every action

Every choice counts

No action too small

Significant over time

some positive stuff

1. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." Thomas A. Edison

2. "Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity." Albert Einstein

3. "With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." Eleanor Roosevelt

4. "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." Helen Keller

5. "Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground." Theodore Roosevelt

6. "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." Henry David Thoreau

7. "The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best." Epictetus

8. "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain." Maya Angelou

9. "Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible." Tony Robbins

10. "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

11. "Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." Thomas Jefferson

12. "Well done is better than well said." Benjamin Franklin

13. "If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it." Paulo Coelho

14. "If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy." Dale Carnegie

15. "Go for it now. The future is promised to no one." Wayne Dyer

16. "The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor." Vince Lombardi

17. "Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it." Lou Holtz

being healthy

"Being healthy really is the best feeling" -Marcille, DiD Ep9

So I had headaches for the past two days.

It's really horrible... Can't sleep peacefully at night.. can't help around the house... 

Isotonic drinks helped...

Rest helps..

Movement and blood flowing helps...

Finally after two days.. it seems to be better now...

vocation and family

There will always be nice places to see,

But not time with family.

relationships and needs

Relationships is simply the fullfilment of needs

There is no failure in the learning process

worship

 "If you don’t want to live a life of worship, why would you want to spend an eternity worshiping Him?"

care share

When you share, you care

democracy needs Christ at the center

 “Democracy is not merely an institution nor simply a concept, but a profound structure of faith. The root of democracy is the spirit of Christ. Without Christianity, you cannot have democracy or human rights.” - Yuan

So... if freedom is given to people.... but they don't havec the good core or foundation to use that freedom in a good way. it becomes counter productive.

stages of smartphone recovery

"why would someone want to sacrifice convince willingly" - Anthony Horn 4:40

"convince comes at a cost. Its up to you to decide what cost are you willing to pay" 11.06

Key is moderation

goving up the smartphone

Stage 1

Designing the environment

Increasing the physical resistance towards smartphone usage. 

I placed my phone outside the room on the computer table to charge everynight. It was great, when i came into the bedroom it was either to read books, talk or sleep. No phone distraction what so ever. Didn't even have the itch for it.

Started to build a daily habit of reading. 1 chapter of a book and a few pages of another book. 

Just needed a nice bed side lamp to illuminate the pages.

Stage 2

Have the phone by the bedside. But use it with intentions. Temptation will be there. But no point running away from the inevitable. We will have to live with technological advances one way or another. Its about being a good master of it so that we dont become its slave (just like money). 

fail

Learn to fail, or fail to learn. 

Failing is a privilege. 

incoherent images

Reach Silver fern motel at 4-5pm

Had dinner till 6..

Went back. Chilled..

Went out to get friits at 9pm..

Came back.. 

Used phone YT videos till... 3am.

Lol. That's like.. 8-9 hours of life wasted. 

"every action we do, is a vote towards whom we want to become" 

Sigh. 

20th A[irl 2023 10.44pm

 woke up early today.

spleat early last night

woke up in the middle of the night.

slept at 9pm. woke up at 1.30am. took the rubbish bins out. did some reading.

did some bible study. did more reading.. went back to bed at about 3am.

woke up with alarm at 6am. slept back till 6.45am.

got ready with a a container of cereal and milk

drove over to CBD. a 38 minute drive became close to one hour.

traffic gets really jam then

had the Hyosung training with Adam, met Angela and Chip. nice ppl

good training session.

words of wisdom from Adam:

"If you enjoy what you do at work, you'll go home a happy person, and that affects the people around you back in the house" .. or well.. something along those lines.

got stuck in the traffic coming back.. reach about 6.30 plus.

wife was waiting but she had to go off for dinner with Carolyn and Sue.

she waited fo me to cook and say goodbye. but i just couldn't make it back in time.

well she had a good time out.

i had some quite time.

cleaned up the old desktop PC for Wythe. he just needs a power supply, but i could just throw the whole thing to him.

its good that the microsoft surface connects to the large screen.. and that all our accounts are synced on it so well.

yah..

thats... about today

really want to look ino:

1. usin OneNote as a Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) tool

2. explloring more of GitHub

3. learning more about Web3.

thats all for now.

signing off. 10.49pm

hopeful Risk

If there was ever a mottonto have the word Risk inside...

Calculated risk.. 

Risk analysis... 

I remember Jia tern having the saying "no risk, no life". Only when i dabbled in investing financially did i keep hearing this: "investing involves risk, bla bla bla".. Learnt alof of financial literacy from Sharsies podcast.

Risk... I never really used the word when i was young. Never did seem.. Christianese

Risk.... Focus

Everything in life.. Is.. A risk. 

Every choice.. 

There has never been any certainty. 

If there ever was, it would just have been a figment of our imagination. 

Only onw thing is constant, Christ. 

"the only constant is change" 

Risk, swat analysis.. 

Risk... A board game. 

Risk.. 

I risk my life for You. 

all that is enough

"Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entrie will - all that I have and call my own. You have given it all to me, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only yoir love and your grace. That os enough for me. " - Norman Shawchuck

habits

 "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle

"Success is nothing more than a few disciplines, practiced every day. Failure is a nothing more than a few errors, repeated every day." - Jim Rohn

"more than 40 percent of the actions people perform every day aren’t due to decision making, but habits." - Duke University research

"Stop obsessing over the result and start obsessing over showing up"

making chores something to be looked forward to

 “By combining a temptation with a chore,” Milkman says, “that chore becomes something that’s actually associated with pleasure and you start looking forward to it instead of dreading it.”

consistency

 "Don’t think about being consistently great. It’s a trap. It’s impossible. Think about being great at being consistent. It’s a reliable path to growth and achieving one’s potential that makes a lot more sense." - Brad Stulberg

truth is absolute

 So the NEXLeaders course on SUMO has this quote:

"Each person sees the world in a different way.

There is not a single, unifying, objective truth.

We're all limited by our perspective" - Siri Hustvedt

but i still stand that truth is absolute and not relative.

a ball is a ball, no matter if you see whatever colour it is.. or whatever side

there is not two balls ... according to the SUMO guy Paul

but i get what he's trying to see... people has different prespective on things.

and its good to be empathetic 

health: habits and routines.

"Healthy habits are key to leading a healthy life, but it's nothing without self-discipline and routine. Start on your health journey." - Huawei health app

dont worry, doesnt matter

You gotta play,

While you enjoy your stay. 

Sydney