Change

"Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent."

- Nolan Ryan, Hall of Fame Baseball player

Things to reflect:

How adaptable am I?

Why am i resisting changes in my normal days?

How effectively do I understand and manage change in my life?

Gathering small things

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
-- Vincent Van Gogh, artist

Things to reflect:

What small things am I stringing together?
Is doing many small things easier than a single big thing?
What is the small thing I can (and will) do today?

One's ability

"The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do."
- Orison Swett Marden, author

Things to reflect:

What do I long to do?

Am i really incapable to do what I long to do?

What can I do to enhance my ability?

Desire

"The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of the seed."
- Robert Collier, author

Things to reflect:

What do I desire?

Have I planted the right seeds?

Aspiration

t takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.

- Michael Harrington, writer

Things to reflect:

Am I finding opportunities regularly?
What does aspiration look like in my life?
What do I aspire to and how does that aspiration relate to the opportunities I find?

Opportunity

There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love.
There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
- Wayne Dyer

Things to reflect:

Am I doing what I love?
If not, what steps can I take today to help me find opportunities to do so?
Can I worth to take the steps?

We should meet

山水有相逢。
The mountain and the river will meet again.
-A Malaysian Chinese saying

Meaning of quote: The river, thought keeps running, it will eventually meet the mountain later again. To remind one not to burn bridges.


Things to ponder:

How have I been treating other people
What can i do to maintain a good clean relationship

The rose garden

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

- Dale Carnegie, Author

Things to reflect:

Where is my magical rose garden?
Does it really exist?
Have I noticed the roses around me today?
What can I do to focus on today, instead of 'waiting to live'?

Luck

I've found that luck is quite predictable.
If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
- Brian Tracy, Speaker and author

Things to reflect:

How lucky have I been lately?
How will my "luck" be affected if I take more chances, be more active, show up more?
What chance can I take today?
Would superstitious helps me to get luck?

Attachment

The cow is not mine, I do not feel sad when it was lost.
There is no attachment of desire to the cow.
The cow is mine, I feel sad when it was lost.
There is attachment of desire to the cow.
Unhappiness arises from attachment to our desire,
lose the attachment, discover happiness

Extract from a discipline of Buddha.

Things to reflect:

-How attached am I to my desire?
- How can I detach my desire to discover happiness?

Complainting and whining

My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end.
Nothing is easier than fault finding.
All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me.
That was my old life.No more.
- Og Mandino, Author

Things to reflect:

How much blaming and whining do I do?
How can I reduce this habit today?
What do I know if my friends kept whining?