning the reason why humans don't want sadness. Here they are.

1. Normal human being does not love the idea about discomfort. In the presence of sadness, there's certainly discomfort. This is the first reason why humans don't want sadness to rule over them. People by nature hate the idea of discomfort.

2. Our body is designed in such a way it is built to react to sadness. Although it is also capable of experiencing how it feels to be sad, but such mechanism is built only for us to learn to be more positive in life.That triggers us to long for happiness.

3. Survival requires us to defeat sadness. To be sad is a human negative experience that at some point will discourage us to be motivated. It even discourages us to improve our personal attitude. According to John Maxwell in his published book "Your Road Map For Success", an improve attitude is one of the most essential components of achieving future success.

4. To beat sadness is a basic human requirement not only for survival today, but continuous eternal existence. As happiness encourages survival, its long-term effect therefore is to be able to produce inspiration that will lead the humanity to aim for eternal existence. Thus, it makes sense to ward off negative impact that sadness may potentially bring in our lives.

5. Sadness is a balancing requirement that establishes development in all areas of our lives. For example, you learn to do the things you love doing today because there might be associated certain level of sadness with it when you fail to do your best shot. Such action leads you to your growth and development as a person, but the bottom line prior to achieving this is that you feel that finding for your happiness and eliminating the control of sadness are the right things to do.

Aside from all of these, I'm sure you have personal reasons why you want to eliminate sadness in your life. Please feel free to share your thoughts.
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Why Second-hand Smoke Is A Threat To NON-SMOKERS’ Memory?

2013-11-29T05:07:00.001+08:00

by Arthelo Palma

By Julie under CC BY 2.0

Study found that second-hand smoke from cigarettes damages non-smokers' memory, a study published in an online journal "Addiction" reveals. In a controlled experiment, subjects exposed to second-hand smoke performed 20 percent poorly in the memory test compared to those who were free from any exposure to second-hand smoke. This finding may also reveal that a second-hand smoke contains harmful chemicals that may trigger poor cognitive performance of the brain. This is added to the growing statistics concerning the peril linked to smoking, and may remind those who have squandered their portion in the pink of health due to smoking.

Many are aware that a cigarette smoke contains harmful chemicals that are threats to the human body. These chemicals have the potential threats to the human health leading to some more complicated upshots such as poor memory. Despite of this, many are still linked to smoking because of its addictive content that will make quitting a more challenging choice.

If you believe that a second-hand smoke may affect your memory, then it's now time to make a move on your part and tell those smokers the dangers linked to smoking not only to their health, but to people around them especially those who don't smoke. MIFL

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Why You Need To INVEST And EARN More?

2013-11-28T00:14:00.001+08:00

by Arthelo Palma

By Alan Cleaver under CC BY 2.0

Nobody wants their financial aspect will be incapable of continuing at the same level in the future. In fact most people want their financial status to surge even higher or continue to improve. Nobody wants not to be financially secured in the future. Everyone desires to achieve financial freedom. Regarding these points, two of the most major reasons why people want to invest and earn more are discussed.

Sustainability

One major and important reason why some people try to invest and earn more is for them to become self-sufficient and capable of going on in the future at the same level and even more. As money is capable of buying many of the human needs and even wants, and as it is a limited or scarce resource, many people are therefore aiming to acquire more of it. It's a predominant thought in the society that without money, one can hardly survive because almost everything requires a specific monetary value for exchange. This is the reason why almost everybody has to be busy finding for money on a daily basis to earn more, because people want to become sustainable in their financial status to address their needs.

Security

Aside from sustainability issue, investing and earning more are actions towards establishing financial security. No one wants to be hassled by an overwhelming debts because of not being able to finance important spending in times they occur at the most unsecured time in terms of financial needs. For this reason, people learn that it is important to be secured financially in the future. Thus, it makes sense to them to avail of some protection plans that will provide them benefits in the future like life plan, insurance and more.

Perhaps there are other more important reasons why people want to invest and earn more, but of these the two most practical considerations include the point of establishing sustainability and acquiring security.

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Why You Long For HAPPINESS?

2013-11-28T00:13:00.002+08:00

by Arthelo Palma

By John AmirAbbassi under CC BY 2.0

I want to share some important thoughts concerning the reason why humans long for happiness. Here they are.

1. No normal human being loves discomfort. In the presence of sadness, there's certainly discomfort. This is the first reason why humans long for happiness. People by nature certainly hate the idea of discomfort.

2. Our body is designed in such a way it is built to appreciate happiness. Although it is also capable of experiencing how it feels to be sad, but such mechanism is built only to be able to distinguish the value linked to being happy.

3. Survival requires happiness. To be happy is a human positive experience that will encourage motivation and improve a person's attitude, which are essential components of achieving future success.

4. Happiness is a basic human requirement not only for survival today, but continuous eternal existence. As happiness encourages survival, its long-term effect therefore is to be able to produce inspiration that will lead the humanity to aim for eternal existence.

5. Happiness is a balancing requirement that establishes development in all areas of our lives. For example, you learn to do the things you love doing today because there might be associated certain level of happiness with it. Such action leads you to your growth and development as a person, but the bottom line prior to achieving this is that you feel happy in what you are doing.

Aside from all of these, I'm sure you have personal reasons why you long for happiness. Please feel free to share your thoughts.

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Why Aren’t You Gaining Or Losing A WEIGTH?

2013-11-27T00:57:00.003+08:00

by Arthelo Palma

By Tony Alter under CC BY 2.0

We see many people and even a desperate number of them wanting to either gain or lose a weight. The truth is, we are simply influenced by what the environment tells us. The media through some ads tell us that to stay slim or possess abs is great and exemplary. Medical experts inform us that our weight may speak about or influence our health.

Now here are some other truths about your gaining weight or on how you are spreading yourself thin.

1. Your weight might be genetic or hormonal. This means that it might just be natural for you to possess the kind of weight you have right now. You probably have acquired your size from your parents or from your forefathers. Consider also that your weight might just be a normal hormonal response. Some women might end up not the same as usual with their weight and body figure when they gave birth. This is because genetic and hormonal activities in their bodies are taking their portions of the natural biological activities. For this reason, there are people who are just simply skinny or too obese to consider, but the truth is, either of these extreme conditions might just be perfectly normal for them. For as long as their vital signs are stable and they feel they are healthy with strong immune response, then there is no wrong with the kind of size they have that may be associated with their prevailing weight. Now, before you go for a weight program, consider this truth. Don't just be influenced by what the society dictates as the standard because everyone of us has unique identity inside that can be thoroughly explained by the language of our genes and innate biological process. Don't just simply miss this information before jumping right in to the next point.

2. Your weight as an upshot of your lifestyle. Consider this point as positive. You are what you eat. Tell me what you eat and I tell you who you are. This sounds too judgmental to consider, but there is truth in it, because it can essentially talk about the kind of lifestyle you have right now or the status of your life. Financially-challenged people might have poor access to more nutritious foods, leading them to settle for less or what's just simply available for them. On the contrary, people who can afford to buy sufficient foods are somehow expected to provide the essential requirements for their body to function perfectly normal as far as diet is concerned. However, at extreme cases, there is a great chance for them also to explore seemingly delicious foods but not healthy or in some way, push themselves forward to excessive eating habit. Now you know that perhaps the reason why you aren't gaining or losing a weight might just be an issue of your lifestyle.

Aside from these two points, there might be other relevant considerations to be taken into account. But these two provide us the basic understanding for consideration of the practical reasons you simply need to consider prior to how you will push yourself in either gaining or losing a weight.

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Why It's Not Good To Be SAD?

2013-11-27T00:57:00.001+08:00

by Arthelo Palma

By BRQ Network under CC BY 2.0

Here are some important reasons why it's not good for you to be sad.

1. Sadness cannot save your day. You'll not be in good shape if you are sad and that's the potential impact of this emotion on your life. You'll never feel good when you are sad. Everything might turn out not just fine, not in good shape, and not in order. You are more likely to have an agitated mind and under the potential control of distress. This allows you to think worse, allowing inefficient and unproductive moment to take over your whole day. You'll be totally out of control to start and end your day.

2. You're more likely to think and create negative things when you're downcast. Though it's a natural human response to any discomfort, it's still dangerous to be sad because sadness connects a person to a more negative outlook in life. Failure is bound to take over the life of a person because of his negative thoughts. Unlike a person who is happy, the one who is sad has probably bad things going on in his mind. He will probably become a source of trouble for the people around him because he might invigorate an atmosphere of agitation, disunity and disorder.

3. A person who is always sad is likely to curtail his life a significant number of years. Real sadness of the heart in the form of negative worry, negative stress and the like may increase production of harmful chemicals in the body that are responsible for any related lifestyle diseases such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity and more. A person who is always sad will probably gain a poor immune responses against such of these harmful diseases.

These are just some of the associated perils linked to being always sad. There are still many of them not listed here, but what's the most important point is that you know by now that there are great reasons why it's a must not to be sad that you should maintain a composed mind everyday.

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Why It's Important To Be HAPPY?

2013-11-26T00:14:00.001+08:00

by Arthelo Palma

By Jiaren Lau under CC BY 2.0

There are many reasons why it's important to be happy everyday. Some of them are discussed in this article.

1. Happiness saves your day. You'll be in good shape if you are happy and that's the bottom line. You'll feel good when you are happy. Everything will be fine, not just in good shape, but in order. You are more likely to have a calm mind and far from distress. This allows you to think better, allowing efficiency and productivity to take over your whole day even how long will it be. You'll be in total control of your day.

2. You're more likely to think positive things when you're happy. It's important to be happy because happiness connects a person to a more positive outlook in life. Success is imminent to a happy person because of his positive thoughts. Unlike a person who is sad, the one who is happy has good things in mind to say or share. He will then become a source of influence for the people around him that will invigorate an atmosphere of calmness, unity and order.

3. A person who is always happy is likely to prolong his life for many years. Real happiness reduces production of harmful chemicals in the body that are responsible for any related lifestyle diseases such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity and more. A person who is always happy will most probably gain a strong immune responses against harmful diseases.

These are just some of the benefits linked to being always happy everyday. There are still many of them not listed here, but what's the most important point is that you know by now that there are great reasons why it's a must to be happy everyday.
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Why Others Are EARNING More And You’re Not Or Vice Versa?

2013-11-25T20:01:00.001+08:00

by Arthelo Palma

By Jason Eppink under CC BY 2.0

A normal individual like you deserves to earn more, because you have many needs to address, but it seems hard to make both ends meet as money might be a scarce or limited resource in your case. Now, it's not impossible that at some point you might ask yourself why others are earning more, but you're not. In case that you're earning more now than others, it's also a good point to consider why you have established such advantage so that you'll be able to provide good inputs to help others. In general, there are some reasons why earning money may not be equal among people, allowing you to see others are wealthy, and a substantial number of people are impoverished.

1. Understand that not everyone has the chance to experience being wealthy. People who experienced wealth are likely engaged in making more money than those who are exposed to poverty from birth. However, there are also people who came from rags to riches, they are inspired to make a difference and change for good as far as improving their financial status is concerned. In either way, everyone has the choice, to become rich or stay in poverty. Although we might not have equal chance for this, but we have the choice to make our life better.

2. Prioritizing wealth. People who succeeded accumulating more wealth have eventually prioritized affluence in their lives. It goes with the simple Biblical point that 'wherever your heart is, there you'll find your treasure'. So you need to ask yourself if you truly have prioritized finding wealth. If you do, but still you find yourself impoverished and wanting more, then don't just stop considering the point of making wealth a priority. There's another relevant perspective you need to consider too.

3. Consider evaluating various opportunities. While they say it's good to strike the iron while it's hot, the one who must strike must consider the degree of benefits linked to that action. There are many opportunities everywhere around us, but many people failed to evaluate these opportunities so that they ended up choosing those that prevented them to fullness. Great men with wealth like Gates are able to evaluate the opportunities they are in, giving them more competitive edge to explore many things that fuel them to acquiring even more wealth.

4. Procrastination. Setting something aside until later holds a person back to acquire more wealth. There is a monetary counterpart of our time, as depicted in the old familiar adage, 'time is gold'. Time that is not managed well will possibly result to poverty. The book of Proverbs agrees to this statement by introducing us to the character of the ants. These are organisms that store food in the summer allowing them to accumulate more than enough food for the rainy days. But such character must truly have the basic foundation and that is the next point.

5. Lack of discipline. Discipline is a form of fixing our attitudes towards something that may provide us beneficial results rather than harm. Most people who are harmed are those who might potentially lack discipline. These people who might have lacked discipline are even immersing themselves to poor habits and lifestyle, such as those associated with laziness, addictions, drugs, sex, alcohol and gambling. These habits are some of the leading reasons why it might be harder for one to accumulate real wealth.

Perhaps you might have something in mind right now like other potential reason why others are earning more and you're not or vice versa. It's good if you have such kind of insight. So please feel free to share your thoughts.

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Why EATING Not Too Much At Night Is Important?

2013-11-25T05:57:00.002+08:00

by Arthelo Palma

By UrbaneWomenMag under CC BY 2.0

This explanation sounds might be too biological to consider for some people who have no substantial exposure to ideas in biology. So please bear with me. The most important point of this article is to know the "relevant" associated facts on why eating not too much at night is important.

1. Low metabolism rate at night. At night our body's metabolism rate may not be that high because some of our body parts while we sleep are resting, which may reduce the need for a high level of energy consumption. So what's the point of having too much food for energy conversion?

2. Let your stomach rest and your body. While you are physically active at daytime, your body suggests that you should take foods to sustain balance of energy for every function of its parts. This means more work for your digestive system. But just as how you want to take some good night rest, some of your organs including your stomach probably except the heart will also want to do the same. In case when you are about to sleep and you are downing so much food into your stomach, you are leaving a great work for this organ including the other supporting organs like the pancreas, liver, small intestines and other related organs that are helping it to sustain its digestive function for the entire human body system. This means aside from your brain, your other internal body parts may require high amount of oxygen to perform their functions. As your brain controls your entire body, and with no sufficient amount of oxygen to sustain it because of an ongoing digestive activity, you are most probably not having a good night rest when your stomach is extremely full.

3. Lose some weight. Eating not too much at night or avoiding late night eating has been considered as the opportunity to lose weight. Perhaps this is a good start for you if you're planning to spread yourself thin.

You can add to this list by considering official medical advices from experts. At least for now, you have an idea which way to start to keep you in good shape.
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Why Are You SAD?

2013-11-25T05:56:00.001+08:00

by Arthelo Palma

By Kelly B under CC BY 2.0

Sadness is the absence of comfort in one's feeling or emotion. It is a normal human emotional response especially in situations where there is presence of discomfort, such as grieving due to the death of a relative or friend, feeling of rejection and resentment, conflicts or troubles in relationship and so on. Aside from all of these, there are some other important reasons why there is sadness.

1. Failed expectations and needs not sustained. A person is sad when there is a need that cannot be sustained or expectations failed. In this case, sadness can be a manifestation of what is going on inside of the self. Many people are sad because at some point they failed to obtain the things they most expected, allowing them to miss the chance to appreciate the beauty of the things surrounding them as discontentment prevails. Discontentment in a negative way as something that will not lead to a positive result but only discouragements brings sadness.

2. Upshot of lifestyle. We all have varying personalities and they can determine our lifestyle. People who are outgoing are expected to have more friends than those who are introverts. But that is not the deciding point. It might be that being alone in most of the time is what will give the most comfort to a person. In other words, possibly it's not all about our personalities that will lead us to sadness, but on how we take a bite into our lifestyle everyday. A poor lifestyle will probably lead to poor habits and eventually addictions. Some people grapple with day to day addiction as an upshot of poor lifestyle affecting the other areas of their lives and finally they decided to be set free only to find out there's no easy way out. That gives them sadness or even stress to the highest level. A high stress level can result to sadness. Accumulation of too much stress results to depression. As a result, depression is often viewed as intense level of sadness.

3. Worries in life. We all worry, as it is part of being human. But there are negative worries that will hold a person to be motivated and destroy his creative means to employ ways to improve his life. These types of worries bring fears, discouragements and hopelessness. All of these bring total discomfort and eventually sadness.

4. Troubles in life. Having too much debt, problematic relationship, unsettled direction of life and so on are some important indicators how much troubles a person has in his life. Troubles that are part of mistakes are in their positive forms if one will be able to correct them for good. However, if one trouble leads to the other until the whole thing became complex, sadness at the highest level is expected to take its toll on one's soul.

Sadness is a natural human response to discomfort, but on its positive side it reminds us to find for the better way to improve our lives and live to be happy.

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Why Aren't You EARNING More?

2013-11-24T06:11:00.000+08:00

by Arthelo Palma

By Tax Credits under CC BY 2.0

Here are some reasons why you might have experienced financial scarcity aside from the reality that you might have at least one of these: you do not have savings, no investments, no regular work, and perhaps you are entangled by debt.

1. Procrastination. Understand that it takes time to earn money. Procrastination (setting something aside until later) is one of the reasons why you have not made use of your time enough to earn money. So when you failed to use your time the right way, expect that at some point in your future your financial aspect will have to suffer. According to the Chinese proverb, 'time is gold'. There is a precious monetary counterpart of your time. So use it wisely!

2. Unexplored potential. Until now, there might still be unexplored natural potential in you that you have not harnessed yet. You need to unveil them now and make them productive. Earn through them. Many people have gained monetary rewards because they used their talents, skills and hobbies and took it to the next level. They further invest in them. So don't be afraid to explore and take the risks if you can.

3. Working hard is not your lifestyle. To work hard might not be your ultimate lifestyle that is why until now it is so tough for you to make both ends meet. A substantial number of people have inched their way to financial freedom because they worked so hard and fixed their eyes on achieving their goals. They always kept their eyes out for various opportunities that may just only require their natural ability to work hard.

4. Not enough knowledge and endurance. Working hard alone is not a guarantee that you will earn more. You need the right amount of knowledge (creative ideas) and endurance to sustain your pace all the way to your goals.

There are still many reasons you can include in this list, but the most important move for now that you can do is to evaluate yourself and begin to take the positive steps for change.
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Why Are You HAPPY?

2013-11-24T06:10:00.000+08:00

by Arthelo Palma

By Tom Newby under CC BY 2.0

Happiness is something that people cannot resist to desire. It is one of most positive human experiences that normal people expect to happen in their lives. Here are some common reasons why you see a smile on others' face.

1. Having more money can trigger a smile. First, let's all be reminded that money is not the ultimate measure of happiness, but it can pull the trigger and for some people it leads their smile up to their ears. People want to have more money because they believe it can head their way to happiness. With more money, they can fulfill their basic needs, wants and even some vanities in life.

2. Successful working relationship. People engage in a relationship because they expect to be happy. Everyone expects a harmonious relationship with others that is free from conflicts, pains or troubles.

3. They do the things they love doing. Haven't you noticed why there are many people who religiously do things that are part of their daily lives? Some of them continue to do so because they are still enjoying them with expectation of the rewards that they are desiring to obtain. In other words, some people continuously do the things they do because the thought of achieving the associated rewards gives them happiness. Rewards can be monetary, physical, emotional, social, political, intellectual, spiritual and in the other related areas of life.

4. Achievement of goals. People believe they are happy once they have the things they desire that will satisfy or meet their expectations. They become happy when they are able to achieve their goals and ensure success.Majority are happy once the desirable things they believe have become a reality for them. That means they can see them before their naked eyes, feel, hear or touch them.

Now you know that a smile on somebody’s face may indicate happiness. Although one cannot totally guarantee that it can thoroughly measure the real level of one’s happiness, a smile at some point can be a good indicator that someone might be happy.

In some cases, a smile on the face can be a mask that covers the real sadness of the heart. That's another story.

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Is Living A Life Of Perfection Possible?

2013-09-19T09:07:00.002+08:00

by Arthelo Palma

I consider this a perfect work of art, because here I was able to exercise my great passion for putting a soul in any image I take. Your great love for what you are doing is the key to perfection.

We heard Jesus commanded God's people to be perfect. "Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect" (Matthew 5:48). Our first premise here is 'God is perfect' and Jesus knows that those who genuinely believe in Him are capable to obtain perfection too.

Is Jesus here trying to command something that goes beyond the nature or the actual capability of man? Let us go back to this point later.

Meanwhile, aside from becoming perfect, we also heard Him telling his followers to love one another. In fact, if you might have noticed, the verses before Matthew 5:48 talk about love.

Jesus said, "You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that?" (Matthew 5:43-47). After this, in verse 48 Jesus commanded us to be perfect, as the Father in heaven is perfect. As I have said, this is our first premise.

But what is the connection of Jesus' conclusion of commanding us to be perfect with his idea about love that He illustrated at the extreme as a righteous act even for our enemy? Here where our second premise comes in.

God is love. "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love" (1 John 4:8).

Therefore, in the presence of love that comes from God, there is perfection because God is Perfect and He is Love.

But what is love? According to the Scripture, "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails" (1 Corinthians 13:4-8a).

For those who receive Jesus and accept Him as their personal Lord and Savior, they certainly know that when they become impatient, they start to go beyond the context of love. Impatience will always lead to the lack of understanding for others or circumstances around us. But Jesus showed His understanding for all of us as a sign of His great love to the people when He said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know that they are doing" (Luke 23:34). Our envy breeds hate and this allows love for others to go out of our way. Our boast and pride are manifestations of a spirit that goes out of the way of humility. Humility is one of the ultimate characteristics of God as Love. Our anger will most likely allow us to easily judge and condemn people, and to become rude and self-seeking, which are another manifestations of the inability to exercise God's genuine love.

Consider therefore if everyone lives with love that comes from God. I am sure greediness that forces everyone to go for self-interest will be non-existent. No one will commit sin because they will recognize that their body is the temple of God (based on 1 Corinthians 6:19-20). Then if they love God, which is His general command, they will learn to say no to sins that may be committed through our thoughts, words and deeds. Everyone who loves God will exercise to live a highly disciplined life because their interest is to live for the glory of God, so they want to engage their time, talent, and treasure in whatever righteous act that will please God. There is no crime, war, famine, corruption when everyone has that love that comes from God. The world therefore would be in perfect unity. No trouble. There is genuine joy. Perfection is everywhere. Even here on earth, we can start to experience what is it like in heaven if only everyone lives with God's love. However, for as long as many people will not believe in Jesus Christ and the kind of love that He wants to show and teach us, what we see around today will remain part of the daily struggle of the humanity.

See. There is therefore perfection when one has to live the love that comes from God. Jesus therefore knows that those who believe in Him will exercise this kind of love too, so He told them to be perfect. Thus, only those who believe in Him will be saved, for they are only the ones to be justified perfect in the eyes of God, because their genuine faith would mean putting everything into action, and that is to live in God's love, everyday and in eternity.The Scripture further encourages us to love. "Above all, love each other deeply because love covers over a multitude of sins" (1 Peter 4:8).

Sins are manifestations of imperfections, because God as LOVE cannot commit sin for He is PERFECT.

Today, if you hear the voice of God, harden not your heart (based on Hebrews 3:15).

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On Poor Health, Just ‘Don’t Worry Be Happy’, But How?

2013-05-03T15:05:00.001+08:00

by Arthelo Palma

To keep yourself worry free especially in the midst of poor health is perhaps one of the toughest things to do in life. Although it’s hard to actually implement it, but once performed well, it could also be among the best ultimate solutions to ensure healing at a fast pace.

Negative worry and stress activate free radicals, which are toxic to the human body. A person with too much worry in life is only trying to worsen his condition due to the linked poor health to it. In this state, worry cannot solve the problem, but it just only adds up imminent troubles.

I am swayed to believe this because with too much worry or negative stress, our immune system deteriorates , giving our body (a.) a less powerful force to defend itself against other environmental, external and internal threats; and (b.) a weaker potential to activate and initiate successful healing.

Here are some words of advice on how to remain still with positive outlook in life despite poor health is taking off your courage to survive.

1. Have an open mind. Understand that everyone of us could have a better chance to get sick and there’s no exception to this rule. Imagine the most probable benefits this could bring you if you have this mindset. With an open mind, you will be able to grasp important ideas on how to improve your chance to acquire healing. You will have the courage to survive and do positive things rather than confine yourself to the possibility of impossibilities. With an open mind, you will be able to think of positive solutions rather than resent the fact that there could be other deserving people out there who could have your situation and why it is you who got it instead. Understand this. Negative thoughts will always prevail in a mind that wants to close you beyond the reality. Be open to yourself and accept the fact that there is truth and you need to embrace it. The truth will always set us free, as it will always help us find a way out.

2. Understand that not all diseases are healed by medicines. It’s my lifestyle never to take medicine right away if I feel am not feeling well. Sleep, plenty of water and nutritious foods are the first priorities I usually take into account to restore my physical condition. These work most of the time for me, and as far as I always believe that our body is designed to have the potential to heal itself and initiate a way to stabilize everything back to normal. Its defense systems conspire to make it to a higher potential and our ultimate contribution is to strengthen their capacity to do their respective functions. Thus, worry and negative stress will not eventually help us. Maintaining a positive outlook in life is a lifestyle and it is a skill that is learned through the test of time.

3. Emotional stability is required. Logic overcomes our emotions and presents us the truth. We believe by what our senses perceived. Thus, for our emotions to become stable, we need to embrace the truth, understand it, and live by it. The truth is that not everyone of us has the truth. Our money is not the end of all things. You need genuine joy that money, prestige or pride cannot buy or compare. To live in this world is not all about pleasure for yourself. If you are not contented with your life, you are most likely not ready to die and so you won’t give up seeing your doctor and faithfully taking your prescribed medicines, because you might have the predominant thought of the pleasure associated with living. See. Our emotion is responsible for telling us what we still need in life, but it does not know the truth at all, because it is capable of telling us lies like ‘you are not happy because you don’t have money’, ‘you are not happy because you don’t have a degree’, ‘you are not happy because you are not famous and popular’, ‘you are not an important person, so you won’t make any sense at all’ and so on. Our emotions could harm us, because it is truly blind of the truth. However, the logic, which bears that truth can tell that you are not happy because you lack money as you don’t work hard enough for it. The logic carrying the truth with it can suggest that you are not happy because of poor health as you missed the chance to take care of your body by being too preoccupied with your desire to eat anything you want, or the negative stress and heavy worries of life have finally taken their toll on you. Look how your emotion has been deceiving you for life. A person who is extremely mad could kill, because of the lack of the right and real perspective. Someone who is extremely overwhelmed with joy could over promise and might utter the most impossible things on that very moment. Thus, people need to become emotionally stable in order to take control of everything.

Conclusion

On this entire article, I’ve been sharing with you the power of positive thinking by embracing the truth, acquiring wisdom and controlling your emotion, but all of these were made possible in my case when I decided to receive Jesus to control my life. Truly, those who believe in Him [obedient in His will] are saved because they can now hear the voice of God, as He is giving them the authority to be His son [daughter]. This alone should suppose to make us live worry free, with full vibrant wisdom, stability of emotions in all aspects and eventually, eternal security of salvation.

There are many things to learn from the teachings and principles of Jesus Christ. All you need to do is to open your heart and ask for God's grace and mercy that you will desire to learn and integrate them into your daily way of life.

From a Christian perspective, I believe what were written in the Scripture. Jesus said, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). The Bible tells that Jesus and the Word are one (John 1:1;14). The Scripture tells us that we reap what we sow (Galatians 6:7-8). Finally, Jesus said, “Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life?” (Luke 12:25).

The Bible is full of teachings with logic such as in general, disobedience results to troubles, unrighteousness breeds destruction Finally, faith comes by hearing the Word of God (Romans 10:17). As I’ve said, we believe by what our senses perceived. I believe Jesus and His Words because I hear His principles and found that they are the truth and the ultimate solutions to our "common simple and complex problems" today. There’s no doubt why those real Christians who truly receive Jesus have genuine joy even in the midst of the worldly discomforts of life.

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Procrastination Is A Sin, Overcome It If You Want Success!

2013-05-02T12:11:00.002+08:00

by Arthelo Palma

I like the thought that most Japanese I know would spend money in a way that they have already worked hard for it in the past or the previous days. Sad to say, those people who live in debt will have to work harder in the future for all what they must have spent today. I am giving this as a preliminary example, but the same principle like this on the other remaining areas of your life applies.

Doing nothing with your mental health now will always lead you to become poor and dull as you will be exposed to intense decision-making and thought-provoking activities in the future. Delaying to work on your mental-related problems today will make it more difficult for you to sustain a better life in the future.

If you do nothing with your emotional health today, it will make you become vulnerable to pride of life, lust of the flesh and lust of the eyes from time to time. Example? Your pride will consume you to death if you are focused on what the other people say rather than what you can serve or show them that must have to be founded by the good intention of your heart [above any other things in life it should be driven by Love]. You need to decide now and act on it. You cannot please everyone, so consider living with a good intention of the heart for others today.

Care for another example? Our brain is the body’s central sex organ, and so if we are unable to control our thoughts, we are most likely to take the plunge into the lust of our eyes and flesh, leading some of us to waste our time that is supposed to be allocated for other productive thoughts and activities.

Thus, with poor emotional health, our strong will to work on the best things in life deteriorates. With this condition, we are most likely to feed our mind with things that are not essential, but those that lead us a notch higher to unproductive life and later, destruction.

Doing nothing to discipline what we should feed our body leads us to become much more susceptible to lifestyle diseases. In the same way, being too lazy to work out will cut off our endurance on more serious and tough physical activities.

I am just giving you some probable consequences of our actions today that most of them are founded by ‘PROCRASTINATION’.

What is procrastination?

Do not crawl through life on your entire being oppressed by procrastination. Instead, consider the ways of the ants. Proverbs 6:6 commands us to consider the ways of the ants and be wise. The ants store foods during the summer and so they have much something to rely on when a heavy rain pours. They do not waste their time, but place immediate attention to what is essential. And here is what excites me most. The ants have the ability to lift up heavy stuffs twice as much or more than their actual body mass. God therefore gives them the ability to do things that we might have thought impossible.

In the same way, God gives us all unique abilities, talents, skills and intellect to help us overcome things we might have thought now as impossible. In fact, what makes some things really impossible right now is due to the point that you might have done nothing at all, as you might have always allowed idle time to take you over and to lead you to your comfort zone, which is preventing you to take immediate response to what might be essential for now.

Flying to the moon was thought impossible, but the possibility of landing on it was the product of doing something step by step, one at a time, and at the right timing. To cure cancer for now has started to become a reality day by day, as scientists continue to persevere and momentarily unearth things just to understand the human genome, implement stem cell research, discover alternative medicines or food supplements and so on. If procrastination overcame Steve Jobs, you might not be able to enjoy the latest model of your smartphone today. With all of these examples, we learn that we need to overcome laziness and expect that we should optimize our time with things heading us on to efficiency and productivity. Bo Sanchez said, “We should dirty our hands.” It is not the other way around, but Sanchez wants to emphasize that our hands should be intended to be optimized to do something right, for God’s glory. In the first place, God designs or plans His people to live life to the full.

What’s the danger?

Some people use their abilities, talents and skills - purely for their own selfish motives and desires. These people do not procrastinate, but have understood one of God’s principles, that if they plant more, they will harvest more. As a result, there are many of them who raised themselves at the level of competitive edge, but at the expense of the other - resulting to exploitation and the lack of love and equality in our society persists today. You might want to include greed, jealousy, pride and hatred on the list. Therefore, do not ask if life is really unfair. Life is fair as it is created by God who is just and fair. There are indeed some factors making it unfair and I am convinced procrastination is one of them. Remember, God has created you with unique abilities, talents and skills that you need to discover, enhance and optimize the right way, not for your selfish intention, but for His glory, so that everyone would live with pure joy – this is supposed to make life fair enough for you and each of us to start living.

The principle you need to learn

God has given us the grace to do something good for His glory. If you think you are receiving more than the other, it means you also need to bring the same level back to Him, for He is just and fair. He would not demand more than what He has given you according to your ability to create something for His glory.

Remember the “Parable of the Talents” in Matthew 25:14-30. The context of this passage reminds us that God gives us varying abilities to create something back for His glory. For those He has given more, He would ask back according to the ability He has given them. The first and second servants in the parable were faithful in giving back what the Master expected of them. However, the third one fell short of the Master’s expectation by ‘Doing Nothing’ and allowing idle time to take place [procrastination] with what He has given him.

Today, we might be a failure before God if we do not maximize the ability, time, skills or talents He has given us to work for His glory. Remember, if you consider yourself a son [daughter] of God, then you should think by now with all great conviction that you are not living for your own comfort or desire, but for God’s glory. Be a good and faithful servant. Get rid of the peril of procrastination. Consider only working or doing things for the glory of God! Procrastination does not glorify God, and anything that does not give Him glory is a sin.

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2013-04-24T14:46:00.001+08:00

by Arthelo Palma

This is a true story. I see and hear everything about it. I have a friend, a father like me, but his parents were too irresponsible in the past, raising him in the midst of showing less love for each other. Because of this upbringing my friend might be unconscious of the fact that he has just substantially copied everything how his father would negatively conduct himself before his mother and the entire family. Now, he too could barely provide for his family, everything from financial and down to the very most essential, which is love. The upshot of this event is evident to the lost of interest of his wife for him, the same scenario which exactly happened between his parents. I could say that history repeats itself for this poor pal, at some point.

How many families are like this today? Imagine if the son of my friend would do the same in the future and replicate the same thing before his family or wife and children? The chain of curse will probably never stop and continue with its infinite loop. The same thing would probably happen if lazy parents raise a child. They would probably raise more lazy people in the future. What could we expect to happen in our future generation? Do not blame the government if there are still many poor [in every aspect] people around. Instead, we have to learn to evaluate ourselves if there are personal things that hinder us to move forward to success aside from the prevailing corruption and exploitation everywhere. We should not busy ourselves criticizing others. Instead, we need to learn to evaluate ourselves from time to time. I believe that this could help us trace something down to its root cause, which will pave a way for us to look for an ultimate solution.

The probable root

Our parents are the first influential people in our lives. Our characters could mirror the ones they showed in raising us. They gave us the very basic input about living. How they conduct themselves before their kids could stand as a significant predictor of the child’s future behavioral problems. In psychology, a negative parent-child interaction shows evidence that it could be a simple mechanism of a child’s future behavioral problems (Crockenberg, Leerkes & Lekka, 2007). If applied in the general context, this study could imply that whatever parents show to their kids, there is a great chance that this will not lead to vanity, as there could be potential replication at some point in the future.

The long-term solution

I always love the way Jesus teaches us in parable. His story of the foolish and wise builder provides us the foundation how we should establish our life in this world (Matthew 7:24-29). I believe that the parable applies to every aspect of life. Aside from my personal faith, I stand firm to apply it as a vital parenting principle. In order to establish a family that would last and endure even in the midst of hardship, the essential foundation should be the words of Jesus, which have the completeness of love. The entire ministry of Jesus was simply about the propagation of essential truth founded by love. However, not everyone hears and understands what Jesus would want us to do for our own good. As a result, not everyone would have the foundation of the ultimate truth. Then what the result of this would look like? Broken families are everywhere. Wrong principles motivated by greed, pride and lust are scattering around us. Poor characters and weak attitudes continue to prevail in many lives that potentially stand as barriers to the achievement of success.

For us parents, we have to decide now if we are still willing to pass on our negative attitudes and characters and wrong principles to our kids. Before your decision to which way to follow, allow me to give you a simple hint. Our children are better at absorbing everything we show them especially in their young age. If you love them enough, then show them the best way to their future today.

By seeing myriads of parenting failures everywhere, I am strongly convinced of the truth behind the story of the wise and the foolish builder. Sad to say, not everyone would love to learn more about Jesus Christ and His teachings about how we should live our lives. However, there is still chance to start things right for many of us. I encourage you to study more about the life of Jesus, learn from His principles and have time to apply them with your parenting skills and above all, your personal life.

Reference

Crockenberg, S. C., Leerkes, E. M., & Lekka, S. K. (2007). Pathways from marital aggression to infant emotion regulation: The development of withdrawal in infancy. Infant Behavior and Development, 30(1), 97-113.

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2013-04-04T08:10:00.003+08:00

by Arthelo Palma

High temperament associated with parental discipline leads only to extreme anger and may over power love.

Providing for my children also involves careful consideration of their diverse and unique behaviors and personalities. Some of these manners as integral parts of their innermost being as I strongly believe are acquired from their immediate environment. From the theory based on psychological perspective, the environment could play a great influence on children’s behaviors and personalities. No one could contest the fact that a growing toddler acquires unique, but sometimes even bizarre behaviors as he relies on adult supervision. Now we should not put the blame on these growing children why they tend to become hard headed, would not listen to us with only a few words or sometimes there is need to threaten or implement punishment as we demand obedience from them. Let me tell you this, it is not their fault why they act that way, but we parents must ask ourselves why our children behave the way they do. How do you discipline them?

I am so convinced everything that God allows to happen in my life is all because of His grace and mercy. His grace and mercy abound everyday because of His never-ending love. As a Christian, I apply this principle to how I actually discipline my children, making sure there will always a genuine love associated with it.

Are you disciplining your children with love, or out of anger and sometimes due to being scuttled out of patience?

Based on God’s principle, it came into my mind that discipline without love is actually a pure punishment that will likely to end to a worse case scenario. I believe the discipline that every parent should put into practice with their children must have the basic foundation of love.

Let me tell you this. I'm convinced that discipline without love is a pure punishment and this usually results to children who will not be significantly trained up to grow with the right thing in life.

Discipline and punishment are synonymous because both of them demand obedience and execute authority.

However, you don't want to hear that your children are just actually obeying you because of fear for such overwhelming authority you have as their parent. But you want them to obey because they understand what you demand from them is the right thing they must do. I'm sure you don't want to raise children who are confused and lack of self-esteem when they grow.

So as early as now, discipline them with a certain purpose. You must discipline them because your goal is to give them a brighter future, and not because you are fed up with the way they respond to your authority. Disciplining your children with your purpose of desiring the best outcome for them is not a punishment, especially when your love for them as parent prevails. Your love as parent could only prevail when the moment you inflict pain or discomfort on your children must not under the influence of your overwhelming anger or stress level hormone, but because you want them to live a better life in the future, which is a kind of thought showing an exact manifestation of love.

In psychology, when “negative behavior ensued by negative consequences” there is realization of punishment (Feldman, 2003). Punishment has the objective of understanding the negative consequences of the negative behaviors and the other way around. However, children are unique individuals trying to acquire learning that sometimes could be based on trial and error. A positive reinforcement of this learning activity is necessary for them as they do not have sufficient understanding of the different forms of negative behaviors as they continue to learn things. For them, everything could be done for only out of fun and game. We have to understand they do not think the way we mature adults do, but they could understand us. It is therefore important that after you inflict them with pain or discomfort explain to them everything so that they would understand the logic behind negative behaviors and negative consequences. Do not be presumptuous that they always get what you mean, but understand that they have so much to learn from your discipline. Know that your children can learn both from our verbal and non-verbal communication, so better apply this principle in the most efficient way.

But I also believe that each individual character and behavior is unique and could be innate. The bible proves this (Hosea 12:3). But I also believe these behaviors can be enhanced or even influenced more by the environment. If this does not make sense, the bible should have not told us about training a child. “Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it” (Proverbs 22:6).

Training a child must be a combination of both love and authority. Discipline is an integral component of it. Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them (Proverbs 13:24). Parents, now is the time for you to apply discipline to your children with authority, and above all with love as the basic foundation.

Reference

Feldman, R. S. (2003). Essential of Understanding Psychology (5^th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw Hill.

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