Archive for March, 2011

The Three P’s of Success

Napoleon Hill, author of the best selling book Think And Grow Rich once said: Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. For someone who lived his prime during the early 1900s, it’s truly extraordinary to see how one man’s teachings can still hold a lot of truth today. In fact, read through [...]

Why You Need Insurance for Your Business

I have a friend who used to own an internet café business. Only a few months after he opened, burglars broke into his shop one night and took all his computers. It was a truly depressing day not only for him, but for his family and us, his friends, because we knew how hard he [...]

A Life Lesson From a Volunteer Firefighter

Life can be hard and challenging, and it becomes more difficult if you don’t know what you want to do and where you want to go. I’ve heard it too often from friends, and sometimes even from my own voice – that pondering question which asks if there’s something more to life than just living [...]

A Business Owner’s Guide To Group Buying Sites

There are two positive things that group buying sites are doing for Filipino consumers. First, it’s helping them save money. And second, it’s encouraging them to try and be more confident about shopping online. But how about business owners? What do group buying sites positively do for merchants? For today, we take a closer look [...]

A Simple Story of a Successful Business

Juan had a business idea. He followed all the necessary steps in starting a business and opened his store a few months after. Weeks passed by and he realized that he wasn’t making any profit – that for every P1,000 he spends; he only earns P900. Not wanting to continuously lose P100 until he bankrupts, [...]

Save Money by Reducing Your Water Bill: Bathroom Tips

Our household water bills may not be as large as our electric bills, but it’s still an area you should consider if you want to save more money. More importantly, doing so is a step forward to saving the planet as well, right? And so, when it comes to water consumption, I believe the bathroom [...]

You’re Never Too Old To Follow Your Dreams

Harland David Sanders founded Kentucky Fried Chicken when he was 62 years old. Three years after, his restaurant closed down because of poor sales. Not willing to give up on his dreams, he pursued franchising and with the help of Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers, KFC was able to rise from its [...]

On Glee, Landslide and Stevie Nicks

Do you watch Glee? I’m sure you do or have at least seen one or two episodes. Me, I watch it whenever I get the time and thanks to the multiple replays over various cable channels, I’ve fortunately been able to watch each episode every week. In their latest episode (Season 2 Episode 15, “Sexy”) [...]

The Benefits of Having Health Insurance

I must have slept the wrong way or have been careless at lifting weights in the gym yesterday, but whatever it was, I found my right shoulder sore and numb this morning. Several years ago, I might have just popped a pain reliever, massaged some liniment on it and hoped that my shoulders would get [...]

How Developing an Abundance Mentality Can Lead to Riches

Have you heard of the Law of Attraction? How about the Abundance Principle? I first encountered these concepts when I read Think and Grow Rich back in high school. I’ve actually forgotten about it for many years, only to be reminded of its lessons again when I got my hand on The Secret. And from [...]