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Clare Sim
Dec 14, 20183 min read
BookBites - Is Talent Ever Enough?
I recently completed John Maxwell's Talent is Never Enough. I was intrigued as the title seemed to be contrary to strengths psychology....
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Clare Sim
May 31, 20166 min read
What makes life most worth living?
Passion seems to be the buzzword when thinking about what to do with your life these days. Many people throw the word around casually,...
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Clare Sim
May 8, 20164 min read
Why Guilt May Be Good for Us
Think about an incident when you were young that was so shameful that it hurts you to think or talk about. What was it? How did you feel?...
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Clare Sim
May 2, 20162 min read
Derive meaning from suffering
Suffering is not necessary to derive meaning in life, but meaning may be derived from suffering. Do you agree? I recently completed Man's...
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Clare Sim
Apr 23, 20162 min read
What are you most proud of?
This seems like such an 'inappropriate' and 'self-centred' topic to write about, in the Asian context at least. My parents have never...
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Clare Sim
Apr 16, 20162 min read
What Do People Thank You For?
This is a fun question to think about! Thinking about it reminds you about how you're contributing to the lives of others - and that's...
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Clare Sim
Apr 13, 20162 min read
What makes you angry about the world?
One of the questions to think about when deciding on possible career paths or causes to volunteer for, is this: 3 years ago, I subscribed...
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Clare Sim
Apr 7, 20162 min read
Dreams don't work unless you do.
In a sea of never-ending 'practical' commitments, You might feel like you're drowning, so caught up in the currents of demands sweeping...
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Clare Sim
Feb 19, 20163 min read
Trust cannot be built on self-centred honesty.
As someone who struggles with trust, I tend to look for wisdom on what trust means. What contributes to it? What builds it? What destroys...
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Clare Sim
Feb 11, 20162 min read
Learn to fail, or fail to learn
It's not our successes that define us. That's society's definition. What defines us is failure. Or should I say, failure refines us. It...
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Clare Sim
Feb 2, 20164 min read
Conflict resolution crash course
Something to remind yourself when conflict arises with a significant person in your life. It's too easy to take the people around you for...
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Clare Sim
Jan 22, 20164 min read
4 Lessons from The Alchemist
Want to do something but don't have the courage to? This book is for you. I got to know about The Alchemist from Scott Dinsmore, the guy...
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Clare Sim
Dec 3, 20158 min read
8 Markers of Commitment in Lasting Relationships
What determines whether a relationship will last? There are so many articles and research done on relationship satisfaction. I don't...
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Clare Sim
Oct 15, 20153 min read
Why Your Ego Should Matter Less in Competitions
I have a love-hate relationship with competition. Like many of us in Singapore, I grew up immersed in social comparison. From the moment...
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Clare Sim
Sep 30, 20154 min read
3 Things We Gain From Sadness
I caught the movie Inside Out recently and I loved it. The takeaway I got was that Sadness is valuable. 1. Sadness tells us something...
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Clare Sim
Sep 15, 20156 min read
I will Live My Legend because of you, Scott Dinsmore
I am grieving over the loss of one of my greatest sources of inspiration, a man I have never met but whose words have touched the core of...
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Clare Sim
Aug 22, 20154 min read
The Power of Thinking
If you have 11 minutes to spare, watch this video by Dr. Mike Evans on stress management: If we asked "What is the one negative thing in...
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Clare Sim
Aug 8, 20152 min read
Do nothing for 6 hours. Can you?
I can, to my amazement. Unless you count meditation as doing something, then I guess the question doesn't hold. We convened at a cosy...
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Clare Sim
Jul 27, 20152 min read
Growth and challenge are best friends
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith...
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Clare Sim
May 25, 20152 min read
"Am I _____ enough?"
A question I believe all of us have asked at some point in our lives, whether as a passing thought or a recurring (and debilitating)...
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