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Welcome to Our 21st Century!!
Our communication - Wireless
Our phones - Cordless
Our cooking - Fireless
Our food - Fatless
Our Sweets - Sugarless
Our labor - Effortless
Our relations - Fruitless
Our attitude - Careless
Our feelings - Heartless
Our politics - Shameless
Our education - Worthless
Our Mistakes - Countless
Our arguments - Baseless
Our youth - Jobless
Our Ladies - Topless
Our Boss - Brainless
Our Jobs - Thankless
Our Needs - Endless
Our situation - Hopeless
Our Salaries - Less and less
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
Gambling Addiction
Did you hear about the businessman who lost S$26 million in the Singapore Casino? Can you believe it? It does not matter whether the casino was at fault. This businessman had no self control at all. This man is so selfish, it is so sad. There are so many people who could have benefited from a fraction of the S$26 million. I would have loved to have S$10 million of that money. I would give him S$500 every month for 10 years. He would have S$60,000 in 10 years. He may not get the "KICK" but he will at least have S$60,000.
There was another case of a prominent Hong Kong singer who apparently lost S$2 million. There are many other cases of such huge loses. You just don't hear about it.
Why do people gamble to this extent? A lot of people out there who need help. It's OK, if you set a limit say S$50 or S$100 and walk away if you lose that amount. If you don't have self control you should not step into a casino. You could lose your pants. Your family could suffer. It is not worth it.
Casino may give you the kick when you are winning. But remember, the house always wins. You only win occasionally so that you will comeback for more. Casinos are not charitable organizations, they are here to make money from you and me. If you have no "SELF-CONTROL" it can bring to your knees and destroy your life.
Spare a thought for the less fortunate the next time you think of gambling away your fortune. You will make somebody happy by helping them with your WEALTH. Join the 40 US Billionaires pledged at least half their fortunes to charity by joining Bill Gates and Warren Buffet.
Cheers,
Mark
There was another case of a prominent Hong Kong singer who apparently lost S$2 million. There are many other cases of such huge loses. You just don't hear about it.
Why do people gamble to this extent? A lot of people out there who need help. It's OK, if you set a limit say S$50 or S$100 and walk away if you lose that amount. If you don't have self control you should not step into a casino. You could lose your pants. Your family could suffer. It is not worth it.
Casino may give you the kick when you are winning. But remember, the house always wins. You only win occasionally so that you will comeback for more. Casinos are not charitable organizations, they are here to make money from you and me. If you have no "SELF-CONTROL" it can bring to your knees and destroy your life.
Spare a thought for the less fortunate the next time you think of gambling away your fortune. You will make somebody happy by helping them with your WEALTH. Join the 40 US Billionaires pledged at least half their fortunes to charity by joining Bill Gates and Warren Buffet.
Cheers,
Mark
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Learn from Others!
Help, Please Somebody Help! So sang the Beatles.
Help, is available whether it is for personal issues or business issues, you can get some answers with the right mindset. But you need to work on this so that you know what to do. One way is to learn from others who have been through some of the things you will go through.
I was reading with this commentary by Richard Branson in Today newspaper. He is an inspiration to me. I had an wonderful opportunity to meet and shake hands with Richard Branson when he came down to launch Virgin Mobile in Singapore. I told myself that I want to be successful like him.
Richard Branson like many others before him said that you must learn from mistakes of others and you should not be afraid of failures. He said that you can learn from failures of others/other companies more so then their successes.
I have always stressed that it is cheaper to learn from mistakes made by others than making the mistakes yourself. It will not only be more painful if you make the mistake yourself. What is worse is you may not recover from your fall if you do not know how to handle it.
No one is born perfect as a human being. So, we have to learn to to improve ourselves and make ourselves better human beings. One way, is to learn from others be it business or personal. You learn from their success and failures. This is what they teach you in marketing where you have case studies about companies that have succeeded and companies that have failed.
Likewise, you can learn to improve yourself as a person by observing and learning from people you think are better than you, more intelligent than you or richer than you. As long as you are willing to learn and change, the world is your oyster.
After I finished National Service, I was in a bit of limbo land. I analyzed my personality, my successes and failures. I wanted to change the way I was as a person and I wanted to be more successful in whatever I did. I had a friend who was my role model. I wanted to be more sociable, more out going, be a better public speaker. I used to be very shy. I would not even want to put up my hands to answer questions in class. Basically, I did not like who I was because I was stuck in a world where I had only a handful of friends.
I realized that I would have to CHANGE if I wanted to be a better person. I observed my friend and what he did and I emulated him. NO PAIN, NO GAIN. So I decided to be more brave. I tried to participate more in class. I decided to speak up and answer questions. Even when I sounded silly, it did not matter. I was learning. The change was not overnight. It took a couple of years.....I am still a work in progress. I am still trying to improve even now because we tend to pick up bad habits, regress or forget what we learnt when we are successful.
Today, I can say that I am proud of my achievements. I was a top Sales Manager in my previous job, I have given a speech in front of the President, jumped out of a plane (tandem parachuting), I can talk to almost anybody and I talk to Managing Directors of company.
You too can change if you have want to improve yourself. You just need to make a decision and you need to know what to change. You can do this by learning from others. Get a Mentor if you need some real guidance.
Good Luck!
Cheers,
Mark
Help
Help, is available whether it is for personal issues or business issues, you can get some answers with the right mindset. But you need to work on this so that you know what to do. One way is to learn from others who have been through some of the things you will go through.
I was reading with this commentary by Richard Branson in Today newspaper. He is an inspiration to me. I had an wonderful opportunity to meet and shake hands with Richard Branson when he came down to launch Virgin Mobile in Singapore. I told myself that I want to be successful like him.
Richard Branson like many others before him said that you must learn from mistakes of others and you should not be afraid of failures. He said that you can learn from failures of others/other companies more so then their successes.
I have always stressed that it is cheaper to learn from mistakes made by others than making the mistakes yourself. It will not only be more painful if you make the mistake yourself. What is worse is you may not recover from your fall if you do not know how to handle it.
No one is born perfect as a human being. So, we have to learn to to improve ourselves and make ourselves better human beings. One way, is to learn from others be it business or personal. You learn from their success and failures. This is what they teach you in marketing where you have case studies about companies that have succeeded and companies that have failed.
Likewise, you can learn to improve yourself as a person by observing and learning from people you think are better than you, more intelligent than you or richer than you. As long as you are willing to learn and change, the world is your oyster.
After I finished National Service, I was in a bit of limbo land. I analyzed my personality, my successes and failures. I wanted to change the way I was as a person and I wanted to be more successful in whatever I did. I had a friend who was my role model. I wanted to be more sociable, more out going, be a better public speaker. I used to be very shy. I would not even want to put up my hands to answer questions in class. Basically, I did not like who I was because I was stuck in a world where I had only a handful of friends.
I realized that I would have to CHANGE if I wanted to be a better person. I observed my friend and what he did and I emulated him. NO PAIN, NO GAIN. So I decided to be more brave. I tried to participate more in class. I decided to speak up and answer questions. Even when I sounded silly, it did not matter. I was learning. The change was not overnight. It took a couple of years.....I am still a work in progress. I am still trying to improve even now because we tend to pick up bad habits, regress or forget what we learnt when we are successful.
Today, I can say that I am proud of my achievements. I was a top Sales Manager in my previous job, I have given a speech in front of the President, jumped out of a plane (tandem parachuting), I can talk to almost anybody and I talk to Managing Directors of company.
You too can change if you have want to improve yourself. You just need to make a decision and you need to know what to change. You can do this by learning from others. Get a Mentor if you need some real guidance.
Good Luck!
Cheers,
Mark
Help
Monday, August 2, 2010
Actions Speaks Louder Than Words!
Recently, I had to counsel a friend about her relationship. It is sad how easily people can be tricked into believing that the other person is telling the truth. This is especially true if you are in a relationship. You want to believe that your boyfriend or girlfriend is telling the truth. But I realize that these days people need to be more discerning than ever to sieve out the truth from the lies.
One way is to compare their words and their actions. If they are in sync then probably they are telling the truth. But more than words, they must act the way they talk. Action speaks louder than words- "You are only as good as your word. People who do not keep their word are not much good."-Robert Kioyosaki. As motivational speakers say, "you must walk the talk".
Some people will do anything to get what they want. They have no scruples at all. It does not matter to them that they will hurt people along the way. So, we need to be careful of the "wolf in sheepskin".
I had to help this friend at the risk of loosing our friendship because her friends, her family and I felt she will destroy her life by staying with this guy. She repeatedly went back to this guy despite our advice. This guy has used every trick in the book to "CON" her into believing that he is the right man for her. He has abused her and her family, beaten her, taken money from her, spent more time with his friends and gone out on dates with other girls without her knowledge, used vulgarities in every conversation he has had with her and this list goes on. The only reason why he still wanted to fight for the relationship is because the wedding cards were printed and he wanted to save face. Who knows what lies ahead.....one possibility is more abuses and maybe even divorce based on the preceding acts by him in the relationship. Does anybody in the right mind want to take that chance of marrying him?
Thank God, my friend decided she will listen to our advice this time and we even resorted hiding her from this guy and taking her hand phone away so that he cannot contact her. And all of us agreed that she should get out of this horrendous relationship. Finally, after 8 years she has decided to "DUMP" this guy who repeatedly promised to "CHANGE" only to revert back to his old ways and blaming everything on his "TEMPER". His "ANGER" was his excuse for saying nasty things about her family and friends.
If you have a friend in such a relationship, please help them and advice them. If you are in such a relationship ask your friends, family and counselors for help. If you hope that the other person will change, you are only fooling yourself. Marriage and babies do not make people change for the better. You cannot change the spots on a leopard. There is Tamil saying that "a plant that does not bend when it is 5 years old, will not bend when it is 50." Essentially what it means is that, as people grow older the more difficult it is to change. The only time people change is when they themselves decide that they need to change for the better or they doomed. For this to happen, it requires "WILL POWER" which most people lack. They would rather go with the flow.
You need to learn to love yourself first, then you will attract the right kind of person. Everyone deserves a good life. But they can only get it if they take the "Right Action".
You are also better off being by yourself then to be stuck in a relationship that destroys your self esteem and your happiness. Do you really need such a relationship? If you are a truly good person, you will have loving family and truly good friends who will rally around you.
My friendship with my friend is safe. I am glad I could help.
Don't Worry Be Happy! Alls well that ends well.
Cheers,
Mark
One way is to compare their words and their actions. If they are in sync then probably they are telling the truth. But more than words, they must act the way they talk. Action speaks louder than words- "You are only as good as your word. People who do not keep their word are not much good."-Robert Kioyosaki. As motivational speakers say, "you must walk the talk".
Some people will do anything to get what they want. They have no scruples at all. It does not matter to them that they will hurt people along the way. So, we need to be careful of the "wolf in sheepskin".
I had to help this friend at the risk of loosing our friendship because her friends, her family and I felt she will destroy her life by staying with this guy. She repeatedly went back to this guy despite our advice. This guy has used every trick in the book to "CON" her into believing that he is the right man for her. He has abused her and her family, beaten her, taken money from her, spent more time with his friends and gone out on dates with other girls without her knowledge, used vulgarities in every conversation he has had with her and this list goes on. The only reason why he still wanted to fight for the relationship is because the wedding cards were printed and he wanted to save face. Who knows what lies ahead.....one possibility is more abuses and maybe even divorce based on the preceding acts by him in the relationship. Does anybody in the right mind want to take that chance of marrying him?
Thank God, my friend decided she will listen to our advice this time and we even resorted hiding her from this guy and taking her hand phone away so that he cannot contact her. And all of us agreed that she should get out of this horrendous relationship. Finally, after 8 years she has decided to "DUMP" this guy who repeatedly promised to "CHANGE" only to revert back to his old ways and blaming everything on his "TEMPER". His "ANGER" was his excuse for saying nasty things about her family and friends.
If you have a friend in such a relationship, please help them and advice them. If you are in such a relationship ask your friends, family and counselors for help. If you hope that the other person will change, you are only fooling yourself. Marriage and babies do not make people change for the better. You cannot change the spots on a leopard. There is Tamil saying that "a plant that does not bend when it is 5 years old, will not bend when it is 50." Essentially what it means is that, as people grow older the more difficult it is to change. The only time people change is when they themselves decide that they need to change for the better or they doomed. For this to happen, it requires "WILL POWER" which most people lack. They would rather go with the flow.
You need to learn to love yourself first, then you will attract the right kind of person. Everyone deserves a good life. But they can only get it if they take the "Right Action".
You are also better off being by yourself then to be stuck in a relationship that destroys your self esteem and your happiness. Do you really need such a relationship? If you are a truly good person, you will have loving family and truly good friends who will rally around you.
My friendship with my friend is safe. I am glad I could help.
Don't Worry Be Happy! Alls well that ends well.
Cheers,
Mark
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