Return on investment

The whole family including my nephew was among the jam-packed, enthusiastic and attentive audience of Mr. Chinkee Tan.  He was the invited speaker of the Unlimited Network of Opportunities Int’l Corp (UNO, Cebu) seminar on “The POWER of FOCUS”.  He opened and aroused our interest starting with the presentation of the clipping that featured him being the guest of Korina Sanchez’ talk show, Rated K.  I learned that before becoming a showbiz personality specifically as one of Randy Santiago’s “hawi boys”, he was a businessman as early as 12 years old.   Instead of books and other school materials, his relatively large bag was full of goods/commodities for sale like rolls of toilet paper and many more.

That December 5, 2010 afternoon was filled with power from the ‘chinky-eyed’, medium statured Chinese who powerfully stressed the significance of ‘focus’.  “Focus is power because it determines our reality.  It is awareness.  The more we are aware of what we want, the easier we can find it.  Focus is concentration. It is doing one thing at a time.” 

“The single enemy of focus is distraction.”  His recommendations include: 1. “Focus on something you can be good at.  This calls for teamwork.”  2. “Focus on the goal not on the scoreboard.”  Noted is the adage, “Success without a successor is a failure.”  3. Focus to become the best.”

Personally, I gained a lot of insights.  Indeed, the return was invaluable even more than the 100 pesos investment per head to attend and be ‘elbow to elbow’ with a successful businessman, preacher and a scriptural best-selling author.  We readily bought his 3 books at a discounted price of 900 pesos.  Our eldest daughter, an architect who according to her she’s an impulsive buyer finds “Till Debt Do Us Part” suited for her.  She’s reading it.  My wife and our only son who is still in 3^rd year high school read “For Poorer and for Richer”.  I am reading “Rich God, Poor God” back to back with “Why God Wants You to Prosper”.

While reading, I feel the author is physically present because I’ve personally seen and heard him.  His book is easy to read being filled with down to earth and purely personal accounts of his encounters with the Lord.  Having read the story of Ms. Toni Rose Gayda (“This Is My Story. 31 Lives. Stories. Miracles”, p. 67),  I am amazed how she shepherded Chinkee to be the person he is now who is ‘rich inside out’.   It is spiritually enriching to be clarified and enlightened about tithing.  How I wish I can share with my Community, the Brotherhood of Christian Businessmen and Professionals (BCBP) Consolacion Chapter the realities of returning back to God what God owns.  We have a very low percentage of members tithing. How can we be true to our advocacy, “Be Honest”, if we are robbing God by not tithing?  During our Governance Team meeting last December 10, 2010 at home, we recognized tithing as one area of concern. 
 

Back to the powerful message of “The Power of Focus”, Francis John our only son must have been greatly influenced by Chinkee Tan. After school last December 6 (a day after attendance), he proclaimed with conviction that he will stop going to school and focus on networking.  We are terribly disturbed. Is this a kind of ‘return on investment’?. We allowed him to attend orientation and seminars in UNO network marketing as extra-curricular activities to while away his idle moments not to disregard school.  We emphasized the importance of education.  We pointed out that someone with a college degree has a greater influence over one who has none.  For a compromise and a ‘win/win’ solution, his mother agreed to go on with UNO for as long as he maintains passing grades.  He must graduate in high school and proceed to earn a bachelor’s degree. I pray that he can synchronize both right and left index fingers to form the circle and number 8, respectively. nmg