Have Dreams, Explore Life

"You can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's." - Hillary Rodham Clinton

"To have passion, to have a dream, to have a purpose in life. And there are three components to that purpose, one is to find out who you really are, to discover God, the second is to serve other human beings, because we are here to do that and the third is to express your unique talents and when you are expressing your unique talents you lose track of time." - Deepak Chopra

They always say that people who lives in depression are said to be people who have lost their ways. They lost their ways in life and are struggling to climb back. But actually, people in depression is not people who are lost. They are actually people who are drifting by in life without any specific destination in mind. Lost people in the other hand, have a destination in their mind, they just cannot find the way. People who are drifting are far more dangerous as they have no intention of living their life and does not even react to the happenings around their life. They only float by in life waiting for it to end. Referring to the above two quotes, it is important that we have a definite goals for ourselves as to not let us float by. The goal will drive us forward and live life to our potential and not let the environment control us. It does not matter how big or small the goal is. By having it, it will give the energy for us to take control of our life and pushing us to explore life and living it to the fullest.

Illusion of Employment

Don't let the illusion of full employment entrap you. You may feel important, you may feel a part of a team working towards a common goal, but basically, employment only taps a small portion of your potential limits. That's why it's called the 'Rat Race'. You run blindly towards what your job requires you to do while enriching the owner of the company. The potential of your limit is not bounded by what your job is or what role you are in your work. You maybe working on the lower rung of the corporate level, but by tapping inside your inner self, you do have the potential as big as the owner of the company. The potential of your limit is determined by your own mind and action. Imagine the impossible, act towards it, and success will be yours.

Conquering Fear

'The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.' - Gandhi.

'Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.' - Dale Carnegie.

Fear is a great paralyzer. It holds you from achieving the full potential of your life. Fear comes from human basic instinct of self protection. It helps humans to avoid any necessary danger. But too much fear stiffles a person from doing any action that can promote personal growth. If you have fear of public speaking for example, the logic thinking of your brain is to avoid the circumstances as best as possible. By avoiding the thing you fear such as public speaking, you are not solving any problem . You also will not challenge yourself to grow. By doing the things you fear, you will in time conquer the fear and therefore will make you the master of your own destiny.

How to enjoy your job

Jobs = Life - Dream

This equation can be true if you start to believe that your job is not your dream job. Enjoying your job requires you to do your job with passionate attitude. Not many people can claim to this. People who enjoy their job can spend hours doing his work without even realising the time flies by. They will accomplish their job to their best as they feel satisfied in the final outcome. Being praised by their boss or colleagues for their work is just a bonus as the completion of the work is already satisfying for them. So, how do you turn your job to a dream job?

1) Try to find your strength and what you are good at. You can only be truly satisfied doing things that you good at.
2) If your current job does not fully utilise your strength, you should start be looking for another job.
3) You can only be passionate doing things that you are good and passionate about. If you are good and enjoy working in technical areas, what are you doing in management? If you good at management, why are you working in technical?

Know yourself, find your strength and start enjoying your job.

The Power of Now

We as a human being have always associate our image with relation to our past. What have happen, who we have grown up with, who have we met, what experience that we have gone through makes the very essence of what we are today. Therefore the feeling that we have now, whether it is good or bad, we assume that it is interlinked with our past. Eg:-I have grown and raised in a bad neighbourhood and therefore I deserve to be angry and resentful. I have bad experience and traumatised by past event and therefore I must feel depressed. This is not true. The moment you realised that the past does not equal the present and the future, the more you will feel that life does not control you at all.You are what you think right now. Do not be burden by the past and learn to live in the current as whoever who finish first is the one who does not look back.

Going with the flow .. or Making the flow ?

Going with the flow? or making the flow as you go along? Successful people tend to have an attitude of delayed gratification. Every action they made takes into consideration of short term and long term gain. Think wisely of any actions you made as some actions would lead to instant gratification but in the long term will cause negative outcome. For example, the attitude of buying the latest brand new car or the latest gadget available in the market. This are in the short term gratification as you only can enjoy it in a short term duration only. The misery of losing a huge chunk of money will cause negative consequences in the long run. The money spent can eitherwise be invested in a long term gain that will last much more longer. Learn the attitude of the rich so that in return you will become one.

The most precious gift - Time

"The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is." -C.S. Lewis

"Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow." - Denis Waitely

We only have 24 hours in a day. That counts up to 1440 minutes in a day. That's the same amount of time every people on this earth have. It is an equal gift to every person. How we use it, it is really up to us. Before you sleep at night, take a moment and try to look back at your day and note how do you spend the precious time given to you today? Is it productive or a wasteful day? Make the most of your time as each time passing by, it will never come back again.