Digital Outlier | Orly Ballesteros

I have spent 10 minutes of my important day staring and firing words in front of my laptop. Outside the sky is pitch-black. Earlier it rained and cooled what was once a burning earth. I cannot ask for the wonderful interplay of elements as my best day approaches. It is like they are soldiers with trumpets announcing this important day of my life....

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A rubber band stretched to its full elasticity will snap. A dam forced to its pressure capacity will break. Cold water heated to the brink will boil. On the other hand, hot water place in a cold storage will freeze. These are samples of threshold. A universal law all of us are governed. Sadly, we forget about this rule of threshold. Most live...

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This is something that you must do when you are in a rut. This is something you must do when you feel like there is a hand in your face and it is pressing you to be six feet down under. Do not just stand or allow that hand to successfully push you to your grave. No. Never! Give some good old fight....

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I know love. But it seems I do not know love. She is like a woman that I may not be able to figure out. It seems that what once was a puzzle that I tried solving becomes a labyrinth that gets bigger and complicated. The more I tried to find the way out the more I am lost inside. I know love....

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Are you stressed and sad because you are thinking about the failures you committed in the past? Are you afraid and fearful as in your whole body shaking, and droplets of cold sweat roll down your body when you think about the unknown future that you have. Then if these are happening to you, why think about the past and the future where...

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She never graduated for higher education but is more educated than some of those people. She never took any management courses but her management abilities are superb. She never took economics but her financial and business acumen is at par with successful businessmen. She always prepares a sumptuous food whenever her sons or daughters paid her a visit. Her smile and infectious laugh...

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What is the worst thing that can happen if you give-up giving up? Maybe a failure which only means that you will experience delay in reaching the goal that you wanted to achieve. So if this is the case (and the truth) why be afraid of giving up GIVING UP? A lot of goals are achieved because those people that achieved it never...

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The weather is so fine you wanted to remain in bed. This is understandable. But the world moves on in a pace no one can keep up. So if the weather or any things for that matter is keeping you for doing the things you must be doing then there is one solution for that – take action! Inaction is solved by action....

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I don’t know maybe they matter but maybe not. On the deeper scheme of things power and position becomes irrelevant if you have personal influence. The Personal Influence that is borne out of your track record in producing results and showing care for others. If you ask me if I would rather have power and position versus personal influence, I would happily and...

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Seriously, how much focus do we need to achieve the results we set? If focus cannot be measured or calibrated then it becomes a vague word. But I got a proposition for this kind of dilemma. I say we focus as much as we can and never stopping in our action until we achieved the results that we wanted to achieve. A lot...

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This is the reality. We cannot turn our backs to this truth. We were given power to create on our own. If we realize and accept this the world is a better place of creators. Great thing about this if ever it happens, we will never see again victims of life scattered like litters in the streets. ...

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I just have to say this. It has been bugging me around for three days. If I let this one fly in this page maybe it will take shape, maybe not. But at least I tried to do something about it. The question what is the greatest tragedy of life? This question is bugging me. Is it what in the movie Moulin Rouge...

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Rock your 2013! Get out of your comfort zone.Life is too short - very short not to do something different. Yes, taking risks is nerve wrecking. Doing something different can give you a heart attack. It is like going inside a cave - dark, so dark, you can feel your goosebumps grow bigger than you. However, those who dare get outside of the...

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