Archive for May 2006
Investing Your Way to Happiness (Third of a Series)
Posted by: leodini on: May 28, 2006
For seasoned investors, investing is like a game—it’s fun and exciting. Above all, it’s profitable.
When one’s investing strategies work smoothly, everything will fall in place like magic. The returns will be lucrative as money rolls in far greater amount than the sweat you break on your brow. However, when things don’t work well, losing your [...]
Investing Your Way to Happiness (Second of a Series)
Posted by: leodini on: May 26, 2006
Biologists can observe metamorphosis in lower life forms such as insects and crustaceans. As a Filipino magician entertaining family audiences, I can produce similar illusion. In fact, it is one of my all-time favorite illusions, and my audiences love its every performance.
In real life, though, transforming an ordinary salaried individual into a savvy investor can [...]
Investing Your Way to Happiness (First of a Series)
Posted by: leodini on: May 25, 2006
Most of us parents have been preoccupied far too long with making money. It’s a fixation that dates back to our early age. When we were younger, we went to school to learn how to break our backs profitably when we grow old.
And that’s exactly what we do as we mature: we labor from dawn [...]
Wealth and Health Lead to Happiness
Posted by: leodini on: May 22, 2006
One cannot conjure happiness from thin air. Even the best Filipino magician in town do not possess power to accomplish that.
Parents, therefore, have to work with focus and attention to create happiness in their home and in their work environment. The last thing they must not do is to wait for it to happen by [...]
The Da Vinci Code: More Talk, Less Actions
Posted by: leodini on: May 19, 2006
OK, the movie has nothing to do with parenting, but given the public attention it gets, I figure the movie will be of interest to many. Besides, the movie is the rage topic of the day worldwide. It will be ostrich-like of us if no one even mentions it here.
Having said that preamble, [...]
Moderation Leads to Happiness
Posted by: leodini on: May 17, 2006
It’s payday, and you stare horrified at the thin pay envelope you receive. In your mind, flash the bills falling due this month: the electric bill, the installment for the TV, your children’s school fees, the amortization of the house, tennis club dues, and insurance. Add to that your wife’s grocery expenses and the cost [...]
Laugh Your Way to Fitness
Posted by: leodini on: May 15, 2006
Raising a happy family requires, among many things, a healthy body and sound mind. Parenting is hard enough for healthy parents. It could be near impossible for sickly parents.
Keeping fit is, therefore, a requisite of happy parenting. It should be something that parents aspiring to raise a happy family should work for to attain.
To Find Happiness, Listen Less to the Experts
Posted by: leodini on: May 14, 2006
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The experts are at each other’s throats again. They conduct studies that result in a litany of reasons why the experts on the other side of an issue have it all wrong.
Caught in the crossfire are parents who are at loss whom to listen to or believe in.
The Perils of Food
Posted by: leodini on: May 11, 2006
Food is not only the body’s basic sustenance but also a source of happiness to a great majority of people. It brings contentment to the body and supplies us with energy that we can expend to lead a fulfilled life.
Lacking food, a family will suffer distress. Citizens of famine-stricken countries are testaments to the woes [...]
At Long Last, a Text Message that Made Me Happy!
Posted by: leodini on: May 14, 2006
No doubt, text messaging is a technological wonder that can bring happiness to a family. It makes easier for parents to track their children’s whereabouts throughout the day and saves them from the aggravation of not knowing where their kids go cavorting in this increasingly dangerous world.
While text messaging makes modern-day living a lot easier and more [...]