Posts from — January 2010

LIFE IS TOO SHORT
to wake up in the morning
with regrets. So, love the
people who treat you right,
forgive the ones who don’t
and believe that everything
happens for a reason.
If you get a chance, take it.
If it changes your life, let it.
Nobody said it’d be easy,
they just promised
IT WOULD BE WORTH IT

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Just a lovely and meaningful poem I found on an iphone wallpaper.

Photo by Leonid Mamchenkov

While a man was polishing his new car, his 4 yr old son picked up a stone and scratched lines on the side of the car. In anger, the man took the child’s hand and hit it many times; not realizing he was using a wrench.

At the hospital, the child lost all his fingers due to multiple fractures.

When the child saw his father…..with painful eyes he asked, ‘Dad when will my fingers grow back?’

The man was so hurt and speechless; he went back to his car and kicked it a lot of times. Devastated by his own actions… sitting in front of that car he looked at the scratches; the child had written ‘LOVE YOU DAD’.

The next day that man committed suicide…

Anger and Love have no limits; choose the latter to have a beautiful, lovely life…

Things are to be used and people are to be loved, But the problem in today’s world is that, People are used and things are loved…

During the day, be careful to keep this thought in mind: Things are to be used, but People are to be loved… Be yourself… This is the only day we HAVE. Have a nice day.

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits they become character;
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Stay FAITHFUL and Be GRATEFUL

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Received this powerful story via email. What a great lesson! Keep sending me such meaningful life lessons… =)

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Photo by Optical Illusion

It’s 2010… a brand new year… and by now, you’ve probably already set some new year resolutions for yourself.

“It’s time to lose weight!”

“I’m finally going to quit my job and strike out on my own!”

Wait a minute… didn’t you set the SAME old resolutions LAST YEAR???

“Damn…”

Well, not to worry… because today, we are going to explore how to make achieving your new year resolutions a reality this time round…

Are you ready?

Cool, let’s get started…

Using Positive Self-Talk to Conquer Your Fears and Negative Thoughts

Do you feel like you are always talking yourself out of success? As soon as you start to set goals for yourself, do you suddenly have nagging thoughts about how you aren’t up to the task or how you simply aren’t qualified to carry it through?

If you have ever experienced either situation, you need to change the way you respond to your inner dialogue. Instead of obeying your negative commands, you can use positive self-talk to counter the negativity and overcome nearly all anxious thoughts.

Setting New Year Resolutions and Sticking to Them with Positive Self-Talk

Are you initially filled with excitement when you first set new year resolutions for yourself? Are these thoughts then followed by self-doubt and self-defeating thoughts that stop you in your tracks before you even get started?

It can be difficult to make the most of your life when you are constantly talking yourself out of being a success. It can be frustrating and discouraging to have these thoughts constantly plaguing you. Many of us, in fact, don’t even realize we have them! All we know is that we don’t have the confidence to stick to our plans and reach our goals.

But there’s another way!

Positive self-talk is an effective way to set new year resolutions and ensure that you stick to them, even if you have never been able to do this before.

The way this works is that you decide what goal is important to you, and then you plan the logistics of how you are going to attain this goal. When self-doubt starts kicking in, you will respond with affirmations that prove your success without surrendering to the negative pressure. Since you’re reading this article, it’s clear that you’re no quitter and you’re certainly not a failure, so start believing in yourself!

Re-Programming Your Mind

Affirmations are essentially positive statements that re-program your mind for the positive. The moment you have a self-defeating thought you’d be able to counter the negative with a motivating statement.

An example of a positive affirmation is: “I am worthy of great success,” or “I see myself in the winner’s circle.” What this does is replace negativity with thoughts that will help you move toward your new year resolutions and goals instead of further away from them.

Positive self-talk is easier to implement than you might think. You may not be aware of the severity of the negative dialogue currently within your mind. However, once you begin with positive self-talk, you will suddenly realize that you are self-sabotaging the new year resolutions you set for yourself from the minute that you make them.

This process can open your eyes to exactly how much this inner conversation has been interfering with your life. You’ll feel hopeful that you can now set goals and surpass them.

Through positive self-talk you will be able to easily set long and short-term goals for yourself. And when you use affirmations, you’ll have accessible tools to help you push yourself further than ever before. Learning to quiet negativity with positive thoughts is a great move towards setting and attaining your new year resolutions with ease.

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Here are a few unsolicited testimonials from some of my 4,817 (and counting) email newsletter subscribers…

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Dear Shun Jian,

The affirmations are beautiful. Each one of them struck a deep chord within me when i first read them and i feel that they reflect the beliefs of my inner core.

I want to thank you for sharing them with me and so many others that you are helping and who ARE being helped by you.

Love,

Sohini

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Dear Shun Jian,

Thank you very much for all your beautiful emails especially the 101 Powerful Affirmations, I’ve been reciting them everyday and always hoping that I’ll get a good job offer somewhere. And guess what this is my last day at work today. I’ve been given a really good job offer in another province which I’ll be flying out at the end of the week. Thank you once again from the bottom of my heart and I’ll keep you posted when I get my new email address.

Best regards,
Rachel

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Dear Shun Jian,

Thanks for sharing me your inpiring life story.I trully am happy for you and i’m grateful that i am one of the millions of people whom you like to help change their outlook in life,from dark to bright side of life,thank you.

More power to u and God bless u always!

briget

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