Success is goal-setting

A lot of people want success or become successful. But, not many of them can actually define their own success. In order words, they do not even know what success means to them. That is why it is quite hard for them to hunt for success which is a relatively vague [...]

Love Advice

A couple days ago, I watched on YouTube an interview between Ellen Degeneres and Will Smith on one of The Ellen Degeneres Shows. You can check the interview by these links Will Smith on Ellen Part1 and Will Smith on Ellen Part2 . (Personally I like Will Smith a lot as [...]

7 Goals for Smart Students

If my memory still works well, I remember I wrote an article about freshman entitled 9 Stupid Reasons Most Freshmen Make. It was one of the earliest pieces of my work that I did to begin my weblog, and fortunately enough, it got positive feedback from most of my readers. Hopefully [...]

How to find a good job after College

Nowadays I am teaching and helping many Cambodian university students enhance their academic potentials in English language and soft skills such as Public Speaking, communication, and etc. Working with them reminds me a lot about my life as a student. It just takes me back to the wild happy times I [...]

How to Change My Bad Habits

Have you ever heard this sentence “thoughts lead to feelings which lead to actions which lead to habits”? Actually, it doesn’t end at habits; it leads further to destiny, life, etc. Yet, since we are talking about habits, let us stop there and discuss about how to change bad habits that we are [...]

4 reasons people go to school

Working with students of different age, background and ability, I am usually asked a question ‘Why should we go to school?’ Personally, I believe this question is crucially important for any student to ask their instructor, and its answer is worth studying and clearing knowing.

Also, I am a kind of [...]

8 Wrong Reasons to Take 2 Majors at the Same Time

In late 2005 when I first enrolled in the degree of Bachelor of Education (in TEFL) at the Institute of Foreign Languages (IFL), there were around 30 students in my class, and more than half of them majored in another skill in another university. Today, while my sister is taking her Bachelor of [...]

Slow Success

Before I elaborate my points in this article, I just want to make one thing clear that the theme, title, and photo used in this article are taken from a book titled “The Slight Edge: Secret to a successful life” written by Mr. Jeff Olson, one of the USA’s legendary motivational [...]

First month of a new class with a new goal and hope

Today is October 06, 2010, which means I have already attended courses of Master of Arts in Teaching English to Students of Other Languages (MA in TESOL) at the Institute of Foreign Languages (IFL), Cambodia, for one month.

To most students (and people), one month is actually not a [...]

Life plan: how to plan your life

I really don’t know what has inspired me to write this article. It was raining heavily this afternoon, and I was riding my motorbike to work for around 20 minutes under the rain because the roads were flooded, which did not allow me to ride as fast as I would want [...]

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