jessa

Everyday Stories, Lived

Work

  • Convincing others

    If you were not as convinced by the product you want to sell out, it would be challenging to get the idea across. Because the people you seek to serve aren’t stupid. They can feel in their guts (perhaps except for extremely gullible people?) if you know what you’re talking about or if you are… Read more


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  • Making time for the Lord

    If you’ve imbibed what the world taught you about self-sufficiency, then there’s no room for what the Lord can accomplish in your life. Because you would believe that by your strength alone, you can achieve whatever you want. And if you just create the right environment, and surround yourself with the right people, then what… Read more


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  • The power of contracts

    Sign, and that’s what you’ll get back to when things don’t go as they’re supposed to. And when some things are not correctly written and are misinterpreted later, you could be in trouble just because the words do not reflect what one party wants to say. Words can be interpreted in so many ways. So… Read more


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  • Ideas and making things happen

    If you’ve participated in meetings where everyone, or at least most of all who participated in the discussion, has a lot of things to say. But what happens most of the time is that only a few are brave enough to speak up and say something. When only a few voices are heard, the concentration… Read more


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  • Short audio ang gaining trust

    If you’ve had enough of quick messages that doesn’t often require deep thinking (because you can unsend it anyway), you might like to explore sending short audio messages. And what’s fascinating about them is that they can actually hear what you mean. With transactions that can be easily exchanged online, it becomes difficult to trust… Read more


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  • Wanting to stay the same way

    At work, we’ve been trained to be flexible enough with changes, nothing personal. And if the change makes things easier for everyone involved, especially those with higher stakes, then change sounds like the most rational way to go. But not everyone has the same mind about how things should go. While others quickly move on… Read more


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  • Having snacks over Cebu

    My power systems instructor during undergraduate studies used to tell us about what our future would look like. He said that a time will come when some of us will have breakfast in one city, lunch over another, and dinner in another. I really wondered how it would be, and was excited if that would… Read more


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