+ Positive Thinking +

I never thought how important it could be until today. It’s very powerful in the sense that it will create positive energy around you and pull all the positive circumstances to you. You might think it sounds philosophical but it is true. I experienced it myself. I was in a very depressed state since early May until recently. This depression was the negative thoughts I carried with me and it brought more negative energy on me. So my situation got worse. But then I realized it was me who has attracted all these negative outcomes. So I put aside all my emotions and rationalized myself to think of something good, something positive. I feel better and the situation that surrounds me get better too. Even the people around me become better. This is something that I must keep in mind for a better life! =)

Mind

• The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
• Go that extra mile, it’s never crowded there.
• There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
• Supposing is good, but finding out is better.
• An essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
• Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.
• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
• Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
• To teach is to learn twice.
• The moment you stop learning, you stop leading.
• Every great achievement was once considered impossible.
• Change is the end result of all true learning.
• One that would have the fruit must first climb the tree.
• The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
• Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.
• Every exit is an entry somewhere.
• Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
• Kites fly highest against the wind, not with it.
• Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
• Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
• Times change, and we change with them.
• The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
• No great thing comes to any human unless he has courage.
• Our life is what our thoughts make of it.
• Change before you have to.
• The man who has no imagination has no wings.
• For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
• Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
• Your success is only limited to your desire.
• A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
• The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
• The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
• A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it.
• You get out of life what you put in.
• Don’t just learn the tricks of the trade, learn the trade.
• To improve is to change, to be perfect is to change often.

I admit, I’m positive!

• An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
• If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
• The important thing is not to stop questioning.
• Minds are like parachutes, they work best when open.
• The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
• The wise man reads both books and life itself.
• If you can dream it, you can do it.
• Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
• Do, or do not. There is no try.
• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
• Opportunities are seldom labelled.
• Chance favours the prepared mind.
• Don’t limit your challenges, challenge your limits.
• Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.
• You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
• In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
• Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse.

ENLIGHTENED PERSPECTIVE

I've learned… That the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.

 
I've learned… That when you're in love, it shows.

 

I've learned… That just one person saying to me, “You've made my day!” makes my day.

 

I've learned… That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.

I've learned… That being kind is more important than being right.

 

I've learned… That you should never say no to a gift from a child.

 

I've learned… That I can always pray for someone when I don't have the strength to help him in some other way.

 

I've learned… That no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.

I've learned… That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.

I've learned… That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.

 

I've learned… That life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.

 

I've learned… That we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.

 

I've learned… That money doesn't buy class.

 

I've learned… That it's those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular.

I've learned… That under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.

 

I've learned… That to ignore the facts does not change the facts.

I've learned… That when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you.

I've learned… That love, not time, heals all wounds.

 

I've learned… That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.

 

I've learned… That everyone you meet deserves to be greeted with a smile.

 

I've learned… That no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.

 

I've learned… That life is tough, but I'm tougher.

 

I've learned… That opportunities are never lost, someone will take the ones you miss.

I've learned… That when you harbour bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.

I've learned… That I wish I could have told my Mom that I love her one more time before she passed away.

 

I've learned… That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them.

I've learned… That a smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.

I've learned… That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.

I've learned… That everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

 

I've learned… That the less time I have to work with, the more things I get done.

Written by Andy Rooney, a man who has the gift of saying so much with so few words.

Live for TODAY!

A friend of mine opened his wife's underwear drawer and picked up a silk paper wrapped package. “This…” he said, “…isn't any ordinary package.” He unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk paper and the box. “She got this the first time we went to New York, 8 or 9 years ago. She has never put it on, was saving it for a special occasion. “Well, I guess this is it.”

 

He got near the bed and placed the gift box next to the other clothing he was taking to the funeral house, his wife had just died. He turned to me and said, “Never save something for a special occasion. Every day in your life is a special occasion.”

 

I still think those words changed my life. Now I read more and clean less. I sit on the porch without worrying about anything. I spend more time with my family, and less at work. I understood that life should be a source of experience to be lived up to, not survived through. I no longer keep anything. I use crystal glasses every day. I’ll wear new clothes to go to the supermarket, if I feel like it. I don't save my special perfume for special occasions, I use it whenever I want to.

 

The words “Someday” and “One Day” are fading away from my dictionary. If it’s worth seeing, listening or doing, I want to see, listen or do it now.

 

I don’t know what my friend’s wife would have done if she knew she wouldn’t be there the next morning, this nobody can tell. I think she might have called her relatives and closest friends. She might call old friends to make peace over past quarrels. I’d like to think she would go out for Chinese, her favourite food.

 

It’s these small things that I would regret not doing, if I knew my time had come. Each day, each hour, each minute, is special. Live for today, for tomorrow is promised to no one.

Life

is something to be enjoyed and lived rather than a well of suffering to be endured on the way to better things.

Life is not be hurried through as a means to an end with our eyes on heaven rather than the flowers by the wayside.

Life is to be ENJOYEDE on its own terms.

Edward de Bono

This is so right!

21 Facts of Life

Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully. 

Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.

Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want. 

When you say, “I love you,” mean it.

When you say, “I'm sorry,” look at the person in the eye.

Be engaged at least six months before you get married.

Believe in love at first sight.

Never laugh at anyone's dreams. People who don't have dreams don't have much.

Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.

In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.

Don't judge people by their relatives.

Talk slowly but think quickly.

When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, “Why do you want to know?”

Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

Say “bless you” when you hear someone sneeze.

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; and Responsibility for all your actions.

Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice

Spend some time alone.

Honesty Is The Best Policy!

A successful business man was growing old and knew it was time to choose a successor to take over the business. Instead of choosing one of his Directors or his children, he decided to do something different. He called all the young executives in his company together.

He said, “It is time for me to step down and choose the next CEO. I have decided to choose one of you.” The young executives were shocked, but the boss continued. “I am going to give each one of you a SEED today - one very special SEED. I want you to plant the seed, water it, and come back here one year from today with what you have grown from the seed I have given you. I will then judge the plants that you bring, and the one I choose will be the next CEO."

One man, named Jim, was there that day and he, like the others, received a seed. He went home and excitedly, told his wife the story. She helped him get a pot, soil and compost and he planted the seed. Everyday, he would water it and watch to see if it had grown. After about three weeks, some of the other executives began to talk about their seeds and the plants that were beginning to grow.

Jim kept checking his seed, but nothing ever grew. Three weeks, four weeks, five weeks went by, still nothing. By now, others were talking about their plants, but Jim didn't have a plant and he felt like a failure. Six months went by - still nothing in Jim's pot. He just knew he had killed his seed. Everyone else had trees and tall plants, but he had nothing Jim didn't say anything to his colleagues, however, he just kept watering and fertilizing the soil - He so wanted the seed to grow.

A year finally went by and all the young executives of the company brought their plants to the CEO for inspection. Jim told his wife that he wasn't going to take an empty pot. But she asked him to be honest about what happened. Jim felt sick to his stomach, it was going to be the most embarrassing moment of his life, but he knew his wife was right. He took his empty pot to the board room. When Jim arrived, he was amazed at the variety of plants grown by the other executives. They were beautiful - in all shapes and sizes. Jim put his empty pot on the floor and many of his colleagues laughed, a few felt sorry for him!

When the CEO arrived, he surveyed the room and greeted his young executives. Jim just tried to hide in the back. "My, what great plants, trees and flowers you have grown," said the CEO. "Today one of you will be appointed the next CEO!" All of a sudden, the CEO spotted Jim at the back of the room with his empty pot. He ordered the Financial Director to bring him to the front. Jim was terrified. He thought, "The CEO knows I'm a failure! Maybe he will have me fired!"

When Jim got to the front, the CEO asked him what had happened to his seed - Jim told him the story. The CEO asked everyone to sit down except Jim. He looked at Jim, and then announced to the young executives, "Behold your next Chief Executive Officer!
His name is Jim!" Jim couldn't believe it. Jim couldn't even grow his seed. "How could he be the new CEO?" the others said.

Then the CEO said, "One year ago today, I gave everyone in this room a seed. I told you to take the seed, plant it, water it,and bring it back to me today. But I gave you all boiled seeds; they were dead - it was not possible for them to grow. All of you, except Jim, have brought me trees and plants and flowers. When you found that the seed would not grow, you substituted another seed for the one I gave you. Jim was the only one with the courage and honesty to bring me a pot with my seed in it. Therefore, he is the one who will be the new Chief Executive Officer!"

* If you plant honesty, you will reap trust
* If you plant goodness, you will reap friends
* If you plant humility, you will reap greatness
* If you plant perseverance, you will reap contentment
* If you plant consideration, you will reap perspective
* If you plant hard work, you will reap success
* If you plant forgiveness, you will reap reconciliation

The Book Of Your Life

Just some sayings...

Win With Character

Learn the difference between winning and being a champion. To win, you merely have to cross the finish line first. To be a champion, you have to inspire admiration for your character, as well as for your physical talent. You have to compete in spirit of fair play, respecting your opponents and the rules.

Jacques Rogge, President IOC

Chart Your Course

The sea is only beautiful if there’s a shore. Life is like the sea. There’ll be a direction to follow even if you sail more than one day or one life… the promise of a new land is your guide, because you know that the sea is a huge world that’s beautiful only if there’s a shore.

Patricky Field

Live Life Rightly

Seek education rather than grades. Seek your best rather than someone else’s. Seek friendship rather than acceptance. Seek worth rather than rank. Seek to build rather than to tear down. Seek laughter and love in spite of pain and you will have learned to live.

Jaqui Sheehan

Love Enriches Life

Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service. Whatever form we are, able or disabled, rich or poor, it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing; a lifelong sharing of love with others.

Mother Teresa

Attack Your Fears

Living fearlessly is not the same thing as never being afraid. It’s good to be afraid occasionally. What’s not good is living in fear, allowing fear to define who you are. Living fearlessly means standing up to fear, taking its measure, refusing to let it shape and define your life.

Michael G Ignatieff

Challenges Strengthen Life

Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don’t allow you to advance, then you’re going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you’re going to be a success.

Benjamin Carson

Accomplish With Humility

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Helen Keller

Lead By Example

Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.

Vince Lombardi

Knowing Is Power

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

Sun Tzu

Focus on Positives

Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes solutions; knows about difficulties but believes they can be overcome; sees the negatives, but accentuates the positives; is exposed to the worst but expects the best; has reason to complain, but chooses to smile.

William Arthur Ward

Adversity Breeds Creativity

What’s happiness without sadness? What’s light without darkness? You never can tell a positive thing without going through a negative thing. If you’ve been to the deepest valley in your life, then you will be very appreciative when you reached the highest peak in your life.

Evelyn Ha

Decisions Determine Destiny

We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose the country of our birth. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions for our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live.

Joseph Epstein

Just Do It!

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not advertising for Nike. Don’t you think this phrase is powerful? In a sense that if you dare to follow.

I came across this song and a phrase quoted by my friend in FB.

“Dream what you want to dream;
go where you want to go;
be what you want to be;
because you have only one life
and one chance to do all the things
you want to do.”
Quoted from Dr. Choong Kwai Fatt

Most people tend to choose the path that is made ready for them. We would go for the safer side, a path which we thought would give us a better future. Most people sacrifice their dreams just to take this path, thinking that their dreams are vague, hard to chase, grey future, not a smooth path, or even unobtainable.

But most people don’t realize their true potential. Because they just don’t believe in themselves. Restricting and limiting yourself is like putting a big rock in front of you that stop you from going further. Then, you turn to an alternative road which you may not really like. Confidence is an important element in supporting your belief towards your ability.

Since I was young, I was being brought up in the way that a typical family would do. Go to school, get good result, obtain scholarship, receive a degree certificate, find a good job, earn money and build a family. It seems almost like a routine for me. And I believe I’m not the only one who is being brought up this way.

It’s not a bad thing to have guidelines in our lives so that we know the direction of the place that we are heading to. But those are just guidelines. Not the perfect answer to your life’s journey.

There are also numerous successful people out there. These are the people who dare to take the risk. Who dare to do something different. Who dare to follow their dreams. Who dare to say, “Just do it!”

I want to be one of them.

No Limit!

I always thought I’m just a normal person (I’m still a normal person). I never thought that I actually can do something beyond my expectation. I’m referring to MIX challenge. MIX is a business challenge competition requiring us to solve real-life problem for Sunway Lagoon to sustain it’s customer loyalty.

At first, I have no intention to join because I thought I’m not that good and creative enough and any idea that comes out from my brain would be just a normal idea which everyone can think of.

But now I really appreciate my friend, Samm a lot for forcing encouraging me to join in the first place. So I got together with Katherine (another best friend of mine who was being “forced” by Samm to join), Sok Kim and Mooi Fong to form a team. We didn’t expect that we’d be able to make it to the final and that surprised us a lot when we received the news.

Top 8 teams were chosen among 28 participating teams. Since we made it to the final, we decided that we must do our best to win the cash prize (money is a motivation). Unfortunately, we didn’t win because our idea wasn’t greater than some other teams.

I’m a bit disappointed which I think is normal that every team that didn’t win would feel so. However, I’m very satisfied with it because it made me realize my true potential. The experience is really priceless.

Unconsciously, I always drew a line in everything I do, limiting myself only to that line. I never thought that I could actually exceed that line. I believe everyone has his/her true potential which is not discovered yet by him or herself. It really depends on your mind a lot. You can reach as far as you want if you are persistent enough and strongly believe in it. Again, this reminds me of Law of Attraction which I neglected sometimes.

Challenges is there to make us climb higher!

Don’t Judge A Book By Its Cover

Don’t judge a person by his/her look.

A person who is happy-go-lucky type might not be as happy as you thought.

A person who looks serious all the time might not be a fierce person.

A person who smiles all day might not be that friendly as you thought.

There are many things that you can’t see from appearance. Human beings are complex. Even theories can’t explain everything regarding humans. Before you judge anyone, take time to know and understand that person first.

Law of Attraction

I have been thinking of 2 people in my mind a lot during the holidays. I truly admire them but chances for me to see them is like less than 10%. On new year’s eve, I went out for countdown with friends at Jonker. To my surprise, I met both of them on the same day at the same street and I even managed to talk to one of them (both of them don’t know each other and are not connected).

Conclusion? Law of Attraction is powerful! If you’ve read a book or watched a movie entitled “The Secret”, you’d be familiar with this.

Things will work out your way or in another phrase, your dreams will come true if you have faith in something fully.

To change your life, change your mind!

Inspiration

Make Life Great!

You have a brush in one hand and paint in the other. You just need to realize that you are the Artist of your own destiny. The outcome of such a realization will transform the road ahead of you into canvas, waiting only for you to start painting.

-Conroy Sewepagaham-

Grow By Giving

Give out today like you will not see the next second; take in today like you will live for another 100 years to see the consequence of what you took in. What you take in determines your destiny and what you give out determines your legacy.

-Leussa Adrienne-

Kindness Is Wisdom

Nothing good for this world is ever attained without sacrifice. Nothing great in life is ever achieved without hard work. Nothing that we give to others, out of the goodness of our heart, is ever given without giving away a small piece of ourselves.

-Jay Goldman-

Love Yields Much

What I do you cannot do; but what you do I cannot do. The needs are great and none of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things with great love. And together we can do something wonderful.

-Mother Teresa-

Spread Your Joy

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

-Helen Keller-

Believe And Achieve

Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it, even if I didn't have it in the beginning.

-Mahatma Gandhi-

Plant Positive Thoughts

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

-Michael Jackson-

Always Aim Higher

The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure, but aiming too low, that's life's greatest tragedy.

-Benjamin E Mayes-

Life Rewards Effort

Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.

-William M Thackeray-

Persistence Breaks Resistance

Strength and courage aren't always measured in medals and victories. They are measured in the struggles they overcome. The strongest people aren't always the people who win, but the people who don't give up when they lose.

-Ashley Hodgeson-

Build Trusted Relationships

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

-Colin Powell-

Decisions Determine Destiny

The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek, therefore, not to find out who you are; seek to determine who you want to be.

-Neale Donald Walsch-

Inspiring Phrases

When we wake up in the morning, we have two simple choices.

Go back to sleep and dream, or wake up and chase those dreams.

Choice is yours...

Never explain yourself to anyone.

Because the person who likes you doesn't need it,

and the person who dislikes you won't believe it.

When you keep saying you are busy,

then you are never free.

When you keep saying you have no time,

then you will never have time.

When you keep saying that you will do it tomorrow,

then your tomorrow will never come.

We make them cry who care for us.

We cry for those who never care for us.

And we care for those who will never cry for us.

This is the truth of life. It's strange but true.

Once you realized this, it's never too late to change.

Life Is A Gift

There was a blind girl who hated herself because she was blind. She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her. She told her boyfriend, 'If I could only see the world, I will marry you.'

One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her. When the bandages came off, she was able to see everything, including her boyfriend.

He asked her, 'Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?' The girl looked at her boyfriend and saw that he was blind. The sight of his closed eyelids shocked her. She hadn't expected that. The thought of looking at them the rest of her life led her to refuse to marry him.

Her boyfriend left in tears and days later wrote a note to her saying: 'Take good care of your eyes, my dear, for before they were yours, they were mine.'

This is how the human brain often works when our status changes.
Only a very few remember what life was like before, and who was always by their side in the most painful situations.

Life Is A Gift

Today before you say an unkind word - Think of someone who can't speak.

Before you complain about the taste of your food - Think of someone who has nothing to eat.

Before you complain about your husband or wife - Think of someone who's crying out to GOD for a companion.

Today before you complain about life - Think of someone who died too early on this earth.

Before you complain about your children - Think of someone who desires children but they're barren.

Before you argue about your dirty house someone didn't clean or sweep - Think of the people who are living in the streets.

Before whining about the distance you drive - Think of someone who walks the same distance with their feet.

And when you are tired and complain about your job - Think of the unemployed, the disabled, and those who wish they had your job.

But before you think of pointing the finger or condemning another - Remember that not one of us is without sin.

And when depressing thoughts seem to get you down - Put a smile on your face and think: you're alive and still around.

It brightens up your life!