Mid-Year re-evaluation TerryJune 22, 2012 0 comments

I have a vague idea of what my new year resolutions were. I'm sure I can even find a blog post on that somewhere here, but ... moving along ...

I have to admit, no matter how embarrassing and difficult it is, I have some nasty habit that I still haven't gotten over. I need to stop, take stock of my progress this year then strategise on how to proceed. I am not a strategy person, never have been, but I gotta do what I gotta do to 'kill' these habits and move on towards the next half year victoriously!

Just read some tactics I could use to get me there http://www.blogher.com/five-easy-ways-keep-your-resolutions  hopefully I'll faithful to them and see how much progress I make.

May be the way to go about it is make it like project objectives; Specific Measurable Attainable Realistic and Timebound. Yeeeah, I think that's what I'll do.
God give me the strength to overcome,once and for all!

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Women: the real power? TerryMay 29, 2012 0 comments

I have just read this tweet:

"@xyzjohndoe Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them. Discuss (20mks)"> NO #thewifesadvice

First reaction: whaaat? Are you trying to say that we (women) are lagging? After calming down, I realized the tweet actually holds water.

Today my lecturer came to class late, looking dishevelled and with grandiose stains on the pits of his shirt. After class, my friend Rhoda and I were chatting to another classmate who came in today for the first time. In ‘updating’ her, we told her all about the lecturer, his family, his teaching methodology and all he had told us about himself. Her first response was “You mean he has a wife? He wasn’t dressed like he has!”We went on to explain that his wife was in the USA. 

FYI - My lecturer doesn’t always dress like that, usually he is very smart but I guess today was a bad ‘dress’ day. The new student was nothing like you’d imagine based on her comment. She is young, smart, urban and clearly upwardly mobile.

These two instances (the re-tweet and lecturer’s dressing) I think are in tandem. Whether we should let it be so or not is a whole different argument. So, we (women) rule the world, from the back end at least!

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Keeping on TerryMay 20, 2012 0 comments

Doing a mental review of my 2012 resolutions. I'm doing good, yeeeah! However,,,, it seems there's one area that I'm really slacking on. I have enough excuses to justify why, or not, but I hope to get to it sooner. in fact, after I'm done with this post, mmmhhhmm.

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Life's lessons TerryMay 9, 2012 0 comments

I have learnt a lot of lessons the past month, and some enforcements to what I already know. Biggest of them all, be frugal within reason. Money is not meant to dictate what I buy or not, it is a tool (platform) that I have to enable me (and others) enjoy the comforts of life.

Travelling and living in a different culture surely widens ones knowledge and outlook in life, it has mine! so I'mma keep gallivanting around the globe.

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opportunity, gratitude and blessings TerryApril 6, 2012 0 comments

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings. --  William Arthur Ward 

 

I recently joined a yoga class in campus. One of the things that our yogi emphasizes on is the attitude of gratitude. Being grateful for things we take as "ordinary' such as gift of breath, the oxygen we inhale and the ability to exhale CO2. 

 

Gratitude has become a part of what now comes automatically to me. Inhaling the good of life, being able to exhale the not-so-goods while being grateful for everything that comes my way.

It is something (gratitude) I always strive to do, though now it's like an enlightenment that empowers me to create my own destiny. 

 

I am counting my blessings one by one and acknowledging what the mighty God, who I believe in, has done.

 

John Marks Templeton in his book Wisdom from World Religions: Pathways toward heaven on earth says that "Gratitude can be a powerful magnet that attracts increasing blessings to us—love, joy, opportunity, health, friends, material good. Those who are grateful

 

This week has especially been a week of opportunity for me. I was blessed to be part of a great team with fabulous people, doing what I have always wanted to do. I return, I will commit to the endeavour.

I the opportunity to learn, grow as well as contribute to a worthy cause!

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues , but the parent of all others. ~~ Cicero

 

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Pide, Cree, Recibe TerryMarch 27, 2012 0 comments

cualquier cosa que pides en razo, creyendo, lo recibes así lo dice el buen libro.

Descrubi que la manera facil ayer. Gracias a Dios que lo hizo. Ahora yo se mejor y nunca miedo a preguntar cuando estoy en la necesidad.




Buenas noches amigos :)

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Grabbing the second chance! TerryMarch 23, 2012 0 comments

I am not perfect neither is any mortal man. Often time I stumble, but getting up and dusting off is what makes me live a worthy life.

Someone who is close to me is having the opportunity at a second chance. They seem reluctant to take it up. I did my part in persuading them to jump in because I wish I had the same opportunity many years ago, things would be different, I'd probably be better off than I am today.

I seem to have have convinced them, or so I hope. 

My mother always says "our God is a God of second chances." And as you know, Mom's are always right! 

I belong to her school of thought - to identify an opportunity to correct an earlier occurrence/event/error e.t.c.

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning,
but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

  -Maria Robinson

 

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