What is your DEEPEST FEAR?

When this question is asked, many might think of the movie Coach Carter. This was the question Coach Carter kept asking Timo Cruz, one of the players in Richmond high school. Timo Cruz didn't know the answer, so did the rest of the team. In the end of the movie, Timo Cruz finally knew his answer. He answered this:

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Is it truly our light that frightens us? I do think so. God has given us a potential that is ever growing! There is no limits to the things that we can achieve! How awesome is that? But what hinders us? What limits our desire to succeed? What holds us down into the level of mediocrity?

As Timo Cruz said, everyone is meant to shine. No one is an exception, but because of society, we choose playing small over excelling. Shrinking ourselves shouldn't be a choice for us so that others wouldn't feel insecure. If we conform to this idea, we are not only denying of ourselves what we can truly achieve, but we are also denying others of theirs.

Let us shine then as children of God! Why hinder what truly is ours? Why leave behind all the wonderful things we can achieve? Rather than accepting mediocrity, let us pull ourselves away from it. Let us then be excellent in all that we do for that is who we are and that is what we made to be. We are excellent.

The Oh-So-Awesome Patty Laurel!

In our most recent club meeting, we, as a whole class, were fortunate enough to meet and learn from the one and only Mrs. Patty Laurel! To those of you who don't know her, she is a well-respected professional blogger and a professor in the Ateneo de Manila University. In my opinion, our club, Blogger's Hub, was really blessed to have her as our guest speaker. She was able to talk about many things on blogging and honestly, she delivered it in such a fun manner!

Mrs. Patty Laurel shared about Blog Lovin' 101. There were many aspects that she was able to tackle like what a blog is, who your audience is, what your blog should be about, and why one makes a blog. What lingered in my mind was what Mrs. Patty she said, "No mater how serious you are regarding something (blogging). Without loving it, you'll grow tired of it." 

I thought to myself, do I really love what I do or do I just do it for the sake of accomplishing something? 

After the meeting, all of the students went back to our classrooms and classes were continued, however, what Mrs. Patty said ran through my mind like an olympic runner who doesn't want to stop training. It really bothered me because I couldn't answer the question! I couldn't make up my mind if I love blogging or I just considered blogging a task waiting for me to accomplish it.

And then I got it. Blogging was far from being what I love to do. Yes, I want to be successful in blogging, but I don't love it! After I realized this, I prayed to God that He may give me a heart that loves to blog that I may use it to glorify His Name. At that moment, I had the urge to blog my heart out! 

Before I end this blog post, let me tell everyone that love really makes a difference. :) 

Thank you Mrs. Patty Laurel for teaching me how to love blogging! You really are awesome! Please do continue what you do for you inspire aspiring bloggers like me to dream big. :)