Think - Feel - Act (TFA)

Proverbs 4:23 "Be careful how you think. Your life is shaped by your thoughts."

The above biblical passage indirectly tells us that everything starts in the mind. That the mind is a very powerful tool of changing the way we feel about something and eventually making us do the things we never thought we could. Famous evangelist Pastor Rick Warren put it this way: "You aren't what you think you are. But what you think, you are."

Our thoughts, ideologies or way of thinking do not just guide the direction of our personal lives...our thoughts are our life. Whatever change we want to achieve in our lives, start with our mind.

We must remember the ideal chain of events we must take, its TFA. TFA is an accronym I invented, it stands for Think - Feel - Act. Our thinking will change the way we feel, and such feeling will move us to do the act. For example in anger, its difficult for men to control anger towards someone. Why? because they are focusing on the feeling right away. If they will just change the way they think regarding that hated someone, for sure theyre feelings will change as well and they will act kindness instead of its opposite. Romans 12:2 says "Be transformed by the renewing of your mind."

I always hated the statement "I fell in love" or "I have fallen in love," it is as if loving someone is just an accident. The truth is people love not because they fell to the feeling of it, its a choice of the individual to love another person. It is not as if you are tripped while walking on rocky road. The same is true in "I have fallen out of love." For couples who have "fallen" out of love with zero reason, change the way you think, remember the good times of being together. Love is a choice. Now, will you choose to love the same person or not and love someone else? Its for you to decide.
If you think of love then you will feel love and eventually youll act love. The method is as simple as that.

In this world where nobody is perfect, we must learn to get along with our fellow unperfect beings. You will never like everything on a person, you must bear with his or her flaws. This is only a temporary world, our God is not yet finished molding us that is why we are not yet perfect.

Love people not because you like loving them. If you ask God to teach you to love, don't expect God to send you a lovable being. You'll never learn the true meaning of love if loving is easy. Instead, He will send you an unperfect one. Its like a gym training for perfection. Still everything starts with the mind. TFL, Think, Feel and the Act.

Let us not all be slaves of our feelings. Our minds have the power to control it.

“Top 20 law schools in the Philippines in terms of their percentile passing rate.”(as of 2008)

1st -Ateneo de Manila University School of Law
2nd -San Beda College of Law
3rd -University of the Philippines College of Law
4th -Far Eastern University-DLSU grad. school (Juris Doctor-MBA program)
5th -Ateneo de Davao University
6th -University of San Carlos
7th -University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Civil Law
8th -University of Cebu,
9th -University of Perpetual Help-Rizal
10th -Arellano University School of Law

11th - Xavier University
12th - Far Eastern University Institute of Law
13th - Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila
14th - University of San Agustin
15th - University of Batangas
16th - Palawan State University
17th - Polytechnic University of the Philippines
18th - Saint Louis University
19th - Lyceum of the Philippines
20th - San Sebastian College-Recolectos de Manila College of Law

source: PDI

Odette Alcantara, 68

A CIVIC LEADER.





CHESS OLYMPIAN.





ENVIRONMENTALIST.





A "TITA" TO ALL








Odette Alcantara died last September 22 a day after collapsing from an aneurysm. She was 68.





"LAHAT (Lupa, Ako, Hangin, Araw at Tubig), magkaugnay" - Tita Odette

author's photo with Alcantara

Together with other environmental advocates, i mourn the loss of an institution in the earth preservation movement.

Dakila ka Tita Odette, mananatili kang buhay sa amin dahil sa iyong kaalamang naipasa. Ang mga kabataang tulad ko ay mananatili na ipaglalaban ang iyong nasimulan. Tulad ng iyong sinabi...ang tunay na makabayan, ay may pakialam sa kalikasan.

Salamat sa mga panahong natuto ako sa iyo, sa mga tawanan, at sa inspirasyon. Mananatili kang buhay. Tulad ng iyong madalas sabihin..."LAHAT...magkaugnay." Kaugnay ka na din ng aming mga puso. Mahal ka namin Tita Odette.