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Always leave something for the one next in line

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several cities including in Seattle and Chicago.

Google said it spent more than $9 billion on similar expansions across the country last year.

Google did not give an exact number of employees it expects to hire as a result of the 2019 expansions, but said it would be “tens of thousands” of full-time workers. the availabili­ty of the product for Filipino consumers.

As a solution, most customers, when they travel to countries like Japan, would buy multiple boxes of the IQOS sticks. So one time, when JJ was in Japan, he went to a 711 store to buy multiple boxes of IQOS sticks. At that time, he saw that there were only

a while before he goes back, so he had to somehow buy as much as he could. Despite this fact, he still left one box, and only bought four.

“Mags, I left one box even if I needed it because I know how it

that that product I need is not available. Always leave something for the one next in line,” JJ explained.

“Just imagine how happy the next person would be when he sees This simple act of generosity and

because I know for a fact that this is also JJ’s mindset and practices in business. He always thinks about

for other people as well.

The Greater Good — I live by this concept everyday. What’s the win-win scenario for all the people involved? How far into the future

of our action today? Just imagine if everyone has this mindset, wouldn’t we have a better world? And wouldn’t the succeeding generation­s feel safer and more secure?

This gave me a realizatio­n that the way we are in life is an indication of how we do business and how we deal with people. Our attitude and morals dictate our actions. If you’ve seen the movie Bohemian Rhapsody, Freddie Mercury’s dad had a very powerful quote on this — “Good thoughts, good words, good deeds.” Our actions are results of what’s inside us. If we think of positive ideas, these come out as positive words, and later on, as positive actions.

Every action has an equal and

this principle back in college, almost a decade ago, in one of the coffee sessions I had with an old mentor, Rico Colayco.

If you show an act of kindness to someone, the expected reaction would be gratitude and love. On the other hand, if you show an act of aggression, the expected reaction would be of equal aggression and anxiety.

There’s a lot of things that we can’t control being a tiny speck of dust in the world, but one thing we can

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