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There’s an old Chinese saying, “how much you eat and how much you clothe is fixed in this lifetime.” Older chinese folks believe that everyone of us can only ‘hold’ so much wealth in our lives. For example, if you can hold $100,000 and then win a million bucks in a lottery, chances are, you’d lose 90% of it in good time.

The older I get, the more evidence I see, in myself and people around me, that this is the way things work.

So, should we just give up and accept what is?

Hell no!

Like any computer programming bug, there’s a couple of ways that you can ‘beat the system’ and get more from life. This post talks about one of them - going on a vibrational spending spree. [Read more]

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An IM exchange last night reminded me about what I did when I reverted to singlehood for a period about 3 weeks.

Dr Helen Fisher, in her book Why We Love, documents that breaking up is one of the most devastating experiences men and women can go through. Different individuals handles these hard times differently.

I just felt like sharing with you what I did during my own lonely moments. In hindsight, I thought I handled it pretty well, erm, at least good enough to share this with you today. I truly hope that you might find the silver lining in between these lines. [Read more]

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The average person today are bombarded by hundreds and thousands of distractions every day as they live their lives. I know it because I’m a self-proclaimed high-productive multi-tasking over-achiever - or, not. We all know this - there’s no such thing as true multitasking, just half-hearted work passing off as ‘my best effort’.

Distractions have plagued me for years. This article proposes a technique that I am using to overcome them.

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