Breaking the Cycle of Poverty

Most people know how to make money. Even the poorest of the poor know how to make money. However, Making more money and growing it requires skills, disciplines, and financial intelligence. This book is all about it; how to have the right mindset, the right attitude, and the right financial knowledge and using them to developing financial intelligence, which is the only way to breaking the cycle of poverty.
​Breaking the Cycle of Poverty is about the author’s life story how he climbed-up to the top of the corporate ladder from being an ordinary employee. The author, due to hardship in life decided to quit college and seek education outside the confines of school. It turned, out the author discovered, that seeking education outside of school is the best and fastest way to educate oneself financially and many other aspects of life that would give one an advantage.
​The author came from a long line of farmer family. His father was the first to obtain diploma in the family. Even though his father became a professional public school teacher, poverty never left the family. At a very young age, the author learned the value of hardwork not as a choice but as necessity. He is grateful that he had to pass through those hardships which helped develop his strong determination to get out of poverty.
​The author’s grandparents initiated the quest of the family to break the cycle of poverty. They thought that education is the great equalizer in life that will give their children the fare chance to prosper in life, but completely breaking the chain of poverty requires more than academic education and diploma. By studying the life of many successful people, the author discovered that it is not actually academic education or diploma that makes people wealthy. It’s ​financial education that can lead to financial intelligence that will make a person wealthy. He used this new knowledge to further his status both in his career and in business. He is the first in the family to finally break the chain of poverty. Currently, the author is working as Senior Executive Vice President in a property management company in Thailand while his wife is running their consultancy business at home in the Philippines. The author recently started Summer Publishing House as the publisher of this book right in his backyard in the Philippines.
The author, along with this book, has started a foundation “Break the Cycle of Poverty Philippines Foundation Inc.” to provide basic business education, manage-to-own business, and mentoring to deserving poor Filipino families. The proceeds of this book will initially fund the said foundation. By buying this great book, you not only learn the secrets to prosperity, but help relieve poverty of many selected deserving poor families in the Philippines.​