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23
Feb
Jim Rohn : The Birds gonna have some…
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I plucked this out from one of the Jim Rohn famous quote ‘ The birds going to have some’. What’s this exactly means? Well, often enough in life, whatever you do, there will always be obstacles lying ahead waiting to get into your way.

That’s why, when Jim told about the sowing and reaping story, he will not be missing this term. When we sow, often enough hurdles are beckoning. The first of all, we must always know that ‘The birds are going to have some’. Those seeds before it’s even settled, the birds will get some.

Jim continues his stories about how John went missing in the first meeting. So, the birds got him. Then he will tell about the 2nd hurdle, it’s about the seeds fall onto shallow ground. And the hot day caused the plant withers. Next, when the plant found it’s way to grow, the thorns choked it to death… only then… the remaining plants finally made it.

The moral of the story is, you gotta prepare for the obstacles. But Jim also said that, some of the things you have no control over, just apply the rule , for the more seeds you sow, the more of it will make it through.

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17
Feb
Meeting an Old Friend
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Well, it’s chinese new year, and my old friend was back to celebrate the new year with his family. And we had just met up and had a chat.

His timing was right as my kids had gone to sleep, so I can go out and have a drink.

We chat a lot of things, but most importantly, I was updating about my situation and what I am doing recently. It’s good to let good friend knows about my plan.

We need to get as much encouragement as we can for what we are doing. And that’s why they are there. Well, sometimes you might got bad reaction or shall I say discouragement, but they may not mean it that way. They might just want to alert you.

Anyway, for me, it served another purpose. I let my plan loose and it’s a way I want to let my promise known to someone. So that I must and really work on it. So that, next year, back to the meeting place, and we got something accomplished.

I found this is an effective way for a 1 year goal to be achieved. You don’t want to be ridiculed by friends.

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11
Feb
What you don’t know will hurt you
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I think you have heard it before, and it’s a totally opposite of ‘ignorance is bliss’. The subject is a powerful phrase because we as human will try to avoid being hurt as much as we can. And definitely when you don’t know , it will hurt you .

Just the other day when I was fined because of ‘I don’t know’. I parked my car at a place that I don’t know, what happened? I got a ticket..

Went to a new place, got into a bar, took a glance at a woman, and because of I don’t know, I got whacked..

So, what else that I don’t know will hurt? Plenty of them, so how do we handle the situation of I don’t know? .. Ask around, look at signs, better still study ahead before visit a certain place. Ask your friends, do anything to ‘know’ so that it won’t hurt you.

So, becareful when we use the term ‘Ignorance is bliss’ because ‘Not knowing hurts’

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05
Feb
What’s Wrong With You?
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Well, I just listened to Jim Rohn CD just now, and what really triggered me to write this is when he was teaching the power of the words. And I really didn’t realised how good is it until Jim told many that the words can affect people if you got it wrong. But when you got it right, it works wonder.

Take a look of this example. If you see your spouse, or your son or daughter whom are in worry of something, trying to solve things, and imagine 2 phrases of sentence that made all the differences.

The 1st one is, if you ask them ‘ what’s wrong with you? ‘, so this words are powerful and it will affect their mood, what do you think they would respond? Surely, or mostly, they will say ‘Nothing’ or some other word that won’t resolve the problem.

But if the 2nd phrase is ‘ what’s troubling you? ‘ now, this is more power in the persuasion for them to tell you the problem. I think mostly, if you ask the right words with the right tone, they will tell you the problem and you can help them and things would go really well.

Such a simple idea from Jim, and it can make the whole world of a difference. Remember the right words with right tone, you can make a big difference.

P/S: the CD I was listened too is called Jim Rohn – The Weekend Seminar

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03
Feb
New House Almost Ready
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Wow, it’s been a tiring couple of days, busy preparing for my new house. I need to paint the house, I need to clean the house, coordinate all the incoming of furnitures and accessories. And it is not done yet, seems like the whole week I will be busy on it.
But the satisfaction is there when it is slowly emerged, the dream house. This is the house that I wanted to make it come true. But it took too long to make it happen.
I bought it a year already, and the progress was so slow, until this year, I decided, it’s enough, no more procrastination. I must make it happen and shift into this new house in a week time. Then, everything is moving, and very soon I will be shifting into this new house.
Isn’t it good had I started it earlier? Well, at now I had got it almost done and make sure it’s done, it’s never too late if you start now.

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