I’ve been thinking a lot about life and finding your passion. John Wood’s story of how he transformed his career from that of an common executive to one of international importance and impact is the best example of how following your dreams can create happiness which leads to an increased productivity and improved economic [...]

This Sunday, February 3, 2008 is the anniversary date of 2 important events — the Blogroll Amnesty Day and the liberal blogrolling policy here at Three Sticks. Last year around this time I stumbled across an article by Jon Swift about how some of the more popular bloggers had choose to remake their blogrolls to include [...]

It’s been a little while since I’ve written.   A lot has changed in the last few months. I got married. I moved. I’ve experienced some of the happiest times in my life.  It’s been fantastic.  There has also been some sadness and tragedy.  In this same period, I’ve have 1 friend and 1 family member [...]

I recently finished reading John Wood’s book, Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur’s Odyssey to Educate the World’s Children. It describes the intensely personal journey that Wood undertook to transform himself from an extremely successful Marketing Executive for Microsoft to the founder of one of the fast growing charities in the world, Room [...]

In my article Celebrating Character, I explored Stephen Covey’s concepts of Character and Personality Ethic. In summary, Character Ethic is the belief that success is based on the strength on one’s character. In contrary the Personality Ethic is the belief that success is determined by establishing the appearance and attitudes of success without [...]