Are you Pro or Anti?

According to "The Secrets - The Law of Attraction", what you oppose it resists. In my personal experience, the more I fight against something, the more it drains my energy. The LOA proposes that instead of anti-war, be pro-peace.

Instead of thinking about getting out of debt, think about abundance. Think about what you want rather than what you don't want.

Is this the reason why lawyers get burn-out? Most lawyers quit their job. Few last more than 5 years. They are facing adversaries everyday - their opponent lawyer, their miserable customers and the stern judge. They face miserable, unhappy and hostile people everyday. One lawyer quit and open a shop. He said he prefer to see happy customers who are filled with good food and walk out of his restaurant with a smile. He prefer to make people happy rather than make people less miserable. He said that justice is only for the rich. If you are rich, you can afford to be heard. Justice is a misnomer.

A recent news on the Straits Times on the trial of Durai revealed the high cost of legal fees. The service of a senior counsel and Queen's Counsel cost half a million dollars. Another one cost $200,000.

One can rant and complaint about many things in life and people will turn a deaf ear to you. Why complain about the darkness?

Do something.

Light a candle.

The Obsession with Hairs and Beauty

In Iran, women must cover their head with a headscarf. In some Middle East countries, women must cover themselves from head to toe. The reason is that they will not pose a temptation to the men. I think that men who cannot resist the temptation should cover their eyes or go back to their caves. Why suffer the women because of men's inability to resist temptation?

An Iranian artists said: "Women's hair is like uranium in this country. It's so radioactive, it can kill men if you don't cover up."

Recently in another neighbouring Muslim country, morality squads busted hotel rooms to catch unmarried Muslim couples in the act and catch those who display affection in public. Critics say hat they have more things to worry about, like fighting crimes.

In different societies, the definition of beauty and what is socially acceptable differs. In one extreme, women must cover up from head to toe. In another, people walk about naked and nobody blink an eye. When a person cross over from one society to another, he faces rejection because they judge a person according to their own culture. It's not how a person dress, it's how a person think.

In a mental institution, all the mad people are sane while a person of sound mind is insane cos he is the odd one.

In Burma, women with long neck are considered a beauty. In old China, women with small feet are considered beautiful. To achieve that, they have to crush their feet and bind them. In the modern world, women inject themselves with botox, reshape their body with the surgical knife. The pain that they go through to achieve beauty.

Someday we will look back at history and laugh at their sillyness while we are blind to our own sillyness.

It's heartening that there are people who believe that "ugly is the new beautiful". Models are so skinny that my grandma would think they are starved. They display clothes that are so outlandish that you won't wear in the office. The model, the clothes - it's unreal.

By the way, Elwood, a two-year-old Chinese crested and Chihuahua mix was crowned the world's ugliest dog. And the owner is proud of it. The dog resembles Yoda and the ugly Gremlin. Because it was so ugly, the breeder was going to euthanise him because she thought he was too guly to sell. Ms Quigley escued Elwood two years ago.

But does the new owner think of her ugly dog? "I think he's the cutest thing that ever lived.". Every parent think their children are the most gorgeous babes in the world, although outsiders beg to differs.

Where there is love, there is beauty. Love is blind to ugliness. Ugly is the new beautiful.

A model writer

I like Danny Bloom - his style of writing, his wits, the way he promotes his books, his lifestyle. He's just like me. He's what I want to be.

Danny Bloom is the first author to try selling his books in an night market in Taiwan. He sold only 3 books on the first night. Then 25 books every night.
Soon newspapers feature such a refreshing story. More media exposure. More popular. And soon more books. He tells you why bookstores are not a good place to sell your books.

Read his story at http://www.taiwanho.com/people/dan/

He wrote an article about why he thinks the world is coming to an end cos of climatic changes. His pen name is "Charles C. Commons". I love his style of writing. You can read it at http://openthefuture.com/2006/12/an_eschatological_taxonomy.html

He lives in a countryside as a freelance writer for the newspaper. He was happy to live in a laid-back, stress free environment even though he was paid much less than his previous job in the city.

He shows that you don't have to be rich to be happy.

If you can write well, you'll not starve cos newspapers need fresh content every day. Think about it.

Living Your Dream

What would you do everyday of your life, for the rest of your life, that will make you alive, excited and enriched?

If you making a living and yet you don't a life...then it's time to pause and think about where your life is heading.

What's your dream? Are you living your dreams?