Live. Love. Dream. Pray Part 2

Resending with my 77/100 dreams J It’s just bliss doing this J Well, these are my dreams but I know God has better plans.

 

And I quote:

 

Day 35 from Bo’s book 40 stories of Passion: Lord, I want you to answer my prayers but even if you do not answer my prayers, I will still surrender to your perfect will because I know that the best is yet to come!

 

My favorite verse: For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future – Jeremiah 29:11

 

1.       Sustain 7/7 Prayer Time

2.       Make time for 1/30 Confession

3.       Attend and appreciate Mass 2-3/7

4.       Visit Blessed Sacrament 2/30

5.       Go to Holy Land for a pilgrimage (hopefully with family or sisters in the community)

6.       Read the entire Bible

7.       Build a library for my books categorized by genre

8.       Establish a foundation/scholarship (for poor but deserving ECE students)

9.       Be a model employee

10.    Be a good and loving GF J

11.    Serve the Lord along with my household

12.    Spend birthday on an orphanage/charitable institution

13.    Technical expertise in my line of work

14.    Read one (1) book per week

15.    Wholeheartedly tithe beyond 10%

16.    Be married and have three (3) adorable kids

17.    Be a PECE

18.    Have my personal Day of Prayer (DOP) 2/year

19.    Learn how to swim

20.    Be a radical disciple

21.    Own a brand new car

22.    Be a covenanted member of Ligaya

23.    Open businesses according to my interest/core gift (top-of-mind: fruit stand, eload, boutique, pasalubong center, food)

24.    Give generously to my family

25.    Cost average existing Mutual funds/Stocks

26.    Always have pamper-time for myself

27.    Get insurance 10X my annual salary

28.    Own a condo in Manila

29.    Hopefully marry my 1st BF (prayers, prayers, prayers! I hope he does not read this lest he gets intimidated and pressured) J

30.    House and lot in Pampanga for my family

31.    Learn a foreign language (Chinese perhaps?)

32.    Buy out our house in Pampanga

33.    Take entire family out for vacation

34.    Attain my ideal weight and sustain it

35.    Weekly 1-to-1 dates with my hubby-to-be

36.    Learn how to drive (manual first!)

37.    Take up culinary lessons

38.    Serve children in a Ligaya ministry

39.    Being frugal regardless of my economic stature

40.    Learn how to play the guitar

41.    Take Mom for a vacation

42.    Learn fundamental and technical analysis on stocks

43.    Be a loveable “in-law” J

44.    Join TBRDM

45.    Attend creative writing lessons

46.    Learn Photo/MovieMaker

47.    Travel abroad as an office perk

48.    Open an online shop

49.    Be a blogger (in the truest sense of the word) on a gamut of topics

50.    Debt-free living

51.    Sustained relationships with friends/classmates

52.    Be a manager at PLDT for a division whose work I also love J

53.    Being a faithful WG member

54.    Be an IECEP officer

55.    Buy PLDT stocks and cost-average!

56.    Build my stamps database

57.    Attend an apologetics course or “defending the faith” sessions

58.    Have a quarterly quality bonding with immediate family

59.    Finish my masters

60.    Be an advocate of healthy lifestyle

61.    Attend Communic-Asia

62.    Acquire HCNA/MEF/CAPM/ITL certifications

63.    Own a resthouse in Tagaytay

64.    Build my book database

65.    Own Taboo & Guesstures

66.    Teach in a review center for ECEs

67.    Be a lawyer or marry one! J

68.    Complete my E-heads CD collection

69.    Learn how to cook the Kapampangan way

70.    Be part of a mission team

71.    Attend a Vatican mass

72.    Publish my own book

73.    Learn photography

74.    Be a speaker in an IECEP Mid-year or National convention

75.    Evangelize friends to join a community

76.    Complete a 500+-pieces-or-more puzzle

77.    Retire young. Retire rich

 

Entries 78-100: Coming soon!

Pic courtesy of http://www.renewedstrength.org/page/verse-images

 

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This excites me! I actually have a dream journal written in excel which I usually update once in a while. It gives me a high putting a check mark for something I’ve accomplished or acquired (either thru doing or buying or simply being given to me without any effort). I plan to do this task and slip in it my bible so I can offer it to Him in my prayer time each day. May all our dreams allow us to hope and trust of the things He has planned for us, giving back all the glory to the Giver of All =)

Live. Love. Dream. Pray =)

"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” – Matthew 7:7

“Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.” – Mark 11:24

“Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.” – Psalm 37:4

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Write Down Your 100 Dreams

There are a few things in life that make me go berserk.  One of them is when someone says, “I’m bored.”   I mean, how can anyone be bored in a world so beautiful and full and exciting as this planet we’re living in?

Well one day, a fifteen-year old friend with aluminum fingernails and 12-inch clogs told me, “I’m bored.”  Instead of bouncing up and down shrieking my head off, I decided to calmly ask, “Why?”

“Because my cell phone’s busted and I can’t text anyone!”

Ooooooh.  Because Armageddon can break loose, the ozone layer can disappear, and an asteroid can destroy half the planet—but these disasters cannot compare to the calamity of a teener without her cell-phone.

“Here’s a piece of paper,” I tore from my diary.  “Write down 100 dreams you want to do before you die.”

Her eyes bulged.  “One hundred?  I-I never thought of…”  After thinking for awhile, she sheepishly said, “Well, I wanted to buy the cute avocado-green Benetton shirt I saw yesterday in the mall.  Is that considered a dream?”

       “I’ll let that pass.  Write that down as number 99 or 100.  Anything more exciting?”

“Uh…, I once thought of becoming an author of a novel one day.  But nah…” she brushed off the idea with a wave of her hand.

 “Write that down,” I commanded,  “'I will become a terrific novelist.’”

As she scribbled the line, she asked, “Should I include the word terrific?”

 “Put that down, girl!”  I almost shouted.  “What else?”

 “I sometimes imagine myself starting my own shop.  It will sell trinkets that girls like me love to buy.  But it’s too far-fetched…”

“Fabulous!  Write that down!”

She went on.  “And one day, I hope to give a million pesos to a Home for the Aged.”  Soon, she didn’t need any more coaxing.  She was like a runaway train, her eyes on fire.  Learn the violin.  Travel to Paris and Beijing.  Try skydiving once.  Become a gourmet cook.  Get married and have three kids.

       When she finished dream number 100 (the cute avocado-green T-shirt was somehow forgotten), I said, “Think of small things you can do NOW that will make you closer to the fulfillment of your dreams.  Start with the novelist dream...”

 “Well, I could start reading novels.  I’ll learn the craft.”

       “Fantastic!  And how about the “trinkets shop” idea?”

       “Perhaps I could learn more about bracelets and nail polish and hair stuff…”

       I suggested, “You can also work in any store during summer or on weekends, even if they don’t pay you a cent.  Learn how it works, from top to bottom!”

       “This is exciting!” she shrieked.

       “And you say you want to give one million pesos to a Home for the Aged?”

       “Don’t tell me, Bo.  I could visit them now!  Maybe monthly!  In that way, I’ll never forget my promise!  Gosh, I’ve got a million things to do!  Got to go!”  She bid me farewell and off she went, the girl with the aluminum fingernails and 12-inch clogs.

       Hmm.  That was strange.

I thought I just saw a young girl without her cell phone.

Happy.

I must be seeing things.

Write down your 100 dreams.  It may just do strange things to you as well.

May your dreams come true,

Bo Sanchez