Life is full of peaks and valleys

One second - floating in the sky

The next second - hit rock bottom

Happiness - What does it mean?


Monday, February 06, 2012

Food for thought

What do you think of this?
I feel it just hit the nail on the head.


Straight up

"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
And a few more thoughts, from one of the greatest men of my lifetime:
“On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?" And Vanity comes along and asks the question, "Is it popular?" But Conscience asks the question "Is it right?" And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right.”
. . .
“We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”
. . .
“The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.”

Wednesday, January 04, 2012

Post 2011 reflections

Have you ever thought about goodwill accumulation review?
If you have not, then it is time to do it.
Why?
It is a way to re-organise your piorities and re-focus on your most pressing issues and stop wasting time on the non-essentials duties and people.
It is not to say that we need to ignore others totally but balance it up. For those persistent leeching friends, give your attention when you can spare them. They can find others even if they cant find you.
As you are going through the network of friends and family members, determine how much time you want to spend on them.
Then determine if they are a positive or negative influence on your life.
If they are negative influence, e.g. they are not supportive of your decision to try new things, they constantly take up your time to help them do things, they constantly criticise you, then it is time for you to re-consider what you want to do with them? Spend less time? Change their pereption?

Remember a quote from Steve Jobs - "Everyone wants a piece of you."
Therefore, be smart and dont waste time.