I heard this phrase before, but I didn’t really feel the impact until I’ve been in the situation of “no plan” Back then I usually like to plan ahead to the smallest detail and I.must.follow.it. If I didn’t tick 10 out of 10 items in my list, I feel that I fail. I was down and stress because of it. I used to set my daily steps goal to be 10,000 steps. However these days I find it so hard […]
Tag: lesson from life
Don’t sweat small setbacks
When you are starting something new, usually there are many “accidents”. And when you are having a few in a row, it is kind of not encouraging. Am I at the right path? Or should i just go back to where I was before? I’m trying to change my boys’ diet to raw, and now they are in transition from kibbles to wet food. Since 6 months ago, they were on few types of kibbles for ard 4 months. Now […]
Finding a buddy
Lesson learned this week is When the journey is long or uncertain, it is more bearable with buddy. I’m not a fan of running long distance. Maybe I had said it many times, I’ll say it again. However, I like it and yet I hate it. The serenity of running alone or listening to all the thoughts that came up during the run, is a very personal moment. I used to listen to music when I jog, but these days, […]
First time for something
I did it, I joined a race overseas. Well technically my first was Vietnam Mountain Marathon last year (or was it two years ago now?) And this time I joined a race in Warsaw. By accident. After visiting Germany for work, I’m going to be in Warsaw for a week for another work meeting. My colleague who went with me to Germany told me about the race, so after some thoughts and push from other running buddies, I decided to […]
To do it or not to do it
My mind was racing between option A or option B, and occasionally spawned to option C, D, etc. Which one I should go, which one I should do? Each has its own story. Then I heard faint voice, if you don’t do it, will you regret it? It was my heart’s voice. And most of the times, the answer is yes. So I will proceed to avoid regret. To go to Heidelberg Castle, there are 300+ steps to the top. […]
Nobody’s perfect
One of my classmates was making a sentence about bad habit and she mentioned about her team leader that always call for unnecessary last minute meeting and give unreasonable deadline. I think it’s not uncommon to be in her situation. Do you have similar experience? Back then during my junior days, I usually would just take it by myself, and as a result, I was stress as it’s build up. Then lately I decided to speak up more and discuss […]
To compare and to evaluate fairly
This week story is inspired by the conversation in my office. About choosing a plug-in A or B. Globally, we are using plug-in A, however the feedback from one of the users, A is not great and we should move to B because when he worked with B, it’s better overall. I shared the risk of switching to B that the templates we are using has been deeply integrated with plug-in A. And when there is a new upgrades to […]
Asking “how to” instead “why” usually will trigger better thought process
“Hey K, why is this like that?” Or “why so and so treats me in that manner?” is one of the common example of many questions asked to me by colleagues and friends. “why” can give you the answer of the cause, when you ask it to the right person. But most of the times, we take the liberty assuming that the person we ask will have some share or some say to it hence we expected some explanation. But […]