Francis Kong: Inspiring Excellence

Most people you meet at work are courteous, decent, and pleasant. Consider them your rewards for your work. Unreasonable and ugly monsters like this customer in our story are rare exceptions. Consider them as challenges and tests to hone your people skills. Be calm and be patient. Do not fail the test. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Digital has so much upside, but you feel like a number in the end. If you make that mistake when people show up, interact with you, or message you, you've already lost. If you become a caring and empathetic leader or organization, the world's your oyster.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Thinking about quitting? Depressed? You are not alone. Perhaps you can identify with this person in our today's story. Perhaps quitting your job is not what you need. You need a break, a vacation, and a time to recharge and regain strength and composure. But for whatever it's worth, escaping does not work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Don't make a big deal out of being a slow learner. It's always better than those who never learned at all. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Francis Kong talks about Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio. The book examines history's most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we've experienced in our lifetimes—but similar to those that have happened many times before. Learn how we can apply this good book to read a...

Surrounding ourselves with negativity can make us feel bluer than blue. What are the best ways to handle it, especially if they came in the form of people around you? In this episode, Francis Kong shares different tips on how you can deal with cynics and pessimists. Listen in and if you loved this episode, follow the podcast, rate it 5 stars and hit the notification bell for more updates! Hosted o...

Here comes another episode of Francis Kong: Inspiring Excellence. In this episode, we talk about clocking in and clocking out in the workplace. Clocking in and out is an old-age tradition we do, not until the pandemic changed our lives in an instant. But how do you clock in and clock out when you work from home? Listen to this episode and if you love this, follow the podcast, rate us 5 stars and h...

Welcome back to another episode of Francis Kong: Inspiring Excellence. This episode is the fifth part of our discussion on choosing humility over pride. One of the effects of pride is the inability to accept God's forgiveness because we refuse to depend on him. Once we fully accept God's role in our lives, we will then start to embody humility. In this episode we also talk about choosing relevance...

There are several challenges in being a leader. One of them is the struggle to find real friends in the workplace. As they say, it can get lonely at the top. There might be professional friends or fans but they're different from true friends. In this episode, Francis Kong gives his piece on how leaders can cope with this dilemma while sharing tips on surviving such in the 46th episode of Francis K...

Welcome back to another episode of Francis Kong: Inspiring Excellence. In this episode we continue our discussion on the choice of Humility over Pride. We will look into how pride leads to independence from God. How do we avoid thinking that we are solely the one's responsible for the good things that has happened in our life? Listen in and don't forget to rate 5 stars! Hosted on Acast. See acast....

Welcome back to another episode of Francis Kong: Inspiring Excellence. In this episode we talk about the existence of thought leaders and how they move towards fame and success. A lot of people try to move to the middle to become more influential and inspiring by sharing their knowledge and abilities to their audience. How are these creators moving towards the middle and what are the points we sho...

Welcome back to another episode of Francis Kong: Inspiring Excellence. This episode is the third part of our discussion on choosing Humility over Pride. We talk about how pride brings about ingratitude and how it leads us into thinking that we should maintain a projected appearance of ourselves. Does pride make us selfish and does humility inspire us to be more selfless? Listen in and don't forget...

Welcome back to another episode of Francis Kong: Inspiring Excellence. In this episode we talk more about Humility and Pride. Did you know that pride carries with it a self-destructive power? Therefore, we must be cautious in choosing to embody this attitude. In this episode we talk about the scriptures that reveal to us the effects of Pride and Humility. Listen in and don't forget to rate us 5 st...

Welcome back to another episode of Francis Kong: Inspiring Excellence. In this episode we talk about the practical realizations we encounter in our lives. Sometimes we don't get what we want but that doesn't mean we give up on it. What we must do is to change our outlook on it and rethink our vision in life. Do you easily get frustrated when things don't go your way? Listen to this episode to unde...

Welcome back to another episode of Francis Kong: Inspiring Excellence. In this episode we talk about choosing Humility over Pride. Theese two are both attitudinal choices that we encounter in our daily lives. What could be the problem with pride? How do we become better at dealing wth it? We will discuss on this through the scriptures relating to the two issues at hand. Listen in and don't forget...

Welcome back to another episode of Francis Kong: Inspiring Excellence. This episode is the sixth part of our discussion on Comparison and Discontentment. In this episode Francis shares another story on how discontentment is a killer and a thief of joy. How do we change our mindset to avoid discontentment and finally live a happy life? Listen in and don't forget to rate us 5 stars! Hosted on Acast....

Welcome back to another episode of Francis Kong: Inspiring Excellence. In this episode we talk about how to deal with the perception of people towards you. How others will treat you will depend on the level of excellence you have achieved in life. Listen to the episode and don't forget to rate us 5 stars! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back to another episode of Francis Kong: Inspiring Excellence. This episode is the fifth part of our discussion on Comparison and Discontentment. Listen in as Francis Kong shares a story about how money can never buy happiness and contentment. It is proven more and more each day that riches can never bring us a life of contentment. Listen to the nineteenth day of Life Choices for Purposefu...

Welcome back to another episode of Francis Kong: Inspiring Excellence. This is the fourth part of our discussion on Comparison and Discontentment. In this episode, we talk about man's nature to always want more. Is it true that the more money we have, the bigger our expenses are. When will we ever satisfy ourselves? Listen to the eighteenth day of Life Choices for Purposeful Living and don't forge...

Welcome back to another episode of Francis Kong: Inspiring Excellence. We have another batch of tweets and thoughts for you. Francis Kong shares his wisdom and advices that we can apply in our daily lives. Did you catch an advice that struck you? Listen to the episode and don't forget to rate us 5 stars! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back to another special episode under Inspiring Excellence. This is the part three of our discussion on Comparison and Discontentment. In this episode, we talk about how money can bring dissatisfaction to our lives and how it gives us a false sense of security. Can money really make our dreams come true? When will we know we are already making enough? Listen to the seventeenth day of Life...

Welcome back to another special episode under Inspiring Excellence. In this episode, we talk more about the unhappiness that comparison brings. We can start living life with contentment once we accept that there will be people who can be better than us, but that doesn't mean we are any less. Listen to the sixteenth day of Life Choices for Purposeful Living and don't forget to rate us 5 stars! Host...

Welcome back to another episode of Francis Kong: Inspiring Excelllence. For this episode we have another batch of tweets and thoughts. Francis shares random pockets of advice that can be applied in our daily lives. What advice resonnated to you the most? Listen to the second day of tweets and thoughts and don't forget to rate us 5 stars! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back to another special episode under Inspiring Excellence. In this episode, we talk about Comparison being the biggest thief of our happiness. We start to suffer discontentment in our lives when we start to compare our successes from other people. When we adopt the attitude of comparison, we then feel dissatisfied with our lives. Do you think our discontentment will lead to resentment? Li...

Welcome back to another special episode under Inspiring Excellence. This episode is the final part of our discussion on Rest and Stress. Setting an unrealistic schedule wherein all you do is work, can lead to burnout. Remember, rest is productive too. In this episode, we talk about finding the root causes of our stress, head on. How can we treat rest as an attitude and not just a small-time activi...