Archive for December, 2007

How to Fail Intelligently

Posted by Donald Latumahina 7 Comments

Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. William Saroyan Failure is certain on the way to success. There is no way we can succeed without experiencing failure here and there. But failure could have either one of these two roles: either it becomes an obstacle that hinders you from success or  [ Read More ]

Categories: Attitude, Working

Personal branding is essential if you want to succeed in life. Why? Because you need to win people’s attention to succeed and personal branding is the way to get it. Authors need to win the attention of potential readers to sell their books, freelancers need to win the attention of potential clients to get new  [ Read More ]

Categories: Relationship, Working

I’m currently reading the book Fire Them Up! by Carmine Gallo (disclosure: I received a free copy of the book). One of the chapters talks about the importance of vision and how to have a vision with impact: For a vision to have impact, it must be simple and profound. How do you attain both?  [ Read More ]

Categories: General, Purpose

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we’re not wise enough to see it. Oprah Winfrey I believe this quote has an important truth we should remember. Life would be difficult if we think that things just happen at random. If we have such mindset, when something goes wrong we may lose  [ Read More ]

Categories: Attitude

We have only limited resources, be it our time, money, or attention. So to get the most out of them, it’s important to invest your resources in only the most profitable places. The 80/20 principle can be very useful here. The principle says that for many events, 80% of the effects comes from 20% of  [ Read More ]

Links for 1 December 2007

Posted by Donald Latumahina 4 Comments

It’s been more than one month since the last link post. First of all, here are some posts I wrote over at lifehack.org that you might find useful: Getting Rid of Yesterday: How to Start Your Day Fresh 4 Reasons Why Curiosity is Important and How to Develop It Avoiding Mediocrity: Do You Dare to  [ Read More ]

Categories: General

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