The Key To Life – Running

“The key to life is running and reading.”
~Will Smith

“You will learn how to not quit when things get hard in your life.”
~Will Smith

Will Smith is one of my favorite idols and I love his attitude towards his life and work. In this video, he had mentioned that running and reading are the keys to life. I got to agree with him and I understand as I am an avid reader and runner myself.

I have been training hard for my marathon (my goals this year) and right now I am at the 8.7 miles (14km) mark. Will Smith’s words hit right on the spot. Whenever I run, there are inner chatters going through my mind. The little person will give me 101 reasons to stop running and try his best to convince me to stop.

Through frequent training and positive self talk, I manage to ignore the little person that is talking to me and right now I’m on the right track towards my goal. In life, this little person will appear in your mind too.

It will try to convince you to take the easy way out and give up at signs of hardship. It will tell you that it is hard to be rich, hard to earn promotions or impossible to talk to your dream girl/boy. It will do anything to bring you down and you will have to win this mini battle with this little person in order to grow and succeed.

One way to conquer the little person and negative inner chatter is to run. Running is an effective way for me to deal with this little person and my negative self talk and I bet it can work for you too. As Will Smith said it best, “You will learn how to not quit when things get hard in your life.”

Note: The first milestone of my marathon is nearing! I have a 10 miles (16km) competition coming this 14th March. I will keep you guys updated and hopefully take some pictures back to share with you.

Reading

How many books do you read in a month? 1? or none at all? Reading can help us to deal with problems, find solutions, get new ideas that we can use to improve ourselves. It is really important to read and if you truly want to grow and succeed in your life.

There are many people using excuses like they do not have enough time to read so many books. But why is it there are so many people with the same 24 hours and they can read so many books in a month and yet you can’t?

There is no lack of time, only a lack of priorities.

I am inspired by this video by Will Smith and I had picked up 2 great keys to life today, to run and to read. How about you? What do you think will happen to your life if you start running and reading more frequently? I look forward to your comments below.

Vincent
Runner and Reader

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Protect Your Dream

This is a scene taken from The Pursuit Of Happiness. I totally love this movie and I had watched it twice. The story is based on a true story of Chris Gardner, a homeless salesman to a millionaire stock broker. If you have not watched it, I recommend that you go borrow it from your friends or get it at Amazon.

I believe many others have allowed others to kill off their dreams. Many people are fearful of going in the opposite direction of where the crowd is going. Hence, the social pressure can make one to give up their dream just for the sake of going with the crowd.

I believe some of you may have faced friends who had failed in their business and tried to convince that you can’t succeed. Or maybe you have friends who are overweight and think that it is ok to be overweight and convinced you not to make any changes? Maybe there will be people out there who are telling you that blogging is a waste of time?

Are you doing something that is different from others and they are disapproving of it and tell you to stop dreaming?

If so, are you allowing their words to get to you and kill off your dream?

I would love to hear your comments at the comment section below.

Vincent

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Are you smiling when you are watching this video? I did! It seems like they are enjoying their mini concert and this lead me to think about the need to enjoy ourselves.

As we grew older, it seems like we are putting more and more restrictions on ourselves. These restrictions then cause us to stop enjoying ourselves as much as when we were young. We also tend to worry much more about image and that stop us from doing lots of things. Take a look at the kids around you, they sure know how to enjoy themselves. Give them some toys and they can imagine that they are flying a plane or fighting a monster and all this while they are truly enjoying themselves with their imaginations.

Difference Between Adult and Kids

When a kid saw a puddle of water, they may jump and stomp on it. Even though they are getting dirty, you can look at the smile on their face and their laughter. It is totally real and they are really enjoying what they are doing.

But what if an adult saw a puddle of water? The first thing they would do is to stare at it, give a frustrated look and walk around it. That is not all! The adult will then start to complain and bitch about why is that puddle of water in front of them after walking away. Can you see the difference?

I had once read from a book that kids are good teachers and adults should learn more from them. It is true because as we grew up, we forgot about little things in life that are important. Have you forgotten about the little things in life? Have you buried yourself in the hectic pace of the society and forgot all about enjoying yourself?

Cheers,
Vincent

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New Year Resolution

Happy New Year everyone and this is the time for New Year Resolution. This is my first video for my blog and pardon me for the filled-with-mistakes video. Hope you enjoy it and yes, you may laugh at it. ;p

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Smile Smile Smile

What do you think of the video? It will take up 16 minutes and 23 seconds of your time but definitely it will bring a smile to your face and you will walk away with some valuable lessons too.

I walked away with a smile on my face after watching it and I hope to share it with my readers and let it bring a smile to your face too

3 Simple Lessons We Can Learn From Hugh Newman

Appreciate and Shower Others With Praises

Notice how Hugh Newman actually make others smile? It is just a simple action of showing appreciation and showering others with praises. Whenever you meet new people, find out their good points and tell them how great they are. Everybody have their great points, if we want to, we can definitely find it and when others are showered with praises, they will feel glad that they are being appreciated.

Be Sincere

Whenever you are giving praises, make sure you are giving it out from your heart. In short, be sincere! People can detect an apple polisher from miles away. Flattery simply does not work and in most cases, can backfire on you as others will have a bad impression of you when you are throwing praises without any sincerity.

Call Others By Their Name

People have a deep attachment to their name and the person’s name is one of the most beautiful voice they can ever hear from you. Do you prefer others to call you by your name or calling you “Hey”? You know the answer, don’t you?

In A Nutshell

There are so many times when we neglected the point to show appreciation to what others are doing. Show your appreciation, praise them for what they are doing and bring a smile to their face and brighten their day. Who knows, maybe you will receive a sincere praise from others today too.

Cheers
Vincent
Personal Development Blogger

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A truly inspiring video that I would like to share with everyone. I had watched this video for countless times and I think that we can learn alot of lessons from it. The scenario is the team is losing after the half and the coach is giving his talk to his players. Watch the above video and refer back to the below lessons.

First Abstract

“We can stay here and get the shit kick out of us or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb out of hell, one inch at a time.”

Lesson 1

No matter what is your situation in life, you always have the choice to choose to either pick yourself up or just let yourself suffer in despair and keep free falling in life. You have a choice. You, and only you can make the choice and nobody can take it away from you or help you make the choice unless you choose to let them do it. Make the choice, choose what you want in life and create your destiny.

Lesson 2

You don’t aim to make dramatic changes into your life. I don’t believe that anyone can change into a better person with a snap of the finger. Make improvement inches by inches, learn to walk before you run and always remember to make the inch happen.

Second Abstract

“When you get old in life, things get taken from you, but that’s part of life. But you only learn that when you start losing stuff”

Lesson 3

Live consciously and always be aware of what is happening around you. We humans tend to take things for granted when it is just in front of us and we regret only after people or things that we should cherish are gone. It is too late when it is gone, because sometime some things just can’t be replaced. Show gratitude in life, be happy for the little things happening around you and cherish it.

Third Abstract

Life or football, the margin for error is so small. I mean one half a step too late or too early and you don’t quite make it. One half second too slow, too fast you don’t quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. There are inches in every break in the game, every minute, every second. On this team we fight for that inch. On this team we tell ourselves and everyone else around us to piss us for that inch. We crawl on our fingernails for that inch! Because we know when we had all those inches, that’s going to make the f***ing difference between winning and losing, living and dying.

Lesson 4

In this world, there are countless of opportunities, whether it is to be successful, wealthy or meeting the dream guy or girl that you want to spend the rest of your life with. The key is to be ready for the opportunity. Always be prepared and work hard to be prepared to welcome the opportunities with open arms when they come. There are no lack of opportunities, only lack of people who are well prepared to accept the opportunity. Every small opportunity counts in life and don’t ever think of forfeiting small opportunities in wait of bigger one.

If you want to be a successful stand up comedian, you need to start to entertain 5 audiences before you can manage to entertain 100 audiences. It don’t work the other way round. Accepting small opportunities and preparing yourself ensures you that when the big opportunity comes, you are well prepared to catch it.

Fourth Abstract

In any fight, it’s the only guy who is willing to die who is going to win that inch”

Lesson 5

The above abstract can be summarize by one word, commitment. How committed are you to achieve something? It is the guy with the most commitment that is able to achieve excellence. You don’t see people who say, “I try”, achieve great results. We see excellent results and achievement from people who say, “I will do it no matter what it takes”. The difference in the level of commitment determines what you get, mediocrity or excellence. Choose your take.

Hope you enjoy the video. Leave any comments or suggestion on some good motivational videos that we can learn from.

Cheers
Vincent
Personal Development Blogger

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