A Movie to Share
I like to share a wonderful movie today. Yes there are numerous wonderful movies like Lord of the Rings (awesome), Transformer (two-thumbs up), Matrix (fantastic) etc. But today I would like to share one that will refresh your memory on "positive mindset". The word positive mindset should not be strange to all of us. We use it frequently but loosely and indiscriminately at times. Before I talk about this movie, I like to share with you my first encounter with Positive Mindset.
After years of survival on earth, I came to realize that on the topic of positive mindset, I could classify people into two types. The first type is those that require training or some sort of education so as to go into that state of mind. Many people fall under this category. How many times have you heard of friends and colleagues (and yourself) complaining about work load, or how difficult a job is, or how it is "humanly-impossible" to complete a task or "why this work must come to me and not you" etc. All too familiar isn't it. Unfortunately, I used to be one of them though I am not that bad. When I was in SAF, there was a time when our clerk was on maternity leave. Our superior instructed the junior specialists (people at my level) to take turns to cover clerical duty. One of my navy colleagues, a plump guy, was extremely unhappy about it. He argued that he was not paid to cover clerical work and so he protested. Unfortunately, nobody supported him so he was forced to do it.
Another type is the unconscious type, people who are born with it. This type of people tends to be more submissive, patient and not calculative. They weren't trained in positive mindset but subconsciously, they behave like one. One such candidate would be my ex-army colleague Mr Ng. Since I know him at the age of around 23, he never complains about workload, never reject challenges and never being calculative on work distribution. I bet with you to my last cent that he never heard of Neuro-linguistic Programme during those years. NLP was originated by Richard Bandler and John Grinder at the University of California at Santa Cruz in 70s.
The First Encounter
Someone trained me or jump-started my consciousness on positive mindset. He is my mentor in this field. Some of my colleagues might know who he is. If you know, keep it to yourself. If you don't, you'll never. To cut the long story short, he gave me a book written by Adam Khoo - Master Your Mind, Design Your Destiny. Initially I thought it was another book about finance or investment which is nothing new to me. He told me that it is not, and hopes that I can spend some time to read it. Unfortunately, that book ended up on my shelf. Then about a year later, during my in-camp training, I met a Senior Warrant Officer. He was about 40 plus and hold the highest rank in the Specialist Corp. At that age, he continues to maintain his 2.4km run at less than 9min – something "humanly-impossible" for me even when I was a teenage. He took up a degree course himself while in the army and completed it. He trained and MOTIVATES young officers for marathon. Yes he highlighted "changing mindset" to be the secret of success. Finally he shared with us on a book written by Adam Khoo – Master Your Mind, Design Your Destiny. None of my ex-colleagues heard about it except me. The book was still on my bookshelf, remember?
That night I wrote an email to my mentor to tell him that I saw a living example and I will read the book humbly.
“Orh, so you are here to sell this book lah”
Of course not! I don't earn a single cent and I am not associated with Adam. Why should I help him to earn passive income? I want passive income for myself! Many books had been written about positive mindset decades ago but I started with his.
“So anything changed after reading that book?”
To cut the long story short (again), from then onwards, I never shun away from additional workload. In fact, I always volunteer to do more so as to learn more. I place great emphasis on "value-creation". Basically, my mindset had changed.
The Pursuit of Happyness.jpg)
This movie that I want to share with you is "The Pursuit of Happyness" starring Will Smith. It was released about a year ago. It is a fantastic show because it refreshed my awareness on positive mindset. To sum up the movie, it is about a salesman selling unwanted medical product and is in a financial crisis. His wife is frustrated with him and ditched him subsequently. His landlord is chase him out and he has a boy to feed. He only has a few bucks in his wallet and life is all screw up for him. It is a typical family man that screws up his work and family life.
The only different is – he is always positive. I'm going to quote a line from the movie even before you watch, if you have not. This line is extremely inspiring and I guess people in network marketing business would need it. Will Smith was talking to his boy.
"Don't let somebody tell you, you can't do something. Not even me. You got your dream, you gotta protect it. People can't do something themselves, they want to tell you, you can't do it. You want something, go get it. If you have a dream, protect it"
Then this man decided to do a career switch - stockbroking. I don't
want to spoil your mood so I'll leave it to you to watch this movie. Now, this is a true story about Chris Gardner. You can read about him in Wikipedia. Chris Gardner is a millionaire today.
This is really a fantastic movie that refreshes my consciousness on positive mindset. You won't learn anything about investment in this movie, in case you got the wrong motive. So what are you waiting for? Go get the movie.
I like to share a wonderful movie today. Yes there are numerous wonderful movies like Lord of the Rings (awesome), Transformer (two-thumbs up), Matrix (fantastic) etc. But today I would like to share one that will refresh your memory on "positive mindset". The word positive mindset should not be strange to all of us. We use it frequently but loosely and indiscriminately at times. Before I talk about this movie, I like to share with you my first encounter with Positive Mindset.
After years of survival on earth, I came to realize that on the topic of positive mindset, I could classify people into two types. The first type is those that require training or some sort of education so as to go into that state of mind. Many people fall under this category. How many times have you heard of friends and colleagues (and yourself) complaining about work load, or how difficult a job is, or how it is "humanly-impossible" to complete a task or "why this work must come to me and not you" etc. All too familiar isn't it. Unfortunately, I used to be one of them though I am not that bad. When I was in SAF, there was a time when our clerk was on maternity leave. Our superior instructed the junior specialists (people at my level) to take turns to cover clerical duty. One of my navy colleagues, a plump guy, was extremely unhappy about it. He argued that he was not paid to cover clerical work and so he protested. Unfortunately, nobody supported him so he was forced to do it.
Another type is the unconscious type, people who are born with it. This type of people tends to be more submissive, patient and not calculative. They weren't trained in positive mindset but subconsciously, they behave like one. One such candidate would be my ex-army colleague Mr Ng. Since I know him at the age of around 23, he never complains about workload, never reject challenges and never being calculative on work distribution. I bet with you to my last cent that he never heard of Neuro-linguistic Programme during those years. NLP was originated by Richard Bandler and John Grinder at the University of California at Santa Cruz in 70s.
The First Encounter
Someone trained me or jump-started my consciousness on positive mindset. He is my mentor in this field. Some of my colleagues might know who he is. If you know, keep it to yourself. If you don't, you'll never. To cut the long story short, he gave me a book written by Adam Khoo - Master Your Mind, Design Your Destiny. Initially I thought it was another book about finance or investment which is nothing new to me. He told me that it is not, and hopes that I can spend some time to read it. Unfortunately, that book ended up on my shelf. Then about a year later, during my in-camp training, I met a Senior Warrant Officer. He was about 40 plus and hold the highest rank in the Specialist Corp. At that age, he continues to maintain his 2.4km run at less than 9min – something "humanly-impossible" for me even when I was a teenage. He took up a degree course himself while in the army and completed it. He trained and MOTIVATES young officers for marathon. Yes he highlighted "changing mindset" to be the secret of success. Finally he shared with us on a book written by Adam Khoo – Master Your Mind, Design Your Destiny. None of my ex-colleagues heard about it except me. The book was still on my bookshelf, remember?
That night I wrote an email to my mentor to tell him that I saw a living example and I will read the book humbly.
“Orh, so you are here to sell this book lah”
Of course not! I don't earn a single cent and I am not associated with Adam. Why should I help him to earn passive income? I want passive income for myself! Many books had been written about positive mindset decades ago but I started with his.
“So anything changed after reading that book?”
To cut the long story short (again), from then onwards, I never shun away from additional workload. In fact, I always volunteer to do more so as to learn more. I place great emphasis on "value-creation". Basically, my mindset had changed.
The Pursuit of Happyness
.jpg)
This movie that I want to share with you is "The Pursuit of Happyness" starring Will Smith. It was released about a year ago. It is a fantastic show because it refreshed my awareness on positive mindset. To sum up the movie, it is about a salesman selling unwanted medical product and is in a financial crisis. His wife is frustrated with him and ditched him subsequently. His landlord is chase him out and he has a boy to feed. He only has a few bucks in his wallet and life is all screw up for him. It is a typical family man that screws up his work and family life.
The only different is – he is always positive. I'm going to quote a line from the movie even before you watch, if you have not. This line is extremely inspiring and I guess people in network marketing business would need it. Will Smith was talking to his boy.
"Don't let somebody tell you, you can't do something. Not even me. You got your dream, you gotta protect it. People can't do something themselves, they want to tell you, you can't do it. You want something, go get it. If you have a dream, protect it"
Then this man decided to do a career switch - stockbroking. I don't
want to spoil your mood so I'll leave it to you to watch this movie. Now, this is a true story about Chris Gardner. You can read about him in Wikipedia. Chris Gardner is a millionaire today.This is really a fantastic movie that refreshes my consciousness on positive mindset. You won't learn anything about investment in this movie, in case you got the wrong motive. So what are you waiting for? Go get the movie.
