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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Business and life inspirations

Having been down in the dumps for the past month, my buddy reached out to me and dragged me across the country borders to have a crazy good meal at the stroke of midnight... Quite nice but quite WTF at the same time haha.

So over the weekend I was 'convinced' to attend a motivational speakers talk. Of course I knew it was from a network marketing group so they would sell their products and of course I knew it was 3 hours long. But I wasn't prepared for was to spend 1.5~2 of those hours watching them give awards to themselves.... Not to mention he didn't call anyone else so I was alone cuz he was sitting at the front row. Thank God for another buddy who was part of the organization and he kept me company (and ran out for a quick meal mid way and back).

Well I wont say all is lost. There were several points that they covered.
Conscious thoughts. Sub conscious. Positive and negative influences. Emotional driven motivation and the likes.

But perhaps the most useful piece of advices that I got was.
  1. Listen to your CD's
  2. Spend a minimum of 15 mins a day on reading a good book
  3. Find a mentor to teach you and inspire you (which can be the books)
These CD's are their training manuals. And my do they thrive on these bits of verbally drilling knowledge into their brains.

That we cannot do.

But what we can do is to commit ourselves to reading a good and proper book for just FIFTEEN minutes a day.

And my budd passed me one of his books, and now I wanna buy one haha..

The Go-Giver



Perhaps it is quite a DUH statement to say. "Hey! read a good motivational book and be inspired" But honestly the first steps to commitment in anything is consistency.

If you believe that knowledge is power, then constant reading is truly the best way to improve your life. Just that bus or train ride to and fro from work will do. Sacrifice that little bit of that half arsed bus sleep and you can open yourself to so much more.

I really recommend the Go-Giver to someone interested in a short and light read. Apart from its 5 Laws, perhaps the biggest take away is that if you want to be successful in business, it is not your business strategy that needs to be changed; it is your life itself that needs to change. All it takes is just a little shift in perspective.

Here's a little segment from the book.

"The world certainly was designed with a sense of humour, wasn’t i? Inside every truth and every appearance, there’s a bit of opposite tucked inside."
"Just to keep things interesting.: Joe Mused out loud


Read the book and you'll understand more. Hur hur


JJ

Monday, April 16, 2012

Ten ten ten!

Haha I think I'm watching this video clip on a daily basis just to have a happy laugh.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150714890658411&ref=notif&notif_t=like

My nephew! at 18 months...




Totally reminded me of this video clip haha.
Got to love the Japanese

JJ

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Ubuntu - Finding Peace

Here's something that I just read on Facebook
"An anthropologist studying the habits and customs of an African tribe found himself surrounded by children most days. So he decided to play a little game with them. He managed to get candy from the nearest town and put it all in a decorated basket. at the foot of a tree.

Then he called the children and suggested they play the game. When the anthropologist said "now", the children had to run to the tree and the first one to get there could have all the candy to him/herself.

So the children all lined up waiting for the signal. When the anthropologist said "now", all of the children took each other by the hand ran together towards the tree. They all arrived at the same time divided up the candy, sat down and began to happily munch away.

The anthropologist went over to them and asked why they had all run together when any one of them could have had the candy all to themselves.

The children responded: "Ubuntu. How could any one of us be happy if all the others were sad?"

Ubuntu is a philosophy of African tribes that can be summed up as "I am what I am because of who we all are."

Bishop Desmond Tutu gave this explanation in 2008 :

"One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu – the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can't be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality – Ubuntu – you are known for your generosity. We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole World. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity."


This week has been Holy week and I've been to church more often then I would in a month! Maundy thurs, gd fri, easter. And thanks to that I'm not nearly as suicidal nor murderous as I should be.

As as some might know, I just broke up with my wife to be. It was an "Adult" decision of analysis rather than pure love. But hey. Marriage is not about just you and me (esp in an Asian context) its about life, religion, family, and extended family.

And of course I've been feeling like crap due to the lack of traction from all the work that I have put in (not to mention time spent away from building bonds with my now lost partner). Whereas my peers have some form of movement, all I'm feeling is a great sense of inertia. Of course I try to get closer to another prospective person whom I am charmed by her positiveness and above all... Of course even that isn't going anywhere near how I would like it to be.

What I can say is, my life isn't going any way that I like right now. But there are many less fortunate out there.

What I can offer is that if you feel alone you are not. For there is God. And if you feel that God is not answering, I hope that at least I can answer and say a nice warm hello to all you netizens out there.

How can I feel happy if the others are sad?

Here's a nice warm Virtual Hug People.

Good night


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