5 Life Lessons From Having My Wife ’s Purse Snatched
A few years ago, I had a bad experience: as I was riding a motorcycle with my wife, my wife’s purse was snatched. After realizing what happened (it took me a second or two), I tried to pursue the snatcher.
I was overcome with emotion. Worse, my wallet was inside my wife’s purse at that time.
Fortunately, I still had my rational mind with me. I thought to myself, “Wait, I can’t be too fast. Otherwise, we could have an accident and things would get way worse than this.” So I made sure that I could still control my motorcycle.
Sure enough, the snatcher was gone. He got my wife’s purse and my wallet. Fortunately, ...
Source: Life Optimizer - November 2, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Attitude Source Type: blogs
Do You Believe in What You Do?
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.
~ John Stuart Mill
Do you want to live a fulfilling life? There is one requirement: you must believe in what you do.
Believing in what you do is powerful. As the quote above says, it can make you as powerful as many people who have only interests. It can make your life fulfilling. It can also give you grit: passion and perseverance for long-term goals.
Let’s now look at the opposite. Here are four signs of not believing in what you do:
You do it only for the money.
You need other people’s approval to keep doing it.
You are easily distracted al...
Source: Life Optimizer - October 26, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Purpose Source Type: blogs
Ask the Readers: How Do You Find Your Community?
A while back, I wrote about why having a community is essential. There are four reasons that I gave there:
It’s a basic human need.
You need support in hard times.
It makes you healthy.
It trains you to be selfless.
I also mentioned that the definition of a community is a group of people who care about each other.
I believe that this is an important topic, especially given the rising problem of loneliness, so I have a question for you:
How do you find your community?
Please share your answer in the comments so that everyone can read it. Thanks! (Source: Life Optimizer)
Source: Life Optimizer - October 19, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Relationships Source Type: blogs
Three Key Actions to Level Up Your Life
If you want to reach your full potential, you need to level up your life. You need to take your life to the next level. And you need to do that constantly.
I know this is easier said than done, but the reward makes it well worth the effort. You will have a fulfilling life. You won’t have any lifetime regret.
So, how can we level up our lives?
I believe there are three key actions you should take for that. The three actions are:
Upgrade your beliefs
Be disciplined
Take risks
Let’s look at them one by one.
1. Upgrade Your Beliefs
Your beliefs are the force behind your actions. They are powerful because they influence y...
Source: Life Optimizer - October 4, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Thinking Working Source Type: blogs
How to Make Technology Works for You and Not Against You
Technology is like a double-edged sword. It can work for you or against you. Use it the right way and technology can help you become more productive. But use it the wrong way, and technology can take you away from what matter most. That’s why it’s important that you know how to make technology works for you.
How can you do that? Here are some tips.
1. Know the Options
To make the most of technology, first you need to know what the options are. If you don’t know what is available, how can you make the most of them?
You don’t need to know everything (in fact, trying to do that will take time away from doing your real...
Source: Life Optimizer - September 27, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Tools Source Type: blogs
Ask the Readers: What Is Your Favorite Personality Test?
The New Yorker recently published an article about personality tests. It mainly covers the history of MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator), but it also talks about personality tests in general.
The article says that while some people find personality tests helpful, some others doubt its value. But still, the tests are gaining popularity in recent decades.
The article also states that there are over two thousand personality tests out there! That number surprised me. I only know a few tests myself.
So here is my question to you:
What is your favorite personality test and why?
Please leave your answer in the comments so that ev...
Source: Life Optimizer - September 18, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Purpose Source Type: blogs
Failure Quotient: A Key to Living a Successful Life
When it comes to measuring someone’s potential in life, we are familiar with terms like Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and more recently Emotional Quotient (EQ). But there is another quality that’s also important. In fact, I believe that this is a key to living a successful life. I’d call it Failure Quotient (FQ).
What is Failure Quotient? Here is my definition:
Failure Quotient is a measurement of someone’s ability to fail intelligently.
Failure Quotient is about failing intelligently. It’s about being able to use failures to advance your life. The more you are able to do that, the higher your FQ is.
A good example ...
Source: Life Optimizer - September 12, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Learning Source Type: blogs
Purpose Mastery Is Now Open!
Last week, I wrote that my course on life purpose was coming. Well, I’m happy to say that Purpose Mastery is now open for enrollment! It’s open for one week and I plan to open it just twice a year.
Purpose Mastery is an online course on how to find and live out your purpose. The course will help you live your life, not someone else’s life. The end goal is that you live a fulfilling life.
While not being productive could cost you hours or days, not finding your purpose could cost you years. That’s why I believe that this topic is essential.
Click here to learn more
Please note that the price of the course will b...
Source: Life Optimizer - September 6, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: General Source Type: blogs
Purpose Mastery Is Coming Next Week
I have an announcement today: after working on it for months, I’m excited to say that Purpose Mastery is coming next week!
Purpose Mastery is an online course on how to find and live out your purpose. The course will help you live your life, not someone else’s life. The end goal is that you live a fulfilling life.
While not being productive could cost you hours or days, not finding your purpose could cost you years. That’s why I believe that this topic is essential.
The course will be open for enrollment for one week starting on Thursday, September 6. My plan is to open it just twice a year.
People tend to procrastin...
Source: Life Optimizer - August 31, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: General Source Type: blogs
How to Get the Most Out of Your Resources
There is a new word that I learned recently: tsundoku. It’s a Japanese word that means “buying reading materials without reading them.”
When I first learned about the word, it struck me because it describes me well :) Okay, I actually read the books I buy, but I buy books faster than I read them, so I guess the term still applies to me. Fortunately, I buy mostly e-books these days so they don’t take physical space.
The word tsundoku reminds me of the joy-to-stuff ratio in my article about frugality. Tsundoku is another way of saying that someone has a low joy-to-stuff ratio when it comes to books. They have a lot o...
Source: Life Optimizer - August 23, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Attitude Finance Source Type: blogs
How to Improve Your Life the Fun Way
The objective might be capturing the enemy’s flag, mining the most resources or something else. The point is that you have a clear idea about what you are working on. Similarly, you need to define what you want to improve.
2. Make it challenging but realistic.
For a game to be fun, it needs to be challenging but still realistic. If it’s too easy, you will get bored. If it’s too hard, you will give up in frustration. It needs to stretch your ability but not by too much.
Similarly, you need to have challenging but realistic goals for improving your life. For example, if you want to get good at writing, you might set a ...
Source: Life Optimizer - August 10, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Learning Source Type: blogs
A Simple Success Principle to Follow
In Smarter Faster Better, there is an interesting story about poker players and their strategies. Poker is a game of probabilities, so the essence of their strategies is how to maximize their odds of winning.
In a sense, life is also a ‘game’ of probabilities. There is an element of luck involved. Being in the right place at the right time counts. So, with that in mind, here is a good success principle to follow:
Do things that increase your odds of success in the long-term.
What does it mean?
Well, let’s dissect it. There are three parts there that contain important lessons:
1. Long-term
2. Odds
3. Increase
Let’s ...
Source: Life Optimizer - August 2, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Attitude Source Type: blogs
Have You Made the Most of Your Talents?
Whether you realize it or not, you have talents. The question is: have you made the most of them?
This thought came to me after looking at my own situation. I realized that I haven’t made the most of my talents. In my case, there is one talent in particular that stood out: coding.
Coding has become my passion since I was in high school. I also majored in computer science at college. But after graduating, there were years when I didn’t use it at all. I eventually realized that I had an idle potential in me and decided to start an app business.
So now I use my coding talent. But a deeper question then arose: have I made ...
Source: Life Optimizer - July 27, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Learning Working Source Type: blogs
My Observations While Being in Japan: Efficient but Not Simple
As you can see from the archives, I didn’t publish a post here in the first two weeks of July. The reason is that I went to Japan with my family. It was the first time I go there. It’s exciting to observe and experience a new culture!
I’m going to write my observations below, but because I was there for just a few days, they might be wrong or incomplete. Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments.
Without further ado, here are my observations while being in Japan.
1. It’s very punctual.
Every time we took a train there, it always departed on time. If the schedule says 09:56, then at exactly 09:56 the train wi...
Source: Life Optimizer - July 19, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Learning Source Type: blogs
My Observations From Being in Japan: Efficient but Not Simple
As you can see from the archives, I didn’t publish a post here in the first two weeks of July. The reason is that I went to Japan with my family. It was the first time I go there. It’s exciting to observe and experience a new culture!
I’m going to write my observations below, but because I was there for just a few days, they might be wrong or incomplete. Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments.
Without further ado, here are my observations from being in Japan.
1. It’s very punctual.
Every time we took a train there, it always departed on time. If the schedule says 09:56, then at exactly 09:56 the train wil...
Source: Life Optimizer - July 19, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Learning Source Type: blogs
