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Last week, Filipino boxing legend Sen. Manny Pacquiao proved to the whole world once again that self-discipline, hard work, and perseverance could lead to success.

As parents, we always strive for balance in our lives. Many of us free up our weekends for activities we want to do outside work.

I’ve been working with data. Data set for most of my working life. Nothing is more difficult in this field than dealing with similar data coming from different sources managed over time by many different people.

“Roar” by Katy Perry was the piano piece that my then six-year-old daughter practiced for her recital. On recital day, she was begging me and her mom that we skip the recital altogether. Until now, I still feel the anguish she had that day. I still hear her cries for understanding. I still see the fear on her face. She was fearful of performing in front of people. She was afraid of failure. She was frightened of making a fool out of herself.

Dear 20-year-old self, Congratulations!

In less than a year’s time, my eldest child will turn 10. She is presumably part of the post-millennial generation called Generation Z.

As a parent and as a partner at P&A Grant Thornton, quitting is a topic that I always find slippery.

As much as we hate and avoid pain, it pushes us to innovate. When things aren’t going our way and we, or our loved ones, are hurt by circumstances, we are forced to explore new ways of addressing our situation. Thus, there will be a point in life when our accumulated frustration or anguish builds up to a climax of change, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. But whatever is the ultimate outcome of that sudden change, we will remember it as the defining moment of our life one way or another.