When I was still working for Gillette, I have been trained that for every contract there must be an escape clause. This is to ensure that for any unforeseen circumstances where both parties have to separate, there is always a ready platform for discussion. Since then, there is always escape clause in everything I do, no matter how sweet the deal could be. So far so good.
Now, that was work I'm talking about. But what about life? A contract where there is no resignation because any resignation simply means death. So, if life is a contract, what do we do? Do we have an escape clause and do we have an escape route?
The activities that we do in life should have an escape clause in my opinion. For example, for career, this is the job I am willing to do for this price and in the event I want to terminate this job, this or that will happen in my life. We should know the cost of parting way. We also need to have an escape route, something that we plan to escape from the things we don't like.
Take stock of your life's main activities. What are the 3 important things that you are doing in your life? Job, marriage and health may be? If one day you don't feel like doing it any more, is there an escape clause? If of the 3 important things you are doing and 1 sucks, do you have an escape route or plan? Difficult? Definitely. But again, if a prisoner can escape from the most tightly guarded prison called Alcatraz, everything else is possible. If you need inspiration, go check out some old movies I find useful such as Escape from Alcatraz (Clint Eastwood), Shawshank redemption (Morgan Freedman), Great Escape (Pele), you start to realize David Copperfield only makes things disappear in front of your eyes, but these guys make themselves disappear forever.
Some food for thoughts:
'I don't mind today ends up lousy. I do mind tomorrow ending up like today'
Escaping now to a better-than-writing activity called dreamland, I wish you all the best in your great escape.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Password to your subconscious mind - 'ICDIAAA'
"Yes, you can do it"
"Do your best and let God do the rest"
"This tiger year will be good for you if you wear red"
"I don't believe in superstition, self reliance is what that works"
"Based on the law of attraction..."
"There is a miracle when you believe"
Some guys will swear that feng shui (geomancy) works, some will tell you how one event becomes the turning point of their life, some will swear that it's confidence that bring them success, some believe in perseverance, some pray hard, others pray harder...We believe that there should be only one truth but yet this truth can come in many versions :) Truth seems to be always true to those who choose to believe in it. If the rest don't believe in it, that's because they have yet to understand the truth. Well, I leave this point alone since my discussion here is more on subconscious mind.
If you observe all the quotes I have listed above, those are really words targeted to ourselves. But are they really talking to us? Or are the words meant for our subconscious brother? (see stranger in the attic for reference) As I explore subconscious mind recently, I have a strong hunch that these words are not meant for us (at least not to the conscious me) but for our subconscious mind.
It's a bit like the placebo effect where patients are given medicine which in actual fact are merely sugar pills but the patient improves his health due to strong conviction or more specifically conviction by the naive and gullible subconscious mind.
As scientists will attest, we only use 10% of our brain. The rest is basically not used or perhaps the rest is latent power in the subconscious side that have yet to be discovered with the right password. The passwords come in many forms such as feng shui, confidence, NLP, specific words that you tell yourself, memory of a person, aspiration...So, observe next time when you have a busy day ahead -what peculiar thing do you observe eg. special words you mumble to yourself, special drinks you take, special clothes you wear..those when work are the passwords to your subconscious mind.
To end, the password 'ICDIAAA' is 'I can do it again and again'
"Do your best and let God do the rest"
"This tiger year will be good for you if you wear red"
"I don't believe in superstition, self reliance is what that works"
"Based on the law of attraction..."
"There is a miracle when you believe"
Some guys will swear that feng shui (geomancy) works, some will tell you how one event becomes the turning point of their life, some will swear that it's confidence that bring them success, some believe in perseverance, some pray hard, others pray harder...We believe that there should be only one truth but yet this truth can come in many versions :) Truth seems to be always true to those who choose to believe in it. If the rest don't believe in it, that's because they have yet to understand the truth. Well, I leave this point alone since my discussion here is more on subconscious mind.
If you observe all the quotes I have listed above, those are really words targeted to ourselves. But are they really talking to us? Or are the words meant for our subconscious brother? (see stranger in the attic for reference) As I explore subconscious mind recently, I have a strong hunch that these words are not meant for us (at least not to the conscious me) but for our subconscious mind.
It's a bit like the placebo effect where patients are given medicine which in actual fact are merely sugar pills but the patient improves his health due to strong conviction or more specifically conviction by the naive and gullible subconscious mind.
As scientists will attest, we only use 10% of our brain. The rest is basically not used or perhaps the rest is latent power in the subconscious side that have yet to be discovered with the right password. The passwords come in many forms such as feng shui, confidence, NLP, specific words that you tell yourself, memory of a person, aspiration...So, observe next time when you have a busy day ahead -what peculiar thing do you observe eg. special words you mumble to yourself, special drinks you take, special clothes you wear..those when work are the passwords to your subconscious mind.
To end, the password 'ICDIAAA' is 'I can do it again and again'
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