As I just renewed my room rental contract, I thought this is a good time to get me new furniture and rearrange my room. And more than a new room, the experience taught me a number of lessons. I’ll share three of them in this post.

Maybe? That sounds like a lame response. It’s so uncertain, so irresponsible, so uncommitted… If earlier I was reading that consistency is overrated, today I also want to say certainty is overrated.

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.

Is it comfortable for you to say “I don’t know”?

I learned one thing last week. It’s about saying “I don’t know”. It’s important because when we assume knowledge we often stop learning. There is a power in saying I don’t know.

Vertical thinking is selective, lateral thinking is generative. While rightness is what matters in vertical thinking, richness is what matters with lateral thinking.Vertical thinking resists irrelevant thinking while lateral thinking welcomes them.

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.

There is no point for us to compare ourselves with others. We all have strengths and limitations. The right question is what we should do with them. And here I want to share how you can BOSS them, not the other way round. It involved 4 steps and let me share with you what they are.

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…

As the title said, we can tap into personal power when we focus on the present. We are not our mind, a message that is strongly emphasized by Eckhart Tolle. The mind needs time, and that’s what it talks about… It talks about the regret of the past and the worry of tomorrow. The mind often forgets about now, it forgets to enjoy what you have and what you’re doing now.

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, [...]