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As a continuation of my previous post on the MBTI personality test, there's one more commonly used personality profiling tool that I find rather interesting ie. the DISC profiling tool. The major characteristics of each of the four main patterns used in the DISC profiling are described below:Dominance: To the point, decisive and bottom line oriented. These people tend to be …
Just read a blog entry "Escaping the entrepreneurial seizure" over at the Four Hour Work Week and it struck a chord with me. Does firing your boss and starting your own business equate to entrepreneurship? Or does it just mean that the status quo has just changed from you being an employee to you being "self-employed"?Quoting Michael Gerber of "The E-Myth Revisited" fame, …
For most of us, getting a full three meals a day is not a problem. Some of us can even afford to dine at expensive restaurants now and then! However, not everyone in this world can be just as lucky.Apparently, in Haiti, people can be so desperately poor that they depend on baking and eating cookies made from mud(read "Poor Haitians Resort to Eating Dirt") in order to satisfy …
Ever had problems finding stuff that you need amidst the tons and tons of items that you have amassed over the years? Are there piles and stacks of books, magazines, clothes etc just lying …
Are you feeling down on your luck, and nothing seems to be going good for you? Are you waiting for opportunities to knock, but fortune always seem to elude you? Stop fretting on your misfortune, shake off those negative thoughts and create your own luck!Everyday we make hundreds of decisions from the time we wake up to the time we sleep. Some decisions are made consciously …
"The nature of Mind is emptiness and LuminosityInseparably conjoined...Spontaneously merging with the original stateI am indifferent to experiences of good and bad.With mind free and effortless, I rest in happiness and joy.Where subject and object are realized as a single sphereHappiness and sorrow mingle as one...Whatever circumstances I encounter,I am free in the blissful …
Looking back at what had happened in the past one year, I find that we cannot take what we have for granted and continue to live in blissful unawareness as many significant negative events(such as the sub-prime crisis, natural disasters such as the Myanmar typhoon Nargis, Sichuan Earthquake etc)have started to unfold as the day progresses. All the above events came out of the …
Happy New Year 2009! I hope that all of you had a wonderful time counting down to the new year and that 2008 had been a good year for you despite the gloomy economic climate!2008 was a year of major changes for myself, and the changes are hopefully all for the better. Let me try to recall some of my more major milestones for the year 2008:April - Left my job as operations …
Do you have a purpose in life? Are there any reasons why you are brought on to this earth? Life without a purpose is without direction nor meaning, and each day without purpose can only bring hopelessness. Conversely, with a well defined purpose, each day becomes focused, meaningful and motivated. A few years earlier, I thought that I had found my purpose in life but recent …
What a year 2008 has been, plenty of negative events worldwide to remember it by, quite like a chain of dominoes falling down one after another! Are these events such as the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the collapse of Iceland, the giant ponzi scheme of Madoff, global recession etc just unfortunate anomalies? Or have all of us just been living in blissful unawareness all …
I've always considered myself a passive person, one who tends to prefer to take what has been offered to me rather than express my true feelings or exert my personal rights, choosing to step down during stressful situations in order to avoid confrontations. However, I've realized that this behavior does not serve me well, as most of the time I will end up in a lose-lose …
Have you ever wondered why people behave differently in the same situations? Is there someone whom you absolutely cannot click with no matter how hard you try and will most definitely get into an argument with if you are put into a project together? Why does some people seem more outgoing, likable and more social than others while some others simply hates socializing? How can …
What is more important than becoming very successful in your career, in your businesses, or even in your relationships? The answer is your physical health.Back when I was at my previous desk bound role, the only exercise I ever get daily is simply the trips I have to make to get between my desk and the water dispenser, the restroom, or the photocopier. After a hearty lunch, …
Is the buying and selling of stocks risky? Why do we often hear of both success stories of people who have made it big in the stock market as well as people who lose all their money in their stock "investments"? Why are some people more successful than others in trading stocks? Before we start putting our money into the market, there are some important mental preparation that …
After reading a post on the definition of wealth over at Productivity501, it sets me thinking on my own definition of wealth. What does true wealth really mean to me? What does it mean to you?A textbook meaning would define wealth simply as a measure of personal net worth ie. your total assets minus your total liabilities. If your assets are worth more than liabilities, you …
Do you dread waking up for work everyday and having to drag yourself to work? Fact is , if you hate your job, you also hate half of the time you spend on this planet! If you hate half the time you are spending, then it is really time for a change!Having worked in the same role for two over years, I'm at a point where I feel that I'm not being challenged enough. Although hours …
Are you leading a very frantic pace of life such there there always seems to be too much to do but too little time? Do you find yourself always stuck at work with little time to spend with family and friends? Then its really time for you to take a break. There's much easier ways to kill yourself than overwork, even a robot requires rest for maintenance and repairs! What …
What's the most important thing to look out for selecting a job? You might be thinking that the answer to the above question is very straight forward. The career that pays the MOST money of course! How much you get in terms of dollars and cents is important(you wouldn't want to be shortchanged), but there are other things that are just as important to be looking out for as …
Do you find it very hard to wake up every morning and wish you could stay in bed longer so that you do not need to face another day of problems? Do you dread the prospect of going to work because your job seems to have no meaning other than providing you with cash? Are you starting to feel miserable because nothing you do seems to be working out right for you? These are …
What does success really mean to you? Is it solely defined by the amount of money you earn or the number of big ticket items such as a shiny new sports car or wide screen plasma tv? If the above is what you really think success really means, I suggest you take a reality check and reexamine your definition again!If I were to make you an Offer A of a pay $10,000 per month, but …
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