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  • The pre-dawn hours

    It’s usually calm and quiet, allowing you to contemplate the things you want to pursue for the day, to dream. And in these peaceful hours, you can indulge in envisioning and designing your next steps to move forward in life. It depends on where you live, but at least where I live, this distraction-free moment… Read more


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  • Breaking free from a lazy day

    If you keep doing nothing but lounge and scroll throughout the day, don’t be surprised to find yourself doing the same thing until evening. Unless you want to break the cycle and do something that really matters, say, read a book that could help you gain more information for work and self-improvement, it would be… Read more


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  • Delegation requires trust

    If you are working on a schedule, you want to ensure that the people you delegate the tasks to can get the job done right and on time. So you delegate them to people you trust. Without trust, delegation becomes a source of frustration and disappointment. You may even end up micromanaging the delegated task… Read more


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  • Always wanting never getting

    We were taught that it’s free to dream. And we can dream about anything!  As you begin to imagine all the things you want to have and become, you always think about all the good things. Most of us really want a Level 10 life (a term I learned from The Miracle Morning), but not all of us… Read more


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  • Ghosting (workplace edition)

    Ghosting became a popular term around 2015, often used to describe a person who suddenly ends all communications without any notice. It’s been used around personal relationships and employment. Sometimes, it could happen in workplaces, too, especially with the work-from-home setup. I’d like to believe that the work-from-home setup works when there is mutual trust: the employee… Read more


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  • “Shifting capital away from investments that damage nature”

    While reading The Ministry for the Future, I’m convinced that the finance sector can help solve the climate crisis. It even reminded me about the ideas presented in the Climate Shock. The video in this blog post discussed why shifting away from investments that damage nature helps us achieve net zero and nature positive economy. And as… Read more


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  • Being resourceful at the workplace

    Working with people who always sound like they have given up thinking about solutions because saying “I can’t” is way easier are a pain to hear. And while access to tools plays a part in why other people are confident to work around problems and come up with solutions, resourcefulness also drives someone to cleverly… Read more


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