How a Taxi Driver Became a Bank President? by Bo Sanchez

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5 Steps On How To Expand Your Territories (by: Bo Sanchez)

Many people ask me how I’m able to do all that I do.

Let me give you an idea of my responsibilities… (Warning: Some people actually feel tired just reading this list, so take a deep breath…)

I lead 4 ministry organizations. I speak in a daily Radio show, a weekly TV program, and a daily video show at Home - Preacher In Blue Jeans Each year, I churn out 3 books, produce 4 audio/video teaching series, and write more than 200+ articles. I publish 7 magazines, maintain 4 websites, send out my online newsletter and write my blog at this website. I lead a “virtual” community called the Kerygma Family and oversee an incredible “sales force” called the Kerygma Ambassadors. I also travel extensively, preaching 300+ times a year all over the Philippines and around the world—leading retreats, seminars, and prayer rallies. I also am proud to say that I read all my email and respond to most of them.

As if these aren’t enough, there are a “few” personal things that I do…

I run a homeschool center to help parents learn how to homeschool their kids (If you’re interested, log onto Catholic Filipino Academy) I lead a financial consultancy organization to teach Filipinos how to save for their future. I operate a tiny organic farm, a real estate business, and manage a few more small businesses. (Plus, my 7-year old boy still has his Bangus business, and he’s hired me to be his marketing consultant.)

Of course, I’m fanatical about spending time with my family. I play with my sons everyday and still bring my beautiful wife once a week in a romantic date. We also have 4 family vacations every year, and 2 of those vacations are long 2-week trips!

And each year, I read 3 books a week, listen to the same number of audio books, and each year read thousands of magazine and internet articles.

Oh, before I forget, let me mention that I hop on a stationary bike one hour a day.

How do I do all these things?

Let me share with you five principles…


Key #1:
Believe You’re Bigger

It’s common fact that we only use 10% of our brain’s capacity.

Can you believe that? We’re wasting 90% of what God has given to us!

I believe God has given us more capacities than we think we have.

The ultimate crime is that we belittle ourselves.

We think we’re insects, so we live an insect life, but actually—we’re giants!

Because of this, I believe you can earn a ten times more than whatever you’re earning right now. You can help ten times the number of people you’re helping now. You can serve ten times more than whatever service you’re doing now.

Don’t limit yourself.

You’re bigger than you think you are.


Key #2:
Be Consistent With The Fundamentals

Every morning, I enjoy time with God.

Every morning, I chew on His Word—the Bible.

Every morning, I pray, “Lord, let me love every person I meet today.”

Every morning, I read my life mission, my list of dreams, and my annual goals.

And throughout the day, instead of exposing myself to bad news, I digest good news available around me: I voraciously read inspiring books and listen to inspiring audio talks.

Every night, like a little boy, I kneel beside my bed and thank God for His blessings of that day.

In other words, the reason why I live such an exciting life is because I’m boring.

I’m monotonous.

I’m repetitive.

I do the same basic things again and again and again and again…

I now realize that the reason I can do all those thrilling, exciting, exhilarating stuff is because I do the boring basics every single day of my life. Everyday, I’m grateful. Everyday, I think positive. Everyday, I love. Everyday, I select what I watch, what I read, what I listen to—and stick to what can make me grow. Every single day.

The more I live on planet earth, the more I agree with Jim Rohn when he said that “There’s really nothing mysterious or magical about success. Success is simply the consistent application of fundamentals.”

Be boringly consistent when it comes to the basics.

And in time, you’ll find exciting success knocking at your door.



Key #3:
Focus On Your Core Gift
I have very few talents. Honest!

I don’t know how to cook, how to dance, how to write a computer program, and how to solve the Rubix cube. I don’t know how to do geometry, trigonometry, and calculus. I’m totally lost in chemistry, physics, and biology. I also can’t fix a leaking faucet or do carpentry or repair my car.

But this is what I can do very well: Communicate.

So I focus my entire life on that one thing.

I write well and I speak well. Period.

And I delegate everything to people who are better than I am.

Ask yourself now: What is my core gift?

I have a general rule I follow in my life: I don’t like complicating things just to impress you. So instead of giving you 329 psychological questions filled with scientific babble to discover your core gift (so I could impress you on how intelligent I am), let me just boil it down to 2 very simple questions. Stop reading this book until you answered both of these questions.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->· <!--[endif]-->What do you enjoy doing?

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For some of you, it’s technology.

For some of you, it’s teaching.

For some of you, it’s selling stuff.

For some of you, it’s cooking.

For some of you, it’s music.

For some of you, it’s advanced trigonometry. (Yes, I’ve heard there are such strange creatures walking on the face of the earth.)



Key #4:
Build Your Network

My wealth isn’t my money.

My real wealth is my network of friends.

Personally, I don’t think anything great is accomplished without a team.

Even Jesus had a team around him.

A few months ago, I was reading about the interesting world of horse-pulling competitions.

That’s where huge horses the size of elephants pull massive concrete blocks behind them.

Did you know that the grand champion horse could pull the incredible weight of 4,500 pounds? If the average weight of a Filipino is 140 pounds (which happens to be my weight before I eat my breakfast), that means this super horse could carry 32 Filipinos—without wheels! That monster could pull me, my wife, my kids, my parents, my siblings, their spouses, their kids, and all my in-laws combined.

And the second placer horse can pull only slightly lower than the first placer: 4,400 pounds.

That was when the organizers got curious. If these two horses pulled together, how many pounds could they carry? Could they pull 8,900 pounds?

They harnessed both horses and were shocked with the results.

Both horses, when pulling together, carried the mind-blowing weight of 12,000 pounds. That’s 85 Filipinos.

My message? Teams are powerful.

Alone, I can do a lot of things. But with my team, I don’t add but multiply what I can do.

I keep networking. I circulate. I meet people. I build bridges.

So I surround myself with a bunch of people who have impeccable character and fantastic skills. I network with Mentors, Preachers, Administrators, Accountants, Programmers, Lawyers, Financial Wizards, Multi-millionaires, Media Experts, Businessmen, Architects, Engineers, etc…

And everyday, I constantly expand my team.


Key #5:
Create An Autopilot System

Every time I enter into a project, I always do it with a team around me. Never alone. And I choose my team well.

I have a very simple criteria: I choose men and women who are humble (teamplayers) and who are experts in their field. In other words, I search for impeccable character and fantastic skills.

And together, we create a system for the project that’s replicable and duplicable.

In other words, it’s got to run on autopilot without my direct supervision.

Here’s my ideal leader: If I appoint someone to be project head (or organization director or business manager), and after six months, I don’t want him to bother me anymore except for major directional issues. If he still bothers me for tiny matters, I’ve chosen the wrong leader—or I trained him wrongly.


If You Love, The Universe Opens Up To You

Here’s what I’ve learned: Love is limitless! It has no boundaries.

I do what I do because I want to love people.

Each morning, I wake up and ask myself, “How can I bless people today?”

And so I stretch. I go just a teensy bit beyond what I think is my limit—and my capacities expand—because I want to bless the world.

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Do You Like Yourself A Lot? (by: Bo Sanchez)

If you don’t mind, let me start with an old Genie joke.

One day, a Genie appeared to a woman and said, “This is your lucky day! I will give you 3 wishes.”

“Yeheey!” the woman squealed.

“But on one condition,” said the Genie, “Whatever you ask for, your husband will receive 3 times more.”

The woman frowned, “What? But I hate my husband! He’s a despicable man!”

The Genie shook his head. “I’m sorry. I’m the Love Genie. I repeat: What you ask for, your husband will receive 3 times more.”

The woman said, “Oh, okay. My first wish: Make me very rich. I want $1 Million.”

The Genie asked, “Are you sure? Your husband will have $3 Million.”

She says, “Oh, never mind. What is his is mine and what is mine is his.”

“Very well then!” the Genie said, and with a wave of his hand, and “Poof!” the woman had $1 Million—and her husband had $3 Million.

“My second request is that I want to be very beautiful.”

The Genie asked, “Are you sure? Your husband will look like Piolo Pascual and Sam Milby and John Lloyd put together. This is very dangerous. The girls will flock to him.”

The woman said, “Just as long as I’ll be beautiful.”

And with the wave of his hand, “Poof!”, and she became utterly beautiful and the husband three times more handsome.

The woman then said, “For the third wish, I would like to have a very mild heart attack.”

***Life Is A Mirror***

Here’s the lesson: Whatever you give to yourself, you give to others more.

If you like yourself, you’ll like others too.

If you dislike yourself, you’ll dislike others too.

Because life is a mirror. What you see in others is a reflection of what you see in yourself.

I’ve met very critical people. Sometimes, I think they feel that they were born to criticize others. It’s their life mission. All they do is size up everyone they meet and point out their mistakes. Where does this critical spirit come from? In their heart of hearts, I believe they don’t like themselves. And they project this self-criticalness on others.

This “disliking ourselves” is more widespread than we think…


***It’s An Epidemic***

At their inner core, people don’t feel good about themselves. Like background music playing 24 hours a day, people inflict upon themselves self-rejection, self-doubt, self-contempt.

It’s an epidemic in the world today, and it’s robbing people of much happiness.

Where does this sickness of self-hatred come from?

Self-hatred comes from fear. After all, hate is fear. We hate what we fear.

Specifically, we fear we’re not enough. Bottom line, we fear we’re unloved.

And when we don’t like ourselves, we try to solve it by many common false solutions. For lack of space, let me give you two here. One is having Status Symbols. The other is Religious Performance.

***Collecting Status Symbols***

I know a lot of people who clutch, grab, and collect Status Symbols.

I remember the story of the guy with a BMW. After parking, as he opened the door, another car crashed it and ripped out his door—together with his entire arm.

When the police came, they saw the guy looking at his mashed up BMW and crying, “My car! My car! It’s gone…”

The police said, “Excuse me sir, but don’t you realize that your arm is gone?”

The man looked at where his arm was supposed to be, and when he saw nothing, began to cry, “Oh my gosh! Where’s my Rolex?”

Some are so attached with their Status Symbols.

You see these people walking in malls. Shirt by Lacoste. Shoes by Bally. Watch by Rolex. Waistline by Crispy Creams.

I was talking to a friend who wore a Rolex watch. I asked him, “I’m curious. Why are you wearing a P300,000 watch on your wrist?”

His answer made me very sad. He said, “Honestly? To make me feel like somebody. To make me feel good about myself.”

Wow. If I want to feel good, I breathe. I smile. I pray. I love.

Let me give you another false solution to not liking ourselves…

***We Make God In Our Image***


The other false solution is Religious Performance.

When we don’t like ourselves, some get into religious practices to appease a God whom they believe also doesn’t like them. Why?

Because life is a mirror.

Because we make God in our image and likeness.

Because we project our self-hatred on God.

For years, I used to be like this. I prayed, read the Bible, and did my religious work because I wanted the approval of an angry God.

No more.

I do all these because He loved me first. (1 John 1:14)

So how do you start liking yourself a lot?


***What’s Your Default Question?***

You have a Default Question that you ask yourself a thousand times a day.

It’s like your OS or Operating System, working in the background.

For many people, their Default Question is “What’s wrong?”

They wake up in the morning and unconsciously ask, “What’s wrong with this day? What’s wrong with my life?”

And throughout the day, they keep asking their Default Question:

“What’s wrong with my husband?”

“What’s wrong with my parents?”

“What’s wrong with my kids?”

“What’s wrong with my job?”

“What’s wrong with my friends?”

And the deadliest Default Question is “What’s wrong with me?”

Some people ask this question again and again throughout the day, it kills their spirit. Because they find so many things wrong about them. No wonder they don’t like themselves!

The question “What’s wrong?” is a very useful question—not as a Default Question—but as a question during emergencies. (When there’s really something wrong!)

What then should be your Default Question?

***Key: Appreciation***

The Default Question we should ask is, “What’s right?”

Ask it a thousand times a day.

“What’s right about this day? What’s right about my husband? What’s right about my kids? What’s right about my job?”

And especially the very healthy question, “What’s right about me?”

If the Bible is right that you’re really made in the image of God, then by golly gee, you must be a phenomenal human being.

You’ve got stuff in you that are fantastic—and you need to take time to appreciate them.

Remember: Only love can defeat fear. And appreciation is love.

When Jesus healed the ten lepers, only one came back to thank Him. He asked, “Where are the other nine?” On that day, ten were healed physically but only one was healed completely. Ten were healed physically but only one was healed physically and spiritually.

Heal yourself by appreciation.

And here’s one thing you can do…

***Write It Down***



Sit down and write 25 things you like about yourself.

I did this the other day and couldn’t stop at 25. I ended up writing 67 things I like about myself! And since the list is in my journal, I plan to keep adding onto it until I reach100.

But start with 25. Celebrate who you are. Thank God for who you are!

This will change you.

All of a sudden, you realize how special you are.

And slowly, you’ll start liking yourself a lot.

The Most Important Reason

Three days ago, I was swamped with work.

I had so many articles to write, so many meetings to plan, so many business concerns… But my wife said, “Please bring Francis to the Barbershop. He’ll be a ring bearer.” That’s the disadvantage of having a cute son. He gets to be ring bearer a lot.

So I put aside all my work in the afternoon and brought him to the Barber.

After the haircut, I was thinking that we were going back home so I could work. That was when 4-year old Francis said, “Daddy, I’m hungry.”

So we marched to Jollibee and he ate chicken and rice at 4 in the afternoon!

Again, as we were leaving, I was presuming I could now go back to work. But Francis tugged on my arm again and said, “Daddy, I’m still hungry.” My gosh. Where does this little guy put all that food?

Later on, I realized he was hungry not for food but for love. Specifically, hungry for Daddy’s love.

So we kept on walking, visiting other shops, until he saw a playground. His eyes grew large and said, “Daddy, can I play?”

I believe life is about moments. So I bought myself a cup of coffee, sat on a park bench, and enjoyed watching my 4-year old jump from one slide to another.

We had the grandest time.

Why did I disrupt my whole afternoon for Francis?

Because I’m his father and he’s my son.

He’s more important than all my work.

He’s more important than all my ministries.

He’s more important than all the books I write and all the talks I give.

Friend, this is the ultimate reason why you need to like yourself.

Because you have a Father who loves you so much.

You’re more important than all the stars in the sky.

You’re more important than all the galaxies of this universe.

In the heart of God, nothing compares with you.

If He loves you this much, how can you not like yourself?

May your dreams come true,
Bo Sanchez

[smurky]

You CAN CREATE a new PATTERN of Success (by: bo sanchez)

"man is not the creature of circumstances;
circumstances arethe creatures of men." - benjamin disraeli

Let me tell you a story.
When I was growing up, I felt I was the most ungifted kid in the entire world.
Honest! I had four things going on against me.

First, my grades were bad.
As early as grade 2, i failed in math and filipino - to subjects i abhorred like ampalaya juice concentrate or like an antibiotic capsule that accidentally breaks open on your tongue. yuck.

i felt i was dumb exponentially raised to the power of three. my academic goal in life was to reach the high grade of 75. one day, one of my subjects reached 82 and i almost collapsed in shock. i went to my teacher and asked if she made a mistake.

today, im guessing i probably have some form of mild dyslexia, but during my time they, just call it "bobo".

second, i was bad in sports.
some kids were dumb but at least they were good in sports.
but i was a bano (physically uncoordinated).
i dreaded P.E. it was pure social torture.
for example, the teacher would ask me to dribble the ball - and while everyone would watch - i'd lose the ball, chase after it, manage to step on it, slip and splatter myself on the floor. and everyone would burst out laughing for five minutes straight. yep, even the teacher would laugh. (do you notice my deep resentment coming out here?)

obviously, no team wanted me. i was left standing alone until the teacher forced one of the teams to get me. so i'd enter the game and make them lose 10 points in 10 seconds. (i did the impossible.) and they'd hate me to bits.

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You CAN CREATE a new PATTERN of Success ( part II)

third, i was POOR.
my allowance was 50 centavos a day when the prevailing rate was two pesos.
i remember going to the canteen clutching my 50 centavos in my hand. "coke please," i asked. the saleslady looked at my coin and said, "coke is 60." i looked at the other goodies and asked again, "Cheeze Curls please." she shook her head, "thats 60 too." i finally asked, "what can i buy with 50 centavos?" she looked around and fished out something tiny. "Marie (biscuit)," she said.
At the precise moment, my classmate stood beside me with a five-peso bill and said," cook, Cheeze Curls and hotdog sandwich please."
triple ouch.

Fourth, iwas ugly.
Yes, i was. (i know its hard to imagine that now...)
they called me a refugee and tipaklong.
let me say this again: i felt i was the most ungifted person god ever created.

but today, i write books, compose songs, publish magazines, produce concerts, lead organizations, speak on radio and tv, run small businesses.... just to name a few things i do today.

i didnt become Albert Einstein. but i literally changed my life.
speaking of albert einstein, did you know he was dumb in school?

here are the actual quotes from his school teachers...

" no matter what you do, you will never amount to anything." - albert einstein's first teacher.

"your mere presence spoils the respect of the class for me." - einstein's second teacher.

""it doesnt matter; he'll never make a success of anything." - the response of albert einstein's techer to his father's question on what profession einstein should pursue.

these teachers were almost right. because at age 16, albert einstein failed an entrance exam to a polytechnic university in Zurich.

what happened to the dumb kid? why did he come to be one of the greatest scientists of the world?

like einstein, you can CREATE a new patter of success.

[smurky]

Enlarge your Psychological Wallet (by Bo sanchez)

"There is a secret to money. most people dont know about it. thats why most people never become financially successful. A lack of money is not the problem; it is merely a symptom of whats going on inside you." - T Harv Eker

The first reason why people are poor is because they dont want to be rich.
As absurd as this may sound, it's true.
Because subconsciously, we dont think it fits us. we feel it's not who we are.
Here's what ive learned.
If you want to make a small incremental improvements in your life, change your behavior. but if you want to make dramatic, quantum leaps in your life, change your beliefs.

So many people are trying to change their "behavior".
They try to save.
They study how to invest.
They start a tiny business.
But its not enough unless they rewire their thinking process. Otherwise the old thinking will sabotage their new behavior.
Let me repeat what i said on the first part: your money problems are mind problems.
And the first mind problem "is your core beliefs about yourself."

UNLESS you change the picture of yourself in your mind, it will almost be impossible to become rich. even if you have all the skills and connections in the word. even if you earn huge amount of money, you'll lose it again - if you dont enlarge your psychological wallet.

Tony Meloto, fouder of Gawas Kalinga - an amazing movement that buils homes and rebuilds lives of the poorest of the poor - says,
"ive realized that poverty isnt the lack of jobs or the lack of money. its the lack of dignity. the poor have lost their ability to dream. thats why we build very colorful GK homes. when the new owner of the GK house wakes up each morning and sees the bright colors of his home, he realizes that he can dream again."

ENLARGE your psychological wallet.

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INCREASE your MONEY COmfort ZOne (by: bo sanchez)

"you are the way you are because thats the way you want to be.
if you really wanted to be any different, you wold be in the process of changing right now." - fred smith

I had to enlarge my psychological wallet.
Some call it our money comfort zone.
Can you imagine yourself with a million?
Some cant even picture this scene. some can picture it but they immediately feel uncomfortable. as though theres something wrong with the picture.
For example, some have P10,000 psychological wallet.
They see themselves earning P10,000 a month - nothing less, nothing more.
If, for example, they get a bonus of P20,000, they'll be happy on the outside but subconsciously, theyre panicking on the inside.
And so they'll force themselves to lose it all (usually by spending it) so that they can go back to their comfortable P10,000 identity.
They'll but the dress, the shoes, the cellphone.
Anything just to get rid of the money.
Just so that they can get back to their financial bondage.

A study was made involving lotto winners who've won million of dollars. a huge percentage of these winners lose it all after a few years. in five year's time, they find themselves in the exact same financila condition they were in before they won.
Why?
Because the millions couldnt fit their psychological wallet. something in them rebelled. so they "got rid" of it.
Some have a P30,000 psychological wallet.
Some have a P50,000, a P100,000 and a P500,000 a month psychological wallet.
Whats yours?
How much money are you comfortable with?
If you want to get rich, the first thing you need is to ENLARGE your psychological wallet.

Increase your money comfort zone.

[smurky]

Unless you SEE it in your MIND, it Won't become REALITY (by: bo sanchez)

"its time to start living the life you've imagined. " - Henry James

Deep within you, youve programmed your life to operate on a particular level of income and total net worth. because this is your psychological wallet or money-comfort zone, you cant see yourself earning twice as much or becoming a millionaire. you simply cant. something within you says, "are you nuts? me? earn twice as much? become a millionaire? hah! i might as well imagine im Donald Duck."

so you stay in your money comfort zone for the rest of your life.
it affects your love life too.
More likely, you'll subconsciously get attracted to marry someone who also has the same size as your psychological wallet. so both of you can comfortably live in that zone happily ever after.
Well, ive got news for you.
Do you know who set the dial of your inner financial thermostat?
You DID.

So anytime you like, you too can enlarge your psychological wallet to any size you want. you can raise your money comfort zone.
How? start with your imagination.
"imagine" yourself earning double of what you're earning now by next year - through wise investing and some side business.
That's right. double.
Get comfortable with that.
See yourself not spending it, but actually saving it, learning how to invest and seeing your money grow.
See yourself with the business on the side, aside from your fulltime job.
See yourself as an investor.
See yourself giving generously - writing large checks - addressed to Bo sanchez for his projects for the poor and his media ministry. (as you can see this book has ulterior motives)
youve got to see it in your mind.

Each week, Bro. Mike Velarde preaches to 300,000 people in the El Shaddai prayer meeting. that figure boggles my mind. during their anniversary, a million people congregated at the Luneta Grandstand. it was the late jaime cardinal sin who asked him, "bro. mike, what do you have that i dont have? why do these people come wen you call them to come?"
one day, i had a three-hour chat with Bro. mike velarde to ask him why.
"the grace of god," he said over and over again.
I believed him. Last christmas, he invited me to preach to his massive audience - and i saw it before his eyes. three hundred thousand people receiving grace!
"And bro. mike does it by giving them hope." thats why they keep coming back.

bro. mike asks them to raise their wallet for financial blessings - and 300,000 wallets go up.
He asks those who wants to migrate to other countries to raise their passports - and thousands of green booklets are up in the air.
HE makes them "imagine" their answered prayer. that they are healed. that they are debt free. that they are working abroad.
In a very simple way, he makes them set goals. and aim for them by the power of their imagination, by the power of their faith.

Unless you see it in your mind, it wont become reality.

[smurky]

@ jabez_rmc: my mentor, Bo sanchez, just approved me as his FRIEND sa "Friendster"... (bro jabez, we'll meet soon. let me hear out what you have in mind)