Personal Development – Japan And Resilience

Filed under Reflections by on March 29, 2011 at 6:55 pm {no comments}

Most of the time, I don’t really bother with the news, except business news. Occasionally, some interesting articles catch my attention and I read in greater detail. The recent earthquake, tsunami and nuclear power plant meltdown in Japan was something that caught many people’s attention, and of course, I believe warrants a reflection.

What do you think people might do in a situation where multiple bad things happen to them? Unfortunately, when you least expect it, you will have to deal with bad things happening all at the same time. This is as true for nations as it is for companies and individuals.

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Principles Of Personal Transformation: The Paradox Of Life

Filed under How To Stop Procrastinating, Personal Development, Psychotherapy & Counseling, Reflections, Uncategorized by on October 25, 2010 at 9:04 am {no comments}

Perhaps you are one of many millions of people all around the world who want to achieve personal success. Perhaps, you are someone who has set goals and set your mind to achieve these goals. Maybe, you have even been successful. At least for a while. The irony of the pursuit of success is that it begins to feed people in different ways. Some people are fed the success of wealth. Others, the success of love. And still others, the success of wisdom. Whatever the case, the Paradox Principle is what drives ultimate success in the world. Our job is to be able to accept the Paradoxes that occur in our lives, and be able to flexibly maneuver through these apparent obstacles to manage our successes.

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My 450+ Birthday Greetings

Filed under Announcements, Reflections by on October 23, 2010 at 11:27 pm {no comments}

I was a little taken aback when I went on Facebook and found myself with over 450 birthday greetings. I didn’t expect it, and I suppose it is due to the people whom I have known over this time.

I think it is an interesting reflection about the way we lead our lives. What we chase after with the wrong foundations, we often don’t get. What we don’t chase after we often get, but fail for be grateful for. So, for those of you who remembered me on my birthday, thank you and I am grateful for your presence in my life. :)

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Princeton Commencement Address 2010: Jeff Bezos

Filed under Achievement Mindset, Balance, Building Virtues, Business, Personal Development, Reflections by on September 12, 2010 at 3:10 pm {3 comments}

I thought I’d just share this with you guys. It’s from the Princeton site, and I guess part of this resonates with me. What is our manner in life – to be wealthy and nasty… or wealthy and kind? It really does make a difference, and simple advice comes at a good time for those of us in the cut-throat world of business.

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Personal Development: Generation Gaps or Experience Gaps?

Filed under Awareness, Blaming, Communication, Generation Gap, Personal Development, Reflections by on August 15, 2010 at 8:55 pm {5 comments}

I’m certain you’ve heard of the concept of a ‘generation gap’. In fact, this gap happens in many other places too. Racial gap, religious gap, cultural gap… the list can go on.

What exactly is this “gap”?

I was listening to the radio today and they were discussing the case of the 14 year old teenager in school who had beaten up her teacher. The main topic was, whose responsibility it was. It was quite funny because the first caller dialed in to blame the Minister for Education. The most of the rest contributed points that were borderline illogical (“I blame the teachers because they have no dress code themselves”).

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Personal Development Singapore: Generation Gaps

Filed under Awareness, Personal Development, Reflections by on June 2, 2010 at 6:07 am {no comments}

It never fails to strike me as how one-sided many people are in relating to one another.

Generation Gap
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I often like to tell the story of how one day I was in a cab driving down the Central Expressway (CTE). The driver was so engrossed in talking to me about the bad traffic situation in Singapore that he made this claim: “All women are bad drivers. They cause all accidents.” No sooner had he mentioned this, there was an accident up ahead that involved a woman.

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Personal Development Singapore: How To Stop Procrastination #3 – vicious cycles

Filed under How To Stop Procrastinating, Personal Development, Reflections by on January 17, 2010 at 12:55 am {no comments}

It’s quite intriguing to pick up on this topic after an absence of a couple of weeks.  Someone dropped me a message and said that the content that I had mentioned in a previous  procrastination post had too much common sense and the reader demanded that I put up information that doesn’t contain such motherhood statements.

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Turn Your Goals Into An Obsession

Filed under Goals, Personal Development, Reflections by on December 8, 2009 at 5:40 am {2 comments}

This year I’ve been on a number of different trips out of the country, most of them for work purposes. While I seldom go to different places for the purpose of looking at things or ‘vacationing’, I do enjoy the getaway in a foreign place once in a while just to chill.

For some people, though, this vacationing is like an obsession. It’s planned several times a year and given deadlines as though there were a profit margin to be earned from it. It must mean that they will end up “musting” their desires into reality.

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Personal Development Singapore: Lonliness Disease?

Filed under Confidence, Personal Development, Reflections by on December 2, 2009 at 8:46 pm {no comments}

I just read this while waiting at the airport for my flight to Jakarta:

“Participants are 52 per cent more likely to be lonely if a person to whom they are directly connected (at one degree of separation) is lonely,” the authors write.

At two degrees of separation, they were 25 per cent more likely to feel lonely. At three degrees it was 15 per cent and at four degrees the effect disappeared. This pattern – what the authors term the “three degrees of influence rule of social contagion” – also appeared in the obesity, smoking and happiness studies.

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Personal Development: Success

Filed under Personal Development, Reflections by on November 23, 2009 at 6:24 pm {one comment}

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