As we celebrate the new year with festivities, in another part of the world, they are observing it with air raids, bombs, fear, and uncertainty.
Blame it not on Israel for it’s continued air raid and ground assault, neither the Hamas for the rockets fired. This conflict had it’s root from the decisions made by one man.
A look at history will help us make better and conscious decision for 2009.
Both the Arabs and Jews look at Abraham as their father, and both are monotheist. But why are they at war with each other?
The problem goes beyond the establishment of the nation Israel on what the Palestinians claim as their land.
It goes back to the ancient times when God promised Abraham that through his seed, God will establish a great nation (Gen 15). The promise, from the Jewish perspective, becomes a reality through Isaac and Jacob. On the Arabs perspective, the promised became a reality thru Ishmael .
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View of Manila Bay (and SM by the Bay establishments), from Fitness First,
One e-Com Center, SM Mall Of Asia
A refreshing view while sweating it out inside Fitness First (Gym).
This place used to be a barren area, no activity except migratory birds and crawling animals. But today, the place is sprawling with economic activity with more construction expected. If my memory serves me right, in the pipeline are construction of 2 world class hotels and a large sports arena for football/rugby and other sports.
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This piece is originally posted at Universal Rubina blog. Value adding and inspiring!
Before I begin, I want to say please bear with me, an 81-year-old man who just flew in from San Francisco 36 hours ago and is still suffering from jet lag. However, I hope I will be able to say what you want to hear…
Ladies and gentlemen, good evening. Thank you very much for having me here tonight to open the Ad Congress. I know how important this event is for our marketing and advertising colleagues. My people get very excited and go into a panic, every other year, at this time.
I would like to talk about my life, entrepreneurship, and globalization. I would like to talk about how we can become a great nation.
You may wonder how one is connected to the other, but I promise that, as there is truth in advertising, the connection will come.
Let me begin with a story I have told many times. My own.
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I hope all is well with you at the start of a working week. Please allow me to blog about the teaching we received from church yesterday. T’was so value adding and I can’t let this pass without discussing it here.
We were encouraged to set goals in 4 areas, (1) relationship with the Creator, (2) relationship with family, (3) goals on personal success and (4) service. Then we were guided to plot our action plans to create a standard day, standard week, standard month and standard year. This is to establish a “pattern” that will usher us to reach our goals.
But before this, we had some fun but serious discussion on “patterns”.
- People live the life they live because of the pattern they saw.
- Young men learned how to be men thru the patterns he saw from his father. In the absence of a father, young men will follow the patterns set by his peers or society, i.e. movies.
- Young women learn how to be a wife and mother from the pattern she saw from her mother, similarly, in the absence of mothers, an alternative pattern will be provided by peers and society.
- Employees acquire their skills from the pattern they saw from their bosses.
- Leadership skills are learned from the patterns set by their leaders.
- Teaching skills are learned from the patterns set by their mentors.
- Culture are acquired thru the patterns people observed in society.
- In the west, kids can call the police if their parents spank them. But this is not acceptable in the Philippines.
- Brands are established by the pattern instituted by a company.
- Starbucks (brand) standards (coffee and service) are one and the same anywhere in the world.
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