Shine With Grace

Don’t you give up easily?

So you have set this goal of exercising 3 days a week.  After getting up at 6 sharp in the first week,  you felt the inertia growing, you got up later and later and in the third week, you started to miss the schedule… 
Or, you finally started your own small business and the sales […]

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I was on the train.  The lady sitting next to me has been complaining to her friend over the phone about his husband for more than 15 mins, while I became a forced audience. 
If was pretty annoying - but this also led me think:  what you focus on, expands.
I don’t really know whether her husband […]

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I learnt the term Parkinson’s Law from Tim Ferriss’ The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich, who argued that applying the law,  i.e. “shortening work time to limit tasks to the important“, together with the 80/20 rule, i.e.  ‘limit tasks to the important to shorten work time”, in our daily […]

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When I was still working in the large corporation, I was puzzled and annoyed whenever we received a complaint letter pages long, signed by “the victim”.  Not kidding but out there are possibly more victims than we can imagine.  Some of their claims were found legitimate, but most didn’t.  And, no matter the claims are justified or […]

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No no no, wearing more lucky charms is not on our list here.  Nevertheless, it is worth noting that lucky people do approach life in some particular ways and therefore, you can enhance your luck by adopting their thinking patterns/practices. 

Indeed, we have far more control over events than we thought.  
~ Prof. Richard Wiseman
What I’m going to do is […]

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