How to build your business the right way?

February 7, 2010 by Victorino Q. Abrugar  
Filed under Business Startup

Are you planning to build your own business? If yes, then you should build it the right way. The right way to build a business should begin at your heart and at your mind. Start establishing it at your heart. Yes you’ve read it right…at your heart! Why I am saying this? One of the top reasons why a businessman fails is his lack of passion and joy to his business. Once you raise a company which you don’t find interesting, you can hardly invest energy and enthusiasm on it. Thus, it may lead to a business downfall. The first thing to do to form a company that will stand through time is to make sure that it is written in the tablet of your heart. Ask yourself…do I really love this business? If you can honestly and firmly answer a “yes” on that question, then congratulations! You have built your business in your heart the right way. Read more

House, business and office blessing: How to do them right

January 26, 2010 by Victorino Q. Abrugar  
Filed under Business Virtues, Spirituality

House blessing, office blessing and even the blessing of a new car are usually done by their owners to keep them away from evils and avoid bad lucks. We also bless our home and workplace to receive prosperity in business and in life. These activities are performed to receive blessings from God above and attain success in everything that is related to the object of the blessing ceremony. Other people spend a lot of money (ceremony fee, feast and party) to have the rite completed in a hope to achieve life’s good luck and fortune. However, are these rituals really push away evils and pull good lucks? Why there are many firms, from small companies to large corporations, which are still facing bad lucks and tragedies despite of having those rites completed well? Perhaps, those grand ceremonies, that include some priests sprinkling some claimed holy water all over your property, have nothing to do with the real blessings from the heaven. I write this article not to spread controversy but only to spread the whole truth about receiving God’s blessings for our houses, offices, businesses and for our entire lives.

So how can we really receive God’s blessings? Let’s find the answer right from the Holy book where His words are written.

Proverbs 3:33 (NKJ V)
The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked; but He blesses the home of the just.

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101 things successful businessman and entrepreneur have

January 21, 2010 by Victorino Q. Abrugar  
Filed under Business Tips

A successful business owner or entrepreneur is one that brings his entrepreneurship into success and fulfillment. A businessman can have a net income in his statement of profit and loss yet he cannot make his customers and employees happy. An entrepreneur can achieve fame yet he can’t still be considered as a fulfilled one. There are many general and specific things that a businessman should have to attain business fulfillment. We know it’s hard to reach such goal. However, although we have not yet hit that final mark, what important is we can assure that we are heading towards that direction. To assure that, I made a list of 101 things truly successful businessmen have. They are arranged alphabetically for your pleasure. Enjoy! Read more

How to become the greatest businessman?

January 10, 2010 by Victorino Q. Abrugar  
Filed under Business Virtues

At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” Then Jesus called a little child to Him, set him in the midst of them, and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Whoever receives one little child like this in My name receives Me. – Matthew 18:1-5

In this verse, Jesus taught His disciples that humility makes a man greater in the kingdom of heaven. Humility is difficult to do and only a great person who has a strong sense of righteousness, justice and self-control can do it. We all know that this virtue is good, but many people, even the most intelligent persons ever lived have failed to maintain it – instead they have been overcome by pride. Read more

10 business lessons I learned in 2009

January 5, 2010 by Victorino Q. Abrugar  
Filed under Self - Improvement

Goodbye 2009! The great memories and moments you have contributed to my life are just remarkable. Although 2010 is now the year that I will be seeing in calendars everywhere, the lessons I’ve learned in 2009 will always remain in my mind, in my heart and in my blood. Most of those wisdoms were production of my business activities directed by my never-ending spiritual conquest. This year, I’ll be a full-time entrepreneur, considering my release from employment last December 2009. The following business lessons I learned in 2009 will be my greatest tools to achieve entrepreneurial success in 2010.

1. Stick to your game plan
This is a lesson I learned from Manny Pacquiao and Freddie Roach, the world’s best boxer and trainer of the decade. Many people are asking what is the secret behind the great victories of the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world, the Pacman. The key is simple, stick to the game plan. In the world of entrepreneurship, we always have that game plan. That plan is directed to our main goals. However, there are several opportunities that come in our ways. Some of these opportunities are so attractive enough to drive us away from our original plans. The worst is… it’s already too late before we realize that we are already heading to the wrong direction, direction that will lead us to failure. Pacquiao, although he sees an opportunity to knockout his opponent during fight time, he maintains prudence and avoid carelessness to take the bait of his opponent. He sticks to the game plan and eventually become a winner. Simply in business, we should create the best plan, and then stand for it. Read more

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