Create Your Own Ideal.

Sometimes, a place, a culture or a way can really frustrate us.

Sometimes, something could upset us so deeply, we can recognize that we don’t like the person we’re becoming because we are frustrated every day.

Do we even recognize ourselves anymore? That’s when we need to get out and do something.

It is this kind of awareness that could lead us to stop, look, listen and make a change.

There comes a point where we see a situation and we have to decide whether to live with it, leave it or change it.

The first option is the easiest, and the last one is the hardest.

But an option that is rarely discussed or considered is to Create Your Own Ideal.

Last year, I was frustrated about sitting in traffic, about wasted time, about apathy and about the status quo.

I also could not find an event worth the personal investment — to take time, energy and resources aside for an experience worth having, taking a part in and contributing to. One that celebrated you, valued you and listened to you – whether you’re a speaker or an attendee, every one is equal.

So we set aside our own time, energy and resources (in whatever form we may have them), to try and and Create An Ideal — event, atmosphere, community or mindset.

I wanted to help speak of the Bayanihan Spirit and help dispel the opposite mentality I don’t even want to utter. Today, #PHtimeIsNow is a space and a place where people contribute, people fly in and people find value in what they can give on their own, not in what they can take away. Because if each one contributes what they can, then every one will have a true take away in a way that applies to each of them.

Here are two other examples of Filipino Americans who took their frustrations into their own hands, and created a positive change.

Young Students become McDonald’s Poster Models

#FilipinoFounder creates Juliette Cleaners App to Care for Your Clothes Like No Other.

Coincidentally, Juliette’s Rechelle Balanzat will fly in from NYC to ORL to be one of our featured Trailblazers on December 1 and 2!

Let’s meet and talk about “What We Could Do – Together, and On Our Own – To Increase Representation, and Change the World.”

Movements Need Movers. Who’s On Your Team? We All Are!

Because when we Create Our Own Ideal, and we learn it is other people’s Ideal too, together, we Create Something We Are Mad About, but in a Glad Mad Kind of Way.

Tomorrow, September 12, come to the Marriot San Jose (California) and meet with Serg Albino and Ian Doromal of ecoSPEARS, hosts of our upcoming #PHTimeIsNow in Orlando. See you there!