Published on Thursday, June 17, 2010 by Optimist Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. ~ M. Scott Peck [Source] Once we are born, we are valuable to our parents. Our parents take it upon their responsibilities to make sure that we get the best, so that we can enjoy lives better than they did. They hated the lives they had because they were ...

Published on Thursday, March 18, 2010 by Optimist Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine. ~ Robert C. Gallagher [Source] What happens in life is change but how willing to change are you? The things that surround us is the comfort zone. The place where we feel safe as it is familiar. Due to the familiarity, we tend to take it with such ease that we forget about certain dreams in life that were somehow...

Published on Thursday, December 31, 2009 by Optimist 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 be...

Published on Thursday, October 1, 2009 by Optimist 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 but do we see their value or the surface level? We d...

Published on Thursday, November 6, 2008 by Optimist Nothing is secret once you tell anyone. If you want to keep it quiet - don't tell a soul. ~ Richard Chamberlain ~ [Source] Everyone has secrets in their special closets. Nobody will tell you that they have 10 million dollars in the bank and the moonlighting job has paid off so well that they don't even want to declare. Nobody will tell you that they have a fetish f...

Published on Monday, November 3, 2008 by Optimist With the recession, everyone is worried about their rice bowls. One will want to consider working from home or taking up a second job to supplement just in case the current one doesn't work out. It is for one's own protection as one can be retrenched at any time without warning. Penelope Trunk at Brazen Careerist provides some insight on how to be a value-added per...

Published on Thursday, October 30, 2008 by Optimist I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. ~ Joseph Campbell ~ [Source] A recession is imminent and it's a cycle that occurs at different decade. Sometimes, it's long while other times it's short. The usual recovery period takes about 2 to 3 years for the economy to regain itself and the in...

Published on Thursday, July 3, 2008 by Optimist Image via Wikipedia How far would you go to take up that dream job. You have been offered a job that you have always wanted; good money, challenging work, interesting places to go and fun people to work with. However, this job is in Germany while your home country is in Asia. Would you accept it? How far is far? Are you willing to travel 45 minutes just to get t...