Goals and Dreams in Life
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One of the things I want to do in life is to travel the world, visit and see as many places as I can. I did not have the chance to travel that much as it requires time and a lot of money. If I have I chance where will I travel next time, the answer is simple that is anywhere where I have not been. There will be a very long list of places and countries.
In fact the first foreign country that I touched my feet on is Japan. From a small town in Malaysia and ended up in a big city like Tokyo was a bit of a shock for me. I did not know why but I took a very surprise decision that time that I want to go to Japan to study. Fortunately it was a very good decision as I learned a lot about the country and their culture and it was an experience that we cannot have it anywhere else.
About 20 years ago I took off to the land of the rising sun in an expectation to learn something with hope and big dreams. Little did I know that this country things can be very tough, a place where people only speak their own language and that was an immediate problem for many foreigners who first landed in Japan.
The language barrier
I stayed in the city of Tokyo a big city for a person who just hatched out from a small village and seeing people running around in hundreds and thousands was just something very shocking. Everything is in Japanese, the train station, the taxi and when ordering food are in Japanese. Luckily for me I picked up some basic Japanese and able to communicate in basic Japanese when ordering food or using the train service.
Now I am a Japanese speaker and speak the language fluently although it has been like 15 years I left the country. Japanese language is not that hard to learn especially when you are forced to use it daily, from the moment you wake up and turn on the TV, taking the train, read the newspaper, going to school, having lunch, school again and back home watching TV. All are done in Japanese. Sometimes people asked me if I even dream in Japanese or in my native language.
Many foreigners only need a month to understand the basic language if they attend some Japanese language school and a year to be able to speak and talk fluently with any Japanese. My Japanese was already very good during my second year stay in Tokyo. But even when we speak the language fluently, we will never be a Japanese or be part of their culture which so different and somehow I feel that non Japanese will never able to be part of it even if she or he tries to.
But many foreigners or gaijin speak very good Japanese and there are many who made appearance in TV shows and they speak and write Japanese as if it is their mother tongue.
Foreigners from different countries will also communicate in Japanese among foreigners. Even foreigners who know how to talk English will use Japanese as the primary language to communicate. After leaving Japan for more than 15 years now, I still can remember the language very well. I read the Japanese websites and listen to their music and TV shows. Maybe once you learned about something it is hard to forget about it, just like riding the bicycle.
I will write more about Japan and anything about Japanese the way I understand it in this blog and everything will be categorized at Japan for easy follow up. In my next writing I will write on Japanese people, the good and the bad part, the working culture, before and the present. I hope I can cover some on Japanese food which I believe is the favorite by many people in the world
How many of us dream of setting up a business but still unable to do because of some basic things like lack of capital and experience. The internet has made it possible for some people to set up their internet business. Internet marketing or selling things in the cyber space is not new and many people are turning to internet as their source of business.
To start with, one need to understand how does an internet marketing works and to get a product for you to sell online. It can be a digital or any kind of other product or services. All you need is to set up a website and an automation system where you can run the business automatically. There are many steps that we need to do here like making a good website, landing page, collecting optin emails, making follow up emails and most important thing is getting traffic to your website as traffic means customer to your product.
Blog is another good option if we want to start a blog business. Besides earning from adsense or other advertiser, blog is a good tools to bring customer to your business. We can make our blog as a business blog or use it to drive traffic to our business websites. Blogs and social networking websites are a very powerful tools to get good traffic.
It is no longer a dream to own a business but we can do it right here and right now.
The internet connection was really bad these few days and I was not able to update my blog. The last thing we need in blogging is the slow internet connection. We cannot update our blog and people cannot access our blog.
We all like things to be automatic, we drive automatic cars and things are now run automatic. In life too our life are in auto pilot. Our routines are just the same everyday as our mind are program to be in that nature. Sometimes it seems that yesterday moment are just like today or maybe tomorrow. Maybe it is a waste if we know what tomorrow going to be. There will be no moment that we are looking forward to as things are going to be pretty much the same.
Unfortunately that is the situation for most people, running life automatically and to safely. Are we human beings getting more lazy these days or there is nothing else that we should looking into. Since when was the last time we try to do something different or take some risk in life anticipating an outcome that can be more a lot better. Maybe there is none, none at all.
How many times we have told ourselves that we need changes in life, venture into something new, tap into various opportunities but in the end we found ourselves still remaining in the same situation as we were last year or years ago.
To change need courage because often we do not know what is there waiting for us at the other end of the road of change we choose. We become very unsure and chose to remain in our comfort zone for the rest of our lives. We never know ii if we never take the first step to change we will never know what is out there for us.
We need to remind ourselves of the pain we are enduring all this time in our so called comfort zone if we do not adapt to changes. If we are able to associate pain to our current situation we will find it is much easier to change ourselves.
But still many people failed halfway during the process and go back to their original form in their comfort zone. Often things will not be easy. To do something totally different will not be easy for many people. Our lives can said to be in auto pilot, we wake up, go to work, do the routine, have lunch, back home and go to bed. Almost all of us will have these normal routine cycles of life everyday just as in auto pilot. We can almost do it without even thinking for too long, we are even able to wake up at the same time every morning without the need of an alarm clock.
All these has been program inside our sub conscious mind and very often we reluctant to let go this easy comfort zone even though we know we are far from happy in the situation where we are now.
So why is it hard for us to take action and change. The answer is very simple. The fear of the uncertainty of the other side is far much greater than the pain in the current situation. So we will stay with the current condition as we already know what is in it and there could be no major harm that we cannot endure as we already survived it to this point.
We need to find a way to break through. We need to raise our awareness and to identify what are the actions we need in order for us to make change. We need to make ourselves strongly believe that we can achieve better things in life if we adopt changes and to know that we no longer need our old comfort zone. We need to find some kind of little proof that there is something better waiting for us, that the opportunities are far much bigger and better if we decided to explore more into it. We have the whole universe to explore and it is for use to decide just how much or how big we want from it.
Change happening everywhere and every moment now, we may realize or may not realize it. During the daily course of our life we learned how to live with those changes, like the way we work or how we come to work. There we no such thing as computers or internet 30-40 years ago and the cars we drive now much better and faster than they were 20 years back. All these are changes that blended well into our belief system and we do not resist to their existence.
Mentors are important to guide us in order for us to change and find success. Read their story and experience. They are the best road map and example for us to follow and from their experiences at least we are able to convince our self belief that we can do just the same.
Sometimes we just wonder why are human born to be different. Some are born to be great man and some are not. Maybe it is just how God created us or the way it should be that only a few are meant to be great. Those few are those who used the most of what they are gifted for. Their time, the ability and adapt to changes when they feel need to. Very often their successes are the results of the changes they bring to the world. We will be surprise of their humble beginning of their story and how they make it.
Even they need change to. Life is not about the successful of your business and the amount of money we make. Make more money does not mean making more happiness. We may end up not knowing what we really want in life if we put a lot of our focus in making money alone. Successes are measured in many ways. Of course many of us will use the amount of money we make as a barometer to measure success. Many rich people feel that they still have something to do in this world. It has no end to the list. In fact no lifetime will be enough to fulfill those lists.
Think of all the possible things that we can do if we decide to take that action, at any stage of life we decided to cross the line at the time when we need to choose which path to go. There will be no questions of what if. What if I have given it a try last time. These questions can be painful sometimes when we learned that we are no longer a part of the history. It’s the history of being part of the community of great and successful people.
Our Birth is our Opening Balance!
Our Death is our Closing Balance!
Our Prejudiced Views are our Liabilities
Our Creative Ideas are our Assets
Heart is our Current Asset
Soul is our Fixed Asset
Brain is our Fixed Deposit
Thinking is our Current Account
Achievements are our Capital
Character & Morals, our Stock-in-Trade
Friends are our General Reserves
Values & Behaviour are our Goodwill
Patience is our Interest Earned
Love is our Dividend
Children are our Bonus Issues
Education is Brands / Patents
Knowledge is our Investment
Experience is our Premium Account
The Aim is to Tally the Balance Sheet Accurately.
The Goal is to get the Best Presented Accounts Award.
Some very Good and Very bad things ….
The most destructive habit……. ……… ……..Worry
The greatest Joy……… ……… ……… ……Giving
The greatest loss…….Loss of self-respect
The most satisfying work…….. …….Helping others
The ugliest personality trait……. …….Selfishness
The most endangered species….. ….Dedicated leaders
Our greatest natural resource…. ……… …Our youth
The greatest ‘shot in the arm’…….. …Encouragement
The greatest problem to overcome…. ……… …..Fear
The most effective sleeping pill……. Peace of mind
The most crippling failure disease….. ………Excuses
The most powerful force in life…….. ………. ..Love
The most dangerous act…… ..A gossip
The world’s most incredible computer…. ….The brain
The worst thing to be without….. ……… ….. Hope
The deadliest weapon…… ……… ……..The tongue
The two most power-filled words……. ……… ‘I Can’
The greatest asset……. ………. ……… ……Faith
The most worthless emotion…. …………….. ….Self- pity
The most beautiful attire…… …………….. ……….SMILE!
The most prized possession.. ……… ……Integrity
The most powerful channel of communication. …..Prayer
The most contagious spirit…… …………….. ……Enthusiasm
Life ends; when you stop Dreaming,
Hope ends; when you stop Believing,
Love ends; when you stop Caring,
And Friendship ends; when you stop Sharing…!!!
1. Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day. And while you walk, smile.
2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
3. Sleep for 7 hours.
4. Live with the 3 E’s — Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy.
5. Play more games.
6. Read more books than you did in 2007.
7. Make time to practice meditation, yoga, and prayer. They provide us with daily fuel for our busy lives.
8. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.
9. Dream more while you are awake.
10. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
11. Drink plenty of water.
12. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
13. Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip.
14. Forget issues of the past. Don’t remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
15. Don’t have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
16. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
17. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.
18. Smile and laugh more.
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don’t hate others.
20. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
21. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
22. Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil the present.
23. Don’t compare your life to others’. You have no idea what their journey is all about. Don’t compare your partner with others.
24. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
25. Forgive everyone for everything.
26. What other people think of you is none of your business.
27. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
28. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.
29. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
30. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
31. The best is yet to come.
32. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
33. Do the right thing!
34. Call your family often.
35. Your inner most is always happy. So be happy.
36. Each day give something good to others.
37. Don’t over do. Keep your limits.
Not many people like the idea of doing the impossible. Why would somebody be crazy enough to even trying something that is impossible. But to those who have tried they know that doing something that is impossible will bring more meaning in life where you can achieve something while others not. it is those who are brave enough and those who have great patient and persistency are able to achieve this.
In today’s business world we need to set up goals and targets to the level that o one can even think to achieve. Then we will know our potential and our ability to do things. Most people will take the safe way, set an achievable target and goals and they never know to what limit they can achieve in life. We human are known not to fully utilize all the gifts that were given to us. We even use less than 1% of our brain our entire life. If we just push a little more harder and try those things that we think they are impossible, we will be surprise of what kind of things we can achieve in life.
Life is too short and we need to make things happen in life and live it with good values.
Technology has brought people closer to their dream if they know how to use it. Not too long ago there was the internet boom or what they called the dotcom boom where people turned to millionaire overnight. People used technology to do something that is out of our imagination. How we communicate today is so much different that how it used to be. The internet has gone to another level where we are no longer alone.
How technology change the world in a few years time. There will be a lot of changes. Things will be become more complicated but also be very convenient. Internet purchase will be very common that we no longer need to drive out and buy groceries. Home office and home business will be something everybody is doing.
Communication will be very much easier. Even today we have phones that can give us complete usage and in future phones and gadgets will get more sophisticated that what we can imagine. Imagine a phone that would replace a school bag for student or the one that comes in 3D where you almost can talk to your friend in person.
How do we use this technology os really up to us. Either we gain from it or we lose part of our world or our wisdom to it. We may lost our soul or our human value as we tend to rely more on machine to get things done.
Hopefully the movie terminator will not come to reality where machine will one day control the earth and take down man. It’s hard to believe if that is going to happen and hopefully it wont.
