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On staying or letting go

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Dear Lloyd, I’m a third-year medical technology student. While I can cope with my subjects, I still feel that something is lacking. I can’t seem to find what will make me happy. Maybe you can help me. MJ If you are really passionate about something, quitting is almost always the last resort. This has been my philosophy for quite a long time now. And whenever I hear people telling me that their option is to quit, I always advise them to reconsider. After every setback is a comeback. I always believe in working more on what was left than what was lost and to find yourself again in times of losses and misses. Too many broken pieces scattered all over the place don’t make sense until you put them together to form a masterpiece. Some masterpieces come from rubble and debris brought about by our painful past. A once messy story can become a remarkable testimony. The human spirit doesn’t totally break. It simply flexes. And it can be painful, ugly and disorienting. I was once r...
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What you see is more important than what you look at

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Back in 2007 during the lowest point in my life, I almost did the unthinkable. You have an idea. Fortunately, I'm still here alive. One simple text message came just on time to save my life. I got from my mentor and it writes, "How are you?" When I looked at my situation then, I saw it as an end, not the beginning of something new. Very young and fragile, I was 23, what do I know about life anyway. Besides, all I knew was there's nothing more I to hope for, I'm done, walk away and never come back. Trapped, broken, and taken hostage by my own mistakes and bad decisions, why would you want to live another day? But I lived another day. And another one. And another one. Such miserable experience taught me a very important lesson in life: "What we see is more important than what we look at." There's always something in a picture that we don't see—something in a misery that will eventually come handy to secure a victory. You can always look at...
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Suspend your judgment

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Filipino leadership speaker Lloyd Luna. Today's reflection is as easy as it is ocean-deep—a wisdom of some sort based on my personal experience. It's easy to judge people who we haven't even met, tarnish their reputation, and call them names. It's easy to express our opinion based simply on what we believe or what is most convenient for us. We always have something to say, don't we? What does judging people make us? What does it give u s? Do we become better or we simply we're bitter when we make judgments? The thing is, people have their reasons for the choices they make. And it is absolutely not your business or mine to judge them because it is what they choose. But when their choice would lead them to pain and suffering and misery, it is our business to care and to reach out. It is our business to remind them that no matter how bad their choices are and how messy their life has become, they are loved. People deserve more understanding than judgment. Aft...
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If surveys were true, then...

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In the last couple of months, we’ve seen an incredible movement of figures in surveys. If these numbers were true, then it’s a good sign. Let me tell you why. Without being bias in my discussion, I’ll give you some positive points about the movement of those numbers. I said positive because it’s not only an indication of something positive for Manny Villar’s fans and supporters (and perhaps a negative thing for Noynoy’s following) but also an indication of what’s really happening inside the people’s mind. Indeed, there’s a good news for all of us. I’d like to believe that Filipinos are very passionate and emotionally attached to someone or something—to a known personality to a certain telenovela to an event. Such emotional attachment means so much that it started the world’s first bloodless revolt. It’s so effective that it brought about a second people power and installed a new president. Perhaps because we can associate ourselves with local television series that’s why the Philippine...
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Number One Motivational Speaker in the Philippines

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Who is the number one motivational speaker in the Philippines today? While I’m tempted to drop a name, I’d rather not. At least that came from a good friend of mine who told me that I may not be the best motivational speaker but I’m able to position myself as such. He said being best is so subjective that you must be able to position yourself so well to at least be perceived as such. But my job as the highest-paid motivational speaker under the age of 30 is more than perception. When I am up on stage to share my message, I perform. I’m not just giving it without sweat. I do it with gusto, energy, power, and enthusiasm. I’m passionate about what I do and I love how I do it—people laugh, get serious, laugh again, get serious again—or in other words it’s a dynamic, moving experience. There are many motivational speaker in the Philippines and Asia and I must say that I know some of them. I’m 27 years old and I’d like to meet some more doing almost the same mission that I ...
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Meeting with Paolo Villar; posing with President Manny Villar

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(Note: This blog post can be best viewed here: http://ping.fm/wxxRT) Pocholo was able to set an appointment with Paolo Villar, the son of President Manny Villar. Before 2009 ended, we knew this will come. We sat down and talked about his father's campaign. We left our office at around 9 am and arrived at Paolo's office in Shaw Blvd at around 10:30. The purpose of our meeting is to introduce our team formally, to discuss who we are, what we do, and how we do it. LLOYDLUNA with President Manny Villar It was almost five years ago when our team got deeply involved in making a president of a country elected—too deeply yet too young to understand better the political dynamics in a highly political environment. We were technical assistants in the Office of the President of the Philippines who cascaded the president's Strong Republic vision. I think selling that vision to the youth made her number one in the sector at based on surveys prior to 2004 elections where she said she'...
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Filipino political consultants in a Crossfire session

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Before lunch time, Ian Barcelona got in the office and asked me and Pocholo if we can join him in an ocular inspection in Island Cove in Cavite. We'd like to see the place where the National Sales Kickoff Rally of Camella Homes South and East divisions. It was an appointment that's not in my calendar. In the afternoon, I was supposed to interview my potential trainees. It was then moved (they waited patiently) until around 4 p.m. I accepted the applicants, briefed them about my company. We also agreed on their primary and secondary tasks. I said I'm willing to help them experience a real on the job training. Unlike other big companies, mine is very lean one. So obviously I don't have anything to lose. And then we went to our war room and discussed our proposals to a presidentiable and and senatoriable. We fine-tuned our campaign proposals and come up with an excellent nationwide campaign strategy for the two gentlemen. I even called the senatoriable and asked him somet...
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