Because Ideas Change Lives
Here’s an important question: How do you react when someone tells you facts that you don’t want to hear?
Do you immediately get angry? Do you get defensive? Do you start making excuses, play victim, and throw a tantrum because you were hurt by what they said even if it might be true?
If that’s how you react, then you might end up sad and miserable. Furthermore, it will all be YOUR fault no matter how much you make excuses and deny it.
[Read more…]Taxes. Everyone pays taxes. You pay taxes whenever you earn a salary (depending on the TRAIN law), you pay taxes when you operate a business, and you even pay taxes when you’re buying something from the store. Taxes are an unavoidable part of modern life as it’s how governments earn money.
You will, at some point in your life, have to get a Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) from the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), and it’ll be the one you will use for the rest of your life. You can only have ONE TIN by the way as it’s illegal to have more.
Why do you need a TIN? There are lots of government, bank, or other official transactions where you’ll need to provide one, and in today’s online gig economy, if you want to start an online business, do freelance work online, or even earn money as a YouTube or Twitch Streamer, you’ll need to have a TIN to monetize and start earning money.
Here’s how to get a TIN and a TIN ID here in the Philippines.
[Read more…]When life feels completely overwhelming and nothing seems to work despite how desperately you struggle, sometimes there’s really not much you can do but sit down and pray. Fortunately, prayer and meditation actually does give a lot of physical and emotional benefits, and they may also lead you to the breakthrough you need.
To help you persevere during tough times, here’s a guide to help you calm your mind and seek help from a higher power.
[Read more…]More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
The most important personal document you could ever own is your birth certificate. It’s your main identification document and you’ll need it to get a lot of other very important things like your passport, your SSS UMID, driver’s license, and more. Fortunately, you no longer need to go to the nearest Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA)* branch. You can now order a copy of your birth certificate, as well as your children’s birth certificates, online.
*Trivia: Birth certificates used to be under the National Statistics Office (NSO) but that organization has been merged to be a part of the PSA.
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Some time ago I rented a therapy book by Stacey Freedenthal so I could help a close friend through some very serious life problems. Midway through, I was definitely surprised to find a very useful self-help lesson about problem solving that I’ve talked about before.
Life is inevitably full of problems that we cannot ignore, but sometimes they can get too much for us to handle. When times get really tough, our minds can get stuck on some drastic solutions (like crime or suicide), and when our minds get stuck we not only forget the horrible consequences, we also won’t be able to think about all the other BETTER solutions out there.
If you ever feel stuck in life and all hope seems lost, then here’s a problem solving strategy that you use when facing tough times.
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