The Gospel tells us of a story of Christ’s encounter with a rich young man who was already fulfilling the Ten Commandments but felt it was not enough. “As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. ‘Good teacher,’ he
August 8, 2024
This book can help us overcome those jitters when speaking in front of an audience for the first time, perform a piano recital or play in a high-stakes basketball championship game. “The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance” by Dr. Nate Zinsser offers practical tips to defeat nervousness
August 1, 2024
Jesus Christ is perfect God and perfect man. We say that to mean that his perfection is not just for being God but also as man. If He is not perfect then He would not be God because to be God means to be perfect. Perfection means complete or lacking
July 26, 2024
This great book is for business owners. “The Company of One: Why Staying Small is the Next Big Thing in Business”, by Paul Jarvis tells us that having a bigger company with many branches and on a constant expansion mode is not necessarily better than sticking to one store or
July 25, 2024
Some would become atheists because they could not reconcile how can a good God allow evil to happen and especially evil happening to innocent people such as a young child getting cancer. It is not true that the Catholic Church has no answer to explain why evil happens in this
July 23, 2024
This is a great book about making connections with others, especially in the workplace. “The Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience” by Brene Brown. Atlas is a book of maps. Atlas of the Heart means knowing how to navigate around the three negative
July 20, 2024
Obviously, I can’t enumerate all 48 laws here from this best-selling book by Robert Greene, “The 48 Laws of Power”. But luckily, Nathan Lozeron author of the Productivity Game can summarize them for us into three, “Say as Little as Possible”, “Be Audacious”, and “Be Formless.” If you leverage the
July 18, 2024
In the Gospel of St. Mark, we encounter the blind man Bartimaeus whose story of healing offers us many great spiritual lessons. “Then they came to Jericho. As Jesus and his disciples, together with a large crowd, were leaving the city, a blind man, Bartimaeus (which means ‘son of Timaeus’),
July 11, 2024
Another wonderful book from one of my favorite leadership gurus, John Maxwell. “The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential” is packed with fifteen wise points but we can’t accommodate them all in this article. I’ll just pick out my five favorite ones. I highly recommend
July 9, 2024
I have a friend doctor who was doing his residency many years ago at St. Luke’s Hospital in Manila and was complaining of the grind of his job. Residency in a hospital is the on-the-job training for doctors. All aspiring doctors undergo it before they take the board exam. It’s
July 4, 2024
A great book on goals setting and how to achieve them is authored by Grant Cardone, “The 10x Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure”. The “10x” means ten times doing what the average people would do. The author says you need ten times more thoughts and actions of
July 1, 2024
Stoicism is a Greek philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium in the 3rd century. It is a philosophy that has made a comeback in our modern era because it famously advocates for calmness and serenity in times of adversity. Dozens of books have come out these days promoting this philosophy:
June 27, 2024