Stupidity

As I sat next to the pool, I think of things I have done in the past especially the stupid ones. There are some that are done because I have no knowledge what the impact would be to me, like a broken bone for instance :) (man that is one true pain). 25 years ago, I decided to run and fall and broke my hand never in my slightest mind that running can do that damage. So that is one stupidity for not having enough knowledge.

A breeze air just passed my face and I lingered in my mind again, is that it?
Is that the only trigger to stupidity nah I am sure there is more than this. So yeah another one would be less options or thinking of not having other options also known as desperado, when other choice of action seems impossible. When you were young, there are just tons of things that you think there is only one viable solution and that is the only thing you could do, boy was that so wrong.

Okay we covered two stupidities now, no knowledge of the future and no other options/desperado.

Then what? Can we go back to the past, I think not.
Would I do the same mistake having the knowledge that I have now most probably YES. Why is that? Cause if I change just a slight of my stupidity I may not end up where I am today. Okay so that’s cover the no knowledge part.
What about the second one the stupidity because of desperado very simple just make more options, in life there is always choice no matter how bad it is, trust me there will always more than one if you just look deeper.

And at the end if all those still fail you just have to use one of the NLP presuppositions
“PEOPLE ALWAYS MAKE THE BEST CHOICE AVAILABLE TO THEM AT THE TIME”

Blessing and Gratitude

It is easy to see weak points of anything. It is easy to criticize things. It is easy to compare things that we don’t have. Does it give you the pleasure you want by doing that? Is it going to make you feel better doing so? Most probably not, lingering on it day in day out will just make things worst. Questions like “Why me???” would just end up getting us deeper down the ground.

Though it seems hard, try to find 6 positive things you still have. Ok let me do it then
I still have people who loves me
I can still walk with my own feet
I can breath without any respiratory help
I still have a job
I still have shelter
Lastly, I still have love to share with the one I love

For those who don’t have the 6 I mentioned at least you can read and have internet connection.

Problems may come and go and if they stay with you for a while most probably because you are the most capable person to solve it.

I know it is easier said and done. If saying is easy, thinking about the positive things should not be that hard either, and from there I guess to start standing up again limb by limb. Stand stall and face the world once again.

Sharing

If you have the financial freedom and then what? Some might say that if they have the financial freedom they would start sharing it with others giving it to the poor. Well human are a product of habits and conditioning. If we never starts giving when we are poor most likely we would not change when we have abundance either. Some might say well if I have more of course I will give it to others. Well consider it this way when you have 100.000 IDR giving 10.000 IDR to stranger would not be that difficult, but what if you have say 100.000.000 IDR giving 10 mil IDR seems to be a lot, huh?

So why do we need to start sharing from early days? What are the benefits of doing so?
1. Net present value, a dollar given today to the poor is much worth than a dollar tomorrow, by giving a dollar as soon as possible in regular base we help more people and hopefully those people who has been helped can help other people. Sort of paying forward, we are using the power of multilevel marketing!
2. Habits/Conditioning, by having habits from early days it doesn’t seem to big later on when we have so much money on our hands.
3. Knowing what is enough, if we are to busy collecting all the material there is in the world we would be drown and cluttered what is more important for us, imagine this if you are drown in a 5 feet of water and deep ocean would it be the same devastating result? Yup, it does we can’t breath and we would be to busy collecting money and go to the last dime on everything.
4. Giving a good feelings, this is what we called wealth study by Jim Rohn, if we give some to the people in need we feel good. And when we feel good we can generate more earning. We have the abundance attitude according to Joel Osteen.
5. Example for others, like it or not we are a role model to the one we love and if we teach them from early day to share, most probably they will take this as their second nature.
6. We are the master, we finally said to money that money is used to help us and not make us the slave of it.
7. It separates us from the attachment to material, if we hear song from Monty Python , there is a line that says “you come with nothing you go with nothing!”

So yeah Ash Wednesday will start next week, Easter will be here.

So why not start giving in any ways we can, it doesn’t have to be grant just make the habits first.