Do You Want To Prosper?

          Do you want to be free from financial worry?
Do you want to pay your debts?
       Do you want to send your kids to good schools?
       Do you want to buy a car that doesn’t break down every two months?
       Do you want to buy your own house?
       Do you want to, one day, walk […]

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How To Make Money Without Robbing Your Soul.

This morning, I was doing my usual brisk walk around our village when I bumped into my Lebanese neighbor with the big black dog. He said, “Hey Bo, after your last round, lets have coffee!”
So over a hot cup of brew, I got to know him more.
His name is Ammar. For several years, he ran a small […]

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Wealth Is A Feeling

Wealth is measured by how grateful you are.
Let me shock you. Wealth is not primarily your cash or your houses or your cars. I believe wealth is first of all an emotion. Wealth is a feeling.
The true measure of wealth is not your money, your real estate, or your jewels. The true measure of wealth is how grateful you […]

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Happy Relationships Throw More Parties

        Guy 1: Cecilia is so beautiful.
Guy 2: Oh yes. She looks like Demi Moore in Ghost. (Note: This conversation happened centuries ago.)
Guy 1: If given a chance, would you want to marry her?
Guy 2: Uh….no, not really.
Guy 1: Why not?
Guy 2: How should I put it? Cecilia’s uh…not a happy person.
Guy 1: You noticed that too?
Guy 2: She’s […]

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The Only Thing That Can Heal Your Emotional Wounds?

       Have you been hurt before?
Have you ever been rejected by others? Ridiculed? Maligned? Gossiped about?
Have you been cheated? Betrayed? Lied to? Stolen from?
If your answer is yes, then I’m writing to the right person.
That means you have emotional wounds, and my big message for you is that there’s only one thing that can heal your wounds.
Let me start by talking about […]

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Are You Malnourished For Love?

             
           Before the wedding of Felipe and Maria began, the groom spoke to the priest.
          Felipe said, “Father, I’d appreciate that during the wedding vows, you’d omit the difficult parts.”
          “What difficult parts?” the priest asked.
          “You know Father, just don’t say anymore the for better or for worse, for richer or poorer, in […]

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Do You Want A Life Of Abundance?

I’m terrible when it comes to picking gifts for my wife.
The first gift I gave her was a dress. 
When I saw it, I thought it was beautiful. But when I gave it to her, I learned again the truth that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Because she said, “Oh Bo, I love you for […]

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What’s The Best Investment In The World?

When I was a kid, I learned that my mother lived during the war. With great excitement, I asked her, “Did you meet Magellan and Lapu-lapu?”
I was disappointed when she said, “No, I’m not 450 years old.” So I asked, “Did you meet Jose Rizal and Andres Bonifacio?”
That’s when she explained to me that she didn’t live […]

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Can I Hug You?

         My birthday was a blast.
          I received 280+ text messages and almost 600 e-mails—not counting greetings from Facebook, Multiply, Friendster, etc…   On the day itself, I received phone calls from Canada, Australia, Singapore…
          And yesterday, at our Sunday prayer gathering (which we call the FEAST), I probably received a thousand hugs! If we had more […]

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It’s My Birthday This Saturday!

Yesterday, my little boy asked me, “Daddy, how old are you?”
I said, “I’ll be 43, son.”
He kept staring at me, trying to fathom my age but couldn’t.
Finally, he shouted out his realization, “Dad, you’re ooooooold!”
My son is now in our torture chamber in the basement of our house.
Thankfully, a close friend visited me to tell […]

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