Read in today's newspaper about how a guy died from holding a karaoke mike. No, no - there was no electrical fault (that electrocuted him while he was in the karaoke room). No, no - mike is not a guy. Mike = microphone.
It seems that the guy just loved singing. Whilst a few others just loved a bit of peace and quiet.
He hogged the mike. It led to an argument with a few others who had asked him to let go of the mike. And the final result was that he was stabbed to death. A sad and tragic story, but unfortunately true.
Less than two weeks ago, a few of my friends also were holding a mike and merrily croaking (ooops ... I mean, singing - "karaokeing") until 3 a.m. in the morning at a golf and country resort. None of us had any urge to kill any of our friends who were holding the mike. Even if their wives were croaking (there I go again ... I mean "karaokeing"). I mean, we had no urge to kill either them or their wives!
A study reported in the British Medical Journal said that happiness is infectious, and can "ripple" through social groups such as family and friends.
The study's authors (Professor Nicholas Christakis of Harvard Medical School and Professor James Fowler of the University of California) said, "Changes in individual happiness can ripple through social networks and generate large scale structure in the network, giving rise to clusters of happy and unhappy individuals."
"Most important from our perspective is the recognition that people are embedded in social networks and that the health and well-being of one person affects the health and well-being of others."
To you and me, what the above study means (in not so erudite language) is that if you mix with good people, you become a good person. You mix with criminals, you will become a criminal.
The moral of the story? Who your friends are, will determine who you will be. Mix with positive-minded-friends, you become positive-minded. Mix with loving and caring people, you become a more loving and caring person.
Mix with rich friends, you become rich. O.k., I don't mean that you ask your millionaire friends for a donation of $1,000,000, made out in your name. But you will be able to gain their advice on important investments. And your thinking will be like them. Remember Napoleon Hill's book, "Think and Grow Rich"? You see the connexion now?
See how important your friends are? WHAT? You have not a single soul in this world who is your friend? You are presently a hermit living in a cave in the deep jungles of "Malaysia - Truly Asia", and will only be returning to civilisation in 3 years' time?
What advice can I give you? I understand that you are very shy, and will run away from your own shadow. Well, get all the classic motivation books. They can be your first friends. You will follow my advice? Thank you. I love you!
I wish you Success in your undertakings, and Good Health and Wealth to you and your family. Take care!
P.S. A few days after the croaking session above, one of my friends (a homeopathic practitioner) emailed/forwarded a message about how to immediately help a stroke victim, using an alternative/traditional approach (i.e. non-conventional medical practice). Another friend who is a neurosurgeon (he operates on your brain if a blood vessel bursts there) said that the traditional advice was "rubbish". Do you think they will start attacking each other? Whether with words ... or knives (or surgeon's scalpels ... or operating saws)?
P.P.S. An opportunity to spend five days having discussions with a multi-millionaire is offered to you. At his exclusive, beautiful home on top of a hill in Hawaii, with a breathtaking view of the Pacific Ocean and the islands. Limited to 20 persons only. Would you grap the opportunity? For a $20,000 fee. What's your comment?
Showing posts with label Power of Thinking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Power of Thinking. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Vision + Action = Success
Everthing starts with a thought. You see, or have a vision, in your mind before you actually get what you want.
Napoleon Hill wrote "Think and Grow Rich". Maybe that's a clue as to the starting point of getting anything that you want?
When you have a vision, your creative juices will start flowing. When you have a vision of a particularly delicious "food, glorious food", you may start to salivate (digestive juices flowing out?).
I have a friend who's vision is to have a young wife. Ever since he was 26. Even when he was 56. (Even when he's 86? ... well, we'll see! Anyway, you know about that guy who marrried a Playgirl when he was in his late 80s - or is it when he was already 90?).
My friend's first wife (when he was 26) was 16. His second wife (when he was in his early forties) was 22. His third wife (when he was in his late forties) was 24. His fourth wife (when he was in his fifties) was 18. Don't you think that he is an example of "what you think, is what you get"? Awesome!
Of course, you may argue that you also have the vision to have a young and pretty wife, but you are not as successful as my friend above. Perhaps you are a completely disastrous and miserable failure compared to my friend. Where have you gone wrong? Where did my friend go right?
The most probable answer between your miserable failure and his galloping success is "action". My friend took massive action.
Of course, sometimes he seeks support from a favorite auntie. To arrange for a list of 66 potential candidates. He had to go through almost half of the list to get his number 2 wife. A lot of entertaining and dining. I mean, its no joke to go through the list. If you have not tried doing it, then you wouldn't understand the amount of time (and money) that is needed to be expended. Are you ready for the sacrifice?
If you just have a vision of a pretty girl on your lap ... however hard you think .... however hard you focus ... however hard you meditate ... however hard you squint your eyes ... she ain't gonna fall from the sky onto your lap! If just having a vision worked, many Hollywood (and Bollywood) starlets would have gently fallen onto my lap too!
By taking action, you are actually preparing for the thing (that you envision), to be delivered to you. For you to be ready to receive it. Without action, that which you are supposed to receive, will wait in the distance...waiting for you.
You may know a friend who had undergone failure after failure after failure after failure ... and is now a success. If he has experienced failures, don't you think that he was actually preparing to receive success? Did his actions which led to his earlier failures, increased his knowledge of what not to do to achieve success?
If you have not met failure, how are you going to know success? A failure is actually a success, but facing the opposite direction, don't you think so? The other side of the coin, so to speak.
The critical importance of acting in the present, has been well said by Wallace D Wattles. He wrote: "You cannot act where you are not; you cannot act where you have been; and you cannot act where you are going to be; you can only act where you are".
Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. The vision is the inspiration for you to attract whatever you want. Your massive action is the perspiration that brings, and also prepares you to receive, whatever you want.
The moral of the story? Once you have a vision, get into immediate action. Do not procrastinate! Do not wait for your surroundings to change; you go change your surroundings (even though the pace of the change may appear agonisingly slow).
Your Vision is the spark that will light your fire. Your Action is the stoking of the logs that will turn the tinder into a giant ball of fire. Your Vision combined with massive Action will turn you into a flaming success!
I wish you Success in your undertakings, and Good Health and Wealth to you and your family. Take care!
P.S. Did my friend have four wives at a time (a polygamist)? No. He is a one-woman man!
Napoleon Hill wrote "Think and Grow Rich". Maybe that's a clue as to the starting point of getting anything that you want?
When you have a vision, your creative juices will start flowing. When you have a vision of a particularly delicious "food, glorious food", you may start to salivate (digestive juices flowing out?).
I have a friend who's vision is to have a young wife. Ever since he was 26. Even when he was 56. (Even when he's 86? ... well, we'll see! Anyway, you know about that guy who marrried a Playgirl when he was in his late 80s - or is it when he was already 90?).
My friend's first wife (when he was 26) was 16. His second wife (when he was in his early forties) was 22. His third wife (when he was in his late forties) was 24. His fourth wife (when he was in his fifties) was 18. Don't you think that he is an example of "what you think, is what you get"? Awesome!
Of course, you may argue that you also have the vision to have a young and pretty wife, but you are not as successful as my friend above. Perhaps you are a completely disastrous and miserable failure compared to my friend. Where have you gone wrong? Where did my friend go right?
The most probable answer between your miserable failure and his galloping success is "action". My friend took massive action.
Of course, sometimes he seeks support from a favorite auntie. To arrange for a list of 66 potential candidates. He had to go through almost half of the list to get his number 2 wife. A lot of entertaining and dining. I mean, its no joke to go through the list. If you have not tried doing it, then you wouldn't understand the amount of time (and money) that is needed to be expended. Are you ready for the sacrifice?
If you just have a vision of a pretty girl on your lap ... however hard you think .... however hard you focus ... however hard you meditate ... however hard you squint your eyes ... she ain't gonna fall from the sky onto your lap! If just having a vision worked, many Hollywood (and Bollywood) starlets would have gently fallen onto my lap too!
By taking action, you are actually preparing for the thing (that you envision), to be delivered to you. For you to be ready to receive it. Without action, that which you are supposed to receive, will wait in the distance...waiting for you.
You may know a friend who had undergone failure after failure after failure after failure ... and is now a success. If he has experienced failures, don't you think that he was actually preparing to receive success? Did his actions which led to his earlier failures, increased his knowledge of what not to do to achieve success?
If you have not met failure, how are you going to know success? A failure is actually a success, but facing the opposite direction, don't you think so? The other side of the coin, so to speak.
The critical importance of acting in the present, has been well said by Wallace D Wattles. He wrote: "You cannot act where you are not; you cannot act where you have been; and you cannot act where you are going to be; you can only act where you are".
Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. The vision is the inspiration for you to attract whatever you want. Your massive action is the perspiration that brings, and also prepares you to receive, whatever you want.
The moral of the story? Once you have a vision, get into immediate action. Do not procrastinate! Do not wait for your surroundings to change; you go change your surroundings (even though the pace of the change may appear agonisingly slow).
Your Vision is the spark that will light your fire. Your Action is the stoking of the logs that will turn the tinder into a giant ball of fire. Your Vision combined with massive Action will turn you into a flaming success!
I wish you Success in your undertakings, and Good Health and Wealth to you and your family. Take care!
P.S. Did my friend have four wives at a time (a polygamist)? No. He is a one-woman man!
Monday, October 6, 2008
To Be Successful, You Only Need to Think?
I was in a Malaysia Airline B747 on the way to Japan to attend a 3-week training program on Quality Management.
"The captain of this flight is Captain MH (Most Handsome) Azharo", came the message over the PA system. "The name sounds familiar", I thought ... as I fast-backward the clock to my memorable 4-year stay in college. I immediately asked the pretty and petite flight stewardess to ask the captain whether he was in the same college, to confirm he was my good college-mate. He was! After my meal, I was invited into the cock-pit (no ... rumours that illegal cock-fighting takes place in the cock-pit is simply not true).
I therefore had a bird's eye-view (ohhh ... so that's why they call it the cock-pit ... because you feel and see like a he-bird!) of the landing at Tokyo's Narita airport. Did the MH Captain and his First Officer (co-pilot) take a lackadaisical attitude to reach the destination? No! Did they have 100% concentration? Yes! Did they focus all their attention to the exact runway, and the minutest details of the plane's speed, height, and descent angle? Yes!
It is the same if you want to achieve your goal. You have to give it your focused, undivided attention!
A famous Malaysian international fashion designer explained during a TV interview that he was 18 when he saw a picture of a beautiful and tall model, and told his friends that he would like a wife just like that. His friends laughed ... maybe because he was not as tall as the model...maybe he was not a successful designer yet. (Doesn't that sound familiar? ... Our friends love us, and don't want us to get hurt ... having BIG DREAMS ... in this case, Tall Dreams ... hehe!).
Two years later, he had the opportunity to meet the beautiful tall model face-to-face. What do you think happened? He hid behind her skirt? When your Tall Dream appears live in front of you, will you grow shorter, or taller? Will you run away from your dream, or after it?
Isn't the above story about the Power of Thinking? What was first seen in the mind, through a mere picture, became a reality! Albeit 2 years later? Was it worth the 2-year wait? Or was it that because the mind had clearly and undividedly focused on one (beautiful and tall) goal, it was not deflected (or side-tracked) during the 2 long years? What do you think?
The moral of the story? Wallace D Wattles wrote, "You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want; you cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself". If you want anything, it has to start in your mind. Think of what you want. Have a burning desire. Write it down. Have faith that it is "at hand". Have the "mental attitude of ownership". Once you have the Power of Thinking, add the Power of Action. You will be unstoppable! Or irresistible. Or ...!
I wish you Success in your undertakings, and Good Health and Wealth to you and your family. Take care!
P.S. Did the fashion designer get his Tall Dream? Yes. Is he happy? Deliriously so, I believe (well, with 5 kids, you cannot be either happy or delirious ... you must be deliriously happy! ... hehehe). Write to me if you can beat that, ok?
"The captain of this flight is Captain MH (Most Handsome) Azharo", came the message over the PA system. "The name sounds familiar", I thought ... as I fast-backward the clock to my memorable 4-year stay in college. I immediately asked the pretty and petite flight stewardess to ask the captain whether he was in the same college, to confirm he was my good college-mate. He was! After my meal, I was invited into the cock-pit (no ... rumours that illegal cock-fighting takes place in the cock-pit is simply not true).
I therefore had a bird's eye-view (ohhh ... so that's why they call it the cock-pit ... because you feel and see like a he-bird!) of the landing at Tokyo's Narita airport. Did the MH Captain and his First Officer (co-pilot) take a lackadaisical attitude to reach the destination? No! Did they have 100% concentration? Yes! Did they focus all their attention to the exact runway, and the minutest details of the plane's speed, height, and descent angle? Yes!
It is the same if you want to achieve your goal. You have to give it your focused, undivided attention!
A famous Malaysian international fashion designer explained during a TV interview that he was 18 when he saw a picture of a beautiful and tall model, and told his friends that he would like a wife just like that. His friends laughed ... maybe because he was not as tall as the model...maybe he was not a successful designer yet. (Doesn't that sound familiar? ... Our friends love us, and don't want us to get hurt ... having BIG DREAMS ... in this case, Tall Dreams ... hehe!).
Two years later, he had the opportunity to meet the beautiful tall model face-to-face. What do you think happened? He hid behind her skirt? When your Tall Dream appears live in front of you, will you grow shorter, or taller? Will you run away from your dream, or after it?
Isn't the above story about the Power of Thinking? What was first seen in the mind, through a mere picture, became a reality! Albeit 2 years later? Was it worth the 2-year wait? Or was it that because the mind had clearly and undividedly focused on one (beautiful and tall) goal, it was not deflected (or side-tracked) during the 2 long years? What do you think?
The moral of the story? Wallace D Wattles wrote, "You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want; you cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself". If you want anything, it has to start in your mind. Think of what you want. Have a burning desire. Write it down. Have faith that it is "at hand". Have the "mental attitude of ownership". Once you have the Power of Thinking, add the Power of Action. You will be unstoppable! Or irresistible. Or ...!
I wish you Success in your undertakings, and Good Health and Wealth to you and your family. Take care!
P.S. Did the fashion designer get his Tall Dream? Yes. Is he happy? Deliriously so, I believe (well, with 5 kids, you cannot be either happy or delirious ... you must be deliriously happy! ... hehehe). Write to me if you can beat that, ok?
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