G.O.L.F.

G.O.L.F. stands for Game of Life First.

Like life, golf is a game where you get some good breaks and some bad breaks you don't deserve, and some good breaks and bad breaks you do deserve.

In golf you are reacting to your own performance. Sometimes you are playing better than you expect and dealing with success; sometimes you are playing worse than you expect and dealing with failure.

Golf brings out the best and worst in people. If you cheat or blow up when you have a bad break, that same behavior will show up in other parts of your life. If you maintain a a positive attitude when things go sour, that will carry over into others things also.

What better training ground is there for learning to accept the bitter with the sweet, than the golf course?

Ken Blanchard: The Heart of a Leader

Don't Waste Time on the Wrong People

Don't Waste Time on the Wrong People:

1. People with bad relationship values
2. Energy Vampires
3. Users

Tom Neff, Chairman of Spenser Stuart, US, said:

"If someone calls up here and beats up on my secretary, I don't want anything to do with him."

Ken Langone, President and CEO said:

"I'm very attentive to how people treat people beneath them--it's a good indicator."

An energy vampire is a person who makes you tired every time they walk in the room: They just drain the life and the enthusiasm out of every situation.

Liz Smith says:
"People who are needy are just too hard."


Dealing with energy vampires is unproductive in the extreme.

Users are very good at pretending, especially to themselves. They know how to fake caring, and how to fake interest in you and your needs--and that's why you are drawn in.

Bernie Marcus said:

"You run across people who, when they see that they're dealing with somebody who has a little compassion and emotion about humans and humanistic traits, will try to take advantage of you."

Marty Evans:

"We can't be victims. We do have control. That means we have to make choices about how we spend our time and whom we spend time with."

Ronna Lichtenberg: It's not business. It's personal

Have you wasted time on the wrong people before?

Welcome the Unexpected

"Most people do not see themselves as being creative, but we all are. One of the reasons we don't see ourselves that way is that we normally associate "creative" with being "original" But in reality, creativity has nothing to do with originality--it has everything to do with being unexpected. If you are willing to see yourself as creative, you can begin to cultivate it in everything you do."

Steve Chandler: 100 ways to motivate Yourself

Thank you Manglish..

for the postcard..

and the cute purse from Japan..

I love it!

Laugh for no reason

American philosopher, William James, put it very clearly:

"We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing."

If you want to be happy, find the happiest song you know and sing it. It works. Not always in the first few moments, but if you keep singing, it works.

Laughter itself can also makes you laugh.

"What is the one thing that makes you feel like singing?"
"Singing".

"What gets you in the mood to dance?"
"Dancing".

The next time you ask someone to dance, and he/she says, "I don't feel like dancing," you may reply, "That's because you are not dancing!"

C. Steve; 100 ways to motivate yourself