No matter how you feel…

Get up,

Dress up,

Show up.

And never give up.

We are ambitious people. We want to do more each day. We want to do better each day. We want to be happy each day. We want to have fun each day…

The list can go on.

Then we feel we are short to realize all of these ambitions. We may beat ourselves hard by self-criticizing, self-doubts, self-punishments.

Please be mindful and give us a break, a hug, a high five for our ambitions.

We often are our own worst enemy. We are hard on ourselves.

• Please be generous to ourselves when you give your generosity to others.
• Please forgive ourselves when you can forgive others.
• Please be graceful to ourselves when you show your grace to others.
• Please smile to ourselves when you smile to others…

Only when we mind ourselves well, we can mind others and the environment we live.

When we see a sign “working in progress, please detour…” on a road, we know there is something going on there. It’s a good sign to indicate the road will become better.

So when we are in a working progress, we are working on something, towards to a result. It’s a good sign that we improve, we experience, we learn.

Any success comes through the process. There is no overnight success.

The process may be very long, excruciating, even may feel back ward some times. The trick is to focus on baby steps, one step at a time.

Chinese proverb says: water droplets can cut through stones.

We need consistently, persistently make progress, drip by drip, little by little, that’s how we will make progress, how we will make a difference.

Do you have days or moments that you are so grateful for? Do you do this often?

Today is one of those days for me.

• I am grateful for being where I am.
• I am grateful for bumping into so many old friends today.
• I am grateful for making a few new friends today.
• I am grateful for getting into know some people in a deeper level.
• I am grateful for being part of a new initiative.
• I am grateful for when I open my hands, people put their hands into mine.
• I am grateful for being with kind, smart, sunny colleagues.
• I am grateful for being myself.
• I am grateful for the beautiful, sunny and warm day.
• I am grateful for…

You get the idea. My gratitude goes out of roof.

Take a moment everyday, or a few moments of a day, think what you can thank for. The more you are grateful for, the happier you become. Isn’t this life about after all?

We live a busy life.

We face tension coming from all areas all the time.

How to control the tension?

Know your tension first: where is it from? Why do you feel it? What does it tell you? What can you do about it?

Tension creates an excellent opportunity for you. Make your decision, pick up your option, and release your tension. You will feel the urge for action, may be an euphoria of freedom… You will grow new experience and new muscles.

So embrace tension. Use tension as a tool for learning and growing.

We all want to be better – have a better self, have a better life, have a better family…

Therefore, sometimes we can be very critical to ourselves and to others.

We tend to have negative thoughts, comments and behaviors.

One a-ha moment came to me today: when you have negative critical thoughts, step back, pause, and ask yourself: ” is this all I can offer for this moment? Do I have a bigger story than this to tell?”

When you reflect your bigger story, find out what would be your intention to have this thought, comment or action? What do you stand for?

You know that you have a bigger story for yourself. You have a big story to tell the world. So live for your big story!

Many people know the importance living in the present.

What does being present feel like? How can we know we are living in the present?

For one example, are you really taking shower when you are in the shower? Or you have your 9am meeting with you?

Are you realizing you are eating when you eat? How does the food taste? Or are you having an intensive conversation with yourself, or others? You don’t know how much you ate or what you ate?

When you wash your dishes, you really wash your dishes.

When you eat, you are eating.

When you listen, you are listening.

That’s it.

Live for the moment.

Give your all for the moment. Then you will find miracle and make a difference.

I like the word intention. I like to know my intention when I do things, speak, and think…

I like intention in multiple folds.

• Intention gives me a sense of direction.
• Intention gives me clarity.
• Intention gives me energy.
• …

Thought has energy. Intentional thinking and action are powerful. They are my light houses in the sea, my North Star in life, my energy generator in action.

When you want to do anything, pause, do an internal check: what is your intention?