Everybody has something you can learn from.

I love people around me. They inspire me. They help me grow. They make me want to grow.... Even those who annoy me, they also teach me how not to be like them. My mother always told me that you should be able to find good in anybody. It's amazing, isn't it?

They say that you should surround yourself with people who's going to lift you up. That's true. And I also think this... we should learn to find good in everyone, and to find something you can learn from them. We are all different. Nobody is the same. As Oscar Wild said, "Everybody else is taken."

I love people in general. At the end of the day, we are all human being. We all have red blood running through our body. We all want to love and to be loved. We all want to be happy. We all want comfortable living. And you have to realize how beautiful you are, how precious you are, and how amazing you are. You might not know or might not want to admit it, but YOU ARE. You truly are. I take headshot for people. And I love it so much. I love how everybody is different and beautiful. Seriously. Every detail and feature, your smile and your eyes. Everything about you is beautiful and unique. You need to accept and embrace that. You see things other people don't see. It's the `FEDEX effect`.

Don't be afraid to be who you are. Don't think that you are not good enough. Don't think that you are not what you should be. You are who you are and that's amazing. You are wonderful.

Love, Hope, Faith...

There are so much more

Socrates said "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing". 

Confucius said "The wisdom is knowing what you don't know". 

In The Lion King, "As you go through life you'll see, that there is so much we don't understand". 

Then how about you?! Do you think you know things?! In this generations, where information is overflowing and acquirable everywhere and anytime, it's easy to think that you know things. We rely on information that are online. There are too much information. On your smartphones, tablets, and laptops.... once you open them, you can access google or any search engine and look up things in a matter of second. The question is which one to believe or trust?! Or if any of them really true?! You see, because there are too much information, we have to choose. At the same time, we are vulnerable to also any exposures that we're not meant to have access. Anything about apocalyptic things to marshal law, UFO and aliens, governmental conspiracy to the latest gossip... we think we know all those things. But those are the information that introduced to you. whether believe it or not, that's all up to you. So very often, teenagers act like they know everything. they think they know better than their parents. But do they really know everything?! NO. 

Look at the chart. "Things we KNOW", "We DON'T KNOW", "We THINK WE KNOW", "We DON'T KNOW YOU DON'T KNOW".  As we can see, we pretty much don't know anything, don't we?! 

Recently, a teacher of mine assigned me to read this article. I was blown away by the concept and the information that I didn't know. Then as I continue with my study, it made me realize that the more I know, the more I realize that I don't know. And that excited me. It was the new feeling that I haven't had in a long time. I was excited to see the possibility for growth and expansion. We cannot stop learning no matter what. The moment we think we know better than anybody or anything for that matter, we stop growing, which we shouldn't. We are meant to grow. Life IS a journey God has given us. It started with HIM, and it will end with HIM. We have to be humble and accept the fact that we don't know everything, nor we shouldn't. We are not better than others. We are all the same. There are things we know and we don't know. Some people have more experiences in certain things than the others. Some people are more exposed to that information than the others. Some people are more aware of things that they don't know. But the thing is that the moment we know that we don't know, there's an opportunity for us to learn. When you know that you don't know, learn. When you don't know that you're not good at certain things, work on it. When you know that you're good at something, embrace it. When you know that you don't like something, love what you love even more. Knowing something gives you more opportunity for appreciation. Knowing not knowing something gives you opportunity to know more. And we don't have to understand everything that's happening. 

God has given us this life for a purpose. And you might not know what it is. But have a faith in Him. He knows that you'll get there. You can get there. Your passion, your love, your struggle, your hope... everything you have is there for you. You're unique and special. You are already enough. Be you. Don't be afraid to be you. There is so much more in store for you that you can't even imagine. And that is exciting, isn't it?

Love, Hope, Faith

The fact that you're here, that means you are worth it.

Vision without action is merely a dream. 

Action without vision just passes the time. 

Vision with Action can change the world. 

---Joel A. Barker---

Vision and Dream are different, aren't they?! Do you have any dream?! Do you have any vision?! 

I had a really good conversation last night. We talked about how our world is changing and in the midst of crazy transition right now. The balance is falling apart. Majority are ruled by less than 1% of people in the world. People think about their own benefit and their own gain. People don't see how others struggle and fight for their life. And at the same time, people want same thing. "Comfortable living". So what's the definition? Is having a mansion considered as having a comfortable living?! Is having a private jet considered as a comfortable living?! NO. It means that you don't have to worry about what you eat for the next meal. It means that you have a roof over your head. It means that you don't have to worry about your medical bills. It means that your kids will have good educations. It means that you don't have to work 2, 3 jobs just to get by. That's what it means. It doesn't mean that you have a 17 cars, a boat, or 20 bedroom house. All those material things doesn't give you happiness. It just want to make you want more and more materialistic things. And it never ends. Why do you want that?! To impress people?! To fit in?! Yes, technology has involved drastically last few decades. Smartphones, PC, tablets... the list goes on and on. And yes to the certain level, we do need those things. Your job requires/expects you to have it. Your school kinda wants you to have it. And that's how it is now. But it doesn't mean that you have to put yourself in a debt all the time. Do you actually need it, or do you want it just to have it?! When you face something, ask yourself one more time.

A lot people are realizing and starting to see the world as how it is. We have to change. Things must change. The bottom line. We are all human beings. We all have blood running through our vain. We all want comfortable living, what's best for you and your family. That's all we want. Don't you agree?!

What is your vision?! What is your goal?? I want to inspire people. I want people to live their life. Maybe I never really had any vision in a spiritual sense. But I always thought that God wants me to show other people that their life is worth living. They are worth it. There's no one who doesn't matter to God. We are all His child and He loves us no matter what. By hearing, watching, reading what I speak out to the world, I want people to think that "If this little girl from little tiny town can do this, I can do this too, maybe this life is still worth living". That's what I want. I am an ordinary person. I'm just like you. I struggle in my own way. I'm blessed in my own way. And by accepting myself as who I am completely and using that to serve the world, I believe that I could make difference. I don't know what it is or how it is. But I believe that that's what He wants. God does extraordinary things using ordinary people like me.

"Dream without action just passes the time".

I used to tell people that I don't want to be a "dreamer", I want to be a "dream maker". Maybe you don't know your vision yet. Or your dream, or your passion. Maybe you are still trying to figure out who you are as a person. We all struggle. Life is a journey. There's no top of the hill or the goal. We just keep going. We just keep walking. Sometimes we stop, or go back, take a detour. But as long as we wake up, we just keep going. And you are not alone. we all struggle to find and create who we are. And that's the process. That's the beauty of this life. You might think that maybe you have all the burden and baggage on your shoulder. You might think that the world is against you. You might think that you have no luck or nobody to stand on your side. All the positive talk just sounds like a bunch of bullshit that people created. People tell you things that you just can't understand. You just might wish that you won't wake up tomorrow morning.... You might be in the bottom of the bottom, but by somehow you just keep waking up... You are not alone. You might not feel like it, or might not see it. But I'm telling you, you are worth it. You are a wonderful person. You are the part of this world that's created by our father. You are here for a reason. Because you are who you are, you can do only what you can do. I might sound stupid to you right now and I don't care. I want you to know that He's there for you. I want you to know that you are more than enough. Take your time. Get up on your feet. Little by little. Day by day. Walk that path. You will find it. You will make it. Because you are already here. You are wonderful.

Love, Hope, Faith.

NOWHERE to NOW HERE

We've all been there, when we feel like nothing is going as you planned. It seems like everything is falling apart and not going anywhere. Like you are just kicking the air. Looking for something, anything to hold on to so that you can just get by that day. Just like you are going NOWHERE, you just got stuck in the middle of NOWHERE.  We've all been there. Some are worse than the other. Some are more bearable than the other. You just don't know what to do in that situations. You pray and hope that things will get better. Tomorrow will be the better day, yet, it doesn't seem to go that way. ..... sounds familiar?

It's not always easy to keep your head up and look forward. It takes enormous amount of courage and determination to do that. Let's face it, we're all work in progress. Non of us are the complete product. So we struggle. So we search for more. We try and fail. We fall and stumble. But we get up again, don't we? There are so many times that you just wish that you won't wake up the next morning and forget about everything. But the truth is that as long as we're alive, we will wake up the next morning. We will get back up again.

And we don't have to do it alone.

Shift your focus. Take a breath. Realize that God is there for you no matter what. You might say "If He knows what I'm going through, and suppose that He loves me, why doesn't He do anything? Why doesn't He save me from the pain? " You might say that. You might get upset. You might not want to do anything. But He put you there for reasons. He put those annoying people there for reasons. He put that crazy co-workers there for reasons. You really need to take a deep breath and see what's going on, see REALLY what's going on. You are already taken care of. He knows what you are going through. And He knows what you need to learn to get to the new level. The moment you take that breath and see whats' going on, like really REALLY WHAT'S going on, you'll have a whole new perspective.

God is telling you that what you are in right now is not "NOWHERE", but "NOW I'M HERE"(NOW HERE). We need to have that enough space to see that "NOW HERE". We have to learn to breathing through the struggle. Learn how to dance in the rain. The annoying people are there for you to show you not to be like that. The struggles are there so that you can appreciate the reward more. Don't let your current occupation or situations defy who you are. That's not who you are. See tbings from different perspective see what you can learn. See what you can teach. See what you can be grateful for. God is always there for you. All you have to do is to trust in Him. Know that He's there for you in the middle of NOWHERE He's always telling you that "I AM HERE NOW". Don't forget. You are not alone. He loves you.

Love, Hope, Faith

Your body is your temple. Please do take care

It's very important to push yourself as I was saying the other day. And people often say that mind over matters and that's also true as well. But I encourage all of you to DO take care of yourself in physical sense. We all need to get enough sleep, plenty of nutrition and water in your system. Even when your mind is strong, if you are physically fatigue or in any sort of that stage, you will have a breakdown or something close to that. Yes, you need to work hard to get where you want to be. You need to constantly work on your craft or whatever that is you need. But please do listen to your own body. Your body knows and tells you what you need. 

My mind is mostly on the positive side, I do regular exercise and eat relatively healthy. but I did black out a few days ago. It was unexpected. A friend of mine is visiting here for his work. We were having dinner and I stepped out to go to the bathroom and next thing I knew, I was on the floor. Everybody was looking at me. And i didn't understand what just happened. They helped me up and my friends came over, took me back to the table. I gained conscious rather quick, but felt really weak. On the way back, I couldn't stop shaking. My friends told me that I was pale as hell. It wasn't something too serious, luckily. But it wasn't something I wanted to experience. 

Last few days I didn't have enough sleep and working more than before, but I kept my regular exercise and perhaps, I wasn't eating well enough. Combination of all that. So, I ask all of you to take care of your body. Yes when you are teenager and have all the energy, not sleeping enough doesn't really do much. But still I do want you to consciously make a choice to take care of your body. 

Get enough sleep, eat well, and exercise. And do keep healthy mentality. Meditate. Have some time for yourself. Enjoy your hobby. Enjoy time with your friends and family. Please do take care of yourself. 

Love, Hope, Faith...