Last week I did something incredibly stupid: I attempted to make changes to my computer’s partitions without first backing up my data. Something went wrong and it wiped out nearly 20GB of data. Ouch. Luckily for me, I had backed up most of my major files a few weeks beforehand and also made copies on my work [...]
Continue reading...29. July 2007
Overcome by Email Avalanches I never had to deal with the problem of having too much email until I landed my new writing job 8 months ago. Suddenly I had a whole avalanche of incoming messages to handle and a whole new culture to learn! In the beginning I struggled to find the right balance of being [...]
Continue reading...26. July 2007
Who owns you really? Is it email? TV? Fame? Money? Is it what you drive? What you have or don’t have? That new toy you just can’t live without? Is it your past? Someone you haven’t seen in years? Is it what people say you are? Is it what others think of you? Is it what [...]
Continue reading...24. July 2007
Sometimes we forget. I was on the plane back to Singapore from Korea and the man next to me happened to raise the window cover at sunset. It was like looking at all the beauty of the world expressed in one exquisite moment; with the orange-red puffs of clouds scattered beneath a deep blue sky and [...]
Continue reading...15. July 2007
You’re getting a bumper crop of empowering links this week to immerse yourself in! That’s because I’ll be in Korea for work. Enjoy! Although you and your woman are equal beings, you are very different creatures. In February I reviewed the book The Way of The Superior Man by David Deida and I raved about unpolitically [...]
Continue reading...9. July 2007
In life, it’s inevitable that we will face some disappointments, rejections and frustrations, it’s all part and parcel of being alive. Often, when we are faced with any rejections or disappointments, we are all too likely to take either the route of self-loathing, coming up with reasons to feel inadequate and hating ourselves for it, [...]
Continue reading...2. July 2007
Stop. Before you continue reading, you must answer these 2 questions to get the most out of this post: 1) Who is someone you admire? What is it about him/her that you admire the most? 2) Who is someone you hate? What is it about him/her that you hate the most? Think about your answers and you might [...]
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31. July 2007
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