It's the New Year - Focus!

It's time once again to make New Year's Resolutions.

I wonder, since when have you been doing it, i.e. creating New Year's Resolutions. For me it was a 'tradition' learned from pre-teens when  we were encouraged to write down new goals and aspirations for the new year; more like turning a new leaf. I find that is a very positive way to see things, to not dwell in the past, and that a new year brings new hope.

So, for this New Year, I am sharing a post on Time Management, and what are the 10 Biggest Time Wasters which keeps us sidetracked, lose focus and miss our goals. Read on and see if you, too, can relate.

Ten Biggest Time Wasters (Inc.)

Bayanihan Workshop, 25 August 2012

Please visit the libreria (library) page on this blog to refer to the presentation materials presented at the Bayanihan Workshop held on 25 August 2012 at the St. Giles Centre in Rondebosch, Cape Town.

Pop us some comments on what do you think of the workshop or of the documents presented. Make suggestions for future meetings and/or workshops.

Social Enterprise 101

What is Social Enterprise?

This must be the question on top of our minds at the moment? Let us try to explain in digestible bits.

It is the latest socio-economic buzz word that many of us perhaps do not pay much attention to. Perhaps the easiest way to explain it is to dissect the term : social + enterprise; and see if the marrying of these two words bring a clearer meaning to the term. 

Tulungan

Tulungan. 

Depending on how one pronounces it, the word tulungan (pronounced too-loong,an) connotes two similar meanings. If pronounced with accent on the -loong-, the word means "to help".  If pronounced slightly faster with a hint of emphasis on the -an, it connotes the communal spirit of helping each other which is the essence of bayanihan. 

Ano raw meron?

"Ano raw meron?"

A common phrase used by someone who had just joined the conversation. "Ano raw meron?" in English translates to "what have we got?" or "what's it about?".

On the 25th of August, Saturday, a group of initial convenors hopes to gather the Filipino community in Cape Town to brief and put forward a plan to organise a social entrepreneurial initiative. The idea sprung from reactions for a final research project gathered by UCT masteral student Irina Velasco out of interviews from Filipinos currently living in Cape Town. A handful of respondents, inspired by their common dream and vision of not only unifying the otherwise fragmented community but also of creating a business endeavor. The five-member convening body made up of Boody Ramos, Mel Deslate, Mae Fe Ancheta-Templa, Sonia Vergara Chu and moderator Irina Velasco has been meeting regularly, exchanging ideas, planning and channeling positive energies towards the fulfillment of their communal goal.