BOOK | Understand the second intent: get it right

Understand the second intent: get it right

Understand the second intent: get it right Getting it right is another task-focused intent that influences behavior. Have you ever sought to avoid a mistake by doing everything possible to prevent it from happening? When getting it right is your highest priority, you slow things down enough to see the details. You probably take a good, long look before leaping-if you ever leap at all.

BOOK | Dealing with Difficult People

Dealing with Difficult People

Difficult people: they’re those people you can’t stand and who don’t do what you want them to do or do what you don’t want them to do – and you don’t know what to do about them.

BOOK | The Nothing Person

The Nothing Person

Reassure and follow through. Once the decision has been made, reassure the Maybe Person that there are no perfect decisions and that his or her decision is a good one. Then stay in touch until the decision is implemented. Strengthen the relationship. Take a few moments from time to time to listen to the Maybe Person’s concerns and help him or her learn the decision-making process whenever the opportunity arises. With patient investment, the Maybe Person may become one of your most dependable decision makers.

JOURNAL | Introduction to Theater

Introduction to Theater

I have always been a fan of theater productions. In fact, I used to be a stage actor when I was in high school. Every single moment spent with my co-actors is a time well spent. There is certainly that unexplainable feeling that you can only get from becoming a part of a stage play. Hard work and patience really took root on me as we rehearse plays days after days, to think that during this time, I had to balance my high school academic life and acting career (so to speak). 

JOURNAL | I feel like I need to go back to my old life

I feel like I need to go back to my old life

With homework all looming like mills around my neck, there is an urgent call to revert to the old self I used to be. But there is no telling if that would be helpful. It's just that now, everything is too much for me to take. I am suffocating from all the stress I have to endure. I just don't know how long I can keep holding on.