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Peace. And I don’t just mean the absence of war, but inner contentment: bliss. The thing about peace, though, is that it is fragile. You’ll get it one moment and it’s gone the next. All because of the inconstancy of life. Time passes; the world changes; we change. The key is to have a practice
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I have no use for a billboard, so I’d probably sell the space to one of the popular brands. “Just Do It.” “Open Happiness.” “I-chicken mo na dali!” It doesn’t matter. I just need to get paid. And then I can use the money for more worthwhile purchases, save some, and give the rest to
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Every year, I try to come up with a detailed plan for the year, tackling key challenges and listing down dreams. One of these challenges is related to the plan itself: following through. How do I make sure I’ll be able to achieve my goals and dreams under the plan? Last year’s experience has a
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I’ve attended only one college — the College of Mass Communication at UP Diliman — where I got my bachelor’s degree in journalism and almost completed my master’s degree (I didn’t proceed to writing a thesis). Studying journalism was fun. I was a regular student who burned the midnight candle the day before a big
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I’m joining WordPress’ Blognuary series as an exercise to get my writing back to shape. I spent the last two weeks enjoying the holidays — which is not a bad thing at all — but I’ve somehow lost some of my writing mojo. So: How do I play in daily life? This is a thought-provoking
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One of the most tragic novels I’ve ever read, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four deserves its place in the canon of classics. The prose is gripping, lyrical in the right moments. Flashes of sadistic violence take turns with slow scenes of brightly lit torture. It’s a roller-coaster ride: it’s nauseating and you’re fastened to your seat.
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All problems are idea problems. And the way to solve them is to flood them with ideas first. That is how Jeremy Utley and Perry Klebahn frame their book, Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters (2022). Both Stanford design school professors, they argue that innovation begins with a habit of creating as many ideas
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Greg McKeown’s earlier book, Essentialism, definitely ranks among the most life-changing I’ve ever read. So my expectations were high for his second book, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most. Effortless assumes that, as the reader has already read the first book (which is about identifying and sticking to only the most vital
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