Move forward

In each step of the way, I move toward my goal.
- david shen

My talent

My name is McKay and I live next door some where
One day I decide to explore my talents any where
I search the world all over and getting no where
Then, I realize my talent is within right here.
- david shen

Our mother land

Imagine a world where everyone has talents
Imagine a world where everyone contribute his talent
Imagine a world where the civilization move in a lightning speed
Imagine this world here call earth.
- david shen

Better

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
- Jim Rohn

Every day every way I am getting better

Shel Silverstein - A Boy Named Sue

Well, my daddy left home when I was three,
and he didn't leave much to Ma and me,
just this old guitar and a bottle of booze.
Now I don't blame him because he run and hid,
but the meanest thing that he ever did was
before he left he went and named me Sue.

Well, he must have thought it was quite a joke,
and it got lots of laughs from a lot of folks,
it seems I had to fight my whole life through.
Some gal would giggle and I'd get red
and some guy would laugh and I'd bust his head,
I tell you, life ain't easy for a boy named Sue.

Well, I grew up quick and I grew up mean.
My fist got hard and my wits got keen.
Roamed from town to town to hide my shame,
but I made me a vow to the moon and the stars,
I'd search the honky tonks and bars and kill
that man that gave me that awful name.

But it was Gatlinburg in mid July and I had
just hit town and my throat was dry.
I'd thought i'd stop and have myself a brew.
At an old saloon in a street of mud
and at a table dealing stud sat the dirty,
mangy dog that named me Sue.

Well, I knew that snake was my own sweet dad
from a worn-out picture that my mother had
and I knew the scar on his cheek and his evil eye.
He was big and bent and gray and old
and I looked at him and my blood ran cold,
and I said, "My name is Sue. How do you do?
Now you're gonna die." Yeah, that's what I told him.

Well, I hit him right between the eyes and he went down
but to my surprise he came up with a knife
and cut off a piece of my ear. But I busted a chair
right across his teeth. And we crashed through
the wall and into the street kicking and a-gouging
in the mud and the blood and the beer.

I tell you I've fought tougher men but I really can't remember when.
He kicked like a mule and bit like a crocodile.
I heard him laughin' and then I heard him cussin',
he went for his gun and I pulled mine first.
He stood there looking at me and I saw him smile.

And he said, "Son, this world is rough and if
a man's gonna make it, he's gotta be tough
and I knew I wouldn't be there to help you along.
So I gave you that name and I said 'Goodbye'.
I knew you'd have to get tough or die. And it's
that name that helped to make you strong."

Yeah, he said, "Now you have just fought one
helluva fight, and I know you hate me and you've
got the right to kill me now and I wouldn't blame you
if you do. But you ought to thank me
before I die for the gravel in your guts and the spit
in your eye because I'm the nut that named you Sue."
Yeah, what could I do? What could I do?

I got all choked up and I threw down my gun,
called him pa and he called me a son,
and I came away with a different point of view
and I think about him now and then.
Every time I tried, every time I win and if I
ever have a son I think I am gonna name him
Bill or George - anything but Sue.

Result

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances is the creature of man.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Make it happen

Hope is a duty, not a luxury.
To hope is not to dream . . . but to turn dreams into reality.

Purpose

I think the purpose of life is to be useful,
responsible, honorable, compassionate.
It is, above all, to matter: to count,
to stand for something, to have made
some difference that you lived at all.
- Leo Rosten

Fulfill your mission

You are here on this earth
to shine

You are here on this earth
to give

You are here on this earth
to fulfill your destiny
- david shen

Time

Time is limited
Time is short
Make the most out of it
Experiment whenever you can
- david shen

Love my family

To love my family is
to provide value to my love ones

To provide value to my love ones is
to give talents to my love ones and others

To provide value to my love ones is
to combine talents with others and shine the universe.

- david shen

Adventure

Do one thing every day that scares you
- Unknown

Miracle

I make the miracle happen.

- david shen

Adding Value

Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.
- Emile Coue

If you think you are beaten, you are
If you think you dare not, you don’t
If you like to win, but you think you can’t,
It is almost certain you won’t.

If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost,
For out of the world we find,
Success begins with a fellow’s will
It’s all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclasses, you are,
You’ve got to think high to rise,
You’ve got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize

Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger or faster man
But soon or late the man who wins
Is the man WHO THINKS HE CAN!

- think and grow rich by Napoleon Hill

Why not

Let your mind fly toward
"what-if?" Let your what-if become
"why-not?" Then you're on your way.
Why not, when life is so short, and
we are such grand people?
- Larsen & Hegarty

Talent

I never realize this but I have to admit that this talent is important. What's this talent? Well, it is the ability to know other's talent in the first 3 minutes of conversation. I always thought that it's just a good thing to know other's talent until one day. I am desperately trying to resolve an issue and I don't know who is the best person to talk to. Oh, this is really getting on my nerve. I start to realize the importance of knowing other's talent.

I believe one of the reason that Andrew Carnegie becomes so successful is that he knows the people with the talent. He seems to see other's talent even before they know themselves. He ask Napoleon Hill to pass the philosophy of sucess and Napolean Hill has done a wonderful job.

Right and wrong

I went to a seminar yesterday. After I got home, I was thinking about making money and moral justification. Well, in the seminar, they teach 2 items. The first item is how to get a cheap foreclosure house and sell it at a higher profit. The second item is to pay for the delinquent tax of others and after a grace period they can request to foreclosure the house if the money isn't paid.

Well, my understanding is that in the 1st scenario. The house owner in distress wants to sell a house quick. Since there are so many houses are on the market, one can negotiate with the house owner and get a really cheap price. I would rather give the owner a fair market price than negotiate with a cheaper price when they are emotionally distressed.

In the 2nd scenarios, the house owner couldn't pay for the tax. The county will give a 2 year grace period for the house owner. Another person can pay for the delinquent tax to the county for those 2 periods with high interest. By the end of those 2 years, the person can request to get the house to be foreclosure because the money wasn't paid. Well, I think that if it's a purely business deal, it makes sense. However, from the moral point of view, when some people are in distressed and couldn't paid for the tax, one goes in and ask for foreclosure. I don't know if it's a right thing to do. Well, I guess I have to find another career to improve my finance.

Adios

Listening

Have you ever realize that you can hear some people clearly yet you skip others completely? Here is what I found. When you have hard time hearing what they're saying, try to change your your body angle a bit. You might be able to hear them clearly.

Reach for the shiny star

Reach for a shiny star
with determination

Reach for a shiny star
with faith

Reach for a shiny star
with action

Reach for a shiny star
with persistence

Reach for a shiny star
with cooperation

Reach for a shiny star
with a must have reason

- david shen

Good questions to move forward

I didn't realize this at first but Anthony Robbins give very good questions to resolve problems.
Here it is:

1. What is great about this problem?
2. What is not perfect yet?
3. What am I willing to do to make the way I want it?
4. What am I willing no longer to do to make the way I want it?
5. How can I enjoy the process while I do what is necessary to make it the way I want it?

Whenever I encounter an issue that I feel desperate, frustrated or depressed, I'll ask the above questions. This is a life and death question because it makes everything so much clear. I appreciate his effort in providing value.

Well, adios

Rise to unlimited heights

Faith is the basis of all "miracles"
Faith is the only know antidote for failure
- Napoleon Hill

Shiny Star

Seek and you will find. Don't be willing to accept an ordinary life.
- Salle Merrill Redfield

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift of life is yours; it is an amazing journey; and you alone are responsible for the quality of it.
- Dan Zadra

I am there

I am there
I am there
I am one hundred percent there

I look up the sky
I look at the lake
I stare into the infinity

I achieve my goal
I achieve my life
I achieve my destiny

Here I am
Here I am
Here I am the blessing soul

I thank you
I appreciate
I am grateful for what I have

- david shen

Grateful

I am grateful to have a wonderful family.
I am grateful to have a terrific wife.
I am grateful to have a cute baby.
I am grateful to have a great Dad and Mom.

Now, it's time to give.

To my child

We are so grateful to have you
every day in our life
With you being in my side
everything is possible
- david shen

Reach for the star

Climb high; Climb far.
Your goal the sky; Your aim the star
- Inscription at Williams College

Quote from Henry Ford

The whole secret of a successful life is to discover your destiny, and then do it.
- Henry Ford

Grandma's rule

You can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try to band them back.
If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a usable form.
- Charlie's Munger

Understand the rule and know how to use it
- david shen

I totally agree with the above statement. If you want to figure out your talent, you find the category that you can grasp the rule easily and have fun playing with this talent. Bill Gates is a great business man because he doesn't follow the isolated facts, he learn the rule quickly and play with it.

The shining star

We're in this world with definiteness of purpose
to move forward with passion
to move forward with talent
to move forward with focus

We're in this world
to shine
to give light to others
to provide immense value to our love ones

We're in this world
to reach our destiny with a smile and happy tears in our eyes

- david shen

I know I can

I know I can
I can deliver it

I know I can
I can provide

I know I can
I can do it

I know I can
I can reach it
- david shen

Here on earth

I know why I am here
I know where I am going
I know exactly the way to get there

I have faith in myself
I have faith in the infinite

This is my destiny

- david shen

The path to immortality

The path to immortality is to
provide the best quality of yourself to your love ones and million of others

The path to immortality is to
know exactly what you’re great at and provide your talents to million of others

Some people donate time, others donate money.
I donate poetry.

This is my path to immortality

- david shen