CJ Faderogao

Stephen Covey, a renowned management teacher, shared to the world a framework for good living in the form of the book  The 7 habits of highly effective people.  More than 30 years after its publication in 1989, Covey's ideas and insights continue to change the lives of people today. The book remains an influential toolkit in navigating our psychology as adults in our present fast-paced society.  From Bohatala.com article: The 7 habits of highly effective people overview. The power of Covey's idea lies in how he developed the habits as interconnected steps towards growth and maturity. Covey provided a  software, as Jim Collins described it in his foreword for the book's 30th anniversary edition, that makes personal development manageable and pragmatic.  For my blog post this week, I would like to revisit my favorite out of the 7 habits. The habit of self-renewal or, as Stephen Covey termed it, the habit of  Sharpening the saw.  * * *  By sharpening the saw, Covey means to sa

Photo by Linus Sandvide on Unsplash The subject of truth is not as simple as it ought to be. As we grow and learn more about the world, it seems that our path, or at least our conception of what reality is, tends to get more hazy. We tend to experience confusion; we become doubtful in distinguishing right from wrong; hesitant on what to put our trust; and we can lose our touch with what once we consider as a "solid" foundation that we use to make sense of our reality.  It is of my realization that this inner dilemma arises because the world presents us with diverse and often contradictory ideas and beliefs. We get confused because we experience that the world-the real world-is filled with other beliefs, challenging the ones that we hold dear during our younger years. We realize that it is not only our belief that matters, but that every perspective by every other people contains within them a sliver of truth-even if it may seem opposite to what we believe. It becomes then ted

Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than the intellect.                                                                                                                             -  Steve Jobs We have all experienced moments of unexpected clarity at certain points in our lives. Moments where we just know what to do or what decision to take. Instances where, as if guided by an ethereal force, w e know if an action will bring about a good result without spending much effort on rational thinking.   These flashes of knowledge has been labeled by many terms: h unch, gutfeel, insight, but psychologists posits that these terms all point to our built-in compass that is responsible for giving us such moments of clarity. It is called intuition,  and it will be the subject of my blog this week. Photo by Jamie Street on unsplash * * * Intuition may seem like a "magical" function of our psychology; an ability that comes from a "higher realm" that is beyond our un