Taking Good Life for Granted!

Is there such thing as ‘taking the good life for granted’?

I have always believe in having faith, in thinking positively and in being blessed with good luck, good fortune always. It’s because whenever things seem to be going wrong, it will somehow straighten itself out within a week or two for me.

One of my ex-colleagues too has being having a good life with everything smooth sailing until she loses her job early this year. She couldn’t believe that finding a job is so difficult for her as she has all the relevant experiences in that particular field. After exploring with countless headhunters, even to the point of going into Jobstreet for her senior level, she is now sinking into depression for the first time in her life.

I try to console her with the only believe that I think will work.

I believe that each and every one of us will somehow experience a down time in our life at least once, if not a couple of times. And I can only encourage those that are experiencing this down time to stay motivated by thinking of this one key point.

Think Positive! Stay Positive!

I believe that a positive mind will radiate a positive aura around you. A positive aura in turn will somehow attract good luck to you. And this good luck will attract all the positive opportunities to you.

Just as joyful people attract laughter and happiness. This theory works the same with thinking and staying positive.

Some of you might say, it’s easier said then done. This I agreed. It is very difficult to keep feeling positive after receiving negative news for each interview that you had thought was a good interview.

Hence, the trick to staying positive is to turn negative thoughts away the minute you realize you are thinking negative thoughts. It is not easy to switch your thoughts immediately but with consciousness and persistency, you will eventually master this.

It’s almost like meditation. When a thought arises, you are suppose to just notice the thoughts, to know that you are thinking and to try to get back to meditation again.

As always ‘practice makes perfect.’ Hence, with a conscious thought, you will eventually train your mind to think positive, thus to stay positive.

To all that are going through ‘down times’ now, may you all be blessed to overcome this soon and to be well and happy, well and happy, well and happy. God Bless. Amen.

In parting, here's 'How to train your brain to stay positive.'

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What's the Meaning of Life? The feelings of highs & lows! The Cycle of Life!

Do any of you ever have this feeling where one moment you are up in the sky. And the next you are feeling 'kind of lost', 'listless'? The feeling that you are just living your life mundanely, routinely? The feeling that somehow you haven't done or achieve much in your lifetime? That life is so full of uncertainty?

That when you think of all the responsibilities you have on your shoulder, the many more years to come, it kind of scares you and depresses you. Because it's your responsibility to make sure it all turns out well. Would you not then have the thought to want to escape from all these? To just want to get away to a place that no one knows you, that you can just live life the way you want to live because there's no one that you know off to judge you?

It's easy to preach the Buddhism teaching, 'to just live for today', 'to not dwell in the past', 'to not worry about the future', 'to just be aware of the present moment'! But in reality we know that's not possible unless you are a nun or monk!



I have a good friend that just discovered she had cancer and she's only 40+, still single. She had given the best part of her life to her job. Now that she's recovering and having a good 2 months of MC, she just doesn’t know what to do with her time. She wanted to go back to work because that's her security. Without her routine of working from Monday to Friday, she's just kind of lost. Now she's trying to rediscover herself, discover her interests.

And as I sat here in this quiet evening, looking at the cars passing by, all either going back to their home, their family or going for their social events, as I think of all the hundreds, thousands of people that are doing the same, I wonder how are they feeling?

Have you all ever wonder about this cycle of life? Our children and their children and their children’s children and their children’s children’s children....will also experience what we are going through now. Is it really 'suffering' as Buddhism preaches?