Every project, always presents challenges, some are workable and some are nearly impossible. And this is what I’ve learned – for a contractor like me, who will and encounters difficulties with numerous instructions, a written agreement of your role is a very big help. This is because your client is not the one responsible for the delivery of the service, but how you solved that bump in the road you met, so to speak. And in this business, I also have my own share of difficulties with numerous instructions, and it will really drive me crazy if I don’t put them down in notes.

Now, for those who would like to involve themselves in the Home-based Administrative business, this is what I suggest you do:

First of, lay out a clear directive for both you and the buyer of what you are working for. If it’s a single project or if it’s a full time office management job with multiple task. This saves you the drama of confusion over what you should be doing in the first place.

Take for example this project that I did. Basically, my understanding was I’m going to manage calls and book appointments. It was expressed however that future tasks will be added. However, despite the verbal communication, having a lacking in sufficient orientation on the tasks I took -as everything was hurried, things became vague and confusing for me. And the buyer – client relationship became sour.

There’s always a constant nagging thoughts of “Am I doing the right things?” or “Is this how its supposed to be?” or “I thought that’s what he said he wanted?”

Both expectations weren’t met and one more important thing I learned, never ever ever be friends with your buyer unless the project is done. This is now what I clearly remember having read in the Bible (you will really see the relevance of God’s word in our lives), “Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house — too much of you, and he will hate you. – Proverbs 25: 17″ if you’re familiar of Mark Twain’s saying “Familiarity breeds contempt – and children” then you should know what I’m trying to say about Contractor – Buyer relationship. Being friendly is a lot different than being friends.

For this reason, I decided to draft my own buyer – contractor agreement. In it is a very basic and simple agreement that tells what my jobs are and what I only should be doing for the buyer, as well as the price for the service.

Tags: Appointment Setting, BlogDesk, Virtual Assistant, Working Home base

Time flies so fast and I hope I’m not late with the announcement, hehe.

A few weeks ago, Bambie launched her first contest, she had a very warm welcome and a lot of supporters joined her, and now here are the winners:

Gengen of Rewards Station
Red amethyst of Earn Money Online with Red, you go girl!!
Yami of Mom Writes for a Cause
Melandria of My Journey to Life

The drawing was done through Random.Org – nice webtool.

Congratulations to the winners, keep up the good work and good job for the other supporters!

Tags: BlogDesk, Contest Fun, Networking

I would regularly receive a newsletter from Cosmo, most of the time I read the previews and the rest, I don’t, mainly because most of them is useless to me. Something caught my attention though…a poll question.

Would you rather get a bad gift or receive no gift at all?

Interesting. How many of us have received something that we don’t really like or it’s not bad but we don’t have any use for it, or it’s not bad but it’s not what we really want? And most of the time, we end up buying the darn thing for ourselves anyway, to satisfy the yearning.

I know I’m a victim and I’m also guilty of it. But if you’re asking me, I’d rather get a bad gift than not, because as the saying goes, “it’s the thought that counts” and I don’t give or throw away the stuff that’s given to me, they’re my “heirloom” …although there’s this one time that I really threw something away, it was from my ex’s sister. I don’t really remember why, but something triggered it.

Tags: Relationships, Gifts, Newsletter

Don’t you think it’s rather funny that some organization is telling us not to eat fish because when they are caught, they suffer a horrible death?

I’m really scratching my head over this. I mean, so what are the animals and fishes for? Decoration? I mean, I think God has a better idea in mind when he thought of creating it for man’s food. Can’t they eat their vegetables alone and leave the fishes to those who love to eat fish?

I’m writing this with no apologies. Because we have this thing called “Balanced Diet” I’m not going to stop feeding my children fish and vegetables because it’s good for their health. I may be uneducated about being a vegetarian, but hey, the fishes weren’t there for display, there are for food and there are for eye candies.

Tags: Food, Environment, Balanced Diet

Mainly because we allow it.

People would always say “It’s politics.” and they don’t want to lift a finger, mainly because of fear that their comfortable lives will be affected – please know that I’m not “challenging” anyone by this. But let us all be practical, nobody wants to earn the ire of a prominent person, or else we will get into trouble, in more ways than one. Thus the confidence that the politicians have, they think to themselves “they can’t touch me, or else” am I saying that we go to EDSA and create another trend of revolution, it’s already been done, so that type of move is already stale. No effect. And so it lingers.

What can be done? Exercise your right to vote.
The problem comes when people are too lazy to even learn a little about the candidate that they want to vote, most of the time, it’s because “so-and-so” is a friend of friend of friend of the friend of the friends. If you’re really tired of the way things are going, learn about the candidate that you are voting, not just because “you know” the person, but you are confident that this person has the credibility to do the job.

As early as the campaigns go, so it is wise to at least browse at what their platforms are, so you can list down choices, and as the duration of the election draws near, you should have a no to yes list of people to vote.

In politics there’s an old saying that goes “sometimes, one must be sacrificed for the good of many” and the sad part is that, that “one” is the “many” and the beneficiary is the politician himself (and I mean both genders here). So, don’t be surprised if most of our poor country men are the ones suffering, because they don’t have the power of this knowledge that most of us hold, therefore, they are the easy target. A little promising, a little “gift” from the last catastrophes hoarded donations will make a hungry stomach to be inclined to sell their votes. That’s what’s going on, that’s why we’re still victims of corruption.

“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being My priest. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.” – Hosea 4:6

We are starved, so we seek for the morsel, and that morsel is the ticket to heaven for most of these politicians and candidates, because then when our stomachs are filled, we tend to believe that this is the man who will save me and my family from this agony.

I was reminded of this while watching the movie 9. Freedom was found when they went back to the source where the devastation began. It was because of intellect that created the source of power, it was the intellect that devastated their land, but when soul was able to gather the strength, they got their freedom. And I believe that if we all go back to the source, our living God and his word, and know from him what really it is he wants for our lives, only then we will get to the right decision to vote and vote wisely, because we will have the understanding of God’s wisdom and knowledge that will guide us. God established man on earth, he gave us laws to govern this earth, it is high time for us to use it to our benefit – go back to the source.

“Let the dishonest man act dishonestly still; let the filthy make himself filthy still; let the righteous practice righteousness still; and let the holy be made holy still.” – Revelation 22:11

No matter how much we complain, no matter how much of these EDSA Revolution we join, but when God said…

“if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” – 2 Chronicles 7:14

This is the very essence why God created the Bible, why his breath is what we breathe in everyday, for Him to govern us so we can live in his provision and protection. Return to the source, because there you will find the answers to your questions…might sound cheesy to you, but:

Wisdom calls aloud in the street,

she raises her voice in the public squares;

at the head of the noisy streets she cries out,

in the gateways of the city she makes her speech:

“How long will you simple ones love your simple ways? – Proverbs 1:20

Tags: Philippine Government, Voters, Votes, Candidates, Corruption in the government