The pictures are taken with some of my friends from Toronto, Guang Zhou and Hong Kong [form top to bottom]
A friend of mine was struggled with her family problem and talked to me yesterday night.
She talked to me about everything from her childhood to the problems she is facing with her parents currently.
And I had shared my experience to her too.
I felt so bad about her situation but at the same time was so glad that she had been exposed to me.
I truly appreciate the trust she had been put upon me.
From time to time, we have to realize that a friend is not just someone that we can talk to, it's often the one that we are willing to listen to.
Treat customers as friends, not just sending out messages, but instead, seek for needs!
I care about:
How do you listen to others?
How would you like other to listen to you?
To Exercise Imagination
Let's Exercise!!
Had been watching a talk show and the guest mentioned that Thailand's commercials are creative.
My first reaction was of course "Youtube" commercials from Thai!
Here's one that I really found it funny and cool!
And once again I realized that it's important to practice imagination and wrote down whatever weird ideas in our mind.
So many ideas we saw in commercials and advertisings are familiar and some of us must been thought of.
It's important to come up with good ideas,
and it's more important to put them in good use!
I care about:
What ideas had been in your mind that you care to mention?
Do you regularly relate your ideas to real life?
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People- 3.Put First Things First
Habit 1 says,
“you‘re the creator. You are in charge.”
Habit 2 is
the first or mental creation- to envision, to see the potential. [P146]
Habit 3, then, is
the second creation,
the physical creation,
practicing effective self-management. [P147]
The 4th human endowment,
independent will,
makes effective self-management possible.
Independent will is to be a function of your values
rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.
Independent will
is the power to act with integrity to your proactive first creation. [P147-149]
New generation of time management:
organize and execute around priorities;
deal with things that are not urgent but important
- long time investment in productivity capacity;
e.g. building relationships, writing a personal mission statement, exercising, preparation, … [P149-158]
The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.”
Even the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best.
Learn to say “no”, with a genuine smile, to the unimportant. [P156-158]
Moving to IMPORTANT but NOT URGENT:
Balance: success in one area can NOT compensate for failure in other areas of life.
Focus on Prevention: not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
People Dimension: think of efficiency in dealing with time, effectiveness in dealing with people.
Flexibility: your planning tool should be your servant, never your master.
Portability: important data is always within reach. [P160-162]
Becoming a Self-Manager:
1, Identifying Roles;
2, Selecting Goals;
3, Scheduling;
4, Daily Adapting. [P162-168]
Stewardship Delegation
means a job with a trust.
“Trust in the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people.”
[P173-179]
Every one deals with fundamentally important things that, if done on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive different in our lives.
Being Concrete
[picture taken in Causeway Bay, HK, 2007]Being concrete takes courage.
You may offense someone by making your point too clear.
Clear ideas are not acceptable to everyone simply because
people have different ideas!
People have their own standpoint toward things!
For that reason,
most people are trying so [too] hard to be “polite” and “nice”
and fix themselves into the norm.
We have to face the reality that
the norm is more complex and diverse than we think of.
Saying things to please everyone = saying nothing
[if it’s not worse].
Don’t be afraid to be yourself and stand out.
Tell exactly what your position is, what’s inside your mind.
The world /the market has too many people that
we shouldn’t bother to please all.
I care about:
Did you try to agree with ideas simply because
you were afraid to offense others?
Do you think you can actually be appreciated by telling your view?
Do you have the courage to expose yourself?
Be Organized
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[picture taken in SogoPlus, HK, 07' summer]Today is my day-off.
I have stayed home and tidied up my stuff.
Not the tangible stuff but files in my laptop:
to plan out exercise schedule, time for study, time for reading,
to regularize eating habits, and to spare time to blog.
but I am going to push myself to prioritise weekly activities.
without doing anything meaningful.
Put 1st things 1st!
I care about:
Do you push yourself to finish tasks with high priorities?
Do you spend too much time if not all on unimportant things?
