Archive for the 'Self Improvement' Category

Srikumar Rao: Plug into your hard-wired happiness

What do you have to get to be happy?
Whatever you get can be ungotten.
In fact, we have spent entire life learning how to be unhappy! So surprising!
If you are pursuing happiness, this is the video you need to watch.

Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

An absolutely touching and inspiring lecture from Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch who was dying of pancreatic cancer. It teaches how to achieve your childhood dreams. Highly recommended!

What Is True Success

With profound simplicity, Coach John Wooden redefines success and urges us all to pursue the best in ourselves. In this inspiring talk he shares the advice he gave his players at UCLA, quotes poetry and remembers his father’s wisdom.

Reflection and Goal Setting

My children came back home with their mid-term reports. When I was reading the reports, a section on the reports caught my attention: “Reflection and Goal Setting”. Some questions were listed:
What did I enjoy doing the most? What have I found difficult?

What have I learned?
What can I do well?
What would I like to do [...]

How does a 21-year-old kid become a millionaire

It is a clip from CBC “Fortune Hunters: Albert Lai”. Quite inspiring.

A New Year Gift — Time Management for Creative People e-book downloading

I have to admit that I am not an organized person. I often get lost in various tasks and therefore got distracted. Then recently a friend sent me the link to Mark McGuinness’ e-book “Time Management for Creative People“. I thought it would be a normal e-book on time management, so I did not give [...]

Stickie: Organize Your Thought

I am not a well organized person. Whenever I see something inspiring or interesting, I find a piece of paper and jot it down. As a big fan of Note-it notes, I stick the note on my laptop, on my desk, on my plans, … almost everywhere.
It is easy to throw away the to-do-list. But [...]

Think and Grow Rich

A book can transform a person’s view about himself/herself, to enhance his/her potential to become a better person. A highly valued and quoted book is Napoleon Hill’s masterpiece “THINK AND GROW RICH“. If anyone who is serious about starting a new business, to improve himself/herself, it is a must-to-have piece. Before purchasing any book, [...]

Great Mind Mapping tool: Exploratree

It is important for a home business owner to come up with ideas. How to generate ideas? The best and most effective way is to use mind maps. Mind map is “the whole-brain alternative to linear thing. it reaches out in all directions and catches thoughts from any angle.” (- Michael Michalko, Cracking Creativity). If [...]

A great productivity list

Just read a great post “The Unsurpassable Productivity List: A Handy Guide to Getting Important Things Done” from Zenhabits, feel excited to share with you the list.
The list contains articles in the following areas:

Get things done
Tools help get things done
simple productivity system
limit your week work
inbox
Top 30 Tips for Staying Productive and Sane While Working From [...]

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