Think about it
Do you want to get rich?
By Jun Velasco
“There is nothing as powerful as an idea whose time has come,” Victor Hugo
THIS, your, crusading paper, is a favorite reading fare of intellectuals.
Former Collegian editor Oscar Ferrer, a friend since pre-martial law era, wants to be included in the paper’s list of subscribers.
Oca and this columnist were recently “re-connected” by mutual friend, balikbayan Leo Palaganas who joined the Dagupan City National High School Alumni Homecoming and class 63’s Golden Jubilee celebration.
Oca came to our mind for another reason.
His son “renaissance man” Joel has just come out with a gem of a book with a catchy title, “Paano Yumaman” with sub-title “50 Pera Tips to Making and Saving Money.”
Joel’s co-author/cousin Eric Go Serate is an SGV & Co. consultant and BS Computer Science honor graduate at UP Los Banos. Their late lolo and then our fellow columnist at the defunct Courier, was national Methodist Bishop Cornelio Ferrer.
One day in l974, Bishop Ferrer gifted us with an inspiring Og Mardino’s book “The Greatest Salesman in the World.” That book has changed our life somehow.
Why should we read “Paano Yumaman?” First because we share the authors’ view that acquiring wealth is dependent on “creating the right mindset and attitude.” They say “success or failure totally depends on mindset and attitude.”
The book is now available at National Book Store, a book for busy people like us. You can read the 50 articles “in any order.” Your choice should fit your need.
No, the authors are not promising the sky, warning that “traveling along the road to wealth enhancement has its ups and downs…. full of dangers and temptations.”
Tip 1 “The Golden Rule in Wealth Building” is a most sensible primer, “Do unto others as you would like others to do unto you.”
Most of us, know even by gut feel that many well-known millionaires and billionaires are suspect for their short cut or shrewd methods. Yes, there’s that inner voice that whispers “paano ba yumaman ng ganyan kadali?
We smell some extraordinary hocus pocus no?
First lesson: “Would you like to own a successful business? Then, help others succeed in their own business! Would you like to have a fulfilling career? Then help your boss fulfill his business needs!”
The authors cite a parable which in l982 we shared to an audience at a Valentines Nite at the boundary of Mangatarem and Aguilar where the NPA and the military were fighting.
“People are seated on a long table with a lot of delicious foods…in both places the people could only eat food by making use of the long spoons that are attached to their arms.
In heaven, people are well-fed because they use their long spoons to serve the other people across them. In hell, however, the people are starving because they only use their spoons to feed themselves and, obviously, they are not successful in doing this.”
A win-win scenario, indeed.
The trouble with “Paano Yumaman” is that when you start reading it, you wouldn’t want to put down the book. Methinks, the sparkle of wisdom that shines in the pages must have been guided by an inspired editor. The book would want the reader to remember that after making it in the world of wealth, one should not forget people would say on his funeral.
We have come across that reminder in a Stephen Covey book.
The authors must have used a Tagalog title to avoid sounding like the stilted “how-to-become rich” stuff by English authors likes of Napoleon Hill, Dale Carnegie and others and probably to attract C and D readers who need the book more.
Paano Yumaman deserves respect and patronage by the rich and poor alike.
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NOTES: In 1992, we visited our grade and high school classmate Pacita Meneses-Arellano at John Hopkins Medical Center in Maryland where she worked as nurse. She celebrated her birthday at her Kuya Jaime Meneses’ idyllic home in Barangay Malued.
Her guests included Romy Tan and Claro Nova, president and vice president of Dagupan Association of Ontario, Canada, and former kabarangay Jess Paragas, brother of our beauteous classmate Violeta (still a Paragas thru the years!), who swears not missing the Punch every Sunday…
Welcome home Conrad and Tess Belesario who just arrived from Ontario the other day; they were our perfect hosts in 1992.
In the tourism fronts: our fellow ex-detainee Jones Campos, erstwhile Globe Philippines VP reports about a 100km ultra marathon covering Alaminos, Bani, Anda and Bolinao slated March 15-16. Jones, the organizer, says it is a PR and ecotourism project of Mayor Art Celeste and Board Member Rene Sison…… Le Duc Hotel, a 5-star 8-story Dagupan tourism come on, was venue of Macky Samson’s APSCU convention last January 16…..
All Dagupan fish pens are illegal and should be demolished, according to the Bantay Ilog task force. Mayor Belen Fernandez says, “OK!”
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