PDI’s MoneySmarts is celebrating its first year anniversary by hosting an interactive personal finance seminar on August 2, 2008 at the AIM Conference Center in Legazpi Village, Makati.

Event promotions officially start on July 21 but you may already book your seats by sending an email to register(at)iluvlearning(dot)com.  Promo fee is P250 (will increase to P300 on the 21st).

Speakers include Dr. Queena Lee-Chua on rising inflation and how it can affect savings and setting financial goals, Chinkee Tan, author of “Till Debt Do Us Part” to talk about overspending and how to get out of a debt trap and how to manage credit wisely, Ramon Tejero, head of research and portfolio strategy for Citibank’s insurance and investments arm in the Philippines, will walk participants through the step-by-step preparation of a financial plan (so you won’t come home with only dreams of financial independence in your head) and bestselling author Francis Kong, who will teach how these can all be made possible.

Go to http://blogs.inquirer.net/moneysmarts/2008/07/14/moneysmarts-celebrates-first-year-with-personal-finance-seminar/ for more details.

Language is the bridge that connects our minds and hearts with the outside world. Using vulgar expressions coarsens our soul, vulgarizes our spirit and builds a rickety and unreliable bridge.

–  Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

 Gretchen Rubin has just released a short video about the value of time spent with our loved ones.   “The days are long, but the years are short.”

As a working mom,  it struck close to home.  I’m often so busy trying to squeeze time to be THE superwoman and often forget that for my son, all I need to do is be his mom. 

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Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ~Meryl Streep

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Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ~Meryl Streep

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“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” — Reinhold Niebuhr

Ahhh…. wisdom.   Sometimes,  it seems like such a fleeting wish.  I can’t help but feel that sometimes I’m just banging my head against a brick wall.  Yes,  I know my head is hard but it’s no match for the wall of blind obedience and arrogant ignorance.  =(

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Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ~Meryl Streep

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I was surfing through youtube the other day and came across the savingandinvesting channel of Michael Fischer.  A former Goldman and Sachs man,  Michael has made financial literacy his personal advocacy and seeks to demystify various financial concepts for the man on the street. 

He writes: 
“This subject is not about greed, short-cuts, opinions or speculation – it is about being informed, and about being rewarded for participating in our financial system in order to provide better lives for ourselves and others that we care about.”

View one video a day and increase your financial knowledge bank.

Other key links:
The Website:  http://www.savingandinvesting.com
The Book:  Saving and Investing: Financial Knowledge and Financial Literacy that Everyone Needs and Deserves to Have!

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Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ~Meryl Streep

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Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders is a documenatary film which seeks to raise awareness on how credit and lending issues are affecting American society.   While it is targeted for Americans,  it could very well be telling our own story.  We as a nation and as individuals are also over our heads in debt.  Affluenza has led to an addiction to debt.

It’s a movie you can’t afford to miss.  Watch it here for free (albeit in low quality).   Share the link with your children,  your family and your friends.  Hopefully, it will make them think twice about spending money that they don’t have.    When it comes to credit,  it pays to be informed.

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Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ~Meryl Streep

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Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.
Bertrand Russell

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Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ~Meryl Streep

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I’ve seen numerous emails circulating about six-word biographies, especially after Wired Magazine held a contest inspired by Hemingway’s story:  “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” If you search the internet,  there are quite a few interesting 6-word financial stories, some of which could be the story of my own life.  =)

Here are some lives in money, in six words. 

*  Bought high, sold low, smacked forehead.
*  I save, he spends, we’re broke.
*  Must mend holes in my pockets.
*  Need to pay off credit card.
*  Spending my days hiding from responsibility.
*  ET phone home. Wire more money.
*  Born with a silver spoon: yum!
*  Do children really cost that much?
*  I came, I saw, I overspent
*  Doing my best to retire early.
*  Spurts of saving, blasts of decadence.
*  Got more sense than dollars, unfortunately.
*  Spent much, saved little. Oh well.

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Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ~Meryl Streep

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Ryan of In the Money is offering a free copy of his special report: 10 Mistakes Every Investor Makes and How to Avoid Them to all subscribers to his newletter.  Click on this link for more details.

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Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ~Meryl Streep

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