Since I have a little “extra” time today, I’d like to write something that I’ve been meaning to write and pen down for a quite while now but never really got to it, so I might as well do it now…

You know this year has been a real “eye opener”, it’s not in us to say whether it’s been a good or a bad one, as every single day, every little “thing” we go through, serves as “lessons” for us to learn, it then becomes OUR responsibility to either suck them in or blindly throw them out…

Funny thing, as I was nicely chatting away with some friends over lunch today… it suddenly “hit” me… I have no idea where it came from but it REALLY did smack me upside the head… hard.

What we do today, determines where we’ll be tommorow.

I don’t know, maybe it’s just me, but it instantly gave me that realization of how GROSSLY important it is for us to be doing the RIGHT things today, as in RIGHT NOW and not just let time “slip” by our fingers just like that.

According to Master Shifu Oogway (from the ever loveable Kungfu Panda):

“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift, and that is why it’s called… the present”

Yeah sure, we may have heard this saying one way or another before but what excited me most is this:

“A lot of things that will make sure we get what we want in life is counter-intuitive and NOT obvious at all!”

A simple example could be… It can be so easily tempting for us to spend all the money we’ve made from our business right now to feed our emotional “wants”. It’s COUNTER-INTUITIVE to re-invest it back for future profits/profits.

It’s so easy for us to say “Aaah, I’ll do it later, but “it” eventually never gets done”

It’s so easy to say “Aahh, everyone’s out drinking n partying right now, I’ll follow them also-lah…”

It’s so easy to say “why am I slogging like a cow whilst everyone is happily out having a good time… forget this shit-lah”

The key to getting what we want — is always… counter-intuitive.

Yeah, so I admit, Eben Pagan was the one who first preached about this in his excellent Altitude Program months ago, but it’s only now when I actually took the liberty to reminisce on what I did in the past 8 months have I realized how true it is.

There were a number of things I did that I REALLY did not feel like doing, but I (knew) deep down that it HAD to be done and I pushed myself to do it again and again.

I got out of my comfort zone. I didn’t like it one bit, but again, I just knew it had to be done. And yeap, “results” wasn’t instant either, it took TIME, but now I’m slowly starting to see it bear fruit

(From this I’ve learnt the true value of patience, staying calm in the most “challenging” times and to keep pushing and pushing with baby steps

(In business sense):

It’s easy to let any distractions, problems or “frictions” in our daily lives to bring us or our spirits down, but it’s counter-intuitive to see that those “problems” have ALWAYS *little* opportunities for our own biz.

Now, what’s amazing about this quote is, think about it:

“A lot of things that will make sure we get what we want in life is counter-intuitive and NOT obvious at all!”

It can literally be applied to ANY aspect of our lives (relationships, finance, business, etc)

Put in simpler terms, it’s in the counter-intuitive “stuff” that will help us get what want, whatever “results” we want in life.

It’s the stuff that makes us “uncomfortable”, the stuff that we’re “too lazy” or “couldn’t be bothered to do” that’s ultimately the KEY to helping us reach our goals… faster.

Man oh man, I don’t know whether I’m doing a good job explaining this but it’s really a MASSIVE ah-ha moment for me… this.

Seriously, take a moment to think about what I’ve just wrote…

Damn, talking about Kungfu Panda makes me wanna watch it again hehe, I mean, who can resist man!! (my favorite lines from the movie):

Mr. Ping: [after Po told him he had dream about noodle] This is a sign, Po!
Po: Uh, a sign of what?
Mr. Ping: You are almost ready to be entrusted with the secret ingredient of my secret ingredient soup. And then you will fulfill your destiny and take over the restaurant just as I took it over from my father who took it over from his father who won it from a friend in a game of mahjong.

  — — — — — — — — —
Mr. Ping: The secret ingredient is … nothing!
Po: Huh?
Mr. Ping: You heard me. Nothing! There is no secret ingredient.
Po: Wait, wait … it’s just plain old noodle soup? You don’t add some kind of special sauce or something?
Mr. Ping: Don’t have to. To make something special you just have to believe it’s special.
Po: There is no secret ingredient …

— — — — — — — — —
Viper: Are you ready?
Po: I was born ready…
[Viper attacks, Po is flung and lands on his head]
Viper: I’m sorry, Brother! I thought you said you were ready.
Po: That was awesome! Let’s go again!

— — — — — — — — —
Po: There is no charge for awesomeness… or attractiveness.

— — — — — — — — —
Oogway: One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it.

— — — — — — — — —
Oogway: There are no accidents.

Ok, ok… gota get back to work now… I’ll see you around…