I booked the flight to Arkansas months ago to celebrate my birthday and complete one of my bucket list to visit all US states yet Covid-19 made me cancel the trip/ vacation. The silver lining are (1) because of Covid-19, airline waived the charge of cancellation (1 year credit allowance) or change of booking and …
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Minimalist to be the Maximalist
I read from Peak Performance that highly successful people, e.g. Barak Obama, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs have very simple/ consistent wardrobe to minimize decision making on trivia things and save the energy to focus on more important things. A benefit of working from work is that I don’t need to make wardrobe decision now. I …
Humble and Grateful
Many people, including myself had never imagined one day to wait in line for store to open and hope to get toilet paper in US. Yet it’s happening now… I went to Target at 8:20 (store opens at 8AM) and hope to get toilet paper. It was out of stocks last weekend when I went …
Work from Home
Working from home for 2 weeks now. I appreciate the technology and teamwork that enable this, more importantly, the trust behind that people will do the right thing. I think ‘trust’ is what makes a brand, company, country great*. I’m fortunately living in a neighborhood, on the front facing the main road so looking outside …
Reflection
We had a global all-hands town hall meeting. In the meeting, COO shared 3 numbers (3—4880—0) and asked everybody to guess what they mean. The answer was ‘in 3 weeks, we’ve moved 4880 to work from home (due to Covid-19), and 0 production issue. WoW, what an achievement and collaboration across-functions! COO then played a …
Humanity
I received an email from an old colleague/ friend in China who asked how I am doing as she saw the news of Covid-19 outbreak in US. She said her husband and children went to WuHen (1st outbreak/ most seriously infected area) for Chinese New Year. The outbreak ‘grounded’ them there for 50 days and …
Smart Kindness
I am a supporter of Children International. Recently I sponsored 2 new girls in Philippine and Zambia. When I received the welcome pack, it included not only their pictures and profile info but also a card and a stamp-exempt return envelope asking me to answer a few questions to introduce myself. It took me only …
Our Choice
Schools are closed, events are cancelled, and people’s conversation is often around covid-19. It is uncertain, it may be scary, yet we always have the choice to be happy, hopeful, creative, considerate, helpful, grateful…
Be, Breath & Give Thanks
A lighter attendance to yoga class due to covid-19, the instructor shared with us her mantra ‘Be, Breath & Give Thanks’. I love it and it lights up this uncertain time. Being present in our practice or whatever we do, breath and appreciate what we have/ who we are. Crisis (worst time) often brings the …
Normalcy
With covid-19, many schools are closed and certain products are in short supply (I can understand for mask, sanitizer yet I’m surprised to see empty shelf of toilet paper, grocery). I don’t know what will happen next yet I try to live as normal life as possible, go to work, yoga, toastmaster…Worry doesn’t change the …