Anaïs Nin may have thought a thousand thoughts when she uttered these gorgeous words: “The day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” To me, she meant having the courage to know yourself well and to live life being exactly who you [...]
personality
Living your whole life in cold or hot climates does NOT necessarily make you immune to those extreme temperatures! Seriously, how many times have you heard: “Well, you should be used to the cold, you live in [insert cold city!]!” “Oh but you ought to be able to handle the humidity, living in [insert humid [...]
I did not imagine Blogworld Expo would have this profound effect on me. I was entirely too unprepared for it! This gathering made this powerful yet virtual community come alive in ways that surpassed the best of my expectations. I am simply dumbfounded from it all! I put faces to names (and Twitter IDs!), voices [...]
I was not going to leave Singapore until I had met my blogger friend and the queen of personal excellence herself, Celestine Chua but between us, I was simply delighted that successful and busy as she is, she generously made time to meet with me – the little blogger from North America! – for lunch! [...]
Learning is exhilarating. Learning is rewarding. Learning is the best path to discovering who we are. We do not realize this until much later in life and often when we are conveniently out of school and have placed ourselves inconveniently in a rat race for survival but thanks to Google and technology, we can learn [...]
What do you wish you knew when you were younger? A dear blogger friend asked me to write my thoughts about this in a post and at first I thought, thanks but I’ll get to it when I can. Then I started reading the collection of bittersweet thoughts and sentiments from a few brave souls [...]
Oh what an exhausting year 2007 has been for me. A mentally draining and highly unsatisfying year in my career. What to do to turn things around? My best productivity shows in the form of books I read cover to cover, and the thousands of miles I fly each month to expand my social network. I [...]
I still remember the short and fidgety instructor we had that day. He was there to teach the 1-day course for discovering your strengths, based on philosophies and ideas on Buckingham and Clifton’s book, “Now, Discover Your Strengths“. I went to the very front and took my seat. If I am here, I want to [...]
