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How I Found Peace in My Relationship with My Parents, Part 3: Revelation and Happiness

Mother and Daughter Love

This is part-3 of a series on parents and understanding our relationship with them. How I Found Peace in My Relationship with My Parents, Part 1: A Child’s Wish How I Found Peace in My Relationship with My Parents, Part 2: A Pervasive, Widening Gap How I Found Peace in My Relationship with My Parents, Part 3: Revelations and Happiness How To Improve Your Relationship…

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How I Found Peace in My Relationship with My Parents, Part 2: A Pervasive, Widening Gap

Family Love

This is part 2 of a series on parents and understanding our relationship with them. How I Found Peace in My Relationship with My Parents, Part 1: A Child’s Wish How I Found Peace in My Relationship with My Parents, Part 2: A Pervasive, Widening Gap How I Found Peace in My Relationship with My Parents, Part 3: Revelations and Happiness How To Improve Your Relationship…

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How I Found Peace in My Relationship with My Parents, Part 1: A Child’s Wish

A Happy Family

Some of you may have noticed that I’ve never written about my parents or my relationship with them. It’s not by intention; just that there’s never been a reason to write about it. That is, until recently, as I start gaining resolution in…

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I’m Going to Europe!

Amsterdam, Dam Square

Quick note: I’ve been quoted in CNN, Business Insider and CBS Business Network in the past month for my articles! Check them out: How To Stand Up to Rude Co-Worker (CNN) | How To Handle Rejection like a Pro (Business Insider) | Being Rejection Proof (CBS Business Network) | Learning to Say No (Business Insider). I’ve also recently contributed to an article for the August issue…

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How To Have More Best Friends in Life: The Heartfelt Guide

Best Friends

Have you ever experienced times when you want a listening ear, but you can’t find one? Times when you feel lonely and down, but there’s no one you can speak to? Times when you wonder how you can have all these friends and contacts in…

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Returning to Facebook

Goodbye

The above picture can be interpreted in 2 ways – as saying goodbye and waving hello. Today, it’s a hello as I return to Facebook Believe it or not, I recently contemplated about returning to FB, though for a different reason than most might think. Review of why I deleted Facebook First off, just to clarify – All the original reasons I had for deleting…

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My Overall Fasting Review

Fasting

This is the overall review of my 21-day fasting experiment in Feb ’11. If you’re new to fasting, get the full background here: Fasting Experiment. Access all articles on fasting: The Fasting Series. In this 6,200+ word in-depth review, I’ll share my overall experiences with my 21 day fast (Feb 4 – Feb 24 2011) as well as week 1 post-fast (Feb 25 – Mar 3). I’ll…

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Fasting Experiment

Fasting

This is part of the most complete fasting series you’ll ever find online. If you’re new to fasting, get the full background on what fasting is, its benefits, and more below. Access all articles: The Fasting Series. “The most vehement objections to fasting are made by those who have never missed a meal in their lives.” - Dr. Herbert Shelton (1895-1985) In the past couple of days…

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Life Without Facebook: An Update

Goodbye

It’s been a week since I’ve nuked my Facebook account, and everything’s going great so far. In case you’ve missed my earlier post on why I deleted Facebook, read it here first: Deleting Facebook From My Life. Like I mentioned in my first post, I’m not a standard Facebook user (with almost 5,000 friends in my personal account and 2 fan pages…

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Deleting Facebook From My Life

Goodbye

It’s official – I’ve deleted my Facebook profile and Facebook pages. I’m removing Facebook from my life from today onwards. At the point of deletion, my personal profile had almost 5,000 friends (5,000 friends is the limit) and my 2 pages had 3,300+ likes (Personal-Excellence) and 200 likes (TSOPE). This came after a long period of being…

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My Review of 2010 (Big Thank You and Onward to 2011!)

End of 2010 Review

Update: The timing for my Channel News Asia segment next Tuesday has been fixed! It’ll be 8:15pm-9:15pm for the live feed on the web and 8:30-9pm for those watching on TV. Read for my announcement post for details. As I write this, it’s the last week of Dec ’10. It’s now the time of the year where we look back, reflect on how the year…

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