Want change? Try a vision logbook

These remaining days of 2010 are all about lists: Christmas shopping lists, noche buena grocery lists, expenditure lists, and the like. But with the New Year only a couple of weeks away, another kind of list is being developed: the list of New Year’s resolutions. It must be the whole thing about the New Year ushering in change and whatnot, but change shouldn’t necessarily happen just once a year.

Change is good. It is the one thing that allows us to see beyond our current situations. It keeps us sharp because we learn to adapt. It is unfamiliar, making change one of our greatest teachers. And the best thing about it is that we all possess the power to create positive change in our lives, any time of the year.

“Change is not that hard to achieve,” says personal finance expert Randell Tiongson. “It’s really just a matter of adapting a system that works for you. We could be looking to accomplish personal, financial, professional, or social change. Keep in mind that change can be a positive force and that we need to actively take steps to make things happen.”

Entrepreneur and visionary Hubert Young is an advocate of positive change. Young, owner of the UCC Coffee concept shops in the Philippines, decided to bring together other “beacons of change” to help him create a tool for individuals who want to create positive change in their own lives. The result is the all-new UCC Vision Logbook: an instrument created by masters of change, for those who seek to master change themselves.

Funny guy RJ Ledesma is, of course, a great host and also an advocate of change himself.

“This vision logbook we came up with isn’t just a vision logbook,” says Young. “It is something useful for individuals who want to see change in themselves and in their social environment. It is innovative and relevant.”

The recent launch of the elegant UCC Vision Logbook took place at the UCC Cafe Terrace, Forbestown Center, Taguig City. The people who put it together are some of the country’s top business coaches, experts in their respective fields, and are well-versed when it comes to planning for change. Aside from Young, the other “beacons of change” who contributed to the Vision Logbook include personal finance expert Randell Tiongson, motivational speaker Francis Kong, Let’s Go Foundation’s Prof. Francisco “Jay” M. Bernardo III, and mind-mapping expert Raju Mandhyan.

The basic vision logbook includes 2011 and 2012 calendars and contains other useful modules such as a travel vision logbook, conversion tables, notes, and Francis Kong stories, tips, and quotations. This can be claimed after a UCC customer accumulates P5,000 in UCC Coffee Concept Store receipts. The logbook also contains promotional coupons for free dishes or drinks. A customer may claim the logbook by presenting receipts issued within the promo period between Dec. 15 and Feb. 28, 2011. Customers will also receive a Beacons of Change Card, which will give them a chance to participate in a Group Collaboration Talk with Francis Kong.

Customers may also avail themselves of additional modules, such as Randell Tiongson’s 12 Easy Steps to Financial Wellness, Mind Mapping by Raju Mandhyan, and the Entrepreneur’s Workbook for Change by the Let’s Go Foundation. Customers can choose one of these three modules for every P1,500 single minimum-receipt purchase at UCC Coffee Concept Stores within the promo period. The Beacons of Change Card will also be stamped when claiming additional modules and for joining Coffee Collaboration talks.

Five percent of the proceeds from the UCC Beacons of Change Vision Logbook program will be donated to the Christ’s Commission Fellowship, a movement with outreaches for ethics and values formation for government, outreaches for prisoners, street children, cancer and substance abuse patients, and other sectors of society.

“People can both desire and fear change,” says motivational speaker Francis Kong. “What we need to do is to learn how to let go of our fear of change. If we want to consciously bring about change for the good, then that change has to be envisioned and planned.”

And what better way to do it than with a logbook created for you by the masters of change?

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For more information about the UCC Vision Logbook, visit any of the UCC Coffee concept shops around the Metro.

For a chance to win a seat at the Coffee Collaboration Talks, customers may drop a stamped Beacons of Change Card stub into UCC Podium tambiolos by 11 p.m. on the last day of each release week (Jan. 8 for Financial Wellness, Jan. 15 for Mind Mapping, Jan. 22 for Entrepreneur’s Workbook for Change). Ten names will be drawn the following Monday at the UCC Podium Branch to determine who gets a seat to the Group Coffee Collaboration Talk with the Beacon. (Jan. 11 for Randell Tiongson, Jan. 18 for Raju Mandhyan, Jan. 25 for Let’s Go Foundation’s Jay Bernardo).  The schedule for these talks will be posted at UCC branches by Jan. 2, 2011. UCC Podium is located at 18 ADB Ave., Ortigas Center, Mandaluyong, Metro Manila.

There’s another bonus awaiting those who get all three add-on modules. Each customer who has a Beacons of Change Card with stamps and UCC manager signatures for all three modules within their respective release weeks may drop their stub in the UCC Podium tambiolo on the week of Jan. 23-29, 2011, by 11 p.m. on Jan. 29.  Ten names will be drawn on January 31. Winners will get a seat to the Group Coffee Collaboration Talk with Francis Kong.

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