Archive for April, 2008

A Beginner’s Guide To Investing In Anything and Everything, Part 2

This is the last part of this article, to read the first part, click here: A Beginner’s Guide To Investing In Anything and Everything, Part 1. You now have your emergency fund and determined your investment objectives. Likewise, your budget is ready and your acceptable level of risk has been defined. You are moving closer [...]

A Beginner’s Guide To Investing In Anything and Everything, Part 1

Where can I invest my P20,000? This is a question I often see in business and investing forums everywhere, although of course, the amount varies. After the first post, I’d often read invites from other forum members to join him or her in various affiliate programs and multi-level marketing companies. At other times, the answers [...]

The Joy of Rockets

A few weeks ago, I featured Richard St. John and his talk on what leads to success. If you enjoyed that video, then you’ll like this one also taken from TED. If this is the first time you’ve heard about TED, then you should know that it stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design. It is [...]

Little Known Ways To Save Money When Eating Out

Being a young urban professional, we often try to keep an image of success to other people, specially to our colleagues and friends. As a result, we sometimes pressure ourselves to show that we are earning good income and could afford luxuries often associated with people working in the corporate world. The truth is, although [...]

What Do You Do When Family Members and Relatives Ask For Your Financial Support?

Filipinos have very close family ties and as a child, I was raised to honor this tradition. And since this is a big part of our cultural upbringing, it is often considered inappropriate to decline giving financial support to family members and relatives. I was able to talk to one of my friends regarding this [...]

On Fire Poi, Facing Fear and Taking Risks

One of the reasons why I love going to the beach is because it’s one of the best places to spin a fire poi. Ever since I got acquainted with this hobby, a visit to Laiya, Puerto Galera or Boracay is never complete without a night session among my friends. What is a poi? It [...]

How To Make Time An Ally To Your Financial Success

What is time? Does it really exist in nature or is it just an invention of man? I remember my Physics professor telling our class that time can be considered as the fourth dimension. I sometimes think about these questions when I’m ruminating in my room and waiting for sleep to come. But recently, I’ve [...]

How To Come Up With A Good Business Logo

After coming up with a good name for your business, creating a logo is the natural next step. Many take this part for granted and fail to give it much importance. What they don’t realize is that when it comes to branding and marketing your products and services, a great business logo will really help [...]