Thursday, March 14, 2013

Eminata Song



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"Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter. "
― Stephen King, Duma Key

"I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don't want to spend my life with someone who is always critical. So I am going to stop being my own critic. It's high time that I accept all the great things about me."
― C. JoyBell C.

"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
― Mother Teresa

"You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control."
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

Monday, March 11, 2013

Dr Peter Chung CEO Eminata Group Part 2 of 2



Dr Peter Chung http://peter-chung.com/
Eminata Group http://eminata.com/

At its peak, I had 14 businesses, and as they grew, unfortunately so did my ego and arrogance. I lost humility, and this coupled with a significant business reversal resulted in a loss of 95% of my assets. At this point, I turned back to God, and asked "why me"? I had made many donations to mission groups, Christian charity and helped the poor. I asked God why He was putting me in these circumstances. I became very lonely because most of the people who I thought were my friends quickly ran the other way. I realized that the only trust I had was in God. I turned to my wife and family and we prayed together. I realized I can only eat one meal at a time, sleep in one bed at a time, and wear one pair of pants at a time.

I used to think that I was a big shot, now I know now that I am not. God is the biggest shot of all. I am nothing without God.

So I repented, asked for forgiveness and asked God to make me humble again. I promised myself and promised God that I would give all credit to Him if I were to be given another chance, and that is how I am standing here in front of you tonight.

In our world, there is little certainty. We try to define success with words like fame, power, honour, wealth, status. There is nothing wrong with being successful as long as we understand God is the one who gives us ability to produce success. Also we must understand all these are temporal measures in our temporal world. When I die, I am not going to take any of these with me. The most important thing is, as said by King Solomon, "vanity is vanity, all is vanity. Fear the Lord and keep His commandments. Do good while you are living, this will bring you happiness." To me, this is key to success.

Through all of this my wife Stephanie and I were blessed with five wonderful children. We thanked God and offered our 1st son Joseph as a missionary and devoted ourselves and Joseph to do God's work. At the age of three, Joseph was diagnosed with autism, and by the age of seven, he had developed a seizure disorder that would eventually be diagnosed as epilepsy.

We asked God why Joseph was given these difficult challenges. After all, he was dedicated to the Lord as missionary. Thru many prayers and tribulations, we realized Joseph was a missionary to our family.

Thru Joseph God taught us humility
Thru Joseph God taught us to be generous
Thru Joseph God taught us patience
Thru Joseph God taught us empathy
Thru Joseph God taught us to have compassion for others
Thru Joseph God taught us to do good.

On September 26 6:35pm, I received a phone call from Joseph's caretaker. She said Joseph was found in the bottom of a swimming pool and he was on his way to the hospital. I asked, "Is he ok?" She said he was breathing and that he should be ok. So I thought everything would be fine. An hour later, I received a call from my wife Stephanie and she told me to come to the hospital right away. At 12:40am on September 27, 2012, at the young age of 32, God took our handsome Joseph home.

It was so sudden and as you can imagine, Stephanie and I were in shock. I was told by many of my Christian friends that children are a gift from God to be raised by us while we are on this earth. Children are not our own. When God took Joseph home, the real meaning of this struck me. In such a painful way, I learned that death waits for no one. When it comes, you must be ready, and that as a parent, you must love and cherish your children.

Read more at http://www.thoughts-about-god.com/stories/chung.htm

Dr Peter Chung CEO Eminata Group Part 1 of 2



Dr Peter Chung http://peter-chung.com/
Eminata Group http://eminata.com/

I came to North America as a boy. I was 14 years old and my family settled in the Los Angeles area. Immediately upon my arrival, I was put into an English as Second Language class to learn to speak English. In Korea, we lived close to the US 8th Army division base, so as a child, I grew up thinking there were only two other types of people, black soldiers and white soldiers, and that they all spoke English. So you can imagine my determination to speak English, and when I settled in Los Angeles and went to school, I worked really hard to make friends with those who were black and white and who spoke this wonderful language. I would talk with my friends outside of class, and study hard in class. After a month or so, it started to dawn on me that the language I was communicating in with my friends was different than the language I was learning in class. I realized I was learning Spanish.

While I was in high school I was a bit of a rebel. I was angry that my father's low-paying job as pastor of a small Korean church in Los Angeles meant that my mother had to work long hours in a sewing factory making ties to support the family. So it was with this background that I opened a Tae Kwon Do school and taught fellow students in an effort to help make ends meet. In the 70s, Bruce Lee was becoming a hero in the martial arts, making martial arts very popular, so I approached my student council president to see if I could give a Tae Kwon Do demonstration at the school. Our school had three thousand students, and fifteen hundred showed up! From there, I recruited thirty students to start my first class. This was my 1st business!

After high school, I left home and went to study mathematics and computer science at UCLA and it is here that Christianity really entered my life. Our roommate David was a very faithful Christian. I respected him because he was a senior and a Physics major with (straight) A's. On the first day of school, he turned on the light at six in the morning, read the Bible aloud, prayed and went to school. On the second day of school, he turned on the light at six in the morning, read the Bible (aloud), prayed and went to school, and I got a little annoyed. We all shared one open room so I could hear everything. On the third day he turned on the light at six in the morning, read the Bible aloud, prayed and went to school. I got more annoyed so I asked him a blunt question. "David, why do you get up so early to read the Bible, pray and disturb everybody? Isn't going to church once a week enough for you?" His response to me was "Peter, I have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and I communicate to God through prayer and I get His message through reading the bible. This is how I start my day." He then invited me to come to his bible study group. As a preacher's son, I thought I knew a lot about the Bible but after attending a few Bible studies with our roommate I realized how little I really knew about God. So with my faith and my degree in hand I graduated and took a number of respectable jobs.

But I knew, inside, there was more.

I started my own businesses in private education, banking, real estate and automobile safety engineering. Things grew very quickly and as they grew, I was humbled and gave thanks to God for His blessings. Before I went to work, I used to kneel down on my 2nd floor balcony looking at the ocean, mountains and sky and pray, "Lord who am I to be blessed with such magnitude? You know I don't deserve this. Help me to glorify You throughout the day. "I prayed this prayer every day.

After a while people started telling me how smart and successful I was. My response to them was, "It is not me; God is the one who is blessing me". Many people wanted to be my friend and continued to tell me how successful I was. The media wanted to do interviews and they did stories on me. As time passed by I started thinking that maybe I was not dumb after all. Maybe I was smart.

Read more at http://www.thoughts-about-god.com/stories/chung.htm