As the 2020 is already upon us, it’s time for a brief review of the past year alongside some personal learnings that I can hopefully incorporate into my life for the upcoming year. 2019 There are quiet years where it seems like nothing significant is happening, and there are years where it seems that they are packed up with so… Read more →
Category: Personal Development
2015: Year in Review
After last year’s resolutions, the time has come to reflect upon the past 12 months and to see which of the resolutions I’ve managed to achieve, and which ones I have to attempt to accomplish next year. Read more →
New Year, New Year’s Resolutions
The brand new 2015 came with the usual bang yesterday. This made me think about the cost of time and how it goes really quickly without me even realising it. I am making the same observations over and over again each year, but because I am usually too lazy to make a proper new year’s resolutions list, let alone settle… Read more →
Driving Force for Every Success: Perseverance
Note that I am not a psychologist, nor a scientist, so my interpretation is purely based on my experiences and observations. Passion and creativity are important ingredients for your long-term success, but there is one, often overlooked component that can differentiate the winners from the losers and this is perseverance. Read more →
The rise of the High-tech Brands
According to the recent ranking released by the consultancy agency Brand Finance, the world’s top brand for 2011 is Google. Read more →
Driving Force for Every Success: Creativity
Note that I am not a psychologist, nor a scientist, so my interpretation is purely based on my experiences and observations. We saw that the first component of being successful is passion, but what about the case whereby you have the passion and desire to succeed, but you cannot offer anything new or exciting that can differentiate you from your… Read more →
I have great ideas, but…
How many times have you heard from a friend or a colleague the sentence “I have great ideas, but…”? All of us have ideas, and sometimes those ideas are really good and some of them are even great, but in reality what matters the most is not the ideas themselves. It is how are you going to achieve these ideas… Read more →
Driving Force for Every Success: Passion
The difference between successful multimillionaires and homeless junkies is, surprisingly, not the amount of money in their bank accounts, nor the amount of knowledge how to trade stocks on the stock market. The obvious difference between these almost unrelated social groups is their attitude and motivation to succeed. Having said that, I would like to give you one concrete example… Read more →
Information Overload: My Techniques for Avoiding it
These days, information is everywhere. Everything fights for your attention, from the huge billboards and signs on the roads and motorways, to the small inconspicuous to-do notes that you have inadvertently placed on your phone’s calendar to remind you about all sorts of things. Now an important issue is how to filter the important information out of the garbage without… Read more →