Focus – Your Key to Successful New Year Resolution
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…
Month December 2006
I’m Back
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…
Positive Blog Network and Full Feed
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…
Sequential Processing vs Multitasking
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…
Introducing Personal Knowledge Management
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 Personal Development is (Even More) Important
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…
Good Success vs Bad Success
Everybody wants to be successful. In fact, everybody works with a hope that they will be successful someday. Is it good to be successful ? I believe everybody would say yes. But, is it always good to be successful ?…
Be Excellent by Raising Your Standard
Some days back I listened to an audio book titled Unleash the Power Within by Anthony Robbins. One thing I got is how to achieve excellence. Actually there are three levels mentioned there: poor, good, and extraordinary. But of course…
Effective Time Management = Automatic Workflow
I Just want to share a short thought about time management. I think the essence of effective time management is how we put anything into our workflow in such a way that they will automatically appear to us at the…
Expand Yourself by Doing Things Differently
As I’ve written before, I’m now in vacation. And I should admit that in this first week of the vacation, my workflow is a mess. Usually I organize my workflow using GTD which I follow faithfully. In this recent week…