Octoberfest for Investors in Doha

Just completed examination for the Associate Financial Planning Course (AFPDoha) for OFWs held at Philippine School of Doha in Madinat Khalifa yesterday.  The exam was the final piece of event in the recently concluded 2-day training program within the scheduled weeklong Octoberfest for pinoy investors here in Qatar.  

The training which began on the 4^th and 5^th of October for AFP, along with two other information-packed talks: Estate Planning 101 and Stock Smarts held on October the 2nd was organized by the thoughtful men and women of the Overseas Filipino Investors and Entrepreneurs Movement (OFIE-M), whom invited powerhouse guest speakers: Mr. No Non-Sense himself, Randell Tiongson, RFP (author, No Non-Sense Personal Finance), and Mr. Stock Smarts, Marvin Germo, RFP (author, Stock Smarts, Stock Investing Made Easy), two of the most recognizable leaders and coaches in personal finance and investing in the Philippines today.

Feedback from attendees, my savvy self included, was fairly excellent and is highly recommended for all overseas Filipinos here in Qatar. Organizers have been buzzing about this year’s AFP class to be the first ever batch of AFPs, which meant that plans for future batches may already be in the drawing board along with similar series of talks next year.

I personally missed one talk entitled Money By the Book, a Biblical Finance talk by one of the speakers. I was lucky there’s a youtube upload made available by one of the attendees for public viewing.  I don’t own this video and may be taken down anytime by account holder. 

It’s always always a pleasure to hear stuff like these as it not only gets you around like-minded people consciously taking charge of their future, not only that it gets the mind in that supportive environment that don’t need to be convinced about those great great possibilities, but it also provides the required continuous immersion in practical concepts not taught in formal education we gotten from schools.

As we’ve been reminded in one of Randell Tiongson’s topics in the AFP course, personal finance is largely behavior-based.  Our behavior towards resources as well as opportunities is influenced by years and years of cultural conditioning, our backgrounds, our environment, etc.  This conditioning shaped the way we feel and act on certain things, and automatically filtering out anything unsupportive of its own expectations.

Yet as we continue learning and expanding awareness around these subjects, and consciously building on competencies around managing resources and investing, may we not only gain even greater results and abundance in our personal lives but as well somehow become meaningful channels of abundance and wellness to others.