Tag: Work
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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.
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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.…
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“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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Things could pull you in many directions, each demanding worthy of your time. And to go through the seemingly mundane task of sorting what matters from clutter means that you have to say no to some. And I find that in cases when you do say no to things that are important but are not…