Whew! After coming back home on the 18th, it’s been 4 busy days of catching up with work, friends and family. If there’s one thing I realized 18 days away from home, there’s nothing more important than the people you love. The other thing I realized, only when I got back, is how late I’m going [...]
Continue reading...16. May 2007
True to my promise to pledge 20% of whatever Life Coaches Blog makes to charity, I’ve just sent a donation to Conservation International. Environmental issues have always been dear to my heart, after all we are talking about the single most important factor to whether we human beings get to survive as a species or not. Want [...]
Continue reading...5. January 2007
This is not going to be the usual read where you will get some tips to kick ass your life or questions to set you reflecting about yourself. I’m here for the sole reason of sharing my experience when I revisited the Cambodian kids during Christmas last year. It’s been a year since I step into [...]
Continue reading...18. December 2006
The Google Adsense check came early this month, and I confess, I procrastinated a tad bit But I’m very happy to also confess that I’ve donated 20% of it to Mercy Corps, the charity of my choice. This marks the first pledge in my 80/20 Life Coaches Blog Donation Pledge mission! Hurrah! Strangely enough, I [...]
Continue reading...13. November 2006
Why would I give away 20% of whatever I make from Life Coaches Blog? In fact, why bother to give at all? (Hint: it’s not because I’m fabulously rich!) 3 Big Reasons To Give So You Can Receive 1) Nearly every personal effectiveness coach from Anthony Robbins to Marc Allen recommend it as a method to move you [...]
Continue reading...9. November 2006
I came home last Saturday at 1 in the morning, after having worked 12 hours straight, tired and stressed out of my mind…and I hadn’t even packed for my overseas vacation happening just 5 hours later! All those weeks of looking forward to my precious holiday, and it looked like I was going to spend the [...]
Continue reading...6. August 2006
If you could, would you help raise USD$4000 for charity, at absolutely no cost to you? My friend Ryan, who owns and runs BMW.SG (the forums themselves are 5000 members strong, of which my brother Louis is a moderator), is taking part in the ambatchdotcom seocontest (his post here and the original contest site here). BMW.SG is [...]
Continue reading...22. February 2006
After a long day of coaching yesterday, I went out with my fellow coaches for supper at a place I’ve been to a couple of times. I’ve always noticed this indian man, probably in his late sixties, running this little provision store besides the cafe. What I saw for the first time last night was [...]
Continue reading...18. December 2005
Season’s Greetings! It’s the festive time of year again for (more) good will and good cheer. I’ve always felt more reflective near the end of the year, it seems a time for me to reflect and review on the year before and plan ahead for the year to come. And when it comes to buying gifts for [...]
Continue reading...10. November 2005
I’m going to be writing about something a little different today, and it’s not going to be so much what you can do to make your life better, but what you can do to help make someone else’s life better. Ever go to a coffee cafe? Like Starbucks, McCafe, Coffee Bean? Did you know that there is [...]
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22. December 2007
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