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Kicking off the new month with a quick run. 19C and caught the moon before it sets to give way for the sun to come up. Completed an almost 6k run around the property. Good sweating to fight off the cold.
Life is short. Time is limited. The new month reminds us of this. Another month done for 2021 and opening into new possibilities. Keep the heart open for more opportunities to be grateful. Keep the mind open to changes that will continue to challenge us towards growth. Praying for patience and courage to keep going.
Excited to see what this month awaits us! #TheGratefulCompilation #RoadToBubbles #42on42
Cool morning run today. Fair weather and took some new routes that gave some new elevation (burning legs!). But good to be out for a few hours! Completed almost 10k today.
Resonating thoughts this morning: SELF-LOVE.
Shitty situations come our way and sometimes we may feel like we are almost at the edge. Sometimes we find ourselves that really gets the better of us. Things happen to teach us and learn from. Sometimes it is disguised as a major disappointment, a heartbreak, or pain.
But in these trying situations, I hope we trust the process. Let ourselves feel the pain and be in the moment. Come face-to-face with the hurt and with the struggle. The day will come and you will look back to your journey. That day you will realize you are tired of mourning for lost loves, lost opportunities, lost people, and just for feeling sorry for yourself. You will wake up renewed. You will wake up malleable and proud you were bent, you were tested, but didn’t crack.
That day will come when you will realize you may have lost, you may have failed, you may have been broken, but you still have YOU. More than anything else, you deserve self-love. May we see the bright in the days ahead. You are enough. You are capable. You can do this!
Starting off Christmas Eve celebration with this run! Got to pull this one to join and we completed total of 15 km mileage today (8km run + 7km warmup and cooldown).
Resonating thoughts today – The Best is yet to come.
We go through our journey usually clueless of what’s in store ahead. This leads to excitement (and mostly anxiety, too). We get into our daily decision-making using our previous experiences that we hope taught us to be better and wiser. A result of experimentation, we learn more about ourselves, our journey and the meaning it has in our lives. The most thrilling to me is that after all the steps and mistakes taken and committed is how we can go back and reassess “how we did.”
As a fan of task lists, I find satisfaction in ticking off the boxes, planning ahead how many more to make and when to target completion. Then imagine this: That feeling we have everytime we feel the universe conspired to help us achieve what we aimed for. That smile we share to the world when we check off the buckets. That sense of hope that hopefully we did the same for others so they too can look at the world a little bit better, happier, gentler and with some more hope thinking the best is yet to come.
Gloomy day and it looks like it might rain but wonderful breeze nonetheless. The ocean sounds a little bit more passionate today as if it is singing and calling on the sun (that’s just me).
Quick morning run and what a treat to see some monkeys (literally) on my run today. I didn’t know there were some here on the island. I was observing myself when I saw the monkeys. Was caught by surprise as I saw two of them ckimbing up a tree. I ignored it saying they are pro’lly harmless. Then one of the dropped a fruit that startled apparently a lot of them! My first response was to pause, look around and yes, there were a lot of them! I counted more than 10 of then in both left and right side sitting on the trees watching me. I am sure they are harmless but I found myself retreating and getting to another route. Better to take precautions. 😁😄😁🐒🐵🐒
Thinking through this incident, I felt surprise then fear then had to keep my presence of mind to determine what the next step should be. Should I step forward? Should I step backward? Thoughts of all those natgeo episodes flashed in my mind. Haha.
And maybe that’s also one of the lessons: Sometimes we need to step back to move forward. Safely (lol). It was a good suprise but watching too much suspense movies got the better of me today. Thoughts of getting attacked by monkeys haha.
I remember being cautious of monkeys too during my last yoga retreat in Bali almost a year ago. The mind sometimes plays a trick on us. But ultimately it cares for self-preservation. As in all other creatures. Wonderful, funny, sweaty morning. I amazed! Lots to be thankful and my day just got started – My body is warm, my mind is calm, heart is full.
Poolside thoughts. What a life changer learning how to swim is! I used to stay on the side of the pool and I didn’t get why some people get excited of the water…till I learned how to swim.
One of the things I gave myself the chance to learn during my medical leave last year was learning how to swim. Learned to jump from a 14ft pool (after a LOT of prodding) and that gave way to me literally falling in love of the water. 🙂
God gives us every opportunity to try the things we always wanted. And He lets us choose to take the road to begin the journey. Fear has a way of protecting us. It also has a way of keeping us from trying something new.
Now at 40 and just practicing what I learned and letting myself enjoy the water, I realize it is always never too late to learn and conquer your fears. It may get the best of us sometimes, but so long as there is openness to try and explore, we get to a point to be so grateful to not be scared no more.
Quick morning run. Feels like I finished a trail run with all the terrain my running path took me today. First time to run by the beach and what a refreshing run this turned out to be.
Resonating thought today: Peace.
This past few weeks have been productive and tiring. Lots of thoughts about wrapping up the year and getting ready for the new year ahead. Lots of thoughts about all the challenges and victories. Lots of thoughts about what worked and what can be better. Lots of thoughts about misses, miscalculations and learnings.
Moreso, this year is a story about trying to be at peace as life takes us to many unexpected events, turns, and happenings. This year is about being at peace with changes, loss, and being open to second chances and all that are seemingly out of our control.
At the end of the day, we feel at peace when we know our intentions are good and pure. We feel at peace when we know we gave it all. Things may not have worked the way we expected sometimes, but regardless, being at peace means we accept and move forward.
Let the days give us the clarity of intentions. Let our actions open the opportunity to do better and get others to be better. Be someone that brings peace because we are at peace with ourselves.
Been raining over the last few days but today was different. Morning came with fair windy weather. Perfect opportunity to run! Completed almost 10k today. Almost sub1 and a good progression from the last time. Good way to end a busy and productive workday! 🏃♀️🤸♀️🧘♀️
Resonating thoughts today: Gratefulness.
Still lots to be grateful for this year. To be alive. To wake up every morning (well, night actually) to get ready for work. To not worry about how to put food on the table and be able to feed ourselves and choose what to eat. To be able to still walk and run and go where we choose to go (just be extra careful now). Blessed to be where we are – healthy, safe, and able.
This year has its struggles as in other years before that. But I think the point is – we are still here. We are given the chance to do better, make better not just for us but for others, too.
As we close this year, may we look back to this year with grateful hearts. We may have had it better or worse but we all have lessons learned. We are surviving. We are thriving. We are growing. What can be better than that? 😁😄😁
I have always wondered what would “40” feel like or what I’d be when I get to 40. Today is that day that I cross over a new decade in my life. I am truly grateful to God for the blessing of life (my second life).
Last year, my birthday was all about healing, recovering and letting people in. I was going through a very challenging time overall but life has its way of providing us the answers we need through people and events that come meet us in many points of our journey.
This year, my birthday is a revalidation of that journey – transitions, changes, resilience from the unexpected and the unplanned and most importantly, being open to many possibilities. God has given me biggest blessing of making sure I was born in the right family.
My family has and will always be my biggest blessing. All I am today is because of my parents’ unconditional and unrelenting love and support. God blessed me with His best stewards, my Mom and Dad. I will forever be grateful. God is good. (Mom and Dad did their own virtual celebration for me. And so did my other nephew, Clyde.) God sends angels in our lives along the way to remind us that we are loved and to help us fulfill what we are sent here to do. I have many I have met along the way. These are my brothers and their growing families, my friends and our extended loved ones.
We also meet not-so-angelic ‘others’ along the way to challenge us and give us teachable moments so we get to be stronger and better. I am truly grateful to have an equal share of those in my journey. Thank you for the lessons and life teachings.
To those who have given me time for messages in many forms through social media, calls, texts, thank you for your thoughtfulness. To my family and friends who helped made my transition to another decade a memorable one, thank you with all my heart. You all made me feel that no distance or time is a hindrance to show you care. You have given me the best gift, your time.
No words can describe how overwhelmed I am by your language of love you showed unto me. I see you, hear you, I appreciate you, I thank you. Maraming salamat po.
Cheers to spending each moment as if it is our last. Cheers to being present in every moment of our lives. Cheers to being patient with ourselves more as we are patient with others. More importantly, let’s use our time to be generous to others as we are generous to ourselves. Time is all we have. Let’s maximize every second and every opportunity to be kinder to ourselves as others. This world will be better with all our kindness combined.
Squeezed in a quick run this morning before the storm comes and it felt great! The wind was cool as the day was just about to begin. Felt the streets were “mine” for the taking as there were hardly anyone running. Happy! 😁😄😁 I was just happy running earlier today.
Resonating thoughts: I miss home. These times and these holidays we take advantage of as these are times we all gather together at our parents’ house. These are times when we spend our own version of “artistically doing nothing.” I miss mama’s foods. I miss my dad’s candid stories. I miss laughter at home. Soon. See you all very soon. 🏡⛰
Completed quick 7km this morning. It was cold as the rain started to pour on the way back to my place. But warm thoughts of home. 🏃♀️🚶♀️🏃♀️🤸♀️🧘♀️
Nov 1. 11/1. 111. Hopefully really a message of new beginnings. Still lots to be grateful for.
October has not one, but two full moons — and because it’s 2020, the second one naturally falls on Halloween. That gives this year 13 full moons instead of the usual 12. While the moon won’t actually look blue, the second full moon in one month is usually referred to as a blue moon. This happens every 2.5 to three years, or “once in a blue moon.” While a blue moon seems rare, a full moon on Halloween across time zones is even more rare — an event that hasn’t occurred since 1944. However, a full moon occurs on Halloween every 19 years in some time zones, so you can expect a full Halloween moon again in 2039, 2058, 2077 and 2096. – Read from CNN
Once in a blue moon – Some meant is as “rare.” Some meant it as “absurd.” Some meant it to be “magical.” I think there are phases in our lives when these meanings become “true.”
We celebrate when we find something rare. Sometimes we only realize we had something rare after we lose it. And it might seem absurd thinking it cannot happen. Sometimes, we choose to cherish it more because we know we had something rare and maybe magical.
Whatever our “once in a blue moon” is, I hope we appreciate the process and the learnings we get from those. May it be teachable moments that we learn from. May it be wonderful memories to look back on. It is still a beautiful world. Desiderata.
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