The optimal combination to achieve your dreams? Logic and Faith!
- Korina Mercado

- Dec 30, 2018
- 6 min read
Updated: Mar 7, 2020
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THOUGHTS WHICH ARE MIXED WITH ANY OF THE FEELINGS OF EMOTIONS, CONSTITUTE A “MAGNETIC” FORCE WHICH ATTRACTS, FROM THE VIBRATIONS OF THE ETHER, OTHER SIMILAR, OR RELATED THOUGHTS.
-Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

2018 indeed has most of the peak points of my life looking at it graphically. I had incredible learning and experiences. Good, and yes some bad stuffs. But everything is a blessing so that God can create the best "Konkon" she could be.
If you followed and read all the articles I've written, most of it are my spiritual journey. Some will say, it's too much about "God" but hey, He is indeed the source of all our blessings and a life guided by Him is the life I want. I am positive most of the times and yes I'm practical too. I mix Faith with hard-work and knowledge to aim for the best. I want to maximize all the skills and gifts God has given me. And yes, I'm thankful for where I am now and all the achievements I had and will be having. More achievements to come 2019!😉
2018: Devotional Books but for DEC 2018, I started reading Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill and The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss.
This blog will be a twist of Faith and Survival Skills for Success that I learned this 2018 and the good stuffs I read from books. Let me share with you some of my learning. ❤️
"Gold is getting old. The New Rich (NR) are those who abandon he deferred-life plan and create luxury lifestyles in the present using the currency of the New Rich: time and mobility. This is an art and a science we will refer to as Lifestyle Design (LD).I’ve spent the last three years traveling among those who live in worlds currently beyond your imagination. Rather than hating reality,I’ll show you how to bend it to your will. It’s easier than it sounds. My journey from grossly overworked and severely underpaid office worker to member of the NR is at once stranger than fiction and now that I’ve deciphered the code — simple to duplicate. There is a recipe. Life doesn’t have to be so damn hard. It really doesn’t. The truth, at least the truth I live and will share in this book, is quite different. From leveraging currency differences to outsourcing your life and disappearing, I’ll show you how a small underground uses economic sleight-of-hand to do what most consider impossible."
- The 4-Hour Workweek, Tim Ferris
Time and Mobility, this coming 2019 we need to master and manage this properly, we're not getting any younger. We need to get closer to our goals in life! With this lets plan our "Freedom Multiplier". What is it about?"Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W’s you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it. I call this the “freedom multiplier. - Tim Ferriss”
Have you thought of your freedom multiplier? An easy activity can be comparing your freedom multiplier 2018 VS 2019. Let's see what are the variances. I'm sure you'll see patterns.
"Life is strange, and often imponderable! Both the successes and the failures have their roots in simple experiences. Mr. Darby’s experiences were commonplace and simple enough, yet they held the answer to his destiny in life, therefore they were as important (to him) as life itself. He profited by these two dramatic experiences, because he analyzed them, and found the lesson they taught. But what of the man who has neither the time, nor the inclination to study failure in search of knowledge that may lead to success? Where, and how is he to learn the art of converting defeat into stepping stones to opportunity?
-Think Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill.
I've been discussing a lot about my failures and disappointments on my previous articles and how I learned from it by strengthening my Faith. Together with Faith I've been continuously applying practical strategies and different techniques on my daily life. Trial and error per say. Have faith, stand up, learn from your mistakes and by faith believe that your goal will happen. Together with this I also apply fear setting by Tim Ferriss. Believe me, there's progress. And I always thank God for every progress I make(big or small).
"Barnes’ desire was not a hope! It was not a wish! It was a keen, pulsating DESIRE, which transcended everything else. It was DEFINITE."
-Think Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill.
Everything starts with a DESIRE. Believe me this is powerful! Let me go through my simple steps applicable to each of your goal. #goalsetting
1. Desire💙 - Discern and pray for what it is that you desire. Remember that God planted the desires in your heart. Don't say that you don't know why you always think about this "X Dream". It is planted in you. Keep dreaming and get to it! DESIRE it to happen in your life. Attract it. Believe in the Law of Attraction.
2. Plan📝 - This is self explanatory, we know how to plan. Apply what suits you.
3. Execute❕ - Implement your plans, in project management "do not delay your critical path". It could be small steps but both of is know we need to get there right? Get there!
4. Believe🙏 - Prayers are powerful. The Power of the Mind is powerful. The Power of Words is powerful. BELIEVE.
5. Receive😇 - You will receive it. (Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye. shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you - Mark 7:7)
6. Gratify🎉 - Gratitude. Being grateful for everything is a way of accepting life. That life is not always good. That life is taking risks. That it's okay to fail, that's it's okay to be late. That life is not a race. Life is meant to be lived happily not strangled. Be grateful for everything. Being grateful goes a long way. (I will give thanks to you, LORD, with all my heart; I will tell of all you wonderful deeds. - Psalms 9:1)
7. Give🎀 - Don't under estimate the power of Generosity. There's so many writings about this. Give back to other people who need your help. Give back to all those people who helped you. Give back to all those people who's with you from the beginning. Your family. Love them. Love everyone. No hate, just love.
With these 7 steps, you can tweak it, revise it and to progress more, increase your KNOWLEDGE.
"NOW HOW TO PURCHASE KNOWLEDGE
First of all, decide the sort of specialized knowledge you require, and the purpose for which it is needed. To a large extent your major purpose in life, the goal toward which you are working, will help determine what knowledge you need."
“It has always been a mystery to me,” said Elbert Hubbard, “why people spend so much time deliberately fooling themselves by creating alibis to cover their weaknesses. If used differently, this same time would be sufficient to cure the weakness, then no alibis would be needed.”
In addition to the 7 steps, elimination of ALIBIS are very important.
I would like to share with you the finishing writings of Napoleon Hill.
"In parting, I would remind you that “Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is TIME. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by TIME. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate INDECISION! Previously you may have had a logical excuse for not having forced Life to come through with whatever you asked, but that alibi is now obsolete, because you are in possession of the
Master Key that unlocks the door to Life’s bountiful riches. The Master Key is intangible, but it is powerful! It is the privilege of creating, in your own mind, a BURNING DESIRE for a definite form of riches. There is no penalty for the use of the Key, but there is a price you must pay if you do not use it. The price is FAILURE. There is a reward of stupendous proportions if you put the Key to use. It is the satisfaction that comes to all who conquer self and force Life to pay whatever is asked. The reward is worthy of your effort. Will you make the start and be convinced?"
-Think Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill.
You will agree with me that TIME⌚ is very important and all books will tell you that. But here we are not optimizing it. I'm with you throughout our journey together. We can do this.
“If we are related,” said the immortal Emerson, “we shall meet.”
In closing, may I borrow his thought, and say, “If we are related, we have, through these pages, met.”
-Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill.
I love his ending too! And I know even though I don't know you reading this we've crossed paths through this article. We have same experiences. I hope and I pray that we conquer our fears together. Let's live the life that we wanted.
See you on top!
All my Heart,
Korina
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