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| Before Hillsong Conference... Sydney Bridge... |
It is 5 Days since we just came back from a 5 Day Hillsong Conference in Sydney Australia. We had a spiritually energizing. It was a back to back event with our IMG Annual Convention at SMX which happened June 23-24, 2013. And it was capped upon our return with a brand new series in PICC Feast entitled "Full Tank".
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| Bro Bo's PICC Feast for July... |
On the way back to the Philippines, Bro Bo Sanchez was on the same plane as ours and so we had a wonderful chance to have tea time with him at the Sydney International Airport. "Boy, the tea I ordered really taste great!" Why? Because it is free courtesy of Bro Bo! Fely was on his left and I was on his right side of the coffee table. We were in the busy airport coffee shop but I can hear every word Bro Bo say. My heart really pumped up when he said " I really love IMG Business. Because it is not all about money but it is about helping people." Wow! What could be more inspiring and energizing than to hear that from him.
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| Bro Bo Sanchez exhorting IMG Members to build Big Teams... |
And then I recall his message to us during the Annual IMG Convention of Champions to continue to build a "Dream Team". Inspiration after inspiration I really am so fully charged.
Let me back up a little to the Hillsong Conference we attended July 1-5, 2013. When we sat at the Allphones Arena in Sydney for the Hillsong Conference from the first day to the fifth day, the praise and worship which start at 9:30 AM and end at about 8:30 PM leaves us fully energized. We still have much energy that we wake up in the early cold weather the following day. It is so good to sleep when it is cold, but our energy is so high we have to jump up the bed and go back to the Allphones Arena for a fresh day of praise and worship!
It was truly a Spirit filled and led worship! Let me share what inspiration I got in this Conference : These are the 5 things we never have to do to be able to build our Dream Team. I took the four things from Pastor Rick Warren's message and added another one:
2. Never Compare Yourself with Others...
3. Never Doubt the Goodness of the Lord
4. Never Quit
5. Never Build Without Values (My Addition)
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| Learning as a Big Truly Rich Makers Team |
Here it goes... I would like to share to you my Key Learning and added at the bottom an excerpt of other people's realization of these 5 things we NEVER HAVE TO DO to Build a BIG TEAM:
1. Never Stop Learning as a Team!
Learning is a never ending journey. If we stop in our journey we never get to our destination... if we stop learning we will decay, we will perish.
How do we learn? Yes we can learn if we read books and do research. But, I believe that we gain more wisdom if we learn as a group...Learn as a Team. When people with similar purpose and goals gather to learn there is energy, and there is real miracle that happens in it. God said that when two or three are gathered in His Name He shall be there. That is what we feel in every Sunday mass. We listen and learn the word of God together as a community. Miracle happens. Inspiration pour down on us.
Much the same way in our 9AM Club (Leaders Call) , TRM Meeting, Training and Conventions. We gather together and study our Business System from meeting to meetings, and event to events. We attend the Convention to learn from the Master Builders. And when we learn together with our Team, we are energized as a Team and our Team becomes a Dream Team!
"As much as we think we know it all, there is always more to learn. But we can only learn as much as we want to learn. We could be surrounded by the smartest people in the world, but if our mind and heart aren't open to growing and maturing, then we can't improve. Having a teachable heart allows us to serve others and give respect to those who have gone before us. When someone older and wiser extends advice and suggestions to you, how do you respond? If you find yourself stiffening at advice, take a moment to encourage growing a teachable heart in you. ROEL RELLEVE
Part of being unhappy is caused by envy. Envy on the other-hand is caused by comparing ourselves with someone who has more than what we have.
I meet people who have more friends, who have more properties, who have higher income, bigger house, and bigger business. I also meet people who seems to struggle in their family life, their relationships, their daily subsistence, and in their health. Some are outright poor they do not know where to get their food for the day. Some other friends have business that keeps failing.
Comparing with any of them does not give me happiness. Appreciating what is positive that I find in the situation of their lives is what gives me happiness. Being happy with the blessings people who have more in life makes me happy and I pray that they may continue to succeed. Being compassionate and looking at the efforts of those who have less in life is what makes me happy. I pray that they also overcome their struggles.
In IMG, we started with a very small team. Our team has two active members: Fely and me We looked at other teams and we were dwarfed by their size. We are awed by how fast they became MD and how fast they build their big teams. Yes we compared ourselves but we look at it at the positive view that it inspired us to be more serious in our efforts in building our team.
We compare to set benchmarks to define the "what and how" of improving where we are. We compare so we would know how far are we from our own destination. We are so happy for what we have accomplished. So inspired by people who is ahead of us, and is driven to encourage people we would like to bring along in our journey. We compare for inspiration to be better!
Each day, we appreciated the growth that we see in our team from meeting to meetings, from convention to convention. We see that our Team has grown bigger! We are even bigger than most of the teams that inspired us and still inspire us to this date to be big. We pray for the other teams to grow big as well. We continually compare not for envy but for inspiration.
"This week I learned to never compare myself with others. Sure, they may have a lot of things or blessings that I don't have but I realized that I also have other things and more blessings that they don't have. Whoever I am and whatever I have are all part of God's purpose and plan for me. From now on, I'm deleting the word ENVY from my personal vocabulary. Sana kayo din. Have a great weekend!" FRANCE ARRIOLA
God is good all the time...and all the time God is good! We can never outdo the Lord in His generosity and goodness. He love us so much that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes will have eternal life. He loves us not because we are good but because it is the nature of God to be good!
In building our Dream Team we need to stay positive and believe in the goodness of what we do. Our business change people's lives and brings blessings to many families and generation to generations. So when we get out to the field to spread the mission, we should never doubt the goodness of the Lord. Never doubt that he will bless your works and your intentions.
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Be strong and courageous! Do not fear or tremble before them, for the Lord your God is the one who is going with you. He will not fail you or abandon you!" -Deuteronomy 31:6 shared by RAMIL PADILLA
4. Never Quit
Never never never never never QUIT! Quitters never win and WINNERS never quit!
We all know that maxim and we practice it. Those who are not present in the meeting as we are sharing these learning is another case... I hope they have not quit (ha ha ha...).
In any endeavor, the easiest thing to do is to quit when faced with obstruction and difficulties. Many people who have been rejected, encountered a problem, or did not understand the system quit. Not realizing that they are just one small step to their success.
In IMG, a lot of people quit for one reason or another. Reasons like, I have no time, I have no "yaya" (nanny), I have no work, I have no money, I do not have prospects, my spouse don't like IMG, I am only a student, I am already retired...and many thousand excuses to justify quitting. I also had my reasons at the start of our IMG career. I am an engineer and "hindi bagay" (it is not for me) that I do IMG. I have big needs and the income we can get is so small at the start of our career. But did we quit? Obviously we did not quit and we won big time. We became even better than when we were employed in many aspects including financially, emotionally, "relationally" (if there is such a word for family and spouse relationships), and spiritually.
Here is the Story of a Chef With NO HANDS. At 12, she lost both hands, cut by four criminals who left her for dead ! But she survived. In 2008, she finished Hotel & Restaurant Management. She won Gold Medal in Arts & Crafts. She studied in Tahanan na Walang Hagdan. Was adjudged as the most industrious, best in computer, and most courteous in the School for Crippled Children. This lady is a winner--through and through. Her name? Maricel Apatan. If in spite of her lost hands she persevered and did not allow the tragedy to destroy her life, how about us? Never give up friends. Never, ever give up! As Shared by EDGAR BAHALLA
5. Never Build Without Values
Values are like compass that points us to our true North! When we build our house, it is important that we know where the sun will rise and set. It is the same with building our Team. We need to have sets of values to build a Dream Team.
I have been with IMG for 12 years and seen many ahead of us and many more after us that joined and build with so much passion and grounded on values. Foremost of them is Sir Joen Delas Penas whose heart is really to help people make their money grow. He is a man who value service and demonstrate it.
When we went to the US I saw and felt the real meaning of "servant leadership". Sir Joen is our president yet he served as our driver, our tour guide, our photographer, our errand boy. He bought for us our water to drink, our food to eat, our tickets for the Disneyland, Universal Studios and more. He served us. He is a Servant Leader "par excellance". This is why he is so BIG in IMG!
So if you want to build a Dream Team, built it with Values, the Truly Rich Makers Values : FIRST- Faith, Integrity, Relationships, Service, and Teamwork.
God bless us all in our IMG Mission,
Benj and Fely Santiago
TRM Servant Leader
PS: I would be happy to see that this is circulated in your emails, FB page, and other media sites for circulation to your family and friends.
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