It is more difficult than I thought....the pressure is now on to deliver good content and something really useful.
Well then this is what this blog is for....getting out of my comfort zone and trying out things that will benefit me and you the reader of this blog. I used to write a lot and actually had good grades in English during high school, my teacher actually find my essays respectable. Now, after 21 years....my grammar,my sentence pattern, or even my spelling may not be correct...but what the heck, let's give it a shot! Now, that for me is the essence of Self-development and I hope you agree with me.
Now, why Self-development? I'm already good with what I do, i relate well with different types of people, am physically well, emotionally stable, have a good support system, know my place in this world...why then exert the effort?
Between my expat years living in Indonesia and going back to the Philippines in 1999, is when I found the answer to this question. I went to a Catholic School in high school and heard Sunday mass every week, I have heard of the " Parable of the Talents" and it did not register on me. If you have not heard of it, it is a parable wherein a Master went out of town for awhile, left his three servants certain amount of money and ask them to make good use of it. Upon his return, the first servant invest his money and make a handsome profit. The second servant did the same thing and performed better than the first servant. The third servant afraid that he might lose the money, hid it on the ground. He proudly informed his master that the money is intact and what he did with it...he did Absolutely Nothing! The Master rewarded the first and second servant with their effort. The third servant , he ordered to take whatever he had given him earlier. Now, that's painful!
It dawned on me that the marching order from our Creator...is to multiply our talents, nurture it, make best use of it, for our own benefit and for the benefit of our community. Knowing this, it is actually a SIN, if we stay as we are...we need to continually improve ourselves, be better today than yesterday. Thus I find this saying the primary reason why we need to pursue Self-Development:
"Your life is God's gift to you, what you do with your life, your talents, is your gift to God!"
To a better you! Let's go!
