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If you are going to try, go all the way.
Otherwise don’t even start.
This could mean losing girlfriends, wives,
relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.
It could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days.
It could mean freezing on the park bench.
It could mean jail.
It could mean derision.
It could mean mockery, isolation.
Isolation is the gift.
All the others are a test of your endurance,
of how much you really want to do it.
And you’ll do it.
Despite rejection and worst odds
and it will be better than anything else you can imagine.
If you’re going to try, go all the way.
There is no other feeling like that.
You will be alone with the gods.
And the nights will flame with fire.
You will ride life straight to perfect laughter,
it’s the only good fight there is.

Charles Bukowski, Factotum

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All promise outruns performance. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

We all know instinctively that small efforts, accumulated long enough, will produce great results.

Yet, one of the hardest things to do is to stay committed to a plan for a long period of time - be it going to the gym, sticking to a diet, spending quality time with family, quitting smoking, or separating your garbage.

Taken individually, each of these activities are a cinch. What seem to be missing is our daily resolve to go about doing them. The ‘pigs’ in our minds are consistently outsmarting our better judgement and winning the war.

In this post, I will list 3 online tools that I’ve used to turn the tables against this ‘pig’. [Read more]

Over dinner, I asked friends what is it that they want most right now. Hong Kiat wanted to own his own business and Joseph “an unlimited supply of money.”

Most of us have a good idea of one or two things we want most in our lives. However, other than the occasional query by friends like me, most people don’t really think about it much.

If you know what you want and you want to do something about it, you can create a ‘vision board’. [Read more]