Farsight, Insight, Foresight

FARSIGHT, INSIGHT, FORESIGHT

Bob Calida, December 3, 2013, the Year of the Big Storm

“Ang lahat ng bagay ay magkaugnay” – Joey Ayala’s Magkaugnay…

“There’s no such thing as a minor devastation” – Pres. Noynoy, PDI, Nov. 13, 2013…

“When you lose everything this world can offer, you then understand the things that are of

real value…” – Ptr. Jesse Viloria, Church of the risen Christ, Dec. 2013…

“My answer to … is the application of a Marshall Plan approach in the recovery program

for the disaster stricken communities…” – Rolando Valenzuela, PDI, Nov. 29, 2013…

“Kung may paku lang ako,(“paku” is Bisaya for wings) nilipad ko na yung…” (If only I had

 wings, I’d have flown to...) – Nanay Dionisia, soon after her son’s big win.

“For most people, what is out of sight is out of mind.   Manila-bound decision-makers tend to

 un-see Mindanao and the Visayas because they don’t see them much.” – Joey Ayala, Farsight.

Farsight perspective for Rebuilders: “Rebuild the Visayas and build the nation”.

WAWD, Dec. 3, 2013

Dear me,

Nothing beats a disaster in drawing extremes from people and communities. Yolanda and its aftermath gave unprecedented extremes in unprecedented doses. Heroes and jerks; givers and looters; the capable silently helping, spectators loudly complaining; encouragers, discouragers, naggers; the strong finding hidden reserves of strength, the weak retreating in distress; damage counted in billions of pesos, international aid in billions counted and still counting. Isn’t it awesome to see at close range the diversity, healing power and abundance of the planet? How long will the drama of Yolanda’s aftermath be replayed again and again in the consciousness of the nation?

World War II gave Europe the Marshall Plan. When the collective systems of the Filipino tribe weakened to the point of complacency if not collapse, Martial Law came. Martial Law gave us EDSA I. Right after a terrible earthquake, Yolanda came with unexpected fury. Will Yolanda give the world a Marshall Plan II? Will the Manny-Kim debacle give us Nanay Dionisia and motherly surge and “Pati-Kim”?

Dear PAGASA,

What’s in a name?

There is energy in words and there is energy in names. The Adamic naming prerogative was established when the creator allowed Adam to “name all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air, and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.” And so it came to pass that name meant character. Name describes a person’s character and a person’s character is shaped by his name. But what’s in a name?  The answer is a question - why are there so many of us named Jesus, Maria and Jose? And years from now can you imagine how many new voters will come out named Manny and Jinky? Praying in the name of Jesus simply invokes the character and power of Jesus Christ to make prayer come true.

 

Now, here’s the thing -- they say beware the fury of a woman scorned and on the surge, because it can destroy. When the next storms come WAWD hopes you’d stop naming them after women. Nothing superstitious and no offense meant at all to all the women that we admire and love. Let’s name them after the fragrant Sampaguita or the lovely Chrysanthemum, or the cute bird Maya, or the tiny and harmless creature Kagwang (Tarsus), or the cross-pollinating Bat, or the Dilis, so abundant in our seas, or Tilapia…

Or if you really want a woman’s name, use something like Lan which sounds more nerd and techie than Yolanda. Or you can use ‘Nanay Dionisia’. Imagine taming a storm into being motherly? Fierce and just so, but motherly. Motherly surge? Isn’t that something? If storm goes to where she wants to fly, imagine all the storms it can create in media. Use a soft and feminine name that you have to use, but not Kim. Don’t risk inducing a whirlwind.

If you outsource storm naming rights to WAWD, easily my best bet is PAGASA. Name them all PAGASA 1,2,3, and so on and so forth until they stop blowing. As the Bible says “in everything give thanks”, WAWD says “in everything there’s HOPE”.

Dear Mr. President,

We salute you in this time of extremes. The bad news is you have a huge and difficult job to accomplish. The work of Relief, Restore, Rebuild could take years to finish.

The good news is you have a huge and difficult job to accomplish. And all the support, encouragement and resources that you need will be there. Empathy and prayers will be there. If there is to be a Marshall Plan II, you can be sure all the matching resources, talents and intentions will be there. We saw the world doing it just a few days after Y struck.

What was started will continue as you continue. It will come from young and old, big and small, simple and wise. Above all it will come from those who are given Farsight, farsight in space and time. From Farsight, forward and backward, will come Insights and from Insights will come Foresight. All you can use.     

Why worry when we can pray, believe our prayers, and laugh? They say laughing is the Pinoy’s way to cope and overcome problems. If that is true then we know we will overcome. Let’s laugh as we repair, restore and rebuild. And when all is done it will be our joy to see we have reformed, as in re-form or form anew, for the better that we can be. And for the best that we were made to be.

Finally for perspective, WAWD presents below an article on Farsight written by Joey Ayala many years ago, during a curious time when we had a president he called VP. We hope to give farsight perspective to the ‘Rebuilders’ because as they rebuild the Visayas they will build the nation. WAWD will continue on this road to Farsight, Insights and Foresight as needed and as inspired!

Bob Calida

We Also Walk Dogs

Asian Solution Providers Inc.

Asian College   

Altered Native/Joey Ayala

Farsight

(WAWD’s note: Wikipedia describes Joey Ayala as “a Filipino singer, songwriter and former chairman of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts…” He is known to prefer that his work serve as his introduction.

To me, he is good friend, intermittent co-worker, writer and minstrel-prophet, inspiring his tribe with the harmony of words and music. This piece is reproduced with his permission- Bob Calida.)

Our sense of sight is an overpowering sense.  The impressions and information we receive through it are so powerful that most of the time we implicitly accept that what we see is what is. Whether we like it or not, sight dictates to a great degree our mindset and worldview - the way we think, feel and decide, the very way we perceive and interact with “reality”.

For most people, what is out of sight is out of mind.   Manila-bound decision-makers tend to un-see Mindanao and the Visayas because they don’t see them much.

For city-dwellers used to having their line of sight limited by houses and buildings, fences and walls, billboards and electric wires, movie screens and cathode tubes, the unaccustomed treat of having a far horizon to gaze upon can be quite a liberating experience.

Cramped and cluttered spaces tend to make you feel cramped and cluttered on the inside.  Unimpeded external space makes one aware, it seems, of the vastness of inner space as well. The music and art of plains, coastal and mountain peoples evoke such spaces, composed as they are in spaces such as these.

Mindanao abounds with liberating space.  Even from bustling Davao City it is still possible to catch a glorious glimpse of Mt. Apo, serene in the distance, the secret date of its next stirring known to none.

There is power, deep personal power, inherent in such interfaces.  There is also a humbling sense of reverence or awe that scales one’s self-importance to the proper proportion.

I am eager to see what our VP (Virtual President) will accomplish with his promised (?) 3-month Mindanao residency.   I wonder what experiences he will undergo and how these will influence his thoughts and deeds.  Those who will get close to him will have the opportunity to guide his sight.

Allow me to share with you a song lyric written in Davao in 1982 (from the album of the same title) in the hope that you might place yourself vicariously in the Mindanaon landscape and lend the weight of your will to the vigilance that Mindanao is now, and will always be, in need of.  It is, after all, the “front” and not the “back” door to our kapitbayan.

Panganay ng Umaga

Joey Ayala, 1982

ang panganay ng umaga'y

sumilip sa bintana

ako'y dumilat at nagulat

sa lawak ng mundo

mga burol at kabundukan

nakahanay sa abot-tanaw

bughaw na langit at kapatagan

magkasintahang nagtatagpo

lawa ilog dagat

lamig tamis alat

ulan agos alon

haplos sa pisngi ng panahon

sanlibong ulap nagliliparan

kasabay ng agila at lawin

bulong ng simoy awit ng hangin

at sigaw ng buhawi

ako'y tao lamang

taga-bigay ng pangalan

taga-sukat taga-bilang

munting butil sa sanlibutan

ang panganay ng umaga'y

sumilip sa bintana

ako'y dumilat at nagulat

sa lawak ng mundo

Milestones in Banking

New milestones in banking – can awards criteria be better?

Will inclusive banking better serve inclusive development?

Dear Editor-in-Chief of Philippine Daily Inquirer,

Thank you for ‘Top of the banking heap’ written by your staff, Sept. 15th, 2013. Cheers for writing a winning piece, about an award-winning bank, in a regional competition using criteria that make banks the winners in the race toward inclusive and sustainable progress. A toast to BDO for besting other perennial winners like mega banks DBS and HSBC.

It is truly a milestone to be proud of when one of our banks outperforms bigger and older institutions beyond national horizons. Your report that the award reflects the rise in fortunes of the country is heart warming and makes us see the improvement in the country’s credit rating as not just a notion and a benchmark, but as a tool that can actually lead to more meaningful inclusive development.

New Milestones: New Wineskins for New Wine

BSP, good shepherd and excellent gatekeeper, has kept the banking industry as strong, robust, resilient and successful as ever. It has advanced and preserved the strength of banks for so long, as this award shows. Is it time for fresh milestones in banking excellence? If banks are winners should not the victory belong to the customer?

WAWD thinks it could be time to shift from just keeping banks strong to making their consumers stronger as well. In the spirit of inclusive development for banks and their clients we make a humble challenge for PDI to sponsor and take a lead in granting awards that are based on new set of criteria that focus and connect with the bank customer rather than just the banks. If FinanceAsia can do it, why shouldn’t PDI be able to do it better with new set of criteria which WAWD suggests can include:

1.       In addition to loan-to-asset values and ratios, MSME loans-to-asset values and ratios;

2.       Loan portfolio classified and differentiated as to MSME borrowers and non-MSME borrowers;

3.       Loan portfolio broken down as to size, such as micro, small, large and mega;

4.       Net interest margin for MSMEs compared to NIM for non-MSMEs;

5.       Bank products geared for MSMEs;

6.       Loan portfolio granted by Head Office and by Provincial Branches and the % of branch deposits to branch loans; are the bank branches net deposit takers or net loan providers or do branches contribute to local development or siphon it?

7.       Compliance with R.A. 9501 or the Magna Carta for MSMEs.

I bet you it will be great fun to see these numbers officially and publicly revealed for the first time! I’m sure you would be able to add more criteria that can point out that the banking industry will thrive more and the bank consumers are served in more and better ways by serving the smaller sized segment some more. The same issue reports that Philexport, for one, has made studies that show there is more beneficial impact to the economy when the MSMEs are served as they should be and the consumers in the provincial areas are served more. How so? That is another story that WAWD can tell some other time.   

For now we encourage and challenge you to spearhead this competition and awards and we will help as much as we can. This can even be the start of a movement with more social and news impact than Pork. I’m sure you have your resources to use in responding to the challenge and making it a viable value proposition.

Or you can always outsource!

Cheers and may you be more than conquerors in your daily quest for truth and progress!

Bob Calida

We Also Walk Dogs

Asian Solutions Provider Inc.

Asian College  

Cc:          Ms. Alexandra Prieto-Romualdez

                President, PDI

BSP Gov. Armando Tetangco

PHILEXPORT

To Have It Done

Fill Your Life with Everyday Joys

Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?

By Mathew Arnold

From the book ‘Be Happy In All The Ways That Matter Most’

To Have It Done and Have It Done Well

To outsource is to have it done, and have it done well and faster!

Bot Palacol

We Also Walk Dogs

Asian Solutions Provider Inc.

Asian College

Making Waves

PH picked for WB ‘green accounting’ project

By DJ Yap, Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 20, 2013

MANILA, Philippines—The Philippines has been chosen along with four other countries for the pilot implementation of a World Bank-led project to develop “green accounting,” or the inclusion of the value of natural resources in measuring a nation’s economic progress...

Environment Secretary Ramon Paje made the announcement on Saturday from Washington D.C., where he represented the country at a high-level ministerial meeting on “natural capital accounting (NCA)” or “green accounting” organized by the WB on April 18...

Paje said the Philippines, along with Botswana, Colombia, Costa Rica and Madagascar, were selected as the implementing partners of the Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services (WAVES) project of the World Bank… his participation at the meeting underscored the Aquino administration’s focus on preserving the environment while pursuing sustainable, inclusive and resilient growth.

MAKING WAVES

"Alam ko lang na itong planeta'y

 walang kapalit at dapat ingatan, kapag nasira, sinong kawawa?"

- from 'Karaniwang Tao' by Joey Ayala

Dear Sec. Paje,

How green is Green Accounting? How social is Social Accounting?

If the ecosystem nurtures and supports life, if the market place produces and allocates wealth, if government creates and allocates power and enforces justice, how will Green Accounting look like?

Thank you for making waves in the global arena for our beloved Philippines. In the words of the Matiglangilan from the highlands of Mindanao, “what you’re doing is good (thank you)”.

Sustainable, Inclusive, Resilient Growth

It comes as no surprise that our homeland is once again a testing ground to several iterations of creative instruments of transformational intervention in coping with the effects of environmental change and in responding to the challenges and opportunities in ‘sustainable, inclusive and resilient growth’.  These are no longer buzz words coined by development thinkers, they are yearnings from the hearts of people like you and me, guys from the streets and guys in government meeting rooms as well. We are glad to think that with creative developmental and accounting theory, practice and frameworks, these abstract notions will soon find reflection in Balance Sheets and Income Statements not just in business, but also in government and communities, statements that facilitate analysis, forecasting, planning and policy making with greater clarity, understanding and objective measurability.

How Green Is Green?

But how green is Green Accounting? How social is Social Accounting? What are the set points that will make green “Green” enough, social “Social” enough? I suppose these are the points your project   will find and establish and our best wishes and prayers for your success are with you.

These thoughts come to mind when thinking, for example, of the ‘Peace Talks’ and the concept of ‘Wealth Sharing’ in allocating the natural wealth of Mindanao and the Bangsamoro that is presently being negotiated. For business in Mindanao and elsewhere, including those that exploit, harvest, process and deplete natural resources, wealth sharing arrangements are quite simple and straightforward. Distribution of earnings and dividends to different stakeholders, interest to creditors, taxes to government, matching of cost of goods sold to revenues, depreciation and depletion treatment of ‘wasting’ assets and their replacement over time and other issues are set points that are simply and easily covered under conventional accounting practice and frameworks that are generally accepted under local and international financial reporting standards.

Community Balance Sheet – Where is it? What Does it Look Like?

For government and the community, it’s a lot different. Note that the government is not the community and the community is not the government. The government has its own Financial Statements, but where is the community Balance Sheet that will recognize and value the wealth that will have to be shared? What would be the system of valuation? Who are the stakeholders that will share wealth or the profits the wealth will generate? In the formula Assets = Liabilities + Capital who owns the Capital? Is it the government? How so? If government were the BPO agent of the Community, will it earn service fees? Will it charge taxes as a matter of right?

One’s Output is Another’s Input

If, for example, the time comes when Brazil will collect from the rest of the world (as free and willing buyers) for the Oxygen produced and the Carbon sequestered in the Amazon forests, what can the PH collect from the rest of the world and what for? What would be the methods of valuation? If, by its very nature enterprise Financial Statements cannot capture certain social costs, are Community Financial Statements able to do so? I’m sure you will find all the right answers to these philosophical and accounting issues. And you will be able to craft the proper community Balance Sheet and Income Statement models to reflect these values and value relationships, but they will be far from conventional. Note that we are not trying to trigger a political debate. We are apolitical. We are curious to see an accounting tool for a development solution to a grassroots issue. And this is our way of saying “we support you and we love what you are doing”!

MAKE WAVES!

You are in for lots of hard work Sec. Paje, but I’m sure you will find the right answers. After all the World Bank and the rest of the world are watching, and I’m sure, ready to help. We ourselves at WAWD are brimming with curiosity and thrilled to search our store of financial and accounting expertise to see if we could help.

We watch your progress with keen eyes, eager expectations and fervent prayers for your success. With your success the nation is blessed, with your breakthroughs we can start seeing our planet as it is foretold in the Book of Revelation – “behold I make all things new”.

Know that we at WAWD are starting to do our own thinking and tinkering and walking dogs for the cause of Green and Social Accounting. We want to be cool about it and have fun. In fact, one of our colleagues did a piece on Social Cost Accounting way back in 2009, and we’re sending you a copy (through this link) to add to your store of ideas and to your fun, hopefully.

This is not an easy dog to walk, but let’s have fun anyway.

BOB CALIDA

We Also Walk Dogs

Asian Solutions Provider Inc.

Asian College

QUANTUNOMICS

Dear development thinker,

One of the things that WAWD is doing in its continuing effort to “make the difficult easy, and the easy worth much” is the tracking of buzz words that describe development trends and advocacies for clients and friends. Thus, in the field of development we are tracking the shift in meaning and usage of the term “sustainable development” which was buzzing in the past decade, to the current “sustainable and inclusive development”.

We are also tracking the “clean and green” advocacies and setting our sights on the recent achievement of DENR Sec. Paje in getting local participation and engagement in Green Accounting advocacy within the ‘Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services (WAVES)’ project of the World Bank.

This piece notes and examines with high interest the buzz in recent months on the word ‘Quantum’ that reveal emerging and converging movements in the fields the word describes. Quantum physics, quantum healing, quantum shifts, quantum mechanics, quantum energy, quantum this, quantum that. Very interesting to note that my numerous past exposure to experiences and stories of miraculous healing seem to be getting validation from quantum healing practitioners some of whom are forming and embedding a scientific approach and explanation to their theory and practice. But that is another story.

This story is about my puzzlement on the roots and meaning of the word and my search for meaning and significance in its recent usages and applications. I was fortunate enough to know someone I could ask, who quickly answered with a thorough and layman-friendly written explanation coupled with examples of recent applications. The piece below titled “Quantunomics” started as a birthday present, the best birthday gift I ever had. When WAWD started blogging this year all I had to do was ask the author to edit and condense it a bit and so here we are with what is hopefully a clear and useful commentary on the meaning and applications of the word “Quantum”. ‘Quantunomics’ by Behnido Calida is the first contribution to WAWD. There will be others, by experts in their respective field.

In case at the end you find more questions than answers and would want help for further research on the matter, you know where to find us, to ‘walk your dog’ anytime you want. We are bent on making the difficult easy, and the easy worth much.

Have lots and quanta of fun!

Bob Calida

We Also Walk Dogs    

Asian Solutions Provider Inc.

Asian College

‘Quantunomics’ – When Two Worlds Collide

By: Behnido Calida, PhD received his doctorate in Engineering Management and Systems Engineering in 2013 from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, where he also received his Master’s in Engineering Management in 2009. He obtained his BS in Applied Physics in 2000 from the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, after which he spent 5 years working in a middle management position in Singapore. His writing and research interests are in the multidisciplinary domains of the sciences and engineering specifically related to critical infrastructures, sustainable development and large-scale engineering technology deployment domains. This is his first contribution to ‘We Also Walk Dogs’.

Quantuno—what? Never heard about it before? If you haven’t, I’m not surprised. I just coined the term to come up with some catchy blog title for ‘We Also Walk Dogs’. Well, it got you reading so it did its job. But really, it may very well become an important word in the near future. It is after all a mash up between two curious topics I’d like to dabble about – the economy and quantum theory.

Street Economics

If you walk up to someone on the street and ask him to give one word to describe the (US) economy, chances are the word you get is BAD. The job market looks bleak. The housing prices are not where they should be. The stock market is as full of uncertainty as it ever was. Globalization is shrinking our local markets. Yes, the economy is simply BAD right now. Of course, everything is not all doom and gloom and others will choose to look at the bright side of things. Perspective does matter at this point but everyone from all walks of life would agree that we could use a much-improved thriving economy. One way to get there is to first admit the shortcomings in our current economic reality. And from this one economic reality, we seek insights from another physical reality, a smaller one…in fact, so small we are talking about reality at the quantum scale.

Quantum Talk and Theory

There are several promising developments in this area which very soon will transform how we live our lives. But first, let us start off quantum talk by highlighting the contributions of renowned physicists who introduced them in the first place. A number of these folks you would know if you are closely following "science fiction" literature which embodied imaginative speculations of these emerging theories over the years. The key figures here of course involve Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Max Planck and many others. The traditional paradigm before Einstein revolved around Newtonian mechanics which to a certain degree was accurate to describe physical phenomena in the macro-scale. Newton's Three Laws of Motion (aka the mechanistic paradigm) is still useful with respect to explaining how matter behaves. Note that with Newtonian paradigm, scientists were very proficient in accurately predicting how matter behaves. However, their theories and predictions are limited to a certain level where matter behaves either as a "particle" or as a "wave" BUT not both. Einstein shook this paradigm with his Theory of Relativity when he claimed that matter in fact behaves as both "particle" and "waves". Let us start calling this the "quantum" paradigm which at its core is able to resolve the particle-wave "duality" property of matter. In this new paradigm, matter is not exclusively a particle or exclusively a wave BUT should be regarded as a bit of both. This helps to extend the limitations of Newtonian physics at the atomic scale where inherent paradoxes are apparent. Around this time, another scientist named Max Planck also theorized that "electrons" (at that time the most basic element in the atomic structure) don't exist in continuous form BUT instead manifest itself in discrete levels of energy, wherein he proposed that each fundamental level or "packet of energy" as a "quanta". Niel's Bohr took this further by saying that the transition of electrons between these discrete levels of energy (or what he refers to as atomic shells) should be at the heart of our understanding of physical phenomenon at the atomic scale. This is a very powerful shift in understanding as it necessarily converges the idea that matter behaves as both "particle" AND "wave" at the same time. There are some inherent paradoxes (e.g. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, Schroedinger's cat, etc.) namely that tell us though that at any given instant, we are only able to observe either the "particle" properties or the "wave" properties at that same time. Any modification of the "particle" properties risks introducing some changes to the "wave" properties of that same matter. May sound a bit of an oversimplification as there's a lot more history of course, BUT a lot of the advancements in quantum physics is an evolution of man's understanding of what specific changes at the "particle" side would induce property changes at the wave side and vice versa.

Quantum Meaning in Applications

This brings us to a lot of the huge "quantum" words that you hear today as a result of breakthroughs brought about by "quantum physics". Here’s a couple of interesting applications brought to life by developments in this area.

Quantum computing - Remember the time when the computer was the biggest thing in technology...with quantum physics, things are about to get even much bigger (or should I say much smaller). The whole electronics industry is very familiar with Moore's law which states that the allowable miniaturization possible in computers is dictated by how much "transistors" (the basic logical blocks in computer chips) we can squeeze in a fixed space. The rate of change of computer technology has followed this trend but we are running out of innovation ideas and fast approaching the physical limits predicted by this law. With the advent of "quantum physics", information is no longer transmitted through "bits" of electrons but instead through manipulating quantum bits of energy referred to as "qubits". In layman’s terms, things are about to get smaller as we are now able to store a lot more computer information by manipulating the actual "spin" of electrons. With this development, the entire computer industry just got rejuvenated as it no longer has to contend with the daunting physical constraints of Moore's law. Time will tell when the next breakthrough will happen and which one industry will adopt.

Energy harvesters - A new breakthrough in quantum physics are the experiments involving "quantum interference" which have very promising implications for materials used in energy harvesting. You can search it in Google, but the way it works is as follows: "Every time you drive your car down the block, you're wasting energy. It can't be helped; in the process of generating the power to move your car, its motor also produces a lot of heat, and all the energy used to create that heat goes to waste. 

Researchers at the University of Arizona hope to change that. Using a principle of quantum mechanics called quantum interference, they have simulated a working molecular thermoelectric material capable of turning heat into electricity.

Heat to energy that’s clean, portable and efficient - Not only does this new material convert heat into electricity with unmatched efficiency, it's less than a millionth-of-an-inch thick. What's more, the material has no moving parts and produces no incremental pollution as it works. The researchers have big plans for the material. For instance, they contend that by wrapping a car's exhaust system in the material the car could capture enough electricity to power 200 light bulbs of the 100 watt variety. The material also could do wonders for solar panels, which also waste heat during operation. The thermoelectric material could not only convert that heat into energy but also help the solar cells operate more efficiently by keeping them cooler."

Quantum breakthroughs in applications - This is a big breakthrough and there will be lots of applications coming in the next few years. Just imagine that many of the limitations of technology are related to the problem of "overheating". Now with this new technology, we are not only solving the problem of "overheating" but also introducing a way to convert heat directly into electricity. Also, note that this new technology is being implemented at the "nano-scale", which further drives the likelihood that next generation of computer appliances (without the cooling components) would be much smaller.

Whereto Quantunomics?

Which brings us back to where we started - what about Quantunomics? Well, it doesn’t mean much for now. If anything, it is a placeholder for future economic reality that is supported by informed practitioners and a deeper, broader theory and understanding of physical reality, notably in its form as power and energy. To the curious, there is a lot more that quantum physics has to offer. The father of economics himself Adam Smith envisioned an economic system that is governed by an Invisible Hand. Maybe and just maybe, he was referring to something he could not see and which we are only beginning to understand now in our generation – the quantum effects. And in true quantum fashion, we slowly realize that we are after all in fact creatures living in two intricately interwoven worlds – the world of economics, sometimes BAD and sometimes GOOD, and the physical world, the understanding of which is now shifting in quantum terms! J

With quantum thanks, I leave you WAWD, with a challenge to search more and more for the understanding that will bring us to the City foretold in the Book of Revelation where the Creator says “behold I make all things new”!

Whew… that was difficult WAWD, but easy.

Behnido Calida

June 29, 2013

Secrets of Lasting Happiness

One of the secrets of lasting happiness is to take time to accomplish what you have to do, then to make time to accomplish what you want to do. Remember that life is short. Its golden moments need hopes and memories and dreams…

 Find time, make time, take time… to do something rewarding and deeply personal and completely worthwhile. Time is your fortune, and you can spend it to bring more joy to yourself and others your whole life through.

By Noel Pagels

From the book BE HAPPY IN ALL THE WAYS THAT MATTER MOST

FINDING AND MAKING TIME

Dear CEO and CFO,

Many times you may find yourself on the verge of something earth shaking, game changing or even simply getting your books and budgets balanced. A company acquisition, a new product, a new strategy, a new board or even the traffic or dinner choices are perhaps hard or easy choices that will drain your energy and make holes in your time stream.

Happy Or Successful?

I vaguely remember a story about a choice Steve Jobs had to make, told right after his demise. The choices were between a dinner date with the love of his life and a business meeting with important business contacts. He made time in choosing the former and probably found time later for the latter. The fact that Steve eventually married and had a happy life with the lady and was able to build a successful business tells me he made the right choice.

 Your Heart or Your Pocket? Or Both?

We are free to choose what we want to choose but we cannot choose the outcome of what we choose. If you find time to accomplish what you have to do, you can make time to accomplish what you want to do. But what if you can’t find time to do what you need to do after all?

Outsource and be happy! Outsource what you have to do and make time to do what you want to do. Do not run after money and success. Let Mr. Money and Mr. Success run after Mr. Happy!

Stretch yes, stress never. Outsource!

Bot Palacol

We Also Walk Dogs

Asian Solutions Provider Inc.

Asian College

The Urgency of Courage – Heal your stress, outsource! 

“There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” -- Victor Hugo

 “You do have what it takes. But you must take what you have and use it. Then you're given more. As Emerson said, "God will not have his work made manifest by cowards." To realize your potential, you must live on this emerging edge.” – Derek Rydall, international life coach

Dear CEO on the Edge of Emergence,

Only cowards worry, doubt, hesitate, procrastinate, ask for further studies or delegate problem solving to a committee. The brave and the wise just do it. Or outsource it!

My modern definition of “noblesse oblige”: “to those who have, more will be given; to those who are given much, much is required, and they will give more, or outsource”.

Bob Calida

We Also Walk Dogs

http://asiansolutionsprovider.com

Asian College

HELP

A prayer to be said when the world has gotten you down, and you feel rotten, and you’re too tired to pray, and you’re in a big hurry,…  

“HELP!”  *Author unknown

Dear CFO,

If you are the type who believes in answered prayers or one who believes in getting involved in answers to prayer, here are a few:

*Can’t figure out your tax numbers and can’t beat the tax deadline? Avoid stress, get help, outsource.

*Need reliable and timely financial reports but don’t have the time, people or HRD to install an Accounting System or Department? Get help, stay healthy, outsource! BPO is waiting and so is the ICU!

Bot Palacol

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