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Personal Management

Get ahead of productivity with these time management tips

Too many pressures at work, including personal concerns and family matters, usually result to a busy and out-of-control life. Oftentimes, you feel helpless in dealing with your schedule. However hectic your life can get, you can achieve better time management skills with the following tips. Get a tool It is important to use a tool […]

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Home and Living Personal Management

Letting go of old stuff

Isn’t it that we tend to accumulate a LOT of stuff as the years go by? And it seems like we can’t let go of even the most ancient of our belongings. For instance, here at home, we have our old kitchen which now looks like a storage room with piles of boxes, tools, broken […]

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Personal Management

New Year’s resolutions, anyone?

Happy Chinese New Year 2016! How’s your CNY celebration so far? Here at home, we’re celebrating another milestone today, the 50th birthday of our eldest bro. An early morning Mass and breakfastjoy at Jollibee was our simple way of giving thanks to God for the gift of life. Last weekend, I baked carrot cake and […]

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Personal Management Simply Me

The ‘working late’ dilemma

Work is piling up these days and there’s so much to do. Nope, I can’t possibly clone myself many times over, but when unplanned events and things demand my attention, I just wish I could. My health and wellness goals require me to sleep before midnight so I can wake up early at six, but […]

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Health and Fitness Personal Management

Tug of war: baking vs. dieting

I have been trying to go on a low carb diet for the nth time but to no avail. I do want to feel lighter and be slimmer but problem is… I love to bake, and this hobby totally ruins my plans for losing the extra weight. Who can resist eating a slice of freshly […]

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Life Personal Management

When Plans A to Z fail: Confronting life’s challenges

Isn’t it that when we are confronted with life’s many challenges, we turn to our problem-solving skills to come up with Plan A and even reserve a line-up of back up plans (from Plan B and so on) just to keep things under control? Unfortunately, the real world doesn’t always cooperate with all our perfectly […]

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Personal Management

On being prepared

Preparation is really important and necessary even with tasks that we regularly do. Yesterday I had a part in our community event where I had to lead the prayer. I know the prayer by heart, our family prays it every day and yet I forgot some parts of it during my turn yesterday. I think […]