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You won’t necessarily become great just by having a dream, but that dream of yours will allow you to have a direction in Life. Your dream will serve as the beacon of hope for yourself and the many others involved when darkness starts to engulf your inner thoughts. However, with nothing set in stone at the start, there will always be many obstacles that stand in your way. These obstacles will constantly attempt to stray you away from that very distant dream of yours. Hence, it is imperative that we prepare ourselves well in order to defuse such negative thoughts as and when they come. Oftentimes, our way of thinking is a form of habit. When we are faced with a seemingly unsurmountable challenge, it can be easy to suddenly fall weak on our knees and spiral ourselves into a negative thought cycle over time. Our minds often have this ability to reinforce these negative thoughts unconsciously once confronted with any resistance coming from us on trying to force them out. Negative co...

Imagine you are about to go on a date with your crush, and even if you have been busy the whole day and exhausted, you would still happily dress yourself up for the occasion just so you can fulfill this wonderful date that makes you happy. Just like setting yourself up with that lifelong dream of yours, you do not just kind of want to realise it, you are very determined to achieve it at whatever the cost. This cause of yours will get your adrenaline pumping, makes you want to jump out of bed in the morning to get on with doing that one thing without much hesitation. Simply because this is your Dream, your Achievement, your source of Happiness, and you could only wish you have 48 hours in a day to work so that you can bring yourself that much closer to achieving it. Many successful entrepreneurs probably do not have the luxury of sleeping six to eight hours every day, and have you ever wondered why they still appear radiant in front of the world everytime they step out? The ma...

Just because someone seems to be able to complete a task effortlessly, does not mean that he or she has not laboured hard behind your back. Sometimes, we tend to misunderstand many things on the surface because of what we do not see behind our backs. Whenever you spot someone who is in good shape, you might feel that this person is naturally born with it; whenever you hear someone who is fluent in a second language besides his or her native one, you might feel that he or she must have been educated overseas and have natural talent in the language; whenever you meet someone with achievements that are not befitting his or her age and experience, you might suspect this person must have got solid backing from the family or it is simply down to luck. You might feel that no matter how much effort you are putting in, everything just seems futile in contrast. However, for a person to achieve the kind of result that sets him or her apart from the rest, more often than not, boils down to...

Whenever you feel stuck in a rut, you probably at some point would have asked someone else for advice on how you should proceed with your own Life from here. Oftentimes after hearing out from others, the majority of us feel we have remained stuck and would do pretty much nothing to salvage the situation. In other words, the underlying problem remains there unresolved. As time goes by, you realized you are left with little to no choice and eventually, the only option is to accept your fate and live the remaining days wondering all the what-ifs. Have you ever given yourself some serious thought on perhaps why the matters that cause your misery never seem to get resolved? I reckon the reason may be more simple than you thought: You do not wish to sacrifice or give up any of your curent benefits that come with your current dire situation; in addition to that, you demand and expect the situation to change in your favour just by waiting things out. ...

Many a times, the very reasons why we are unable to live our lives happily are due to the fact that we have grown to put too much attention on the opinions of others; we have grown to become less sensitive to many of the simple things which used to fill us with happiness; and we have grown to see the world with a much narrower view than ever before. Moreover, all of us are living in a society that constantly reminds us of our own inadequacies. No matter whether it is television advertisements, social media, or other relatives, salesmen and saleswomen trying their best to convince you with "This is for your own good.", all of these are only suggesting that your contributions, whatever you have achieved thus far, are not good enough for what you are worth. The only gripe with all these is that all of these portrayals are, more often than not, on the extreme upper end of the echelon. However, they have all been served to us as standards and the social norm; that not owning th...

Go ahead and do what you have always wanted to do, work hard and bring yourself closer to living out the kind of life that you have always wanted to live. No one will ever know what the outcome will be, nor will anybody give you the assurance that everything will work out well. However, if you never attempt to work towards it, there is definitely no chance that you will ever reach your goals.  If possible, anyone would wish to make the choice that will lead to the best outcome. However, nothing in this world is perfect. No matter how much effort you put in to craft out that ideal situation you have always envisioned yourself in, there will always be shortcoming that presents itself in other ways; however inadequate you may feel at each moment,  there will always be avenues for you to work towards in Life.  For an eventual outcome to turn out for the best, you will have to commit a whole lot of work on your part; for an eventual outcome to become the best, you w...

Most, if not all, of us would like to believe that there is a force leading us along. I would like to think that this force of nature is likely not an act of God, but rather, it is the force of the Universe: The Laws of Physics and complex mathematical equations. The First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics are possibly the most fundamental law when it comes to explaining the physical nature in this Universe. The First Law of Thermodynamics is also widely known as the Law of Conservation of Energy, whereas the Second Law of Thermodynamics explains that in any systems, given time, will experience an increase of entropy when undergoing a natural process. Chaos will strike in and throw the system into disarray. A building will gradually collapse after long period of neglect; people will eventually grow and wither away from existence; mountains and coastlines will constantly be shifted and eroded away.  In other words, the fate of the Universe will gradually become more...

Open up any newspaper or magazines and you probably would almost always find articles about successful people saying the reason they achieve success is largely because they have listened to their own inner voices to go against the grain and follow their own intuition. Career consultants and self-help books will probably also tell you that in order to find meaning in the work you do. However, the co-founder of the popular Life Design Lab at Stanford, Bill Burnett, thinks that "following your passion" is a dysfunctional advice anyone could ever give. According to the Director of the Center on Adolescence at Stanford University, Professor William Damon, only 25% of the young people aged 12 to 26 know where their passion and interests lie, while the remaining 75% are simply clueless. The studies also revealed that for most cases, personal interests only start to surface after several attempts at trying out something. Therefore, we can all be glad that designing a good life d...

If you are one of those "minority" who are constantly seeking for ways to get away from what the majority view as the "appropriate" and typical way of living and attempt to live out what they could not, you must be prepared to undergo loneliness every once in a while and often, the many criticisms and judgments from them that come along with it. You ought to treat these criticisms as some positive signals given to you. When someone voices an opinion of you, you should seek it as an avenue to understand yourself better. Our lives are set up to be a lifelong journey of learning from the moment we are born, and it is only through this process of learning that we are able to grow and refine ourselves as a living being. We must never have the stereotype that learning can only be done by rote. Imagine your everyday surroundings and having the company of someone, perhaps a simple conversation ...

How does your "Ideal Way" of Life look like? Are you someone who knows how to "Enjoy" Life? Nowadays, whenever we talk about living, most of us right off the bat would think of Time and Money; as if we ought to possess the wealth and time in order to truly enjoy Life to the fullest. I would certainly have to disagree in this regard. Whether or not you appreciate your own way of Life largely depends on your attitude and perception towards it. The premise of truly enjoying Life has got nothing to do with the amount of time you have on hand, neither is the amount of wealth accumulated along the way. Instead, it all boils down to whether each one of us is hardworking enough to put effort into everyday living so as  to live Life meaningfully. The definition of being hardworking here is not simply concentrating all efforts in only your full-time job to maximize income in hopes of a better materialistic life, but rather, it is about keeping the curiosity alive in ever...

There are generally three categories of people in today's society, and these indicate the level of difficulty you will face in order to convince them to buy in your personal ideas and values you deeply believe is your calling in life. Obviously, the higher the difficulty, the more skills you will need to possess in order to convince these people. This concept might sound familiar for people who are in the sales industry, but this concept does not just apply to the sales industry. This theory certainly applies to all the things we do from all walks of life. No matter what your goal in life is, you will bump into a majority of hard rejections; a couple of indifferent rejections that if you are skilled enough, you can win over; and only once in a blue moon, you are going to bump into some opportunities that are literally just waiting for you to show by their doorsteps. The Law of Large Numbers dictates that the more times you take action and the more you are rejected, the...

Many people tend to like saying this: "It's not that I cannot achieve something, it's simply because I am not willing to do / lazy to do / no time to do it.". This sort of excuse that we tend to find ourselves, filled with a strong sense of self-defeating connotations, is what many self-help authors like to exploit. I personally believe that this way of thinking is unmistakably justifiable and legitimate, simply because the majority of us are not willing to (or too lazy to, or have too little time to... fill in your own excuses ) take on some of the most important and arduous tasks required of today's society. Hence, those who are willing to take up the challenges and passionate enough to see through it are often appreciated and worshipped by the many who dared not. These people, who are deemed successful in the eyes of many, committed most of their time and energy, and probably also raked up countless debts in the process with the aspiration to perhaps dev...

To be able to make a contribution to mankind or the society can also be a kind of blessing. Take a step back and look at the Life most of us are going through thus far. In order to minimize inconvenience in our lives and the lives of others, most of us practice self-restraint. That is how the majority of us try to do in order to get us to where we are at various stages of Life. In the face of growing old and moving toward the livelihood of being an old man, the majority of us, at least, can perhaps attempt to shift away from our current standpoint or way of thinking of restraining ourselves towards something that speaks "do-what-you-love-to-do" as the focal point in living. One of the practical way of doing this is to transform that "who-am-I-doing-it-for" or "this-is-for-the-good-of-the-community" that forms the basis of our survival in today's context by adding in the element of "doing-what you-love-to-do". I deeply believe that ...