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Mentoring/coaching doesn’t just happen when you pay someone who’s more experienced than you. It can also happen among your very peers — and such a partnership can have bond and strength that few other relationships can. Let me tell you about my peer-mentoring partner, and invite you to join me in forming a new peer-mentoring [...]
November 16th, 2008 | Posted in Announcements, Ari's Personal Stories, Best Practices, Career and Your Calling, Dissecting Problems, Mission/Goal-Setting, Realizing Your Potential | 2 Comments
This is a life story of my mother. Her life is an example of how to find a need in the world only you can fulfill. It’s a glimpse of what it’s like to reach complete fulfillment - self actualization.
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Introduction: My Mother’s Calling
My mother is a missionary. Well, that’s how I describe her [...]
November 14th, 2008 | Posted in Ari's Personal Stories, Career and Your Calling, Realizing Your Potential | 12 Comments
Note: This is the digest version of a longer essay.
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In a continuing discussion about children and learning, I’d like to share my family’s view and philosophy on this matter. It mainly deals with what we force our children to learn, and what we don’t.
The Fundamental
First of all, we recognize that forcing is undesirable, and is [...]
October 20th, 2008 | Posted in Ari's Personal Stories, Best Practices, Family, Parenting, Short Posts, growth | 25 Comments
In a recent post, I discussed the nature of learning and growth with children. As a follow-up, I’d like to share my thoughts and our policy on how we’re approaching this issue of making our children learn something.
In a hurry? Read the digest version.
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The Fundamental
First, the obvious. Forcing anybody to do anything isn’t [...]
October 20th, 2008 | Posted in Ari's Personal Stories, Best Practices, Family, Parenting, growth | 21 Comments
I promise to get back to the regular programming with the next post, but after releasing my business/career vision, I felt that this was the time to give thanks.
So, below are some of people who helped me in the first four months or so of this blog.
September 27th, 2008 | Posted in Announcements, Ari's Personal Stories | 25 Comments
My friend Akemi Gaines alerted me on to Jenny Manion’s group writing project: Heros of Healing. This wasn’t a post I planned to write next but the subject matter is close to my heart, so here is my contribution.
Heroine of Healing: Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
She is renowned for her work on identifying psychological stages one [...]
September 11th, 2008 | Posted in Ari's Personal Stories, healing | 22 Comments
Just as I wrote my big essay on self-esteem, I encountered an event that triggered a discovery and healing of where my own self-esteem was damaged. It’s a rather personal tale, but let me use it to illustrate how you can mend the foundation of your mind.
My Son’s Fall
A few days ago, I was [...]
July 11th, 2008 | Posted in Ari's Personal Stories, Dissecting Problems, Mental Health | 4 Comments
It’s hard to know what it’s like to be depressed, until you experience it.
Because it’s really not a state within the range of our normal existence.
It’s your mind getting overloaded with stress and pain, so much that it is not capable of its normal, innate functions.
Imagine a carriage, or a buggy, with a load way [...]
June 19th, 2008 | Posted in Ari's Personal Stories, Mental Health | No Comments
After writing about how to tell if the person you’re seeing is your soulmate, I have been wanting to write about how to find a soulmate.
Except, I’ve been married for almost 12 years. My wife and I met at the ripe old age of 19 and 18, and we’ve been seeing each other for [...]
June 17th, 2008 | Posted in Ari's Personal Stories, Romantic Relationships | 6 Comments
It really pains me to see this, all the time.
People getting caught up in small details.
Have you ever felt like you are toiling away at your daily life, only to feel like you really accomplished nothing at the end of the day?
You wonder, where did my time go? I worked so hard, yet not [...]
June 11th, 2008 | Posted in Ari's Personal Stories, Best Practices, Decision Making | No Comments