A new car won’t make you happy. A new land property won’t make you happy. A new flat screen TV won’t make you happy. A new kitchen appliance won’t make you happy. A new outfit or hairdo won’t make you happy. The latest gadget won’t make you happy. It won’t. (Maybe it will, but it’s short-term. … Continue Reading →

“Empathy fuels connection while sympathy drives disconnection.” “Empathy is I’m feeling with you. Sympathy, I’m feeling for you.” These are some thought-provoking insights shared by the best-selling author Dr. Brené Brown in her 2013 RSA talk, The Power of Vulnerability. In this talk, she deconstructs the difference between empathy and sympathy. Empathy Dr. Brown cites a scholar named … Continue Reading →

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 →