PAL RAINE

Don't let anything STOP you from living your dreams. It's time to learn how being at the top and embrace the limitless opportunities coming your way.

If you read my #WORKITWednesday post, a part of my week-long celebration, I used hashtag shoutout made to all single parents like me. To have an overview of daily activities using TIPS and ADVICE based on writer experience.

It's time to LIVE THE DREAM.

Time to go for our BIG DREAM.

Time to THINK BIG!

DREAMS & AMBITIONS

You got pregnant. You have a child. Now that you're a single mom --- what's next?

What's the BIG DREAM that your longing to do for the longest time but you've not started yet? And now you're a single mom, you will ask yourself, --- "can I do it now?".

Embrace the limitless possibilities that you can do it! As I said, think positive always and everything well go smoothly. Life is unpredictable, right? It's like a road map -- after all, you are still the driver of the car, wherever you go...whatever adventure your taking, just go where the road takes you.

Have a clear goal in mind, collect your thoughts and focus what you want. Focusing in one goal become easier with complete determination you can bring your dreams to SUCCESS!

I know this is hard, to start again is not easy. Don't say that you cannot do it, but rather say this word, "I CAN DO IT"!

Oh well, I say that before, "I CAN DO IT"! I'm hopeless that time but I never quit. I am a fighter and have a great determination that I can surpass all. I have a BIG DREAMS and I need to WORK FOR IT. I start by creating a plan, then I look for a support team, I reach out with my family, relatives, friends and also acquaintances like single moms like me and I take a step one at a time.

Dare to go beyond, there's no stopping you from achieving anything, everything you set in mind ---focus.

Don't settle for mediocrity. Go beyond expectations and WOW the world!

Once you found that GOAL --- #THINKBIG don't lose it! Your bound to have that, flourish it and stand above the rest. Don't be afraid, take that as your guide and gravitate it. Use that goal positively, these can be the clues to your compelling enthusiasm and be your stepping stone to a bigger dream and a brighter future.

Be ambitious in life(but with a limit).

Shout now #THINKBIGThursday

I am so happy with the positive feedback I have on my yesterdays post #TRANSFORMTuesday. Thanks everyone for a nice comment, very much appreciated.

To continue my week-long celebration for all single-parents like me, giving useful tips and advice to help gear up for the future together with our children - - - I have here simple stress management tips and relaxation tools.

TAKE TIME TO RELAX AND HAVE A VACATION --- SNEAK AWAY!

As a single-parent, we need to keep busy to forget our personal problems and divert our self to a fruitful one. It's so stressful, either you are working or a stay home parent. It's time to put yourself in a spotlight! Have that confidence to show everyone how amazingly TOUGH you truly are!

BREATH OUT!

You have to be alone sometimes, away from the society, but don't forget to bring your children with you and enjoy the time with them.

Since you've encounter so much problems thinking about things that cause tensions, it is much better to have a mental relaxation, by going to the beach or in the mountains. Relax your muscles and take a deep breath (tell your children to join you). Hear the sounds around you, smell the smells, and tune in the sense of well-being. Meditate and pray!

You can also listen to music, this will help you relax even if you are just at home or reading books or enjoying a hobby that can make your life more fun.

Pursue your Passion

When you do what you love, people stand up and take notice! In my case, I love dancing but I stop when I got pregnant. For many years I wanted to go back in dancing but my priority now are my children. Instead of enrolling for a dance class, I used my money wisely (budget & save it for my children future). Honestly, I don't have regrets, because even if I am not enrolled in a dancing class, I was born to be a dancer --- I dance when I exercise, and that way I can express my feelings!

Now, my passion is writing and this is my LIFE now. I blog and I love it so much. Writing your thoughts and all your activities(a journal), it can help you clarify things and can give you a renewed perspective in life by visiting other blogs and read other's thoughts---it's like sharing!

Procrastination is stressful! Whatever you want to do tomorrow; do it now!

Volunteer for EXTRA WORK - be proactive, take more responsibilities if you know that you can handle them all. Time to be a confident individual, don't mind your past, get their trust and be independent. You can do it! I can do it!

Don't feel alone!

Take Up A Sport or Exercise - if you're tired with work, why not enroll yourself to a ZUMBA or AEROBIC
class. Here you can develop discipline and confidence. With your talent and ability, nothing will hold you back from victory! Once people notice how great you are, everyone will start following you and want you to be in their group. (Make sure you have extra money to enroll, don't think about yourself passion!)

photo credit: Strong B.A.N.D.S. ZUMBA via photopin (license)

At end, always think of our children's welfare.

Our passion is ourselves.

Don't be stress.

Learn to relax.

TINY BUDDHA

Shout now #WORKITWednesday

Everyone is asking how I get the idea about the shout out I've made yesterday, #MOVEUPMonday. Well, honestly, I saw my eldest daughter bring samples of UNILIVER products from school and a little MAGbrochure from #TeenWeekPH. It is a guide for future-ready teens presented by CANDYMAG.COM and I said to myself, "How about to use this hashtag shoutout for single parents like me". I hope this is okay, to get their hashtags and used it for another advocacy, to help my co-single parents.

Don't pity yourself.

Transform yourself in a better way.

Single-parents feel that they are abandoned or think that they are a curse to society.

STOP BLAMING! GIVE IT UP. STOP. LET IT GO.

Best to start is to think POSITIVE. Made up your mind that you have to change, but the question is HOW and WHY?

This is base on my own experience, as I said from my yesterday's post - - I don't know what to do and where to go when I needed help. I was aware that I am alone together with my kids, but the real fact, though I feel tough I am still afraid what will happen with our future.

A feeling of abandonment from myself that I cannot think of a single empath who can deeply perceive what I feel. I know this sounds crazy and you will think this can't be REAL. But my own experience over the last 9 years has taught me to be more TOUGH and FACE exactly the problems.

We are what we repeatedly do.

There are so many changes and choices I've gone through as a single-parent, from a stubborn only child brat to a simplify life - - - what I have now, I am satisfied.

Everyone of us is different - - no one will follow my choices exactly. Even the way I've made myself CHANGE. You really need to figure out what works with you better.

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be TRANSFORMED by the renewing of your mind. ~ Romans 12:2

As a single-parent, I keep a journal to write down my feelings, ideas, goals and activity. Writing is one of the most useful things I've done to change my life for good. Yes, it works silently but effectively. You only need a pen and a paper.

Keep a Morning Phrase - say it every morning, by the time you wake up. This really help me...I say something positive and it will come true during the day. Just try and tell me how you feel.
Start a NEW DIET - Don't forget, even if you're alone, you still need to feel good. Single-Parents should not to forget to take care of their health, especially that they're working so hard to earn a living for their children. Think also for your own HEALTH. In my case, I have this DIET PLAN called EAT SIX MEALS A DAY(don't skip meal)and WARM WATER EARLY MORNING.
Start your own business and be your own boss. This is why I manage and owned my netshop. I know, it sounds so shallow but I want to work with my own hours.
Wake up early(although everyone says that this is not a habit, but a lifestyle) and I agree. With these, I can open my shop early and I can make more post in my blog. For waking up early(with a purpose) is keeping an eye to a very big opportunity. As the old quotes says: "EARLY BIRD CATCHES BIG WORMS".

Maybe life wasn't fair for us as single-parents. Yes, I know, I've been there and life is never fair. I cry so many nights with the situations I have, but I never quit. For me, I hug all the negative one's and become my guide to be strong and never give up. It's so unique, fantastic, challenging, one of a kind hard job...and little by little I realize that, I am here to acknowledge life's wonder, not to prove and pin point anybody's fault. They're not wrong, we have different opinions. And that's part of life.

TRANSFORM for the good of your children. Being a parent we are filled with unconditional, life lasting love - - just begin with small steps at a time.

Shout now #TRANSFORMTuesday!!!!

This is my personal experience in getting a replacement for my lost BIR TIN card.

I got my first BIR TIN card when I am still working at SM-WATSONS Phils. Davao, but in the year 2005 I loss my wallet 5 days before my resignation takes effect. I immediately report it to our Human Resource Department, but since I am going out of the company, our Asst.Personnel passes a report regarding my problem to the BIR Head Office here in Davao. After a week, I receive a call from our personnel that I have to visit the BIR District Office and secure a duly notarized AFFIDAVIT OF LOSS.

I went to the BIR District Office(formerly located fronting Assumption Church, F.Torres, Davao City) there I was given a BIR FORM 1905 attached with the affidavit of loss and file it to Window 2. I've waited for almost an hour then someone approached me and extracted me to go at the back of the bldg. and get my temporary ID in a sheet of a paper. Since I'm not already working and I'm not in a hurry to get my TIN ID CARD, I went home.

But in a while, if I have the chance to pass by the BIR office, I always ask the in-charge if my ID is already ready and this is the reasons I've always heard from them, "THE MACHINE IS OUT OF ORDER", "THE IN-CHARGE OF THE ID IS OFF DUTY","THE IN-CHARGE IS ABSENT", "IN THE PROCESS" etc... Honestly, I got tired with their reasons and I don't bother to go back and get my card again.

Many years have passed or should I say exactly 10 years now, I met a friend who has a friend who is working at the BIR Office and I finally remember my TIN ID CARD. And this is true, I will not disclose my friends' name but this is actually true.

She told me that she has a friend connected with the BIR and she can help me regarding my problem, but I have to pay PHp300 for that. And because I need another ID for my BANK RENEWAL REQUIREMENT, I grab the said opportunity.

And by the next day.

VIOLA! I got my BIR TIN CARD.

Just my say, I know that my friend's friend is just helping, but asking for an amount of PHp300 to process a REPLACEMENT for a Lost BIR TIN Card or a Damaged TIN Card is too much, as I know you only have to pay PHP100-150 for a replacement/damaged card.

I admit I make a wrong move here, as I've said I grab it because I needed the card badly. I don't have a choice, because I know same tune of music I will be hearing if I will visit BIR Office again.

Nevertheless, I already have my card and I am happy to have it. Though I am thankful now that I get my LONG LOST REPLACEMENT for my BIR TIN CARD, I am just wondering how about the others who have the same problem like me. Do they need to wait for a friend who has a friend working at the BIR just to get their ID Replacement? Do they need to pay PHp300 in order to get the said card?

For those who want to apply for a Taxpayer Identification Number, visit here >>>> TIN

To check the address and contact numbers of Regional Offices visit here >>> RO

For the Revenue District Offices, visit here >>>> RDO

The road distance between Davao City to Manila is approximately 1280 kilometers, but if you ask about the flight distance its about 958 kilometers, regardless how far our place, Davao City still celebrates and welcome Pope Francis with gladness and with a big smile while watching the LIVE telecast of the local channels.

Like with the other families, our family is eagerly waiting for the arrival of the Pope. Though we're not physically present I can feel the Holiness of the so called a MAN OF MANY FIRSTS.

I came nearer to the TV to have a good look and at the same time a shot of a picture using my mobile, silly indeed, but this is my way of joining the crowd as they joyfully waiting for Pope Francis.

As the plane about to land, you can hear children dancing and singing and crowds cheering "VIVA EL PAPA" and "BIENVENIDO PAPA FRANCISCO".

The landing was even more exciting when it was being shown on multiple TV stations, many people watched the landing with high HOPES and SPIRIT.

The plane landed safely at Villamor Airbase, and there was something that touches us all, my family feels the excitement and I guess we were touched by an angel especially when we saw Papa Francisco having a peek at the window.

Honestly, I am not a religious person but I believed in God the Father, God the Son and God of the Holy Spirit. But it doesn't mean I hate RELIGION. I believe in religion, it unify people not to divide them. But seeing this man, so holy and you can feel his spiritual power, an aura that tell us all..."I am the SUCCESSOR TO SAINT PETER." To whom Jesus gave the keys of heaven and the powers of "binding and loosing". Naming him as the ROCK upon which the church builds, it strengthened my FAITH and BELIEVE in God.

Waiting is over - - - POPE FRANCIS IS HERE IN THE PHILIPPINES!

His smiles truly contagious, a smile that inspires, uplift and heals wounded heart and souls.

And I affirm that smiling is a shared Universal Language. Nothing quite like a SMILE OF POPE FRANCIS it uplift your day and everyone around him smiles back with a spiritually uplifted souls. He is not tired of giving his smile to all the people waving and shouting his name every time the Pope Mobile drives along the road. Though the vehicle is too far away for the people to reach him, and the car drives so fast, he passes quickly. And we, watching TV at home hardly see what's going on, all I see is his unlimited SMILES and the waving of his hand or so I say the blessing and prayer he gives to the people he sees. And a loud scream, a noise become louder and louder as he approaches and even the news reporters cannot hear what they're talking about.

The long wait is a bit hiatus as people leaves their places and as we at home try to relax from shouting. Yes, we shout and we cry for JOY. Papa Francisco really touches our life's, he has a wonderful, gentle aura which is very compelling. And a smile that magnified a million times, part of it have a great impact with his looks. He is a gorgeous man with a white cassock combine with his great SMILE, and a good and kindhearted man that really shines out with his character, what a dazzling combination.

As what Pope Francis says in one of his liturgy, "those who strive to bring people together, to hold each other with MERCY and COMPASSION, who care about the feelings and opinions of others, are those who make this world a better place". A simple message which call for UNITY and PEACE.

*Photo taken from my mobile screenshot via Cignal TV Channel 99

I start making my own Blogger Planner last 2013 (CLICK HERE). And I found out that to have a planner is making yourself organize and everything you do, having a better time management by monitoring all the activities you have for that day and you will have in the days to come. My 2013 Blogger Planner is a personal bound book, very simple and what's inside is all about Bloggers Activities, like keeping your writing ideas and blog topics and titles. So the next year 2014, I searched for a planner that works for me and I found the site of the Blogging Garden. The planner is still all about Bloggers Activities added with the Blog Finances(CLICK HERE), though I love the idea of this planner, but the pages were not exactly what I needed.

As a single-working mom, I have to include also my children not just my blogging and finances but also my children's school schedules and activities.

For this year 2015 I have come across with these two sites HAND MADE HOME and the WIFE.MOTHER.TEACHER. Both are excellent for this year Blogger Planner because they all have what I needed.

I followed Hand Made Home ideas to make a Blog Planner out of an old binder use in school. In my case, I still have my unused college book binder so it is not so hard for me to make a DIY Book Binder.

Download the Hand Made Home and Wife.Mother.Teacher BLOGGER'S PLANNER printables for FREE.

What you need:

Wall Paper/Gift Wrapper
Puncher
Scissor
Ruler
Invisible Tape

This time, I am using invisible tape called ARMAK.

I used invisible tape now to make my planner neat and clean, though it appears frosty on the roll but invisible on paper.

See sample here:

You cannot easily distinguish that there is a tape used.

Materials needed are all in, let's proceed to my DIY Blogger Planner step-by-step procedures.

(1)Cover the unused book binder. Since it is already old, I have to cover it with a wall paper(or you can use gift wrapper).

(2)I separate and segregate the pages. I used Wife.Mother.Teacher printables as my first page, the likes of the cover page, 2015 Bucket List and Notes. Followed by Hand Made Home Monthly Calendars.

I like that my BUCKET LIST is on the front page of the planner so that I will know what are the things that are already DONE and things that needed to be added.

Though some of the pages from Wife.Mother.Teacher printables are not here because it is not needed in my planner's list like the list of Holidays(not applicable in the Philippines).

You can see here that my blog planner is divided into sections. I have my Weekly/Daily tracker of Blogging, Exercising, To Do List, Shopping List, Meal Plan, Appointments >>> these where I list my schedules and activities of my children in their school like meetings and seminars, list of important sites that I owned (keep my user name and passwords), list of post topic, etc.

At the later part of each page I used the Hand Made Home printable's wherein I can put my SUMMARY OF FINANCES, CLEANING SCHEDULE, LIST MY IDEAS AND INSPIRATION and LESSON PLANNER located at the SUBJECT & SUMMARY page.

Staying on track with your children's activities is what I love to do, exercising throughout the day, schedules from playtime to studying and recording the list of subjects needed for review.

I love my 2015 Blogger Planner, it's not just a Blog Planner but also a JOURNAL of all my activities and my children's activities at the same time.

Different features easy to download, visit the sites stated above and make you own Blogger Planner now for FREE!

By the way, here are my previous planners from last year, together with my 2015 Planner:

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