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Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish

An article that worth reading. Enjoy it.

This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.


I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: 'We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?' They said: 'Of course.' My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him.

So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: 'If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.' It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: 'Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.' It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much.

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*London Times* Obituary of the late Mr. Common Sense

'Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as: Knowing when to come in out of the rain; why the early bird gets the worm; Life isn't always fair; and maybe it was my fault.


Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).


His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.


Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children.


It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an Elastoplast to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.


Common Sense lost the will to live as the religious commandments became contraband; churches became businesses & criminals received better treatment than their victims. Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault, when a man taking pictures of his children in a park was arrested, then children's faces are blurred in every picture, when everything became racist and every statement had to be whetted for fear of being overly sensitive to someone somewhere.


Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.


Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth & Trust; his wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; & his son, Reason. He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers; I Know My Rights, I Want It Now, Someone Else Is To Blame & I'm A Victim.


Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still remember him, remember him in your thoughts, that is how you can make him live for ever. If not, join the majority and do nothing."

Why Some People Have All The Luck (worth reading!)

By Professor Richard Wiseman, University of Hertfordshire-


Why do some people get all the luck while others never get the breaks they
deserve?

A psychologist says he has discovered the answer.

Ten years ago, I set out to examine luck. I wanted to know why some people are always in the right place at the right time, while others consistently experience ill fortune. I placed advertisements in national newspapers asking for people who felt consistently lucky or unlucky to contact me.

Hundreds of extraordinary men and women volunteered for my research and over the years, I have interviewed them, monitored their lives and had them take part in experiments.

The results reveal that although these people have almost no insight into the causes of their luck, their thoughts and behavior are responsible for much of their good and bad fortune. Take the case of seemingly chance opportunities. Lucky people consistently encounter such opportunities, whereas unlucky people do not.

I carried out a simple experiment to discover whether this was due to differences in their ability to spot such opportunities. I gave both lucky and unlucky people a newspaper, and asked them to look through it and tell me how many photographs were inside. I had secretly placed a large message halfway through the newspaper saying: 'Tell the experimenter you have seen this and win $50.'

This message took up half of the page and was written in type that was more than two inches high. It was staring everyone straight in the face, but the unlucky people tended to miss it and the lucky people tended to spot it.

Unlucky people are generally more tense than lucky people, and this anxiety disrupts their ability to notice the unexpected.

As a result, they miss opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to parties intent on finding their perfect partner and so miss opportunities to make good friends. They look through newspapers determined to find certain types of job advertisements and miss other types of jobs.

Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are looking for. My research eventually revealed that lucky people generate good fortune via four principles. They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.

Towards the end of the work, I wondered whether these principles could be used to create good luck. I asked a group of volunteers to spend a month carrying out exercises designed to help them think and behave like a lucky person.

Dramatic results! These exercises helped them spot chance opportunities, listen to their intuition, expect to be lucky, and be more resilient to bad luck.

One month later, the volunteers returned and described what had happened. The results were dramatic: 80% of people were now happier, more satisfied with their lives and, perhaps most important of all, luckier.

The lucky people had become even luckier and the unlucky had become lucky.

Finally, I had found the elusive 'luck factor'.

Here are Professor Wiseman's four top tips for becoming lucky:

1) Listen to your gut instincts - they are normally right (yes indeed)
2) Be open to new experiences and breaking your normal routine
3) Spend a few moments each day remembering things that went well
4) Visualize yourself being lucky before an important meeting or telephone call.

Have a Lucky day and work for it.

The happiest people in the world are not those who have no problems, but those who learn to live with things that are less than perfect.

Have a nice day!

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Marriage/fan ...

What is Marriage?

Based on Britannica as follows:

Marriage a legally and socially sanctioned union, usually between a man and a woman, that is regulated by laws, rules, customs, beliefs, and attitudes that prescribe the rights and duties of the partners and accords status to their offspring (if any). The universality of marriage within different societies and cultures is attributed to the many basic social and personal functions for which it provides structure, such as sexual gratification and regulation, division of labour between the sexes, economic production and consumption, and satisfaction of personal needs for affection, status, and companionship; perhaps its strongest function concerns procreation, the care of children and their education and socialization, and regulation of lines of descent. Through the ages marriages have taken a great number of forms.

I came across a married couple and by end of the year they are expecting their first new child. They haven’t agreed on naming the child if it is a boy.

They both don’t want to name him by their father’s name but the man wants to name him on his wife father’s name. their reasons are the same (repeated name in the family). He’s response “I am the one who will register the name in the birth certificate and you just carry the baby for nine months.” he repeated the same sentence several times and I was shocked to hear that. I tried to convince him that they should agree together on one name but he refused.

I realised that he was ignorant and didn’t respect his wife at all. He also didn’t understand what is marriage all about. He’s understanding is sex, have kids and bully her; and the history is repeating.



I don't know them..
Another incident of the same man, he took his childhood photo off the family frame, he didn’t want his in-laws to see it, he is either embarrassed about the photo.

My conclusion, he is embarrassed from his family and him self too. He is in confidence.



A fan of Abdullah Al Amadi
I have recently became addicted to articles written by Abdullah Al Amadi, a Qatari article writer in Al Watan, an Arabic Omani newspaper, he inspired me allot.

Willpower

I never thought I had the willpower until two weeks ago, when I got hooked with my phone navigator for over two days, I realized I have to stop using it as I am wasting time and money as I have to use it via my GSM operator.

From the next day up to this date, I didn’t log in and I am still trying to figure out at the exact time I put my feet down, is it when I was going to sleep or when I decided at work.

God knows, but all I know that it worked.

بالنفس

°•.♥°•. السمو °•.♥.•° بالنفس .•°♥.•°

هو الفرق الذي يميز الإنسان السوي الذي يفهم سبب وجوده..
ويعرف كيف يقضي أيامه في هذه الدنيـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ــا..
عن غيره من البشر الذين يهيمون في الحياة..

°•.♥°•. السمو °•.♥.•° بالنفس .•°♥.•°

يعني الترفع عن كل ما يعيب نفسك..
ويجلب لها الذل والمهانة سواء بتفكير.. بفعل .. أو بكلام..
عندما تسمو بنفسك تجد أن هنالك الكثير من الناس الذين هم مثلك..
وكذلك الكثير ممن هم دونك..

°•.♥°•. السمو °•.♥.•° بالنفس .•°♥.•°

يعني الترفع عن الخوض في التافهــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ـــات..
الترفع عن مجالسة السوقة..الترفع عن الأماكن المشبوهة..
البقاء عاليا في هذه الدنيا..لا يضرك ما تسمع.. ولا ما ترى..
سيقولون عنك متخلف. متطرف.. رجعي.. قل هذا أنا.. وأنا مقتنع بنفسي..

°•.♥°•. السمو °•.♥.•° بالنفس .•°♥.•°

أن تتنازل أحيانا وتنسحب بهدوء..
لأن بقاءك سيخدش قيمتك مع من لا يقدرون القيم..
قد تكون في نقاش مع من لا يعرفون أساسيات النقاش..
وقد تكون تنصح من لا يتقبل النصيحــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ــــة..
عندها إنسحب بهدوء.. فإنك بذلك تسمــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــو بنفســـــــــــــــــــك..


°•.♥°•. السمو °•.♥.•° بالنفس .•°♥.•°



أن تحب لأخيك ما تحب لنفســــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ـــــــــــك..
وهذه من أعظم درجات السمو..
قلة من يستطيع عليها.. وقلة من يحب أن يفعلهــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــا..
السمو بالنفس أن تعلم أنك مخلوق..
وإن كانت لك قيمة فقيمتك من عظمة خالقك فقـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــط..
خالقك العظيم الذي وهبك سمعا وبصرا وعقلا وقلبا..
ليرى كيف تتصرف بهــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ــــــــــــــــــــــم

كلمات تفتح قلبك للحياة

الصمت... إجابة بارعة لا يتقنها الكثيرون


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الألفاظ هي الثياب التي ترتديها أفكارنا . . فيجب ألا تظهرأفكارنا في ثياب رثة بالية


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الانتصارات الوحيدة التي تدوم أبداً و لا تترك ورائها أسى هي انتصاراتنا على أنفسنا


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افعل ما تشعر في أعماق قلبك بأنه صحيح . . لأنك لن تسلم من الانتقاد بأي حال


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الضربات القوية تهشم الزجاج لكنها تصقل الحديد


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القضاء على العدو ليس بإعدامه . . وإنما بإبطال مبادئه

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ليس الفخر بألا نسقط . .. و إنما بأن ننهض كلما سقطنا

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ليس شقاؤك في أن تكون أعمى . .. بل شقاؤك في أن تعجز عن احتمال العمى

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يهب الله كل طائر رزقه . .. و لكنه لا يلقيه له في العش

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الحب جحيمٌ يُطاق . .. و الحياة بدون حب نعيمٌ لا يُطاق


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ليس شرطاً أن تكون دموعنا أمام من نحب . .. لكن من الضروري أن تكون من أجل من نحب


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وردة واحدة لإنسان على قيد الحياة أفضل من باقة كاملة على قبره


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المتفائل إنسان يرى ضوءاً غير موجود .. والمتشائم أحمق يرى ضوءاً و لا يصدق

من اعتمد على غير الله

جلس رجلان قد ذهب بصرهما على طريق أم جعفر زبيدة العباسية لمعرفتهما بكرمها.
فكان أحدهما يقول: اللهم ارزقني من فضلك..
وكان الآخر يقول: اللهم ارزقني من فضل أم جعفر.
وكانت أم جعفر تعلم ذلك منهما وتسمع، فكانت ترسل لمن طلب فضل الله درهمين، ولمن طلب فضلها دجاجة مشوية في جوفها عشرة دنانير. وكان صاحب الدجاجة يبيع دجاجته لصاحب الدرهمين، بدرهمين كل يوم، وهو لا يعلم ما في جوفها من دنانير.

وأقام على ذلك عشرة أيام متوالية، ثم أقبلت أم جعفر عليهما،
وقالت لطالب فضلها: أما أغناك فضلنا ؟
قال: وما هو؟
قالت مائة دينار في عشرة أيام،
قال: لا، بل دجاجة كنت أبيعها لصاحبي بدرهمين.
فقالت: هذا طلب من فضلنا فحرمه الله، وذاك طلب من فضل الله فأعطاه الله وأغناه.

يقول الشيخ عبد الحميد كشك يرحمه الله:
من اعتمد على غير الله ذل، ومن اعتمد على غير الله قل. ومن اعتمد على غير الله ضل. ومن اعتمد على غير الله مل. ومن اعتمد على الله فلا ذلّ ولا قلّ ولا ضلّ ولا ملّ.

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إذا كنت لا تقرأ إلا ما يُعجبك فقط، فإنك إذاً لن تتعلم أبداً!

The next CEO

A successful business man was growing old And knew it was time to Choose a successor to take over the business.

Instead of choosing one of his directors Or his children, He decided to do something different.
He called all the young executives in his Company together. He said, 'It is time for me to step down And choose the next CEO.

I have decided to choose one of you. 'The young executives were shocked, But the boss continued.' I am going to give each one of you a SEED today - One very special SEED.
I want you to plant the seed, water it, And come back here one year from today with what you have grown from the seed I have given you.

I will then judge the plants that you bring, and the one I choose will be the next CEO'.

One man, named Jim, was there that day and he, like the others, received a seed.He went home and excitedly, told his wife the story. She helped him get a pot, soil and compost and he planted the seed.

Everyday, he would water it and watch to see if it had grown. After about three weeks, some of the other executives began to talk about their seeds and the plants that were beginning to grow.
Jim kept checking his seed, but nothing ever grew. Three weeks, four weeks, five weeks went by, still nothing. By now, others were talking about their plants, But Jim didn't have a plant and he felt like a failure.

Six months went by--still nothing in Jim's pot. He just knew he had killed his seed. Everyone else had trees and tall plants, but he had nothing. Jim didn't say anything to his colleagues, however. he just kept watering and fertilizing the soil - he so wanted the seed to grow.

A year finally went by and all the young executives of the company brought their plants to the CEO for inspection. Jim told his wife that he wasn't going to take an empty pot. But she asked him to be honest about what happened. Jim felt sick at his stomach, it was going to be the most embarrassing moment of life, but he knew his wife was right.

He took his empty pot to the board room. When Jim arrived, he was amazed at the variety of plants grown by the other executives.

They were beautiful--in all shapes and sizes. Jim put his empty pot on the floor and many of his colleagues laughed, a few felt sorry for him!

When the CEO arrived, he surveyed the room and greeted his young executives.

Jim just tried to hide in the back. What great plants, trees, and flowers you have grown,' said the CEO. 'Today one of you will be appointed the next CEO!'

All of a sudden, the CEO spotted Jim at the back of the room with his empty pot. He ordered the financial director to bring him to the front. Jim was terrified. He thought, 'The CEO knows I'm a failure! Maybe he will have me fired!'

When Jim got to the front, The CEO asked him what had happened to his seed Jim told him the story. The CEO asked everyone to sit down except Jim. He looked at Jim, and then announced to the young executives, 'Behold your next Chief Executive! His name is Jim!'

Jim couldn't believe it. Jim couldn't even grow his seed. How could he be the new CEO the others said?

Then the CEO said, 'One year ago today, I gave everyone in this room a seed. I told you to take the seed, plant it, water it, and bring it back to me today. But I gave you all boiled seeds; They were dead - It was not possible for them to grow. All of you, except Jim, have brought me trees and plants and flowers.

When you found that the seed would not grow, you substituted another seed for the one I gave you. Jim was the only one with the courage and Honesty to bring me a pot with my seed in it.

Therefore, he is the one who will be the new Chief Executive!'

• If you plant honesty, you will reap trust
• If you plant goodness, you will reap friends
• If you plant humility, you will reap greatness
• If you plant perseverance, you will reap contentment
• If you plant consideration, you will reap perspective
• If you plant hard work, you will reap success
• If you plant forgiveness, you will reap reconciliation

So, be careful what you plant now; it will determine what you will reap later.

No one can take it from me

LYM has triggered a sensitive topic that made me think allot how I’ll emotionally feel when my baby sisters get married and vice verse.

I’m vary attached to my siblings that I’m mostly over protective when it comes to them, that sometimes they get annoyed, but I love them and they know that.

I want to be there for them and it’s my responsibility is to keep my relationship strong with them.

They may drive me crazy when they are around me but that’s how they are.

I am having difficulty in expressing my feelings now, but Lym, you have triggered something in me, I didn’t want to think about it now, I am have been thinking about it for few days and I don’t want to express it. Yes I am emotional now but I’ll be fine.

Drop of water

A drop of water can clear the dust,
a drop of water can clean anything,
a drop of water can mess up the place,
a drop of water may kill an insect,
a drop of water can quench the thirst,
a drop of water can give a life,
a drop of water can increase a pain.

What a drop of water means to you?

Beware of Garbage Trucks

By David J. Pollay


How often do you let other people's nonsense change your mood? Do you let a bad driver, rude waiter, curt boss, or an insensitive colleague ruin your day? Unless you're a robot, you are bound to blow your top off. However, the mark of a sucessful person is how quickly he or she can get back his or her focus on what's important.

Sixteen years ago, I learned this lesson. I learn it in the back of a New York City taxi cab. Here's what happen.

I hopped in a taxi, and we took off for Grand Central Station. We were driving in the right lane when, all of a sudden, a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car's back end by just inches!

The driver of the other car, the guy who almost caused a big accident, whipped his head around and he started yelling bad words at us.

My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean he was really friendly. So, I said, 'Why did you do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!'

And this is when my taxi driver told me what I now called, 'The Law of the Garbage Truck'.

Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of fustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it. If they happen to dump it on you, don't take it personally.

You just smile, wave, wish them well, and moved on. You'll be happier if you did that rather than fight them.

So this was it: 'The Law of the Garbage Truck'.

I started thinking, how often do I let garbage trucks run right over me? And how often do I take their garbage and spread it to other people: at work, at home, on the street? It was that day I said, 'I'm not going to do it anymore.' I see garbage trucks everywhere and everyday. I see the load they're carrying. I see them coming to drop it off. And like my taxi driver, I don't make it a personal thing; I just smile, wave, wish them well, and I move on.

Good leaders know they have to be ready for their next meeting. Good parents know they have to welcome their kids home from school with hugs and kisses. Teachers and parents know that they have to be fully present and at their best for the people they care about.

The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. What about you? What would happen in your life, starting today, if you let more garbage trucks pass you by?

Here's my bet. You'll be happier.

So...love the people who treat you right.

Forget about the ones who don't.

Believe that every thing happens for a reason.

If you get a chance, TAKE IT!

If it changes your life, LET IT!

Nobody said it would be easy...

They just promised it would be WORTH IT

'Life is short. Enjoy the journey.'