Everyone starts from a dream. Dreams drive our determination to succeed. Dreams increases our will power. In reaching your dreams, it’s not always a safe and smooth road. You need to encounter a lot of trials and hardships. A lot of times you will fail before you can even see a first glimpse of success. You should be able “to fight the unbeatable foe” and “to run where the brave dare not go”. Failures are always part of every success. It teaches us valuable

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The Philippines is going to elect another leader this coming May. Who deserves to be the leader among those contenders? Who has the qualities of an effective leader? There are a lot of people that say leaders are born. Some say that leaders are made. Whatever your opinion on this, leaders should be ‘effective’ in their leadership and should be responsible to their constituents. Let’s discuss some of the qualities of an effective leader and apply these qualities to the

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First of all, I would like to greet you all Merry Christmas to everybody! Thanks for being a regular reader of my blog Millionaire Acts. Everyone wants Christmas to be meaningful. Christmas is definitely the season for gifts and shopping. During Christmas, a lot of people go to malls to buy various gifts to be given to their friends and loved ones. People just need to spend more during Christmas season. The effect? - traffic jam, growing credit card debts, lots of to-do lists, etc. I came

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What does it take to become successful? Success has a lot of meaning to each of us. You can achieve success financially, success emotionally, success spiritually, etc. In a recent addition to my learnings to become a successful entrepreneur and investor, I’ve learned about John Wooden’s Pyramid of Success. John Wooden is a retired American basketball coach. He is a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player (class of 1961) and as a coach (class of 1973). He has

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Thanksgiving Day is a special occasion in the US. It is usually celebrated on the fourth Thursday in the month of November. Thanksgiving Day is a time for merrymaking, shopping, family reunion, feasts and family dinners. People also take time to thank God for all His blessings and for all the material possessions man enjoys. For many Thanksgiving is also the time to thank near and dear ones and being grateful for their kindness. This coming November 26, US will be celebrating Thanksgiving

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All of us have some Chicken Little in us. You remember Chicken Little—the character in the children’s fable who ran around the barnyard warning other animals that the sky was falling. Chicken Little had a doom and gloom attitude toward life. He was a classic cynic. There are Chicken Littles everywhere, especially in the financial world. If you want to be rich, you need to stop listening to their clucking. “The-sky-is-falling” warnings from financial cynics are just a lot of

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I’m sure all Filipinos around the world know the name Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao. He is currently the undisputed, “pound-per-pound” champion of the world and was tagged as “The Destroyer!” He rose from extreme poverty to being the wealthiest boxer in the world today. What’s more amazing is he does not brag about his wealth and achievements. Despite his status right now, he remains humble, God-fearing, and respectful to his opponents and fans.

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In one of my previous posts, I tackled about overcoming fear. Today, it’s time to tackle on how to overcome laziness. Busy people are often the laziest. Busyness is a form of avoidance. If you stay busy you can avoid some of the things you don’t want to face—like exercising, or taking care of your wealth. What’s the cure for laziness?  Kiyosaki says a little greed. Isn’t greed bad? Too much of it, yes. An excess of anything is bad. The fact is, however, that all of us

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As many of you are aware of, Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad book became one of the hottest selling books. He introduced the term “rat race” which refers to the ordinary income-spend lifestyle, living from paycheck to paycheck. In order to get out of the rat race, we need to build passive income from assets which would generate enough income to sustain our needs and wants. One of the things that we must first do is to change and open our minds from industrial age

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Trendy gadgets, nice cars, huge houses - most of us want these luxuries in life. With the development of industrial age, we are always blinded to be materialistic. We usually forget the word “simple”. Sometimes, we tend to forget how blessed we are compared to others. We always want to have more and more to feed our never ending greediness. We never find contentment within ourselves and this sometimes results to selfishness. I recently received a forwarded powerpoint presentation

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I was watching this video by Anthony Robbins, one of the most successful motivational speaker. And I thought that definitely, it’s worth to share it to all my readers. Tony Robbins talked about how to condition your mind to achieve success. Its all about chaging your beliefs and taking massive actions towards achieving your goals. Each and everyone of us has its own potentials. But not everyone of us cultivates these potentials to become a reality. Have you heard of people who went from

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Be Optimistic! Be Positive! That’s one of the most common words that we keep on hearing from friends when we encounter failures and defeats. If you are inclined to be a pessimist, experts say to try to bite your tongue to stop those negative comments coming out, because everytime they come out, they’ll kill a bit of enthusiasm for life. A lot of times, it may be necessary to just pretend to be happy. So try to think of yourself as someone with a happy demeanor. Nevermind that you

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What are the qualities of a winner? What differentiates it as against a loser? Do you want to become a winner and avoid being a loser? Here are some of the qualities of a winner vs. a loser: A winner is always part of the answer. A loser is always part of the problem.   Losers always complain and complain. They never stop. The reason their “issues” persist is that they can’t stop talking about it. Winners recognize problems but instead of complaining about them, in conversations, they

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Almost all of us have childhood dreams. When our parents ask us what we want to become when we grow up, some would say: “I want to become a doctor someday.” “I want to become a lawyer.” Or some would say “I want to become a famous singer or a famous Hollywood artist like my idol!” I want to point you out to a remarkable speech by Ryan Pausch, Professor of Computer Science in Carnegie-Mellon University who has pancreatic cancer and died last July 25,

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