Productivity: Seeking Your Own Development

Filed under Productivity by on August 13, 2011 at 6:46 am {no comments}

It’s been some time since I had the chance to sit down and actively put my thoughts out there since I’d suddenly become swamped with work and studies. There are basically three things I learnt this week I’d like to focus on, and hopefully it will help you on your journey.

Procrastination Sucks.

If we earned a dollar for every minute of procrastination we experienced, we would be multimillionaires. I’m no exception. The issue comes when you’re pressured to get things done in the midst of so many additional things. On one hand, you know for a fact it’s good to do it. On the other hand, you give in to the temptation of lazing around.

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What’s Passion Really About?

Filed under Pursing Your Passion by on June 23, 2011 at 7:51 pm {no comments}

Some students recently asked me about whether I enjoyed my work.

I love my work!

As I thought about this, I started to wonder what made my work great and satisfying. After all, there are so many people I know who do not enjoy their work at all, or want to leave their jobs because it’s drab work or the culture/boss/colleagues of the organization weren’t as expected.

The world isn’t drab. It’s beautiful in many ways. The world becomes drab when we look through drab psychological lenses. I’m like an optometrist – I open up your psychological (in)sight so that you have the capacity to do more.

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Coaching For Balancing Life… And Even Personality

Filed under Balance, Personal Development, Self Help by on May 23, 2011 at 8:32 pm {no comments}

It’s amazing how much I can learn from my clients and people I meet with. The strangely familiar struggle with work is an ongoing theme in many of their lives, and the whole idea of ‘work-life balance’ is nothing but a myth. I think I know the reason why. Work-life balance is about our ability to switch from one mode to another. It’s about balancing almost anything. For instance, when I run personality profiles for people, they realize that they really need personal development because their profile report reveals more about where their blind spots are.

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Tired Easily? Here’s How To Re-Energize

Filed under Energy, Personal Development by on January 28, 2011 at 7:25 am {no comments}

Whether you’re a student or adult, I’m quite certain you might feel, like me, moments of tiredness that you can’t control especially when you have a tough week. It seems like during your regular meetings, you are just dozing off and lethargic.

I know how damaging this can be. In fact, I used to have a colleague who would fall asleep at meetings… with clients (key word being “used to”). You really need to know how to handle your energy levels. Here are a few things that determine your energy levels:

1. Sleep.

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Putting New Skills To Work

Filed under Achievement Mindset, Personal Development by on January 26, 2011 at 1:11 am {no comments}

It’s always amazed me that there are people who waste their time, even when learning something useful in school. As you may know, I run training programs for a very wide range of audiences, starting from as young as 9 years and as “young” as 76. The difference between those who actually apply their skills versus those who are in the “in one ear and out the other” mentality are very stark. In one group, there’s a lot of slacking. They don’t really take to heart anything that is mentioned by the teacher, trainer or instructor. They use everything as an excuse not to get started. It’s the cold airconditioning. It’s the bad weather. The teacher/instructor is boring. I don’t see any need for me to learn this. Blah blah blah, and the list goes on.

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Personal Development: Seeking Purpose

Filed under Goals, Life Purpose, Personal Development, Pursing Your Passion by on December 18, 2010 at 10:08 pm {no comments}

I often get curious about how people lead their lives. One thing that really gets me interested is the way they use Facebook (or other social networking tool) to get affirmation about what they do and even attention with respect to the decisions they make.

I think in recent months, especially since it has been rather dark, cloudy and wet in Singapore, and given the fact that it is coming to the close of 2010, I’ve discovered that more people are looking for a new challenge in 2011, or seeking some purpose in what they do. I suppose it’s part of the “let’s do our New Year’s Resolution” deal.

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Personal Development: Organizing The Tangled Strings Of Emotion

Filed under Depression, Negative Emotions, Psychotherapy & Counseling by on November 30, 2010 at 11:18 pm {no comments}

For the longest time, I’d been studying human behavior and psychology because of the fascination of how we think. It’s dynamic, infinite and always changing. When someone is upset, it’s hard to tell what kind of reaction we will get, simply because people are different. They respond differently to the same stimuli. Yet in all the literature I’ve studied about emotions, psychological management, one thing is clear: human beings are like tangled yarn.

Research about the brain suggests that when we experience an onset of emotion such as sadness, the brain begins to process that as a pattern of behavior from a neurological standpoint. It becomes easier for your brain to pass information to the neurons that make you experience sadness.

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Psychotherapy Education Singapore

Filed under Emotional Management, Psychotherapy & Counseling by on November 28, 2010 at 8:48 am {no comments}

Psychotherapy is one of the most misunderstood processes for the developed world. When someone says you need to go for psychotherapy, it is often saying that there’s something seriously wrong with you mentally and of course, it could be insulting for someone. There’s a lot of face saving involved in not going for psychotherapy. Instead, the person who is focused on such avoidance behavior probably has a lot of misconceived beliefs about what psychotherapy can do and cannot do for them.

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Personal Growth: Counseling And Therapy In Singapore

Filed under Personal Development, Psychotherapy & Counseling by on November 27, 2010 at 6:30 am {no comments}

The interesting thing about being involved in psychology is that we start learning more patterns when we meet more clients, and when new research comes up that tightens our understanding, it becomes so apparent what was the cause of our client’s discomfort. The ability to explain and solve a client’s emotional problem is tremendous.

counselling and therapy singapore

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Personal Development: Optimism and Flow

Filed under Emotional Management, How To Stop Procrastinating, Negative Emotions, Pursing Your Passion by on November 26, 2010 at 8:50 pm {no comments}

I’ve been fortunate to have started learning psychology during the times when it had been literally on a growth explosion. In 1995 during my first year of university, I was introduced to several key players who influenced my direction in learning about psychology. Among them, Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the two pillars of modern positive psychology.

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