Is investing in your first property during a pandemic a bad idea? Experts disagree. Most people — including you, might have been asking themselves the same question as they have been seeing property developers and agents posting pictures and advertisements of condos, and house and lot at encouraging low mortgage rates and down payment on social media. But with the pandemic telling us to be mindful of our spending, it’s easy to feel guilty. After all, taking advantage of a crisis to start a property investment might sound opportunistic and impulsive. Although investing may be a personal decision, it can...

The year 2020 became a great challenge for everyone due to the COVID-19 global pandemic.  It may have taken away some of our freedom since the government has encouraged everyone to stay at and work from home. It forces multiple nations around the world to scale back or shut down their local economies to restrain the spread of the coronavirus, resulting in millions of people being jobless. The good news is that a lot of determined Filipinos are using their imagination and being resourceful in finding ways on how they can make extra money to pay the bills and cover...

Reading is one of the best ways to broaden our minds to different and new ideas, knowledge, and perspectives. There are so much learnings that we can grasp when we read—be it an article online, a newspaper, magazine, tabloid, there are tons of knowledge that we can get from these.  We cannot probably 100% capture all of the learnings from its hundred pages, but we can surely gain relevant insights and ideas from them. And with that, there is a reason why most successful people strongly recommend to read books, aside from speakers who share stories how they reached their...

Learning is a lifelong process. It shouldn’t stop once you graduate and leave school. Those who succeed in life are those with a growth mindset and in constant pursuit of new knowledge. As long as we are still living, we never stop learning; we learn new things every day which eventually will make us a better person in our life’s journey. Ever since the pandemic entered into this world, things have changed and we are now welcoming the ‘’new normal’’, people are finding themselves with more free time in their hands and are looking for something productive to do so...

Indeed, everyone is keeping themselves busy right now while working from home and doing household chores in the middle of quarantine to somehow save themselves from getting burned-out because for being quarantined home for a couple of months now during the crisis brought by COVID-19. But if you’re looking for other ways to de-stress, you deserve to reward yourself some houseplants! Just like what they said, life is the best gift that you can give. Also, studies have proved that plants can help to lower levels of anxiety and tension. While we still are not allowed to go out and...