Archive for August, 2010

Productive Things To Do While Waiting at the Airport

One of the perks of having control of your own time and being your own boss is the luxury of travel. However, while going to other places far and away can be fun – waiting for hours, stuck at the airport, is not. It happens… technical problems, weather conditions, air traffic, and other reasons could [...]

How To Start A Dog Breeding Business

One of the most lucrative home-based business you can do nowadays is dog breeding. I have a couple of friends who are into it and they say that breeding dogs for profit has become one of their major sources of extra income. But how do you start a dog breeding business? Do you just buy [...]

Allow Yourself To Be Uncomfortable

Do you want to grow as a person, find success and change your life for the better? Then allow yourself to be uncomfortable. Face your fears and do the things that scare you. Venture into the unknown and discover new things. Go beyond the safety net and be uncomfortable. When was the last time that [...]

All the Things I Did Before I Bought My House

Owning a house is everybody’s dream and today, one of my readers shares his story on how he was able to finally afford it. This guest post shows us several lessons: the power of automatic savings, the value of research and due diligence and how leveraging can really help us achieve our goals faster. So [...]

Valuable Tips on How To Save Money on Groceries

We spend a lot of money on food. If you monitor your monthly expenses, you’ll see that it takes up around one-third of your monthly budget. That’s why if you want to save some money, looking into one’s food or grocery spending can be a good place to start. In my years of independent living, [...]

Reader Mail #16: On New Directions

My life has so far been a series of ups and downs with twists and turns. It’s been a journey of multiple successes and big failures, of dead-end roads and open fields. Through all these years, what has always kept me going is the proper mindset, discipline, belief and determination that in the end, I [...]

UP in the Black: Size UP. Draw UP. Crank UP. | A Seminar on Business and Entrepreneurship

Last weekend, I was one of the guest speakers in a business seminar called “UP in the Black: Size UP. Draw Up. Crank UP.” It’s an event held in the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City and organized by the UP Business and Service Administrators of the Philippines. The objective of the seminar [...]