Pay Attention: Time for Better Recall and Deep Learning

Our teachers were right when they told us to "Pay attention" during lessons in classroom.

Pay attention to the following YouTube clip and you would, inter alia, learn how to get it when learning something new and train yourself to recall things that you have registered well during the learning phase.

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This could be one of the most transformational video that you get to watch and it does not costs you an arm or a leg.

Click here for How To 10X Your Memory & Learning [New speech] 

Create Your Vision List

Further to the earlier post on "Transform Your Life with a Fresh Perspective", may you be spurred on to create your Vision List of 300 things that you would like to see come to pass by this time next year.

If you do not have Microsoft 365 (to use Excel worksheet) which would require subscription after the trial period, fret not, as you can login to your Google account and use Sheets for free.

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You can create a list using the following suggested format:

S/no. | Category   |  Description
1.       Family         To have a date night with spouse every Friday
2.       Finance       To save $500 every month
:

By using Category (e.g. Family, Finance, Career, Business, Spiritual, Community, etc.), you would be able to sort it using Excel or Sheets. Or, you could just create a different tab for each Category in Excel or Sheets.

As you work on the list, you will train your mind to focus and be intentional to complete your list to the best of your ability, be it more than or less than 300.

Then review the list every day before you go to bed or whichever timing that suits you best. This habitual review is crucial for you to crystalise and refine what you really want and you could then edit your list accordingly.

This exercise would be empowering and you can confidently expect to see some results as you keep this list before you in your thoughts and prayers. 

Remember, you have not because you ask not. And, you did not know how to ask because you did not have your Vision List.

But now, you have your Vision List!

Transform Your Life with a Fresh Perspective

Money and fame are often held out by people as the measure of your success in life. Some may even suggest social capital such as how influential you are and your connections with movers and shakers of industries.

If we would just reflect a bit, it is only fitting for us to not only acknowledge God, but be still and know that He is God. He is the great I AM and is not dependent on anyone or anything. He created the cosmos and everything that exist, and has by His own power raised His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, from the dead. 

He is the source and giver of life, light, love and so much more, and even more than what we can think, ask or imagine.

This truth and first step of seeing God for who He is by giving Him the honour and worship due would surely refresh and enlighten you with a new perspective that life with God's blessing is true riches, including eternal life for all who have His Son and believe in Him.

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That said, as gleaned from the following clip by Steve Harvey, you could take the good challenge of the the following two steps:-

1. Ask God for what you need; you have not because you ask not.

2. Write down what you envision as clearly as possible. Make a list of 300 things and you could well check that by this time next year, you would have received around 10% of the things on your list. 

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"Then the Lord answered me and said:

“Write the vision

And make it plain on tablets,

That he may run who reads it.

For the vision is yet for an appointed time;

But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie.

Though it tarries, wait for it;

Because it will surely come" "

Habakkuk 2:2 (NKJV)

 

Be Intentional

Tide and time await for nobody. We have already crossed over to 2023 for some three weeks now; the tide will continue to ebb and flow due to the gravitational attraction of the sun and moon, while time marches on.

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This new year you might wanna consider living life with intentionality. For example, if you like to learn how to bake the perfect apple pie, you would consciously be on the look out for recipes on the internet and make the time to try them out and tweak them so as to achieve an optimum finished product that you can share with your family and friends.

Or, if you are thinking of trimming your belly fats, you would glean from the internet on a suitable diet to adopt and be careful with what you eat as well as find out and carry out suitable physical exercises (start small at home; no need to hire a personal trainer or build your own gym).

Being intentional is a state of mind where you hold out your desired goal in front of you all the time such that it become infused into your subconscious so much so that it guides your daily choices and decisions.

You could say that being intentional is a follow through on your New Year resolutions or desired goals to be achieved. It is taking deliberate and persistence actions that transform into an active habitual part of your daily life.

I believe you would be able to achieve your goals in due course as you live your life intentionally and steer your yacht to your port of call.

Happy New Year 2023!

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Make Your Day with A Song Request

"All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;" -- William Shakespeare

More than ever before, all the world could be a stage for you and you do not have to leave your home to perform your stuffs such as busking, juggling, standup comedy, cooking and physical exercises. 

If you do well and resonate with your audience, you could well be the next online star and launch your e-career.

For your refreshing, hope you would find that the following sample by Marcus Veltri, Rob Landes and Frank Tedesco on YouTube would make your day, too.

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Click here for Pianist Plays Stranger’s FAVORITE Songs by Ear

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41st UOB Painting of the Year

 

A Painting about Nothing and Everything
By Lester Lee

Click here to visit UOB Art Gallery to view winning entries for the 41st UOB Painting of the Year.

Is That Insanity Or Normalcy?!

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

The above quote often makes me feel uneasy because it seems to suggest that if you do the same thing repeatedly, it would be preposterous for you to expect a different result. And, it would be like an exercise in futility.

When Michelangelo kept chipping away on his slab of marble, his masterpiece "David" unfolded. If you attend a foreign language class regularly, you can expect to become more proficient in that language. Thus, doing something repeatedly can produce improvement and progress.

The following excerpt from Frank Wilczek's article on "Einstein's Parable of Quantum Insanity" (Quanta Magazine on September 23, 2015) provides some insight on the probable background story of this quote which is famously attributed to Albert Einstein:-

"First of all, note that what Einstein describes as insanity is, according to quantum theory, the way the world actually works. In quantum mechanics you can do the same thing many times and get different results. Indeed, that is the premise underlying great high-energy particle colliders. In those colliders, physicists bash together the same particles in precisely the same way, trillions upon trillions of times. Are they all insane to do so? It would seem they are not, since they have garnered a stupendous variety of results."

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In everyday life where we do not measure things so precisely as scientists do, we do things over and over again, and expect the same result. When the candles on the birthday cake are blown at, they are snuffed out. Likewise, when we aim the bowling ball at the proven pockets between the pins, we expect to obtain a strike.

However, at the microscopic level, the candles are not blown in the exact manner by different birthday persons and yet the results look the same (but not exactly the same as to how the flame went out or the pattern of the fumes). Likewise, different bowlers use dissimilar balls and techniques, hit the sweet pockets (not precisely the same) for a strike, and sent the pins flying differently but falling, nonetheless.

When the physicists do their experiments using the aforementioned particle colliders to smash particles with exact precision every time, they find a different set of results each time. 

Now, that's insane (extreme; outrageous)!! 

Think again about the birthday candles, bowling pins, and what the physicists have discovered. Maybe it's normal, actually, to be doing the same thing and expecting different results each time, after all, seriously-speaking.