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Thomas Edison said that genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. I can say that much is the same with creativity. You can only get so far with inspiration, but you actually have to do something about it in order to actually be creative. Creativity involves both the output [...]

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They say you are what you eat. I think I must agree with the proverbial all-knowing they. If you listened to your high school biology teacher closely enough, you would learn that when we digest our food, our bodies would then break these into tiny little bits that somehow [...]

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One of the more striking reflections I’m blessed to have been shared with this Christmas season are the three principles–or shall we say conditions–that came with Jesus Christ, and the salvation He brings about, being given to us as a gift.
One, God gives his Son to us as a Gift. He does [...]

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Last week, I went on a three-day workshop with educators from various government agencies in the Philippines. It was for a project run by the Philippine Commission on ICT in cooperation with a few foreign donors. It was a training of trainors, and the topic was the responsible use of ICT. It [...]

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Most people would probably think of writers and other industry experts as insufferable know-it-alls. You do see a lot of marketing gurus and social media experts flaunting their business success, giving tips and guides, and teaching other people some tricks of the trade.
What most do not know is that a lot [...]

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Perhaps at one time or another you’ve come across blog posts or articles about how to succeed in blogging. One common advice that people who have met success in blogging would give you is probably this: that you should write, write and write. True enough, successful blogging entails consistency. If [...]

Oftentimes when I’ve finished drafting a blog post, I think long and hard before I hit the publish button. I wonder whether my post makes sense at all. I wonder if it will hit some nerves. I wonder if I have made mistakes. I wonder if people will critique and criticize.
And then in a moment [...]

There was a stage in my life a few weeks back when I had the luxury of sitting down in front of my laptop in the morning, sipping coffee, and posting on this very blog. These could be observations, anecdotes, opinions, or editorials on just about anything relevant. I was, as I said a while [...]

You often hear it from senior citizens. Back in the day, communication wasn’t as fast and cheap as it is today. When you sent letters, you had to wait a few days (or weeks) for it to arrive at its destination. Therefore, you have to really be able to convey what you wanted in those [...]

Life is sometimes a breeze. But then at one point or another, an externality gets wedged into the monotonicity and you either get excited or disappointed. It’s exciting when you get to experience something different that is good. It’s disappointing when the externality is a bad event, sometimes fatal, sometimes not, but always frustrating.
I think [...]