This time I really made some difference with how I write. I’m less stressed and not rushed for the deadline. Instead of a burden, I found blogging as opportunity. Each post is an opportunity. What opportunity?

What if we can turn our limitation into advantages?

For readers that have been following me long enough will know that I used to have “turning limitation into advantages” as the big theme of this blog. Today, I want to share something along that line, especially in relation to productivity tricks.

It’s up to you to join any personal development or motivational program, but will you also learn from life? That’s the least you have to take. Whether you want it or not, the life has taught you lessons. If you learn from it, you go to the next level, otherwise, you’ll stay in the same level, again and again.

Defensiveness, together with comparison and competitiveness, caused us to be blinded by the opportunity to see what the goods that others have. It makes us sad to see how others are better than us. But even worse, it’s hard for us to learn from them.

They might be different.. they came from different world, they talk about seemingly different thing, yet they have something in common. And more than that, they complement each other.
No, I’m not talking about men and women, I talk about the 2 books that I recently read, Getting Things Done by David Allen and Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle…

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.

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.

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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