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9 July 2014: Fruitful Day!

Fuitful day!

– Social media marketing
– Created and promoted events for the weekend at iChill
– Checking on Pizza business to be incorporated to the menu at iChill
– Checking on electricity saving systems for iChill
– Meeting with Home Delivery system for iChill
– Meeting with Theater in Marikina and set a date for the Broadway concert already on July 26 at 6:30pm

It’s good to publish here coz I achieve more! TY 🙂

8 july 2014: Planting seeds.

Somedays money doesn’t come in immediately, some days are for planting seeds.

– Fixed the motorcycle again.
– Passed by iChill to update the phone loading business
– Dropped bills fixing the motorcycle to the old owner who promised to reimburse part, waiting till next week for results.
– Got payed for my online writing job, yey! Vacation of that company till September…
– Started moving a concert in big public area in Manila.
– Contacting for meetings of the Broadway concert in other performing spaces.
– 10pm midnight and haven’t really gotten any money in my pocket. I know I’ve done stuff today, planting planting, but I need my daily cash, right?
– Social media marketing
– Searching for more Spanish students
– Closing sponsorship deals for student ORGs with iChill
– Programming events for the weekend at iChill

So there. Didn’t make immediate money, made some future money, which can serve for today :-)))

7 July 2014: Spanish classes and business paper work.

– 2h Spanish classes with an extra student.
– 1h getting an upgrade for the wifi, needed to work better.
– 6pm starting ichill papers till midnight. Well, a lot delayed and still not finished actually…

3-6 July 2014: Savings and researching

A few days without publishing make me loose track and produce less I think. To publish is to commit.

3 July

– SAVINGS. Found new provider for the Cafe way cheaper and still same quality
– Beautified the shop with some upgrades.
– Socialized and supported the opening of a film from an actor friend
– Made some calls about posible extra jobs
– social media

4 July
– bank errands
– motorbike repairing
– shopping for ichill
– social media

5 July
– new wifi system at ichill
– motorbike fixing
– social media

6 July
– 3h. Online articles 3 of 3 down. Job finished, waiting for payment.
– 3h feeding my mind with the Filipino Freethinkers.
– Exercise for healthy body and energy and awake mind.
– 3 hours researching how to lower the electric bill of our Coffee Shop.
– 1h preparing my loading phone business
– social media

Seems I didn’t cash much these past days, but I did research for savings and made actual savings and upgrades, so that’s also profitable work after all.

Thanks to your support I’m achieving more – 2 July 2014

Since I publish these work diaries I achieve a lot more because I’m shy to publish I haven’t achieve much in the day. So you are my motivator, my father on-line or something.

– Tuned up my motorbike, I need good transportation.

– Published menu for iChill http://ichilltheatercafe.com/menu.html

– Programmed an interview for ABS CBN TV about iChill for next week.

– Answering online inquiries for iChill.

– Online bank errands with Spain.

– Social media marketing.

– Started report system for investors of iChill so they have better feedback of what happens every month.

– Preparing documents for Home Delivery of iChill products.

– Writing online articles I’m hired for. 2 down. Only 3 to finish this and get payed!

1 July 2014: creating, closing deals, writing job.

I’m naturally chaotic and ADHD so concentrating and focusing and using methods is pretty challenging for me.

Today in my daily chaos I got to

– Solved questions about next very strong promotion at iChill Theater Cafe, the best cafe in Manila.

– Write lyrics for a song in Tagalog! Yes my first ever Tagalog creation!

Writing online articles I’m hired for. 3 down. 5 more and this job will be completed and I get payed 🙂

– Meeting to start home delivery of products of iChill to all of Metro Manila! Big step!

– Groceries pampering myself because I’m working hard 😀

– Set money apart for Savings – Investment – Charity as god Kiyosaki said.

– Social media marketing for iChill and Kuya Manzano

So the conclussion of the day is I got MONEY from WRITING. And I PLANTED SEEDS for money thru the iChill PROMOTIONS and HOME DELIVERY agreement.

A good day. It would be better if the internet in the Philippines worked normally so I would write more articles.

30 June 2014: Money Making Day for me.

So sometimes the urgent thing becomes the only thing that can occupy my mind. Specially if I’m in a bankrupt situation, right?

So today I invested my time in money making activities. Hope I did this more frequently.

Also I want to make this diary the hour counting system to know how many hours I dedicate to each activity to see if I’m making the most of my time. That’s where the focus needs to be when needed to to a big effort to turn the numbers’ color around as fast a possible.

– 2h doing social media and home minor errands.

Spanish private lesson at 1pm for 2h.

– 4pm checking on an event rental at iChill Theater Cafe.
– Interview to teach Spanish at 5pm, but was postponed…
– 6pm started writing articles for webs online, hired job. 5 done. 6h

I would never imagined that after 3 years in the Philippines I would be payed as a writer in English, I would do theater in English and I would do concerts entirely in English. I must recognize that advancement and prize myself for it accordingly. Congrats Kuya! As I go on the spell checker online indicates less and less spelling errors 🙂

Also during the Broadway concerts I sang 6 solo songs in a concert. That’s my concert record so far. So congrats again Kuya!

Day conclussion: 10h of money making work, yes sir! Proud of myself. Hope I can do this everyday and will solve my economy pretty fast. I hope to keep focused.

29 June 2014 Diary and work progress of an artist and businessman

Day to be at home for the whole day and catch up with errands and office work.

They proposed a swimming pool day, but it’s very far from the city. Kindda feel like coz I wanna meet those new people from a humanist organization. Guess I can meet them better when there’s a meeting in the city.

Programmed for artist side:
– Have to program urgent rehearsal and put up a band to join a new band contest in TV… URGENT & IMPORTANT, messages sent.
– edit videos: katipunan, broadway concert, day at Social media day. NOT URGENT & IMPORTANT.
– publish pictures of Toycon and TV interview. NOT URGENT & IMPORTANT
– social media URGENT & IMPORTANT

Programmed for money:
– Write 5 articles. URGENT AND IMPORTANT
– Banks errands online for Spain URGENT AND IMPORTANT
– prepare Spanish lesson for tomorrow URGENT AND IMPORTANT

Programmed for iChill:
– Paper work. NOT URGENT AND IMPORTANT
– social networks URGENT AND IMPORTANT

Others:
– Sex NOT URGENT & NOT IMPORTANT
– Clean the house NOT URGENT & NOT IMPORTANT

On GREEN the things I achieved and not HIGHLIGHTED are the tasks I didn’t do. Now I realize I can post here all my pendings or it will never end. Actually I gotta fit in my agenda all the pendings so they are scheduled in realistic time frames.

I also realize how I spen time doing NOT URGENT & NOT IMPORTANT tasks when I should have done those pending tasks…

Why do I do those little things when I’m supposed to do the most important ones? Why do I get lazy about certain tasks and procrastinate forever? Why do I auto-sabotage myself very frequently?

But hey, I got to do a lot of immportant things. Specially the money part today.

Achivements for 28 june 2014: concerts, public relations, business.

I plan to start publishing what I do daily in order to keep track of progress and at the same time publicly commit to achieve stuff. as I will be ashamed if I don’t achieve anything and I tell you so.

For iChill Theater Cafe
– Printed flyers: URGENT AND IMPORTANT

– Printed posters: URGENT AND IMPORTANT

– Social networks marketing: NOT URGENT & IMPORTANT
– Performed concert for free for the cafe: NOT URGENT & IMPORTANT

– Programmed and assisted the concert of Sonwriters Philippines: NOT URGENT & IMPORTANT

For the artist Kuya Manzano
– Twitter marketing: NOT URGENT & IMPORTANT
– Sang Broadway concert at iChill as an exposure and to make this new production stronger, have it fresh in order to move it to other venues and sell shows in iChill as well. URGENT & IMPORTANT
WATCH VIDEO OF LAST WEEK https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=330330620448023

For my personal wellbeing
– Realized I need a psycologist or a coach NOT URGENT & IMPORTANT
– Attended a Filipino Freethinker meeting. NOT URGENT & IMPORTANT

For my direct urgent economy
NOTHING, TERRIBLE!

Other tasks
– Sex. NOT URGENT & NOT IMPORTANT.
– Clean & dry the raincoat before wearing it again. URGENT & NOT IMPORTANT

Well. Actually I think I did a lot of things after all. I guess this is a good method to keep track and progress.

Filmography – Director and producer

Started studying film directing and production back in 2004 in Spain complementing it with shows and theater production during 2005 with the Spanish Actors Guild organization.

Then came studies for script writing, video editing, and production and direction of feauture films until 2009.

Awards won for Changing Direction: official selections in international film festivals Festival del Sol and Festival El Lugar sin Limites in Spain and Ecuador.

His short film Marriage War 2004 had international film festival selections as well.

Other awards to mention: 2008 1st prize video for the Geek Pride Day in Spain, 2008 1st prize for ideas against piracy by the Spainsh Authors Society, 2007 Best Advertisement Creativity Design CEU Spain.

This film Changing Direction is a long hard piece of independent work production that started being produced in Spain in 2009 and finished it’s last images and postproduction in the Philippines 2014.

During this production interval, the film has shown the work in progress preview versions in Spain and Latin America. Being enjoyed by all kinds of audiences.

Aside from both films mentioned above, he wrote and directed another short film called “The rival gender”, theater plays, did writing jobs (magazines, plays, webs), audiovisual production jobs, video editing, casting direction and long list of show business related positions.