PERSONAL GROWTH
Stuck on Happiness?
Everywhere we turn, it seems like someone's selling a formula for happiness: Buy this dress and you'll be happyEat this burger and you'll be happyRead this book and you'll be happyAchieve this goal and you'll be happyTravel to this island and you'll be happyMarry...
How Are You?
How have you been? Like really, how have you been? How have you been coping in these uncertain times? Are you scared? Are you lost? Are you anxious? Or are you happy? Are you grateful? Are you at peace?So many times, we go about our lives asking and being asked this...
7 Signs Someone Cares, But May Be Taken for Granted
In the previous article, we explored 3 signs of tough love - actions that seem to suggest someone doesn't care about us, but actually do. A reader commented that it could also stem from someone who is emotionally unavailable - which is absolutely true. For example,...
3 Signs Someone Cares, Even If It Doesn’t Feel Like It
Human beings are complicated. We can be so stubborn about how the toilet seat should up or down and yet don't know what we want for lunch. We can pour our hearts out to one person and act like everything's OK with another. We want to shower someone with love and yet,...
The Lazy Cooking Survival Guide
I started cooking regularly about 2 years ago - mainly out of convenience and also to see if eating in really saves more money than eating out. I want to make this super clear from the beginning: this is not a guide to cook the most delicious, nicest looking,...
Value vs. Price
Late of last year, I decided to purchase the most expensive belt I have ever bought. I've been looking at this belt for a very long time, but always hesitated because of the price tag - USD40 or RM175. To put things in perspective, you could easily get a 'normal' belt...
The No.1 Ingredient of Effective Teams
A team of researchers from Google's HR conducted a 2-year study to answer the question: What makes a Google team effective? After 200+ interviews, and looking at 250+ attributes of 180+ active Google teams, they have identified 5 key ingredients. Before we dive into...
The Surprising Benefits of Limitations
There was study done on how fences around a playground affects children's behaviours. The 1st group of children were taken to to a playground with no fence while the 2nd group of children were taken to a comparable playground with fenced border. The kids were to play...
Attitude
"Your attitude, not your aptitude will determine your altitude"- Zig Ziglar The first time I heard this quote was in secondary school. I think it was a Friday morning assembly, cause that's when they had longer ceremonies and sometimes a teacher would give a speech....
Eleven Lessons from Stranger Things
Browsing through random Netflix show, I came across a real gem - Stranger Things and binged watched all 3 seasons in about 4 days. I honestly did not know how big this show was until after I have watched it and did some Wiki research as I always do after a show. I...