Cebu Regis Leadership Call to Arms speech by Leader Genevieve R. Ramos

Cebu Regis Call to arm Speech by: Leader Genevieve R. Ramos

GIVING

By: Genevieve Ramos

I was astounded the first time I read the article about the recent news of Mark Zuckerberg with his wife Priscilla who donated 99% percent of his Facebook share to a foundation for a cause, after his wife gave birth to their first born child. I was truly amazed and awe-stricken from thinking, how this young man, despite his age was able to let go of this amount of wealth knowing, that he still has a long journey on his lifetime.  I keep wondering and asking myself, what could be his motivation? What was inside his heart that moved him to do such a great and heroic act? As I read his letter to his newly born daughter, I came across this message on the second to the last paragraph, which struck me most and I quote "And we can only focus on serving this community and this mission because we are surrounded by loving family, supportive friends and amazing colleagues. We hope you will have such deep and inspiring relationship in your life too."   Such is a powerful phrase for me my dear classmates, doing great act such as what Zuckerberg showed us and with what we have discussed in class for the past two sessions, and the series of assignments we had on understanding and knowing ourselves better, is such a connection, a connection that truly emancipates our focus on serving others, which begins when you are filled with the love within yourself, your family and the people surrounding you.

This I think is the essence of this class from the very beginning, from defining moments, the movie synopsis with the JCampbell monomyth, and the enneagram are powerful tools that allow us to discover and know better ourselves. By revealing the dark moments we may have in our lives, we are letting go of the past wounds and start to rekindle the love in our hearts, by discovering the hero within us in order to appreciate life better, and by discovering ourselves with our strengths and weaknesses to harness ourselves to become great. These I believe are the fundamentals in building our own self, able to discover the goodness in our hearts, knowing and accepting our imperfections, only then that we can cheerfully serve others. Perhaps, not as much as what Zuckeberg did but in our own little way we are able to take part.

If I may challenge you my dear classmates, that as we finish this course, we must be able to build better self-awareness, be able to build stronger relationship, to our family, our spouses our children, our colleagues and to the rest of the people around us, so that we may be able to discover what is supreme in us that we can give back to the world and what little things we have that we can share.

As for me, I already plan to fix my relationship with my eldest daughter so I can rebuild and strengthen the relationship with her again while it is not too late. Our family is not perfect but I will try my very best by putting extra efforts in building, enhancing, and deepening relationships with my husband and with my other 3 kids.  As such I will be able to improve my weaknesses such as being emotionally detached, and a less intimate person.

It's been my passion to help others ever since, and I would like to attribute this to my being type 2 personality.  We have been extending financial support to our less privileged relatives for their education. We also plan to sponsor scholars beyond our family, hopefully next year to the foundation and the orphanage we regularly visited.

Lastly I just want to share my dream of putting up our own foundation with the primary goal to sponsor less fortunate children to go to school because I believed that education could make a difference not only on their lives but also in the society. Likewise, I will also instill the value of reading early on, to this children so that they will grow in love for reading, for in reading deepens and widens wisdom..

So what's yours..?

(first to send;  thank you)

Your/my passion can make this world a better place to live in

'Quamplurimi et quam aptissimi" (As many as possible of the very best)

Rizal Philippines
December 6, 2015

Heal the World Lyrics

This article is a continuation on the reflection regarding the generous donation made by husband wife Mark Zuckerberg of $45 billion to help make this world a better place to live in.  All ready, Leader Izumi Yamashita has pledged as she becomes more successful as a investment banker to establish a foundation to help in improving education.  In Clark, we have Dr Munoz, who said she practices Servant Leadership, to have a foundation to help the less fortunate She offered to assist anyone whom we know who are in need.   Leader Cath Villanueva has a passion to help abandoned pets.  This becomes clearer as we see more papers on Passion (that are not self directed but in the service of others) and FIP that are more formatted as personal strategic plan (hopefully SJ wishes us to be to be for love and heroism

Our passion should be the intersection of where are skills and resources are greatest, and needs of the world are greatest.  May be like the Good to Great 3 circles (for the hedgehog concept)

Circle 1 at the top -  What is your passion, what is your advocacy?  Do have intense desire to change something in this world, do you want to lead others to a new paradigm that will make this world better?   What the deepest need of this sorry world?

Circle 2 at the left -  What are your competencies and capacity?  Where can you be the best at? Where are you good at?  God gave you gifts to be made visible to others to help them.

Circle 3 at the right -  What drives your resource engine?   Do you have self sustaining business model to continue helping others?  Do you have business whose core serves others as low cost health care?  Do you have fortune large enough like Mark Z who will give everything to make the world better for his child Max?

Or are you like the woman who gave her last money to help others.  She gave everything.  This reminds us of the movie "In Pursuit of Happyness", Will Smith, lent the only $5 dollars he has in his wallet to his boss who has no change to pay for his taxi.

Mark Zuckerberg and wife donate 99% of their Facebook stock for a cause/advocacy/initiative

'Quamplurimi et quam aptissimi" (As many as possible of the very best)

Rizal Philippines
December 2, 2015

From Huffington Post

On the occasion of the birth of their child, Max, Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla, are donating 99% of their Facebook stock to a cause named Chan Priscilla Initiative.  It will focus on "personalized learning, curing disease, connecting people and building strong communities."

It was sort of a letter addressed to their baby, saying that there is so much this generation can do for the children to have a better world. It resonates well with the song "Greatest Love of All"

Reflection:

1.  This is the kind of thing we want our student leaders, to  find out their passion, to fill in the needs of this world.  This is what we want to address as we make our brainstorming (mind mapping).  There is so much to be done that neither civil society nor business, nor government has addressed.

2.  This is the area of concern of social entrepreneurship, where CSR and business principles meet.

3.   This is the kind of passion, the right kind of passion, the calling that is nice to see among our business leaders in the likes of Bill Gates, Warrent Buffett, and now Mark Zuckerberg.  The wealth and the gifts that they got, so huge are ultimately to be used for the benefit of mankind.  All in keeping with Genesis,1:28. ie that we are all mandated to take care of the creation of this world. As we, like Mark are blessed to be in the corridor of wealth and power, we too find that ultimately, wealth must be used to benefit not just our personal wants and needs, but the world,

4.  As with regards to his vision, mission in life one begins to think:

     1.  Did Mark start out with the idea that his mission is to help heal the world and/or make it better for future generation?

     2.  Was getting rich/very wealthy all ready a planned trajectory?   Or was it serendepity?

     3.  Or was it the birth of his son Max, make him rethink his objective, mission in life.   Now that that is clear to him, will he become richer, or will this new advocacy slow him down in his journey of wealth creation.

    Are your purpose/s in life clear to you as of now?

We have a student in MM and Clark whose advocacies are very clear to them. Their higher purpose.
Our good doctor Leader in Clark has a foundation to send poor students, and even their maid to school.  We have Cath espousing taking care of  abandoned pets.

As I publish this post, I am pursuing in our organization, lower and affordable memorialization costs via cremation, BC rentals and the like.  I would like to be given two more decades to live, so that whatever can be earned can be used in the pursuit of lower health care and simply helping others through a foundation, those who really have nothing  - for food, fare, place to sleep, clothes, etc.

HOW ABOUT YOU?

Let us persist in the advocacy to have internet costs lowered and speed levelled up

Hi Leaders Engr. Cezar and VP Belle:

Thanks for getting in touch.  As we were saying in the Leadership class, as espoused by Leader Cezar, we would campaign for faster internet speed.

I have put up a site to focus on this.  It would  seem though that people do not mind.  When there was a campaign to support Sen Bam Aquinos inquiry, only 1,300 supported.  Not a soul attended his inquiry.

Faster internet speed

I have made 9 posts and very few are following or are reading this site.

There are several developments in this area.  One solution is to have peering deal between telcos in the PHL say between Globe and PLDT.  Under the peering arrangement, the local traffic can be directed between the local exchanges, without cost on either parties thus lessening costs, and faster access.  As of now, the traffic between two Telcos have to go through an international node at HK thus, increasing cost and increasing access time.