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Great to see the Feast Cebu-SM in istorya! Was blessed giving the talk last night. Hope to see more of the attendees engaged here in istorya. God bless and keep the faith, everyone!

Hi Bro. Stephen, that was a very inspiring talk about compounding. We were super blessed plus the amazing colors flying in the tossing of the squeeze balls. Wow just wow. Drop dead beautiful..

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Welcome to the happiest place on Earth. This is a heaven on Earth. A life changing event.. Godbless to everyone and more power...

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Bring your friends, your family , your love ones and see you all tonight at the Feast - SM. come and feast with us at the happiest place on earth!!!!!

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up na to ni for the Glory of God..

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See you to the happiest place on Earth.

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mga bros and sis see you tonight sa FEAST SM CEBU

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Are You Having Burnout? Here’s The Solution…
Burnout is expensive.

I know from personal experience. I experienced one over fifteen years ago. It cost me my health, my relationships, the vibrancy of my faith and happiness of work.

Today, I try to stay clear from burnout by watching for the signs that I had during that difficult season of my life. See if you have any of them…

· I was always tired. Even after waking up in the morning after supposedly a good night’s rest, I wake up already exhausted and drained.

· I dreaded to go to the office.

· I felt depressed. Many times, I felt helpless at the difficulties and conflicts that I was facing at work.

· I doubted myself so much. I lost confidence and wondered what in the world was I doing in my job. I wanted out.

· I was more susceptible to psychosomatic illnesses, like frequent colds, stomach problems, etc.

Researchers state that there are certain professions that are prone to burnout, such as high-pressured business positions as well as the helping professions: doctors, nurses, clergy, missionaries, counselors, social workers, and teachers.

When you see these symptoms and if you’re in these professions, you know that you’re a prime candidate for burnout.

Watch Out For Causes Of Burnout

Let me share with you the causes for my burnout and find out if any of them look familiar to you. Remember that this is simply myexperience and therefore other factors may trigger another person’s burnout. But sharing these circumstances to you will give you an idea and spur you on to explore your own life for possible causes.

As I reflected on my ordeal, there were internal and externalcauses—and this is important to know because healing our burnout by changing our environment won’t solve our problems if your burnout has internal causes. You could change jobs and even go to another country and still experience burnout in your next job and company if you don’t deal with the inner attitudes that need changing.

Internal Causes:
· I had low self-worth. I used my achievements to cover up my need for affirmation and love from others, but no matter how much success I had at work, my broken self-image kept asking for more.

· I had ambition, driven by my low self-worth. I had so much drive, I could work for sixteen hours straight.

· I had an overwhelming fear of conflicts and rejection, and so avoided problems and conflicts. I needed love so much, I didn’t want anyone to get angry with me—so I tried my very best and exhausted every means to please everyone. Naturally, that goal was impossible and will always be impossible.

External Causes:
· According to psychologists, working for either extreme—an authoritarian, demanding boss, or a vacillating, wishy-washy boss—will produce burnout.

· I had chronic conflicts with co-workers. Conflicts are normal in our world but when they become prolonged and unresolved, they can cause burnout.

· Low moral in the office was pervasive.

· There was poor communication between the different parts of my organization.

If you are familiar with these causes, you have more chances of avoiding burnout.

Deal With The Two Sides Of Burnout

How did I get over my burnout?

First, I had to deal with the internal causes.

I had to change my attitudes toward my work and myself. I was depending on my work to prop up a poor self-image. So I needed to heal that poor self-image. Now note that healing low self-worth and taming fears is a life-long process, but recognizing them within you is already a first step in the right direction. Remember that any addiction is a way of escaping feeling the most painful emotions of life. In this case, a burnout victim is using his work as the escape hatch so he won’t feel the fears, the loneliness, the sadness, and the traumas in his past. By entering into these feelings of pain, acknowledging them, embracing them, accepting them, and allowing yourself to feel their fiercest storms within will shrink these monsters to their true size.

A burnout victim doesn’t genuinely love himself, and he needs to learn this virtue before he experiences healing. By allowing himself to feel his emotions as is, no matter how painful they are, he is giving a message to himself that “you’re worthy” and “you’re normal” and “I respect what you’re going through.”

Loving himself will also mean developing healthy boundaries between himself and his work and the people around him. Because the burnout victim has blurred his identity with the success or failure of his work and what other people say about him, he needs to distinguish his own worth from these two separate realities. He needs to learn that his life is more than his professional reputation and the bottom-line of his financial statements. This “more” are his values or moral code and his spirituality. From this deeper self, he should then craft a higher purpose for living that is beyond career goals or financial objectives.

Finally, loving himself means adapting practical self-care habits—developing exercise, meditation, healthy diets, engaging hobbies, and other wonderful stuff that burnout victims and workaholics neglect.

Second, I also had to deal with the external causes.

My working environment was so awash with indecisiveness (mine) and the resultant disorganization, low morale, disorganization, and chaos; it was definitely causing my burnout. So for the first time in a long, long time, I faced my fears by meeting people I had conflicts with. I made hard decisions at work, no matter how unpopular they were. I “created” a few enemies by doing what I believed was right. I removed staffers who were hindering the mission of the organization. Believe me, healing my burnout wasn’t popping a few pills into my mouth; it was major surgery!

I did this by asking help from people I could trust. Having a group of friends around you, assisting you and praying for you, was a real gift from God to me.

Don’t Burnout, Burn-up!

After a bout with burnout, some people think that the way to go is to coast along and be boring. In other words, be monotonous so that you won’t burnout again.

But that’s not true. The antidote to burnout is to burn-up! Ferdinand Foch said, The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

Let me give you an illustration. Think of an oil lamp.

A burnout victim is simply a lighted oil lamp that didn’t have oil. The result? The flame burned and consumed the entire wick rather quickly.

The solution is not to keep the oil lamp unlighted. It will not serve its purpose.

The solution is to put oilin the oil lamp and to light it again.

You and I were created for a purpose. For a sacred mission larger than us. We need to live and be consumed by this higher vision!

But to be aflame by a vision for the long term, we need oil.

And that oil is the core values written in the fabric of our soul. We need to live by those values: love for self, for our neighbor, and for our God.

And love for self will include the virtue of balance.

Because I don’t need to borrow worth from my achievements as a crutch for my own self-value, I work in my job without the pressure. I work for love and the happiness that I feel in my work. There’s balance! My oil is constantly replenished.

And when my day of departure comes, when my body reaches its end, I shall gladly allow the fire of my sacred mission consume the last dregs of me.

Don’t burnout, Burn-up!

May your dreams come true,


Bo Sanchez


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The Missing Link Of Success:
Who Are Your Mentors?
Yesterday, I finally met him.
My mentor on the stock market.
Okay, let me backtrack a bit.
When I got married at 32 years old, my life changed. From a single missionary wandering around the country (and the world) without a centavo in my pocket, I now needed to make serious money fast. The Bible doesn’t say, “Man doesn’t live on bread but on every Word that comes from the mouth of God.” One word is missing. The Bible says, “Man doesn’t live on bread alone but on every Word…”
That means I still need to eat bread even if I have the Word of God!
But I knew next to nothing about money.
And boy, did I need to change my psychology of money in my brain. Because deep inside, I knew I was programmed to be poor.
I had to unlock my brain from a distorted theology of wealth—that money was bad, that rich people were crooks, and that God wanted me to be poor, etc… (To know more about what I’m talking about, read my newest book 8 Secrets of the Truly Rich. To get your copy, go to Shepherds Voice Publications, Inc. now. But people who support our ministry KerygmaFamily get a FREE autographed copy as my big ‘thank you’ gift to them. Join now at KerygmaFamily - Shepherd's Voice Radio and Television Foundation, Inc. and receive a ton of blessing.)
Once my psychological wallet grew (and did this take a long time!), I was ready to earn money. But how?
Immediately, I knew my missing link to success: I had no Financial Mentors.
I Had Mentors For Every Area Of My Life Except…
You see, I had mentors for my spiritual life. I had mentors for my family life. I even had a mentor for my ministry life. And much of my success came from the fact that I had these wonderful people who taught me, inspired me, and showed me the way.
But I had no financial mentors in my life!
So I prayed to God for mentors to lead me in my journey to financial abundance.
First, I searched for successful entrepreneurs among my friends. I made a bee-line towards a few multi-millionaires I knew and invited them for lunch. I picked their brains and took down copious notes. I then put up my small businesses, lost money, tried something else, failed again, until I found my niche. Today, my little businesses are doing well.
It was time to conquer another financial mountain…
Can I Buy Real Estate If I Have No Money?
Second, I read that almost all wealthy people have real estate investments. I had none. So I prayed that God give me a mentor in real estate. But I had a preference: I wanted a specific type of mentor—someone who was doing Robert Kiyosaki’s kind of real estate as outlined in his book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad, here in the Philippines. He bought foreclosed properties from banks and turned them around for a profit. Reason: I had no money to invest in real estate! But Kiyosaki said that with his system, you don’t need money. You could get the property from the bank for a tiny amount (which you could borrow somewhere else) and start earning from day one—not when it appreciates in value. Was there a guy already in the Philippines doing this thing?
After one year of praying and waiting, all the while reading books on real estate and attending seminars on real estate—boom—I bumped into Larry Gamboa in Powerbooks. He was an old friend that I have not met in years. I asked him, “What are you doing Larry?” and he answered me, “I’m investing in real estate, buying foreclosed properties and turning them around, just like Robert Kiyosaki in his book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad.”
When he said that, I felt like Heaven opening up and God giving me a wink.
So I asked Larry to mentor me and we did some properties together. Today, we are partners in Think Rich Pinoy Millionaire Network where people can simply get a franchise of the system he uses to earn through real estate. He provides everything—his personal coaching, the entire system, the legal documents, the bank procedures, from A to Z. (You can read Larry’s two great books, Think Rich, Pinoy and Grow Rich, Pinoy. Go to Shepherds Voice Publications, Inc. now.)
Collect Specific Pieces Of Paper—And You’ll Be Rich!
Now that I had businesses and real estate under my belt, I knew I had to conquer a third asset that all wealthy people have: Paper Assets. That usually meant mutual funds and stocks, and I had zero knowledge about them.
Again, when the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Because soon, I began to bump into experts in mutual funds and insurance.
I won’t tell you his name, but I met one of my primary mentors on mutual funds and insurance sitting beside me on the plane. Here’s the funny thing: Because there were too many people in Economy, I was bumped up into Business Class. That’s why I ended up sitting beside him. God was winking at me again.
Through my mentors, I ended up becoming a broker for mutual funds and other paper assets—not for one, but for many mutual fund companies.
So I asked questions. I asked for training. I latched onto my mentors like a leech and sucked them dry. As my financial mentors grew, so did my money grow as well.
I began to invest tiny amounts each month into various mutual funds—balanced fund, equity funds, peso funds, dollar funds, euro funds… It was incredible. This guy who, only a few years ago, kept his entire life savings hidden inside his bedroom (third drawer, beneath my briefs and socks), ran now small businesses, sold rent-to-own apartments (so I don’t really own them anymore), and “paper assets” in various currencies and companies. It was a wild journey.
Stock Market—Isn’t That Like Gambling?
Finally, there was this one area that I wasn’t touching with a ten-foot pole: Stocks.
I knew it required financial wisdom that I didn’t have.
Again, I attended seminars on stocks, read books on stocks, and kept asking around. I met countless of investors and brokers, but none of them were real masters in the field. I needed a master. So for three years, I prayed for a mentor, but none was coming. It wasn’t yet time.
Yesterday, I met him. Finally.
After three long years of praying.
I can’t divulge his name because he doesn’t want to be named, but he’s a multi-multi-millionaire (in dollar figures) who made his money through stocks.
He called me. (Which brings me to another core belief that I have: What I need comes to me.) He said he read my book, 8 Secrets of the Truly Rich, loved it, and wanted to have lunch with me.
And as he spoke of his 30 years of investing in stocks (globally), all I could do was listen in rapt awe. Believe me, the wisdom he distilled to me in our three hours conversation can’t be covered by a hundred seminars from other speakers who simply read a book or worked the stocks for a few years. This guy had 30 years of experience behind him.
Basically, he talked about the science of investing in the stock market. It’s not just an art, he said, or he won’t be able to teach it to me. It’s not gambling. It’s a science. He created a method that gets results. He said I could do it too.
And you know what? You can too.
All you need are mentors.
People who’ve done it before and can teach you how.
(You can read how to meet my mentors below in my PS.)
Mentors. It’s the missing link to your success.
Pray for them.
I remain your friend,
Bo Sanchez

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