They say competition occurs naturally between organisms in the same environment. Where survival is only for the fittest or something like that. Where individuals aim to get what they deem or think they deserve. Where certain species live or die just to compete.

Competition is everywhere. Whether in sports, entertainment, or work, laging may kasamang competition. Hindi siguro natin maiiwasan ang magkaroon ng ganyan. Lalo na kung ang isa ay hayok sa ganyang scenario. Where that individual acts that there’s no tomorrow and everything he [or she] does must be on his [or her] advantage. Dahil siguro parang mamatay na siya kung lilipas ang isang araw na hindi niya maramdaman sa sarili niya na nangunguna siya sa lahat ng bagay.

Is competition good or bad?

It’s been a boring day today. It was so silent you can hear yourself breathing. Where the only loud things you can hear are the airconditioner’s roar and the non-stop clicks of the keyboard’s keys.

I’ve never been this silent before. Except during the days where I feel so sleepy even a gallon of coffee couldn’t help keep my eyes open.

Yup! I am going back to Texas!

The company will be sending me back to Texas for some work stuff. Am not that excited like I was before. I don’t know why. Probably because I am going there not in a per diem travel? Or probably because I’ve been there and nothing will be new? Or probably I will again miss our wedding anniversary?

In any case, this is something I can’t say ‘No’ to. Look at the bright side. At least I can travel again. And I can see all the hot women at Narita Airport.

No worries. I will be blogging everything.

(Smile)

Image from Boeing

Today, I found something that made me think…Is it that important?

Me: Importante ang ano?!

Ako: Ano pa eh di ang sweldo?

Me: Hindi ko alam, importante nga ba?

Ako: Oo naman di ba? Masarap kaya madaming pera. Bakit kuntento ka na ba meron ka ngayon?

Me: Medyo. Hindi naman lahat ng kasiyahan nakukuha ng pera di ba? Basta masaya pamilya mo, ikaw, mga kaibigan mo. Ayos na yun di ba? Basta nakaka-survive kayo araw-araw.

Ako: Whooo!! Plastik ka! Di ba nga minsan tamang tama lang ang sweldo mo? Minsan pa nga kulang. Minsan nga hindi na kayo nakakabili ng kung anong gusto niyo dahil sapat lang para sa pagkain at iba pa? Tapos sasabihin mo OK lang?! Sira ka ba?

Me: Oo, minsan nasasabi ko ‘yan. Pero naiisip ko naman na ayos lang. Ganun naman talaga di ba? Meron naman nakalaan sa iyo pagdating ng panahon. Hindi lahat ng bagay dito sa mundo masarap. Oo minsan nakakatikim ka ng ginhawa. Siyempre minsan dapat makatikim ka rin ng hirap. I’m sure meron din naman darating para sa iyo. Kelangan mo lang talagang maghintay. Lakipan mo ng panalangin at tiwala sa Ama, sigurado ibibigay Niya ang dapat para sa iyo. You just have to TRUST and WAIT.

Ako: Wuusshhuu!!

Me: I found the below article. This could give you a different perspective or something.

Work is love made visible

By Kahlil Gibran

About 80% of people are unhappy at work, and 20% are happy. Our culture has separated work from passion, and taught us to prefer a higher paycheck to higher happiness. That mistake costs us our souls. The goal of career development is to uncover one’s gifts and passions, and to link them to the practical needs of the world. We call that “being in the right place,” “finding a good fit,” or “making the best use of one’s talents.”

In What Color Is Your Parachute? my mentor, Dick Bolles, quotes Fred Buechner, who writes, “There are all different kinds of voices calling you to all different kinds of work . . . (and) the place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” [2001 Edition, page 57.]

High compensation and high happiness are not incompatible. It’s not that we shouldn’t seek money, and lots of it; many of our clients do. But we should first seek to love, or at least to like, what we’re doing. That’s the realization of our highest calling.

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