Hey Guys ! I have done it finally … after a year of procastinating I have finally have the courage to step forward to do a bit for charity !
Tadah!!! My very first video podcast and it shall explain everything:
My new look :
Shall update more on the why in my next post !
The six most important words: “I admit I made a mistake.” – Author unknown
The five most important words: “You did a good job.”
The four most important words: “What is your opinion.”
The three most important words: “If you please.”
The two most important words: “Thank you,”
The one most important word: “We”
The least important word: “I”
Many a times when we faced with challenges in life we often focused too much of our attention on the problem and not getting the solution in the end. In the show Patch Adam, there was one scene which best illustrate this point.
Arthur Mendelson: How many fingers do you see?
Hunter Patch Adams: Four.
Arthur Mendelson: No no! Look beyond the fingers! Now tell me how many you see.
Arthur Mendelson: You’re focusing on the problem. If you focus on the problem, you can’t see the solution. Never focus on the problem! See what no one else sees. See what everyone chooses not to see… out of fear, conformity or laziness. See the whole world anew each day!
Everytime we see a problem we often will choose the easy way out of avoidance due to fear, laziness or any other excuses that you can think of. Focus on the solution, and you will see what others do not see. Just like the finger experiment that Arthur Mendelson did on Patch Adam, many a times we need to look beyond the problem, solutions are just right behind your problems and often we are blinded by it. Look beyond!
Start your own journey as your everyday hero, remember focus on the solution and you’ll get there.
Some People see things as they are and ask WHY ?
Others Dream things that never were and ask WHY NOT?
What your mind can conceive
IT CAN ACHIEVE
There are times where you really want to do something big in your life but many a times you are often hit with a big no cause you think that you have no capital, you have no luck, you don’t think you can do it … so on and so forth …
I recently went to Bugis to buy some stuff, something caught my attention. It was a bike filled with international flags and a helmet which was on the floor filled with money in it. Then I saw a lot of photos of lined up on the floor of different countries. There was a poster that wrote : “My Gas (Petrol) Comes from your donations. If you like what I do. Please support to keep going” I went closer and than did I realised its actually the famous Mr. Vladimir A. Yarets. This guy is deaf and mute and his ambition is to travel round the world with his bike. He started his journey on 27th May 2000 in Minsk, the capital of the Republic of Belarus and YES his now in Singapore and he is starting his journey up north and hoping to reach Beijing for the olympics games in August.
His journey was not as smooth as everyone thought it is, he was hospitalised on october 2003 due to an accident in america. A kind family in america nursed him back to health and his back in action again to complete his dream. He did not give up even when he met with adversity.
If you see him in Singapore, remember to make a donation and support his movement.
His spirits of inspiring the disabled that even he is mute and deaf he is able to do extraordinary things that not every human beings can. All he do is to take actions of his goals and dreams. He has no resources neither money, all he has is only courage to take this big step. So if you are a man/women with no disabilities what is stopping you in achieving your goals in life?
I recently came across this very cute, touching and inspiring MTV which I would like to share with everyone. The title of this song is called Kurumi Sang by Mr Children. This video potrays the hope and aspiration of a group of grown up man, who fulfil their childhood dreams much later. There’s chinese subtitle in this video take a look at the lyrics:
Hey, Kurumi
how the sight of the street looks like in your eyes?
and how do I look like now in your eyes?
Hey, Kurumi
if other’s care words sounds like satire
how will you deal with it?
remembering all the past good things
makes one feel older and older
in the such life
but now, I will begin to move
because I don’t just want to be a gear
though despair always increases along with rising hope
My heart still pulsate eagerly
“what will happen tomorrow?”
try to imagine it yourself
Hey, Kurumi
if river of time will wash everything away
life itself will become much more easy
Hey, Kurumi
I have never bursted into tears after that day
but I also have little happy smile
It’s like maybe I just buckle my coat wrong somewhere
when I realize that there is one more button left
if I can meet someone missing a button
we can make everything sense
More encounter, more farewell
though I know this, my heart still pulsate hopefully
every time I go across an intersection
It’s hard to avoid getting lost some time
I always want to have more and more
I sing for chasing eternal love
So my gear is running all the time
More than it could bear, and it begin to moan
though despair always increases along with rising hope
My heart still pulsate eagerly
“what will happen tomorrow?”
try to imagine it yourself
More encounter, more farewell
though I know this, my heart still pulsate hopefully
I cannot walk back now
Go along, step on the road without you
Well, everyone only have 1 life to live for, many a time we have wild dreams and passion that we often wanted to pursue. Many a time we gave up, giving us excuses of “its impossible”, “it cannot be done”, “Im not good enough” … …
Sit down and close your eyes and position yourself 30 – 40 yrs when you’re old … are you going to regret your life while looking back at your present moments that you chose not to pursue the dream that you wanted to achieve. Just like the guys in the video, do you want to pursue your childhood dreams only at that age? For this video it also brings another message to us, the guys in the vidz, despite their age they continue to pursue their dreams and fulfilled what they have always wanted to do, how many a times if you’re their age, you are willing to move out of your comfort zone and live your dream?
Do you want to wait till you are old to fulfil what you wanted or dreamt for? If your answer is No, don’t wait anymore, work towards your dream, light the passion in you and move in direction that you always wanted to move, you have the power to do it. You just need to BELIEVE.
Just to start off this journey with a little story of one of my friend … …
My friend Jerry has always dreamt of being a air steward as he has always have the passion to see the world as well as to serve and provide the very best customer service that he can ever provide. Definitely, he does has the looks and the built, but his journey in becoming an aircrew is a tough and winding one. He do not have the minimum education qualification thus getting an interview in some of the top airlines were near to impossible. Along his journey, there were lots of Naysayers( Definition: somebody who speaks against something, especially somebody who habitually expresses contrary opinions, in short someone who do have anything that is positive to speak about.) who bring him down and tell him that is near to impossible in getting into this industry due to his education qualification. He knew that being in the service line is his destiny, he did not give up instead he look for alternatives and continue to pursue his childhood dream. Changing of his STRATEGY to reach his goal.
He continue to send in resume to the rest of the budget airline and his hardwork paid off, he got an interview and now currently working as an aircrew with one of the budget airlines. To many it is a compromise to his goal but to him its an accomplishment, he has reached his goal and dream.
From this true story, we can get a few important messages from here:
Take the first step, believe in yourself in fulfiling the dreams that you always have, go for it. Life is short, live life with no regrets. Don’t look back at age 85 and tell yourself “I should have … … … ” or ” I regret not doing … …” You have only 1 life, so live it.
Be a “dreamer” and take action of your life today !
I recently read an article on the hero’s journey from a book writen by Joseph Campbel - The Hero with a Thousand Faces. In this book, campbel break down the fundamental of all journey of an hero as an metaphor which all of following are closely related to real life. The journey includes:
1. A Call to Adventure – The adventure begins with the hero receiving a call to action, such as a threat to the peace of the community, or the hero simply falls into or blunders into it. In life, everyone has a calling in fulfiling what you believe.
2. Refusal of the Call – In most instances human beings tend to move away from challenges and uncertainty, there is where the hero in you will be self denying of your own calling. You will tell yourself you are aren’t able to fulfil this calling and eventually lead a normal life. Accepting the calling will happen when the need to accept supersede the fear and uncertainty that hero has.
3. Meeting with the Mentor – When the hero’s accept the journey, there are always mentor or guardian angels around to give you the necessary skills or energy you needed to fulfil this calling. In real life there are many such figures, its just we do not take a closer look and identify them.
4. Crossing First Threshold - The hero must cross the threshold between the world he is familiar with and that which he is not. Moving out of the comfort zone.
5. Tests, Allies & Enemies – In your journey to fulfil your calling, you will meet with several test and along the ways you will meet people of like minded which are allies and people who bring you down and in this instances “enemies” as a metaphor. The hero in you go through all test and change strategy along the way to fulfil the calling. The hero is challenged to survive a succession of obstacles and, in so doing, amplifies his consciousness.
6. Reward - Answered your calling and achieve your goals which often results in important self-knowledge and realisation.
7. Road Back – Having found bliss and enlightenment in the other world, the hero may not want to return to the ordinary world to bestow the knowledge onto his fellow man.Re-aligning of primary motive to understand why have you answered the calling in the first place. Classic examples: After obtaining Nirvana, Buddha doubted whether he could communicate the path to enlightenment.
This is a metaphor of a true journey of an hero, which are very true to our daily life. Everyone is a hero in your own life. Everyone has a calling to do something for yourself, for the people around you or the world. You have a calling but have answer to it? Many a times, we just brush off this “calling” of ours and move on our normal life and many a times there are mentor around you that encourages you to take up this “calling”, sometime we are just too narrow minded and eventually ignore.
This journal of mine is to highlight important lessons in life and to share with the world the “hero’s” journey of others and myself. Some stories might be just simple story or insignificant to many but in my opinion they are the heros in their own world who dare to challenge and accept their own calling to adventure.
I hope this journal are able to inspire and motivate the people around to take actions of their dreams and passion.
Perhaps take this time and take a step back and think, what’s your calling or destiny? Are you still in the state of self denial? If you are, what are you waiting for?
Let’s take on this adventure together.
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