Gearing Up for Global Do.Gooders’ Pre-Pilot Launch Party

Global Do.Gooders’ Pre-Pilot Launch Party is coming up and I have a little more than 2 weeks to put it together.

Global Do.Gooders is a platform that focuses on young social entrepreneurs’ impact and success in social innovation.

One of the initiative is a student social entrepreneur internship program which will be piloting in [...]

Quotes of the Week

Remembering John Wooden…

 

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books – especially the Bible, build a shelter against rainy days, give thanks for your blessings, and pray for guidance everyday.

 

Never try to be better than anyone else, but never cease trying to [...]

Mind-map It

There is a lot of information that bombards us. A LOT. So how do you retain all that is relevant, interesting, and useful? Underline points in books? Store them in your favorites? Digg it? Post it? Share it? Teach it? Perhaps.

Mind map it, like I’ve mind-mapped a YouTube video on How to Spot Disruptive [...]

Education Revolution, Not Education Reform

Sir Ken Robinson continues his TED talk on creativity and the importance of radically shifting the education system. This is one of my favorite talks, particularly because it challenges how secondary academic institutions have set up the system to educate kids. It is beginning to be difficult to deny that we are living in a [...]

What Would Be Written About You?

TIME is a great magazine; it’s brief, relevant, and well-rounded. I often peruse the milestones section for individual announcements, obituaries, and breaking news. Sometimes I encounter short obituaries of important people and I am most interested in how the world sees the dead after they’re gone. Of course, no one writes anything negative in obituaries, [...]

The BIG “C” Can Make You Joyful

I’ve learned a few things in my 29 years of living, and while that is so, it is getting to learn new things I haven’t learnt yet that gets me really excited, especially when I stumble upon something new that profoundly changes my thinking and creates a paradigm shift. It’s those “ah-hah” moments that make [...]

The Four D’s of Completion

When you’re faced with a long to-do list and you need focus and discipline to do what is most impactful, the 4 D’s will help take care of to-do items, courtesy of Jack Canfield’s The Success Principles:

Do it, delegate it, delay it, or dump it.

 

 

 

The moment you pick up a piece of paper, decide [...]

The Consequences of Thoughts & Words

The phenomenon of blogs and websites has given rise to free advice that easily flows from people’s personal convictions of how the world works, how people should be behave, interact, and deal in business and life situations. Granted, every blogger wants to deliver value – value is the name of the game.

Seth Godin blogs about [...]

Raising Kids to be Entrepreneurs

This TED talk simply captures exactly my sentiments about youth, education, and the future of the next generation. It confirms the kind of work that I’m doing with students. Fundamental traits of entrepreneurs exist in youth, and among the math, science, and literature curriculum – entrepreneurs (business or social), although interested in them all, never [...]

Skoll’s Short Film on Social Entrepreneurship

Courtesy of LA Social Innovators.