The wise embrace nature

The wise watch and listen how nature moves and act accordingly, they do not have an ego dominating desire to control nature. They do not control nature but embrace nature. They are one with nature.

Be careful of your heart

"Be careful where you put your heart and be careful what you heart becomes"

Don't hurt others, help others

"Don't hurt others, help others"

Even challenges can be fun if looked at differently

"Even challenges can be fun if looked at differently" ~ Tetsuyo Ishii

Success tips: goals, state of mind, goals, right tool and environment

Have a goal and be in the right state of mind, have the right tools and be in the environment that optimise you to get to your goal.

First, make sure you are in condition to be successful, this means having a good diet, exercises (for positive mindset) positive body posture (which has psychological impact on the mindset).

Rewire your negative mindset into a positive mindset. Such as changing "I can't" to "I can", from "I'm lazy" to "I'm keen", "I'm scare of failing" to "I know what doesn't work and I'm closer to my success", "I'm a loser" to "my past failure doesn't define me, there's more chapters ahead where I will become successful",  etc...

It also involves being in a mental state to make good decision, this involves having a clear, calm objective and intuitive.  

Everyone needs a clear and distinctive goal that you can mentally comprehend if you want to achieve it. If it is vague and difficult to comprehend, you won't have a clear direction of where you are heading and weren't get there. The key is to handle one thing at the time so you can really invest your mind to getting it. The mind needs long hours of rewiring and developing new synaptic growth.

You need to be in the right state of mind to achieve your goal. This means both belief system and the right state of mind to carry out the task.

The belief system means you need to be confident and believe you can achieve it otherwise it'll hold you back. Fear, irrational worries and hesitation will only hold your progress back.

You also need to be in the right state of mind to perform the task you are required to do to get you to that place. For instance if you may need to be logical, focused, emotional detached and cautious to trade stock or you you may need to be creative, imaginative, inspired and be in tapped with certain emotions to create an art work.

You need the right tools to get the work done. Not just the tools for the main jobs, but the right tools to overcome problems and obstacles you face whilst reaching you goals. You require a think tank system to diagnose problems and find solutions through out the process until you reach your goals. This requires great decision making (collective and objective input which I will discuss more later).

You also need to be in the right environment for work. The secret is to spend more time at you work station. If you just show up and put yourself there, you only have the option of doing your work. That's no brainer. But the work space should really be there to optimise your work performance. Consider the small details such as the optimum temperature, noise and lightings (i.e. yellow lights are likely to make you sleepy than white lights).

This means make sure there's no distractions such as having TV or having your phone with social media and other distracting apps to distract you. Schedule your time to reply to emails and messages outside working hours.

Other tips:

• Don't aim for good, aim for great
• Don't study just to learn, study to know
• It's not only talent, it's obsession!
• Study one thing deep. Dedicate a long period of time to only mastery that one thing at a time with undivided attention, such as a 3 months intensive course. But have time for background reading before to familiarise yourself with it. Within that time, you'll really train your mind and mental synapses. 
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Cycle of success: being a problem solver

1. Have goals
2. What are the problems
3. Find the problem root cause
4. Design ideas how to overcome the problem
5. Take action, push through and be persistent

Advantage of planning on paper. Boarder mental flexibility

Important to use a pen when making a plan. It'll help your free relocate your plan so that you can subconsciously exercise the sense of priorities, category, side notes and time line with a special diagrammatic feel. These elements are what makes a plan effective. To list, to analysis, to categorise, to prioritise and to plan the time line.

Here is a few reasons why we include some of these strategies:
• Setting Time: Organising time line put pressure on us to get it done. Sense of time and urgency are powerful motivational tools to get the work done.
• Consider including trial time: This helps with reducing mental pressure as you feel you aren't trapped in one project or option.
• Simplifying, eliminating & allocating future task: If you can push some task or options into the future, that would help a lot reducing your current load on your plate. This in turn will really help putting you in better mental state, as your mind won't be cluttered, confused, overwhelmed or frozen when dealing with huge amount of thoughts and information. Remember that human mind is not a robot and only has a certain limit to which they can handle information and to make effective decision. Try to keep it simple to the best you can without losing any essential information required.
• Label the options and categories it. It is important to label the options which includes the features, rational and it's urgencie. This will help you manage the data from different perspectives such as what is top priority, what is important to you, what is most urgent etc...
• Just putting ideas into list itself helps get it out of your mind!

It is very difficult to do this with just typing on the phone or laptop which only has a 2D feel and lack of mental flexibility. However, it still has its own merits, which is to allows one to archive or express thoughts conveniently at any times. Also, you can edit your thoughts so there's a sense of flexibility of expression your flow of thoughts.