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Three Things I Discovered about Happiness that Awed Me
How are you? What does happiness mean to you? When I was much younger, happiness to me means achieving my goals, getting what I want, being treated well, etc. As I grow, I realized what real happiness means. Lately, I’ve experienced three setbacks that made me appreciate what real happiness is. Setback #1: When I got home a few nights ago, I found out that we had no electricity. Normally, I’d be tempted to get upset. Instead, I smiled and said,“Wow! This is going to be a unique experience. It’s camping night tonight. What an adventure.” Takeaway #1: Happiness is finding something amusing in a seemingly not-so-good situation. (Btw, our electricity was back…
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Who among you wants to work from home?
Hi! March here. I’m the brother of Sha. 🙂 . I’m a Digital Marketing Specialist certified by the International Institute of Digital Marketing and a Digital Marketing Trainer under the Department of Information and Communications Technology. “Who among you wants to work from home?” One time, while speaking to an event, out of curiosity, I asked the audience this question. I was quite surprised when almost all of them raised their hands! Now, this is where it gets interesting. After the event I got these feedback from the audience… “5 years and 6 mos na rin ako dun sa work ko. Ayoko na…
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Trust and Let Go
Happy Tuesday! Hope you are having a great start of the week so far. 🙂 Last Saturday, we had the first-ever Global Authors Summit: How to Write and Publish a Book at Power Mac Center Spotlight, Circuit, Makati. It was attended by over authors, aspiring authors and their families, and friends. Were you there? My team at Write University has been organizing seminars since 2011. The #GlobalAuthorsSummit is the biggest and the grandest seminar we’ve produced so far for the following reasons: Full House at over 320 attendees (our previous seminars had 150 attendees because that was the maximum capacity of the venue) We had global speakers Vivek Iyyani and Ritu Gupta who flew in…
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Is writing a book in your bucket list?
I can still remember that day. I attended a whole day seminar. The speaker said, “If you want to spread a message and make some money, you record an album, you write a book, and blah blah blah.” All throughout the day, the words, “Sha, write a book!” kept ringing in my ears. I felt very uncomfortable. I had so many hesitations. I was not a writer. I didn’t like to write. I didn’t know how to write a book. I didn’t know where to start. I felt I was too young to write a book. I didn’t know anyone from the publishing industry. No one knew me. I wanted…
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You’ve Got Mail!
It was a Thursday morning. I just arrived at our business office and I saw a nice letter sitting on top of my table. I immediately opened the letter. “Wow! Kinilig naman ako dito!” That was my initial reaction. The letter was from the Office of the President of the Philippines in Malacanan! Before you form any conclusions, I have no relationship with the President of the Philippines or any of the guys in Malacanang. Hehe! Okay, I just wanted to make that clear. They were inviting me to give a talk on personal financial management! Here’s the letter. But why was I invited to give a talk in a prestigious office, in…
