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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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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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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I’m sure you are now all familiar with the movie “Slumdog Millionaire” by Danny Boyle. It gathered the most number of awards from the recent Oscars Awards. It’s all about the story of Jamal Malik, an 18-year old orphan from slums on Mumbai in India. He joined the Hindi version of “Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?” game show and won. With the whole country watching the show, he is just one question away from winning the grand prize of 20 million rupees.

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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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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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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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You’ve heard a lot about positive thinking. You are what you think. Mind over body. Using the law of attraction coupled with action and determination, thinking positively may bring us to our dreams closer. As Paulo Coelho said in his book entitled The Alchemist: “When you want something, all the universe conspire in helping you to achieve it.” Nowadays, with the current global financial crisis and with all the problems that we are facing, positive thinking sometimes is hard

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I am a firm believer of the Law of Attraction. It is really indeed the most powerful law in the universe. Just a few weeks ago, I was able to watch the movie “The Secret” in which the Law of Attraction was unveiled. Thanks to Richard, one of my avid readers, who gave a burned copy of it. It was such a wonderful and inspiring movie as “The Secret” was revealed.     While I was watching the movie, I was motivated to follow one of the testimonies of the speaker. He

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At the start of any new day for you, always remind yourself about these powerful words. It would be good to start your day with it. Keep a post on your walls so that you can always be reminded to start the day right with positive thoughts to attract positive things. It serves as my inspiration and uplifter especially in times of desperation and frustration which I usually experience at my job. I hope it will also uplift you like it did to me.   No, don’t ever let good enough be good

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I want to share this powerful prayer called “Winners’ Creed” which I received thru a text message long time ago. It is an act of communication with God that guides us. I know that prayer works as long as you coupled it with determination, will power and definitely ACTION. With God’s help, I believe that prayers can move mountains. In Filipino, there’s a saying: “Nasa Diyos ang awa nasa tao ang gawa.”   Winners’ Creed I am a winner. I have faith

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