Reflections

Been in quite a buzz of mind training and perceptions/reflections sessions these few days. My colleague at work passed me a book by Deepak Chopra. The title's synchro destiny and it is very much about how the coincidences in life, if we ever look deeper, is a subte system of letting us know what lies in our destiny. Put it this way, have you ever encountered meeting some people or experiencing something exactly at the opportune time? Such occurences change your life course and that means it's pointing you to possibly your destiny.

I also managed to watch the movie "The Secret". Ohya, here's the link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7153285084873084783&q=the+secret
Well, in general, the movie-documentary is talking about the laws of attraction. The fact that what we think is possible has much more chances of coming thru...and simiar to Deepak Chopra, these experts believe that the minor details of how to get to your goals or dreams will be managed by the universe moving in favour of your dream.

The difference is, Deepak goes abit further to elaborate that such goals must be orientated in the best interests of the universe and humanity. That is to say, if it won't do good for you to be rich, he believes the universal forces won't be acting in your favour. But in any case, they are saying...believe in the dream and let the forces work the details out...

I was led to an MLM company's opportunity presentation yesterday. It's sometimes really odd to me that I'm cheated so easily. Not that I'm angry, not this time...I was once angry when something similar happened earlier. I remember going for a forex seminar and talking to some guys from the "import/export industry"...when I asked for more details... they said they deal with all kinds of goods. As long as there is demand they bring in it. And I was thinking I'm really lucky since I get to learn about the import/export industry insiders. Turns out it's another MLM presentation. To me that's cheating me. I understand that if they don't do so people might not even listen and therefore miss a great opportunity. And YES such companies, especially the very established ones are great opportunities. It's a alternative path to cashflow and fame and stability and wealth and freedom. So why am I not taking it up? Because I am not willing to take the commitment of meeting at least once a week. And I am not willing to bring friends down. And at a more fundamental level, I think the "I want you to be rich together with me" is crap.

Leverage is not a bad thing. But sometimes it's used for the most selfish of reasons. But that aside, my most recent session brought me to this concept presented in the collaborated book between Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki called "Why We Want You to be Rich". In this book they explored how risky people think "investing" is...and they came to this point and said something equivalent to "blame the player not the game." More accurately, they were saying investing is not risky...it's the investor that is risky, because investing is fundamentally a mental game. It's how well one controls their mind that determines their success, in fact, not only in the investments, but also in all fields in life.

I realised I always see the bad side of things before I see the good. But more often than not what I thought was better turned out to be equally bad. A good example is my job now. Before I started I believed it would give me opportunities to serve and interact with people. The last thing I wanted in a job is admin. And guess what, there's more admin than interaction in this job. But I'm beginning to find a joy. That is when I get to advice customers and help them beyond my job scope of telling them to pay their bills.

As Deepak says, the good and bad are both in us. This alludes to a Buddhist philosophy that this world is only an outer projection of our internal states of mind. In all things exists both the positive and negative. It's how one views it that really matter. I must set my mind to do 2 things now. One, draw up a gratitude list to express gratefulness for all the "coincidences" and occurences and fortunes in my life. Two, to start thinking of getting my dream job of doing customer service in practice and perfecting my interaction with people.