Are You Undermining Your Potential?
April 4, 2007
Yesterday, my sister was flipping through a fashion magazine when she came across several pictures of well designed neckties and cuff links. Suddenly she exclaimed “Gosh, these are the same cuff links that are being sold at my boyfriend’s push carts. Look at the price. Oh my goodness, they’re selling at USD 30 for each pair! Ours is only selling at …” I looked at her as she rumbled on, though my thoughts were actually lost on the TV program telecasted that night. But I caught her last sentence “You know why they’re selling at such prices? It’s branding. Because apparently one of the partners used to work in the Advertising & Media industry and he has got the relevant contacts to help them get the necessary exposure. If only we’ve got the same network…” She murmured in despair.
As I recall this incident, I can’t wondering if it’s human nature to unknowingly sell yourself short by thinking that you can never be able to achieve the same phenomenal success unless you’ve got the same background, network of contacts or skillsets as the person who’s already successful in that arena. Well, there may be a need to acquire certain qualifications to be in some particular industries. You definitely need a medical degree to be a doctor! But what I’m trying to differentiate is that someone with unfavourable conditions need not necessary be deprived of success just because he doesn’t possess the edge now. Why? Because the law of Cause & Effect has derogated everyone of us to be equal in the eyes of the Universe.
Now what do I mean by that? Read more
Do You Have A Goal Success Story?
February 25, 2007
This evening, while scouring through the list of files on an old shelf trying to look for a self improvement book, I found an aged folder containing some of the examination papers I’d taken during my Pre-University days. Yikes! It was on Economics, a subject that I didn’t really like much back then.
As I flipped through the faded papers, occasionally guffawing at the silly mistakes that I’d made, memories of the past flood my mind. I saw myself sitting on one of the study tables in the all so familiar cool, sheltered podium in my college compound burying my head into some ten years’ series. Back then, it was popular for most Singaporean students to treat the ten years’ series, which essentially is a compilation of past years’ Cambridge A’ level examination papers, as if their life depended on it. Read more
