Make the Best Out of It

Rather obvious my few previous posts were quite low on morale & enthusiasm. Not talking about my writing style but more towards the things i talked about.

It's always discouraging when you're out there working for someone. You're constantly hogged by your boss to do things that you feel is ridiculous, things that are always urgent but is in fact not really that important at all.

I learned that in real life, work is really like bed of roses, in a bad way. It looks good, smells good but when you're actually lying on it, you'll get hurt by the thorns.

I'm pretty sure each and everyone of us out there knows how important it is to stay motivated, stay creative, keep the hard work, be the best you can ever be. I'm pretty sure everyone knows that, but we often forgot how to do it. We're easily discouraged by hurdles, the flame of enthusiasm got wiped out with a splash of cold water.

When that happens, probably you'll ask yourself "What am i doing here?". You might think you don't suit the job, or you might think the company sucks big time. You might also think that your boss is stupid.

Well, at least i have quite a number of negative thoughts myself to begin with. But of course, when you're calm down and think back, those thoughts doesn't actually help the situation at all.

Lately, two elders spoke of the same thing that occurs to me, how negative i was just not too long ago. Both of them is from a whole different background, they do not know each other, they are from different place. The only similarity they have are they are from the same era, and they give the same kind of advice.

Maybe you might think that these advice is outdated already since it's near to years ago, but then haven't you noticed, stuffs produced way back then was more long lasting than those that you can buy from now?

Let's just keep it simple. I think you'd agree that way back to 20, 30 years ago, there weren't too many opportunities around. There wasn't as much choices around like how it is now. Even food nowadays are abundant i don't know what to eat because i can't make up my mind what to eat sometimes.

But i believe way back then, choices is really a luxury. You can ask you dad about this, "Why you choose to do what you're doing how?" and i believe 80% chance that your dad would say "We don't have much choice when we were young......" and so on.

Most of our parents work hard to have what they have today, and we as the children are enjoying these luxuries without understand how hard it was for them to achieve all these. We have all the choices we can have. We can choose where to study, where to work, how much to spend everyday, what to eat for lunch.

What makes a person successful is not only making the correct decision, but also by making the best out of what you can do now.

Stop complaining, stop whining, and start making what you can do now as an opportunity to turn things around to make yourself more successful.

And being successful does not mean you have all the money you can spend. For me it would be to be able to have enough of everything. Enough money to spend, to feed & to nurture the future generation, enough time for me to spend with my love ones and my friends, enough motivation to move forward everytime i meet a hurdle. Not too much not too little.