From Neo Mui Kian:
"A PENCIL MAKER TOLD THE PENCIL 5 IMPORTANT LESSONS JUST BEFORE PUTTING IT IN THE BOX :
1.) EVERYTHING YOU DO WILL ALWAYS LEAVE A MARK .
2.) YOU CAN ALWAYS CORRECT THE MISTAKES YOU MAKE.
3.) WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS WHAT IS INSIDE OF YOU.
4.) IN LIFE , YOU WILL UNDERGO PAINFUL SHARPENINGS, WHICH WILL ONLY MAKE YOU BETTER.
5.) TO BE THE BEST PENCIL, YOU MUST ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE HELD AND GUIDED BY THE HAND THAT HOLDS YOU.
We all need to be constantly sharpened. This parable may encourage you to know that you are a special person, with unique talents and abilities. Only you can fulfill the purpose which you were born to accomplish. Never allow yourself to get discouraged and think that your life is insignificant and cannot be changed and, like the pencil, always remember that the most important part of who you are, is what's inside of you."
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Another inspiring sharing from Neo Mui Kian:
"Perspectives
A business executive was deep in debt and could see no way out.
Creditors were closing in on him. Suppliers were demanding payment.
He sat on the park bench, head in hands, wondering if anything could save
his company from bankruptcy.
Suddenly an old man appeared before him.
"I can see that something is troubling you," he said.
After listening to the executive's woes, the old man said,
"I believe I can help you." He asked the man his name,
wrote out a cheque, and pushed it into his hand saying,
"Take this money. meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can
pay me back at that time."
Then, he turned and disappeared as quickly as he had come.
The business executive saw in his hand a cheque for $500,000, signed
by John D.Rockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world!
"I can erase my money worries in an instant!" he realized.
Nonetheless, the executive decided to put the cheque in his safe first.
Just knowing it was there, would give him the strength to work
out a way to save his business, he thought.
With renewed optimism, he negotiated better deals and got extended terms
of payment from creditors.
Soon he could close some big sales. Within a few months, he
was out of debt and making money once again.
Exactly a year later, he returned to the park with that uncashed
cheque. The old man did not appear for some time; yet, the business
executive decided to wait for a while more.
A while later the old man came along the way but seemed to be unmindful
of the business executive. He stopped the old man and was about to hand over the
cheque, with words of thanks, as well as to share his success story.
At the same time, he saw a nurse come running up and grabbing the old
man. "I'm so glad I caught him!" she cried. "I hope he hasn't been
bothering you. He's always escaping from the rest home and telling
people he's John D. Rockefeller." And she led the old man away by the arm.
The astonished executive just stood there, stunned. All year long he'd
been wheeling and dealing, buying and selling, convinced he had half a
million dollars behind him.
Suddenly, he realized that it wasn't the money, real or imagined,
that had turned his life around.
It was his new found confidence that gave him the power to achieve
anything he went after. It was HOPE . Hope given by a passerby.
"Our duty is to encourage anyone in his struggle to live up to his
own highest idea, and strive at the same time, to make the ideal as
near as possible to the truth" - Swami Vivekananda
The role of the passerby s, all that one encounters is key to give that Hope,-
a glimpse of what could be.
For a life lived where the past looks better than the future is a life
lived without HOPE
Its all about perspectives!"
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There was one instructor at the fitness class n one student...n that one student was me! =.= checkout the view from the gym o.O looking at fireworks through the windows of the gym on the treadmill alone on a fri nite is a sad thing ya...n i juz did that =(
Emotional scars r the hardest to heal...
Traders r the ones whom i really admire...
From Digital: "if u listen to anal-yst, u'll be picking up cardboards in ur retirement!"
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