I promised to finish reading Jimmy O. Yang’s book in my last podcast episode, and I did! Here are some additional lessons and entertaining experiences I learned from the book, and how it has affected how I perceive and live life as a child of Asian immigrants myself. This was an entertaining, funny memoir! Like…
Why You Should Push Your Comfort Zone & Some Tips
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 benefit from pushing 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 should know….
How to Travel Siargao, Philippines – A Rugged Travel Guide Through the Surfing Capital
In this article, I 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. I do…
End of Year Review of How 2021 (and 2020) Went For Me
I’m following the theme of popular blogs around the web by posting an annual end-of-year review . 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 of talk….
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,…
My Road Trip Travel Journal Entries
I have been traveling the USA by car and Airbnbs for several months and plan on continuing this for at least another year. Here are the highlights of some of travel journal entries that I am sending to my secret travel email newsletter. March 2022 – Greenville, NC I was in Charlotte North Carolina for…
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…