My Turf

I just had my 6th month appraisal explained to me by my boss. It’s confirmed: I’ll officially be a regular employee on the 10th of April! Yipee! Yahoo! Yehey! Woo-hoo!

The longest I have worked in one company is 1 year and four months. Unless nothing untoward that’s big enough to make me resign (or get me terminated) comes up, I think I want to be in this job for the long haul.

After my discussion with my boss, I realized one thing. She explained to me that while she recognizes that my heart and inclinations lean more on the creative side, I have to start learning the business aspect of marketing. And I agree with her. If I were to do what I have always longed to, I need to learn the basics of business and promotions as well.

I dream of bigger things, but I recognize that I remain in need of further training. I cannot hope to become what I have always longed to be if I my skills are limited to writing scripts for AVPs and print advertisements.

Tipping Point

I attended a  4-day Social Artistry seminar in Tagaytay last year, and there I learned the concept of a Tipping Point. This concept assures that at a certain point, all the efforts you exerted in order to reach your goal, every seemingly unconnected person, opportunity and circumstance, will come together and culminate. All that used to seem pointless, meaningless, and "going nowhere," will result in a success bigger than you ever thought possible.

Sabi ni Henry David Thoreau, "If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to live the life which you have imagined, you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. New, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within you, and you will live with the license of a higher order of beings."

This is a belief I have long held and strived to live by. I am not losing sight of this goal. Not anymore.

Anong meron ang taong happy?

Ano nga bang meron ang taong happy (bukod sa Enervon. Hehehe)?

It is an unfaltering faith. It is an unfailing belief that good things will come–they are bound to if you keep doing your darnedest best. And when such a belief has been ingrained in your system, no amount of failure and heartache can alter or dissolve it. Then every event that comes your way is seen as a blessing–an opportunity to do things right. Or better.

I have been burned and said no to more times that I care to count. I have made gazillions of mistakes, and failed in big and small things alike. But no matter how impossible it feels like at times, I strive to keep at my goal steadfastly. Always burning with the belief that that tipping point–my own time to shine and strut my stuff–is sure to come.      

Hay, my dreams!

Hang on, I am on my way…