The reason we can’t focus is because we jumble creating, consuming, and communicating.  How many times you respond to your Facebook message, email, or phone call while working on something that matters to you? How many times you checked the latest news, or read a blog, or watched YouTube, or visited any social media sites … Continue Reading →

Life is impermanent. If you’re on top, sooner or later, you’ll go back to where you started. If money and material possessions are the things you value today, once the wheel turns and you lose everything you have, you’ll realize there are more things valuable than money and material possessions. What about family and friends? … Continue Reading →

I used to be a people pleaser. I’m afraid of what people would say and think about me. I don’t want to say NO from their requests. It makes me feel guilty. I don’t want to hurt feelings. I want peace. But after recovering from depression last year — it’s a long story — I … Continue Reading →

It’s the age of information — everything we want to learn is readily available on the Internet. From the recipes we want to cook, DIY projects we want to try, to the burning questions we want to answer, we can now easily google them. Free access to information, however, doesn’t always mean better. The truth … Continue Reading →

When we get excited about our goals, we tend to broadcast them to our family or friends. That’s because we are social beings hardwired to engage and connect. The problem? We exaggerate things. We pretend we’re already doing it, because maybe, we want to earn praise and respect. Although it feels good to be adored, … Continue Reading →