2016

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3 Lessons From Repairing My Own Iphone 4

I don’t really consider myself a minimalist but I don’t really buy what I don’t really need. End of the year 2010, I bought an iPhone 4 when my Nokia 5800, which I have been using since 2008, decided to stop functioning. I used my iPhone 4 for almost everything, almost like a swiss army knife.
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That Goose & Golden Eggs Story..

One of the reasons I strongly recommend reading Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is really because it is easy to read and he makes use of basic analogy to drive his point across. The stories he used in his book are not totally new, or at least not to me. But he shared
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It was a cool Wednesday morning and Teachers’ Day was just over last week. I thought nothing will be more apt than to write a little bit on Gratitude. If you have read books on personal development, goal setting and positive mindset etc, you will find this to be one of the most common topics
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Shoutout To My Teachers & Mentors

Being an educator is no easy feat. You need to work with difficult students at times, deal with difficult parents who thinks the world revolve around them and at times, they played the roles of caretakers of students. Tomorrow, most schools will be celebrating teachers’ day so I thought doing up an appreciation video might be
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That Woodcutter Story...

Have you heard about that woodcutter story? If you have, what are some of the life’s lessons you have drawn from that? That woodcutter story is closer to our lives than we think. So let’s take a look at that story again..     This is a story of a young and driven woodcutter.. Once
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NBC's The A Team

In the 80s, I found a couple of television series that became my all-time favourite. It was my first exposure to the concept of creativity. The first one was the A-Team, featuring; Mr T as Sergeant B.A. Baracus – The muscle of the group and a mechanical genius. Dirk Benedict as Lt. Templeton ‘Faceman’ Peck
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Need Some New Ideas? Ask Your Staff

It has been 6 years since I first started my first workshop in creative thinking and innovation. I can still clearly remember the first innovation workshop that I facilitated at one of the air bases in Singapore. And I have to thank Anne, who has been a mentor to me when I started my training
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How SMEs And Startups Can Use The ADDIE Model To Improve Team Performance.

Many businesses today, especially Small Medium Enterprises and Startups, are talking about increasing productivity, improving efficiency and effectiveness, business sustainability and of course, increased profits. I have worked in small medium companies and start-ups all my life and I couldn’t agree more. SMEs are the biggest contributor to a country’s GDP and it provides more
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