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- Nov 12,2008
Thank you for a year of smile!
original photo credit: Swamibu
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. I got into the corridor when I’m moving from reason2smile.wordpress.com to this blog. And it has been a year of new and exciting experience to me.
I’m really thankful [...]
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- Oct 20,2008
How losing readers can make you smile…
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One of the sad experience in blogging is the time we lose our readers. Seasons come and go, and sadly readers come and go as well. This blog has the same experience, but the art is really how we can stay positive when that happens. Losing readers is unavoidable as a part [...]
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- Oct 11,2008
The two-years-old blogger update
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 [...]
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- Aug 21,2008
From blogging to public speaking
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Blogging made me better with written words; but how about spoken words or public speaking?
I experienced that quite some time ago, even before I took my break and my holiday. That night I had church small group gathering and I was not in the mood of attending. It is the men’s [...]
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- Aug 18,2008
Writing less, eating more
Should you write more or less?
I would like to thank Rummy, this message is all started by what he commented in Jean’s post on Writers’ Blockhead. I am encouraged by what he said on how my posts have made some impacts. It’s not to boast about it as he also pointed his disappointment seeing how [...]
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- Aug 4,2008
Happiness in success journey
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Do you enjoy your success journey?
As promised, Reason-4-Smile got a new theme. The new tagline is “Happiness in Success Journey”. It’s pretty much inspired by Joyce Meyer with her program, Enjoying Everyday Lives. I wanted to do the same thing, or I should say the mini version with this blog: sharing and [...]
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- Jul 26,2008
How I lose faith in blogging (and get it back again)
I don’t have any problems relating to people. Really. It’s true. I don’t ever get irritated or upset with anyone: as long as I’m alone. It’s amazing just how easy life is when I’m alone and isolated. The worst in me can lie dormant for years as long as there’s no one around to awaken [...]
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- Jul 4,2008
A few blogger updates
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Do you enjoy Reason-4-Smile?
I have blogged regularly for 9 months and it was both fun and challenging. I have learned a lot of things from both what I read and write in blogosphere. I really appreciate all the support from all my faithful readers, and I wanted to share a few [...]
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- May 24,2008
Project Winner: Reason-4-Smile Our Friends
Last month I started a project called Reason-4-Smile Our Friends. It is a project where you got to mention at least 7 of your friends, and each of their unique attribute. It also requests you to assign a title for each one of them as well; it can be saint, heroes, X-Men, or many others.
The [...]
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- May 18,2008
Meatball Sundae by Seth Godin
The Meatball Sundae: something messy, disgusting and ineffective. It is the result of combining two perfectly good things that does not go together. Meatball represents the products and services that used to work successfully in the traditional media, such as TV and other mass market techniques. Sundae represents the social media, Web 2.0 services, which [...]
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Featured Books
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 HSP. Read the rest of this entry »
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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.
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Big question, little book, answer within. That’s the subtitle of the book. It’s really a little book, not very thick, not even 100 pages. It’s a simple book but I enjoy reading it. The message is straight forward, clear and encouraging. That is to just become who you are.
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The Meatball Sundae: something messy, disgusting and ineffective. It is the result of combining two perfectly good things that does not go together. Meatball represents the products and services that used to work successfully in the traditional media, such as TV and other mass market techniques. Sundae represents the social media, Web 2.0 services, which Seth puts as the new marketing. That involves websites, blog, YouTube, MySpace, many other popular and upcoming social media.
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Do you need others to achieve your vision?
If your answer is NO, that means your vision is not big enough. If your answer is YES, that means you will need to have relationships with other people. Not only a common relationship, but a winning relationship. That is about how you can win with people.
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- Amanda Linehan: Interesting that you chose to profile this book about the Highly Sensitive Person at work. I've just come across this term (HSP) and am really intere
- rummuser: Robert, I am sure that the book will be very interesting to peruse. My problem if anything, is that I am accused often of being completely insensitiv
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