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It all started when my plane to Cebu was delayed by 5 hours.

While my fellow-passengers around were acting like enraged volcanoes spewing lava, cursing the catastrophe that befell upon us—I smiled and closed my eyes. Instantly, I felt peace. I whispered, “Lord, you have a special surprise in store for me.”

And in minutes, I discovered my gift.

That special surprise was Ray, a man who would bless me with his life. He also gave me key business ideas that would double my income.

He greeted me with a firm handshake and a friendly smile. “I watch you on TV,” he said, “and I text my family and friends to watch you.”

Like me, Ray’s flight to Mindanao was delayed for 8 hours. (All the flights that day were delayed. The airport looked like a refugee camp with people sitting on the floor and crowds begging for food from the airline personnel.)

I didn’t know why, but I sensed a connection with the man in front of me.

Later on, I discovered why.

As we found seats and ordered coffee, Ray shared with me the riveting story of his life. I was so swept away by his experience, I forgot all about my coffee.

“I went to Bible School and became a Pastor,” he said. “I pioneered a small church.” But after being a Pastor for 3 years, tragedy struck. His wife lost a baby boy in her pregnancy. The trial caused Ray to think about his family more.

“It’s lonely being a Pastor,” he explained. “The problems of my flock are all my problems. But my problems were only mine! So I asked my people to pastor their pastor too.” Slowly, he delegated his roles to his congregation as he felt a need to focus on his family—especially their financial needs.

His joined corporate life. For 6 years, he worked for a big company as their Regional Manager for the entire Mindanao (Southern region of the Philippines). He was earning P50,000 a month (US$1000+), a big sum during that time. But at the end of the day, he was still broke. In fact, he was in debt to the tune of P1.2 Million (US$26,000+)—including a warrant of arrest.

To survive and feed his children, the former Regional Manager became a Taxi Driver. It was an incredibly humbling experience. But he learned important lessons that would change his life forever.

Rey was now only earning P350 a day—a far cry from what he was earning before. But it was here where he learned how to manage his money.

It was here where he learned how to live within his means.

It was here where he learned how to save.

Ray said, “People like to manage what they don’t have. That’s why they’re poor. By borrowing for stuff they can’t afford. During that year as a Taxi Driver, I learned to manage what I had. And I was actually better off earning P350 a day than earning P50,000 a month! Because now, I learned to manage my money.”

After one year of being a Taxi driver, he borrowed enough money to buy cabs and became a Taxi Operator. But that was only a transitional step to learn how to run a business. His real goal was to be in the “money” business.

Ray wanted to own a bank.

So his first step was to work in a Rural Bank—without asking for a salary. He simply wanted to learn. And 3 years later, when he learned enough, Ray built his own Rural Bank.

Today, his Rural Bank is going strong. So far, after 7 years, the bank has given micro-loans to over a thousand people in his city, providing them with capital for their small businesses. And with 97% repayment efficiency! Because of this, his bank is transforming the lives of the poor. He teaches them the habits of saving, investing, and entrepreneurship.

Ray explained, “I ask people, ‘Do you want to prosper? What do you have? You may not have money. But you have time. Not just time, but time to learn. So use that! Join an insurance company and be an agent. Or join a company and sell their product. The important thing is to learn—and from there, branch out. Don’t get a job to earn money. Get a job to learn! And don’t start a business to earn money. Get into a business to learn! The money will follow.”

He continued, “Some people start a business and want to earn right away. But that’s not wise. Starting a business is like a slingshot. You have to pull back. That means clearing the way. Take time pulling back. Because when it’s time to release, you’ll be surprised that your business will rapidly shoot towards the target.”

Ray is a Serial Entrepreneur. At the back of his calling card is a list of his other businesses: a construction company, a property management company, salons, restaurants—plus a few more.

“I never manage my businesses,” he said, “I pass it on to people who can do a better job. I make them part owners. That’s why I can own many businesses.”

As Ray spoke, it was though I was hearing myself preach.

We both have the same beliefs about money.

We’re both Preachers that address the practical needs of people.

We’re both Serial Entrepreneurs.

And we both are fighting poverty by teaching three things to the Filipino: (1) a practical spirituality, (2) a more positive financial mindset, and (3) financial literacy.

Oh, one last thing: We both love our families.

At the airport, I met Ray’s lovely wife and beautiful daughter with him.

I sensed the happiness in his family. It was refreshing.

That day, my catastrophe turned out to be a rich blessing.

Not only for me, but everyone who’s reading this blog right now.

Talking to Ray made me realize more than ever before that we should never tell ourselves, “I’m stuck where I am. My life will never change.”

Keep dreaming my friend.

God has a wonderful plan for your life.

Pursue it with passion.

May your dreams come true,

Bo Sanchez

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It’s One Of The Best Decisions We’ve Ever Made

We know. We’re nuts.

We don’t send our kids to school.

Let me tell you why.

When our baby was growing up, we watched how everyone did the schooling thing—and we didn’t like it.

This is what we saw:

Early morning, parents send off the kids to school while they both go to work. It’s rush, rush, rush. At 7am, everyone is out of the house, plowing through morning traffic.

At around 7 in the evening (if there’s no overtime), these exhausted parents arrive home like dried prunes. They have dinner with the kids but have no energy to talk to each other—so they put on the TV and watch telenovelas together. After dinner, Mommy helps Junior with homework.

Let’s say today, the kid’s got homework in Math, English, and Filipino. In Filipino, Junior’s project is to put the photos of 12 National Filipino Heroes on a cartolina. Because it’s already 10pm, Junior is now asleep. So Mommy is cutting photos of the heroes from old magazines, and Daddy is pasting them on the cartolina. The day ends at midnight. Another long day awaits…

We Wanted Another Kind Of Family Life

We asked ourselves. Is this the lifestyle we really want? Or do we want something else for our kids and our family?

We decided to do something radical: We won’t send our kids to school. Instead, we’ll teach them ourselves.

Result? We’ve been doing it for four years now and my son Bene is in 3rd Grade.

That means my wife and I are his teachers, our home is his classroom, our kitchen is his canteen, and our street is his school yard.

Poor kid, right? People tell me he’s missing a lot because we homeschool him.

Hey, I agree.

What My Son Is Missing

Let me give you a partial list of what he’s missing.

· He doesn’t have to wake up at 6:00am everyday to catch the school bus. He doesn’t have to experience being dressed-up and “toothbrushed” by his mother while asleep so he won’t be late for school. He doesn’t have to wolf down his breakfast while rushing out.

· He doesn’t have to ride a school bus. (Ow, shucks.) He doesn’t have to wade through traffic twice a day.

· He doesn’t have to fight with forty kids for the attention of a teacher.

· He doesn’t have to waste a lot of time waiting in school. (Which I feel consumes 30% of school time each day.) He doesn’t have to wait for everyone to line-up for the National Anthem. He doesn’t have to wait for everyone to quiet down before the teacher starts teaching. He doesn’t have to wait for the teacher to explain the lesson a second for those who weren’t listening…

· He doesn’t have to eat sugary snacks in the school canteen.

· He doesn’t get bullied. No jeers. No barbs. No meanness.

· He doesn’t have peer pressure to buy the latest rubber shoe, the newest cell phone, the coolest shirt. He doesn’t have to compare his daily allowance with his classmates.

· He doesn’t have homework when he arrives from school. Nada. None. Zilcho. Zero. He doesn’t have school projects that mommies end up doing anyway.

Should I go on?

That’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Gosh, my son is missing a lot of things.

Instead, Here’s What My Son Has…

So instead of these things, what does my son have to endure in homeschool? Let me see…

· He wakes up at 8:00am. If the entire family attended a prayer meeting the previous night, he wakes up at 9:00am. No problem.

· He has time to say his morning prayers in bed. He joins his mom reading the Bible together. He then takes a relaxing breakfast with his little brother Francis, reads his books, plays the guitar, and the two of them clown around the house.

· He starts class at 9:00am. Each morning, he sings the Philippine National Anthem, says the Panatang Makabayan, and prays his morning school prayer on his own.

· In every subject, he has the undivided attention of his devoted teacher. He can ask any question he wants, anytime he wants, and his teacher will answer him. When he doesn’t know the answer, he says, “Let’s research for the answer now.” And they log onto the internet, read a few books, and viola—the answer is found… together.

· He and his mother love talking about their faith. They also like singing together.

· He can tell his teacher, “Mommy, I want to know more about stars. Can we read about that tomorrow?” And his mother will say, “Let’s make that our science class for today!” And because it’s his interest, he needs no prodding to study. He wants to learn. He loves it.

· He can tell his teacher, “Mommy, I don’t understand this math problem. Can we slow it down a bit?” And his mother will say, “Sure thing. Let’s go through it one more time…” until he’s totally satisfied.

· Classes are only from Monday to Thursday. Because every Friday morning, he meets other homeschooled kids. They play together, do art work together, sing together, and just have enormous fun. (Yes, homeschooled kids have shown to be very sociable and confident, due to high self-esteem.)

· Every Tuesday afternoon, he attends a gymnastics class. Again, we don’t force him to do it. He loves tumbling, cartwheeling, and running around with the other kids.

· Each day, his class ends at 2pm or 3pm. But that’s because class was so exciting, both mother and son didn’t want to stop.

· After his class, my son goes out and rides the bike with his cousin or they play with the computer together. In the evening, since there’s no homework, he reads whatever books he likes to read. My suspicion? Because he’s interested in reading the books he chooses, he probably learns more in his free time than in his formal class time!

· When I’m free, I teach him how to compose songs and improve his guitar playing (That’s his Music Class), how to write short stories (That’s his English elective), and how to expand his bangus or milkfish business (That’s Entrepreneurship 101). Yes, he sells fish to our friends, and he divides his profits to tithes, alms, savings, and toy money! (Personal Finance 101). When my son hit 7 years old, I taught him how to read the Business section of the Newspaper. He loves asking about the stock market. He knows that we have to buy “low” and sell “high”.

· In all these, the greatest benefit is really having an incredible relationship with our kids.

We love homeschooling. Aside from all these benefits, we save a lot of money. We also don’t spend on daily allowance, school bus, etc. So we’re saving a bundle.

I know homeschooling is not for everyone. But it should at least be looked at.

I’ve trained myself that we shouldn’t live like everyone else if we believe that there’s a better way out there.

Explore. Search. Look at options.

You’ll be surprised at what you’ll discover.

(The article above is an excerpt from Bo Sanchez)

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The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could. -Paul Hogan

There are over 7.5 millionaires in America today. Around 20 percent of those millionaires are high school grads only.

There are 222 billionaires in America, and a full 10 percent are college dropouts.

Why mention these facts?

Because I hear a lot of people say, “I’ll never make it in life. I don’t have a college degree.” Go tell that to Bill Gates, the richest man in the world. Because he never college, too.

I’m not saying education is not important. It’s very important. But if you want to succeed in life (in any area of life actually) - education isn’t enough. You need something else…
I call it the Power of Hustle.

Hustle can mean something bad. In today’s jargon, “He’s a hustler,” means he’s a cheat. I’m not using that definition here. I’m using that word the way they use it in basketball.

When the coach shouts, “Hustle boys!” he’s telling them to run fast, think on their feet, be aggressive and defend like a maniac. To Hustle means to believe that there’s a solution to almost every problem - and to take it upon yourself to find it!

I’ve seen the Power of Hustle in the most successful human beings in the world. They know what they want. They take responsibility. They keep on moving. And they never take “no” for an answer.

Mother Teresa had it. Sam Walton had it. Steve Jobs has it. Bill Gates has it.

Nanay Coring has it.

I had a great pleasure of meeting Nanay Coring or Socorro Ramos, founder of National Bookstore. At 83 years old, you’d think she was 50. I felt her sense of wonder, her vibrancy and love for life.

To me, Nanay Coring embodied the power of hustle, a never-say-die attitude in life.

On a busy sidewalk, she propped a tiny table, piled some books on top, and called it National Bookstore. What do you call that? I call that HUSTLE.

War broke out and the Japanese censored all books sold, effectively prohibiting her from selling books. Did she give up? No. She hustled. She looked for what people needed - and discovered that the Japanese soldiers wore boots the whole day. Would they need slippers? In time, she sold thousands of rubber slippers to them at her “bookstore.”

One day, one of these Japanese officials asked if she was selling bond paper. When she asked how many he needed, he shocked her by saying, “3,000 reams”. (She later learned that he was in charge of printing Japanese money.) At that point, she didn’t have a single piece of bond paper with her. But with courage, she said, “I’ll deliver 3,000 reams to you.”

She looked far and near, buying bond paper with her Kalesa (carabao cart), delivering it to them on time. That’s HUSTLE !

By that time, her house was filled with piles of Japanese money - soon to be worthless if the Americans won. And listening to short-wave radio at home, she knew this was going to happen soon. That was when a Japanese sold her a whole warehouse of whisky. She bargained and bargained, giving him all her Japanese money. When the Americans won the war, she displayed the whisky on the sidewalk - and the American soldiers bought them with US dollars.

When the war ended, things were looking up. She expanded and made good profit. And then a storm blew away their roof, and the rain drenched all their books. In one night, everthing she earned the past years was all wiped out.

Did Nanay Coring give up? No. She hustled.

She started from zero and built NBS one book at a time, one customer at a time. She calls herself a simple saleslady. And she will always be the best saleslady on the floor.

Today, National Bookstore or NBS is the widest bookstore chain in the Philippines with 85 branches scattered all over the country. Aside from NBS, Nanay Coring now also owns other huge companies.

Luck?
No.

HUSTLE !

(An excerpt from Bo Sanchez - 8 Secrets of the Truly Rich)

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“The number problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.” -Alan Greenspan

Some people think buying a book related to financial education is expensive. I also give financial seminars and people think the price we charge is too high.

If you think financial wisdom is expensive, then try ignorance. You’ll realize it’s a million times more expensive. For example, in the past 10 years, I’ve lost a lot of money. Simply because I was stupid about money.

After getting married, I was able to scrape a decent amount of savings into our bank account every month. And with some very generous gifts from our godmother during our wedding, after a few of years, my savings reach P200,000 plus.

That was a friend asked me if I would like to put my money in the investment company she was working for. “You’ll earn two percent a month,” she said, “and you’ll help me earn a commission from your investment!”

And instantly, I invested our P200,000. After all, two percent a month came down to 24 percent a year - so much higher than the bank’s interest.

That was also the time when my wife finally got pregnant. The thought of becoming a father was an incredible feeling. But together with my excitement was the stark realization that the baby would now be totally dependent on my finances for the next 20 years of his life.

Sheesh. That thought sent chills down my spine. We borrowed a wooden crib from a cousin and prepared P20,000 for the birth of our baby. We are ready, or so I thought.

During the delivery, my wife suffered heart palpitations reaching 200 beats per minute and the doctor ordered an emergency Caesarian operation. Yes, I almost lost my wife and baby. That emergency operation saved their lives.

After three days of confinement, I received the bill from the hospital: P56,000. Gulp. Have you ever received a solid punch straight to your solar plexus? That was how I felt at that moment. So I called my friend and asked if I could get my investment back. Perhaps just P40,000 of my P200,000 to pay the hospital bill.

She said, I’ll try…”

“Try? Why try? Isn’t that my money?” I asked, “I need to pay the hospital.”

“It isn’t that simple,” she explained. “Your money is being used.”

“What do they use it for? Who owns this company anyway? How long have they been in this business?” (Do you see how wise I was? I was asking these questions after I invested my money.)

“We’re a small firm that lends money to tricycle drivers.”

“Wha…” Have you ever seen a cat staring at the headlights of a rushing truck? That’s how I looked.

“And collection hasn’t been very good,” my friend’s mutter was barely audible.

“So that means…”

“Uh, that means we’ll have to wait for another investors to come in before we can return a part of your money.”

In other words I waited for three years for nothing. After that the company closed, folded up, crashed, disintegrated, imploded, sunk to the depths of the earth, vanised into thin air. With my P200,000 with them.

Don’t you see? I was financially dumb!

Let me give you my credentials: My I.Q. is 132, I have above-average social skills, I finished Philosophy in college, I took post-graduate courses in Theology, I founded four organizations, and I’m a more or less over-all wholesome guy…But all these don’t take away the fact that I was a Financially Ignorant!

I was 100 percent financially illiterate!

Here’s what I found out…

You could be a doctor with three PhDs behind your name.
You could be an engineer building huge bridges in your spare time.
You could be a very holy person, praying three hours a day.
You could be a scientist inventing the first car that runs on a spit.
You could be 97 years old.
You could be extremely loving saint.
You could be a diva with the voice of Celine Dion.
But you could be FINANCIALLY ILLITERATE!

A world-renowned surgeon doesn’t open up a busted TV set and say, “I operate on people, I guess operating on machines would be a breeze.” No, it won’t be. It’s totally different world.

So it is with money.

Knowing money works is a totally different field of expertise.

Therefore, Financial Ignorance is EXPENSIVE.

(An excerpt from BO SANCHEZ - 8 Secrets of the Truly Rich)

Truly Rich Principle:
Knowing how money works is a totally different field of expertise.

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The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic, and power that is likely to flow from it. – Robert Ringer

Robert Ringer wrote a book entitled ACTION and I love it. It’s a great kick-in-the-butt for those who like to endlessly plan, dream and do nothing.

If you want to succeed in life, there’s no other path: You’ve got to take bold, massive action.

No timid, tepid, tentative steps.

No half-baked, half-hearted actions.

Use all your guns and pull all triggers and unload all your bullets.

Fire all cylinders.

Floor the gas pedal.

Give it all you’ve got.

When I look back at my life, all I see are a long line of bold, massive actions that failed. But I didn’t stop. I just keep taking more bold, massive actions until I succeeded.

The first magazine I published folded up in one year. Crashed. Fizzled. Went up in smoke and vanished forever in the cemetery of extinct publications.

But after that failre, I launched Kerygma. After 17 years, it still the widest read inspirational magazine in the country.

My first book was a failure too. We printed 6,000 copies and forgot all about it. My grammar was so bad, I cringe when I read it today. Back then, if you wanted me to hide my head under the ground like an ostrich, read a portion of that book to me.

For 10 years, I forgot about book writing for a long time.

But finally, I wrote my second book and it became a bestseller.

I’ve written eight books so far, and every single one of them has become a national bestseller.

When I began Anawim, our work for the poorest of the poor, our first three years were three years of chaos. No, that’s not quite right. They were three years of total chaos. We simply didn’t know what we were doing.

In my desire to help the poor, I accepted everyone – orphans, abandoned elderly, deranged, drug addicts, alcoholics, street kids, ex-convicts, kidney dialysis patients… Can you imagine the nightmare we went through during our early years? The drug addicts were teaching the orphans to take drugs, the deranged becomes violent, and tuberculosis patients were mingling and infecting everyone else.

But after 10 years in operations, spending PhP400,000 a month for food, medicines and housing (God provides each month), we learned the ropes little by little and run a tight ship today.

I hear visitors tell me that Anawim is the most peaceful and calm home for the aged they’ve ever seen.

And since we began, we’ve already served one million meals.

Recently, I’m taking bold, massive action towards another goal: of having a TV station that will broadcast God’s love through six daily inspirational TV shows.

Will it be expensive to run our own TV channel?

You bet. Probably close to PhP100 million.

Do I have the money? Nope.

But will God provide?

If it’s His plan, He always does.

Take bold massive action!

Truly Rich Principle:
If you want to succeed, don’t take timid, tepid, tentative steps. Give it all you’ve got.

(An excerpt from Bo Sanchez – 8 Secrets of the Truly Rich)

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