Time runs so fast, and suddenly it’s another December 31. As with many other people, the end of the year is the perfect time for me to review my life. I review how my life has done this year and make my plan for the coming year. I review whether or not I can meet [...]

At last I can update this blog. For several days, my Internet connection here in Indonesia was down due to an earthquake in Taiwan. Not fully down actually; I could still access local websites. But since this blog’s server is in the US, I could not access it. Ditto for my email. Now the Internet [...]

I have a news: this blog is now part of Positive Blog Network. You can see the other members of the network at the sidebar under the heading Positive Blog Network. This network is initiated by John Wesley from Pick the Brain and currently consists of Cultivate Greatness, Sales Motivation, Talent Development Resources, Change Your [...]

There is an interesting article written by Joel Spolsky titled Human Task Switches Considered Harmful. It compares which way of working is better: sequential processing or multitasking. Suppose we have two tasks at hand: A and B. Sequential processing means we work on the task A until it’s finished before moving to task B. On [...]

Previously I’ve written why personal development is important and even more important nowadays. I believe that one area of it is personal knowledge management (PKM). There are two reasons for this:

This is the era of knowledge worker
Which is why knowledge management is obviously very important.
This is the era where we need to compete individually more [...]

As you may have known, this blog is about optimizing life to the max. Now in this post, I’d like to set back for a while and reflect on why personal development is important and why it is even more important these days.