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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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: 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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Personal Growth: Developing Fighting Spirit

Filed under Confidence, Emotional Management, Goals, Personal Development, Pursing Your Passion by on November 20, 2010 at 10:43 pm {no comments}

“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
~ General Dwight Eisenhower

I was quite taken by this quote, as you might tell. I’m not the biggest dog in any fight. Heck, if there were a fight, I’d be somewhere else. In my earlier days, confidence was a central issue in my life. I wasn’t willing or able to interact and make friends, so I spent most of my childhood alone. It wasn’t until several years later that I found that almost everything we do can be a fight – as long as we are willing to be a part of it.

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Personal Development: You And Your Partners

Filed under Achievement Mindset, Awareness, Blaming, Business, Communication, Emotional Management, Failure, Leadership, Learning, Negative Emotions, Personal Development, Pursing Your Passion, Relationship by on November 16, 2010 at 8:42 pm {no comments}

In a recent training on Creating Customer Intimacy, I tabled the idea that all the communication tactics in the world would never enhance your ability to have customer intimacy. Most of us live in a world where we think we have no customers. But as long as you have to work with at least one human being in the world, that person is considered a ‘customer’. It could be a team member, your family, a boss, a friend. At the end of it all, we have to be very clear that in order for customers to want us, we need to make a special change to the way we do things.

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Personal Transformation Tips: Pursue What You Love

Filed under Balance, Building Virtues, Combating Vices, Decision Making, Life Purpose, Personal Development, Pursing Your Passion by on November 1, 2010 at 2:34 pm {no comments}

I just saw this tip being posted on the Harvard Business Review site and I thought “what the heck”. This topic has been mentioned so many times, it still bugs me how many people still haven’t figured out what they are passionate about.

Some people totally get this wrong. I mean, you might be a spiritual expert or something, but just because you love what you do does not mean others can see or appreciate why you are doing it. This is one of the reasons why there are so many people who are doing meaningful things but aren’t being recognized for it.

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