Work

After sustaining work without rest, it pays a lot to pause. Because learning how to stand still, even for a time, allows your mind to wander and dream again. And once you snapped out of it and back to working again, you’d feel refreshed and ready for the next task. Read more

The hotel lobby looked spacious and dreamy but hauntingly empty. Shouldn’t someone greet incoming guests, caring enough to ask how they could help? But no. There was no one in sight, and we wondered, “Who should we go to and inquire about our point of business?” After a couple of impatient minutes, there was a… Read more

How to bore listeners during your presentation? Put in words in your slide deck and lots of it. And while you are speaking to the audience, talk as if they are as familiar with the text as you are. And that they could follow through with every idea you’re so excited to share with them.… Read more

Without a list, it’s challenging to keep track of the things you’ve never yet started, the ones still in progress, and those already done. And if you have a colleague who over-commits but never writes them down, you should never get shocked if they can only do some and forget about the rest. Because if… Read more

Getting an additional workload from a fixed-salary job often feels too much. But we never mind putting additional hours into the hourly jobs we specifically enrolled in. No one asked us to do more; we just did. Because receiving an instant reward (often in cash directly sent to your account) for every project you finish… Read more

It feels exhausting when you don’t have any control over what happens with your time at work. I can remember being employed in an eight-to-five job, ticking boxes, and trying to look for other things to do when I’ve already finished the tasks for the day. The sad thing is we were not given much… Read more