Hey It's Kajea

Walang experience sa virtual work.
First month pa lang sa pag-aapply sa OLJ.
Pero ngayon, hindi lang isang client ang dumating.

Dalawa pa. 🥹

Grabe no?
Yung dating “kaya ko ba ‘to?”
Unti-unting nagiging “thank You Lord, nangyayari na.”

And this is why I always say, don’t underestimate small steps.

Yung pag-attend mo ng training.
Yung pagtatanong mo kahit nahihiya ka.
Yung pag-aapply mo kahit kinakabahan ka.
Yung pag-try mo ulit kahit walang nagreply yesterday.

Lahat yan may pupuntahan.

Kaya kung wala ka pang client ngayon, hindi ibig sabihin wala kang chance.
Baka nasa part ka pa lang na binubuo yung confidence mo.

Keep learning.
Keep applying.
Keep showing up.

Baka yung next “yes” mo…
mas sobra pa sa pinag-pray mo.

Comment “AKO NA NEXT” if this is your sign to keep going.

I’M BACK. ❤️😊

And yes… we’re doing this again.

For everyone who has been waiting, asking, and silently saying,
“Kajea, kailan ulit yung bookkeeping challenge?”

Heto na po 🥰🥰🥰

Minsan hindi talaga saturated ang market.

Minsan… nawalan lang tayo ng focus.

Ang daming gusto maging freelancer. Ang daming gustong magka-client.

Pero hindi lahat consistent.

May days na ganado tayo. May days na nawawala. May inaaral today… tapos next week ibang niche na naman. May apply ng apply for 3 days… tapos disappear ulit for 2 weeks.

And then sasabihin natin: “Baka hindi para sakin.” “Ang hirap makakuha ng client.”

Minsan hindi pa failed yung journey. Napuputol lang lagi yung momentum mo.

Some people get clients in 1 month. Some take 6 months. Some take years.

Hindi dahil mas favorite sila ni Lord. Hindi dahil mas swerte sila.

Minsan mas naging consistent lang sila. Mas nag-focus. Mas nag-show up kahit nakakatamad na.

Success in freelancing is not always about who’s the smartest.

Sometimes it’s simply… who stayed long enough without giving up.

Kaya if you stopped before okay lang.

Pero bumalik ka. Focus again. Apply again. Try again.

Baka hindi client ang nawawala.
Baka ikaw lang yung tumigil halfway.

Comment “BABALIK AKO” if this is your sign to refocus this month.

𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞, 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐛𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞.

More blessings.
More work.
More aligned clients.
More paid opportunities.
More courage to try again.
More peace while waiting.
More faith while building.

And less fear.
Less doubt.
Less overthinking.
Less forcing what’s not meant for me.

To every aspiring bookkeeper and bookkeepers still showing up kahit kabado, I hope this month brings us clearer direction, kinder clients, and opportunities that are truly meant for us.

June, please be the month where things finally start making sense.

The month we stop doubting ourselves.
The month we try again.
The month we finally say,

“𝐊𝐚𝐲𝐚 𝐤𝐨 𝐩𝐚𝐥𝐚.” ✨

Comment “𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞, 𝐈’𝐦 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲” if this is your prayer too.

Grabe… imagine working 10+ hours a day…
plus overtime…
plus traffic…
plus stress…

Tapos pag-uwi mo, parang wala ka nang energy para mabuhay. 😅

That was Bryan’s life for 9 YEARS.

“𝘏𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪 𝘬𝘰 𝘯𝘢 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘢 𝘬𝘢𝘺𝘢.”

That’s what Bryan told himself after years of working in the BPO industry.

For 9 years, corporate life was his world.

Night shift.
10PM to 8AM.
Minsan may overtime pa ng 2 hours.

Supervisor position.
Good salary.
Stable job.

Pero ghorl…

Kahit okay yung sweldo, pagod na pagod na siya.

Pagod sa trabaho.
Pagod sa biyahe.
Pagod mentally.
Pagod physically.

Yung tipong buong buhay mo umiikot na lang sa trabaho.

Then one day, he started asking himself:

“𝘎𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘰 𝘯𝘢 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘢 𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘪?”

And honestly?
I think madaming makaka-relate dito.

Kasi minsan hindi ka naman tamad eh.
Hindi ka rin ungrateful.

Pagod ka lang talaga. 😅

So Bryan started exploring online work.

But here’s the crazy part…

WALA siyang accounting background.
WALA siyang bookkeeping experience.
Hindi siya graduate ng accounting.
Hindi CPA.
Hindi expert sa Excel.

BPO supervisor siya.

That’s it.

Then one random moment changed everything.

Yung husband ng sister-in-law niya?
Bookkeeper sa US.

And dahil curious siya…
nag-search siya.
Nanood ng videos.
Nag self-study.

Hanggang sa nakita niya yung bookkeeping videos ko.

And little by little…
nagkaroon siya ng idea.

“Wait… baka pwede pala sakin ‘to.”

So he enrolled.

Not because confident siya.

But because pagod na siyang manatili sa parehong cycle.

And ghorl…
this part is important.

Hindi siya biglang nagka-client agad.

Actually, after training?

Wala pa din.

Nag-aapply siya…
pero paisa-isa lang.
Kapag may time lang.
Kapag hindi sobrang busy sa trabaho.

Kasi paano ka nga naman makakapag-focus mag-build ng bagong career…
kung ubos na ubos ka na sa current mong work?

Then dumating yung breaking point.

Nag-resign siya.

And that’s when things changed.

Hindi dahil magic.
Hindi dahil swerte.

Kundi dahil finally…
sineseryoso na niya.

He started applying consistently.
Halos araw-araw.
Every other day.
Push lang kahit puro rejection.

Interview.
Rejected.

Apply ulit.
Rejected.

And alam mo yung pinaka gusto ko sa story niya?

Hindi siya special case.
Hindi siya “gifted.”
Hindi siya may perfect background.

He was just CONSISTENT.

Then one day…

May client from LinkedIn na nag-message.

A US real estate company.
One of the biggest real estate companies in the US.

And guess what?

Hindi siya tinanong kung graduate ba siya ng accounting.

Hindi siya tinanong kung CPA siya.

Hindi siya tinanong kung may 5 years bookkeeping experience siya.

They asked:

“Can you do the work?”

THAT’S IT.

And now?

Yung dating 10+ hours na shift niya?

Naging 2-3 hours na lang.

Same night shift.
Pero sobrang magkaiba ang buhay.

Imagine this:

Dati:
🕐 Buong buhay nasa trabaho
🕐 Stress sa office
🕐 Overtime lagi
🕐 Pagod sa commute

Ngayon?

Gigising siya 9:50 PM.
Magla-log in.
Kakain muna.
Start ng work around 10:30 PM

Minsan tapos na siya by 12 midnight.

TWO HOURS.

And the craziest part?

Almost same income level pa sila ng pagiging supervisor niya before.

Read that again.

2-3 hours of work.
Almost same pay.

And now?

Naaasikaso na niya anak niya.
Naaasikaso niya business nila.
Nakakatulong siya sa family.
May buhay na siya outside work.

And honestly…
ito yung hindi maintindihan ng ibang tao.

Sometimes success is not:
✨ fancy job title
✨ corporate position
✨ “manager” sa LinkedIn
✨ overtime pay

Sometimes success is simply:

“May oras na ako mabuhay.”

That hit me hard.

Kasi ang daming tao ngayon…
mataas nga sweldo…
pero wala namang oras para sa sarili nila.

And if you’re reading this habang pagod ka…
burned out…
or feeling trapped sa work mo…

This is your reminder:

Hindi mo kailangan maging accounting graduate para maging bookkeeper.

Hindi mo kailangan maging expert agad.

At lalong hindi mo kailangan maging “ready” bago magsimula.

You just need to start.

Kahit takot.
Kahit kabado.
Kahit feeling mo nangangapa ka pa.

Because sometimes…
the life you’re praying for starts the moment you stop saying:

“Baka hindi ko kaya.”

And start saying:

“Susubukan ko.”

❤️

Watch the whole interview on my YouTube channel 🎥
https://youtu.be/ihEGzPoSBlM?si=ah5gUlIx5J1UwaZO

I had a realization last week.

And honestly, I need to share it because it's been living in my head since last Wednesday. 😅

I was talking to some people inside our community.
And napansin ko, halos pare-pareho sila ng sinasabi.

"𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘥𝘪 𝘬𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘴?" "𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘥𝘪 𝘢𝘬𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘮𝘪𝘵?" "𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘬𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘪 𝘢𝘬𝘰 𝘴𝘢 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵?" "𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘮𝘢-𝘳𝘦𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘢𝘬𝘰?"

And while I was listening to all of them…
Parang may tumama talaga sa'kin. Hard. 😭

Why is it that whenever we're about to do something good for our future
Our mind automatically prepares for disaster?

Like… nobody asked it to. Wala namang nagsabi. But there it is. Already writing the tragedy before the story even begins.

Hindi pa nagpapasa ng proposal - rejected na agad sa isip. Hindi pa naiinterview - napahiya na agad sa imagination. Hindi pa nagsisimula - sumusuko na mentally.

And the wildest part?

Most of the things we overthink… haven't even happened yet.

Some of them? Possible di mangyayari. Ever.

But our brain treats them like, done deal. Sigurado na. Guilty na tayo sa krimen na wala pa sa korte. 😭😂

So I asked myself…

If our brain is THAT powerful… If it can spend hours, days, entire sleepless nights… Building the worst case scenario in full HD, surround sound, complete with imaginary people judging us.

Why don't we use that same energy to overthink the BEST one too?

Diba?? 🙂

Kasi here's the honest truth

We call it being "realistic."

But sometimes? We're not being realistic.

We're just feeding fear more than faith.

And I'll be the first to admit, guilty din ako dito. 😭

We spend so much time imagining failure… That we forget to even consider the possibility that

"𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦?"

What if this season becomes your turning point? What if kaya mo naman pala, and you just never gave yourself the chance to find out? What if the only reason you're stuck… is because you already decided the ending before the story even started?

Here's what I want you to sit with today

Some of you are not failing yet.

You're just afraid.

And fear has been talking so much louder than your potential that you started believing it was the only voice in the room.

It's not. 🤍

Overthinking the worst is still just imagining something POSSIBLE.

Not something CERTAIN.

And if your mind can imagine things falling apart,

It can just as easily imagine things falling into place. ✨

Because sometimes, the life you've been praying for…

Starts the moment you stop assuming everything will go wrong.

Maybe, just maybe - this time?

Things will work out better than you ever expected. 🥹🔥

Comment "𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴?" if this hit you today. 👇

And share mo 'to, someone in your life needs to read this right now. 🤍

"Imagine working for 7 years... and missing some of the biggest moments of your child's life."

When I heard my mentee say this, grabe...

For almost 7 years, his life looked like this:

Work.
Vacation.
Work.
Vacation.
Repeat.

And "vacation" wasn't even really vacation.

Because when you're home for only a couple of months, may pressure agad.

"𝘒𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘬 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘥 𝘴𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘬𝘢𝘴𝘪 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘢 𝘯𝘢 𝘶𝘭𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦."

Then one day, life changed.

Not overnight. Hindi yung parang movie na biglang boom, six digits agad. Hindi ganun.

He joined the 30-Day Challenge with literally ZERO knowledge.

As in zero.

No bookkeeping background. No Excel skills. No VA experience.

And while watching the training videos, ang nasa isip niya:

"𝘓𝘰𝘳𝘥... 𝘢𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘰 𝘬𝘰 𝘱𝘢."

Ghorl, imagine that.

He told me he would start learning at 6AM and sometimes finish at 12 midnight.

Because in his mind:

"𝘐 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴. 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘢 𝘢𝘬𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦. 𝘐𝘧 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬, 𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘬 𝘢𝘬𝘰 𝘴𝘢 𝘣𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘰."

Then came applications.

Rejected.

Interview.

Rejected.

Interview ulit.

Nothing.

And you know what's crazy?

Hindi siya sumuko.

One random conversation with his cousin changed everything.

One referral.

One opportunity.

One client willing to say:

"𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥. 𝘐 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘴."

And now?

Now his life sounds different.

Now after work...

He drives his wife to work.

He brings his daughter to school.

His wife is pregnant, so kahit madaling araw pa matapos work niya minsan, gigising siya ulit para ihatid sila.

And while telling me this, he said something na medyo masakit pero ang ganda:

"𝘉𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦, 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘸... 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬, 𝘱𝘢𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘰𝘯 𝘬𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘺𝘢𝘯 𝘯𝘢 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘢."

Because sometimes success isn't:
✨ bigger salary
✨ fancy title
✨ flex posts online

Sometimes success is simply:

"𝘏𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪 𝘬𝘰 𝘯𝘢 𝘬𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘨 9 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘵𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺𝘢 𝘬𝘰."

That hit me hard.

Kasi minsan we're praying for income...
but deep inside, what we're really praying for is time.

Time with our kids.

Time with our family.

Time for life itself.

Who needed this reminder today? ❤️

ATTENTION:

𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦.

If someone messages you pretending to be me or using my name/photo, please be careful. 🚩
Madaming fake accounts ngayon na nagpapanggap just to scam people.

Please remember:
❌I will NEVER ask you to move to Telegram
❌I will NEVER ask for money through random messages
❌I don’t randomly DM people offering “business opportunities”

Ingat tayo please.😭
If suspicious yung message, trust your instincts agad.

I filmed this interview with my mentee Dianne last year.

Napost ko lang ngayon. Sobrang busy, classic. 😅

But kahapon, habang pinapanood ko ulit yung video..

Natutuwa talaga ako. 🥹

Kasi dito si Dianne naging honest sya.

Hindi siya nag "fake it till you make it."

Na-interview siya sa client niya. And sinet nya na talaga yong expectation para clear na sa simula pa lang.

"𝘏𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪 𝘢𝘬𝘰 𝘊𝘗𝘈."

No sugarcoating. No trying to sound more than what she was.
Just the truth. 🙂

And you know what the client said?

"𝘊𝘗𝘈 𝘪𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦."

…

Excuse me. 😭🔥

That moment right there is everything I want my mentees to understand.

You don't have to fake it. You don't have to pretend to be someone you're not just to get a client.

Sometimes honesty is the most powerful thing you can bring to the table.

And the right client will see your value, title or no title. 🤍

Wanna know the full story?

Watch the whole interview on my YouTube channel. 🎥
https://youtu.be/xpbwrk2kU7U?si=pbF87LUlOuIwjCX7