Man's Potential Code

Cracking your potenntial code...

Why are we here today? In a Toastmaster's Club, of all things. What glue us, goad us, gear us to this Club? Purpose-driven is our life. With no exceptions, we have all the reason, the purpose , the intent , the passion of our existence. Because of that reason we have the mission to seek the code to our We, our humanness, our potential code.

And I have the audacity to be vocal and visible, because this is the only way to uncrew the bolt that hide my very self in my own humble little room. We are all locked in our rooms. It is only by being true and honest to our selves that we will have the opportunity to crack the potential code, the possibility code.

I don't know how to speak. I have stage fright. O.K. So be it! Now let's be real. The concrete. Someone strikes you physically. You are hit in your face. Your reaction?... To strike back, first verbally words unrehearse cascade from your mouth unceasingly, then the hand movement.
Or somebody strike you with a verbal bat. And you strike back like an orator- maybe a Raul Manglapus or a John F. Kennedy or an Abraham Lincoln. My point is - all of us have the potential right now on this group, the possibility of a speaker. But you talk only on topics that you are familiar with, on something that you know. The famous novelist John Gresham writes about topics with legalities 'cuz he is a lawyer. His novels became movie greats.

How about us? You? Me? You know better your background, your passion, the world of your interest. Capitalize on that. How about your romantic past? Your success as a student, as a taxi driver, as a newspaperboy, as a vendor. Your trek from the barrio to the city, your flight from the province to the land of opportunity, to the states of dreams. These things are great topics as they profoundly unearth the greatest creation of the Creator- you, we.

In front of you, I have stage fright but I dare it as I am in front of you and you are listening to me. That makes me the controller and you are controlled by me. And why do you listen attentively to me ? It is because you want to be here in front, you want to talk , to tell your story. And the greatest of all stories is our own story. I tell you I spent lots of time watching people talk, read how people write, pored on volumes on what made people successful and I am still looking for the key to crack my potential. The Key my friends to the cracking of our potential is in Us.

My stage fright is faced squarely by attending clubs like this, by doing the real. I ventured to be a reader in the church. You don't have to think, you have just got to read and presto you are in front of diverse classes of people, in all walks of life. When I looked at them, I said to myself now my stage fright is conquered but deep within that butterfly wants to get out of its cocoon. The fear is there and that makes you very normal. But my friends, I studied. I read the Workbook for Lectors and Gospel Readers. I read it everyday. I look at the mirror, at myself . And it pays.

After the Saturday or the Sunday readings inspiration comes when there is a churchgoer (that I don't know) to congratulate me. What really motivates me is when I have done my best to be an instrument of Him; that His message is heard to guide the faithful to the road of righteousness. Then my daily prayer, meditation and practice are not in vain.

Yes, indeed Rome was not built in a day!