Stand Up for a Good Life

One of the abiding tenets of Jayceesism is to be able to create positive change and that has been newly adopted as its mission all the world over. Many, have stood for that mission however, many too, are still struggling to make all these things effectively work in the level of the community and at the chapter where they belong. Our commitment lies on the kind of service that we share to those in our community whom we serve. That is what we are and what we stand for. We stand for positive change and we stand for a good life. Our commitment remains high on our personal agenda as well as in the collective mandate of the JCI Philippines as representative of the young professionals and leaders who are out to make change happen and that change should benefit not us, but the community we serve.
In our service to humanity, we have seen many national projects that benefited so many of Filipinos across all sectors and societies. We have served in the area of trainings, community development programs and projects, in business and in fostering world peace. We have seen among men and women, the great opportunists, who seize on every moment to make their contributions become the cogs of the wheel of progress and development of their communities. They, in so doing, became pillars of societal unity and progress. They have continually aspired for what is for the common good and what engenders good life.
Just as what do we think of a good life? Is it by the career we keep or the business we have made to flourished or managed? Is it on the princely sums that we keep day by day or is it really, the kind of quality service that touched lives, re-mould them to become better and continually inspire them to do more good above all else.
In our trainings, we have train men and women all over the country in the rudiments of what makes an effective Jaycee but really, have we asked these questions: Have we integrated such training modules to daily lives of those we have trained? Have they lived by heart the tenets they have learned out of the trainings we give? Do they best represent humanity because they understand JCI now more than ever? Do they replicate these modules in their businesses to make them grow and earn more to hire more ordinary people who need a job? Do these modules best represent the necessary qualifications to make them become effective, respectable and trustworthy leaders of tomorrow? The trainings that we gave are great materials but we, as JCI members, among so many people, is in the right position to make change possible and for positive change to be hastened in our communities because we have all the opportunities that others do not. We have been trained to become effective leaders. We have been groomed to respond to the needs of time and for the demands of professionalism. Above all else, we are enjoined to best represent not ourselves or our chapter but that of humanity.
People surrounding us admire us, they wanted to emulate our efficiency awards and our operations. They envy us for we have existed for more 60 years in the country and more than that all over the world. We are the face of humanity and we give credence to the time-honoured tradition of public service necessary to make one such ordinary leader become among the greatest in history.
As members of JCI in the Philippines, we have to stand up for a good life. We can do this by ensuring that our experiences in JCI in its entirety are used to hasten the replication of positive change. This is our mission and this is what we stand for. We fight for the greater glory of men and women who have less than us. We do not aspire to create positive change in many among us but to those who have less than us who are also in need of our assistance, our comfort, our commitment and our dedicated service. Our determination to make such a glorious contribution will be securely anchored if we believed and we continue to believe that faith in God gives meaning and purpose to ours lives. Our faiths dictates our own commitment into this organization and ultimately, in order for us to better respond to the calls that service to humanity is the best work of life. This is standing up, we should stand tall and remain standing up for a good life.