Life is full of changes, isn't it?
Or do you feel that you life seems to be monotonous all along? Is it that you have not been noticing the change? Or you are just reluctant to accept the change around you?
Nothing is this world remains the same. Look back, not to say 10 years ago, but simply just 1 year ago, there have been changes going around, if not you yourself. Environment, relationships, thinking, behaviour - all these is being shaped up all the time - non-stop. It is just towards better or worse, that's all.
Change is scary, in fact. Change is going out from your comfort zone, towards another unfamiliar territory, a place where you need to start all over again. Sounds a bit exaggerating, though. But, this is it, isn't it?
But change is what that is necessary in order to reach out to another level, to break out and to have a better you. However, one thing that need to be reminded - moderation. Whatever, we do, we need to remember to do in moderate, in balance.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
atttitude (2)
I am recently watching this drama - Dream High.
This drama is focusing on 6 students who went into the renowned Kirin High Arts School, well-known for producing top class artists in the country. Although the initial motive of these 6 students who enrolled into the school is different, but the ultimate goal is the same. Stories were woven around them and showing us their ups and downs, their passion and determination and how they have actually grown up along the way.
And I think, this is one of the good dramas that showed you, the attitude that you should have in life is what it takes go thru the tribulations in your life. Life may not always be a bed of roses, so, it is what that's in you that makes the day. Things may not come by easily in life, if you did not get it, why not make one?
This drama is focusing on 6 students who went into the renowned Kirin High Arts School, well-known for producing top class artists in the country. Although the initial motive of these 6 students who enrolled into the school is different, but the ultimate goal is the same. Stories were woven around them and showing us their ups and downs, their passion and determination and how they have actually grown up along the way.
And I think, this is one of the good dramas that showed you, the attitude that you should have in life is what it takes go thru the tribulations in your life. Life may not always be a bed of roses, so, it is what that's in you that makes the day. Things may not come by easily in life, if you did not get it, why not make one?
attitude
Sometimes you may find those forward mails a bit annoying, asking you to check this and that out, sometimes it's just about stuff that make fun of others. However, there are those that forward meaningful stuff to you as well.
I've received a forward email regarding working attitude, which I think I might have come across previously. Nevertheless, the story behind still rang true. Although it is trying to emphasize on working attitude, but I think the same can be applied in our daily lives.
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The Story: SELLING COMB TO THE MONKS
There was one company "manufacturing combs" which intends to expand its business and so the management wanted to employ a new Sales Manager.
The company ADVERTISED the vacancy in the newspaper . They are so many peoples turned up for the interview everyday....accumulated to almost a hundred peoples in just few days...
The Company now having the problem to choose the right candidate for this position . So, The Company interviewer had set A Difficult Task to whom who want to come for final interview.
The Task Is To : Selling Comb To Monks In Temples
Only 3 Applicants willing to stay on for this Final Interview challenge. (Mr A , Mr B , Mr C)
The Chief Interviewer instructed: "Now I want three of you here to sell these wooden combs to the monks in the temples. You only have 10 days to do it and report to me after that."
After 10 days, they reported.
The Chief Interviewer asked Mr A: How many have you sold?
Mr A Answered: Only One.
The Chief Interviewer Asked: How did you manage to sell?
Mr A Answered: The monks in the temples scolded me when I show them the comb . But on my way back to downhill I met a young monk who bought it to scratch his head due to dandruff".
The Chief Interviewer then asked Mr B: How many did you sell?
Mr B replied: 10 pieces. I went to a shrine and noticed many devotees's hair was in bad shape due to strong wind outside the shrine. The monk in there listened to my advice and bought 10 combs for their devotees in showing respect to the Buddha statue.
Then, The Chief Interviewer asked Mr C: How about you?
Mr C replied: 1,000 units.
The Chief Interviewer and the other 2 interviews were astounded.
The Chief Interviewer asked: How you did that?
Mr C replied: I went to a famous temple. After observing for few days I discovered that there were many tourists. I then told the Chief Abbot there. "Sifu, those who come here are much devoted. If you could give them a gift, it will be more elating to them. I told him that I have a bulk of combs here and ask him to raft his handwriting on the combs as a present to those visit here. He was very delighted and straight away ordered 1,000 pieces."
The End of Story.
MORAL OF THE STORY :
HARVARD UNIVERSITY had done a research that says :-
1) 85% of success is due to attitude and 15% is capability
2) Attitude is more important than intelligence , specials skills and luck .
In another word , professional knowledge only constitutes for 15% of success of a person and 85% is due to self-cultivation, public relation and adaptability ability .
Still remember the story of Selling Shoes to African ?
When 2 Salesmen were sent to that continent, one of them reported: Can not do it. No one wears shoes there? The second salesman said: It is good to market . A lot of opportunity .
Success and Failure is dependent on how we face problems.
Remember, when the economic is good, there are peoples going bankrupt .
When business is bad , there are many new millionaires produced as well. So , apply now the 85% right working attitude fully..
All the best!
I've received a forward email regarding working attitude, which I think I might have come across previously. Nevertheless, the story behind still rang true. Although it is trying to emphasize on working attitude, but I think the same can be applied in our daily lives.
========================================================
The Story: SELLING COMB TO THE MONKS
There was one company "manufacturing combs" which intends to expand its business and so the management wanted to employ a new Sales Manager.
The company ADVERTISED the vacancy in the newspaper . They are so many peoples turned up for the interview everyday....accumulated to almost a hundred peoples in just few days...
The Company now having the problem to choose the right candidate for this position . So, The Company interviewer had set A Difficult Task to whom who want to come for final interview.
The Task Is To : Selling Comb To Monks In Temples
Only 3 Applicants willing to stay on for this Final Interview challenge. (Mr A , Mr B , Mr C)
The Chief Interviewer instructed: "Now I want three of you here to sell these wooden combs to the monks in the temples. You only have 10 days to do it and report to me after that."
After 10 days, they reported.
The Chief Interviewer asked Mr A: How many have you sold?
Mr A Answered: Only One.
The Chief Interviewer Asked: How did you manage to sell?
Mr A Answered: The monks in the temples scolded me when I show them the comb . But on my way back to downhill I met a young monk who bought it to scratch his head due to dandruff".
The Chief Interviewer then asked Mr B: How many did you sell?
Mr B replied: 10 pieces. I went to a shrine and noticed many devotees's hair was in bad shape due to strong wind outside the shrine. The monk in there listened to my advice and bought 10 combs for their devotees in showing respect to the Buddha statue.
Then, The Chief Interviewer asked Mr C: How about you?
Mr C replied: 1,000 units.
The Chief Interviewer and the other 2 interviews were astounded.
The Chief Interviewer asked: How you did that?
Mr C replied: I went to a famous temple. After observing for few days I discovered that there were many tourists. I then told the Chief Abbot there. "Sifu, those who come here are much devoted. If you could give them a gift, it will be more elating to them. I told him that I have a bulk of combs here and ask him to raft his handwriting on the combs as a present to those visit here. He was very delighted and straight away ordered 1,000 pieces."
The End of Story.
MORAL OF THE STORY :
HARVARD UNIVERSITY had done a research that says :-
1) 85% of success is due to attitude and 15% is capability
2) Attitude is more important than intelligence , specials skills and luck .
In another word , professional knowledge only constitutes for 15% of success of a person and 85% is due to self-cultivation, public relation and adaptability ability .
Still remember the story of Selling Shoes to African ?
When 2 Salesmen were sent to that continent, one of them reported: Can not do it. No one wears shoes there? The second salesman said: It is good to market . A lot of opportunity .
Success and Failure is dependent on how we face problems.
Remember, when the economic is good, there are peoples going bankrupt .
When business is bad , there are many new millionaires produced as well. So , apply now the 85% right working attitude fully..
All the best!
Monday, April 4, 2011
have the time of your life
I nearly missed this great article, written by a columnist in The Star, dated 31st Mar 2011.
Below is the article I copied directly from the online Star.
Hope you all will enjoy it as I did!
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Sometimes, formal education stifles, rather than hones, talent. So, be true to the words of Mark Twain: never let schooling interfere with your education.
LEGEND has it that Death is a human skeleton clothed in a black hooded robe. He wields a scythe and carries an hourglass. The scythe is the harbinger of death. The hourglass is the measure of a lifetime.
Everyone has their own hourglass. Each hourglass holds the Sands of Time. When all but the last precious grains have fallen to the bottom, Death will seek its owner.
Like all legends, there is some grain of truth behind it. Time is a valuable, but finite, resource. In a lifetime, we can make money, fulfil our ambitions and do the fun things we enjoy doing.
But beware, for there are always forces lurking around threatening to steal away our precious time. They are the thieves of time.
The most common ones are those who do not cherish the value of time. They are people who are constantly late for appointments due to traffic jams, rushing for some last-minute chore, and worse of all, losing track of time.
As for social functions, it’s as if the guests all live in different time zones. Some make it a point to be fashionably late. They think that the party doesn’t start till they walk in.
Punctuality is a serious issue. Every minute we are made to wait is a minute of our lifetime lost. With some little thought and time management, punctuality is not an impossible feat.
Space your appointments apart. Don’t make appointments at difficult hours and locations. Start your functions on time regardless. Meet your friend halfway, right at the borderline.
Next are people who think they know best how to manage other people’s time. They range from your parents, teachers, employers and the Government. To control you, they devise systems such as timetables, work schedules and KPIs.
Take school, for example. Educators naturally have a very high opinion of their ability to teach and motivate. But sometimes, formal education stifles, rather than hones, talent.
Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg: living legends and college dropouts – were they omniscient and did they know everything about computer algorithms?
Not quite. They simply had great ideas, and great determination to transform them into a masterpiece. Making a masterpiece takes time. So does formal education. Something’s got to give.
True to the words of Mark Twain, another great American legend, they never let schooling interfere with their education. The rest is history, and humanity is eternally grateful to them.
Let their legacy be a lesson to all of us. Not that education is bad, but if we truly wish to make our own masterpieces, we need to first make our own time.
Parents and teachers will always advise you to go with the flow and stick to the rivers and lakes that you’re used to. But if stagnant waters are not for you, feel free to go chasing waterfalls.
To be fair, most of our elders who seek to manage our time have noble intentions. But there are those with ulterior motives. They steal your time, to save their own time.
Take the video recording system recently introduced to expedite matters in the courts. Every trial proceeding will be captured on camera and burnt onto a DVD. Based on the DVD, lawyers are directed to prepare a written transcript of the proceedings for the court.
Before this, the judges and their secretaries and interpreters have always been responsible for typing out the Notes of Proceedings. But now, they can sit back and relax while the lawyers spend hours painstakingly listening to the DVD to transcribe the Notes of Proceedings.
Why the simple alternative of employing court stenographers has not been implemented is a mystery to all.
Now take our bosses. Most of us are no strangers to working overtime and on weekends. It is fine if it is for productive work that we are truly passionate about. But more often than not, it is for mundane work that any college student can do for RM5 an hour.
Don’t bother asking why, or complaining. Like all masters of time and space, they are poor in helpful explanations but rich in cryptic messages. Their template response would be “When you’re older, you will understand and thank me for this”, which is even less meaningful than “Save the cheerleader, save the world”.
But the greatest thief of time is ourselves. In life, we strive. We are all driven to climb to the next level, much like Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. There are several roads leading up to the peak. The road well-trodden is long, winding, and filled with plateaus.
Plateaus are useful as rest stops for you to catch your breath, take snapshots against the scenic mountainside for your Facebook photo albums and pitch a tent near the laurels for a few days, then another month (okay, two months tops), and where before you know it, you’re stuck there forever.
But there’s also the road less travelled. It may be more steep and treacherous, but it’ll take you faster to the peak, and it has fewer plateaus.
Whichever road we take, we must never linger too long. Patience is virtue, but procrastination is the thief of time. Life is short, but not simple. Good opportunities don’t come around like the postman, but rather like a comet. You should strike when the iron is hot, and it’s hottest when it’s still young and raw.
But sadly, much of youth is wasted on the young. Most of the young folks hesitate, and he who hesitates is lost. Weighed down by a backpack filled with insecurities, excess material baggage and taxing relationships, we struggle to move on.
We think too much, and by the time we act, there’s not much time left to live for. As John Lennon nicely put it, life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans.
Don’t let the precious grains in your hourglass just slip away. Be a master of your own time and space, so when Death comes knocking on your door, you are ready to welcome him with arms wide open.
So here and now, and come what may tomorrow, I hope you have the time of your life.
Below is the article I copied directly from the online Star.
Hope you all will enjoy it as I did!
========================================================================
Sometimes, formal education stifles, rather than hones, talent. So, be true to the words of Mark Twain: never let schooling interfere with your education.
LEGEND has it that Death is a human skeleton clothed in a black hooded robe. He wields a scythe and carries an hourglass. The scythe is the harbinger of death. The hourglass is the measure of a lifetime.
Everyone has their own hourglass. Each hourglass holds the Sands of Time. When all but the last precious grains have fallen to the bottom, Death will seek its owner.
Like all legends, there is some grain of truth behind it. Time is a valuable, but finite, resource. In a lifetime, we can make money, fulfil our ambitions and do the fun things we enjoy doing.
But beware, for there are always forces lurking around threatening to steal away our precious time. They are the thieves of time.
The most common ones are those who do not cherish the value of time. They are people who are constantly late for appointments due to traffic jams, rushing for some last-minute chore, and worse of all, losing track of time.
As for social functions, it’s as if the guests all live in different time zones. Some make it a point to be fashionably late. They think that the party doesn’t start till they walk in.
Punctuality is a serious issue. Every minute we are made to wait is a minute of our lifetime lost. With some little thought and time management, punctuality is not an impossible feat.
Space your appointments apart. Don’t make appointments at difficult hours and locations. Start your functions on time regardless. Meet your friend halfway, right at the borderline.
Next are people who think they know best how to manage other people’s time. They range from your parents, teachers, employers and the Government. To control you, they devise systems such as timetables, work schedules and KPIs.
Take school, for example. Educators naturally have a very high opinion of their ability to teach and motivate. But sometimes, formal education stifles, rather than hones, talent.
Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg: living legends and college dropouts – were they omniscient and did they know everything about computer algorithms?
Not quite. They simply had great ideas, and great determination to transform them into a masterpiece. Making a masterpiece takes time. So does formal education. Something’s got to give.
True to the words of Mark Twain, another great American legend, they never let schooling interfere with their education. The rest is history, and humanity is eternally grateful to them.
Let their legacy be a lesson to all of us. Not that education is bad, but if we truly wish to make our own masterpieces, we need to first make our own time.
Parents and teachers will always advise you to go with the flow and stick to the rivers and lakes that you’re used to. But if stagnant waters are not for you, feel free to go chasing waterfalls.
To be fair, most of our elders who seek to manage our time have noble intentions. But there are those with ulterior motives. They steal your time, to save their own time.
Take the video recording system recently introduced to expedite matters in the courts. Every trial proceeding will be captured on camera and burnt onto a DVD. Based on the DVD, lawyers are directed to prepare a written transcript of the proceedings for the court.
Before this, the judges and their secretaries and interpreters have always been responsible for typing out the Notes of Proceedings. But now, they can sit back and relax while the lawyers spend hours painstakingly listening to the DVD to transcribe the Notes of Proceedings.
Why the simple alternative of employing court stenographers has not been implemented is a mystery to all.
Now take our bosses. Most of us are no strangers to working overtime and on weekends. It is fine if it is for productive work that we are truly passionate about. But more often than not, it is for mundane work that any college student can do for RM5 an hour.
Don’t bother asking why, or complaining. Like all masters of time and space, they are poor in helpful explanations but rich in cryptic messages. Their template response would be “When you’re older, you will understand and thank me for this”, which is even less meaningful than “Save the cheerleader, save the world”.
But the greatest thief of time is ourselves. In life, we strive. We are all driven to climb to the next level, much like Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. There are several roads leading up to the peak. The road well-trodden is long, winding, and filled with plateaus.
Plateaus are useful as rest stops for you to catch your breath, take snapshots against the scenic mountainside for your Facebook photo albums and pitch a tent near the laurels for a few days, then another month (okay, two months tops), and where before you know it, you’re stuck there forever.
But there’s also the road less travelled. It may be more steep and treacherous, but it’ll take you faster to the peak, and it has fewer plateaus.
Whichever road we take, we must never linger too long. Patience is virtue, but procrastination is the thief of time. Life is short, but not simple. Good opportunities don’t come around like the postman, but rather like a comet. You should strike when the iron is hot, and it’s hottest when it’s still young and raw.
But sadly, much of youth is wasted on the young. Most of the young folks hesitate, and he who hesitates is lost. Weighed down by a backpack filled with insecurities, excess material baggage and taxing relationships, we struggle to move on.
We think too much, and by the time we act, there’s not much time left to live for. As John Lennon nicely put it, life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans.
Don’t let the precious grains in your hourglass just slip away. Be a master of your own time and space, so when Death comes knocking on your door, you are ready to welcome him with arms wide open.
So here and now, and come what may tomorrow, I hope you have the time of your life.
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