Life's Missing Instruction Manual

Was reading the above book last night,,came across some interesting points. Ive summarized it.

1. Growing Old May Be a Choice
Bad diet/ poor health choices (drinking, smoking etc), stress, our deep rooted beliefs/programming that aging is normal and the biggest factor of all: the baggage that we drag around with us every day makes us old.

Aging may be unneccessary and should be classified as being a disease, rather than something that is a normal part of life.

2. Are you playing a role of victim?
So, before you choose to be a lifelong victim, ask yourself "Where are my opportunities? Should i relocate? Should i pick better friends? Find a better job? What does my intuition say?

And i am sure you can think of many more questions that will help guide you to self-betterment and get you closer to your goals. Listen to your heart and make choices that actively serve to better yourself. Anything less is choosing to live as a victim. You are the only one who can choose the life you live.

3. Failure is not death
A famous businessman once said, "i'm 74 yeas old and a millionaire now, but i had to try alot of things and fail at alot of things to get here. Her's what i learned about failure: Nothing bad ever happens to you."

Nothing bad ever happens to you.

There it is. It's the secret of handling failure, You go on to the next thing. You dont give you. You take a deep breath, You dust yourself off. You learn.

And you do the next thing.

Failure is not death.
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This book is soo motivating.

Vonnie, sorry to hear about your dad's arm and your mum missing the ge tai and blaming ur dad. I think it is natural ba..coz ppl tend to automatically blame other ppl.

One of my friend, her dad had stroke and now her family becomes not so well to do (coz her father cannot work for the past 10years). Her mum would openly tell ppl and relatives it is her husband's fault tat now they are living in a budget, without ever caring for her husband's feeling (at least ur mum is telling u secretly). They used to live in a banglow but now "downgraded" to a 5 room apartment. Her mum is soo grumpy and angry over her situation that she was dignosed with breast cancer 2 years ago (Your illness is caused by wat u think. For eg, ppl with leg problem is because they had a hard time moving ahead with life). Now, my poor friend had to earn alot of $$ to pay medical bills of both her parents and also the family's expenses. Her 2 other elder siblings got married and dont bother about their parents... Sometimes, my friend will still say "last time my father will drive us to orchard road for shopping and dinings." Oh well, tat was Last time....Unfortunately, she borrowed $ but spend it on her leisure items (like ipod and agnes b wallet) rather than her family. The secret was leaked out and now, nobody dare to lend her $ or walk near her. She has no friends coz she havent repay some of them the $.

Quite excited about my sat's outdoor sale..wonder what would the situation be like coz never done it on a pushcart before. Had packed 2 cartons of stuffs.. Maki and cockroach is coming. After that, they will go to the Vivo's jrock matsuri. I dont like Spore's matsuri..To think some1 at sgcafe asked "got japanese bands come anot?". Sooo Newbie..

And Xuann, i still own you tako balls,,i didnt forget.