Rebirth of T-rex

Tomorrow will be the last day of 2006, looking back at the events happened and achievements obtained, there are 5 significant ones that I extremely happy about and satisfied with.

In short, they are the following:

1. A New Year Resolution of 2006
2. Career in MNC
3. Trip to London
4. Reading Habit
5. Victory in Volleyball Tournament

Firstly, it's the first year, the idea of new year resolution come into reality when I defined and focus on the crusade of 'Helping 1 million people in my life'. It's a very strong principle that I carry with me the whole year and I can see a very significant change in my personal behavior when dealing with people and events that are around me. It will be a continuous principle and practice for the years to come.

The year of 2006 is also a year that display a 'jump' in my career. I am accepted and employed in a well-known MNC IT Service Center. It's a challenging yet exciting to pick up the new role, especially to understand and be familiar with processes in executing the tasks and accomplishing the mission. A paradigm shift in managing the tasks has occured as I am required to see things in bigger picture as an analyst, be proactive and initiative.

One of the greatest moment of the year was the company trip to London. I was sent to support the User Acceptance Test for an application that measures productivity of the employee. The sharing of feeling from the pickup of limosine from my house to KLIA Airport, boarding a Boeing 747 on a business class, transiting at Amsterdam till the visits to many many tourist spots in London and Greenwich will take up to hours. It will be a life-long memorable moments. In fact, I just read the news about Air Asia may offer flight to London at a more budgeted rate next year. That motivates me to fulfill my dream to be back to London again!

Compared to the past 3 years of working life, 2006 is the year in which I read the most, including listening to a lot of audio books. Among these are a few best sellers, including the one by Anthony Robbins, Jim Rohns, David Canfield, Zig Ziglar...etc. In particularly, I like the video called 'The Secret', the book 'The Success Principle by David Canfield. I sincerely encourages you to read up some of these. It may change your life forever.

Lastly, another great event experienced this year is the achievement in volleyball tournament. I was selected to be one of the player for our company's volleyball team to take part in a tournament, in which many other MNC companies in Cyberjaya also took part. Our team has the best combinations of talented and experienced players, which lead us to beat the other teams and emerge as champion. I am really proud of ourselves!

Looking back at these for the year of 2006, there will be some other big plans coming up for the year of 2007.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all the best for the coming year. Happy New Year of 2007!

Read this to yourself every morning and evening (before you go to sleep)

THE SECRET TO YOU
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I AM STARTING OVER TODAY
ALL GOOD THINGS ARE COMING TO ME TODAY
I AM GRATEFUL TO BE ALIVE
I SEE BEAUTY ALL AROUND ME
I LIVE WITH PASSION AND PURPOSE
I TAKE TIME TO LAUGH AND PLAY EVERYDAY
I AM AWAKE, ENERGIZED AND ALIVE
I FOCUS ON ALL THE GOOD THINGS IN LIFE AND GIVE THANKS TO THEM
I AM AT PEACE AND ONE WITH EVERYTHING
I FEEL THE LOVE, THE JOY, THE ABUNDANCE
I AM FREE TO BE MYSELF
I AM MAGNIFICENCE IN HUMAN FORM
I AM THE PERFECTION OF LIFEI AM GRATEFUL TO BE ME
TODAY IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE

I would like to share something my friend from Taiwan shared with me. It's meaningful and please bear with me because it's in mandarin language.

Mission Impossible 『不可能的事』 世界上的事情非常奇怪～越是人們認為不可能的！做起來越有機會成功！第一位發現這個道理的據說是哥倫布

1485年5月～哥倫布到西班牙去遊說：『我從這兒向西走也能到達東方～只要你們拿出錢來資助我』～當時！沒有一個人阻止他～也沒有刺殺他～因為當時的人認為～從西班牙向西航行～不出500海哩～就會掉進無盡的深淵～想到達富庶的東方？那是決對不可能的！ 可是～在他第一次航行成功～第二次又要去的時候～不僅遇到了空前的阻力～而且還有人在大西洋上攔截～並企圖暗殺他！至於原因～非常明確～因為沿這條航線絕對能夠到達富庶的東方～他再去一回～那兒的黃金！瑪瑙！翡翠！玉石！皮毛！香料！就會使得他富比王侯！不可一世！ 越是人們認為不可能的！做起來越順暢！這一道理～在哥倫布死後救被人遺忘了！直至大約500年後～在華爾街上～才被一位叫巴菲特的美國人發現！

1973年～全世界沒有一個人認為～曼圖阿農場的股票能夠復甦～有的是甚至認為～曼圖阿不出三個月就會宣告破產！然而～巴菲特不這樣看～他認為～越是在人們對某一股票失去信因的時候～這支股票越可能是一處大金礦！果然～在他以15美分的價格買入為數不少的股票之後～不到五年～他就賺了4700萬美元！眾所周知～現在他已是緊排比爾蓋茲之後的大富翁了！

哥倫布所發現的那個道理～不久又被一個人發現！他是法國的一位小男孩！這個小男孩七歲時～創辦了一個專門提供玩具信息的網站！當時～沒有一個人把他放在眼裡～沒有一家同類的公司與之為敵～也沒有哪家行業會來照他簽訂合約！他們認為～那個網站只是一個孩子的遊戲～成不了什麼氣候！誰知結果卻出人意料～這位小男孩不僅把網站做大了～而且在他十歲時～就通過廣告收入～成了法國最年輕的百萬富翁！

越是一般人認為不可能的事～月有可能做到！這話確實很有道理！大家都認為不可能～必然誰也不去關注～誰也不去攻擊～誰也不去設防！！再者～不可能實現的事～一般都沒有競爭對手～第一個去做的人正好可以獨自乘虛而入！

另外！一般人認為不可能的事～肯定是件十分困難！甚至是難以想像的事！因為太難～所以畏難！因為畏難！所以根本不去問津！不但自己不去問津！甚至認為別人也不會問津！可以說世界上真正的大業～都是在別人認為不可能的情況下完成的！！在人類一步步從過去走向未來的過程中～不可能的事～一件還沒有發現！


Another great quote from John Maxwell :
Everyone has the power to impact the outcome of his life. The way to do it s to focus on today... Today is the only time you have. It's too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow.

Points to Ponder
Try to answer the following question honestly:

Have you ever wonder what will happen if you stop working/can't work anymore from today onwards?
What have you done to prepare yourself for that?

Great Advise
Plan your day as if tomorrow never ends, but act as if tomorrow never comes.

The following are extracted from John Di Lemme on Rejection.

He stated that how we handle rejection is direct propotion to how we maintainpersistent level of action in order to feel fulfilled and find our WHY in life. He also described that rejection is an extremely negative force; however, if we can channel it to produce positive results, then we will benefit from it. 'The most successful people are those who have felt the pains of rejection, but because of their DETERMINATION they pressed onward and won the game.'

EXPECT REJECTION, LOVE REJECTION, LEARN FROM REJECTION AND YOU WILL SUCCEED!

Find your WHY and Fly!

Tips for Success
3 As for excellence (Zig Ziglar):
Attitude
Aggressiveness
Appearance

4 Ls for your success in life (by Founder and President of a company) :
Live
Love
Learn
Legacy

Happy Chinese New Year and Gong Xi Fa Chai. I would like to quote from Daily Dose of Happiness the following interesting point:

What do you see?
OPPORTUNITY IS: N-O-W-H-E-R-E

Did you see "nowhere" or "now here"? It's all in how we look at things.

I have just read a free eBook - Tame Your Brain! by Jan Tincher recently and found that some of the techniques the author shared on helping us to find personal success pretty interesting.

I would like to grab this opportunity to share what I have learnt from the author on Anger Management. As we are aware that anger could ruin our life and health, but how do we manage and control it to lead to disaster? The author has proposed that writing a letter to ourselves is an effective way to achieve that. The author describes that there are 6 levels involved in healing anger, in which each level has 2 feelings associated to it, in particularly the following:

Level Feeling associated to the feeling
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Anger ( blame & resentment )

v
Hurt ( sadness & disappointment )

v
Fear ( insecurity & wounds )

v
Regret ( understanding & responsibility )

v
Intention ( solutions & wishes )

v
Love ( forgiveness & appreciation )

In the letter, we write a sentence per feeling. Each will lead to more and we write all of them until we can't write another sentence for that feeling anymore.
For the feeling, you could start with the following but not necessary a must to start it that way:

Blame: I blame you for _______
Resentment: I resent the fact that _______
I resent you for ______
Sadness: You make me sad when you ______
Disappointment: You disappoint me when you ______
Insecure: In feel insecure when you ______
Wound: You wound me when ______
Understand: I understand the situation as ______
Responsible: I feel responsible when _______
Solution: I feel a solution might be ______
Wish: I wish ______
Forgiveness: I forgive you for ______
Appreciation: I appreciate the fact that you ______

Remember to send the letter to YOU AND ONLY YOURSELF, but not other people, otherwise it defeat the purpose.

A new year with a new beginning! Happy new year to you.

The year 2005 ended with positive and negative events. My service to our company's partner ended in the mid of December followed by wedding ceremony of my gf's sister. Soon after that were my dad's brain surgery, my resignation to the company and joining of new company in the new year. It sounds pretty ad hoc and everything happened just within a very short 3 weeks.

However, I personally feel that the greatest achievement is the opportunity to be offered by a worldwidely known MNC. With this, I have achieved and exceeded the goal I have set in year end of 2004 in terms of salary. Besides, as I have promised to my gf, within a year the figures has a 50% increment of what I was acquiring in year end of 2004.

With the entry to the MNC company, the scope has increased tremendously to looking at the world map & looking at millions and billions! The potential to grow has increased tremendously too. The paradigm switch gets me excited and nervous in the beginning, however, time to get into serious business has come too.

After induction/orientation programme I attended yesterday morning, it has gave me a glance of what I shall prepare for the near future with goal setting and planning. At the same time, synchonization of the work's goal and personal's goal is extremely important. Some work has to be done! :)

Anyway, I have came across an interesting writing on "Insight of Success" (by Kamaruddin B. Hassan) which I would like to share with you too. The element of success can be abbreviated into a positive word- GRATEFUL:

Goal
Relationship with others
Attitude
Time Management
Effective & Efficiency
Follow-Up
Under Promise & Over Delivery
Love

Besides, I would like to extract a few of his compilations in his book, which is mainly by Napolean Hill:

"When an opportunity came, it appeared in a different form and from a different direction. That is one of the trick of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it goes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognise opportunity."

"Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious."

"The longer you work in the right direction, the closer you are to success. Too many men give up when success is within he grasp. They leave it for someone else to capture."

"Wishing will not bring riches. But desering riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans persistence which does not recognise failure, will bring riches."

"... Life's battle don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later, the person who wins, is the man who thinks he can!"

"Broadly speaking, there are two types of people in the world. One type is known as leaders, and the others as followers. It is no disgrace to be a follower. On the other hand, it is no credit to remain a follower."