Shine With Grace

Don’t you call yourself names?  “A small potato”? “A jerk”?  Please quit the habit for you are what you think you are. 
A lesson learnt from The Apprentice
You go around calling yourself “white trash”? You think I would hire somebody who call himself “white trash”?
You are fired.  And, you should stop using that expression.
~ Donald Trump
Apprentice participant Derek […]

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The performances of Cirque de Soleil are always fascinating - imaginative, colourful, magical.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP6AJXprOXc

I was astonished when discovered that the circus was quoted as an “Blue Ocean” example in the very first chapter of the Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant.  Aha!  I thought.  This lesson is not only relevant to the business world, […]

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Won’t you earn more if you drop your 9 to 9 job and focus on trading stocks?
Well, hm…  I think, yes. 
And you said you’re feeling exhausted to meet the professional as well as the other commitments, including your family and your study and your start-up now under planning?
Well, hm…  Yes.
So, you intend to climb the […]

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Review your life three times each day.
~ Chinese idiom 
What is your initial response?  Would it be: “Huh?  I don’t even have time for a decent lunch, how on earth do I have time to stop and think?!” 
Right.  Our hands are always full - the to-do-list is pages long, the phone keeps ringing and ooops, the blackberry […]

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Today I turn a new page.  
This is the first day I work on my own.  Feeling like pressing the reset button and starting at 0000. 
I have thought that this would be the hardest part, starting from Ground Zero.  Turns out it is not. (Turns out this is the best part.)  The hardest part was when I was making […]

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