I’m told that I’m good at pushing past my comfort zone. So, I figured I would discuss how you can improve doing that and why you can sometimes benefit you to push past your comfort zone. This isn’t a comprehensive guide. It’s more of a short brief on some of the things I figured you…
How to Travel Siargao, Philippines – A Rugged Travel Guide Through the Surfing Capital of the Country
In this article, I want to detail my travel Journey through the Philippines, a country in Southeast Asia, back in 2019 for vacation. I’ve already written a few travel journals about a few of the other big islands and regions I visited, but I never finished the series. The last place I stopped was Bohol….
End of Year Review of How 2021 (and 2020) Went For Me
I’m continuing the theme of various blogs posting an annual end-of-year review on how their year went for them. However, there’s going to be a few twists: I’m going to keep it concise to a just a few major points rather than every little goal since I doubt you want to listen to three hours…
Relatable Asian American Experiences & Lessons with Jimmy O. Yang
I was getting into the holiday spirit a few weeks ago when I started hearing buzz about a Netflix Original Rom-Com Christmas film called Love Hard, featuring Asian American Jimmy O. Yang as the romantic lead. And it was the #1 film in the USA for a few days! After loosely following Jimmy’s career over the years,…
What is Lifestyle Design? How to Engineer the Life You Want
Living the life you want to live and enjoying every moment of it. Sounds like an unreachable dream, right? For some people, it falls in their lap. And they’re the rare few out of millions. For others, it’s the most difficult thing. Tim Ferriss popularized the idea of lifestyle design about a decade ago in…
How I Made A YouTube Video With 1 Million+ Views
Over the last few years of blogging, I generally haven’t “shown my work.” What I mean is that I’ll blog about happiness, success, meditation, and related topics. I won’t blog about the process of writing those topics, building them, SEO-ing them, and getting them to rank well on search engines and get a lot of…
A Dream, Once Shelved, Comes to Life – I Moved Away from Home
So, I know my email subscribers told me they’d prefer I keep my travel topics separate from my blog to my secret travel newsletter. And I have been, but I want to experiment with at least having one post about it. I hope you’ll understand. I spent my twenties living in the same suburban area…
Lessons Learned from the Master FBI Negotiator – Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss [Podcast]
One of the first experiences I had with negotiation tips came from tips I got from people I follow on buying a car at a good price. Here’s a bit of what I learned… The best time to buy a car is at the end of a month based on car salesman sales cycles. They’re…
How To Negotiate A Job Salary Or Ask For A Raise
I wanted to share with you some insights I picked up from top career books like What Color Is Your Parachute? and best-selling career experts and authors like Ramit Sethi: So there are two possible situations: you just got a new job you’ve been working here for a while and have been overdelivering but not…
How To Get A Meeting with Any Celebrity – The Third Door Book Summary Notes
Alex Banayan is an interesting kid. Through his naivete and ambition, he pursued an idea that he came up with with his friends: what if there was a university that had the best professors? Elon Musk for science, Bill Gates for business, Jane Gooddall for science? Fast forward a couple years through a lot of…