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    cultivate friendship

    Regard each new person you meet like a dear friend whom you have not heard and seen for a long time. Do this for the next seven days. Discover the good feeling of being a good friend to people.
    Take advantage of opportunities at work. You will spend more than at least eight hours with them [...]

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      The schedule below will give you an idea of where I go and how do I spend my time these days. I hope this will also serve as a guide for meeting planners [...]

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      Go Negosyo Advisory

      Go Negosyo Advisory
      Many families still in need of help. Join GK and Go Negosyo rebuild lives in Operation Walang Iwanan.

      HOW TO HELP?
      (1) MONETARY DONATIONS
      For your cash donations, here are the following ways to transmit:
      Click to DONATE via Ayala Foundation USA
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      Looking for Good News Writers

      How much good news can you take? How much good news Filipinos can think of? How much good news can you create today?
      I am looking for good news writers. People who can see good news in himself, in others, in the community, in the world. Just the idea that you will consider to write the [...]

    FEATURES

    featuredimage God’s Memorandum

    Take counsel. I hear your cry. It passes through the darkness, filters through the clouds, mingles with starlight, and finds its way ...

    How to Develop an Icebreaker

    By Susan Heathfield, Human Resource Guide of About.com Tired of spending time searching for an ice breaker through books and online ...

    featuredimage Ways to Be Happy at Work

    These are the factors that will help you find happiness at work. 1. Choose to Be Happy at Work Happiness is largely ...

    featuredimage 35 Ways to Encourage the Heart

    I was researching for ways on how teachers can teach heart to heart. I have just conducted a workshops for ...

    featuredimage Be inspired to speak by Susan Boyle

    (Before you read Olivia Mitchelle's thoughts, I suggest that you watch Susan Boyle's performance here.) There are many levels of inspiration ...

    featuredimage Communication Misconceptions

    Every time I conduct my STAND UP! SPEAK OUT! workshop, I notice that many participants were struggling because of their ...

    featuredimage George Orwell’s 5 Rules for Effective Writing

    By John Jorgensen In our society, the study of language and literature is the domain of poets, novelists, and literary critics. ...

    featuredimage Communicating Assertively in the Workplace

    Do you find that people get the better of you at work, that you’re always the one that gets pushed ...

    featuredimage SPEAK TO YOUR MOUNTAINS

    BY JOEL OSTEEN SCRIPTURE READING FOR YOUR BEST LIFE NOW 1 SAMUEL 17:31-54 Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ...

    PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

    Dare to Dream Bigger Dreams

    Dare to dream dreams. Do not be afraid. Do not deny yourself that opportunity to change your life and make a difference in the lives of people simply because you fear failure. The real failures in life are those who dare not dream. The real failures in life regret not those which they did, but [...]

    KAYANG KAYA NG PINOY!

    Isip Dukha

    Isang kahig, isang tuka, ganyan kaming mga dukha.
    Naging matunog ang kantang ito noong ako ay bata pa. In restrospect, I think the song represented what most people thought about themselves. Dukha.
    Sa tingin ko, ang tunay na sakit ng ating bansa ay nakaugat hindi sa mga maling pamamalakad ng pamahalaan, o sa kabulukan ng karakter ng [...]

    CUSTOMER SERVICE

    The 5 Outstanding Traits of a Customer Service Superstar

    By Cary Cavitt

    Every so often we will cross paths with what I like to refer to as a customer service superstar. They are a breed apart from everyone else. We can never tell when we will have the honor of being served by one of these service superstars. They are in every type of organization [...]

    COMMUNICATION

    Minor Change, Major Difference

    By Loren Ekroth, Ph.D.

    To make your conversation more effective doesn’t require a complete overhaul.  A little tuning up will do a lot. Here’s a small 2-part technique that can help when a disagreement arises:
    Your conversation partner brings up a contentious issue such as the health care reform bill now being considered by the congress.  S/he [...]

    TRAINING & EDUCATION

    No time to sharpen your axe?

    This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Stories for Teachers
    Once upon a time a very strong woodcutter asked for a job in a timber merchant, and he got it. His salary was really good and so were the working conditions. For that reason, the woodcutter was determined to do his best.

    His boss [...]

    TEAMWORK & TEAMBUILDING

    Motivate by Building Reputation

    Here are ways to motivate persons who are motivated by their REPUTATION.
    1.Give workers lots of feedback about the way they are performing.
    2.Give praise in front of other people (the more people that know they did well the better!).
    3.Criticize these individuals only in private (never in front of others).
    4.Give unsolicited compliments and positive reinforcement to workers [...]

    LIFE, LOVE, & LEARNING

    You Are A Marvel

    We should say to each of us: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. [...]

    MAKE GOOD NEWS

    CNN Heroes

    With an ocean of garbage as his playground as a child, Efren Peñaflorida Jr. was accustomed to living amid the ills of society. The slum area in Cavite province where he grew up abounded with solvent-sniffing kids and tough gangsters. People sifted through dumpsites during the day and slept in the cemetery’s empty crypts at [...]