Discipline yourself to do what you know you need to do to be the very best in your field. Perhaps the best definition of self discipline is this:
"Self discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not."
It is easy to do something when you feel like it. It's when you don't feel like it and you force yourself to do it anyway that you move your life and career onto the fast track.
What decisions do you need to make today in order to start moving toward the top of your field?
Whatever it is, either to get in or get out, make a decision today and then get started. This single act alone can change the whole direction of your life.
Seven Steps to Success
There is a powerful seven step formula that you can use to set and achieve your goals for the rest of your life. Every single successful person uses this formula or some variation of this formula to achieve vastly more than the average person. And so can you. Here it is:
Decide What You Want
First, decide exactly what it is you want in each part of your life. Become a "meaningful specific" rather than a "wandering generality."
Write it Down
Second, write it down, clearly and in detail. Always think on paper. A goal that is not in writing is not a goal at all. It is merely a wish and it has no energy behind it.
Set a Deadline
Third, set a deadline for your goal. A deadline acts as a "forcing system" in your subconscious mind. It motivates you to do the things necessary to make your goal come true. If it is a big enough goal, set sub-deadlines as well. Don't leave this to chance.
Make a List
Fourth, make a list of everything that you can think of that you are going to have to do to achieve your goal. When you think of new tasks and activities, write them on your list until your list is complete.
Organize Your List
Fifth, organize your list into a plan. Decide what you will have to do first and what you will have to do second. Decide what is more important and what is less important. And then write out your plan on paper, the same way you would develop a blueprint to build your dream house.
Take Action
The sixth step is for you to take action on your plan. Do something. Do anything. But get busy. Get going.
Do Something Every Day
Seventh, do something every single day that moves you in the direction of your most important goal at the moment. Develop the discipline of doing something 365 days each year that is moving you forward. You will be absolutely astonished at how much you accomplish when you utilize this formula in your life every single day.
Action Exercises
Here are two things you can do to put these ideas into action immediately.
First, decide exactly what you want, write it down with a deadline, make a plan and take action - on at least one goal - today!
Second, determine the price you will have to pay to achieve this goal and then get busy paying that price - whatever it is.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Friday, January 30, 2009
A Motivational Story with Wisdom - The Mouse Trap by Author Unknown
A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.
Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning.
"There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"
The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it."
The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!" The pig sympathized, but said, "I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured you are in my prayers."
The mouse turned to the cow and said "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!" The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off my nose."
So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap alone.
That very night a sound was heard throughout the house -- like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.
The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught.
The snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital, and she returned home with a fever.
Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient. But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig. The farmer's wife did not get well; she died. So many people came for her funeral; the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them.
The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.
The next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn't concern you, remember -- when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk. We are all involved in this journey called life. We must keep an eye out for one another and make an extra effort to encourage and help one another.
A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.
Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning.
"There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"
The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it."
The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!" The pig sympathized, but said, "I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured you are in my prayers."
The mouse turned to the cow and said "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!" The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off my nose."
So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap alone.
That very night a sound was heard throughout the house -- like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.
The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught.
The snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital, and she returned home with a fever.
Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient. But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig. The farmer's wife did not get well; she died. So many people came for her funeral; the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them.
The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.
The next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn't concern you, remember -- when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk. We are all involved in this journey called life. We must keep an eye out for one another and make an extra effort to encourage and help one another.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Happi Birthday to the following frens...
I have 3 frens who will be celebrating birthdays in this month, thus, I would like to this opportunity to wish them:
Farid,
Prof. Desmond,
Shah
and Bob
Farid,
Prof. Desmond,
Shah
and Bob
Friday, January 9, 2009
Right and Wrong
When Bankei held his seclusion-weeks of meditation, pupils from many parts of Japan came to attend. During one of these gatherings a pupil was caught stealing. The matter was reported to Bankei with the request that the culprit be expelled. Bankei ignored the case.
Later the pupil was caught in a similar act, and again Bankei disregarded the matter. This angered the other pupils, who drew up a petition asking for the dismissal of the thief, stating that otherwise they would leave in a body.
When Bankei had read the petition he called everyone before him. "You are wise brothers," he told them. "You know what is right and what is not right. You may go somewhere else to study if you wish, but this poor brother does not even know right from wrong. Who will teach him if I do not? I am going to keep him here even if all the rest of you leave."
Sometimes it is easier to play ignorant to the weakness of a particular person, for e.g. teachers who prefer to teach students who are good in studies than those students who poor in their studies. I have seen students who are in Form 1 and can only write their own name and not more than that.
So these students are being left alone doing their own things. When any of the disciplinary issues arise, it would be entirely the students' faults and not because of the students, their parents, teachers and society at large.
It takes courage and patience to teach them and to guide them.
I wish I have the patience to guide and to teach them but I know my strength is limited. It would be nice to see all the children in the world can read, write and be able to think as it would clearly lessen the needs for war.
Namoamitofu......
When Bankei held his seclusion-weeks of meditation, pupils from many parts of Japan came to attend. During one of these gatherings a pupil was caught stealing. The matter was reported to Bankei with the request that the culprit be expelled. Bankei ignored the case.
Later the pupil was caught in a similar act, and again Bankei disregarded the matter. This angered the other pupils, who drew up a petition asking for the dismissal of the thief, stating that otherwise they would leave in a body.
When Bankei had read the petition he called everyone before him. "You are wise brothers," he told them. "You know what is right and what is not right. You may go somewhere else to study if you wish, but this poor brother does not even know right from wrong. Who will teach him if I do not? I am going to keep him here even if all the rest of you leave."
Sometimes it is easier to play ignorant to the weakness of a particular person, for e.g. teachers who prefer to teach students who are good in studies than those students who poor in their studies. I have seen students who are in Form 1 and can only write their own name and not more than that.
So these students are being left alone doing their own things. When any of the disciplinary issues arise, it would be entirely the students' faults and not because of the students, their parents, teachers and society at large.
It takes courage and patience to teach them and to guide them.
I wish I have the patience to guide and to teach them but I know my strength is limited. It would be nice to see all the children in the world can read, write and be able to think as it would clearly lessen the needs for war.
Namoamitofu......
Saturday, January 3, 2009
This is for a very special person. Why is this person so special? Reason 1: This person is an hyprocrite. Say one thing and do another thing. For example, this person would condemn a person who for example failed to show up for work a few days, saying that this person is dead, no use at all and yet this person would be the one who would not work and can borrow money from anybody just to survive.
Reason 2: This person owes money to a lot of people and never return their money. I was one of them. This person owed me money since year 2006.
Reason 3: This person's voice is larger than the voice of this person's creditor(S)
Reason 4: Ungrateful family member. Forget who fed and bathe this person from small.
Reason 5: Ungrateful friend. Forget who helped through good and bad
Reason 6: A very very very good pretender and a liar. A real two faced person
Reason 7: Good in bad mouthed people.
Reason 8: Spent all the time sleeping and watching tv.....
Reason 9: Never really tried to look for work.
Reason 10: Always day dreaming about how to get rich without ever trying to work. Having an education recognition and still doesn't want to make full use of it.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Sudah tiba masanya zaman persekolahan 2009 bermula. Huhuhuhu..... jalan dah kembali jam teruk. Kat Klang lagi teruk, kalau boleh, tak nak masuk opis! Lokasi opis = tengah pusat bandar.... Bagi budak-budak, dah sampai masa mereka balik sekolah atau mula bersekolah. Bagi I, pun sama tapi tak pergi sekolah belajar tapi pergi sekolah berjumpa dengan guru dapatkan bisness lor. No business = no $$$ = no makan!!!
Agaknya apa yang akan terjadi pada tahun ini....
Adakah ia akan sama dengan situasi didalam tahun 2008????
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