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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 ...

We are often bombarded with connotations about the sort of things that would seemingly make us feel happy. The very idea that all the things that we should enjoy in order to attain fulfillment ought to be Rare , Expensive, Popular  and of Grand Proportion .  These preconceived notions in the face of today's society are not entirely wrong, but it has inadvertently reveal a cruel and unfavourable bias against the widely available , the cheap , ordinary and simple scale . When someone in your Facebook friends list posted getaway trip photos to the Maldives on a private jet, we unquestionably infer that they must have had a better time than someone who cycles at a local park; we would imagine that visiting the Uffizi gallery in Italy is always going to be more pleasurable than reading a novel in your backyard garden; A dinner at a downtown steakhouse sounds a good deal more impressive than a simple home-cooked meal; it feels more natural to think that the highlight of a week...

Perhaps you could have come up with other issues that matter more "freedom", like your personal health, your wealth accumulation, your amazing family or love relationship. However, if you are not able to face your personal health, wealth, or any of your relationships with a heart of freedom, all these seemingly beautiful and enjoyable things in life can turn out to be a unbearable burden. You may be physically very healthy but you could persistently be upset by some of your internal troubles and conflicts, to a point where constant depression and worries are slowly eroding your own will to even live. You sometimes may even wish that you could be the lying on a patient's bed, at least there will be someone who can comfort you and take good care of you. Having abundant wealth may not bring you happiness and a sense of security, for you may have to cast your worries everyday on the many eagle eyes preying on your wealth. The same goes for relationships, m...

Ever since the dawn of mankind, we have an innate tendency to attach a reason to everything to make sense of the world that we live in. We take a shot at contriving meanings for everything. We conceive theories in order to justify any patterns that we recognize amid all the noises in our everyday lives. In fact, what we do not realize is the downplaying on the element of luck and the role it plays in the eyes of those successful people. "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity" ~ Seneca When we see a soccer player scoring goals and winning the game for the club, we conclude that he is the best player in the world. We spot a classmate scoring high marks on a test and we presume that he is one of the smartest in the class. We certainly expect the same kind of performance for subsequent tests. Anything less than a stellar result would be considered as something out of the ordinary.  If truth be told, it could simply be the soccer player or the student has g...

Do you ever have somebody around you who spend most of their waking hours at work? Whenever you try to ask them out, they claim to be always very busy and have seemingly never-ending work waiting to be completed. However, when you ask around their colleagues and bosses on how they are performing, they shake their heads in disbelief, like they have numerous untold stories to tell. In short, they are really busy, but the work they produce are not pretty. You may wonder, so what are they really busy at? It seems strange that if they were really putting in the hard work, why aren't the work done nicely? Where in the world could be the problem? The problem lies in them not really striving hard. They were simply toiling aimlessly.   Remember an instance when I was still in school, there was a classmate of mine that did the same things that many of the better students did. He spent his time studying whenever he could and he played hard as well. However, his school results were not...