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Life is short. You never know when you will expire and whether anyone will remember you. You may have done very well in your job but your boss may not remember you after you have left the company. What if one day, you expire before your boss, would your boss remember that you have done a lot for the company and give you some post-humous award for your efforts?

How many people will remember you fondly? John Izzo published a book called The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die. In it, the five secrets are what will come to us perhaps when events strike us. We won’t know when, all we know is that we have been given a limited amount of unknown time that we must make full use of while we can.

Waking up in the middle of the night grasping for breath just as your mind suddenly transports you to the future is a scary feeling. You realise that your future is in danger if you don’t do something about it. You realise that if you are ever alone in a house, your friends have all gone and you are not ready to die because there are still some things you have yet done.

You are never too young to find out the secrets to happiness in life. Imagine that you are now in your 70s, something tells you that you are about to meet the Maker. Do you have any regrets? Anything that you haven’t done but only thought about?

Have you found out how you can improve your life?

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction. ~ Winston Churchill [Source]

While much has been talked about changes, a new year often brings about changes that are inevitable. The downturn of the economy can’t be stopped. The inflation can’t be stopped. The tide can’t be frozen just for us to walk across so that we can save money on flights or ships.

We are often indignant that changes; no matter how big or small, makes us change our plans. We can’t stop the bosses from leaving the company to join another. We can’t stop the new boss from changing the rules and regulations to help him/her manage the rest of the team.

The only thing we can do is to manage ourselves. Managing people is the most troublesome part that we will avoid if possible. While not everyone of us can influence, we can help ourselves better with Dale Carnegie’s best seller: How to Win Friends and Influence People. An excellent read despite some of the characters being unknown to our generation. The methods soothe people’s feelings and ruffled feathers. Those methods are used by those whom we thought are good with people.

To cope with changes, we analyse if the change does impact us a lot. When all else seem hopeless, Who Moved My Cheese is here to rescue us. In the book, the mouse who kept going to the empty part of the maze died earlier than the one who decided to look for another cheese. In real life, we will “die” from the same situation if our thought process keeps using the old habits that can’t help us in the new situation.

Change can be difficult even if the change can help us. All it takes is to build a new habit. Just build it for 30 days consistently. It’s a simple process but nobody ever said it would be easy. If it were, everyone of us would be a success by now.

How did you cope with the changes?

Your big opportunity may be right where you are standing right now. ~ Napoleon Hill [Source]

Many of us had dreams as young as 5 years old. Perhaps we saw that brave firefighter carrying so many people to safety or that courageous policeman who chased and caught a robber despite weapons pointing at him. Later, as we grew up, we let go of our dreams. Shrinking them because many of our loved ones tell us, “Oh, forget it. You can’t do it. It’s too difficult.”

With so much disbelief we have collected over the years, we start to believe that we are useless and much better off being mediocre. However, is that what our heart really yearn for? To compromise or shrink our dreams to the size of what people thought of us?

When we meet a total stranger and the stranger encouraged us, we suspect that the stranger is trying to take advantage of us. But what does the stranger really gain from us since we are so mediocre and broke? With nothing to gain from us, why does the stranger even believe in our capabilities in the first place?

Brian Tracy’s Flight Plan highlights how we can overcome ourselves and plan for the success that we have in mind. Our minds are so cluttered with negative thoughts that we forget that we do need positive encouragement to move forward in life. Everyone likes a little belief from someone, especially their loved ones, so that they know that they aren’t useless and deserve to disappear from the surface of the earth instantly.

Planning for success is planning for the future. A future that everyone would like to have and imagined by using the tips from The Secret. Combine Flight Plan and The Secret, you have equipped yourself for the first step towards your defined success that you have always hoped for.

What are your plans for success?

We are born into this world not by choice. However, we would be happier when we are given choices. What we treasure most is the freedom to do anything; remember the “Freedom of speech”?

Freedom to move anywhere on this planet, freedom to travel, freedom to select a partner based Continue Reading…

Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.  ~Steven Grayhm
It feels so easy to tell ourselves that we don’t have what it takes to move on; I can’t forget that height I have jump from, I need more Continue Reading…

In life, we meet different people but they are often defined by similar characters and personalities. Some like to be friendly while there are others who find joy in taking advantage of others.

No one likes to be taken advantage of and it is a terrible feeling especially when your Continue Reading…

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience. ~ Swami Vivekananda ~ [Source]

Life has given us many opportunities Continue Reading…

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. ~ Henry David Thoreau ~ [Source]
Everyone has dreams. Not the ones that we wake up in Continue Reading…

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool Continue Reading…

There’s no such thing as a free lunch. ~ Milton Friedman ~ [Source]

In life, there are so many sales going on that proclaims free bags, perfumes, or other items after spending a certain amount of money. Other lures such as free laptops, Coke or items are being given out Continue Reading…

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