Our Core Business

The growing contention regarding the implementation of the reproductive health bill continues to be a point of discussion.

Honestly, there are equally if not more important things to look into as well and that is the slowly degenerating sense of values that we have unconsciously adopted and adapted to.

In the recent celebration of Mother’s Day, I had a few conversations with my friends who are mothers to the bone, and not one of them said parenting is an easy job. In today’s world, the task comes doubly difficult. Which brings us to the core business: our families!

Due to our acceptance of various behaviors in the guise of modernization and in concordance with changing times, we have added more tolerance over our children’s expressions of themselves, relating their freedom with liberating them from our own shackles which we thought were imposed upon us when we were young.

But not all the restrictions we had as children landed us bad right?

Take on the value of respect. The value of respect for our elders, our fellowmen and ourselves is a basic gem that we need to propagate.

Intrinsic to this value is our love for God who is the source of our very selves.

Some of my friends in business sometimes look at me as if I were born yesterday and I am not going to deny that. It is better to be born then when people were people and parents had time to grow their families. By growing, I mean truly nurturing them. Caring for one’s spouse and sparing time to talk and listen and share the events of each day and plan for the future together. Growing our children means being there for them, no necessarily physically all the time, cell phones  and landlines are one great tool to help us keep in touch. Taking time to answer their calls or texts or listening to things they can not say.

The same thing goes for being with friends and business partners. If we have respect for ourselves, we deal with them in ways we want them to deal with us; with truth, honesty and trust. We take care of our relationships and preserve them because they are what will give meaning to our lives and as Stephen M. R. Covey puts it in his book, Speed of Trust, “People want to be trusted. They respond to trust. They thrive on trust.”

Keeping our trust on sound values, and on God who is the source of all strength, goes way ahead of the R.H. Bill.