The Power of Vision Board

What is the vision of your life?
What do you want for your life?

What kind of career you have passion in?
What kind of contribution you want to make for the world and the community?
What is the definition of self-actualization for you?
What kind of house you want to live in?
What kind of cars you want to drive?

If you know what you want in life, if you know where you are heading. I'm sure that you already have that picture in your mind, or somehow have the ideas of what represents the ultimate achievement of your life.

Here I would like to share with you something, the thing that will remind you, motivate you, keep you on the right track, move you forward to your goals. And that is a VISION BOARD. Vision board is a board with the pictures of what you want. You might be wondering, "where do I find the board?" or "how does the board look like?".

Well, the answer is that the how does the board look like, what is on your vision board are only limited by your own imagination! Your vision board is something personalised. You are the designer of your vision board, as you are the creator of your life! You are the one to custom-made you own vision board. To make your own vision board, you look for the pictures that represent your goals and paste onto your vision board, say, the career of your dream, your dreamhome, your dreamcar, anything that represents your goals.

By the way, your vision board doesn't necessarily to be a board, it can be the wallpaper of your laptop or PC, google the picture of your dreamhome, google the picture of your dreamcar! You can choose to paste the pictures onto your diary as well. Again, how to make your vision board is only limited to your own imagination.

Once you made your vision board, place it somewhere that you can see it frequently, for the vision board is your reminder and motivator! To make you move forward constantly.


Have fun making your vision board!

My friends, I wish you a great life ahead.



Aude Aliquid Dignum

Remembering The Little Things. The Important Little Things

Oftentimes, we do think that we care for someone just because we call them regularly to check in with them, we send wishes to them during the festive seasons. And sometimes we even think that we are treating them as our VIP when we are remembering and celebrating their birthdays and also the anniversary that we shared with them, those things that we think that are big and important.

To be honest, we are not actually caring for them, if we only do those as mentioned above but forgetting those little things in their lives. Like do you offer to help with the housechores? Or buying the groceries? Do you give them a warming smile to light up their day? Do you really listen to them when they are telling you about the day they went through? Do you hold their hands while taking a stroll? Or do you remember how much sugar to put in their coffee?

To truly care for someone is to pay attention to everything, both big and small things of his/her life, not ONLY to the thing like buying a big present; is to be with him/her whenever he/she needs you to be there, not ONLY on special occasions or events.

There is a saying sounds, "it's the little things that count".

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that we can just treat the special occasions as normal days, creating happy moments during special occasions like birthday, anniversary and festive seasons are the must-dos. The point here is not to forget the little things in everyday life.

If you're someone who cares for the little things of someone you care, you're a caring person. If you do neglect the little things of someone you care, that doesn't mean you're not a caring person, but rather having a different way of expressing your care. Anyway, why not start paying attention to the little things of someone you care start from today? It would strengthen your relationship with those you care. And the relationships would be experiencing the true meaning of care and love from moment to moment.

Insights from Mitch Albom's books

The conversations I have with my brother are always insightful to me. Everytime we have a conversation, I will gain insights on life.

In the previous conversation we had, we talked about books, this time we talked about Mitch Albom's books. Both of us already read three of Mitch Albom's books, "The Five People You Meet In Heaven", "Tuesdays With Morrie", and "For One More Day".

And my brother shared his opinion on Mitch Albom's books with me. He said to me that his books is telling us an important message, which is to do what we want to do while we can, to say what we want to say while we can.

As we can see, in three of his books, we read about unsaid words and unexpressed feelings.

In "The Five People You Meet In Heaven", the 83 year-old Eddie came to know about the things that he done wrongly to the people that he didn't even know only when he is in the heaven, he came to know that there are unresolved feelings with his loved ones only when he is in the heaven, he came to know his meaning to others only when he is in the heaven.
He forgave, he gave thanks, he blessed the people he met in the heaven and moved on. Finally, after the five meetings, all the unresolved issues which he brought with him are resolved, the unsaid words and unexpressed feelings are expressed to his loved ones.

In "Tuesdays With Morrie", Morrie teaches us to forgive. And he shared with us a lesson he learnt from his life. He resented a friend for not visiting him when his wife was going through the recovery of an illness. And his resentment were for years. But, when he forgave the friend and wanted to see his friend again, his friend is no longer here. So, learn to forgive ourselves and forgive others while we can. For the readers, we learn to forgive ourselves and to forgive others. Well, to forgive and to be forgiven is just one of the many meaningful and life-changing messages.

In "For One More Day", the suicide of Chick Benetto drawn him once again to the modest home in which he grew up, and to his surprise, his mother is still in the house. During the day he spent with his mother, Chick Benetto regretted for the things he had done to his mother, wife and daughter. He regretted for not living his life positively. He regretted for being a coward. He regretted for not expressing his feelings. And he remembered the times his mother stood up for him and the times he let her down.
After spending a day with his mother(actually the time he is being rescued), he is no longer regretting and resenting over the past, and instead, he chose to start living positively.


All these stories and the life experience of Professor Morrie are actually teaching and reminding us to give life a proactive approach.
If you have unsaid words, speak up. If you have unexpressed feelings, express yourself.
The time is now. All of our power is in the now.


"It's never too late to do something, the time is now."
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery-


PS. Everyone gets different messages and insights from a book, if you are also a reader of Mitch Albom's books, feel free to share your opinion. If you are not a reader of Mitch Albom's books, I urge you to read his books. You won't regret reading his books.

What Are We Grateful For?

"The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more you will have to express gratitude for."

-Zig Ziglar-

Since we are small, we all are being taught to say 'thank you' whenever we receive something. Well, saying 'thank you' is not just to show that we have good manner, or just a matter of etiquette. There is deeper meaning in saying 'thank you', that is, to acknowledge and give thanks heartily to what we receive. By being grateful, we all come to know that there are so much of well-being in our lives, there are so many good things that are around us, sustaining us, feeding us, contributing to our growth and expansion.

The things that we can be grateful for are countless.

The list is endless, forever expanding.

"And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude."

-Wallace D Wattles-

Do you realise that when you are being grateful, you feel so wonderful, everything goes well?

Do you realise that when you give thanks sincerely, you receive more of what you are thankful for?

Yes, indeed. It must be that way. It is designed that way. It is law.

When you grateful for what you have sincerely, you're actually sending out signals of "give me more of that" to the universe, and you receive more of that.

Think about this.

When you give thanks sincerely and are grateful for someone when he/she gives you something, what happens?

He/she wants to give more.

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."

-Oprah Winfrey-

Instead of taking things for granted, let's start give thanks to everything that contributes to our lives, growth and expansion.

All we have to do is to open our eyes and look, there are so many things that is contributing to our good lives.

It can be the LCD monitor you're looking at right now.

It can be the mouse you're using to scroll down the page right now.

It can be the electricity supply you're using now.

It can be the internet access that we have, for it provides us the platform to get the world connected a-click-away.

It can be the blogger server, for it provides a platform for us to blog.

Inspired by Rhonda Byrne, I started to write my gratitude journal every night before I sleep. I would start by writing "Today I'm grateful for__________".

Do you feel inspired to write your own as well?

Also, thank you for reading my blog.

"The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best. It takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best."

-Wallace D Wattles-