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Everyday Stories, Lived

Work

  • The traditional productivity equation vs. creating value

    These days, while mulling about creating value, I wondered if there’s really a point to doing something that nobody would take time to appreciate, value, and use. Morten T. Hansen, author of Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More, presented the traditional productivity equation this way: A person’s work Read more

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  • Paying for premium

    You can pay for an expensive service that doesn’t deliver as much as another service at a similar cost. And those who offer the premium services who take care to the next level (seeing you eye to eye as a human worthy of empathy) make the premium pay all worth it. Read more

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  • How planning my day ahead helped me achieve more

    Having the right tool for the right job could make all the difference. Yes, sticky notes helped me tick off boxes last year. But having a compact monthly+daily planner this year, which I could bring to work and anywhere I go, helps me keep track of my days and weeks and plan my months ahead. Read more

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  • Prioritization of resources

    “We all breathe the same dirty air everywhere.” That’s how Mr. Rene Pineda, Jr., President of the Partnership for Clean Air, began his speech during the Stakeholder’s Forum on Air Quality Monitoring. And the call for improving the air quality also includes other sectors such as energy, following the goal of reducing GHG emissions. What became a Read more

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  • Late-night musings #4

    Revisiting some short poems I wrote eight years ago makes me think about how much I changed. Some parts of me remained, but some I’ve learned to let go or perhaps suppress because they are not needed anymore. Yet, those same parts have helped me become who I am today and write the things I Read more

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  • The business people

    Over a short period of spending time with business people, I began to realize how different they organize and plan their days compared with employed professionals like me. Whereas we (the employees) think of 8-to-5 working hours every day as the only opportunity to make money (of course, except the freelancers who work on top Read more

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  • Building habits

    Have you ever thought about building habits this year? If yes, I just read from a journal article on the psychology of habit that you could create a set of habits as you pursue a goal. Given that everyday habits develop as people go about pursuing life goals, habit formation is closely intertwined with goal Read more

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