It's Morning Again - What is the song that wakes you up?

Today, I woke up with a familiar alarm song.

The song goes like this,
"I wanna be - a birth of life.
I wanna dance - to the beat of life.
I wanna have a heart of gold."

The song comes from a musical play.
It tells a true story of a young person eager to serve.

Friend, what is the song that wakes you up early in the morning.


You are booked for greatness,

Chrislann Lodovice Catuburan

It's about Christmas and I am in Quarter Life Crisis

Photo Courtesy of My Sister-Cham

I have a time to caught up stories with a fellow Feast Production servant group. 

We exchanged stories of how life has been for the last year. 
We talked about different things, love life, relationships, life's passion and purpose.

He was telling me that for the pass days he had lost the zeal to wake up early in the morning and knowing what to do. 
He seemed to be not driven to go to work as before.
There are dreams that seemed not to be fulfilled as expected. 

I had asked him what age he was and found out we were about the same age. 
I told him that it may be that you are in your Quarter Life Crisis. 
It is a stage when for most people under 25 years of earth existence are rediscovering his or her life's purpose. 
Some would also call it Soul Searching. 

At that night, my friend went away happy knowing he had a name on what he is undergoing at present. 
He also went at peace by the fact that it is a life process that is common and that he is not alone.


You are booked for greatness,  

Chrislann Lodovice Catuburan


*Feast - A gathering of fun loving people. 

Jump, Run and Swim!

Photo Courtesy of Rd Lastimosa

Yesterday, together with my companions at work.
We headed for the beach despite the rainy weather.
We enjoyed each others company through food and drinks and singing and swimming.

I wish this would be a quarterly activity if possible.
It is always good to relax and unwind after months of hard work.


Your booked for greatness,

Chrislann Lodovice Catuburan

A Call to Write

Courtesy of Jan Odivilas

I woke up today not knowing what to write.
You see, I wanted to write regularly.
I even wanted to automate the uploading of my articles by say 5 o'clock in the morning.

Today, I have come to a point when I am not prepared.
I thought to myself that I would just have to write spontaneously.
I wish I can also write in a way that is planned.
I am currently studying how to plan my writing so that I would not have worry of not being regular in my writing and posting.
(Of course, this is something important if you want to build your presence online and build credibility on what you what to offer through your writing.)

Thus I am writing my reason why I write.

1. One of friend in the community told me that he had read my writing online. I am always amazed when people tell me this. It was through my writing that he shared in away that he can relate to what I have shared online.

2. An associate in my company told me that my writing is something that is meaningful to her. She encouraged me to continue posting my reflections.

3. It keeps my mind active of thinking -what to write and impels me to keep on learning from others so that I may have some thing to share.

You are booked for greatness,

Chrislann Lodovice Catuburan

My Money Vs. My Parents' Money

Image taken from the internet

I talked to a work associate about one family matter.

My mother is into sales and my father had been working in a well providing company.

Since I want my parents to prepare for their upcoming retirement.

I have the tendency to mind how my parents are spending their money.

As we exchanged stories my associate gave me a better perspective in how she would look at it.

She narrated to me her story.

When she was still a student she had wanted a lot of her parents' things to be better given or thrown away.

She sees it useless to have things laying around.

But when she started working and started buying the things she like to have.

She found out her parents point of view about why they wanted to keep those 'useless' things around.

It is because it is difficult to let go of things that has value to you. Things that you bought out of your labor.

Indeed her story help me see things. It sets me to be at peace with my parents' spending habits.

Yes, as part of the family I may give suggestion but it would not matter if they would accept or reject it.

Because as my parents earned their money so they have the right as to how they would spend it.

You are booked for greatness,

Chrislann Lodovice Catuburan   

It is the Love that Counts

I am amazed by this story I read in Didache.

There was a missionary in Hong Kong named John Bechtel who wanted to start a Universal Faith Camp for evangelization.

A bankrupt, multimillion-dollar hotel became available for sale so he made an offer to buy the property. He then went to around the world to raise the money he would need.

Unfornately, no one was willing to help and he returned to Hong Kong hopeless. Then onday, he got a letter from a young girl that included $1 and a note saying she wanted him to use this to purchase the camp. He prayed and took the girl's $1 to the real estate closing and the company decided to accept the $1 as full payment! Since the camp first opened, over a million people have been blessed by their experience during their stay.

Friend, I believe it is not about how big the amount but how much love poured to that amount given.


You are booked for greatness,

Chrislann Lodovice Catuburan

To Be on Top of Everything But Not In Control

A climb to the top of Mt. Kitanglad, Bukidnon
Photo Courtesy of John Quincy SDB

I have been in a meeting in preparation for a life changing workshop for kids.

During the meeting, one of the member shared a wonderful insight that made as want to post it as a Facebook Status.

Here is the insight, “To be on top of everything but not in contol.” I took this message to heart. As currently I am running different activities in my life. Apart from my sales work. I started to stretch myself by learning to do business.

Of course, even with many things at hand. I want to be on top of everthing I do. Before, being on top means being in control of the everything. But having his belief made me just disappointed. I found out that this does not work. And the insight shared in the meeting just confirmed my findings.

I cannot control my family, relatives, coworkers or friends. In short, I cannot control the people around me to help me be on top of my life goals.

The insight shared is good suggestion for me to be trusting and not forcing my ways to people. Simply to be trusting. After all I believe there is someone who is better in control.

You are booked for greatness,

Chrislann Lodovice Catuburan

Surprise Blessing

Courtesy of GMA I-Witness (News Channel) Documentary Fest 2008 

Just tonight, I had a chance to have a dinner with a college schoolmate to whom I had greatly admired for her achievements.

She been part of the GMA I-Witness (News Channel) Documentary Fest 2008-BATANG TAMBOL .

As she was coming from a journalism background. I asked her about what inspired her to pursue sales. She told me that apart from a friend's advice to go into Sales. She also read Robert Kiyosa's Book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad". She learned from the best selling author, Robert that he was not by profession a salesperson. The author went into sales to gain experience that would later on become useful in life. 

Indeed, like my schoolmate, I went into sales with a similar thought in mind. Of Course, a part from the financial reward. 

You are booked for greatness,

Chrislann Lodovice Catuburan

Your Story Can Bless the World

I love watching inspiring movies. Stories that inspire and motivate me to live life to the max.

But I find some stories seems to repeat. There is just a change of setting and set of actors.

I believe there are a billion stories to be told and that includes your own unique story.

I am encouraging you to start sharing your life story.

As a start you may keep a day to day journal.

You need not write long paragraph as a start.

Just one would do.

Your story can bless the world.

You are booked for greatness,

Chrislann Catuburan  

Life of a writer

I am would find an inspiration as I sleep.

I believe life is a big blessing.

I believe everything happens for a reason.

I believe that I ever I set my mind to the universe conspires.

I believe in love.

I believe in miracles.

I believe in healing.

I believe that I am liked and well received.

I believe that I am a superstar in my own wonderful way.

I believe that I am booked for greatness.  

Before You Help Others, First Help Yourself

I am so proud my sister had been joining the paramedic (Emergency Rescue Team).
She is a nurse by profession. Since she is not the athletic type of a woman. She finds the physical training challenging.

At six o'clock in the morning together with her fellow trainees they jog for five to ten kilometers.
Then in the afternoon they lift huge and long metal tube. She climbs a robe, rolls the ground and bath in the sun for most of the day. Thus she wants to quit.

But remembering her car accident when she was a five year old child, somehow gave her an inner calling to continue.

She hopes the calling to continue may bring her the endure to pass the physical, emotional and mental test.

Her training is helping her develop an inner strength before she becomes a strength for those in need.


You are booked for greatness,

Chrislann Catuburan

Unconditional Love

I met this beautiful lady to whom I had the chance to interview over dinner.

I believe she had attained a certain level of success given her young age.

We talked about love and being single. More importantly we talked about change and how attending the Feast (A weekly gathering full of inspiring talks) had gradually changed her life.

One message I had learned from her was being consist about her resolution to little by little change her life. From being a woman who had drinking vices to someone who drinks occasionally. From someone who easily say foul words to someone who is more cautions and grateful for what she has.

She changed her lifestyle not because it was imposed by someone or something. 

She told me that her change was a fruit of love. 

A love that is unconditional. 

A love that implies change not out of a rule. 

But out of love itself.

You are booked for greatness,

Chrislann Lodovice Catuburan

Vision and Provision

Do you have a vision of what do you what to be in five to fifteen years from now?

Have you written that dream in a paper? (There is power in writing your dream)

Do you believe in the power of writing & drawing?

Before I used to write my dreams and plans.

But then my dreams did not have reason that made me want to pursue it.

I realized that not all my dreams are valuable to me.

I started asking myself what I really what.

In my soul searching I started to serve.

I remember the saying “There are questions that need not to be answered immediately. Live life and the answer would just follow.”

Are you searching for your vision?

What provision life has been offering you?

Your vision my just be round the corner.

You are booked for greatness,

Chris Catuburan

Be Patient

Before I was the only one in the family that goes jogging. I would wake up in the morning and jog to the bridge. It was a challenge to jog alone. But more to that just jogging alone I had wished my sisters and brother would find away to exercise.

After a year I had almost given up on the dream of my sisters and brother having there own exercise program. Unexpectedly, God had answered my prayer. I thought it would anymore happen for my sisters and brothers but it did and even more greater than what I had imagined.

Today, my brother exercise every day making our home his gym. My sister jogs with a team of committed individuals. I believe my younger sister my take her exercise program later on.

Friend, are you praying for your sister or brother's good?
Be patient God is working in ways that you may not see.

You are booked for greatness,

Chrislann Lodovice Catuburan