Advance in Life

130907 thurs
just read a story from a self-made multimillionaire, posted on emailcashpro:

A sage challenged his students with a question. The question is "Assuming that you have piece of land full of weed, propose what you would do to get rid of the weed."
One student suggested to pull out the weed by hand. One said use a shovel is faster. Another said why not we just burn the weed.
"The answers are all wrong," said the sage. "The answer is to farm the land."

We all face problems everyday. Problems are just like weed. They will grow regardless of how you remove them. When facing problems, most people will think of ways to solve the problem, just like the sage's students who proposed to use hand, shovel and fire to remove weed. Regardless of what they do, new weed will continue to grow and there is no end to this.
Instead of focusing on how to solve the problem, we should focus on how to ADVANCE from the problem. As what the sage said, the solution to get rid of weed is to farm the land. What he meant was to develop the land. Once the land was developed, weed would no longer be a problem. He didn't solve the problem directly, but the problem would no longer be a problem when he developed the land. In other words, instead of solving the problem, he made good of the entire situation so that he didn't even have to waste time solving the problem, which was just a trivial matter. This is what I mean by ADVANCE from the problem, i.e. making good of the entire situation so that the original problem is no longer a problem.
For example, let's say you are in debts. What most people would do is to think of ways to clear the debts. However, instead of focusing on how to clear your debts, you should focus on how to get rich! Once you become rich, your existing debts will no longer be a problem. You may argue that clearing debts and getting rich are the same. This is not true. The strategies to clear debts are very different from the strategies to get rich. Just like the strategies to make extra $1000 and $100000 are very different. Thinking of strategies to make extra $1000 to clear your debts may solve your current problem. But the same problem will arise again. On the contrary, once you get rich, your existing debts will become trivial.
Ask yourself, how often did you focus on solving your problems. Stop solving problems but advance from the problem. If you take every problem as an opportunity for you to grow or to advance, you will realize that once you advance, you will no longer have to solve the problem.
Look around for the weed in your life now....... How would you get rid of your weed?

1854. Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. - Chinese proverb

The Truth Speaks For Itself

080907 sat

wahaha, had been busy e past 3 weeks rushing assignments, but i tot i was quite inefficient... played mahjong on the computer for one whole afternoon last last wk. onli 1 afternoon when i was free n it caused alot of work to accumulate =s

time is really e most impt of all. read the papers abt this boy who got knocked down by a car. in his blog, he commented tt time flies by as the seconds on e clock goes ticking by.... he knew e imptance of time, but who knew he's gone so soon... reading his story oso gave me some inspiration. altho' his parents kept nagging him to study hard, he still continued to go online. only when he's dead did they find out he's got a blog n he posted schedules of his impending o' lvls n even announced time-off from blogging to study. it didn matter wat his parents tot of him, as long as he knew wat he was doing... i used to ask ppl y they dun bother to explain themselves when they're misunderstood. it really puzzled me. until recently i couldnt b bothered to tok back... wat's e pt? when my parents nag, i let em b. e truth speaks for itself. ppl can say all they want; talk is cheap. if u dun believe there's such a thing as gravity so u attempt to jump down from a buildin, u still fall. e truth will happen regardless of wat ppl think.

hmn hmn... heard some sad news abt a fren. she's been gg out w/ this guy 4 abt a yr. n she tot she could tell her mum abt it (her parents r conservative)... in e end, she's nw under hse arrest w/ no outside contact at all. she's got some medical probs too, but i doubt tt's e real reason... so glad to have dear =) it's really time to appreciate wat we have. even if the food is not gd, wat matters is tt we have meals w/ someone we love. when there's nth to do, wat matters is being w/ someone who loves us.

1425. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” - Chinese Proverb