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To become the best motivational speaker in the Philippines isn’t always a selfish desire. I have heard dozens of aspiring speakers who told me that they wanted to become “the best motivational speaker in the Philippines”. They are all good people. They believe that they can save the world and make a difference in the…

What is your story? Do not impress people with data. Data is garbage to those who do not understand. Those who can make sense of data have the power to inform us. They do not just see numbers, they see patterns and they can tell us what these patterns mean. This is why we make…

Enrich someone’ s life and you will realize that you were never poor. The mere act of giving brings us to right thinking. You have the power to give. What peso value equivalent would the joy of giving be? All of us are rich kids who live like fools and act like poor ones. The…

What acts of selfless service will you perform next year? How do you intend to achieve them? If you want to quickly improve your own life, start by taking immediate action to improve the lives of others. Everything has it rewards. Help people become successful and you’ll be successful. Help people to help themselves. This…

Do you think it is possible to get the best results and the highest value?

Surely, you can. We deserve the best in life. And I believe you can get it faster, simpler, easier, and cheaper.

If we think and act different.

Teachers may cash in on their expertise. 1. Record your lecture. Ask someone to write your lectures and turn them into an ebook. Sell them online. 2. Record your lectures. Burn them to CD. Sell them online. 3. Publish your lectures in a book. Sell them online. 4. Format your modules into a self-study manual.…

Pursue personal excellence. Grow leaders and build teams. That when you leverage learning experience, you can speed up growth and multiply your impact ten times. You are here because you belong to the few who believe this is possible. Of course, I understand those who thought otherwise. They’ve tried so many times to develop effective…

Many organizations spend millions on training programs. They want to develop leaders, build teams, and engage employees. Unfortunately, many of these training programs fail to deliver desired results. Here are five reasons. Most training programs don’t have measurable goals. Many organizations who have professional development programs aren’t very sure how they’ll measure success. They want…

I had no savings. And I didn’t know how to start.

Pursuing my dream wasn’t a mistake. I could say that the timing was not right. But pursuing a dream is always worth the risks.

My big mistake was really in thinking that all I needed to know, I could get from reading books.

When I think that I must work on something and I am not in the mood to work yet, I tell myself DO IT NOW! until I stand and really do something. It is difficult at first, and still difficult in the middle, and yes, difficult until the end. But when something is finished, I…

Everywhere self-made persons are celebrated. But the one peso question is worth asking: Do they really exist? I agree that many of us can choose who we want to become. We are products of our choices. But everywhere I looked, I see successful people who got helped from others. Accepting this will not make us…

“People say that you cannot teach old dogs new tricks.” Chit, a participant in my Excellence in Supervision Program, asked if she can still learn something. She said that she is already old. I promised her that the workshop will provide her amazing tools she can use to improve her performance as a supervisor. “I…

“I am not prepared” is not an excuse. Prepare before you speak. Peter, you do not have to tell your audience that you have not prepared for your speech. Or that you want to speak from your heart. Anyone who wants to speak from his heart can prepare a speech. Don’t tell us how you…

This world owes its progress to those women and men who dared to speak up. Don’t hide. Don’t stay in the corner. Don’t just watch. Let your mouth speak your truth. Let the world benefit from what you know. Take courage. I know that it is difficult even to utter a single word. Trust me.…

I got hold of a one-sheet of a speaker who sells himself as a comedian motivational speaker. His claim is that nobody sleeps in his talks and everyone likes him because he is funny. I understand. Many speakers are agents of boredom. Boredom kills. Funny sells. But funny is not the alternative to boredom. Funny,…

The President of the Philippines did it again. Days from now, no one will remember the occasion and the place where it was uttered. And no one will even bother to ask why those people, mostly in Barong Tagalog, were there, Duterte was complaining about the duties of the Presidency. He had so many papers…

Being a good team member does not necessarily prepare one to become a good team leader.

It is prudent for organizations to install a team development program to ensure that team members and team leaders are equipped to handle their roles.

A role given to a member of the team may not provide a whole meaningful satisfaction. Sometimes, it feels too small to make a real difference. Everything will make sense when you consider your team purpose. You will start seeing the forest, not just the trees. You are clear where each role fits in. Every…

Your team can set your own guidelines. You do not have to wait for management to write down a new set of policies for your team to perform well. You can do this. With your team, brainstorm a list of behavior you would like to see in your team. You can prompt your team to…

“There is no I in teamwork.” You must have heard of this hogwash before. The intention is to promote teamwork. Unfortunately, good intention is not enough. In an effort to promote teamwork, some team building facilitators forced the I to disappear. There is I in teamwork. That I is personal accountability. The next time you…

Now is the antidote to mañana. Your lizard brain will tell you lies: you have enough time, there are more important things to do, there is the right time to do things, or you’re not in the mood. Please understand that long life is not promised to anyone. Some people live for a hundred. And…

Every year, companies spend millions of pesos on time management training. Aside from stress management, time management training is obvious solution unproductive employees. Unfortunately, this obvious solution fail again and again. Please allow me to suggest three ways to make your time management training successful. 1. Try to involve everyone. No one likes to be singled…

Let me assume that you already know the most important things to you. Now, in its simplest beauty, you can do these steps: Decide what you need to do given the amount of time that you have. Did you get that? Need over time. Time management experts suggest that you create your list every day. List…

Using a bullet journal helps me a lot in chunking tasks together. I only need to use symbols. Let’s say, I needed to send quotations for team building. Though each one needs a separate program, I find it easy when I think only of team building and nothing else. The second quotation and the succeeding…