SARI-SARING REFLECTIONS
Posted: January 28, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Awit Award, Boxing, Freddie Roach, Gary Valenciano, Guinness World Records, Larry Bird, Manny Pacquiao, Mother Teresa, National Beverage, Shane Mosley, Sport Leave a commentby David Nieto
Wanna be a Champion?
2Cor. 9:6
6Now this I say, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly,
and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
Don’t worry I will not talk about offering or tithes.
Today, I’d like to teach you how to become a Champion.
I’d like to teach you how to get Big Returns in your life.
Now if you want small returns, skip this piece.
It won’t interest you.
If you want to live a mediocre life, content with mediocre harvests, mediocre results, mediocre rewards, mediocre marriage, a mediocre job, mediocre relationships, mediocre happiness, I repeat: this stuff isn’t for you.
But if you want big returns, big miracles, big blessings, big healing, big happiness—then continue reading.
This is for you!
Look around you.
The Secret of Big Returns is known by champions of the world.
Why are they champions?
Because they practice the secret.
How Many Sit-Ups Can You Make?
Why is Manny Pacquiao the best pound-for-pound boxing champion in the world?
You and I only see what Manny does on the ring.
We don’t see what he does outside the ring.
For example, I can do 10 sit-ups comfortably.
One day, to impress my wife, I tried doing 60 sit-ups. I only reached 45. After that, she had to carry me to bed.
Do you know how many sit-ups does Manny Pacquiao make in a day? 100? 200? 500? 1000?
Nope.
He does 3000. Every single day.
No wonder he’s a champ.
No wonder his abs are like steel.
When he’s training before a fight, from Monday to Saturday, he starts at 5:30am and ends at 4:00pm. That’s more than ten hours of rigorous, grueling, hardcore, violent training. Everyday!
In fact, Coach Freddie Roach says that Manny has one weakness: “Manny has a tendency to over-train, I have to stop him.” That’s dedication.
Why is Manny a champion in boxing?
Because he knows the secret of big returns: He gives his all.
The Guy Couldn’t Miss A Shot
Larry Bird was one of the best basketball players in the history of the game.
He was known for his shooting magic.
But it was no magic. It was practice.
After every team practice, he’d be the last player to leave the gym. While everyone else was taking a shower in the lockers, Larry would close the lights in the court and practice shooting in semi-darkness. Many times, he’d practice three-point shots while closing his eyes. He’d do that everyday.
One day, Larry Bird was making a commercial. The Director instructed him to miss a shot. That was what the scene required. Because his muscle memory was so strong, Larry had to take 10 shots before missing one!
Why was Larry a champion in basketball?
Because he knew the secret of big returns: He gave his all.
Diabetes Couldn’t Stop The Dancing
Gary Valenciano is “Mr. Pure Energy”.
He’s the only entertainer that has won the Awit Award for Best Male Performer 11 times!
Yet this man has had Type 1 Juvenile Diabetes since he was 14 years old. So far, he’s had 90,000 insulin injections in his body. Yet his sickness has not stopped him from giving his all every single time he’s on stage.
Why is Gary a champion in entertainment?
Because he knows the secret of big returns: He gives his all.
Broken Bones Come With His Job
Jackie Chan is one of the most successful action movie stars in the world today. He’s big both in Hongkong and Hollywood.
Jackie appears twice in the Guinness Book of World Records.
First, he holds the record for “most stunts by a living actor”. In fact, no insurance company is willing to insure him.
Because of his movies, he has fractured his skull, dislocated his pelvis, broken his fingers, toes, nose, both cheekbones, hips, sternum, neck, ankle, and ribs many times.
Second, he holds the world record for the most number of takes for a single shot in a movie. To make one scene perfect, Jackie had to shoot 2900 retakes. Of one scene!
Talk about dedication to his craft.
That’s Jackie Chan.
Why is Jackie a champion in action movies?
Because he knows the secret of big returns: He gives his all.
The Most Admired Person
In The 20th Century
Mother Teresa was called a living saint.
According to Gallop polls, survey after survey shows that even while she was still alive, Mother Teresa was already the single most admired person in the 20th century.
She served the poorest of the poor for 45 years. When she passed away, she left the world with 4000 nuns that ran 610 centers in 123 countries.
Why has she inspired millions of people?
Because she gave her all.
It’s really the Law of the Harvest. What you plant, you harvest.
If you plant small, you harvest small. If you plant big, you harvest big.
And if you plant all, you harvest all!
Fil-Am Doc Oversees Rep. Giffords’ Rehab in Texas
Posted: January 28, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Gabrielle Giffords, Houston, Intensive-care unit, McAllen Texas, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Texas, Texas Medical Center, Tucson Arizona, United States Leave a commentBy Merpu Roa
McAllen, Texas – The finest of the country’s head and brain injury doctors are taking care of the rehabilitation of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Houston, and leading the team is a Filipino-American doctor.
Dr. Gerard Francisco is chief medical officer of the TIRR Memorial Hermann, one of the country’s best hospitals, specializing in programs for spinal cord injury, brain injury and stroke, amputation, neurological disorders, and post polio syndrome.
Voted by his peers to the “Best Doctors in America” from 2007 to 2008 and listed in “Best Doctors in America” from 2001 to 2009, Dr. Gerard Francisco got his medical degree from the University of the Philippines in April 1989.
Although a well-accomplished medical specialist with strings of publications on his name, heading Gifford’s’ rehab team has abruptly thrust him to national and international prominence, owing to the patient’s popularity and circumstance of the brain injury she sustained.
Rep. Giffords was on a meet-your-congresswoman activity outside a supermarket in Tucson Arizona on January 8 Jared Lee Loughner allegedly shot her in the head, killing six persons, wounding 12 others and seriously injuring the Democrat House Representative.
After a week’s stay at a Tuczon hospital Giffords was moved at the intensive care unit of the Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston. On Wednesday morning (Jan 26) she was taken by ambulance to TIRR Memorial Hermann. She and her family, including husband Mark Kelly, were greeted there by hospital CEO Carl Josehart and Dr. Gerard Francisco, chief medical officer, TIRR Memorial Hermann and chair, department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) Medical School.
“The congresswoman has done very well in her therapy sessions in the ICU,” said Francisco. “It will be good to have her at TIRR Memorial Hermann where we can devote more time to her rehabilitation and recovery.”
Dr. Francisco is one of the nation’s leading physicians in the field of brain injury and stroke rehabilitation. A frequent lecturer nationally and internationally, he is currently conducting research on the use of botulinum toxin and intrathecal baclofen for the treatment of spasticity, along with the use of robots to facilitate recovery after a stroke or spinal cord injury.
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