Second Shot of Epic Music

For your revitalising, click here for 4 Hour Epic Music Mix - Worlds Most Powerful Music Ever - Mark Petrie.

Awaken the warrior in you. Be strong and courageous. You were made for the purpose of fulfilling your calling from on high even in the face of the darkness surrounding you in your most difficult times.

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." -- Mark Twain

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'" -- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor." -- Aristotle

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Top 20 Motivational Songs

Pump up your day with a plethora of music video to get yourself going for the day ahead.

Click here for Top 20 Motivational Songs playlist which includes:

1. Rachel Platten - Fight Song (Official Video)

2. Hailee Steinfeld - Love Myself

3. Jordan Smith - Stand In The Light (Official Video)

4. American Authors - Best Day Of My Life

Since Jordan Smith's win at The Voice 2015, I am glad to catch up with his singing through this playlist. 

Besides Rachel Platten's Fight Song, the other song which stands out for me is:

7. Sarah Bareilles - Brave

Have a refreshing day ahead. Be strong and very courageous.

Hot Spring

What springs to your mind when you think of hot spring? 

Perhaps it would be the geysers at Yellowstone National Park, hot pools at Rotorua, New Zealand, or the onsens of Japan. 

Well, the "Hot Spring" by Raymundo Albano can be found at the National Gallery Singapore and it had befuddled me for weeks, and this is my attempt to unravel it.

Albano's over-sized spring is a standout and made all the more so in red. A spring may collapse or dip, but it would invariably spring back to stand tall again. 

Slinky (Graceful in Swedish)
 Photo credit: Andy Brown

When a spring is well made with the best-fit design and materials it would consistently bounce back and stay in its original shape or stance. A spring has its purpose and does well when serving its intended purpose.

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A spring reminds us that we need to develop our character such as resilience, tenacity and gracefulness so that we remain firmly planted on both our feet like a great boxer who could roll with the punches.

Beetle Bailey may be beaten down again in the the following comic sketch by Mort Walker, but he always bounce back and carry on.  

Image credit: Mort Walker/King Features Syndicate

Setbacks or challenges are like free tuition for us to learn new lessons in life so that once learnt, we can avoid future pitfalls and live our life forward with passion, resilience and strength like a hot spring.