Archive for the ‘Personal Development’ Category

This is a guest article by Donny Gamble of Invesmint.
Your worries about job loss are not misplaced. So far roughly 1.2 million U.S. workers have lost their jobs because of the global economic recession. No doubt, more pink slips are coming. Here are 4 things you could do to avoid being a pink slip [...]

A while back, I wrote about victim mentality and how it could negatively impact you in many ways; including your financial health.  Mostly, it was a story used to demonstrate a point, but it didn’t offer any specific solution besides telling you to focus on factors that you can control.  In this article, I want [...]

It’s hard to think about your career with all the news about layoffs, bad economy, and volatile stock market.  However, this time of turbulent is in fact a great time to position yourself for career advancement. Since I spent my career in a Fortune 500 company, ideas listed below may be less relevant for [...]

Recently a bunch of friends got together and the term victim mentality came up. Victim mentality is a tendency to blame external or uncontrollable factors, instead of focusing on internal or controllable factors for things that go wrong. Among other negatives, victim mentality is detrimental for your financial health.

Photo by Gipics via Flickr
What’s so [...]

Ever wonder why some people can never do wrong? I have been observing successful people around me, and experimenting with different ideas. Here are the seven traits that I’ve found work well for me in many situations. I think they will make you richer and more successful in many ways.
1. Successful people know what they [...]

I missed work yesterday because I was a victim of road rage (ironically, after I wrote about safe driving last week). Someone felt it was acceptable to block two lanes of a three lanes highway, get out of his car, open my door and start beating me. As the closing blow he slammed the [...]

Sometimes, it’s easy to focus too much on money and forget why money is important. To me, the most important reason to have money is so that my family and I can survive — e.g., to pay for food, shelter, clothes, medicine, health care, etc. — the basic living needs. Once these basic needs [...]

A while ago Brip Blap started a Public Declaration Meme, and challenged a few friends to declare something publicly — great for accountability by the way! In this post, I commit publicly to…
…hug my parents every day…

Photo of Pinyo and nephew taken by his wife
When we were young, our parents held us and [...]

It always pains me to see good people stuck in jobs that are obviously well under their capabilities. On the opposite end, how some people ended up with their great jobs occasionally surprise me. This made me think about my own career, and wondered if luck has anything to do with getting a good [...]

Occasionally, I like to share some of the stories that floating around the Net and email systems with my blog readers. This is a great story that my wife sent me (may be it’s a hint).

Photo from BigFoto
The story is about a boy and his dad.
“Daddy, may I ask you a question?”
“Yeah, sure, what [...]