Sales! When you heard the word, what comes to your mind? I guess it will be selling/persuading people, techniques, tricks, –or if you have ever disappointed with undesired purchases–traps? According to Corinne it’s not the only thing that matters. High-pressure and arm-wrestling techniques may no longer work. Even if it works, people will feel manipulated. [...]

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.

I have just finished reading the book “egonomics”. It shares about what makes ego our greatest asset (or most expensive liability).
I have bought this book many months ago. It was the result of impulse buying. It’s discounted yet still expensive, even worse when I checked out that the price was getting cheaper in other stores. [...]

More than identifying our strength, this book also helps you in busting the myths around strength and weaknesses, making the most of what strengthens you, cutting out what weakens you, speaking up to let our strengths shine, and building strong habits to put our strengths into practice.

Maybe the best productivity book so far, this book has inspired me to build a system to get things done. When it comes down to principle, these are the two cores that David emphasized…

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.

This is the first part of series on Habitudes, or the habit of attitudes. In the first book, Tim Elmore shared the importance of leading our own “self” beyond leading others.
As he emphasized, leadership can be represented as an iceberg, 10% that people can see is your skill, while the 90% is your character, much [...]

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 [...]

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.

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.