The Decisive Life Avic Caparas

There are countless tough challenges in moving to a new country. One has to overcome hurdles including learning a difficulty language. Dr. Jennifer Castaneda has been living in Poland for 27 years. She moves to her new country to help out in a center of formation in Poland, studied in a medical program in Polish and currently specializes in clinical genetics and bioethics.She gives these advices to overcoming hurdles in moving to a new country:1. Be very open to the differences in mentalities without putting too much attention to these differences.2. Look for the aspects which unite like the universal values we share with people of difference cultures. You could even learn from them.3. Keep your own culture and traditions. Do not compare. As you are learning from other cultures, you are also enriching them with your own ways of thinking.

Get insights to what it really means to render a good work, to work really hard, and balance work & life from Dexter Yu Galan. Dexter is a Filipino investment banker who has been working in New York for 7 years. He is an MBA 2016 graduate from the Kellogg School of Management. His tips for working hard include:1. Focus on what your goals are.2. Learn the best you can.3. Do a good job in whatever task you have in front of you.4. Find a bigger meaning in what you are doing.

If you have only a couple of months to go before a professional licensure examination, what would you do? How would you cope with the increasing pressure. Architect Elise Francisco-Tabong landed in the Top 3 of the 2014 board exam for architects, and top 6 for the master plumber's licensure examination. She gives these 4 breakthrough tips:1. Know yourself. Focus on the subjects you're not good at.2. Learn how to stop, revise your study schedule and focus on other subjects.3. Do not limit yourself using the review materials of past exams. Give time to materials that would interest you later when you practice your profession.4. Do not be discouraged. It's not going to help you.

Learn success tips from Leslie Anne Huang who graduated with cum laude honors from the University of the Philippines in Diliman and landed in the Top 6 of the 2010 Philippine CPA licensure examination. In 2019, Leslie was one of the 137 Elijah Watt Sells awardees after obtaining a cumulative average score above 95.50 across all four sections of the US Uniform CPA Examination.

Sadness is a normal emotion in life. Who in the world does not get sad at all? But sometimes, we can be sadder than other times and it can be difficult to manage.

A recent surge of sadness among the BTS army came up when BTS announced a supposed hiatus a couple of months back. Our guest, Dr. Joanne Robles, is a neurologist and also a BTS army. She will share her experience in getting through the sadness as regards the BTS plans.Her tips include: 1. Keep busy. 2. Know more the kind of person that you are. 3. Accept that the only thing you can do about any particular situation no matter how difficult it is is to control how you react. 4. Seek help from a medical specialist when you sense that you no longer have a normal reaction to a stressor. 5. Find a release or a medium of expression to your emotions, like a hobby, painting, music, etc. 

Truthfulness may seem to be on the decline when you keep track of daily lies that are discovered in politics, recruitment, social media, schools, etc. Reasons are aplenty for why people don't speak the truth. These are good starting points to understand the triggers for past human action in order to learn from them moving forward.

Germany's holocaust education is a powerful case study for courageously counteracting denial and distortion of truth. Our guest, German embassy (in Manila) head of mission Laura Oexle, will talk about the beginnings and learnings from the holocaust education. As a parent, she will also share her strategies and tips to educating her children in truthfulness.