DaddyDear

Bought the controversial book The Secret last night.
Here’s the description found on the book cover:

Fragments of a Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. For the first time, all the pieces of The Secret come together in an incredible revelation that will be life-transforming for all who experience it.

In this book, you’ll learn how to use The Secret in every aspect of your life — money, health, relationships, happiness, and in every interaction you have in the world. You’ll begin to understand the hidden, untapped power that’s within you, and this revelation can bring joy to every aspect of your life.

The Secret contains wisdom from modern-day teachers — men and women who have used it to achieve health, wealth, and happiness. By applying the knowledge of The Secret, they bring to light compelling stories of eradicating disease, acquiring massive wealth, overcoming obstacles, and achieving what many would regard as impossible.

Will write more after I finish reading the book.

This is the last weekend before school reopens. Ashley’s cousins (JY, WY & Des) “camped” at our place on Saturday night to play Cashflow 101 game. I was the banker cum facilitator cum Ashley’s mentor. We started the 1st game at around 10pm and ended at around 1pm with WY attaining her dream and Ashley out of the rat race. The second game started at around 11am and ended at around 1pm on the next day, with Ashley attaining her dream and WY out of the rat race. Interesting to note that the same two people got out of the rat race for both games.

The top 3 reasons why the other two players never attain their dreams or got out of the rat race:

1. Did not focus on the goal of the game, i.e. building passive income to be more than expenses. They enjoyed shouting “pay check”, and satisfied with holding cash in their hands.
2. Not willing to take risk. They kept choosing the small deals despite having enough money for the big deals.
3. Focusing on the “negative” spaces, i.e.”Baby” or “Downsized”, and hope not to land there. Interestingly, the more they didn’t want it, the more often they landed there.

Game is a reflection of life. Let’s take some time to reflect on our habits, both good and bad ones, and evaluate how these habits helped or hindered our game play.

Learning anything, and especially a musical instrument, requires perseverance and lots of practice. Most children are not able to maintain focus for extended period of time in most things they do, unless they have fun out of it. Sounds familiar, isn’t it? I bet most adults like myself are also similar.

The best way I’ve found to get my daughter interested to play violin was to turn it into a guess-the-title game. I asked her to play a song, and I’ll guess the title of it, and pretending to guess wrongly most of the time. Well … I actually didn’t know the title. Hehehehe … She liked the game, and will keep asking me to listen her play every time.

We’ve not played this game for quite some time already. Perhaps I could use this method to motivate GG when she can play more songs.

These the selected scenic shots taken on our Oz trip in May 2007.

1. Collingwood children’s farm, Melbourne



2. Sheep farm, Geelong



3. Cape Otway Lightstation



4. Twelve Apostles – view from beach at Pt Ronald



5. Twelve Apostles – view from NP



6. Twelve Apostles – view from NP



7. Sunset view – Bay of Martyrs



8. Cattle farm, Warrnambool



9. A tree at Brambuk cultural centre, Grampians NP



10. Misty scene at Boroka lookout, Grampians NP



11. Reed lookout, Grampians NP



12. Somewhere along the way to Melbourne Airport

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The more I fiddle with this theme, the more I love it. It’s so customizable and flexible. The 3-column layout gives me more space too. Now I know why MummyDear refused to change. Hahaha … …