Regret on the mistakes you made? Forget about things to do? Decision to keep track of? Or simply a place to put the information you need? Start journaling, but end it with actions, that’s how you can get things done with journaling.

How can you turn your work into calling?
Yes, this book is targeted to help certain category of people, which is called the Highly Sensitive Person, or referred as HSP. Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D. has written another book that describes fully on the definition. On the contrary, this book shares the perspective of working to the [...]

Today is the one year of smile, one year of Reason-4-Smile Weblog. One year ago, I posted my first article in this blog. And it has been a year of new and exciting experience to me.

Who is Team Hoyt? It’s a team of a father (Dick Hoyt) and a son (Rick Hoyt). And here is some introduction of them, taken from Wikipedia.
Team Hoyt is a father (Dick Hoyt) and son (Rick Hoyt, b. 1962) in Massachusetts who compete together in marathons, triathlons, and other athletic endeavors. Rick has cerebral palsy, [...]

One of the sad experience in blogging is the time we lose our readers. This blog has the same experience, but the art is really how we can stay positive when that happens.

Today is the Blog Action Day, the day where bloggers and podcasters around the world talk about the same topic, and it’s Poverty this year. Here, I don’t talk about physical poverty but mental poverty. It’s the poverty mindset, one that often steals your reasons for smile.

I’m getting older. It was my second birthday in this year. As the human, I celebrated my 26th birthday last August. As the blogger, I celebrated my birthday again last September.
I started blogging 2 years ago. My first post is published on the 28th September 2006. It was a desperate moment and the blog was [...]

When should you quit? And when should you stick?
This is the second book from Seth Godin that I read after The Meatball Sundae. This time it shared about whether we should quit or not. It’s great if we can become whoever we want, but to be the best at something, we need to quit something.

How often have you heard the quote “faking it before you make it”? In some degree the quote reflects some concepts in growth. But it is not always effective if it stays alone. Let me share with you more on what you can and cannot fake.

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Have you ever fought your heart?
Nervous… I have no idea why, but that was what I felt last weekend. Maybe it’s worry of the project that I have to complete in The Courage to Create program. Maybe it’s a worry as I was working on the new theme on my blog. Will [...]