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After officially being adjudged the 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Obama’s true colors have finally been revealed. He has had a mapped out plan from the start and mind you, unless you are in a country where the U.S. will benefit, consider yourselves in trouble.

Countries in Asia are not in the prime list. They are actually second on his agenda. Among the main countries that Obama has talked to are the ones who he will have certain itineraries, most notably helping lift the economy of the U.S. back on its feet like France, the United Kingdom and so on. As for the rest? No one knows what his real intent is.

The Philippines is far from the list. Not that I am siding with controversial Philippine President Gloria-Macapagal Arroyo but it seems that Obama knows that the Philippines will only ask for aid and help from them. Apparently at the moment, the U.S. would rather save it for their own countrymen which is understandable. But is that fair? Isn’t that discriminating? You can just imagine one of his ignorant staff could have asked: “Where is the Philippines?”

Well, we have to wait and see in 2010. But from the things that are happening now, it doesn’t look good. I hate to say it but it looks like the motto of Obama right now is if you don’t have anything to offer, you are the least of my problems.

“I think [an Obama-Arroyo] meeting is unlikely because the president-elect, as I understand it, is not yet meeting with foreign leaders. He is busy assembling his Cabinet,” the US ambassador said.

The sidelining of the Arroyo call gave a glimpse of the importance of the Philippines to the United States at a moment of change of administration.

It is clear that the Philippines stands on the outer perimeter of US concerns in world affairs.

The first telephone conversations reveal the Philippines is not within the charmed circles of the Obama administration. It is a leper outside looking in.

It is imperative that Manila should rearrange its priorities vis-à-vis Washington. Obama is not our friend.

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Recently, there has been a lot of talk regarding conceptualizing success. Whether it is the law of attraction, the motto of “conceive, believe and achieve” or anything in between, there are a number of people on the internet making a fair amount of money by telling people that in order to achieve all they have to do is conceive of success and they will eventually be able to reach it.

The question is, are they right?

The answer to this question, as is usually the case in the business world, is that it depends. While the ability to conceptualize success and clearly see where you want to go in life is definitely one that is going to make getting there a lot easier, at the same time you can’t just sit in a chair, conceive of success and then have that success reach you. This is essentially what the law of attraction preaches in its simplest form and that at best is an incomplete statement.

Conceptualizing success only works when you create a plan to go along with that conception and then stick to the plan, showing very good work ethic and perseverance along the way. These in fact are more important factors to success than being able to conceptualize it because even if you have a good work ethic and no plan, you might end up blundering onto something that will get you where you want to be in life. Sitting around and conceptualizing success without doing anything else will get you nowhere and that is definitely something to keep in mind when you are prioritizing things for your business life.

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