Archive for the ‘Reflection’ Category
Posted on January 2nd, 2012 by by Yukari
I see many friends uploading their “Year in Review” posts and I’m finally sitting down to write it myself. Looking back, 2011 was a busy year for me. I am not sure if it’s neccesarily a bad thing though. I’m just re-reading my posts from this year and reflecting. Here are some of the big moments [...]
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Tags: 2011, Amber Naslund, Chris Brogan, Chris Guillebeau, Getting Engaged, Jason Kolt, Jay Baer, Mark Davidson
Posted on August 27th, 2011 by by Yukari
Have you ever done Myers-Briggs Personality Test? According to the test, I am a type ENFJ, meaning I tend to have following qualities – (E)Extrovert, (N)Intuition (F)Feeling (J) Judging. But as my friend Jamie once told me, I’m an Introverted Extrovert. I like to go out and meet people and be social, but at the [...]
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Tags: Chris Brogan, Haruki Murakami, Myers-Briggs, Norwegian Wood
Posted on August 19th, 2011 by by Yukari
If you are not aware of Foursquare, it’s a social networking website where you can “check in” at various locations(shops, restaurants, banks, and any other businesses)using your mobile devices. It’s been around since 2009, and according to Wikipedia, it has 10 million users worldwide. Despide all the concerns for danger (“Why would you want to [...]
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Tags: Foursquare
Posted on July 6th, 2011 by by Yukari
I just read Amber‘s latest blog post and had to write it myself. If you haven’t yet, I highly recommend you go read it here first. I met Amber last month at Social Media Camp. I’ve written about my experience at SMCV11 here, but there was definitely something about her that I really liked. When [...]
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Tags: Amber Naslund
Posted on May 26th, 2011 by by Yukari
I just got back from my two weeks trip to Japan. I told this story to many of you, but originally this trip was planned for March. My older son’s Japanese class was going to Japan as school trip, and I decided to tag along with my younger son to visit the family and friends. [...]
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Tags: Japan, Sasebo
Posted on May 15th, 2011 by by Yukari
Currently I’m on an Air Canada flight to Tokyo. I tried to go to sleep but it is not working. Recently I have read Gretchen Rubin’s “The Happiness Project” – every month for one year she works on various topics on becoming happier. For example, January, she worked on getting more organized, and February was [...]
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Tags: Friendship, The Happy Project
Posted on March 3rd, 2011 by by Yukari
Last couple of days have been tough for me. More than two friends have told me (separately) about their hardships in life, which made my heart sink. I had my own disappointments-very minor compared to my friends’, but still-that made me think about my relationships with people around me. And yesterday. Yesterday I was in [...]
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Posted on February 26th, 2011 by by Yukari
Just yesterday, I have finished my 3 month session with my coach, Jenny Ferry. I met her at Blissdom Canada. She sat next to me at one of the sessions (I think), we started talking and hit it off, and she offered to be my coach. At the time, I had no idea what to [...]
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Tags: coaching, jenny ferry
Posted on February 17th, 2011 by by Yukari
I am so behind on blogging. I do have so many “topics” I want to write about, but again, when you are so time deprived, what drives you to start writing is not the array of “topics” I “should” write about, but the momentum and the things you feel passionate about. I have just finished [...]
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Tags: Brene Brown, jenny ferry, Life Statement, Social Media Camp, TEDxJuanDeFuca
Posted on January 29th, 2011 by by Yukari
Since I posted my New Year’s resolution, I’m pretty happy to report I am doing well. I’m on my 4th book of this year, (my resolution was to read at least read 2 a month), so this is a good start. They are; The 4-hour Work Week by Tim Ferris Never Eat Alone by Keith [...]
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Tags: Brene Brown, Chris Guillebeau, Keith Ferrazzi, Tim Ferris, Vulnerability