Volunteering again...

Guess what, I'll be volunteering in Singapore Masters in March.

Leadership

I asked this RJ question to my students last week, "What do you think is leadership?" The best response I get so far was this:

"True leadership has nothing to do with rank, position or authority. It comes from inspiring others with your own example. Of course, one of the unwritten rules of human behavior is that most people will follow anyone who appears to know where he's going, even if he really doesn't. And being a decisive leader is very important, but it will only take you so far. A real leader doesn't just motivate others to follow behind him: he also inspires them to leadership themselves."

Be a traveller, not a tourist

How many times have we been in the situation of being a tourist victim? We've been there and done that, and we would come home with touristy souvenir. Now all these souvenir are practically taking up space and doesn't serve any purpose except to maybe remind yourself that you've spent a fortune on them.

A good take away is actually to be a traveller instead of a tourist. Taking good pictures, making acquintance and keeping a travel journal will make more sense. Appreciate life as the locals of the foreign countries would live. Put down your thoughts into a travel journal so that you could look back in memories.

Reflection

I'm re-reading this article by Steve Jobs again. The paragraph dawn on me again - "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

So, I've asked myself a few months ago when I first read this article. At that point, I told Pearl that I believe that things will somehow come into place as I move on. And I presently (during that time) have no complaints, I was enjoying what I was doing.

Today, as I ask myself this question again, I knew I had a slightly different answer. I want to so much live a life of fullness, able to share my thoughts through teaching, sharing, and more. And it hit me even stronger this time, that I want to write and be a writer. I don't know where I could start, or already am starting. I used to write short stories during my younger days which never really gets published. (Check out this website). I wrote for my company's corporate event magazine before. I wrote mini guide books for myself to read on Personal Development. I wrote a few children's fictional stories before. But all these (works) are not validated in any way. Nonetheless, these are not important. The important thing was that I felt freedom, I felt energise, I felt good as I let my word express in endless stories.

I checked out a few websites on writing, and I found 2 interesting links. www.writersbureau.com and www.writersdigest.com. Oops! Look at the time, gotta go for my class. More later!