Day 38 : Longest Day

It's 1:52AM and I'm still awake.

In 8 minutes time, I should be resting to recharge myself..

This has been one of the longest days I had.

I woke up at 5:30 in the morning to accompany Edel in her classes in Diliman.

While waiting for Edel's class to end, I went to Gateway to look for books. I bought two! Viral Loop and The Referral Engine. I started reading Viral Loop and the stories written in that book were astonishing! I got a 20% discounts on both books. By the way, National Bookstore is still on sale until Aug 21.

On our way back to Laguna, there's a discussion about Kindle. I'm thinking of buying one, what do you think?

We attended the Feast Laguna. We were blessed with the talk. Actually, it's a new series entitled T3 which stands for Time, Talent and Treasure. Major lesson learned, in everything we do, we need to give our all to get the maximum results. We've heard this before and good thing, this talk reminded us that we really need to be serious and 100% focus on the things we want.

Edel and I accompanied Edel's sister to their reunion. We met a lot of her classmates and learned a lot from the discussion, mostly politics. I recalled conspiracy of the rich during the discussion.

Okay. Time's up.

I'll post more stories tomorrow and watch out for the Godwhispers facebook page. Something good is brewing.

zzzzzz,

eLviN

Day 37 : Law of Reciprocity

I have been exposed to too much work. 

But I'm having a great time in helping others. I sacrificed my deliverables for the day just to help someone in need. Doing something unusual creates a certain value that cannot be repaid. In short, priceless.

Here are the things I did today.

I helped someone with her excel formula. Based on my calculations, if she manually computed it, it would take her 30-45 minutes. My solution? Less than 1 minute. 

I created a how to video for a report generation using a screen capture program. That video will save roughly 12 hours of my time (in the future) just to answer questions about how to troubleshoot the process. 

I taught my sister how to construct a chord in piano. I taught her the fundamental of chord formula to know the notes of a particular chord e.g. F#Maj7. 

I realized that there's so much to gain when giving. Law of Reciprocity at work. 

zzzzzz,

eLviN

 

Day 36 : Work work work

This is quick because it's getting late. I should have posted this a while ago but because I'm doing my work, I was not able to create a lengthy post today.

Anyway, I'll just share my update. Godwhispers page already received 235 people liking in just a matter of 8 days. So that would be 29 people per day. Wow! So if you haven't been there, I suggest you'll like that page now and be part of the first 1000 Godwhispers page members.

That's about it.

I'll play the guitar on tomorrow's first Friday Mass at the office.

God bless to me and to you reading this as well.

eLviN

Day 35 : Automation

While I’m doing this post, I’m currently sending an email message to all the attendees of the event on Saturday. In case you didn’t know yet, I’m a virtual assistant. What do I do? I’m sending emails to people who are inquiring on a particular event. As of the moment, I handle three events, two this august and one on September. This keeps me busy for the past couple of days (actually months).

So how did I do it? How do I automate it?

Well, I have this message that will be sent to 200+ email addresses. It would be a lot of work right? Good thing is I have a tool here in my PC where in I can send messages to a lot of email addresses. With just a few clicks of a button, viola, I’m multitasking – writing this post and sending email at the same time.

Isn’t it great?

Yes it is. It made my life easier. By doing automation, it is like delegating a task to someone else.

I know you can do that too.

Leverage automation for future success.

Until tomorrow,

eLviN

Day 34 : First steps to the Elvin – Poy Online Projects

Today is our second official meeting of Poy for our Southern Luzon Mastermind Group. Once again, we discussed Search Engine Optimization, Social Media Promotions, Internet Marketing Boot Camp, books and everything that I forgot to mention (intentionally).

We will be starting a project which will focus on building website for Filipinos. Our SEO and social marketing skills will definitely be useful for this project.

Clients will be looking forward to us as we serve them with highly search engine optimized website. The website is complete with social media pages where in their customers can freely talk about their products.

Anyway, that’s the initial talk.

For our next meeting, we will be inviting our partners in crime Edel and Meg.

Sidetrack story!

By the way, I learned something today from the tricycle driver and I quote “Libre lang ang magtanong.” This statement was given by the manong driver to one of his passengers who are unsure where he’s going. I wonder if he managed to get to his place of work on time.

If you don’t understand something, ask questions.

If you’re unsure, ask questions.

If you want to learn something, ask questions.

eLviN

Day 33 : A blessed day!

Yesterday, I talked about blessed or stressed. I decided that I'll be serving blessing today and that's what I got!

A lot of things happened today!

This is an awesome day!

First, we won in our first basketball game (our team standing is 1 win and 2 losses). I scored two points. I’m more of a defense type of a player when it comes to basketball. So scoring two points is already an accomplishment.

Second, I had an affiliate sale! Isn’t that great! I just need to put up more stores. Currently I have four affiliate links, scattered in facebook, a couple of websites and some forums. This means I need to scatter more of them in different places. Of course, I need to remember that I need to build networks first. I’m a permission internet marketer. :D Target for this one, is at least one sale per week.

Third, I’m happy that Godwhispers already have 168 fans in just a matter of 5 days! I did not reach my goal of 200 fans by August 1 but I already consider that one an accomplishment. Next goal for this is to create value before promoting the Godwhispers sales page. I have the post ready for the sales page we’re just waiting for the right time. :D

Fourth, we have a new article in our Feast Laguna Website courtesy of Bro Rem. This week, we will be executing our plan to put more posts in our facebook page. If we are right, this will encourage more people viewing Feast Laguna Facebook page that will eventually become Feast attendees. Target for this is in a month’s time, we will be doubling in Feast Attendees. Right now, the average attendees is 250. In four weeks time, it will be 500!

Fifth, Jomar Hilario already advised me the date for our Laguna Internet Marketing Workshop! It will be on November 20-21. I’m excited for my first event! Please pray for me.

By the way, I guess I’ll stop here for the mean time. It’s getting late. Gotta sleep.

Excited for tomorrow!

eLviN

Day 32 : Stressed or Blessed

I missed writing day 31 on this blog. My head was aching last night until this morning. Due to lack of sleep I guess. Good thing I’m back to writing. I really missed writing my thoughts down. It’s kinda automatic for me. Well, it has been one straight month I’m writing my thoughts down. Before I could not think that was possible but here I am, doing the impossible before.

I thank Tito Tony for that. I thank Tito Tony for introducing me to this 90 day challenge. It really pushes me to the limits (more or less).

Anyway, on this post, I’ll discuss to you my rant for the past couple of days. You see, I’m starting to be stressed out because of my job. Too much frustration I guess. I have this project wherein I’m tasked to lead the data validation of our inventory system. Other markets are willing to help me except for Philippines. I don’t know why, they don’t want to help me (themselves) to fix the problem. Everytime I talk to them, it feels like I’m the bad guy. I’m the bad guy because it is a hopeless case. From what I’m seeing, they don’t like the system because they could not change the details posted on that report.

For months, I’ve been trying to convince them that I’m just trying to help them.  

I’m starting to lose my patience.

I’m starting to be stressed out.

Good thing, God sent me an angel. The angel enlightened me and told me that I don’t need to be stressed out because I’m blessed. I’m blessed with my work.

I even got this message from Godwhispers…

Each day, you have only two options: To be stressed or to be blessed. Stress and trust cannot co-exist together. If you’re stressed, then it means you don’t trust. If you trust, then you won’t be stressed.

Trust me,
God

P.S. When you’ve done all you can, and the problem is still staring at you, just turn everything to me. Like a child, tell me, “Lord, I’ve reached a point of incompetence”. And then sit back, relax, and watch me move.

I thank God for the reminder. I’ll trust him more.

I’m working tomorrow because I’m blessed,

eLviN

PS. In case you haven’t like the page Godwhispers, please do so. I’m 50 people away from my target fans until August 1, 2010. Be blessed.