2009 has since left us. There were memories and events that we simply wanted it to be repeated whilst some we hopefully wished that it should not reoccurring again this year! As a human being, we could only planned what we desire, but we could not actually knows what will be happening in the near future. Least that we could do is to take all the necessary precautions to prevent “undesirables” from taking shapes.

As for me, 2009 has been one of the most challenging years. Out of 100% that I’ve planned, only 60% has been fulfilled.  The remaining 40% will not be trashed, but we be listed again this year and will be rated as the immediate tasks that I must achieved this year.

Everyday we are trying very hard to make a difference in one’s life. Be it our life, our life partner, our family, our colleagues, our friends, and to those whom we get acquainted too. Along the way, we are going to face many obstacles, hindrances, etc… and in order to achieve it, we have no choice but to either go through it, bash through it, overcame it or we are going to face these same problems yearly without failed.  I’m not saying that once we go through it, we are not going to face it again! We still have to undergo it but with different level of difficulties.

Once there was a wise man who loved to take an early morning stroll along the beach.  On one of the days, he saw what appeared to be a young man dancing. He really wanted to know what was the young man doing and approached him. “Why are you dancing on the beach at this such hour?” The young man replied, “I am not dancing. I am throwing starfish into the sea. If I do not do it, these starfish will die when the sun comes up.” The wise man then advised the young man, “But young man, you are wasting your time.  There are thousands of miles of beaches and millions of starfishes, and I can be sure that you can’t possibly make a difference!”

The young man did not immediately reply to the wise man. He took a deep breath. He continued picking up another starfish from the beach and threw it into the sea and said, “It makes a difference to that one.”

We definitely cannot touch everyone’s life and make changes, but we can actually touch and change our own life and those around us! How can you make a difference in your work, your business, your surroundings and in your life?

Talk soon,

Jailani

I’m trying to close my eyes after taking some medicines. I thought I could rest and sleep but unable to do so. I was reading some notes from my scrap book and found this story that I felt was worth sharing. The story begins…

There was once a little boy who had a bad temper. His father decided to give him a bag of nails with a hammer and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.

The first day the boy had driven in 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learnt to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence…..

Finally the day came when the boy didn’t lose his temper at all. He told his father about it. The father suggested that the boy now pulled out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The boy accepted the challenge.

The days passed and the young boy finally able to take out all the nails from the fence. He then informed his father on his achievement.

The father took his son by the hand, hugged him and led him to the fence, and said,”You have done well, my son, but look at the holes on the fence. The fence will never be the same again. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won’t matter how many times you say I’m sorry, the wound will still be there.”

The moral of the story is ……

You think about it!

Talk soon

Jailani