January 2nd, 2012 § § permalink
“As you’re thinking about a new year, here’s a free tip: forget resolutions; think about living intentionally instead.
What matters to you this year? Do that.
What do you hope to build in 2012? Work on that.”
- Chris Guillebeau
For some people, it’s an easy question to answer. Some people say health, which includes losing pounds and better lab results. Some people say family, which means more quality time with them. Some choose career, with the hope to be promoted. For me, those things don’t come to mind. I look at 2011, and even though I didn’t regret anything and I actually achieved and contributed a lot of things, I feel like I’m missing some things, like writing in my blog, taking random adventures, meeting random people, even yoga. I like my life in 2011, but I feel like I didn’t love it. It doesn’t seem right.
As I think about what matters most to me this year, the answer is as simple as to once again fall in love with life – which to love who I am, what I do and what I have. So, if I were to write the first chapter of my book of 2012, it would be titled: Falling in Love with Life, Once Again.
And what do I hope to build in 2012? Exactly that, a life that I love and adore. A life that inspires me. A life that fills me with joy, beauty and abundance so I can be all of those to others.
Someone asks me once, “what do you want for 2012?” I remember my first and most spontaneous answer was “to be more consistent.” About what, you may ask? About me. About being me. About embracing the joy, beauty and abundance in every aspect of life. About falling in love again and again with this life.
And how would I do that? Well, I guess you shall watch J
Happy new year guys! Wishing you a year filled with joy, beauty and abundance.
Xo.
August 27th, 2010 § § permalink
- Take a 10-30 minute walk every day. And while you walk, smile. It is the ultimate anti-depressant.
- Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
- Buy a DVR and tape your late night shows and get more sleep.
- When you wake up in the morning complete the following statement, ‘My purpose is to __________ today.’
- Live with the 3 E’s — Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy. » Read the rest of this entry «
August 24th, 2010 § § permalink
August 23rd, 2010 § § permalink
As a student of life, I have read so many books on spirituality, self-growth, law of attraction, mind power, you name it! Yet, when I come across this one sentence, something clicked any my life begins to change.
I realize, most of my life, when I pray, I ask God or the universe to grant me something. I wish and I hope. Sometimes, I even command. Yet, there is always that question in the back of my mind – doubt. Between my girl Annisa and I, we always ask ourselves “how to eliminate self-doubt”? or just doubt for that matter? Can we really do it? Yet, when I came across this one line, it gives me peace that it automatically eliminates and doubt, worries or any limitations I might have.
What is it?
Well, I learn it from this book called “The One Command” by Asara Lovejoy (http://www.commandingwealth.com/)- a must read for all of you who wants to let go of all your worries, doubts and limitations to open yourself to be the true you who is attracting and manifesting your heart’s desire. It is not about law of attraction, not about affirmations, not about visualization that somehow ‘forces’ you to believe in something when you are not ready for it. This is the sentence that will bring you peace.
It begins with “I don’t know how…” Ends with “All I know is I do now and I am fulfilled.”
For example if I want to get a more fulfilling career, all I have to say (in a state of peace) is “I don’t know how I can have such fulfilling and rewarding career that is according to my passion. All I know is I do and I am now fulfilled.”
For me, when I start my prayer with “I don’t know how..” I come from a place of humility and peace. I am not forcing myself to change. I am not expecting anything out of myself. And I don’t pretend I know anything. I am communicating to God to jump in, because I don’t know. Yet I know deep inside I know and hence I am then fulfilled.
The moment I speak of such prayer, I let go of any attachment, expectations and worries. A new found peace, confidence and knowing sets in. I do not set limits on how everything is going to fall into places. I just know it is already taken care of. I let God and the universe to take its course and do its own magic. I am taken care of. And when I start practicing this prayer in every occasion, I start experiencing miracles beyond my own imagination.
I cannot explain it well. Read the book. Try it yourself, only if you’re ready for miracles to start happening in your life though 
Read more here: http://theonecommand.commandingwealth.com/
August 15th, 2010 § § permalink
I keep asking myself, again and again, what is happiness? Is what I’m feeling now called happiness? or is it called joy? or bliss? or in-spirit? Oh how how I wish I can put it to words.
When you wake up one morning and there is this overwhelming feeling of gratitude, what is it called? When you can’t help yourself but to stop, take the biggest breath you can take, and all you can do is smile in awe – and not sure why either. You don’t have any thoughts, you don’t have any words, just a smile. You can feel your heart expanding every moment, as if taking you have a bigger capacity to take in more air into your lungs. You feel bigger, bigger than your own body, space and being. As if the whole world is in slow motion.
And no, the sun isn’t particularly shining and bright today – it’s actually cloudy. And no, I don’t wake up to the ones I love – I am still single living alone in my own place. And no, they are still the same birds outside my windows – though their songs sound a bit different today. And no, I didn’t hear of any good news this morning – I even heard bad news, a father of a friend dying, and another friend battling cancer. But, for some reason, I am enveloped by something bigger than me. And I cannot describe the feeling. And I don’t feel I have to.
It’s the feeling of being connected to something bigger than me – a space, energy, I’m not sure what. I feel connected to all things before me, even this desk I am writing on. It’s like touching and connecting with it for the first time. When I put my hand upon it, it speaks to me – without words, I understand. And it’s with everything. I keep gazing from one object to another, each seems to want to speak out to me, to connect with me, looking for me, touching my soul. The pillow now is not just a pillow, the rug is not just a rug, the desk is not just a desk, the birds are not just birds… even the air, this air that I breath feels and tastes different.
I can feel my heart beats through every single cell of my being, even in the tip of one of my fingers. I can feel the oxygen spreading through each of my blood-cell, expanding them.
The whole world has come alive before me. I have come alive before me. Yet, I don’t have to do anything. I am still sitting here smiling, feeling a blanket of warmth surrounding my body.
In silence, I speak to this new world, “Thank you.” Not even a whisper, not even a sound – just to acknowledge how thankful I am that the whole world has opened up before me, invite me in and make me a part of it. I am one with them now. With all of you. I am honored. I am humbled. So again, “Thank You.”