This is a break from the usual semi-serious stuff you get here in AngPeregrino.

GOOD is the inte­grated media plat­form for peo­ple who want to live well and do good. They are a com­pany and com­mu­nity for peo­ple, busi­nesses, and NGOs mov­ing the world for­ward. GOOD’s mis­sion is to pro­vide con­tent, expe­ri­ences, util­i­ties and oppor­tu­ni­ties to serve this community.

Unclut­ter­ing is one of the best things that have ever hap­pened in my life. I’ve been try­ing to unclut­ter my life the past year and the results have been steadily improv­ing the other parts of my life as well.

I am a fight fan. I watch box­ing a lot. One of my ear­li­est mem­o­ries was my father bring­ing me to our box­ing “col­i­seum” (I think it was really a cock­pit that was con­verted into a box­ing venue with the strap­ping of a ring) when I was 4 or 5 years old. It was fight night (and way past my bed­time). I don’t remem­ber the fight, who the fight­ers were, or who won. But there was the unmis­tak­able feel of excite­ment among the crowd as they cheered the box­ers on. I also watched Mike Tyson kick the liv­ing hell out of Spinks’ ass in a lit­tle under 90 sec­onds in one of the few restau­rants that had satel­lite tv in our place back in the day.

I’ve had the priv­i­lege (and the good for­tune) of hav­ing good supe­ri­ors (we call them lead­ers of ours “supe­ri­ors” when I was a Jesuit) and man­agers over the past years (except for the bad egg or two here and there). So I never really had prob­lems with my bosses. But I know many other peo­ple who have. And I’ve encoun­tered some in my deal­ings with dif­fer­ent com­pa­nies all over the Philippines.

Here is some­thing that exec­u­tives, man­agers, or lead­ers in gen­eral should read. You may already be falling into the trap of com­pla­cency and you prob­a­bly have thought these out in your head or said out loud. Check your­self. Is this some­thing you would say?