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Have you ever experience the time that you learn so much and overwhelmed by the information and do not even know how to start to work on it? Or have you ever question yourself why after so much of learning, I still stuck at the same place? Seminar after seminar, workshop after workshop, attending classes become A MUST!

But what happen after the seminar or workshop? Anything change? If yes, great! If no, is the time you ask yourself, what happen? What action I can take to make it work?

Everyone is saying “ Keep learning”. Now you hear stop learning! Funny, isn’t? That is the reason why you need to stop learning too much of things and only focus on learning the skill set necessary to move the needle of your goals.

This is what you can do! Set specific time for learning and creation. Strike the balance between the time you learn the skills and the time to create something. As for me, I make my morning time as my learning time, I will read,...

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Have you ever experience early in the morning or when you back from your work and you stuck in a back to back traffic jam? I always listen every body complain about this! “ I hate traffic jam”; “ I am trapped in terrible traffic” Traffic jam become part of our life and can not be separated from us!

We can not change the traffic condition, so we change our way to respond to it! Now, what you can do to make the traffic time useful?

No. 1: Turn your car into a mobile university! While you driving, or in traffic jam, listen to interviews, podcast, CDs with a lot of useful information and positive thoughts! Learn as you drive! Turn the frustration to learning mode, I can guarantee that you will feel motivated and energized listening to the contents!

No.2: If you feel, not in the mood of learning, just tune in for relaxation music or songs that will sooth your mood and release the stress of the day! This definitely can decrease your...

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“Sorry, I don’t have time to do this. I am busy.” How many times have you hear this or even said this phrase? I did suffer from this phrase some time ago.

Everyone of us have the same amount of time each day. 24 hours a day. 7 days a week. With such a fair amount of time everyone has,  what makes the different between someone that can manage their time effectively and those just spend the time as it comes.

The main strategy is to FOCUS, paying undivided attention to the only and the only one thing in front of you until you finish it. As my mentor the author of High Performance Habits, Brendon Burchard said, common sense may not always be common practice. You know that you need to focus on your work or study. You know you can not multitasking. You know that you need laser focus, full force to get the thing done! On the other hand, your little mind are whispering quietly to you that come on, let’s us watch a movie, let’s...

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Have you ever experience the time that you can not attend an event or going for a trip just because you are sick or feeling like no energy to run your task?

Let’s us talk about hydration this week! Yes, you are right! Water! We need water! Water as a transport! Our blood comprises 90% water help to transport oxygen and nutrients to cells. Water also as a temperature regulator! Body water allows us to regulate our body core temperature so that it gets neither too hot nor too cold.

Do you actually know that even a mild dehydration with water loss of 1-2% of body weight can impair physical and cognitive performance? You will feel headache, fatigue, loss of appetite, dry mouth and eyes and dark color of urine. A loss of 5% can cause nausea and difficulty of concentration. That is why sometimes, you have the symptoms of fatigue, headache and difficult to focus just because you are dehydrated!

Lots of people don't realize the true importance of drinking...

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If the lowest foundation of the pyramid is smaller, and the upper part is larger, can the pyramid be stable? Your answer sure is NO! Pyramid will never be able to stand stable with a smaller foundation.

Let me ask you a question, if the peak of the pyramid is your success or contribution, and the bottom foundation is your physical health, how you score yourself from the scale 1-10 for your physical health with one is the lowest and 10 is the strongest? Meaning how many points you will give to yourself about your capacity to maximize your health and energy to achieve your high performance?

If you have a lower score for your physical health, your pyramid may look like this!

Many of us not even realize that our foundation of the pyramid is not strong enough and trying to ignore it and continue to build the upper layer which is your relationships, career, financial and contribution! Until the top level!

And all of the sudden, the pyramid collapse just because...

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Here is 2 main key how to reignite your fire! Re-evaluate your current status!

Do the current job, career, relationship, eating habit fit with the objective of why you start at the first place? Sometimes, we have to let it go before new things can come in to reignite the fire in it! Get a piece of paper and pen, write down what is the pro and cons of current status. Fit with the previous intention? If yes, continue.. if No, let it go…

After re-evaluate, now is the time to Re-cultivate the passion in it! Whether is relationship, career or healthy lifestyle! Intentionally find ways to spark out the situation! Enjoy the process! In your relationship, you can find out what both of you love to do, hobby together or even a trip to a new places that both of you are talking for years to go! Plan it and make it happen! If in career, have fun in the process of struggle, find the little things that can make you laugh and try experiment new things in life!!

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Reengaged in the first reason why you are so into the relationship, career and the things that you passion about! Find time to sit down and think about it the reason you start your relationship, the moment of each other spend together, lovingly…Now is the time to reengaged yourself into the person that you are so crazily in love with!

The reason you join the career or start the venture. If you always feel that your fire in doing the job that you are doing now is getting smaller and smaller, it is definitely a sign that you may need to reengaged yourself why you are doing it now, may be you need a change in your career!

To continue a healthy lifestyle is never been easy! A lot of people including me also thinking to give up in the healthy eating habit and exercising because there are too many delicious food out there waiting for me! If you start thinking like this, you just need to find out what makes you want it so much at first, then you will be at...

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We are always so busy and rushing day in and day out for our family and career. This including holding our handphone and engage with all the social media, facebook, instagram, whastapp and the list goes on… like everything is on autopilot! This is the time you have to start to be aware that you are in a danger zone. A zone that you may be too tired to handle the endless tasks given by others! Have you ever wonder where is the time for your own self?

Sometimes, we need to unplug ourselves from our normal routine daily work. To recharge our battery. Oops, I am not iron man. Have you ever experience the condition that you are so low in your battery… and your body is giving signal titititi. It’s time to charge your energy?

If you know how to fully utilized the short trip, I can guaranteed that you come back with a fully charged, energetic, motivated person to keep going on your goals and dreams!

This is what you can do! During the getaway,...

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The final way is keep learning the skills of communication! Learning the skills of building rapport with others, the art of talking, the convincing skills, negotiation skills, persuasion skills! All this skills will lead you to be a better interaction with others!

In today’s world, we want the win win situation! We never ever want to be in the win/lose situation! That’s why learning the skills of building trust with others is so so important! It is because when we trust each other, we are open! We are committed to understand each others’ point of view deeply and work together!

One way to learn this is to work closely with a mentor. Mentor can guide us through the correct way to interact with others!

So, take step in learning more! The more you learn, the more you are motivated to keep learning and the better you become!

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You will be surprised what is the second way to become a better communicator! Is getting enough sleep! You may be curious what is the connection between having a good night sleep at your communication skills! Have you ever have experience that you become so bad temper the next day is just because you do not have good sleep at night? Sleep is so important!

As an adult, we need to have at least 7-8 hours of sleep every single day! The lack of sleep decrease your self control towards your actions, makes you feel less trusted, more aggressive and more threatened even by a small stimuli and can induce rude behaviour!

Having a good rest at night can change your communication skills abruptly. You will be more patience in responding to others request or answer. Indirectly, people start to have a better understanding of each others and making the conversation a better one!

So, getting enough sleep is the way to better communications. It can protect you...