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 [...]
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 [...]
From September 29 to October 3, 2008, I was immersed in an intense self-exploration course called “Authentic Business Discovery” offered by my blogging colleague Tom Volkar of Delightful Work. Right off the bat, the timing of this offering was such a cool synchronicity, as I was just about to publish my business plan when [...]
Note: This is a digest version of a longer essay on goal-setting, the 3rd installment in a 4-part series. And here’s the previous installment in this series.
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To set process-oriented goals, you have to ask different set of questions than those you run through to set up result-oriented goals. With result-oriented, you consider the effectiveness, impact, [...]
Note: This is a digest version of a longer essay on goal-setting. If you agree with the points made here, read the original to understand all the whys and hows. Also, read the previous installment.
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Instead of the common yet ultimately unreliable grounds on which to base our goals, we need to explore a different set [...]
This is the part 3 of a series on how to set process-oriented goals. In the last chapter, we learned what it means to be process-oriented and what the benefits are. Here, we’re going to look at how to set goals based on new paradigm, and start living the benefits of your goals right away.
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This is the 2nd chapter on a series on goal-setting. Here, we examine the 5 roles process-oriented goals play, and how much more reliable and empowering they are compared to result-oriented goals. Read the previous chapter
In a hurry? Read the digest version.
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In the 1st installment of this series, we identified 7 unhealthy motivations for [...]
Note: This is a digest version of a longer essay on goal-setting. If you agree with the points made here, read the original to understand all the whys and hows.
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The common approach to setting and pursuing goals has a potential to keep you away from living a joyful, satisfying life.
See if any of the 7 [...]
We all know that we ought to “do what we love to do.” Yet, a common misunderstanding prevents us from actually implementing. This essay takes away the fluff and uncovers the essence, the real truth about what it is that gives us life.
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Many of us [...]
Note: This is a digest version of the original entry on Path over Destination.
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If you choose careers and vocations, or even projects based on the benefits and destinations, you’re sure to have an unenjoyable life.
Because life is what happens when you’re on the way.
Instead, choose based on how enjoyable the process is. Because [...]
