Life At Slow-Mo

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Category: Personal Reflection

  • I Work, Therefore I Am

    If you try to engage me in a long conversation about things of which I’m passionate, I might give you a blank stare. I would experience a loss of word so severe that it would take several minutes of self collection before I could speak again. Of course I’m not…

  • Finding Equilibrium

    Finding Equilibrium

    My first instinct when waking up in the morning would be to hope for some sort of balance to take place in the day. Day by day I would hold on to that hope. Many times I spent a day convinced that it wasn’t really a true day, that it…

  • Power of Vision

    This is an experience that I have kept to myself for over two years. In a selling skills class that I recently co-facilitated, I thought it would make a good illustration for a point that I was getting across, so I shared it for the first time. I suppose I…

  • When In Doubt

    “To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.” Stanislaw Leszczynski Selected Polish king 1704-1709, 1733-1734 (1677 – 1766) We always have doubt when we first travel to a strange place. I remember the first time me and several friends going to a certain destination in Bandung relying entirely on…

  • To Know or Not To Know Your Passion

    For the past months my wife followed the Masterchef US on Star World, and I tagged along whenever I wasn’t too busy with something else. It was a reality show about a group of amateur cooks competing for the title “Masterchef.” It was a wow-ing show for us because it…

  • Like The Little Brother I Never Had

    My Mom likes to tell and retell the story of how my Dad got into the business of owning a Dale Carnegie Training® franchise. And the story always starts with me. It was in the beginning of 1976. Jakarta had just experienced a heavy rainy season, and some part of…

  • Being a Dale Carnegie Trainer

    A few days ago, I received a message in my LinkedIn inbox from another user of the professional networking site. When I took the time to write down my answer, I found it to be very profound and thought provoking to me as a Dale Carnegie trainer. Here is the…

  • Judge Ye Not

    “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” – Matthew 7:1-2, NIV Please don’t let the Bible verses above scare you away. This is not…