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How to use ChatGPT to create a PowerPoint Presentation in 5 minutes

  • Go to ChatGPT and prompt: I want you to write me VBA code for a PowerPoint presentation of 5 horror stories with MLM (Multi Level Marketing). You are to fill in the text with your own knowledge, no placeholders. 5-8 slides is fine.
  • Copy the code
  • Open a blank PPT file
  • Use Alt + f11 to open Visual Basic Editor and paste the code as a new Module. Then close the editor without saving or anything.
  • Go to PowerPoint and select View > Macros. The macro you just created will be there. Run it.

Nas Daily script sample breakdown

Wanna have scripts of 1 minute like the successful vlogger Nas Daily? We got you covered! Here is the breakdown…

  1. Hook/Intro (0-5 seconds): Nas typically starts his videos with a strong hook or attention-grabbing statement or question. This is designed to immediately capture the viewer’s interest.
  2. Narration (5-50 seconds): In the next part of the video, Nas provides narration and context for the topic he’s discussing. He often uses a conversational and personal tone, speaking directly to the camera. He’s known for sharing personal anecdotes or experiences related to the topic.
  3. Visuals (10-50 seconds): While Nas narrates, the video is accompanied by relevant visuals. These visuals include clips of people, places, and events related to the topic. Nas often incorporates drone shots, time-lapse footage, and on-the-ground video to make the content visually engaging.
  4. Transition (usually around 45 seconds): Nas typically uses a transition point around 45 seconds into the video. This transition often involves a change in location, perspective, or visual style to keep viewers engaged.
  5. Key Takeaway (45-55 seconds): Towards the end of the video, Nas presents the key takeaway or message related to the topic. This is often a concise and impactful statement that ties the video together.
  6. Call to Action (55-60 seconds): In the last few seconds of the video, Nas might include a call to action. This could encourage viewers to share the video, comment with their thoughts, or take some action related to the topic.
  7. Closing (end of video): The video typically ends with a signature closing, such as Nas saying his catchphrase “That’s one minute, see you tomorrow!”

Time now for you to get busy and CREATE!

Measure your wealth Globally

How much do you need to play at the Top of the World?

According to Net Worth

  • 1% have 1M USD in Net Worth
  • 10% have 100k USD Net Worth
  • 50% have 4k USD Net Worth

According to Income

  • 1% earn yearly 34k USD and above

So it is easy to be a top 1% income earner globally and a little more difficult to be a 1% Net Worth person globally.

As you know I am obsessed with being part of that club and shall not stop until achieving it!

4 Questions Before Bringing a New Product to Market

  1. Is it practical and does it fit a vital human need?
  2. Can it be done beautifully?
  3. Can it be different enough to stand out from all competition?
  4. Is it even a little better than all that is available on the market?

If you can answer YES to all these questions, then you might have a real good business idea on your hands.

Get started and worry about permits and other issues later. There is no perfect moment or situation to get started. Guess what? Problems will come up anyway.

Test and learn from your mistakes from where you are. Giant biz now started really small out of passion and obsession of their creators.

1st death Anniv. of director Baby Barredo

My Tita Baby was very tough, and she meant good by it.

Founder of Repertory Philippines, the number 1 English theater company in the country. Home of so many stars for national and international productions. They all learned tons from her.

I am an actor because I used to watch her plays and rehearsals since I was a kid. And I made a living out of it since 1998. So thank you Tita Baby!

When I moved to the Philippines I lived with her, I joined her theater company and did my first musical here: Seussical. Started to learn the local dynamics and hardships. As she said it is 99% perspiration and only 1% inspiration.

Whenever she was sick in the hospital I was always by her side. Including her last breath even if it was forbidden to be in the emergency room or visit during lockdown times. That is how much I loved her.

She gave me hell during the only play she directed me in haha. That was Guadalupe the musical. She would shout and insult me during rehearsals. After I would help her get in the car and we would go for dinner as a family.

She usually gave hell especially to blood-related actors in order to show she wouldn’t favor us, plus coz she wanted to make us better actors. It was very very tough if you ask me. I wanted to quit.

The Barredo’s are known for being hot-tempered and passionate artists. That is why even if I suffered it I also understood it.

Guess what? I kept on working on my character daily and did the best performance of my life. So much so that among other plays I got nominated as Performer of the Decade in the Philippines by Broadway World alongside big-time superstars.

So I closed my ears and mind to what other 10 people were telling me to do with my character during her absence (actors, production, dancers), and I kept on working on the path I started during her rehearsals. It paid off.

I came to the Philippines and I am an actor because of you. Joined dozens of movies and stage plays since then. Achieved so much more than in my wildest dreams as an actor. Thank you!

I wish your legacy continues and you wanted: to spread theater and help actors make a living out of it.

Baby steps to being a Rich Filipino

I see too many people suffering from poverty in my beloved Philippines

Step 1 – Get out of Debt

This is most important because it gives mental freedom and stops the bucket from losing water. If you have a bucket with holes, sayang your work is going to cover those wholes (AKA interest of Debt).

This step is aggressive! Start with the smallest debt and live tipid na tipidan talaga. All your extra money to kill smallest debt, then next smallest hangan tapusan.

Step 2 – Deposit your daily money in a high yield savings account

Gsavings at Gcash (My Piggy Bank) or ING Bank.

Ingat, hindi G-Invest eto ha! Iba yon.

From these accounts easy to pay bills, plus free transactions, plus free check deposits, plus you save time going to the bank, plus… MAY FREE CASH MONTHLY

Every month they deposit interest back into your account, yes, every month! Many times bigger than normal banks in the Philippines. Try it!

Step 3 – Invest every month a minimum of 10% of your income in dividend stocks

You cannot help the poor by being one of them. Get rich, tapos help the poor after.

Get strong, then you can pull people up.

No paying for the tuition of your siblings or the retirement of your parents if you are not financially free yet.

What is Financially Free? That you can stop working and all bills and food come from your investments na.

This is not TRADING. This is BUYING and NEVER SELLING. Collect dividends forever. Buy and Hold strategy.

How to buy stocks with BPI

35php invested every day in dividend stocks makes you retire with 4-5 Million PHP after 40 years.

All these steps take effort and saying NO to traditions, relatives, parties, and gifts. Hard, I know! If it was easy everybody would be rich.

Testimonials for Story Telling Seminar

The Facilitator delivered this session effectively: 5 out of 5

What participants said:

• Energetic and fun

• Enthusiasm and audience engagement was Kuya’s shining strength; overall an extremely enticing presenter to have onboard.

• He is funny in a good way. I like how he encourages us to speak Filipino if it will make us comfortable. He keeps saying that there’s no right/wrong answer, I also like that from him.

• I was a bit nervous to be part of this training but Kuya made me less nervous. He was very energetic and made sure all of the participants are engaging. Also liked the fact that he gives detailed feedback on what can we improve on how we deliver a speech or story. Thanks, Kuya.

• He is a great faculty and he attracts the attendees with his super energetic presence.

• I find his presentations very natural and he is a funny guy, he speaks with emotions and a lot of anecdotes

• Keeps the session very alive and engaging. I think he is a very good addition to the facilitators because he compliments everybody. Plus points on his professional background and being a foreigner + Filipino with “puso”

• He always encourages participants to apply all the tips and tricks, especially putting puso on it. He brings so much energy to the team!

• He is very energetic and includes “puso” in giving your story. He really encourages us to improve and practice well in delivering our story.

• Kuya is a “little” pushy but in a good way because he knows you can still improve and get out of the “shell”.

• Very fun and engaging presenter. I really admire his energy and mood because it is hard to be like that, especially in the morning.

• He is energetic and has no dull moments if he’s speaking. I wish I would also overcome my shyness as he does.

Cheapest safe ways to send money from the Philippines to Spain

Sadly it is still pretty expensive to do this process. So here are the options I know of and have tried and compared at some point a few of them.

The goal is to transfer Philippine Pesos into Euros in a Spanish bank account. Will set an example wanting 1000 euros to arrive at the destination. Except for BPI where I sent 500 euros.

Transferwise

Also known as Wise now. Owned I believe by Richard Branson, the creator of Virgin Enterprises.

Inside their web, there are 3 options to send money. But the only practical from the Philippines so far is to have them charge your debit or credit card. The other options are for sending from Europe to Europe or other countries.

The basic fee will be 31.42 euros for card charges. They charge your card in the Philippines and deposit it in your Spanish bank.

Case study 1: Transferred 1000 Euro using RCBC credit card cost me 85 euro between RCBC + Exchange + Transferwise. An 8.5% cost is expensive.

Case study 2: Transferred 1500 Euro using BPI credit card cost me 43 Euro between BPI + Exchange + Transferwise. A 2.86% cost seems more reasonable.

Paypal

If you have your Philippine Paypal account connected with your bank account or credit card, you can transfer money to your Spanish Paypal account. You need 2 Paypal accounts for this, one in each country.

They have a conversion rate fee embedded when you input the amounts to send.

43.58 euros added after the currency conversion takes place.

Western Union

Can send from a branch in the Philippines to a branch in Spain. Someone has to be in Spain to pick it up from the branch. It won’t go directly into your bank account.

62.73 euros in fees approx.

Bank International Wire Transfer

Sending directly from your Filipino bank an international money transfer to your Spanish bank.

Checking the BPI web page it says 600php + 0.60php every 200php. So more or less 900php only according to this. What it doesn’t mention is the charges that the receiving bank may do, which may vary depending on the receiving bank.

I tried it just to figure things out by sending 500 euros to Spain and it cost me around 2800php in total with fees of both banks, like 10% of my sent money. Totally too much. Prohibitive. Around 50 euros.

Conclussion

The winner by the mile is Transferwise.

The other advantage of Transferwise is that it can charge a credit card.

LTO permit yearly renewal for motorcycles in the Philippines

I will detail here the process I went through recently so it can serve as a guide for others.

Step 1: Smoke emission test.

  • Walk in the closest to your home smoke

emission center with a photocopy of your OR / CR, and ask them to place you in the cue.

  • Wait to be called. They will check the smoke levels and take a picture.
  • Pay aprox. 500php and get your certification that you passed the smoke emission test.
  • This process can take hours.

Step 2: LTO office.

  • Go to whatever LTO is nearest to your house. Bring photocopy of OR / CR and Smoke emission from previous step.
  • Get the mandatory 3rd party insurance. Normally they sell those even inside the same LTO compund.
  • Beware of beggars and sellers pushing you to do the insurance and smoke emission in other places. They could be legit or not. So why take a risk with unofficial sources.
  • With all docs line up for renewal processing. Cost of both insurance and renewal aprox. 1200php.
  • Wait and wait.

Total spending like 2k if you give some tips. Time spent can be like a full day almost that you have to ask away from your job to do the processing.

How to transfer ownership repossessed 2nd hand motorcycle in the philippines

Quite a complicated process with several steps, so I created this post to help you navigate it.

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I bought a 2nd hand repossessed motorcycle from Motorstar. They delivered with an open deed of sale and a certificate of purchase. Papers under the name of old owner. This is common practice.

So your job now is to transfer it into your name. Many people don’t do it immediately because it costs money. Also, some wait for next year so registration renewal is at the same time as name transfer.

NOTE: if you wait too long, the ID of the seller might expire and you will have a problem at the LTO.

Step 1: Closed Deed of Sale.

An open deed of sale is an illegal document in the Philippines to start with. No lawyer or notary will sign or advice you to buy anything with an open deed of sale.

A deed of sale is a contract between buyer and seller. While an open deed of sale only features the seller. So it lacks the other part. It is not a contract at all.

So you close the deed of sale by filling up your buyer details. Together with that document and the IDs and signatures of the seller photocopied you go to a notary to have it notarized. Cost: around 300php for me.

Step 2: Police Clearance of the Vehicle.

You need to bring Deed of Sale, OR / CR to the Highway Patrol office of Police near you.

Request for Police clearance check of the vehicle.

They will give you a form to pay at the bank for their service. Cost: 500php for me.

FUNNY NOTE: police was video-chatting with his son and would not even look at me or pay attention to my needs much.

Step 3: Pay at the Bank

At Pasig they don’t allow online payments and you can’t go to any bank. It was yes or yes at Landbank.

This can take 2 hours of your day under the sun and possible rain since line is long. Wish they modernize the system and can pay online.

TIP: get your grandparents to do it as seniors can skip the line haha.

Step 4: Deliver Proof of Payment to the Police

Go back to the police headquarters. Hope they are not playing with their phone. And give the proof of payment.

Then they will instruct you where to get a stencil of your vehicle and meet you there.

Step 5: Stencil and Picture Taking

At the stencil venue, a technician will take the motor number and chassis number.

Also you will take a picture with the vehicle and a police officer as proof it was done.

They will be the ones to take the pic with their camera. They will give you the stencil results so you can give it to the police.

Step 6: Bring Stencil to Police

Bring your results to Highway Patrol and they will conduct an investigation. Results will take several days, like 3 days.

Step 7: Pickup Results of Police Clearance

If there was no delinquency found, you will obtain your clearance on the date they told you to return.

Step 8: Smoke Emission Test

Head to the smoke emission test center and get an approved smoke emission test.

Cost I forgot, a few hundred pesos. Say 500php with tips.

Step 9: Insurance

Get 3rd party liability insurance at least from wherever you prefer.

Cost for me: 900php.

Step 10: LTO registration

Bring photocopy and original of all the documents:
– Your ID
– Seller ID and signatures, photocopy
– OR
– CR
– Police clearance of the vehicle
– Smoke emission results
– Deed of sale: notarized
– Insurance

Request of a change of ownership and registration renewal. Will take a few hours of your day.

Cost I forgot. Around 1k probably.

Congrats, the bike is officially yours and now you can sell it and won't be bugged that much by police controls next time they stop you! :-)