Rebirth of T-rex

I would like to share important concepts extracted from Andrew Matthew's Follow Your Heart- Finding Purpose in Your Life and Work. It's a book really worth reading.

1. We are here to learn lessons, and the world is our teacher
   When we fail to learn a lessson, we get to take it again... and again! Once we have learned the lesson, we move on to the next one. (And we never run out of lessons!)
   
2. The universe has no favourtites
   Your success and happiness depend on natural laws and principles- and how you use them
   
3. Your life is a perfect reflection of your beliefs
   When you change your deepest beliefs about the world, your life changes accordingly
   
4. The moment you get too attached to things, people, money... you screw it up
   The challenge of life is to appreciate everything and attach yourself to nothing
   
5. What you focus on in life expands
   so think about what you want!
   
6. Follow your heart!
   Your mission in life is not to be without problems- your mission is to get excited.
   
7. God is never going to come down from a cloud and say, "You now have permission to be successful!"
   You have to give yourself permission
   
8. When you fight life, life always wins
   If you want more peace of mind, stop labelling everything that happens as 'good' or 'bad'
   
9. How do you love people? Just accept them
   Complete acceptance is unconditional love
   
10. Our mission in life is not to change the world- our mission is to change ourselves.
    There are no 'outside' solutions, only 'inside' solutions
    

I was happy to meet up my friend from Singapore yesterday. I have learnt so much things from him and one of the interesting concepts is 'Don't be Color Blind'.
The concept is simple yet useful. Basically, we can group our activities into 3 different colors- Red, Yellow and Green. Yes, just like the traffic light.

Red- Activities that do not move you at all to your objectives/goals, just like stopping at the traffic light when it is red.
Yellow- Activities that prepare you to move closer to your objectives/goals.
Green- Activities that makes you achieve your objectives/goals.

Therefore, when you are selecting your activities within the fairly allocated 1440 minutes everyday, don't be color blind and choose your activities wisely. Keep performing as many green activities without being caught in red activities.

After understanding it, I come to realized that there are similarities in this concept with the others that I have learnt before this.

Habit 4 of First Thing First by Steven Covey in the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, in which you should focus on the 2nd Quadrant of activities that are important but not urgent.

Besides, Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy also adviced that you should prioritize your daily activities by 'eating the biggest, ugliest frog' in the beginning of the day.

In short, focus on the Most Important activities that brings you closer in achieving your objectives/goals and dreams!

I would like to share my mission statement that was defined after the 7th Habits of Highly Effective People training.

Mission Statement

1. Financial Arena- I shall seek financial freedom and consequently freedom to do the things I want to do by managing my wealth with proper financial planning
   
2. Career Arena- I shall build a career preferably owning a business) that saves lives and change people lifestyles) alternatively “that brings benefits to people”
   
3. Recreational Arena- I shall pursue recreational activities that nurture and build deeper personal and family relationships
   
4. Health Arena- I shall maintain a healthy body (physically, mentally, spiritually and socially) via healthy diet, consistent exercise, open and positive mindset and meditation that is full of vitality, free from diseases, calm and relax, friendly and sociable
   
5. Relationship Arena- I shall build a healthy relationship with family and friends, in which we are caring, loving, empowering and supportive to each other
   
6. Personal Arena- I shall seek continuous learning and improving through self-development (Travel around the world, Attend motivational seminars by idol [Anthony Robbins, Bob Proctor, Jack Canfield, Jim Rohn] and Pursue post-graduate education)
   
7. Community Arena- I shall contribute to the community by actualizing my goal of helping 1 million people by 2019 by being a successful leader, mentor/ coach in leading, educating, inspiring others to achieve their success (Live, Love, Learn and Leave a Legacy)