Wake up call

Perhaps it's already predestined that I will fail in this endeavor as of right now, or maybe it's just not the right time yet for me to achieve financial success.  I had to make difficult choice to get life back to being able to sustain life at least and even support a simple family of my own.  Age is catching up and I'm getting old unfortunately.  Next week I'll be going back to the life as an employee after having fought for the last 5-6 years; I guess that's life.  Nothing venture nothing gain (or loss); there's always two side to everything in life, you either get it or lose it..  Moving on.

TIME

TIME; the ultimate resource everyone is born with as a gift from nature.

It is the only single resource that can allow us to convert into any other resources that we wish to acquire from this universe, whether it's for good or bad.  However, it is also a limited resource that is constantly leaking away just like a leaking tap water is, no matter what you do with it.

Knowledge, skills, health, relationship, financial wealth or any resource that is imaginable, you can get it depending on how you use your TIME.  There are many strategies to improve the efficiency for this conversion process, and those strategies themselves are also important knowledge to acquire.  One powerful & yet simple strategy/knowledge I've learnt from Adam Khoo is the formula:
E + R = O; where E=Event, R=Respond, O=Outcome.

The sooner one came to the realization of what they truly want in life, the better.  So that they can start using TIME in the best possible way to get whatever they want from life, before it runs out.

One word of caution.  It is easy to fall into the belief that TIME is a constant; it is not.  As one ages, TIME also pass by faster; it is a kind of perception and it varies among different species of living being at different mental states.

缺口

10月四日中午的那场噩耗，让生命里留下了永远无法磨平的缺口。

“永远的不孝子” 将从此伴随着我走完接下来的路。
只能恨自己为什么没能在这之前达成计划、实现梦想。
万般算尽终究还是敌不过无情的苍天。

Karma

Karma means action and action motivated by compassion is good. To complain that what happens to you is just the result of your karma is lazy. Instead, confidently recalling the advice that, "You are your own master," you can change what happens by taking action.

- Dalai Lama -

Keep Fighting

When my soul, mind & body unite, I'm invincible.
I'll fight with my life !

（非正式）创业3周年

严格来说，自2012年创业以来已经足足过了三年，时间过得真快，即便间中发生了许多无法预料的变化。

回头看看刚开始的自己，对未来是那么的充满希望、期待。当时的自信几乎爆灯，深信以自己十多年经验，聪明和努力，一定会在不久的数月内看到一些小成。

有自信是好的，对任何一位想创业的人来说也是非常重要的。因为如果没有当时的那股冲劲、冲动，可能也不会有足够勇气踏出那第一步。我想，有时事情真的不能做太多事前准备和调查。一个人如果顾虑多了，到头来可能什么都不敢尝试。经验这“东西”，并不是用几天、几星期、甚至几个月就可以百分百掌握，然后才开始的。做了3-5分事前准备，然后慢慢从一小步开始。时间久了，经验累计了，（非那么..）自然就懂得如何再走下去。

此刻自己虽然还没达到原先设定的目标，但我感激过去三年的自己坚持到现在。尽管遇到已经数不尽的挫折，和四面八方飞来的突发事件等等。在这路途中，我相信自己已经熬过了那段最不确定和艰难的时期。就像走了三年漆黑一片的地下隧道，从什么都看不见摸着墙壁走，到慢慢出现了一丝曙光，再后来那道光才慢慢的变大、变清楚。如今，我仿佛已经能感受到新鲜阳光的温度了。好想快些闻到那阳光的味道，然后跨出隧道，感受火热阳光打在身上的感觉。

那将会是另一段新的旅程，我期待着。


- 那片盈彩。珲不去

"You are not your thoughts" - Amber Rae

Interestingly, when I saw this sentence uttered by this beautiful lady Amber Rae in her post You are not your thoughts, my first reaction was "what the..?", that sounds so split-personality..

I then paused for a moment, & read through her post once again.  I could feel something resonating inside me when I recall those words "You are not your thoughts".  I think I understood the message.  It's not really to deny our own thoughts & treating it as someone else.  It's about not to be chained down by our inner voice or any limiting beliefs about what we are capable of or how we should only do certain things that make us look like "ourselves" even though we may feel unhappy or "wrong" in our usual everyday life.  Of course that doesn't mean we have to start doing wacky, crazy things, or anything terrible.  It simply meant that we are actually not limited to what we "believe" we are (those little voices inside our head when we self talk..), how our lives should be & give up exploring further to pursue the life we truly wanted deep inside.

Personally, this mindset helped to relieve some stress from the idea of failing in my business & having to start all over again in the 9-7 way, but no more being young, updated & competitive in a few more years.  After all, those were just my perception of how things may turn out should my plan turn sour, which is of course not definite & certainly not the only path I can take IF that day really comes.  I guess the main limitations then will be my resolve & my imagination about what else can be done.


Thanks Amber Rae for your beautiful wisdom.

岁月

今晚，大伯做寿，只请了些近亲在自家吃。同时也遇到了许久不见的堂姐们--原来大家都比我想像中的 ，老了许多。。不经不觉又提醒了自己的年纪和时光的流失。

眼看多数同辈亲戚们都成了家，也有了自己的孩子。让我感叹眼前的自己依然在为不上不下的事业拼搏求存，更别说什么找个伴交往、成家的。


岁月匆匆催人老，蓦然回首已尽头。

Worry Not

If it's something that you can solve by taking the right actions, then there's no need to worry.

And if it's something that you cannot solve no matter what was done, then worrying won't help.

Perhaps, the only valid brief moment to worry was when you know something can be done to solve the problem, but you have no idea on how to do it yet.  Then you should focus on finding out what to do & how to do it instead of worrying for more than a minute.