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Talents, Opportunities, Environments and Apollo...

Drawn by Lee Tze Ying, 2 Jun 2007
Hi Friends,

What do you see from the picture? I see the talent, the opportunity but no environments and no Apollo...Haha, funny right.

I just gone through a very busy but happy and fruitful weekend (my sister and nieces visit me last week). As usual, after they went back to Malaysia, I was busy with tidy up the room and everything including my another world (PC, my niece like to play with my pc). Happen to be I found this picture, the picture drawn by my niece (by using paint) may be you find nothing special about this picture. To my niece who never gone through any proper learning experience in how to use the pc and who can create a picture like this by using "PAINT" (which everyone find nothing special about it), but it was very impressive to me. I saw her talent and opportunities to develop in the area of arts.....but she lack of environments and Apollo where and who can encourage her to develop her talents and future.....I'm very proud of her and will volunteer to be her Apollo and create the environment for her to grow and discover her voice.

So, do you have your talents (if not then discover yourself), opportunities (if not seek yourself), environments (if not create yourself) and Apollo (if not find yourself)......

All these means what? It mean that,
" The more you know, the more you know you don't know" and
" To know and not to do, is really not to know"
__Stephen R. Covey

Spiderman have the power to choose, so am I?

So long haven't seen anybody writing the blog?
Are you all very busy or become lazy, haha...


Spiderman 3 just released. As expected it broke block office record in its opening week.

To me, the acting was nothing special, the computer graphic effect was so so but the value of the story was very high. It reveals a part of the Hero's Journey that is not often seen; the hero’s downfall. At the same time it reveals to us what is the power to choose...

In this episode, Spiderman was attacked by some alien symbiote and his suit has suddenly change to black and his personality also change as well. He want revenge by killing the guy who killed his uncle and show to his ex-girlfriend that he much more happy without her.

But finally he found out that this costume wasn’t what he think it is - it was an alien symbiote. He choose to dump his black suit, and returned to his blue and red colors. Eventhough the process to change from black is very difficult and painful but he made it.

In our life, we also like spiderman and have the power to choose.

We can choose to be good or to be bad

We can choose to be rich or poor

We can choose whatever we want....

But the problem is do we really choose or we just let other influenced us, let others choose our life...

Do we really choose to change eventhough it is very tough...

I bet I will, how about you?

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my another new post...

Stand "Out"
Do you stand "out" of your life?

Swim out of Comfort Zone

Last weekend just went for swimming. I just treat it as usual, because normally nothing special will happen to me
But the lesson I got from this swimming was really unexpected.

I know how to swim with frog style only and I used to swim with frog style only because that was what I know and comfort with.
But I saw my fren (a new learner) can lay/float on the water facing upward. It is so ashamed for me because I don't know it and not dare to do it because I used to have experience of "trying" and as a result drank in a lot "chlorine".

But, finally I made a decision to learn it this time. I keep on doing, change the strategy and do it again, I don't know how much water I have drank in. I really tired until I don't even care about drinking the water and just lie down until I can float.
Finally I made it... I am so excited and happy although I haven't master the skill yet but at least I can make it float for a few second to a few minutes. I out of sudden realized what I had read in the book "Secret of millionaire mind" that afternoon. It said that once you have stretch out of your comfort zone, you are growing and you will become bigger, whenever you feel comfort is the time you stop growing. The process from discomfort to comfort will bring us much more happiness than the accumulate happiness in the time we are in the comfort zone.

Frens, do you feel comfort with your current condition?
If yes, you are in your comfort zone, you are stop growing ....
haha, is it crazy? We have to made ourself discomfort all the time?
But no choice almost all successful people are crazy...

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POE Forum

Hi All,

Please visit the http://www.poeforums.com/forums/ for our POE forum, where different group from different whoooooosh can get in touch together.

Let's make something different when we have big group to share. As this blog is for our whoosh 21.
So, there is no redundancy.

Treasure from the Nature

I want to share with you about the treasure from our nature.
It is regarding to a sentence that I read from "The 8th Habit from Effectiveness to Greatness".

Between stimulus and response there is a space.
In that space lies our freedom and the power to choose our response.
In those choice lies our growth and and our happiness. ______Stephen R. Covey

E+R=O.........

Choice

Hi,

I'm Jack and This is my first contribution for our blog. A bit late but rather take action now or immediately than stay there and procrastinate.
I have just attended the very first SGB meeting yesterday. I was really inspired and motivated by my teammates. They are so wonderful, and full of energy. I stay more focus and clear now. Thanks for all of you. Stay focus and move forward our goals together. Ok?
Today, I also want to share one of my experiences just happened few days ago on my birthday.

Two of my friends they wanted to celebrate my birthday. They gave me two boxes of cakes. The first one is a chocolate cake, which means for the next year in my life, I will have a lot of challenges to test myself. And the second box is a strawberry cake, which means that for the next year of my life, there’s full of love and joy. They closed the boxes and let me choose, before that I told them I want a strawberry cake. And when I opened the box I had chosen, there was a chocolate cake. This time, I understood that the universe wanted to tell me something. If I want a happy life and joyful life, I must take challenges. Life is full of challenges and I only can find true love when I overcome all of them. I have the power to choose, which want would I choose? Challenge or Happy? I chose Challenge.

Now, I strongly believe that we all have to power to choose. 90% of outcome depends on how I react to what happens to me. Events just contribute 10%.

Wish everyone success on your journey!!!

Cheers,
Jack

POE April 2007

3 weeks after POE 1, review back it just like I just completed the POE yesterday.....

First SBG at 28 April 2007

Hi Friend,

Just reach home and bath after the very my first SBG meeting. My group name is EXCELLENCE.

Awesome, seem like everyone still every energized and motivated to what they have committed and plan to commit. Of course there are someone who faced challenge in the past 3 weeks (Just like me) and we did have a very good discussion to help our group member to face and overcome that. It seem like our SBG member really committed. I was very impressed with it.

As what ADAM had shared with us.......

'The return of "The investment on yourself "(knowledge, manage your emotion) is worth 10000000000000.......% "

This had just awake me on how important and worthy to invest yourself in the knowledge or soft skill....which i never think of. But when i think carefully, i found that if you able to manage your emotion, motivation in whatever situation or decision you have to make, this will totally help to achieve remarkable result.

For example: We know the 2 most important emotions in stock trading are Greed and Fear.

Greed: When your share go up, you feel like want to earn more and your greed will tell you to go for it. Where emotion already help you to make the decision unconsciously. End up you may lose up.
Fear: Fear to lose your money in stock because you always hear that stock very risking. End up, you will be "hentak Kaki ( in English mean step on the same position without moving forward).
Just imagine if you can manage your own emotion and with the knowledge that you have, for sure you will moving forward faster and manageable....

So, how can you invest on yourself........To me, no doubt to read more BOOK (self improvement and Biography of successful person) , mix around with those friend or successful person who you can learn and model.

Well all the best and see you in the next scheduled SBG meeting.

Stage

An artist need a stage to performance, so are we
Without a stage we can't perform...
Do you agree with that?

We already go through the POE, we already have empower belief...
But because we don't have the stage to performance at this moment,
I belief we may waste the thing we learned ....

I just wonder how can we get a stage to perform...

Do you all find your stage?

After the 7 days of Mental Diet

Hi Friend,

Has been long time never online (since my pc got some problem). How is everything going on. Have you did your commited action ==> 7 days mental diet....? I did. I feel really good and motivated to work. But, I did facing some problem especially when i have to read all the technical knowledge which very boring......but i did always change my state by using the word ENERGIZED!!!....then I switch to the state which I was in the POE where I really feel energized. Thanks to Adam and Stuart.

Well, to those who have join as a contributor don't mind to share your experience.

I found that I didn't put more effort to invite everyone to join our small community. To contribution please don't mind to invite your fellow SBG member to join this.....

Guess what.
i finally figured out how to join!
heh.

and by the way. how is the mental diet coming about?
it was somehow a new yet old experience to me.
and its great to relive and visualize what i wanted and yearned for.
and i believed in it. believing that it will be possible.
this was the new experience. believing!
last time. i just told myself that ouh its all just a dream.
so i guess that aspect did not make me motivate myself.
=]

whatever it is. i hope you guys have a great day ahead of u!
God Bless!
-nicholas

How do you create you new post (your topic)

Hi Friend,

I have to admit, I just learned how to blogging 2 weeks ago. So, I'm also learning now. Please feel free to highlight or advice anything that I can improve on this blog.

I will invite everyone to be the author for this blog once I get the email (all participant from whoosh 21) from John. Now, how you create your own post?

1. To those who I already invited, please check your email and click on the link, you will enter to a page with

"Elix See has invited you to contribute to the blog
Pattern of Excellence - Whoosh 21, April 07
http://akltg-poe-whoosh21.blogspot.com/

To join this blog as an author, accept the invitation by signing in with your Account below.

Don't have a Google Account? "Create your account now"


2. If you are not a gmail user, please do create a new account at gmail "Create your account now "

3. Once you get your gmail account, then sign in with your new gmail user id and password.

4. Then, the page will take you to "http://akltg-poe-whoosh21.blogspot.com/ ".

5. If you want to create your new post (topic), look at the top right corner under "New Post". Click on it and now you can create your own new topic now.

Well let continue our POE workshop from here, until the rest of our life.....

Execellence

Fren
Congratulations, you already start the first step in 36 hours....
sure you will boring right, hahaha..only one person post in your blog ...
Anyway we will support you....

Network is networth.....
let us start to build out our network......
Today feel really tired, but still don want to sleep early.... just want to tidy up the mindset.
Sod sad, I cant attend tomorrow booster session.....bcoz I have to go Malaysia tmr
May be somebody can record it and let me listen to that.....

nyway, Can somebody post out all the slide we saw in the last few days

Something Weird......

Any special experience today???

I did have a very special experience.....Today, as usual I went to office and prepare for my e-learning course, which is very boring thing(a lot of theroy to read).....as usual I fell asleep after a few pages of study (and i still keep reading unconsiously).....Suddenly, Huhhhhh!!!!!!

!!!!!!

Automically, I felt SHOCK and AWAKE .....you know what HAPPEN?

I was unconciously read the word "TRY" which appeared on my desktop and the face of "Meng Chew" ASSOCIATED APPEAR IN FRONT OF ME WITH THE ACTION SGD 2 PLEASE........hehe....Sorry Meng Chew no offense!

But it really amazing! i think this is my best achor to keep me awake...

Thank alot to "Meng Chew"...

The very first day after POE......

Hi friend,

How is your first day after the program? Have you practice "The 7 Days Mental Diet Challenge"???

If not yet, remember you are 100% committed to your goal.....

Cheer.....

Adam Khoo Learning Technologies - Pattern of Excellence, Whoosh 21, April 2007

Hi Fellow Friend,

I did took my very first step to create this blog and believe that this will be our medium to share our experiences, knowledge, search for opinions, and etc.'

Hope all the fellow participant can make use of this blog ........

All the best....

Rgds,

See Seng Hin