Met up with YingZong at Junction8, bought our black pants, headed down to FarEast to buy our leather shoes. Both for work. Along the way we met quite a few GuangYang people, all out after the exams man. Not to mention, teachers as well.
We met up with TangJie and two other guys at 5:40PM, we were late for work, but oh well, better late then never. First day of work, we ended at around 11 and took our pay, left for home.
Tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, the whole week, as usual. But tomorrow onwards, Lydia and a friend of hers would be joining in.
Determination
Have you ever found motivation to study really hard, and halfway through, when your exams are just weeks away, you completely lose all the motivation you have, flunk every single test, and indulge yourself in your forms of entertainment? I have.
Primary 1 to Primary 3, I had extremely good results, but never mind that, primary school stuffs are really easy. Except until primary 5 and 6, I practically flunked everything, indulged myself in computer games, arcade games, sports, going out and so on. Even until the night before PSLE officially starts, I did not touch my books at all. Well maybe I did flip through, but I remember clearly, at that time, it was just for show to my parents. The consequences I faced are that, I scored a pathetic aggregate of 179/300.
It never ended all the way until last day, when I saw some of my classmates, schoolmates, and friends outside retain or drop out of school. Their facial expressions struck me hard. At that time, I was motivated to study, I woke up. But, I went back to sleep, only until recently, I don’t know how, I just found some motivation, and through books, through living examples, determination in me built up, I don’t know if I’ll even make it through N levels, I won’t say that I woke up early enough, but who knows.
I won’t talk about where to find inspiration and motivation, I’ll talk about where to find determination, where or how, to start building it up. This post is more for those who are stuck, but people who can’t even find inspiration and motivation, hope you find it here, infact, all 3 are linked more or less, because when you are inspired, you are motivated, when you are motivated, determination is the last thing you need to succeed.
Take a baby for example. When babies are born, they don’t have any negative thoughts, all they think about is want, want more, want a lot more. They want milk, they want food, they want warmth, they want everything that seems nice to them, they want more. They don’t think anything about not wanting anything. They don’t fear losing anything. There is no other thought in their mind that is deterring them from getting what they want. They don’t know how to walk on 2 legs, but once they see it, they get inspired, motivated, and TOTALLY determined to walk on 2 legs, they don’t know pain, they don’t know what’s falling down, they are not scared of them both, they don’t know what’s failure, they don’t know what’s depression, they don’t know what’s being pissed off, they don’t know that being laughed at isn’t a good thing, they have no thoughts stopping them from attempting to stand up and walk on 2 legs. They then keep on trying and trying, and finally, one fine day, they make it.
You see, what breaks down our determination is our mood, our feeling, our thoughts. When we think about the many things to do before succeeding, we feel tired even before starting. It’s all in our mind. Whatever’s stopping us, is inside us. But don’t forget, whatever’s able to start us up, is inside us as well. Why think about the long way and many things to do before succeed, when you can think of how much money, how much glory, how much your x-factor is going to increase, how much respect you will get, when you succeed? Why think about someone who turns into a millionaire overnight by striking lottery, when you can think about how long more does he have before finish spending the money and earning twice or more his million with just a little bit of thinking with your powerful experienced brain? Don’t think about the process, think about the results.