It’s almost time to farewell 2017. Most people start thinking about goals and resolutions for the New Year. These invariably look good on paper, are often unrealistic, don’t take into account big picture thinking and are usually abandoned halfway through January.I’ve always found the concept of goal setting and planning…

In my university days when I was studying to be a lawyer, I created a personal mantra which has stuck with me throughout my life and still motivates me to improve and push forward. It’s called the four D’s:Desire, Determination, Dedication and Discipline.Together with the four D’s, commitment, resilience, mindset,…

Let’s just say that I am not a very patient person by nature and am still prone to bouts of impatience in certain areas of my own life. But those who know me well will attest to the fact that there has been a major improvement in the past few…

Shakespeare was definitely onto something in one of his famous plays Hamlet, when a despondent and anguished Prince Hamlet opens the scene with a line that has become world famous for decades: “To be or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer…

I was lucky enough to grow up with a wiser older person in my life, my grandmother who is still alive and kicking at the age of 94 years old, and still dishes out wise words of wisdom from time to time.Unfortunately, we are separated by continents and time differences…

One of the very first self-help positive psychology books I ever bought was a book called Mind Power by John Kehoe and it still sits on my bookshelf as one of my special collection. According to John Kehoe, what you focus on you attract. Mind Power is simply directing your…