Thursday, July 12, 2012
BUILDINGLESS UNIVERSITY
Hello friends!
It has been my desire to make use of the most convenient yet effective technology to share what I have been sharing as a teacher. The internet has been a very effective tool to send your message across all ages, races, culture and religion.
I’ve been a teacher for many years already. I could not anymore count how many students were under me for all those years and until this time. I could not also remember those ideas, experiences, insights, reflections and learning which I generously shared to my students. Aside from that I am also a recollection and retreat master catering to different groups of people like students, teachers, administrators, parents, church people and many more.
Long before I finished my PhD, I already wanted to write a book. It was my belief that the book could become a repository of all the beautiful learning and insights which I might forget if not written. Also, I believe the book could be shared to a bigger number of audiences, not just my students.
You might wonder why the title of this blog is BUILDINGLESS UNIVERSITY. No, I’m not yet leaving the school. I’m still working in school at this time. However, I have my new advocacy that I am building a school without a building teaching what most schools do not.
I’m referring to my passion this time of teaching people about financial freedom. It is about MONEY. It’s about money management.
As a teacher, I believe there’s no money in this profession. In fact as a principal, I dutifully emphasize to my teachers that this profession is about service. If you want to become rich, this is not your profession. Well, we can also observe that this idea is true. No teacher, by remaining one, has ever become rich. In fact, there was a joke about teachers living in London (loan ditto, loan doon).
I was wrong. This is not true. In the succeeding posts/articles, I’ll be sharing to you why this long belief about teacher is not true.
Buildingless University will teach teachers and non-teachers about the steps towards financial freedom. This university will lay down the secrets to financial freedom that only the rich enjoy. These secrets are not hidden but the rich know them by heart. While I’m still learning the steps towards financial freedom, I will ask you to journey with me.
MINDSET
First and foremost, the journey to financial freedom starts from our head. It is about mindset. Teachers believe that there is no money in the teaching profession. I believed. Many believed. If this is our mindset, then we will live forever with that. When I visit to my relatives in the countryside and then ask them how they are, I usually receive a response like “nia nag antus gihapon sa ka pobrehon (still buried in poverty). Surprisingly, they said this with a smile. What can you expect if your mind is telling that you will remain there forever?
We have to get from this mentality. Just try to study the lives of successful people. Who is Henry Sy, Lucio Tan or other prominent people? Most of them started from scratch. But they don’t believe their destiny will remain poor. In their mind, they know they can do more to get out from their poor situation. They continue to believe there is a way to become successful.
It was only two years ago that I began to change my mindset. I know that remaining in my comfort zone and imprisoned of this long belief the road seems narrow and difficult . I came across a simple man, a preacher, who used to live in poverty championing the life of St. Francis of Asisi. He literally followed the poor St. Francis while serving in the Church. However, his life made a turn when he got married. Now, he is a millionaire. He is still a preacher. In fact, he is so rich that it allows him to share more. See? When you have more, then you can help more people.
This is what I am advocating to my students and to those who listen to me. I am inviting them to change their mindset, to think like those who are financially free so that they can help more people.
It might be surprising to you but God wants us to become rich. God wants you to enjoy the innumerable blessings He as abundantly bestowed on us. He wants to bless you more so that you can also bless other people.
But first, change your mindset. If there is one thing that motivates me most in everything I do, it is the very words of my father. I was still a child when I heard my father saying, “if kaya sa uban, nganong dili man nato kaya (if others can, why can’t we)? This is the mindset of my father which brought him success in life, and after life. He died when I was just barely a month old in college. His success, through that kind of mindset, continues in me. While my father has this mindset, I was sad that for many, including my relatives, this is not a reality.
Friends, what do you believe? Are you like those who believe that there is no way to financial freedom from your present situation?
What if I tell you that even the maids of my mentor is on their way of becoming rich. They are still housemaids but are saving and investing their money. In 10 to 15 years, they will be millionaires while still working as housemaids. Amazing? Yes, there is a secret of becoming rich. Do you want to follow these steps?
I’ll be sharing more in my next posts.
By the way, to enrol in this Buildingless University, you simply just read and share my posts.
Welcome friends and students to our school.
Randy
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Classmate Good luck... This is wondrous inspiration of deed from you under the infinite shadow of the Sacred Heart...Godspeed and God bless...
ReplyDeletesalamat classmate. We already do our mission inside the classroom but we can extend it using the technology.
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