This is the third, and final, installment of Power of three: Goal-setting: Business (3 of 3), in which I discuss studying & education. See my last two entries for the first two installments, Goal-setting: Health (1 of 3) & Goal-setting: Studying (2 of 3). Mistakes & Failure: I will fail. Good. (Entire premise of my blog, Make More Mistakes, which I'm relaunching in January 2007). ...

Organisation Execution Evaluation This is the second installment of Power of three: Goal-setting: Studying (2 of 3), in which I discuss studying & education. See my last entry for the first installment, Goal-setting: Health (1 of 3). 1. Organisation: Overcoming fear Not much to say on this one, except that I'm inclined to procrastinate out of fear. I feel like a hypocrite ...

In a recent post, I discussed the things I've realised I want from my life. I'll recap: I want my life to have meaning. I want the areas of my life to cohere in to a pattern with an overarching aim, vision or mission. I'm in pursuit of happiness. Currently, a big chunk of this is my being in pursuit of healthiness ...

I've been thinking about my life recently. Some of these thoughts emerged in my entry How to be happy, or Why you’re sad and how to fix it, which explores, "why I’m sad, how to be happy and my thoughts about what I want to do in my life, where I want to go and how I want to get there". This entry takes a step back from happiness per ...

I'm currently a full-time student. When I leave university, I'll probably have very little money. I'm trying to decide whether I should get a job when I finish or whether I should embrace my poverty and do the entrepreneurship thing anyway. I'm 90% determined that I should resist the pressure to 'just' make money. (No doubt the other 10% will follow by the time I've been in part-time employment ...

I've believed for a long time that having a team of inspirational people behind me really, well, inspires me. (Sorry, not all of my thoughts are mind-blowing breakthroughs :)) Plus, lots of people have asked me about entrepreneurship: How does one get started? Where to go for advice? Who can help out?! To that end, here's my hand-selected team; I hope you find them inspiring too: ...

In this entry, I'm exploring why I'm sad, how to be happy and my thoughts about what I want to do in my life, where I want to go and how I want to get there. I hope you find it informative too. To that end, I've included some links to sites I've found useful, with brief summaries and/or reviews. Career, life plans, aspirations, hopes & dreams Aside from the ...

On a related note, I've completely re-written my About page - spent the best part of my weekend doing that and I'm really happy with the result. I've added pictures, more information and a much improved structure. Do let me know what you think. Self-knowledge I've always valued self-awareness. Lately I haven't been doing a very good job of knowing myself, although I still valued self-knowledge highly as was evident ...

On Saturday, I mentioned a method, which I thought might help me to achieve my goals - CVS to BVS (Current View of Situation to Better View of Situation); I want to be: Independently wealthy, successful businesswoman (EthicalBeads.com) Seamlessly & effortlessly balancing my work, study & social lives Happy & healthy FREE (i.e. no longer living with my parents) CVS to BVS (Current View of Situation to Better View of Situation) The main thrust ...

No matter how self-aware, how happy you are with your life, locale, and person, there is always room for improvement. What do you want to change? What, who, where, when, or how do you wish you were...? I Wish I Were... Independently wealthy, successful businesswoman (EthicalBeads.com); seamlessly & effortlessly balancing my work, study & social lives, happy & healthy and finally FREE (i.e. no longer living with my parents). Luckily, this ...

No wife can cook as well as her mother-in-law, because as you grow older your palate becomes more critical and you no longer enjoy food as much as once you did. -- Some psychologist, as quoted by my dad. Poppycock. (I prefer calling 'poppycock' to 'bullsh*t' because it's simultaneously funnier & more polite). I choose to believe that the refinement of taste, as one matures, means we're able to enjoy food more ...

I'm really good at focusing on one thing to the exclusion of all else. Usually I compromise (a little) and focus on one thing to the exclusion of most everything else. However, this isn't the best way to get ahead or stay balanced. It's no good having one area of your life perfect and the rest in ruins. It's not even any good having a few ideal areas, ...

Am I interesting? Is my blog? Is this article? Seth Godin wrote an excellent article about how it's more important to be different, than it is to be better, which is just as well because I'm more of a fellow traveller than an expert. Which is to say, I'm exploring topics in which I'm interested and sharing what I learn & experience with you, so we can increase our ...

Darren Rowse (ProBlogger) has made me re-evaluate what I hope to achieve here and why I reference him & Steve (Steve Pavlina) so much. Well, I do it because their ideas are amazing, genius, even. (Although, I definitely need to be more actively linking to lesser known sources too). I don't expect that my readers will necessarily start reading their blogs just because I've linked to them: After ...

I simultaneously noticed that it's been challenging knowing what to write about recently and that I've yet to write anything personal. These can easily cancel each other out - this week I'll be experimenting with more personal articles. Do let me know what you think. Younger brother now in Mexico; life suddenly emptier Today my brother flew off to Mexico, where he's going to be teaching English for nine months. ...