Flores Isler Perfume

Proud to present my second special guest. Despite his very busy schedule, it is my pleasure and honor to have him on my talk event- Financial Literacy for Better Lives. Aside from his many achievements, he was featured on Khaleej Times as 'An Emarati with a Penchant for all Things Philippine.' If you need a proof, he imported from the Philippines a jeepney and shipped to Abu Dhabi on 2001, this jeepney was commissioned in 2002 for the celebration of the Philippine Independence Day. Indeed an Emarati with a Filipino heart!

See you on the event and let's be inspired by him, for us to be Financially Literate for Better Lives. 🥰

Like most people I also want to lead a happy, stable, secured and worry-free life. But there is this other side of me who is hungry to do something that will give my life a different meaning, this side of me who had dared taking the risk of going outside the box and leaving my comfort zone to explore what lies ahead and find my true purpose in this world because I knew deep inside me, that I am not destined to be inside my box forever. I have that longing and desire to leave a humanitarian legacy that will outlive me.

I have been gifted the talent to write, God had given me this gift for a purpose and some reasons that I have yet to uncover. Unfortunately, this talent I had set aside as I focused on the other roles I played like my being a career woman in the corporate world, which understandably I had to do so as it provided bread and butter on my table and supported my family. But finding life meaning and purpose are not about securing our present and future with material things, but it is about exposing ourselves to all the risks, downfalls, challenges and trials, which can make us susceptible to humiliation and pain. We can even be deprived of all those worldly possessions, prestige and reputation, which we treat with outmost importance.

Bluntly speaking, I was caught between two different worlds like I hold each one in my hands. One, the world that I depended my life survival and the other world, which is empty because I set it aside and neglected for a long time. I grow and thrived in the corporate world. My career was doing okay, so during that time I decided to unlock my other empty world and started putting things into life. I was inspired and motivated that my stability can sustain my other world and I can have both worlds. But the truth was, I cannot keep two conflicting worlds together, as finding our purpose is challenging and can cost us our everything. This life reality demolished me.

But there came also the realization that the demolition in my life was God’s way of telling me that, “I cleared the path for you, start re-organizing your life, changed what needs to be changed and always do the things that will fulfill your heart’s desire.” I learned now how to surrender to God, what we cannot carry, we trust unto Him. According to Psalm 121 1:2 ‘I lift up my eyes to the hills- from where my help come? My help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth.’ I may still feel the fear of facing of what is yet to come, but I also have this twinkling feeling of excitement of building something new, like a traveler who is going to the unknown and looking forward to what lies ahead. It is what makes life adventure exciting, we just uncover the good things and God’s surprises along the way. I don’t know how my journey will goes, all I knew is that, drastic changes in our lives have wider and bigger purpose that only our Creator knows the reason behind.

When I build this community, I was at the lowest point of my life. I lost almost everything I have in a way that I never imagine will be possible to happen to me. I am a very organized person, but my life had turned literally into mess beyond recognizable. Some people want to pull me down and others pulling me up, so I was surviving in the middle like hanging between two life dimensions. Other people will be disgusted or will feel ashamed admitting such fate, but I don’t, though I have every reason to feel the same, but who really cares about my opinion and the way I feel? No one except myself. People will pour out in your life at the end of good result, but if you’re still undergoing a process, you are all alone save of some very few people who stick with you through thick and thin, who never lost their trust and faith in you even if you’re covered with dirtiest mud from head to toe.

But one thing I learned, in your lowest point there will come many realizations, those that matters and those that don’t. Some that I consider before as glowing with brightness diminished its luster because you saw for a fact that it was not that bright after all, and those that I thought were not worthy, I found valuable as I was only blind before. The lowest point in life is what everybody avoids, like it’s a deep pit surrounded with darkness and no way out. I had been there, but even if I saw darkness, I had seen also the light, which had changed me and I became different from before.

In our down moment, we usually hate the world and even our Creator, though, I had nurtured such feeling for some quick moment, but I never allow it to linger in me, on the contrary, I tried to find what are the blessings or lessons that I gained from this kind of situation and my experience taught me that we should give back to the world and serve others in a way that we can. We still can serve without us waiting to accumulate first all the material things on earth, giving back can be as simple as what we are capable of doing in our current situation.

This BEAUTIFUL YOU Program is my way of giving back to the community I serve. My vision of the future is a thriving community of people who instill to each other the importance of helping people in need, of caring and sharing and of giving each other hope as many out there are already too much weary of their burdens. This is a program, which aims to change our mindset, from negativity to positivity and to emerge from the darkness surrounding us and be the best person that we can be despite the past which had demolished or destroyed us.😍

Thank you and may God bless us all in our life journey.