A powerful motivation that may often linger in the background of your mind is the desire to impress or compete with others in an imaginary race…

Once you can start taking action and reducing the paralyzing impact of your limiting beliefs to a minimum, the additional layer of barrier you may encounter are the people around you, who can’t fully psychologically handle the envy stemming from seeing someone else close enough to them raise out of the bucket and into “success”.

How to conduct a weekly review (in GTD-style) in Notion.

Choosing the people whose behaviors, beliefs, and ideas influence you is a critical decision in life. The impact of relationships on work and life opportunities attests to this. Your next job is often secured through your relationships, as suggested by this study. Your reputation within your social circle and industry significantly affects your ability to find opportunities.

An exploration into the transformative power of embracing life's events as they are. Unveiling the mysteries of self-introspection, mimetic desires, and the art of surrender to tap into your natural state, drop expectations, and redefine your game of life.

Integrity is the energetic wholeness that you harbor in everyday interactions with yourself and others. This post explores the meaning and implementation of integrity, according to the Conscious Leadership Group.

Pragmatic ambition is the patient and determined pursuit of achievable lifestyle-centered goals that you can see from a pragmatic distance.

Following the CODE framework, this essay explains how you can integrate Raindrop and Notion for your second brain.

Deciding where to live is one of the most important decisions in your life, and it can make a difference in your happiness and life satisfaction levels. Lifestyle-centered career planning suggests choosing your career based on the lifestyle you intend to have, which requires accumulating career capital.

There are two main modes of creativity: divergent and convergent thinking. The former is a state of intentional chaos and idea generation. The latter is focused, narrow, and persistent to find the best idea.

Debating is about dropping the ego for the greater pursuit of reality as is. This post presents some mental models we could use in debates/arguments or everyday conversations.

Identity is a constantly negotiated endeavor between yourself and the people around you. You can get trapped in a self-enclosed identity box(es), and this post explains how that could happen, and what you could do about it.

The Coda Personal Finance Tracker is a comprehensive system to help you manage your wealth, budget, record transactions, review dynamic charts, and minimize the friction of data entry. It includes features such as monthly review and budgeting, categorizing transactions, and graphical representation of data.

Memento mori, as the Stoics would put it. Remember you are going to die. Life is finite, and so is your attention in the era of information overload and context switching. This post explores time management as philosophized by Oliver Burkeman in his book, 4000 Weeks. Notion template included.

This is one of the existential conundrums of time management and life itself: how might we discern what’s truly important from what’s “seemingly important” (urgent) in the short term? Drawing from the organizational philosophies of Basecamp, this post explores the possible root causes of the urgency trap.

“Mindset is a portal between conscious and subconscious processes” (dr. Alia Crum). The profound progress in the science of mindset and cognitive psychology can teach us how to implement a sustainable growth mindset in life, where you take responsibility for your life, not the other way around.