Family and Lifestyle Archives

Lifelong Resolutions

May 24, 2019January 25, 2018 by Jasmine Almira Buen

Some goals we cannot keep because of their lack of significance to be valued. These are the types of resolutions that are easy to let go the moment they feel inconvenient, irrelevant, and vexing. But before backing out of resolutions altogether, it is probably wise to change the type of goals we set for ourselves.

Taking On the Challenges of Change

May 24, 2019January 23, 2018 by Boris Joaquin

Pursuing your goals will require you to make several daily choices and adjust your lifestyle. Because of this, it will be good to be proactive about the daily discomforts of change. As they say, forewarned is forearmed!

Make Things Happen to Stay the Course

May 24, 2019January 18, 2018 by Michelle Joaquin

In pursuing any lasting change in our lives, we need to change our minds first. That is to exercise our self-discipline muscle throughout the year to make small things happen. We can choose to make things happen every day – rather than just let things happen to us – until we meet our bigger goals.

Money Habits to Develop this 2018

May 24, 2019January 16, 2018 by Dennis Dawal

Bad money habits consume much of our time and resources, and the only solution is to dispose of them. It’s time to say goodbye to these bad money habits and say hello to healthy practices that can help you achieve financial freedom.

Crawl before Walking, Walk before Running: Transitioning to a Healthy Lifestyle

May 24, 2019January 9, 2018 by Richelle Joson - Ligot

Transitions are an important part of growth and of each learning process the same way a baby learns to first sit, crawl, stand, and then walk. This new year, if you have decided to get healthier, give yourself a substantial amount of transition.

Live According to What is Most Important to You

May 23, 2019January 5, 2018 by Ron Jenson

Are you focusing on what is really important to you? Do you sense that your life is balanced? It’s easy to get off course here. To most, life may feel like juggling where balance is elusive and the balls are breakable. But there is way to keep the balls that matter most up in the air.

Setting Your Family Vision for 2018

May 23, 2019January 3, 2018 by Pauline Fermin

By now, companies would be ready to start the year, full of optimistic and growth-maximizing plans. Why not apply the same rigor and investment to families? Happy, loving and close families – what we all aspire to have – don’t happen automatically. We have to deliberately dedicate time, effort and brain power to building great families.

Happy ReNew Year

May 23, 2019December 28, 2017 by Ysobel Joaquin

In our minds, what was in 2017 stays with 2017; 2018 is different — a brand new start. A new year gives hope for change. Indeed, the new year can be a grace to us who can use new beginnings – if we seize the opportunity to make it a change marker for us. But how?

The “GOD Sign”

May 23, 2019December 20, 2017 by Cory Varela

The coming of the Messiah on earth through the virgin birth is perhaps the greatest miracle the natural world has ever known. But the greater miracle is reserved for the believer who experiences spiritual rebirth, because Jesus is now Immanuel in his life through the Holy Spirit.

Secrets to a Merry Christmas

May 23, 2019December 15, 2017 by Marie Antonio Bonifacio

Some secrets are too good not to share. For this reason, we are grateful to Mrs. Marie Bonifacio and CSM for allowing us to reprint this article. Originally titled “When It Doesn’t Feel Like Christmas”, this article first appeared in 2016 and was later published into a devotional book, Secrets My Father Told Me (CSM, 2017).