Hooray For Today!

We should always, always start our day beautifully! Our day depends on how we will make it - this is true. If you want to be happy despite of all the problems, you will be happy. If you want to be bothered by the car in front of you in the highway, it is your choice.

Really - happiness will come from within. So choose to be happy today.

In the Philippines, McDonalds has a very good commercial and so with the song (i love all McDo commercials) - it is entitled, Hooray For Today! I truly love this, that is why i want to share it with you.




Hooray for mornings and things that make them good
Hooray for beaming smiles that make my day
Hooray for stops and gos
Hooray for colors and quick hellos
Hooray for surprises that walk my way
Hooray for friends I'll make, oh hey...hey!
Hooray for treats that make me smile,
Like magic stripes that fill the sky
Hooray for days that make me say,
Oh Hooray for today!

Let's hooray everyday from now on...

Be happy! :-)


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Zarah Pimentel is foremost a very proud mother to a 6year old girl. She is a co-founder of Hire a VA, an SEO Company in the Philippines that outsources SEO Specialists and  Virtual Assistants from the Philippines. She takes pleasure in with helping entrepreneurs grow their businesses by setting them free in doing menial tasks and assisting them in more ways they can imagine. She has been featured in several magazines and a book entitled, How to Start a Home-based Business to Become a Work-At-Home Mom.

Let Us Be Imperfect Together

Our world today is so much geared on perfection.  Perfectly beautiful, perfectly sexy, perfectly smart people - well, thanks to the media.  We are all aiming for things being like being as beautiful as Angelina Jolie, as strong as Manny Pacquiao or even as rich as the Trumps and the Gates.  Oh, such dreams!

But i just wish that we embrace each of our imperfections.  I am sure these people have their own imperfections, but we just can see what they want us to see.

I am not saying we stop improving ourselves.  It can be done.  We can workout and have strict diet or even surgeries to be as sexy as Angelina, we can train 6 times a day in boxing and we can work all days every week to become rich.  But where will these lead you?  You are chasing somebody's life - not yours.

That is why when i make mistakes, i apologize because i am not perfect.  And so, when my daughter or husband have shortcomings - forgiveness is so easy.  It is because we know and acknowledge our imperfections.

Bottomline is that you know your potentials, your strength and weaknesses, so we should take advantage of those.  Live life to the fullest.  Let us be imperfect together!

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Zarah Pimentel is first and foremost a very proud mom to a 5year old girl. She is a co-founder of Hire a VA, an SEO Company in the Philippines that outsources SEO Specialists and Virtual Assistants from the Philippines.  She takes pleasure in with serving to entrepreneurs grow their companies by setting them free in doing menial duties and helping them in more ways they can imagine. She has been featured in a number of magazines and a book entitled, How to Start a Home-based Business to Become a Work-At-Home Mom.

For more details about what she does, kindly go to her blog, Virtual Assistant Mom.


 

A Celebration of Life

This may be off my usual topic...  but i feel i just have to share my what i felt when i attended a 'celebration of life' get together.  Well, this is the new term for funeral service or a wake.

I usually do not attend this kind of gathering or even goes to a hospital to visit sick loved ones.  I do not know the reason why but i just do not want to do that, unless really necessary.  I just realized the reason when i attended my cousin's celebration of life.  It has to do with 'mortality', not only mine but to all the people around me.

In just a second, something might happen to anybody - whether a sickness, an accident or just about anything else.  A life will be ended just like that, without any warning.   And i just do not want to face this reality of life then. But now i know and i accept that this will happen to everybody, including me or to the people i love.

So what can i do now?  I will just make it a point to express my love to those people.  I will not keep any ill feelings about anybody.  I will make the most out of my day.  Spend more quality time with my family.  These things will seem impossible to do all the time, but i will try my best.

Maybe, it is also time for you to feel what i am feeling - for you to value people around you.

Always be happy,
Zarah


Zarah Pimentel is first and foremost a very proud mother to a 5year old girl. She is a co-founder of Hire a VA, an SEO Company in the Philippines that outsources SEO Specialists and Virtual Assistants from the Philippines. She takes pleasure in with helping entrepreneurs grow their companies by setting them free in doing basic duties and aiding them in more ways they could imagine.

For additional information about what she does, kindly visit her blog, Virtual Assistant Mom.

Do Not Grow Too Fast...

I have been looking back and starting to realize how fast time flies...

I just do not want to let go of my baby, i do not want her to grow older anymore.  I want her to always be by my side, needing me, asking me about everything and loving me...  oh, i am getting teary eyed now!

It seems like yesterday when i am just changing her diapers, now she can take a bath by herself.

I used to tell stories before she sleeps, now - she is the one full of stories.  It is her turn now to tell what happened to her for the day.

I used to just carry her and stroll the park, now she is leading the way.

It seems like yesterday when i just choose the dresses that she will wear.  Now, she knows what she wants when we go shopping.

Oh, she now even wants to cook by herself.. (but of course, she still cannot)!

Do not grow old too fast, my honey!  Please...  be our baby for some more years!

I love you, anak!


Always be happy,
Zarah


Zarah Pimentel is firstly a very proud mom to a 5year old girl. She is a co-founder of Hire a VA, an SEO Company in the Philippines that outsources SEO Specialists and Virtual Assistants from the Philippines. She takes pleasure in with helping entrepreneurs grow their companies by setting them free in doing basic duties and helping them in more ways they could imagine. She has been featured in several magazines and a book entitled, How to Start a Home-based Business to Become a Work-At-Home Mom.

For more details about what she does, kindly visit her internet site, Virtual Assistant Mom.

Favorite Mommy

I am amazed on how my daughter grew. It seems that she is growing doubly everyday – physically and mentally. If only I have my way, I would like to slow it down, tremendously.

She tells things that I cannot imagine her saying. One time, she saw her grandma praying, she sat beside her and said, “Lola, I pray that when I grow up, you are still here with us”, she started crying and embraced her grandma. I asked her later where she heard what she said, she just told me, she just felt it.

And the same night, before she slept, she prayed loudly. And I overheard her say, “…thank you for my favorite Mommy.” It made me smile and I asked her again, why did you say ‘favorite mommy’. What do you mean by that?

She then said, “Mommy, we all have our favorites. I like spaghetti, that is my favorite food. I would like to eat it every day. And you are my Mommy, so you are my favorite mommy. I do not like anybody else.”

Oh, that made my day! What about you, are you your kid’s favorite mommy?

Be happy... be successful,

Zarah


Zarah Pimentel is firstly a very proud mother to a 5year old girl. She is a co-founder of Hire a VA, an SEO Company in the Philippines that outsources SEO Specialists and Virtual Assistants from the Philippines. She takes delight in with serving to entrepreneurs grow their companies by setting them free in doing boring duties and assisting them in more ways they could imagine. She has been featured in numerous magazines and a book entitled, How to Start a Home-based Business to Become a Work-At-Home Mom.

For additional details about what she does, kindly visit her blog, Virtual Assistant Mom.