don't know what to post...i'm now just posting for the sake of posting...ehh...hope all of you have a great holiday? haha. I really have nothing to post.... =]

Positive Thought For The Day

Are You A Rock? By Byron Pulsifer

We're not talking about "rock and roll", or rocks on a beach. We're not talking about slang or nicknames. If you have been called a rock, maybe it means something solid, a grounding force, or a person to whom other people can turn to for comfort or advice.

It's a funny thing when someone calls you a rock. The first time I was called a rock, I wasn't sure what the other person meant. When I asked for an explanation, I was told that I was a person that could be relied upon to provide a grounding force to that person, a person that could be counted on to give stability when issues seemed to be bigger than what someone else could handle alone.

I'm sure many of you are a rock to someone else without knowing it. You may not have been called a rock by anyone, but that's how you're thought of.

On the other hand, just because you are a person to whom others turn to for help, advice, a grounding force in life's turbulence, doesn't mean that there aren't times when you also need to turn to someone else to seek help or assistance.

No matter how emotionally solid you are, how capable you are of countering life's issues head on, each of us will at some point in our lives, need to find our own rock to turn to. Every rock, no matter how seemingly solid, has it's own tiny cracks within. Without assistance, these cracks can expand under constant pressure to become larger and larger. While someone else may see you as their rock, as their permanent mainstay of support, you may also be quietly seeking your own rock. If you believe that you never need to turn to someone else for some level of help, guidance, a non-judgemental ear, you may be in denial that every person has to draw upon the emotional resources of someone else at some point in life.

Just like wells need to be fed with a steady flow of new water so it is that your well also needs to be periodically filled with new strength. Being a rock to someone else, to those close to you, to those whom you happen to cross paths with, is to be a person of worth. But, don't deny that you also need to find your own renewable source of inner strength.

Be a rock to others in need, be a rock of support to those who are facing critical issues, be a rock full of caring, but be a rock who recognizes that you also will experience times when you need to seek your own rock.

http://www.wow4u.com/areyouarock/index.html

Positive Thought For The Day
Who Do You Account To
By Catherine Pulsifer

Reflect on these words of wisdom from Charles M. Schwab:

"A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away."The person you have to account to is you. You should never try to mold yourself to meet anyone else's desires, or views.

Attempting to please everyone in your life will only cause internal conflict, a sure formula for failure. As well, you may easily find yourself working on their dreams and not your own.

As you work to achieve your goals, some people will criticize you. Their criticism, however, may be no more than jealousy.

Don't let someone else's opinions stop you.

Rather than focusing your energy on trying to become what other people want, decide on who you want to become.

Focus your energy on achieving your own wants and desires.

To summarize I will leave you with a quote from Anita Septimus:

"You don't choose the day you enter the world and you don't chose the day you leave. It's what you do in between that makes all the difference."

http://www.wow4u.com/whodoyou/index.html

Thought For The Day
Be Grateful First By Byron Pulsifer, © 2008


We are all in control of our emotions whether they are positive or negative. Every situation we encounter through life can conjure up a host of emotions some of which at first appear to require negative thoughts.

For example, let's say that you really are sick and tired of what you do for a living, and, your boss is a complete jerk showing no appreciation whatsoever for your hard and dedicated work. Obviously, when you think about this work environment your emotional language says negative. The strong message you should be receiving, then, is that it's time for you to make a change. But, this emotion doesn't mean quitting instantly. What it means is that you should change your negative to a positive by looking at your dissatisfaction as the fuel to propel you to search for a new job.

So how does this dissatisfaction with work have to do with being grateful? First, you should be giving thanks that you have a job. The old saying is true - it's easier to find a new job when you already have one. Be grateful that you have the ability and confidence to search for a new job or career. Be thankful that you have the ability to move beyond moaning and complaining to one of action. Be grateful that you can see a future much rosier rather than most who seem to be content with suffering as if it is something to be proud of. Being grateful puts your energy to good use rather than letting negative energy occupy your thoughts, your leisure time, and hating the dreaded Monday morning and the return to a job you despise. Let gratefulness move you to look forward with excited expectation that Monday morning gives you another opportunity to direct your energy to look forward to finding a new and more satisfying opportunity. Be grateful that you've seen the light to move beyond self-pity that strangles countless individuals condemning them to a life of misery.

Without failure, there is no success. Without gratefulness there is no energy left to move forward. Moaning and complaining attracts more moaning and complaining. Release yourself from this vicious circle by being thankful that you can direct your energy to greater things. http://www.wow4u.com/begrateful/index.html

Thought For The Day:The Art of Happiness By Author Unknown The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience. Selfishness is its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy ones' self. It is quiet, seldom found for long in crowds, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It cannot be bough; indeed money has very little to do with it. No one is happy unless he is reasonably well satisfied with himself, so that the quest for tranquility must of necessity begin with self-examination. We shall not often be content with what we discover in this scrutiny. There is so much to do, and so little done. Upon this searching self-analysis, however, depends the discovery of those qualities that make each man unique and whose development alone can bring satisfaction. Of all those who have tried, down the ages, to outline a program for happiness, few have succeeded so well as William Henry Channing, who wrote the following: "To live content with small means; to see elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to the stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never; in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common." It will be noted that no one can do this for you; you must do it for yourself. http://www.wow4u.com/artofhappiness/index.html

.....Everytime i straightened out my thoughts, something else will definitely happen to disrupt my thinking...although i don't know him, he was a friend of someone i knew, only 18 this year...and he had just passed away the day before. Just like that. This made me wonder...once again...What are we? So weak yet so strong...a mystery...forever......

got back most of the results up till now......and i got mainly C's...failed 1 or 2 and got only a single A with maybe 1 or 2 B's......what should i do.....i did study...i did work hard...Bio. and Chi. are my most dissappointed subjects...all these are like a huge bomb that hit me right on...this final exam is the one i worked the most...and also the one i performed the most terribly...i really cried today after getting back my chi. results...i tried fighting the tears back...but it just flowed down my cheeks...i didn't want anyone to see...i asked myself:what exactly happened? why am i underperforming? am i not attentive enough? did i not work hard enough? etc...questions like these keep flashing in my mind...and now i really don't know how to continue from here on..........who can i turn to for help...i don't want to continue on like this...

I know it's no use worrying about my results now since exams are already over...but i just can't help it...still feel quite stressed out even after the exams. don't know why...this have never happen before...what should and can i do.......

Exams finally over!....and i realised that i didn't blog for the whole of September, just like last year...haha...