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Repentance is the thought and action to correct a wrong and seek forgiveness from a person who is wronged. Often in religion, it is labeled as a sin and we look for ways to ask for forgiveness from the other party.

With different religious practice and belief, the way which religious believers ask for forgiveness also varies. At individual level, people ask for forgiveness directly from the person and are recommended and most effective and beneficial to individual mental and spiritual well being.

As for religious practice, there was a news article which talks about Pop Benedict XVI breaking the silence on child-sex abuse which was dismiss by victims who wants actions instead of remarks. While I was reading that news article, I remembered the informational show on Channel News Asia that showed how a Christian believer go on a holiday to walk and get a feel of what God went through in Israel the birth place of Jesus Christ and talked about how he was crucified.

The reason for crucified by the other religious leaders was partly due to the fact that he failed to respect other religions who did not at any point of time provoke him nor his religion at all and there he is going into a Muslim and Jewish religious nation and trying to spread his own belief and faith disrupting other people’s belief.

I’m not sure if it’s right or wrong, but one must be responsible for their personal mistakes which he did, and I respect him for that. Than going back to the news article, the phrase which states “must repent for sins and recognize mistakes” and when I think of the actual practice currently, it isn’t doing what they are saying. When a confession is made, believers were told that by welcoming God into their lives, their sins will be washed away and seek enlightenment.

I will agree partially as enlightenment that part, is same with all respective religion but when it comes to washing the sins away, that is neither practical nor realistic at all. Instead it is misleading people into thinking that they can continue to do bad things and yet ask for forgiveness, its identical to saying oh Law and Justice, I believe in law and will not commit the crime of robbing/kidnapping a person again, please pardon me of my wrong doings, don’t sentence me to jail please.

That to me sounds so wrong. What I understand of religion is whereby we should help one another, and not by expecting other people to carry the mistakes and be pardon without taking responsibility of our own actions. Perhaps it is precisely this misleading or misunderstanding of the true intention of God which caused the Pope sex scandal to keep on surfacing.

I do believe in religion but the moral, ethics and individual responsibilities still holds regardless of what we believe in, be accountable for our own actions.

Religion is what holds us to our own beliefs; it is like a moral light house guiding our way from dangerous costal shores.

So no matter what you believe in, make sure you are doing the right thing and be responsible for your own actions.

What kind of relationship do you want to have? Positive or negative relationship with people around you, are you going to force your way in and get killed in the process or approach with caution and respect for your competitors?

Think of the consequences before doing anything.

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Obstacles are things which obstruct the path and hinder a process. It stands in the way of the flow attempting to delay or block something from being done.

Depending on the position and size of the obstacle, it will carry different impact. An obstacle in the air path will result in a lack of air thus causing death, similar a blood clot is equally lethal. If it is just a wall of maze to position a person or animal in, it is non-lethal and will properly just result in time wastage with no significant impact or life threatening situation.

As I was trying to do product creation during these few weeks upon long dragging, when I have started writing it, obstacles just keeps on coming, excuses find their way up to me, I find myself just not in a conducive environment which gives me so many disruptions.

Enough of the grumbling, at the end of the day, I know all these written are just excuses which I created and tell myself to give myself more reasons not to do product creation making myself only poorer than I already am, plus dragging me away further from my goals.

I am not sure how long I will overcome all this nonsense in my mind despite going through so many excellent training, coaching and mentors, but I will find my way.

After all, I want to move out of my current environment, and free myself from all liabilities either forced onto all males or those liabilities which I created myself. I will write them out..and sell the products for money to solve all my problems..

Product creation is the one and only way I have to work on. As I was writing, I realized something; obstacles are also part of the learning curve for success, without these difficulties, winning will not be a sweet victory worth celebrating.

People who succeed always celebrate, and the day will come when I pen down my books and sell them to my network of friends who needs the books which I am about to write to increase their sales, profit and business makeover.

The books will be a winner but ..Sigh..no buts..I’ll just have to slog things out, straighten my thoughts and kill all negative thoughts hindering me than doing me good at this point.

If you don’t want to be poor, seek your own course or path towards success, need a plan, feel free to ask me for free advice. If I can help in any way, do let me know.

As long as there’s a will, there’s a way.

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Black is result of the lack of light. In the absence of light, it is complete darkness in pitch black.

There are many words associated with black or darkness. Negativity, underground groups such as gangsters, mafias, criminals along with other natural habitat creatures such as bats, underground, caves and explorers often risk death trying to venture into the unknown.

Darkness is not considered to be anything negative but rather it is just another kind of living habitat which is not suitable for most of the living organisms.

Only the creatures with the strongest will power will survive and evolve to change themselves and learn the ropes of survival in complete darkness, in this case a cave.

Having just watched “Planet Earth” from channel U, while it seems dark and creepy looking at the caves from the outside where there’s light, pitch black never fails to give off a sense of misery which attracts dare devils to test out their guts.

Thanks to modern technology and the documentary shows, it is possible to understand and be mesmerized by the allure of the hidden beauty in complete darkness under within the cave.

As the common sayings goes: The most beautiful is often the most lethal and deadly which is true in nature, cave exploration has got its high risk and is filled with nothing but danger, especially if you decide to explore under water.

It is when you live and learn the rules of survival in the darkness, depending on your senses for food and your life that makes it much easier for you to survive out in the wild when there’s light.

Survival is a testament of certain success, regardless of whatever situation and environment, even if it is pitch dark, one must learn and navigate through the routes and find the way out.

The creatures living in darkness and daylight both have their own ways of survival, but man on the other hand can survive both in light and in complete darkness thanks to technology and learning some crucial survival skills.

While we are mesmerized by the beauty of nature we also must respect nature. Likewise, to live, succeed and win, we need to learn the rules of survival in a highly competitive society just like how cave creates evolve through thousands of generations to lose their eyes and be born blind.

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Indignation is a strong displeasure at something considered unjust; it is a righteous anger.

This feeling is felt by yourself and the people when project or work credits have being stolen by people who knows you. It can be your family member, colleague or competitor trying to claim credit for what you have done.

When credits care being stolen away or you realized you have being backstabbed, you often feel unjust and wants to get back at that person resulting in hatred and wants revenge.

There are two ways whereby people get revenge and that will go about doing it which is either positive or negative revenge.

Negative revenge is what we often see, hear and talk about. It is the way practiced by the poor, using whatever means and ways possible for revenge at the expense of ruin oneself just to see that justice has being served duly. Common revenge methods will be sabotage, gossiping discredit a person and discriminating against that particular person. This way, not only is the offender by the victim both suffers at the end.

Positive revenge is what is done by the wealthy and successful entrepreneurs and businessmen. They will form alliance, share helpful information, discredit only those unsatisfactory business partners or have had negative experiences before and amplify the results of isolating that particular person who has being blacklisted by an entrepreneur. This is whereby the consequences will only be one way and it is to completely eliminate the blacklisted person while increasing their business and relationship ties making it stronger.

The person who offended that entrepreneur will have no idea why and how his/her reputation is decreasing with time and less business and projects being tasked to that person.

Look at how businesses, companies take out one another and how companies who survive the war emerge stronger than before.

If you’re not into business, than probe more into boy-girl relationship, and get yourself updates on what happens after a failed relationship if not look at martial arts which is more neutral.

Girls will think of ways to get back at the boys making herself and him look equally both bad, while boys on the other hand will ignore the girls previously, working together with their common friends, discussing on which new girls to be their next targets and even share their ex-girlfriends contacts with one another.  This applies to even ladies and gentlemen, especially those people with sour grapes personalities.

People who practice martial arts will be the prime example of positive revenge via ethical means. When a challenger loses to a winner, he or she will than go back and reflect, work on their weakness and improve for the next challenge. It is either a win lose or on par for the next challenge and they move on with whatever they want. This is more of the balanced approach.

Learn to handle your emotions well and stay on the right track; do not ever let your emotions run wild hurting not only yourself but others in the process.

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Greed is an excessive desire for more of anything especially for money. It goes two ways in positive and negative.

Negative is when people start betting and engage in gambling removing the control and give up the rights to increasing their percentage of success to grow money and betting it on gambling which will snowball into numerous behaviors and repercussions which leads to unhappiness, arguments, broken family and even lost of lives.

Positive is when people who have tasted a bit of success now starts to find ways to succeed on a bigger scale to increase their profits, it is the greed that drives successful people to succeed even more than their mentors and people who coached them.

Like the Chinese saying 长江后浪推前浪。Whereby teachers/mentors will teach students whatever they know to help their students succeed, which is similar to a wave will not be as strong without the push of the previous wave to reach further in shore on the beach.

Greed is a double edge sword; learn to control your greed to maximize the potential and possibility which it will bring to you. Be the sword owner with the sword in your hand assisting you to break open new areas for growth and not allowing the sword to slip from your hand and end up being hurt by your own sword.

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Limitation is a form of restriction within a set of environment and settings. It is the ceiling to how much something can be learnt.

Education is about removing the limitations which is set on us since birth for modern generation of teenagers and young adults. There are both positive and negative aspects of which.

Positive would be it help us to be informed of the repercussions so as to factor in a lot of elements and considerations to massively increase our advantage in a area of subject which a person picks up.

Negative would be that with lots of repercussions means there is confusion in the people’s minds which account for individuals’ lack of desire to succeed and work towards being a millionaire and beyond.

Look at the Forbes list, and list out anyone among the top ten billionaires that has a Ph.D in academic qualifications, nobody. The idea is simple, tested and proven, the more you study in terms of academically, the poorer and mentally, you build more barriers which limit and restrict any form of incoming profitable ideas which you can work on.

A great inventor with a Ph.D does not mean he/she will be a successful and wealthy people. Each of those on the top ten Forbes list get there by doing what they like and have passion in, to be an professional and excel in the best of what they do, simple idea, easily attainable with hard-work and due diligence.

Simply look at the Forbes list, and work towards your passion and nothing else by being positively persistent.

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Consideration is the evaluation of facts and benefits keeping in mind of something.

It is the process of weighing the difference effects and consequences to something before, during and after the decision has being made. Thinking about the results, if it will produce positive or negative impact, who are the affected parties, who will benefit, who is the main targeted market who directly benefit from the decision.

The poor, takes lots of time to come up with a decision, without first knowing what they want, how they will judge and access anything when the time calls for a decision to be made. First thing that comes to the mind of the poor is “let me go home and think” which not only isn’t productive, efficient and it will further delay the growth in all aspects. When poor people goes back to think, the people they talk to are people who knows nothing, and when a ignorant person ask another ignorant person, the answer after the decision is nothing thus hindering their own success and growth.

The wealthy and successful people have their own way of consideration and will set a date line for all decisions to be made with the exception of when the project/proposal will implicate the whole business, employees, than no time limit will be set. The general consideration factors typically hang around these few.

Projected return on investments, target market, strategy to penetrate into the market, what are the risk and rewards to themselves, the employees and the company/business. Will it be possible to expand business into a new area to increase profits and slowly build an empire, who is the partners they will be working with, do they have the clean past track record, their respective style of doing business, how they treat their partners after a successful project, if they turn their backs around them and run off.

Wealthy and successful individuals have their own respective consideration factors to think first before making any decision. The higher appointment you hold in the business, the deeper your consideration needs to go under to areas which will be overlooked.

When it comes to making a decision, they are fast, efficient in this aspect while the poor takes their time, drag this drag that, thinking the opportunity will wait for them living a their own made believe world.

People who go from rags to riches will understand this time, timing which is why all self-made millionaires and billionaires keep increasing their wealth as compared to businesses whereby it is handed down from generation to the next.

People who are already successful born in a silver spoon might not necessarily understand the essence of it because they have the power (money) to do things from the start.

If you don’t know what to consider, ask the person who introduce it to you, they can help and assist you in making an informed decisions with them knowing the differences among their competitors.

The more time you think without discussing and asking questions and keeping those questions to yourself, the higher your chances are of failure. Wealthy and successful people are not afraid to ask, it is only when they start asking, they learn something new and thus more windows of wealth accumulation will be opened up to them.

If you don’t know, start asking. Be humble, but never be modest. Give credits where it is due.

“The more you learn, the more you realize how much you don’t know” – Donald J.Trump

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Relationship is an association of two or more people which is based on different purpose and bonding. It may be based on for business interactions, social commitments, interpersonal or intimate relationship.

Different purpose of relationship requires different methods of handling, and understanding how it works is the key to solving the root of the problems should it surface.

The root and basics of relationship management is to look at the difference between how a man and a woman handle relationship.

There is a common saying “Men can forget but they cannot forgive. Women can forgive but they cannot forget.”

During a courtship, there is both positive and negative behavior which we can learn from relationship. Relationship management is just like a business and it requires time, effort, commitment and collaboration from both parties to work.

In the process of the courtship, it is sweet, once the courtship is over and grow into a relationship before it evolve into a either a break-up or marriage followed by everlasting love if not separation followed by divorce.

The spectrum of transition of relationship is all about business transaction these days due to the change in culture and influences. Romance; love; commitment; responsibility; accountability ; management; operations; protection; expansion.  It is all about the cycle before it duplicates itself or it dies off.

Romance is sweet like an appetizer, a small dish to stimulate a desire for more.  It can be of in all flavors depending on the person’s character and personality. It is the selection of which appetizer is suitable for you like choosing a partner.

Once you take your pick, you start to taste it, the taste lingers in your mouth, either your taste buds accept it if not reject it. If you accept it, it starts to go inside, making you hungry wanting more increasing your appetite. It is the courtship whereby you want to consume it, but it just does not want you to know what the next dish is. With anticipation, the desire grows, like in a courtship, from hands to shoulders to waist, hips, kissing and other intimate actions translating romance into love.

Love is when you start to have the taste of the dish, and you ask for more, wanting the next dish to be served fast. Short light kiss becomes French-kissing and it proceeds further with hands into the picture. Like you start off with different breads, applying either butter or jam just simply hands and or with just a butter knife. As you progress, you start using tools to consume more and the tools get more, which is when intimacy increases and clothes start dropping piece by piece.

Commitment is when the main course get served, finally you see the dish in front of you, salivating, starts drooling and you can’t wait to consume the main dish. It is whereby clothes are completely removed; all you see in front of you is the naked body. Alluring, sexy with a sense of curiosity of how it will be like.

With a slice of cut on the meat, you put it into your mouth, its equivalent to making a commitment, a promise to your partner that you will stay by his/her side. Soon as you consume the main dish, you start to fell the slight fullness in your stomach. As foreplay moved into intercourse, the promise is made and commitment sets in.

Having finished the main course, the rest of the course can be predicted, with the delicious dish already served, whatever dish coming up next is just lighter in flavor then the main course which was just finished. Like after the intercourse, ejaculation sets in, satisfaction in both parties. The customer decides to stay till the end of the course, while the cook is happy that the customer enjoyed the main course.

With that, responsibility takes places. You will start discussing how nice the dish was previously, and perhaps next time your choice of dishes if you were to come back again. Similarly like how ladies like to hug their partners after it, lying on their partner’s chest or in the arms, looking into the eyes, smiling happily, chatting about the feelings during the intimate physical contact.

Accountability sets in soon after, like the dessert that’s coming up next, it can be of either hot or cold dessert to tantalize your taste buds usually ending with sweet desserts so the customer will come back for more. Like a happy couple resting in the comfort of each other, either one waking up slightly earlier to prepare breakfast for the other partner, leaving sweet memories and closing the chapter leaving wonderful and pleasant memories, allowing the couple to make plans for marriage.

Management is the bills of the whole set breakfast/lunch/dinner. Settling the bills, checking if the bill is right for any overcharging like a couple in bliss, planning for the next session with budgeting involved now.

Budgeting includes the promise and if the partner is responsible for his/her actions before a second and three set meal can be consumed together. Discussed wisely, the budget only gets sweet and larger with more commitments and responsibilities like choice of restaurant, if want to upgrade to a higher class restaurant paying for the service and ambiance similarly to discussion of settling down for a family.

Operations is how the restaurant runs the after sales service, the methods which they will offer to give you reasons to patronize the restaurant or their service again. It is when the partner shows his/her attention, care and concern for each other to make it work and have the relationship running smoothly without any food scraps getting stuck in between the teeth.

Protection is whereby restaurants come up with new dishes, promotions to attract and retain their valued customers. This is when business rivals surface allowing the customers to chance to taste other recipes and dishes. This will be when partners come up with new tricks such as new image, choice of clothes, some teasing, and new positions and change of environment to entice their own partners to stay faithful and loyal to each other.

Expansion is when the business is doing well; restaurant owner decides to open another outlet via franchise model duplicating their success. It is whereby both partners planting and wants seeds to be planted in the farmlands. For males, it’s to get the female pregnant, for females, it is to get married and the cycle continues, this time on the baby inside the womb.

Transactions are happening everyday, every second, how you run the business and how much you profit depends on you and nobody else. Learn management skills, it is the skill that is applicable to anything and everything.

Have a profitable business and a happy marriage. =)

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Perfect is a word used to describe flawlessness and completeness, everybody and business aspire to be perfect but there’s no business or person who is perfect and it will not be possible.

The only way to be as close as getting perfect is to aim for perfection, excelling in products, customer service, before, during and after sales service including delivery, information counter, food etc.

To work towards perfection, is a uphill task but it is not impossible, with each feedback and complaints, there will always be rooms for improvements and thus to space to perfecting any business or person character and behavior.

To strive for perfection, is equivalent to aiming of the highest proficiency in skill or excellence in art or in a trait. In order to be close to perfect like a champion, first have to face a lot of obstacles, hurdles and learning to go against the tide and waves.

Like a deserving champion surfer paddling against the huge sea waves, duck dive together with the board to avoid being washed away by in incoming wave, and emerging in the after wave, sporting for the big signs of a big wave and working hard to ride top of the wave before surfing inside the barrel and coming out still surfing on the board before the barrel of close in on the surfer.

An occupation which can integrate both passion and business together, work towards perfection is  property, whereby the wealthy land developer builds his/her own dream home with the state of the art high tech facilities and amenities that everyone dream of.

In order to first learn the skill of perfection, we first have to learn to eliminate our own negative habits one by one which will take a long time, but it’s a worthy bargain with nothing to lose and a lot to gain with time.

There isn’t anything which is perfect, but we can work towards perfection and perfecting ourselves, environment any other things as long as it is within our abilities.

To succeed, master the skill of perfecting something, not to be perfect.

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Reluctance is an unwillingness feeling and showing resistance to something that has being proposed, disinclination.

It is a behavior that is negative and should never be embraced and accepted. It is good to learning how to say No, but learn to say No only when the situation calls for it instead of saying No everything even if people want to lend a helping hand, but it takes both the giver and receiver to stretch out both their hands before the hands can hold together before any help can be done in the first place.

Resistance is both positive and negative different actions and decisions are made.

People who showed the most resistance to change belongs to the poor. They only want to receive but they don’t even make an effort to stretch out their hand doing half of the effort. Only expecting help from people who will go the extra mile stretching fully to feed the poor without themselves doing anything.

It is only when you give, than you receive. If you receive and don’t give, you will not grow or get any happier as what you receive is only temporary, and if you do nothing, the reality will set back in again. Look at the people living in one-room flat people, some poor souls living there only receive help and lots of assistance from people once a year when the election or votes for town council is round the corner, and the volunteers never fail to help clean up the homes of people living in one-room flat.

Every year, help is given, they do nothing to change their situation, which is why the next year, and their home will become messy again if it goes without maintenance because they are not changing their habits or thinking thus junk pile up easily.

People who show the least resistance will also suffer because they give too much, but didn’t receive anything in return. Allowing people to take benefits from them without returning anything, credit at work gets stolen, workload of other colleagues become the person who gives and don’t expect returns. It doesn’t pay to be too kind, but it pays to be generous and make sure you know at least how to do a balance sheet, getting a fair deal.

Reluctance is resistance but only when you show and do it right, than will you succeed. All entrepreneurs are successful because they understand and embrace reluctance to give up and increasing their resistance to non-constructive comments and feedbacks that are not helpful, only accepting constructive feedbacks that will help them to succeed and that’s why entrepreneurs are respected more than a boss who just pay the money and become a boss without earning the rights to be respected but they buy the right to be respected which is only temporary.

Help is given to only deserving people.

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Donald J.Trump

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