Marj Galangco

Welcome to My Page!

My name is Marj Galangco and here are a “few” things about me:

Who am I?

I’m a work in progress. I am learning and living the best way I know how. I am working towards having it all, because I now know that it IS possible, and I deserve it all.

Just very recently, I made a very important decision.

I made the decision that I’ve had enough.

I was sick and tired of living a limited life. I was sick and tired of compromising, and of postponing everything I really want to do. I was sick and tired of being sick and tired. So I decided to take the plunge. I’m still scared shitless, but I have made a decision to live my life fearlessly and to really go for it -  there’s no other option for me anymore.

I’m here because I want to share my journey with you. I want to share my dreams with you, and my journey towards reaching those dreams. In that process I will surely make mistakes – a lot of them. But more than anything else I want you to profit from my experiences, my knowledge, my growth, my triumphs, my pain, my journey. In that process of my unfolding, it is my hope that you also find yourself.

Marj Galangco

My Past

I’ve always been into holistic personal development – I exercised over 3x a week, ate healthy food, volunteered, contributed as much as I could to others, read books like there was no tomorrow, took various courses.

Although I’ve always had a wide range of interests, I never really knew what I wanted to do for a career, and this had been my main struggle throughout my adult life.

I just had no idea what the heck I was supposed to be doing.

So I did what everyone else did – I studied. Got a job. When I got out of Uni, I realised I knew nothing at all so I studied some more. Got another job. It paid peanuts so I got dissatisfied, then bored, then frustrated. I studied again, earned more qualifications. I then moved on to another industry and held various roles in sales and marketing – ranging from sales administrator to sales executive to key account manager to sales trainer and then sales coach.

One may say that I was successful in many ways, but somehow there was something missing: I lacked passion and I lacked excitement. I felt that my life lacked meaning, and purpose.

I didn’t feel truly ALIVE. I didn’t look forward to my days. Although externally I seemed to be OK, internally I was really just… plodding along, feeling empty and lost.

I kept wondering what I was here for, what I was meant to do, who I was meant to be. I  wanted to find my life’s purpose, my calling.

I felt that until I found my passion, I would never find that joyful endeavour I could do for a living.

I sought answers from religion, then moved on to personal development and then moved on to Spirituality.

Eventually I noticed that although I’ve always said I wanted to be successful (both inwardly and materially), deep inside I never really believed that real, complete success was for me.

I noticed that whenever I would get in the verge of achieving a major goal when it came to my career, I would switch into self-sabotage mode.

I did this because deep inside I was actually afraid of true success.

Deep inside, I actually didn’t believe I could have it all, that I could have love and happiness and peace and unlimited wealth.

So I secretly confined myself into this either-or thinking. I allowed myself to excel in all areas of my life except for one aspect: my career.

Epiphany

As I delved inside me, I realized that deep down I actually believed that spiritual fulfilment and material abundance were incompatible, that I either achieved one or the other, but never both. I was sabotaging myself because I held a deep-seated belief that inner AND outer success were off-limits to me.

I realised that I sabotaged my career because I saw how workaholism destroyed my parents and my family. They spent all their lives working 18 hours a day, 7 days a week to give us a decent standard of living. They never saw us, got to know us, nor did they take any vacations to relax.

This made me believe that in order to achieve wealth, I must sacrifice everything else in my life, so I unconsciously sabotaged my success whenever it came to my career because in my mind working too hard equals destruction.

Homecoming

I found my calling when I realised that my purpose has always been that thing that made me feel alive more than anything else: service to others.

The funny thing was that my calling had always been with me. It eluded me because my mind was heavily conditioned, so that I just didn’t believe that I could do what I loved AND earn unlimited wealth.

But not anymore. I have changed all that.

I am using various methods to serve, and these methods are secondary. To me, I serve when I write, when I BLOG, when I learn, when I coach, when I help others get what they want, when I share, when I improve myself, when I love, when I act fearlessly, when I sit and meditate, when I exercise, when I feel, when I pay attention, when I breathe…

I serve when I am here and now, when I am at peace and when I am at one with life.

I realised that more than anything else, it doesn’t matter WHAT you do, it’s HOW you do it that matters.

That’s how I found my calling, my love, my purpose; that’s how I found my Self

Marj G partying out on the toon

Trivia about Marj:

1. I’m currently living in England, but I grew up in Manila, Philippines.
2. I drink raw juice for breakfast every day.
3. I also write in Hubpages and Squidoo. Check out my entries!
4. I’m a recovering sugarholic. If there’s such a thing as sugar rehab I would have checked myself in a long time ago.
5. I’m uncomfortable talking about nothing in particular.
6. I have a weird way of saying certain words sometimes.
7. I make strange noises when I’m asleep. I was even known to laugh a lot while asleep.
8. I get cold easily. I really should move some place where the people don’t use the weather as a topic for conversation.
9. I love baking sweets and cooking all sorts of things but I am working on increasing my raw food intake so I’m kinda torn between the two.
10. I adore Clement and I think he’s really gorgeous and super doooper amazing! X
11. I have learned to speak Spanish but I’m prioritizing learning Mandarin because I believe the Chinese are taking over the world soon.
12. I lived in an archipelago and moved to an island but I never took the time to know how to swim.
13. One of my goals is to learn how to play the piano and the guitar someday, and maybe even sing…

Show me some Love!
I love reading and learning so if you want to give me some love, you can freely do so by sending me a surprise gift from My Amazon Wishlist. If you do, I will definitely love you forever and ever! (cross my heart)

Also, feel free to Buy Me a Drink anytime

Drop by and say hello

I would love to hear from you. So come and say hello when you get the time.

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Email me directly at marj at the way of money dot com