

So they used that time to reconnect with each other and their kids by going to church, eating lugaw and siopao at Ongpin, snacking on fruits, candy and tsampoy. Being busy with work, Nanay Coring and her husband Jose only had Sundays free. Throughout the book, she constantly reminds her children and the reader to work hard but to not forget your husband and children. So even when she became massively successful, her values remained the same: Don't forget where you came from, and take care of your family. Nanay Coring was from her father's second family. Be known as a good person, not a rich person.Īside from those life lessons, I picked up 7 other tips from Nanay Coring.


If you work hard, nothing is impossible.ĩ. The more time you spend at the store, the more you know.Ħ. (You'll have to read the book to understand this advice.)ĥ. Here are Nanay Coring's advice and life lessons:Ģ. Every chapter in this book tells the story of Mrs Ramos, lovingly called Nanay Coring-from her impoverished childhood, her whirlwind and enduring romance with her husband, and how she lived through the great war to how she built her business again and again and still remains to this day the massive force behind the country's biggest book store and stationery supplies chain.Įach title of the 14 chapters highlights what the Ramos matriarch wants us to learn from her life.
