Shine With Grace

Just discovered a new book at the bookstore called “The Hard Truth About Soft Skill”, written by Peggy Klaus, Fortune 500 communication and leadership coach.  In the book, she pointed out that no matter how good you are performing, how professional you are, how knowledgeable you appear to be, it’s your soft skills that land […]

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Don’t you multi-task?
I do.  All the time.  Can’t help not to, while there are so many things on the to-do list waiting me to cross them out.
Does multi-tasking efficient?
Hm…
Sometimes.  Sometimes yes, sometimes, not quite.
Sometimes there is merits in multi-tasking - especially when there is idle time of one task.
Nevertheless, most of the time, multi-tasking slows […]

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Mentioned earlier here in Shine that I was going to give a speech in my high school on career development and the topic I came up with was “What I wish I knew at 16″.
And, today is the day - just delivered the speech this morning to some 500 students of 16-19 years old.  The […]

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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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Just read the article Cultivating Burning Desire by Steve Pavlina, in which he started by asking the following questions:
How committed are you to achieving these goals? Under what conditions would you give up? What if you could significantly increase your desire to achieve these goals? What if you wanted them so badly that you knew […]

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