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01/11/2025

03/10/2025

Daghang Salamat Dr. Lesleÿ Casas Lubös
for the honor of being featured as a guest on Episode 3 of Botanika Talks.

Being in the studio to share insights on a subject so close to my heart was truly a humbling experience. This collaboration is a meaningful step towards educating students and the wider community on the importance of responsible engagement in mountain tourism and environmental stewardship.

While I have always been reserved in front of the camera, I welcomed this opportunity with a sense of responsibility—to contribute, in my own way, to fostering awareness and promoting practices that safeguard both our natural landscapes and the communities that depend on them.

My sincere thanks as well to the production team for their dedication and professionalism, and to the viewers and listeners for their warm and positive response. Your support gives greater purpose to conversations like this.

07/05/2025

Here are 10 wonderful lessons from Become A Person of Value by J. S. Math:

1. Focus on Adding Value, Not Just Success
True fulfillment comes from making a positive impact on others, not just chasing titles or wealth.

2. Character is Greater than Reputation
What you do when no one is watching defines who you truly are. Build integrity from the inside out.

3. Self-Discipline is the Foundation of Growth
Developing habits of discipline helps you stay consistent, overcome procrastination, and achieve long-term goals.

4. Continuous Learning is Non-Negotiable
A person of value never stops learning. Stay curious, read widely, and seek wisdom from every experience.

5. Give More Than You Take
Generosity builds trust, relationships, and influence. The more you give, the more valuable you become.

6. Embrace Failures as Lessons
Every failure is feedback. Use setbacks as stepping stones toward self-improvement and resilience.

7. Humility Attracts Growth
Stay teachable. Even when you achieve success, acknowledge that there’s always room to learn and improve.

8. Purpose Fuels Progress
When you align your actions with a deeper sense of purpose, you gain clarity, motivation, and direction.

9. Emotional Intelligence Sets You Apart
Understanding your emotions and relating well to others helps build meaningful relationships and lasting influence.

10. Lead by Example
Be the person others admire and trust. Inspire through action, not just words.

06/05/2025

At 40 years old, the eagle faces a life-or-death choice.
Its talons have grown too long and curved — they can no longer grasp prey.
Its beak becomes too bent — it can’t tear food.
Its chest and wing feathers are too heavy — they make flight nearly impossible.

Now the eagle has only two options:
die… or endure a long, painful transformation.

It retreats to its mountaintop nest.
There, it begins the brutal process of rebirth.

It smashes its beak against a rock until it breaks off.
Then it waits. Slowly, painfully, a new beak grows.
With that beak, it pulls out its old talons — one by one.
And once those regrow, the eagle uses them to rip out the heavy feathers from its chest and wings.

150 days of struggle. Pain. Isolation. Silence.

But when the process is over — it soars again.
Reborn.
Stronger.
Free.
And it lives on… for another 30 years.

Sometimes, to truly live — we must change.
Change often comes with fear, discomfort, even heartbreak.
But clinging to what no longer serves us — old habits, toxic patterns, outdated beliefs — weighs us down.
Only when we release the burden of the past can we rise into the future.

The pain of transformation is real — but so is the power of rebirth.

04/05/2025

Leadership Principles that we can learn from an Eagle

1. Eagles fly Alone and at High Altitudes.
They don't fly with sparrows, ravens, and other small birds.

MEANING; Stay away from narrow-minded people, those that bring you down. Eagle flies with Eagles. Keep good company.

2. Eagles have an Accurate Vision. They have the ability to focus on something as far as 5km away. No matter the obstacles, the eagle will not move his focus from the prey until he grabs it.

MEANING; Have a vision and remain focused no matter what the obstacles and you will succeed.

3. Eagles do not Eat Dead things. They Feed only on Fresh Prey.

MEANING; Do not rely on your past success, keep looking for new frontiers to conquer. Leave your past where it belongs, in the past.

4. Eagles Love the Storm.
When clouds gather, the eagle gets excited, the eagle uses the storms wind to lift itself higher. Once it finds the wind of the storm, the eagle uses the raging storm to lift itself above the clouds. This gives the eagle an opportunity to glide and rest its wings. In the meantime, all the other birds hide in the branches and leaves of the tree.

MEANING; Face your challenges head on knowing that these will make you emerge stronger and better than you were. We can use the storms of life to rise to greater heights. Achievers are not afraid to rise to greater heights. Achievers are not afraid of challenges, rather they relish them and use them profitably.

5. Eagles Prepare for Training;
They remove the feathers and soft grass in the nest so that the young ones get uncomfortable in preparation for flying and eventually flies/ when it becomes unbearable to stay in the nest./

MEANING; Leave your Comfort Zone, there is No Growth there.

6. When the Eagle Grows Old,
His feathers becomes weak and cannot take him as fast and as high as it should. This makes him weak and could make him die. So he retires to a place far away in the mountains. While there, he plucks out the weak feathers on his body and breaks its beaks and claws against the rocks until he is completely bare; a very bloody and painful process. Then he stays in this hiding place until he has grown new feathers, new beaks and claws and then he comes out flying higher than before.

MEANING; We occasionally need to shed off old habit no matter how difficult, things that burden us or add no value to our lives should be let go of.