Shifting Paradigms
Shifting Paradigms
The news has been distressing for the last few weeks since October 7, 2023 when Hamas attacked Israelis killing many of them and taking some as hostages. The Israeli government in turn attacked the Palestinians in what they call their…
In a recent TED Talk in New York, Attorney Jing Corpuz, a member of the Kankana-ey people of the Cordilleras in the Philippines said “reciprocity, spirituality, not taking more than you need, obligation to future generations and collective decision making,…
Tax collection – the Dept of Finance (DOF) is one of the most important units in the government because this is the unit that collects taxes which is then used to fund government projects and operations. Yet DOF has two…
March 11, 2020 – the World Health Organization declares COVID19 a pandemic. With the thousands of news flooding the world, it is hard to differentiate factual news from the misinformation coming both from social media and sensationalized news coming from…
How We Can Learn to Fulfill Our Potential In the 2015 SEA Games, Agatha Wong competed in Wushu. She finished second from the last place. I’m sure she was dissapointed with that. However, in an interview recently, she said “That…
Many of us dream of achieving something significant in our lives, yet we are often paralyzed with fear of failure, fear that we might lose our lives, fear that we might lose our money, and even something as silly as…
Today, May 13, 2019 is an election day. The only day given to us to have our voices be heard. Don’t waste it. Go out and vote and let your voice be heard. Election day is our only chance to…
There are many instances where we hear other people tell us what we are and then assume that we are just as they described. Starting at a very young age, many of us might have been called names, given labels,…
You have no idea how much better you will feel if you stop using these words – entitled, blame and deserve. How many times have we heard things like: “I deserve a better grade than this!” “I deserve to be…
Masafumi Nagasaki, 83 years old, has lived on the island of Sotobanari, Okinawa, Japan for 30 years. Alone! There are poisonous snakes in the island, some even crawling near his tent. When asked if he was ever attacked by a…