We Are The Makers: Salesforce Platform

“…it's the constant hunger to learn something new…”

This line certainly sent chills to my spine, because it perfectly describes my state right now. I’ve lost a lot of battles, but I choose to continue fighting because I have the motivation to back it up. When you see a good opportunity, you should just know how to hop on the wagon without having second thoughts. And I did.

I was never a technical go-to person before. When I wanted to do something, it’s actually me who would put all the effort to find somebody who knows what I need. That changed. In our world today, there’s no excuse to not learn anything anymore – everything under our fingertips. We should appreciate and take advantage of the wealth of information around. This notion I embraced in learning Salesforce.com. The platform encourages other people to hop in the wagon, saying that there was a time when you were new at what you're actually good at right now and that there is a whole store of knowledge. There is a community that will get you to speed in learning the platform. We just have to start building NOW.

Financial Freedom

I’ve been talking about Financial Freedom way before. I thought it was a long, long way to go. I thought I needed to earn lots and lots of money to achieve this. Everything changed after reading Francisco Colayco’s “Wealth within your Reach: Pera Mo, Palaguin Mo!” It was such an eye opener. My takeaway after reading it – START NOW!

It all made sense now – all that cash flow, assets, liabilities and other stuff I usually hate back in college. I’ve never really imagined how it’s important to everyone. There is a reason why everyone is taught these concepts. I thought back then that I would not need these because I’m from engineering, and these are business management stuff. There actually is such a thing as personal finance, and that you need to think that you should not be working all your life. You would have to make your money work harder for you. Just think about this – What will happen to you if you lose your job now? Where will you get your money when you retire?

The answer to that now is to have passive income, as Colayco would say. You have to plan it – know where you are right now and know where you want to be. You should live your life with restraint of your current income and your financial roadmap. Most of all, learn the value of time. If you have not thought about it, you need to think about right away, that is, today.

My struggle as a college student was to read lots of material, but as I started working, I’ve had this insatiable hunger to learn new stuff, making me read much more that I used to. Started out learning what I do as my day job and now, still can’t believe I am able to read a lot of stuff about finance without falling asleep. I guess when you really want something, nothing’s going to stop you – and yes, I want my Financial Freedom badly!

Join me in my journey to my financial freedom. I’ll try to share useful stuff. We can be a better Filipino by being part of a more responsible workforce. Let’s be wise about money.

Old Man Running

I’ve been reading a lot of blogs, topics range from photography, gadgets, Salesforce.com to running. It became a headache going to each website one by one so I started using Google Reader. It makes it more time efficient to be kept posted about everything.

Allen - Old Man Running

As of lately, I’ve started reading more stuff about running. I loved this one blog in particular – http://www.oldmanrunning.org. Was really, really helpful to me. It speaks a language that I can understand, no highfaluting words, just plain English. One topic that he’s been telling about recently is that of his high wakeup heart rate. I’ve been experiencing the same thing lately. He mentioned that it is caused by lack of sleep. That made sense of what I’m going through. I trained myself to wake up at around 6:00am in the morning every day – the first nights were hard, had to use Benadryl to get me to sleep. However, lately, my bed time is irregular – blame playing DotA again. >.< His blog just enlightened me.

The rest of his blog posts tell a story of how a 76-year-old man is going back to running. I'm now inspired to make my blog a diary of my running career! Follow his blog! Better yet, subscribe to his feeds through Google Reader.

Funny stuff from his feed -

1. If walking/cycling is good for health, postmen would be immortal. 
2. A whale swims all day, only eats fish, drinks water and is fat. 
3. A rabbit runs and hops and only lives 15 years. 
4. A tortoise doesn't run, barely walks and does nothing ..yet lives for 450 years. 


And you want me to Exercise!! 


(We all need a laugh once in a while)

Now, that's hilarious. >.<