Articles in category 'Purpose'

By Donald Latumahina, December 8, 2007

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 [...]

By Donald Latumahina, November 23, 2007

What do you have in mind when you hear the word “prosperity’? Many people associate it with being wealthy, and there is nothing wrong with that. But I believe prosperity is more than just being wealthy. Recently, I found a helpful concept on prosperity. C. Peter Wagner in his book The [...]

By Donald Latumahina, October 28, 2007

To have a fulfilling life, we need to do something that matters to us. In fact, there is no way we can have a fulfilling life if we are not doing something meaningful to us. And everyone has different causes they care about. Things that fill my mind day in and day out may be [...]

By Donald Latumahina, September 27, 2007

How can we live a more fulfilling life? While there are things we can do which are more long-term in nature (such as the ones in 37 Lessons to Help You Live a Life that Matters), here I’d like to focus on practical things which we can do today.
As I wrote in my post [...]

By Donald Latumahina, September 25, 2007

I just watched the video of Dr. Randy Pausch’s farewell lecture at CMU. It’s so packed with life lessons that I can’t help but spread the word out to you.
Randy Pausch is a computer science professor at CMU who has incurable pancreatic cancer. Despite the fact he has only months to live, he shows a [...]

By Donald Latumahina, September 5, 2007

One of the strategic questions you should ask yourself is: “What can I be best in the world at?”. Being able to answer this question will make you thrive in your career. But of course, answering this question is not easy. In essence, it requires you to find your unique value proposition. What value can [...]