Bad things for good opportunity

We often find hardships as a negative occurrence in our lives, sometimes you think that it happens because life has a way to turn things around when you least expect it. You sometimes think that the universe is against you but in fact. It’s just the way it is.

Jim Carrey once said “Life doesn’t happen to you, it happens for you’’ meaning, you are not that special sad to say, because all of us is special and life doesn’t have a favorite, life happens for all of us, it does not happen to individual persons who think that life hates them.

“Life hates them.”

I really hate that thinking where an individual think that life hates them. All of the negative aspects, mishaps, and unlucky events happen because they think that life hates them. I’m here to tell you up front that It doesn’t happen like that. If that is how you perceive life, then it will all boil down to that stage. I mean come on, you have the time to divert this thought and think about those bad moments or the bad moments that is about to happen, to be an opportunity.

Bad things may hurt you, but the way I see it, it’s either you run from it and blab about it all day or you can learn from it.

Opportunity.

Bad things happen because it’s the way of life to give us an opportunity. An opportunity in life where we try to tell ourselves that “hey I learned from this s***” and you walk along and tell those stories to people on how you made a mistake and how you learned from it. Making people learn from your mistakes.

So in every time that you are about to face a bad situation, face it.  There will also be times that you know something bad is about to happen, now in that situations, try to think positive, because the more you think of something bad, the more you will attract it.

Life is so beautiful and too short to stress yourself with things that will kill you, thinking about those mishaps and bad events that is about to happen will just make you look older. Make it an opportunity to learn, don’t contemplate and whine about it, be ready and brace yourself from it, and if it happens, then try to ask yourself what could you have done to prevent it, ask for ways to improve it, learn from it. 

That is the opportunity.

New Year New Me?

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
― Benjamin Franklin


Since 2019 has entered, I know some of you out there are planning to make a resolution out of it.


New Year, New Me.


Cliche' right?


But if you are serious in being productive, please take note that you need to plan and plan ahead.

Here are some quick and useful tips in making that plan, remember what Benjamin Franklin said,

"By Failing to Prepare, you are preparing to fail."

or I believe you have heard of something like, When you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

Now let's proceed..


In planning, you have to remember 3 things, well this works for me, IDEA, EVENTS and TASKS.

and with that 3 things it is very useful if you use these 3 apps from your phone lying around.

NOTES, CALENDAR and REMINDERS.

You can back it up with a PLANNER notebook if you want or if you are not a fan of using those Phone Applications.


1. IDEA - This is where you put any ideas that pops up in your mind, or what you have thought, or even that you plan to execute. This is also where creative thoughts happen, list of things that you want to do and review it later. In your phone, you can put this all in your NOTES Application.

2. EVENT - Since you have thought of something already, and you plan to execute it, do not fire away, do not just execute those, you need to plan it, set a schedule for it and you can have it done in a timely manner. What you can do with events also are your personal things that you plan to do, let's say you need to go to a seminar, you need to go to a wedding, put it there, the Date, the Time and the Place. Plan your days ahead with this, put it in your calendar, write it down so you wont miss it. You may use your CALENDAR Application, personally I use the GOOGLE CALENDAR App because it syncs in all my devices.

3. TASK - This is actually tricky, if you have an activity or piece of work to be done or things you need you need to buy, things you need to accomplish, just put it here. It can be related to the IDEA because it might be an IDEA but it is actually a TASK, but all in all if it is a chore, house chore, an office task, put it here. You can put those tasks at your REMINDER app.


so to sum it up,

if you have an Idea, a creative thought, a thing that bugs you but you want to look back at it from time to time, you can tag it as an IDEA and put it in your NOTES.

if you have a gig, an event, outing, date, seminar, planned physical activity, planned meal with someone, or anything that is scheduled and needs to be scheduled, tag it as an EVENT. Put those events in your CALENDAR.

if you have a task, a chore, you need you need to clean something, do something, go to something or you wish to not forget a thing or list and you need to accomplish those things, then tag it as a TASK.




It will never hurt if you plan ahead, you will be surprised on how not busy you are despite your busy schedule you can still squeeze in some stuff that you need or want to do.

Living an organized life will not make you a little less of a man or a woman, it will make you more mature, and have a lot of peace of mind.

Avoiding clutters in life reduces stress, and reducing stress means a healthy life ahead.