Five-minute continuous writing
Monday, April 28, 2008
Instructions:
- Write for five minutes without stopping
- When you can't think of anything else to write, keep you pen or pencil moving until something else comes to mind
- Don't worry what it looks like. Get your thoughts down on paper.
As R. Kiyosaki puts it, "Discover your why, the what and how will eventually follow"
Just something that I highly recommend anyone to do from time to time.
posted by sam @ 9:24 AM,
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If Futurama was real
(click picture for larger view)Never have I imagined what a cartoon would look like in real life. Picture created by Dylan Marvin.
They've even got an untooned version of Homer Simpson!
On a separate thing, some pretty amusing commercial photos here
posted by sam @ 9:13 AM,
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You know you're getting fat
Friday, April 25, 2008
You know you're getting fat when you drive over those yellow bumpy stripes on the road (or meaningless brick roads), your cheek wobbles.
posted by sam @ 6:48 PM,
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It starts with words
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Words that inspires
Words that makes you think
Words that excites
Words that shifts your paradigm
Words that encourages
Words that lifts your spirits
Words to quote to others
...Words, will remain words till it is translated to action. It's a choice.
"Nothing can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"What is important to another person must be as important to you as the other person is to you" - Stephen R Covey
"99% of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses." - George W. Carver
"Imagination is everything. It's a preview of life's coming attractions" - Albert Einstein
"What we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do" - John Ruskin
"In all your ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths." - Proverbs 3
Behold my personal challenge
posted by sam @ 8:09 AM,
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The best things in life are free
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Weekends
Holidays
Singing birds on the trees
Laughter
Friendship
Hugs
Good music on the radio
Sleeping in on a rainy day
Cool mountain breeze
Stargazing on a clear moonlit night
Warm sunrise
A word of encouragement at the right time
A kind word
An act of kindness
Cool sand between your toes
A good joke
Good memories
A beautiful sunset
Magnificent sky
A baby’s smile
The choice to be happy
Freewill
A leisure stroll through the park
Spectacular scenery
A breath of fresh air
(Feel free to add)
posted by sam @ 5:49 AM,
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Jefferson's Decalogue
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
1. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money before you have it.
4. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
6. We have never repented of having eaten too little.
7. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
8. Wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.
9. Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
10. Be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit troubles.
Thomas Jefferson Smith, 1825
posted by sam @ 7:54 AM,
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Stickman fun
Monday, April 14, 2008
Have fun creating your own stickman animation with Pivot Stickfigure Animator.
Confession: Animation above not created by me. Taken off pbase.com.
The above software is free though ;)
posted by sam @ 7:51 AM,
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Paradigm Shift
"All the significant breakthroughs were breaks with old ways of thinking" - Thoman Kuhn
posted by sam @ 6:50 AM,
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A weekend away keeps you sane someway
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Time to have some fun now :)
posted by sam @ 8:54 AM,
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3 simple concepts to getting employed, and having fun at it
Too many people are worried if there’s a job out there for them. Too many people are worried if they’ll ever get employed. Too many people are worried what if they don’t like the job.
One of the greatest satisfactions in life is to do what you love to do. Ask any of the most successful people around the world why they like their work and they’ll most likely reply. “What work?”
What they probably meant by that is that they do not consider their job a work at all! They’re having the time of their life, doing something they love to do, creating something that they whole heartedly believe in and doing it with fervor. Furthermore I don’t think they’re really bothered on whether or not they’re getting paid to do it.
However dream jobs are hard to come by which is why I like the concepts that I’m going to share.
Inspired by the hedgehog concept by Jim Collins in his book Good to Great:
1. Talent.
It’s been said that each one of us has been given a talent or a gift that unravels the purpose for your life, and sharing it with the world. True in a way. Looking, what were you good at? What do you have that’s so natural to only you where you see others struggle? When you do it, you think to yourself “I feel like I was born just to do this”. In fact perhaps you can be the best in the world when you apply that talent. Be honest with yourself on what you can or cannot do. The better you understand yourself the more insights you have on your talent. Be careful to note that talent does not mean intelligence, motivation or any personality traits. It’s a natural ability to do something exceedingly well.
2. Passion
You are totally passionate about doing this. You’re willing to sacrifice your time, money, resources to do it. You simply just love doing it. You’re purely enjoying the process for its own sake. You wake up every morning looking forward to throw yourself in doing it. You really believe in what you’re doing.
3. Economic
Now imagine you are well paid for what you do. Let’s be honest not everything you’re totally passionate about and have a raw talent for actually pays you for it. However a better understanding of your key strength will enable you to recognize the kind of jobs that pays well for those concepts mentioned above. Do research, learn more about your talent/gift, your dream, talk to people about it.
“Find something that you love to do and you’ll never have to work another day of your life”
posted by sam @ 7:03 AM,
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Effective signboard
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
posted by sam @ 4:01 AM,
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The secret of becoming rich...eventually
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
The serious secret: Earn more money or spend less money. That's it.
"If I were rich I would...(click)"
posted by sam @ 8:08 AM,
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How to change the world
Monday, April 07, 2008
I think everyone who blogs goes through this phase where they can't figure out to write about after taking a long break of the blogging community.
So let's just start on why would I want to continue on with it.
Well there are a couple of reasons:
- First and foremost, I guess is I remembered I had fun doing this when I was doing this.
- It's such a waste of blog name, especially you have a blogspot named after your own name (haha, too bad other Samuel Yau's out there!)
- It really does help me in putting my thoughts and learnings into perspective. Thinking back on what you've been through and experience, reflecting.
- It's a perfect place to practice writing! A word of advice; for those who are about to start or already started working, the art of writing is a skill that no one can do without. The world's oyster belongs to the ones who is able to articulate his thoughts into action.
- Finally, it just felt right to continue on. Let's just see how long can I keep up with this! Spur me on! Who knows the words or the pictures I share here can go a long way.
On a lighter note, I just got back from a weekend holiday with 5 guys and 2 girls! Good to be reminded of fun times.
(I doubt this picture will change any world)
posted by sam @ 7:51 AM,
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The Author
Samuel Yau
How do you truly know someone? The truth is, you can't. Each person that you come across have a perspective of you that differs from another. So it's entirely up to you on how I am perceived to be
About This Blog
Initially this blog was birthed out of curiosity, on what it would be like to have a blog. To explore the world of entrepreneurship, business, marketing, etc and to jot down my learnings/experience here. As time passes on, the purpose change, the passion change, the person change.