Desire & Intention

Like most normal human being, I do have a job and i make a living out of it. This year during a weekly training, I am task to identify what would be the one that will a break through in my career.

Personally, the quality or displaying of desire & intention means a lot to me. As an individual in the career of insurance agent, I display an inconsistent amount of desire & intention. The focus and drive is always fluctuating, resulting in inconsistent performance on a monthly & yearly basis.

The first step to improvement is to be aware. I am acutely aware that my desire & intention to perform is not strong. Not burning yet. Always make myself circumstances of situation. Jumping from doing the next best thing that catch my fancy and back.

Taking a step back, I reckon myself to be lack of desire or too comfortable with current environment. Last year was a year of breakthrough for me. Where I display a strong desire and intention of excelling in my career.

When the decision was made, the mind and the body just clicked and move in that direction. Like a train that just change its tracks. My desire was to achieve my goal and the intention is to meet 2 -3 person a day. There was no room for tiredness, thinking or relaxing. Every action in 1 way or another leads towards the end result – the goal.

I did notice this burning desire that has been missing in my previous year and it dawn on me is that I make a declaration and I approach my client with a desire, intention which was lacking in the past. From “Take your time, think about it and get back to me when you are ready” to “If it’s important, is it important enough to be done now?”

Intention and desire is like the fuel for my emotion and brain. Pushing me to exceed my limiting belief, to set a higher bar of standard and excellence.

Now in the month of Jan, the desire and intention has died down again. Giving way to tiredness and directionless. Once again, the conflict begin as it always does in the beginning of the year. The frog in the well waiting for things to happen.

The key to tiredness is not rest.

The key to tiredness is wholeheartedness.

This year 2011, instead of sitting on the problem and thinking it though, I desired to work while continue to find my key.

Thoughts for the day

Some of us have high human interaction daily while others hardly has any at all.

Its important that should another person cross our path even for just one day. At least make you the highlight of that person day even if its just one day. There's always a first time and a last time. Make the encounter last.

Maximize the impact of good things. Miminize the impact of negative things.

Smile , Humor & Creativity. Some ingredients of making a memorial encounter.

The simplier things in life is, the happyier you can be.

Japan - Kyoto 1 Day Tour

It’s been awhile since I carry on with my blogging of my Japan trip. But the memory is still fresh when I look back at the photos I taken. As the saying goes, pictures are worth a thousand words. Enough of Osaka for now and I hop over to a day trip I had in Kyoto. Kyoto like animations I watch evolving samurai’s era is a place of worship. In Kyoto itself according to the tour guild there are over 1000 temple or 2000. (The figure slip me, but its many many to be able to finish in 1 shot.)

The temple I visit on Kyoto often have big court yard. Clean and neat, spacious with a sense of tranquillity. The name of temple if I make a direct translation would be “temple of the thirty three.”





The rows of white paper at the bottom left are actually ‘predictions’ which is bad in luck and thus devotees tied the paper to the rope for better bless where as if the ‘prediction’ paper you got its good. You keep it!

After the first temple visit, we stop by a restaurant with a nice garden for lunch. Shoes has to be taken off though.











The food display is definately exclusive in my view but its a tad too fine lunching for me that I felt hungry after finishing the set. After the lunch with some time left to spare. we went about to explore the restaurant and found a big garden back yard.






Thats about all for one post~