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Early Rising: Falling into a Rhythm

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Breeze at dawn in Hawaii

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you
Don’t go back to sleep
You must ask for what you really want
Don’t go back to sleep
Rumi, 13th century Persian poet

In 2006, I read an article by Steve Pavlina on becoming an early riser. I was instantly enthralled. That happens to me a lot, by the way. Green juicing is another example but the early rising story is much better.

Now I know it is easy to be enthralled with ideas when you are not able to even begin to imagine what it takes to accomplish them.

And enthralled I was.

For the next three years, I was undeterred in becoming an early riser [Read more…] about Early Rising: Falling into a Rhythm

Shake Up Your Routine

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Shake up Your Routine

How often do you completely change the way you do something?

Actually, forget completely. How about partially? Even minimally?

Sometimes, you lose your grip on momentum for those smart habits and ingenious ways of living you had so meticulously planned.

And often times, it is not for lack of trying.

Because plans do not always follow the brilliant paths paved in your mind. Inconvenient as all get out but a fact of life.

You draw up the perfectly logical plan, fine-tune your motivation and re-fuel your inspiration to just the right level. You are ready to go. You know exactly what you want. You know exactly where you are headed. You have the right tools. You took the right classes. You listened to the right people. You adopted the new way of doing things and no one is going to stop you. [Read more…] about Shake Up Your Routine

The White Hot Truth about Being Useful

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Yellow water bridge in Singapore

When a single word brings you to a dead stop in your tracks, when a quote resonates so deeply with your thoughts that time gently slows down around you, when a book speaks to you so strongly you want to devour it in one big bite, take it as a good sign! It means you are really listening to yourself as you take in your life.

Thanks to Danielle LaPorte, that loudly brilliant and awe-inspiring woman over at White Hot Truth, that happened to me yesterday when she said the word: useful. To quote her more accurately:

Bold, underline, italics, capital letter useful. [Read more…] about The White Hot Truth about Being Useful

The Path to Fulfillment: To Have or Not to Have Children

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The Utter Lack of Desire to Have Children

In my life, I have wished for a million things, I have dreamt a thousand dreams; I have pursued hundreds of passions and goals and yet, never for a serious minute in all of my fantastic 30 plus years have I wished to have a child.

Children in Singapore

That’s me. I must be strange. I must be seriously out of the ordinary. I must be an aberration to the norm.

Yet, I am perfectly normal.

I am awfully feminine. I love all things girlish. I love traditions. I am crazy about my husband. I have a great relationship with my family. I had a happy childhood. I have cried at every single movie to ever involve a child and parent tragedy. I adore little baby animals. I like most children and I fall in love with a few. I have all the usual desires and needs of a woman — except the desire to mother a child. [Read more…] about The Path to Fulfillment: To Have or Not to Have Children

10 Smart Questions to Ask before Choosing your Next Language

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Lost in Japan Kanji Signs
Learning is exhilarating. Learning is rewarding. Learning is the best path to discovering who we are. We do not realize this until much later in life and often when we are conveniently out of school and have placed ourselves inconveniently in a rat race for survival but thanks to Google and technology, we can learn anywhere, anytime and on any subject under the sun to our heart’s content.

Learning is at the foundation of cultivating zen habits and discovering our best self in the process. We learn, we change. We learn, we grow. We learn, we realize our mistakes. We learn, we appreciate. We learn, we can teach others. We learn, we do things better. We learn, we open to new experiences. We learn and only then do we live fully.

And we don’t learn, we age. We don’t learn, we slow down. We don’t learn, we fester. We don’t learn, we forget. We don’t learn, we lose excitement for life. We don’t learn, we lose purpose for living. So never, ever let the wheels of learning stop from turning.

Speaking of learning [Read more…] about 10 Smart Questions to Ask before Choosing your Next Language

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