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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Passion is where your heart is. It is where your interests and skills thrive. When you have a passion for things, you tend to do better at those. Finding your passion is the key to success in all your endeavors.   If we compare Rich Dad vs. Poor Dad, Poor Dad’s slogans are the words of fear; Rich Dad’s slogans are the words of passion. While fear reflects disappointment and passivity, passion reflects confidence and energy. What builds wealth isn’t fear, but passion. Sometimes it is

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Each one of us is capable to make a change in our country and in this world. SEAChange, South East Asia’s largest youth movement for personal change wants you to voice out your opinion on how can you make a change and do some difference in this world. SEACHANGE is an ongoing movement connecting Southeast Asian Youths to projects, organizations, businesses, and leaders who can help them with the change they want to see! In line with this, there will be a Youth Engagement Summit 2009 to

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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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Last July 31, I was given the chance to be a resource speaker for the very first financial planning seminar that I conducted. I was at first nervous as this was my very first speaking stint but that nervousness was slowly swallowed as I discussed my topics. It was a success! It was attended by around 50 attendees from our company. I was first introduced as a BS Mathematics graduate from Ateneo de Manila University, mentioned my two former employment background and my feature in Good House

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It is a Saturday afternoon today and I am here in the office. No, I am not doing an overtime. I am just here to prepare a powerpoint presentation since the learning and development team invited me for a financial planning seminar which will be attended by fellow employees. At first, I was amazed when I received the invitation to be a resource speaker. I am not used in speaking in public and so I must devote an ample amount of time to prepare for such presentation. This will be held

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They say that prevention is the best cure to any disease. Bankruptcy as we all know is the worst case scenario for people who want to achieve financial freedom. It’s like a disease that cripples us. Bankruptcy brings to mind a lot of horrible things. In Japan, they used to commit suicide when their business has gone bankrupt. Way back during the stock market crash of 1929, bankruptcy brings to mind a frazzled man in a tuxedo shouting “I’m ruined! Ruined!” before jumping from a high

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We are all experiencing economic recession. There are low demands of products as consumers cut spending. Companies cut costs thereby closing some of their plant operations and laying off thousand of is workforce. What lessons have you learned so far in this economic recession? What are the things will you do just in case another deep recession comes into our economy in the near future? It is better to be prepared and arm yourself with a weapon to survive an economic crisis. Save for the

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Each and every one of us has his own source of motivation. Motivation drives us to excel in the things that we do. It empowers us to become the best that we can be in every thing that we do and in every endeavor that we enter ourselves into. What’s your source of motivation? You may use your economic status as your motivation. You want to alleviate the way you live. Or you may use your family as your source of motivation. Or you may want to prove yourself to other people who don’t

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Managing your money is the best way to educate yourself to become financialy intelligent. You are the best manager of your own assets. Learn how to take charge of your own money and stop supporting lenders and retailers with cash that should be supporting you and your loved ones. Here are some of the smart ways to manage your finances to reach your financial goals and become rich in the end. As they say, the early bird catches the worm.   Set goals for your gold. Set specific goals. Decide

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These past few weeks, I am thinking of starting another category for this blog. I want to offer more help to my readers and so I decided to have a tips category that will help my readers to achieve those financial goals. Nowadays, because of the global financial crisis and job lay offs around the world, it’s tough to apply in different companies. It’s hard to lose a job especially when you have a family to feed. Because of this, I decided to write a post on cover letters that

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