Run To Win

  ‘Enlarge the place of your tent.’ - Isaiah 54
I Believe as we get larger, we must get larger. Throughout this 8 months since I’m based in KL, I’ve faced and met various challengers which left me with 2 Choices, either to Step Up/Forward or Back-Down.

At the end of the film in SPIDERMAN 3, Peter Parker says, in voiceover:

“Whatever comes our way, whatever battle we have raging inside us, we always have a choice. My friend Harry taught me that. He chose to be the best of himself. It’s the choices that make us who we are, and we can always choose to do what’s right.”

This statement greatly inspires me, is really true because most of the time people are too comfortable being in the circle the drew for themselves or perhaps sometimes they let others create it for them. We gotta prevent the latter one from happening at All Cost. Because i realised each time when you allow others to create your world for you, they’ll create it too small..

Ever since i broke out from my limitation, I just found God pouring more into my life. More blessing, more anointing, more wisdom..more guidance. In-fact is pretty sad to see people who belong to a religious group or cliques ..just tend to stick with each other and get really satisfied with their current performance or productivity and they’ll have this mental schemas which tells em they are doing good and whosoever person tht doesn’t join em or belong to em are not up to their standard. This is also known as Stereotyping. Someone once told me, "Leonard, You gotta learn to slow-down and pull the handbrake…." I wonder how could this person mis-interpret the term "slow-down" ? does he/she really understand it? For me, i would agree we need to slow-down throughout various checkpoints of our lives..this is the time where we "sharpen our saw" -acccording to Sean Covey (7 Habits of Highly effective Teens) is a time where we have sum reflection and brush up different aspect of our lives NOT slowing down in terms of..Slacking off in productivity & excellence or the desire to Persue our Goals.

This person also added tht "Leonard, your goals are too big".. again i questioned myself how does this person define big ? Big is very subjective, it may be big for a person bt mite not for the other. An algebra ques may be difficult for a primary school student but it won’t be much of a problem for high-school folks. Simply because they’ve reach "there".  Recently, Dr.Phil Pringle quoted a statement from

Mark Victor Hansenv-’Big goals get big results. No goals get no results.’      

Is really true.. and is applicable to every events of our lives. As I end this, I would like to share u some thoughts which i believe will greatly inspires You.

If it doesn’t inspire it doesn’t motivate.

The team, the congregation, the public must be captured by the vision.

If it’s too small it won’t inspire.

If it’s rediculously big it won’t be believed.

Big, realistic thinking delivers.

People rally to a big dream.

(this is adapted from an e-mail which i sent to my team for the Msia Book of Record - Breaking Attempt).

adapted from HMC - { MATR!CS } , writen by Jason Ngu (my Ex-hsemate)

Occasionally, the inexperience of youth find itself at a lost, in the world of big things and confusing complexities. Throw in attraction, and you have what we call adolenscence. one of these is the eternal question that the young man of gentry may never understand. Why do many girls find bad boys so dang attractive compared to their, erm, "angelic" counterparts??

The psyche of a young ‘good’ male logically concludes that since its normal for people to like being treated nicely, they become 110% nice to the girl they like. You hang on to her every word, every command. Unless you are lucky enough that the girl already likes you to the same degree, you will find yourself out of luck, and most definitely left with a prevading sense of singlehood.

Taking a dig at the female psyche, most of the time ‘bad’ does not literally mean booze, drugs, and sex. More like an attitude of rebellious confidence, a will perse, to break barriers that seem to be a mere hindrance. To the girl, a truly brooding, dark figure can bring about excitement and a thrill that they can almost never feel with the ‘nice’ guy, whom they may find overtly dudes are most likely better with words and are most confident, to knw wht they (the girls) want.

So does that mean all ‘good’ men are left out to dry til their season arrives, left to the fates?? Apprarently no, becoz no matter how the girl is attracted to personality of a ‘bad’ boy, she looks for the character of a ‘good’ guy in her ideal partner, meaning underneath it all, she’s looking for a ‘bad boy’ but with a heart of gold. Why? To treat her like a lady of course (or any other way she wants to be treated, nicely).

There is always a danger of trying to assume that which is not yours. That being said, some ppl still try hard to be ‘bad’ but fall short of such glory. What happends is you mite end up a ‘wannabe’ and as far as parts of the girl population would have their say, that’s not the top of the attraction list, no matter how many sympathizers you have.

Ideals are hard to surmise; as some would say ‘ to each, her own’. As a matter of argument, how much ‘good’ or ‘bad’ she wants in you is very subjective - so stop worrying about the variables you cannot change in the equation. Work on those which you can control, like you own values and knowing what you want. Besides, most of the girls noted that they don’t leave out the possible notion of a ‘good’ guy in their lives. Even the most hardcore supporter of ‘bad’ may be swayed by a touch of genuine character. Well, it doesn’t hurt trying now does it? (just don’t overdo it, chill, and be yourself.) Another plus point for the patiently waiting ‘good’ ones is the possibility that your dram girl outlives the ‘phase’ later in life, but it should be noted that this could come, much, much later, near possibly never for some.

So when would u know that u’ve achieved a respectable degree of individuality? I guess its when you can get that old adage right for you, that being: ‘to each, his own’.