by Paul Tan | May 5, 2021 | Advice, Self Development
One of my mentors said to me once, as an entrepreneur, or self-employed person you gain control of your time, your finances and even who you choose to do business with. At the same time, you lose one major privilege. The privilege to fall ill. When starting out, you...
by Paul Tan | May 4, 2021 | General
What a strange month. A couple of extra long work days. A couple of sick days. Family emergencies. Family Celebrations. Then mostly a lot of catching up on backlog. I often wonder at the mental capacity and physical discipline of determined creative artists. How they...
by Paul Tan | Mar 28, 2021 | Self Development
As I go through my 100-days journey of writing, I’ve been reading quite a fair bit of articles about writing. There are two camps of writers. The one camp that goes for quantity of content; frequent but shorter in length. The other camp that goes for quality;...
by Paul Tan | Mar 25, 2021 | Reviews
I love it when thought leaders take a regular word and redefine or deepen the meaning of that word. The good ones open up a new world perspective of working with that word. One of these thought leaders I admire is Seth Godin. And his definition of art is:Art is a...
by Paul Tan | Mar 17, 2021 | General
Letting go is something easier said than done. But it still needs to be done. Today I’ve finally let go of my children’s Lego bricks. All seven tubs of them. Probably a good 15 years after they stopped playing with them. Ok, it wasn’t in my direct...
by Paul Tan | Mar 16, 2021 | Faith
The book of Jonah opens like an adventure story of modern movies. Our hero Jonah denies his holy task, jumps onto a ship to get far away from the presence of God. As the vessel sails, a storm arises and all his shipmates (who worship a myriad of other gods) together...
by Paul Tan | Mar 14, 2021 | Faith
I wonder how it’s like to stay 3 days and 3 nights in the belly of a big fish. I’m trying to imagine the size of this fish or whale, that can take in a full grown man, not actively digest him, and survive on what else it’s got to ingest for that...
by Paul Tan | Mar 13, 2021 | Faith
The city of Nineveh in the Book of Jonah had a population of 120,000 and a cityscape which took 3 days to walk across. Using Singapore as a reference, that’s about the number of people living in Toa Payoh, and a slightly smaller district size. Now if you were to...
by Paul Tan | Mar 12, 2021 | Faith
It amazes me that as human as we are, filled with insecurities, fears, anger and more, God can still use us. Jonah was an angry man – he lived angry, talked angry and when you read the book of Jonah, it’s easy to imagine that he also walked angry. And yet...
by Paul Tan | Mar 11, 2021 | Productivity, Self Development
As we live life, we encounter an immense amount of input, receive just as much stimuli, and have to make sense of them to make decisions or take actions. How do we actually process them? I had thought that we usually winged it or allowed some personal guidelines to...
