Balance Your Workload with a Generous Number of Mini-Vacations for Maximum Productivity by Denis Waitley

By re-energizing and renewing yourself frequently, you will avoid burnout and become much more motivated and productive. Don’t keep your nose to the grindstone for years and wait for retirement to travel. Balance and consistency are the keys. Enjoy the process, not just the result. Don’t fight the passing of time. Don’t fear it, squander it, or try to hide from it under a superficial cosmetic veil of fads and indulgences. Life and time go together. Do enjoy each phase of life. Do make the most of each day, and draw maximum joy from each moment.

Many people today are concerned with quality time – time generally defined in part as that spent on recreation, personal pursuits, time with children, spouses and friends. While I certainly believe quality time is important, I believe two other aspects of time are equally important.

First, one must also spend quantity time. The average father spends less than 30 minutes each week in direct one-on-one communication with each of his children. How can we possibly expect good family relationships with so little communication?

Second, one must spend regular time. Many supervisors and company presidents go for weeks, even months, without seeing many of their employees. There’s no substitute for regular meetings and open forums in which managers and team members can share ideas.

Time has a dual structure. On one hand, we live our daily routines meeting present contingencies as they arise. On the other hand, our most ambitious goals and desires need time so that they can be assembled and cemented. A long-term goal connects pieces of time into one block. These blocks can be imagined and projected into the future as we do when we set goals for ourselves. Or, these blocks of time can be created in retrospect as we do when we look back at what we’ve accomplished.

It’s not in the image of our big dreams that we run the risk of losing our focus and motivation. It’s the drudgery and routine of our daily lives that present the greatest danger to our hopes for achievement. Good time management means that you maximize the daily return on the energy and mental effort you expend.

Ways to maximize your time productivity:

• Write down in one place all the important contacts you have and all of your goals and priorities. Make a back up copy, preferably on CD, DVD or Zip disc. Write down every commitment you make at the time you make it.

• Stop wasting the first hour of your workday. Having the chat and first cup of coffee, reading the paper, and socializing are the three costliest opening exercises that lower productivity.

• Do one thing well at a time. It takes time to start and stop work on each activity. Stay with a task until it is completed.

• Don’t open unimportant mail. More than a fourth of the mail you receive can be tossed before you open or read it, and that includes e-mail.

• Handle each piece of paper only once and never more than twice. Don’t set aside anything without taking action. Carry work, reading material, audiotapes and your laptop computer with you everywhere you go. Convert down time into uplink time.

• Spend twenty minutes at the beginning of each week and ten minutes at the beginning of each day planning your to do list.

• Set aside personal relaxation time during the day. Don’t work during lunch. It’s neither noble nor nutritional to skip important energy input and stress-relieving time. Throughout the day, ask yourself, “What’s the best use of my time right now?” As the day grows short, focus on projects you can least afford to leave undone.

• And as we said at the beginning of this message, take vacations often, mini-vacations of two or three days, and leave your work at home. The harder you work, the more you need to balance your exercise and leisure time.
Action Idea: Plan a relaxing 3-day vacation within the next three months without taking any business work with you. Reserve it on your calendar this week.

-- Denis Waitley

REWARDS OF GOING INTO BUSINESS OR ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Having unlimited opportunity to make money.
When you have your own business, you will most certainly have unlimited potential to earn money. How much money you earn depends on the time and effort you put into your enterprise. Successful entrepreneurs have earned their wealth and prestige through hard work and by having the right product for the right market at the right time.

Being your own boss.
As manager of your business, you make the decisions for your enterprise and take full responsibility for these. The quality of these decisions will translate into either gain or loss for your business. Being your own boss means you are in control of your future. You have a better grasp of what you want to be.

Tapping your creativity.
A business usually starts out as an idea. You will have the opportunity to harness this creativity and turn your idea into products and processes.

Overcoming challenges and finding fulfillment.
Starting a business is by itself an accomplishment. Running a business tests an entrepreneur’s capability in securing and managing resources. How well a business turns out depends on the owner’s ability to face challenges and overcome difficulties.

Helping others.
In the process of running a business, an entrepreneur employs workers, and pays them income which improves their lives. An entrepreneur who succeeds and grows also helps suppliers, sub-contractors, dealers and other businesses connected to him succeed and grow too.

Building an entrepreneurial legacy.
A business can be a lasting legacy to the family. It can ensure employment for some members of the family. It can create an enterprisingculture that can be handed down through the generations.

Source: www.business.gov.ph

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Second, I’ve learned quite a number of things… 1. If you want to improve your life in terms of financial stability or if you want financial freedom, you also have to change your lifestyle; 2. It could help if you could save some capital to establish a business of your own; 3. It would help twice if you could save as early as possible; 4. I also learned that you wouldn’t have to spend your own money all the time to finance a business or to get a certain opportunity that was knocking on your door, you just have to know how to classify “opportunities”. Like for an instance, someone’s offering you to buy a house and lot but you’re just not interested. However, you see it as an “opportunity” to earn money. You could talk to the person who’s selling it
and tell him that you could find him a buyer and just give you a referral fee or that you could be the one to sell it and sell it at a bigger price and just give him his asking price.

Third, I’ve learned the art of “negotiation”. And in business, you have to have the courage in negotiating with different kinds of people. It’s like a certain “talent” that you have to develop.
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Poor Man's Cow

This is one of the business that I want to have someday. Goat Raising/dairying. Some say that goat is "Poor man's cow". Unlike the real cow farming, I guess this does not require you a very big land. I heard also that goat's milk is good for those who have a lactose intolerance.



I got this info from http://blog.agriculture.ph/category/business-opportunities
Goat dairying has potential

Written by Zac Sarian
Source: Manila Bulletin

THE goat industry in the Philippines has gone a long way. A lot of improved breeds have been introduced, and more importantly, improved technologies have been developed to make goat farming a profitable venture. The main thrust in the past several years, however, was the production of meat animals.

The time has come for entrepreneurs to focus also on goat dairying. This particular branch of the goat industry has its own potential. The opportunities are there to be tapped.

We recently met Toti Almeda, the young fellow in charge of marketing at the Alaminos Goat Farm in Laguna. We asked him how goes the demand for goat’s milk these days. And he said that now the biggest chain of malls in the country is selling their fresh milk. He said that earlier last year, they were limiting their production to 60 liters a day just to meet the demand from their customers then which did not yet include SM. Late last year, Toti said the production has gone up to 120 liters a day. And by April the production will be no less than 200 liters a day.

We asked if they are still producing cheese as they were trying to develop the same when we first met them (Rene, his father, and Art, his brother) earlier last year. No, they are not doing that because their present production is still short of the demand for fresh milk.


With the right breed (like Saanen), proper housing, balanced nutrition and other aspects of management, raising goats for milk can really be profitable. As what Rene has told us during our first meeting, one breeder goat can produce two liters of milk a day. Actually, at the time of our first visit, the 40 goats on the milkline produced an average of 2.3 liters each that day. A breeder goat can be milked for 10 months or about 300 days after it has given birth. At two liters a day, one will produce 600 liters of milk in one lactation. The current price is P125 per liter, hence the gross from just one head is really substantial. Granting, the average yield is just one liter a day, still the gross will still be high. And add to that the value of one or two kids produced in one breeding.

Alaminos Goat Farm has a modern milk bottling plant right in its farm.

Of course, the Almedas are also multiplying their meat-type breeds of Boer and Anglo Nubian. They are continually monitoring the performance of their breeders and selecting the outstanding ones. One selection they are very excited about is what they call the Mitra line of Anglo Nubian. This line consists of progenies of a breeder that produces multiple kids of as many as four at a time.

Improved production technology for dragon fruit

I think this is a good business for those who want to go into agri business. The supply is not the same as mangoes.



A native plant from Central and South America, dragon fruit (Hylocereus undatus) or "pitaya" is gaining its own niche in the Philippine market.

Although this vine-line cactus has been widely cultivated in the neighboring Asian countries such as Malaysia, Vietnam, and Thailand where the weather is conducive for growing this humid-loving fruit, it only reached the Philippine soil just recently.

Given its economic value and competitive advantage in the local fruit industry, it is gaining immediate popularity among interested farmers/producers.

A techno-demo farm on dragon fruit
Since the dragon fruit industry is still relatively new in the Philippines, production technology remains a major constraint.

Thus, in 2003, a technology demonstration on dragonfruit production was established at the Central Experiment Station (CES) of the Southern Mindanao Integrated Agricultural Research Center (SMIARC) in Manambulan, Tugbok, Davao City.

With funding support from the Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) through its Agribusiness Development Project (ADP), the techno-demo farm aimed to: 1) showcase technology on the production of dragonfruit, 2) mass propagate and distribute to other regional research station or interested growers, and 3) determine the economic value of dragonfruit.

Leading this initiative is Mr. Noel T. Estellena, SMIARC's senior agriculturist and lead researcher for the ADP on dragon fruit. SMIARC started establishing the dragon fruit production with tree-fourth hectare land area and the planting materials initially came from Indang, Cavite.

ADPs are on-station researches implemented by the DA Research Stations in all the Regional Field Units (RFUs) to showcase new or advanced technologies that will enhance profitability of a farming/fishing enterprise. It is an income-generating activity that aims to strengthen the strategy of teaching by example, demonstrating the profitability of new/ appropriate technologies that are suited to the conditions of the region to the farmers, and then transferring these new technologies to rural communities of the Regional Integrated Agricultural Research Centers' (RIARCs) and Research Outreach Stations' (ROSes).

The income derived from the ADP is plowed back to the project for sustainability, expansion, and support to R&D activities and facility rehabilitation of the regional experimental stations. Expectedly, 16 RIARCs and 84 ROSes are expected to benefit from the ADPs.

Production technologies showcased
A group from BAR has recently visited the techno-demo farm to document the success of this ADP project.

Among the technologies for dragon fruit production showcased in the experimental station are: propagation by cuttings, appropriate distance planting, using concrete posts and indigenous materials as trellis, applying organic fertilizer, and proper cultural management practices.

According to Mr. Estellena, dragon fruit can be propagated by seeds or stem cuttings but the latter is much favored. "From the cuttings, we plant them in plastic bags for two months and transfer them in an open field. The recommended planting distance is three meters between posts and four meters between rows," he explained. Proper distance planting is important since a narrower spacing gives quicker production than larger spacing.



Dragon fruit must be planted in an open field with direct exposure to sunlight. They are not conducive in areas where rainfall is well distributed.

One technology that SMIARC is using is the application of trellis in the plantation. Mr. Estellena explained that the lifeblood of the dragon fruit is in the trellis. Once the trellis collapsed, the plant hardly survives.

The life span of dragon fruit is around 20 years depending on the durability of the trellis. A concrete posts with iron round bar on top was used as to support the plant. This has to be established three weeks prior to crop establishment.

"Here at SMIARC, aside from the concrete posts, we make use of various indigenous materials as trellises such as the madre de cacao, kalumpang, and magcuno tree," Estellena explained.

In terms of nutrient management, a combination of organic and complete fertilizer (14-14-14) was applied. "We use more organic and more nitrogen. The ideal is to apply fertilizer every 3 months if possible, but what we do at the station is we apply every six months. We are using 2 kg of organic + 25 g urea + 75 g complete fertilizer which we apply per plant," he said.

Estellena also explained the importance of pruning in the production of dragon fruit. He said that, "We need to regularly prune them to obtain an open, manageable, and productive umbrella shape canopy. Also, it is important that we prune right after we harvest the fruits regular pruning as this will induce new shoots for the next cropping season."

After establishing the plant in the field, it would take around 26 months to bear fruits. Harvest must be done 35-40 days after the flower opening.

Profit from dragon fruits
Five years since its establishment, the techno-demo farm in Manambulan, Davao City is frequently visited by interested farmers who wanted to grow dragon fruit and even buyers in Davao City. With the successful technologies in dragon fruit now available, better opportunities, both production- and market-wise, lie ahead.

The potential of dragonfruit is very much bright according to Mr. Estellena because it commands a very high price in the local market; it costs around P120-150 per kilo. He further that, a three-year old dragonfruit can produce 5-6 t/ha amounting to P720,000 in the local market alone. Considering is current demand, it is no wonder that dragon fruit is now dubbed as the new money crop-truly, a high revenue earner.

Aside from showcasing the production technologies on dragon fruit, the group of Mr. Estellena is already distributing planting materials to interested growers. Since the techno-demo farm was established, they have distributed around 3, 000 seedlings/cuttings of dragon fruit in Nueva Ecija in Luzon, Bohol in Visayas, and in Bukidnon in Mindanao for trial productions.

For more information, please contact Mr. Noel T. Estellena, senior agriculturist, Department of Agriculture-Southern Mindanao Agricultural Research Center (DA-SMIARC), Bago Oshiro, Tugbok District, Davao City at tel. no. (082) 293-0109 or (082) 293-0136 or e-mail at smiarc@yahoo.com

By Rita T. dela Cruz
Source: www.bar.gov.ph
Other info on dragon fruit : http://dragon-fruit.biz/