Category: Thoughts

• November 30, 2021

  A quote on gratitude

  I came across many quotes on grat­i­tude, but this one I found in last week’s James Clear’s 3 – 2‑1 newslet­ter felt pro­found and made its way to the Quotes page on this site. Poet and play­wright Oscar Wilde on being grate­ful for what you avoid: If you don’t get every­thing you want, think of the things you don’t get… Read more

• August 12, 2020

  Lockdown returns

  Last night I woke up to this emer­gency alert: Auck­land returned to lock­down alert lev­el 3 since this noon: 12 noon on Wednes­day 12 August. The rest of New Zealand moved to alert lev­el 2. I was shocked because last night I went to sleep plan­ning to make the most of today, which I took off from work for… Read more

• December 27, 2018

  Old habits. Not new resolutions.

  Just a thought that popped up while work­ing out the upper body in the last hour. But first some con­text. Last week and this week, I am find­ing it very hard to exer­cise. It is after all hol­i­day sea­son, and I have had excel­lent exer­cise com­pli­ance so far this year. So why not take a break for Christ­mas and… Read more

• October 14, 2018

  Three foundational skills everyone needs to get ahead in life

  Over the past few years, the fol­low­ing foun­da­tion­al skills have helped me shape my career. I am not going to per­fect them any­time soon but I think I don’t have to. I believe these skills takes life-long prac­tice and I real­ly don’t want to get done with them. I think it would be sil­ly of me to think that some­day I will… Read more

• October 3, 2018

  3 things that are true about you (and everyone)

  Today I learned these three impor­tant things about myself (and oth­ers). You will make mis­takes. You have com­plex inten­tions. You have con­tributed to the prob­lem. Read more

• January 18, 2018

  Great article I read about proactiveness

  Yes­ter­day I came across the fol­low­ing tweet by David of Rap­ti­tude, one of the few blogs I read and rec­om­mend. Real­ly excel­lent stuff from @jdroth Becom­ing proac­tive: The num­ber-one secret to wealth, free­dom, and hap­pi­ness https://t.co/pEJhtyd4Gm — David Cain (@DavidDCain) Jan­u­ary 16, 2018 The arti­cle in that tweet is a great read regard­less of your life sit­u­a­tion. If you are deal­ing… Read more

• September 28, 2017

  Tweet more characters?!

  Okay, I work for a com­pa­ny that makes it easy for peo­ple to set­up a blog, site or online store. So I may be biased. How­ev­er, I found this tweet from Twit­ter inter­est­ing: But seri­ous­ly, if you are dying to share some­thing with world, and you can’t fit your thoughts in 140 char­ac­ters, I think what you need is a blog or… Read more

• August 22, 2017

  New quote that I liked

  Added a new quote to my Quotes page on this blog. I can think. I can wait. I can fast. – Sid­dhartha Found this quote in Mat­t’s Twit­ter pro­file via the fol­low­ing Derek’s tweet. Thanks Matt! And I *LOVE* your pro­file quote from Sid­dartha. My favorite line from the book, too. — Derek Sivers (@sivers) August 5, 2017… Read more

• May 24, 2017

  The important thing we forget in the rush to achieve

  I should remem­ber the fol­low­ing gems in the arti­cle I found in the fol­low­ing tweet. But if I could offer one piece of advice to incom­ing fresh­man, it would be to learn to take care of them­selves — because they are about to be sur­round­ed by peo­ple who often have the mis­con­cep­tion that rack­ing up achieve­ments and acco­lades is… Read more

• May 6, 2017

  Example of a nagging app

  Only yes­ter­day I blogged about apps and their tricks to grab our pre­cious atten­tion by mak­ing us install them on our phones in the pre­tense of help­ing us. This morn­ing I want­ed to check the menu of a local cafe. I googled and clicked on one of the search results. It’s a Zoma­to link that looked like what I want­ed: I click… Read more