www.Go To The Mountain - Musings of a Potential Guru

Teaching & Education Less teaching and more learning. In the western world, children ask plenty of questions and teachers engaged them as an interaction. Here, teachers ask you to shut up and don't ask so many questions. In our time, many students got slapped on their faces and knocked on their heads and even pinched at the waist umpteen times so much so that we may have lost our original look and mind and if you go home and tell your parents, you get another dosage of the same.  Many could still not recite A-Z in primary one compared to today's children who are literate way before P1. There is no doubt that we have an excellent education system, result-wise churning out students who could ace their exams. But is education just about grades? Or is an overall development into a more than decent human being capable of independent thinking instead of through rote learning? we certainly have the IQ but how about our level of EQ?  Sad to say we score poorly in this ar...

Forgiveness Our human heart and condition are built on unforgiveness. We are sensitive to many things and yet insensitive to others in everything. We only consider our own feelings because our soul residing inside of us could feel the pain when we hear or see something we do not like. It is funny when the other fellow has mud on his face but the fun is different when the mud is on yours. Isn't it true that we offend without even knowing or bother to be careful and feel offended by something that is not even there.  We never remembered when we hurt others, try counting and you wouldn't even recall. Now try to remember who has offended you - Wow!! The names pour out like an internet search with pages of contents. Some of you may even keep a black book to blacklist people. Some organisations has managers who keep a record of wrong doings. How does a staff feel good when it felt like someone is watching to catch you making mistakes or take a wrong step?  What about t...

If you are vain enough or think highly enough of yourself, would you clone yourself? Your Mind & Wisdom Your world is entirely what you choose to make it, whether one live a life of despair devoid of hope or one that scale heights of success, the choice is entirely yours. When you are positive refusing anything negative to enter your mind, you unleash a powerful force to achieve a fulfilling life - love, friendship, health and victorious life. If you continue to do exactly the same things, you get the same results in life.  When you control your mind, you take charge of your life. You can control your desires, thoughts, emotions and feelings towards a direction you choose. You could channel your energy and time in pursuits of excellence in certain useful things or fritter your time away in fruitless activities. Everyone has 24 hours a day and since your mind belongs to you, you may choose to do things with a constructive purpose or you use it for futile, useless, ...

T he Phantom Menace - the phantom is a menace. Commitment/Charity/Caring/Giving/Service It is a fact that most of us have tried and failed before we achieve any success. We may even have given the extra miles often only to no avail. But if you quit trying, you will surely miss out on the riches that awaits you at the end of the rainbow. Without commitment one cannot sustain in the long run. Great achievements are as a result of a commitment to do the right things regardless of the consequences.  When you get to the end of a rainbow you will know there's no real glittering gold at the end of a rainbow, not even the pot. That pot of gold will be the arduous journey and struggles along the way that builds and strengthens you and that is the pot of gold. Do you know how important it is to offer service freely to your community or anyone without expecting anything in return?  There are always so much intangible benefits of personal self-respect, inspiration and feel ...

Make Peace Not War As much as it is possible, be on good terms with everyone but at the same time knowing you can never please everyone. Never hit out at anbody at first for it may be a simple misunderstanding or misinterpretation. In other words, do not hurt anyone unless you are very sure that someone needs to be sent to the cleaners or have their faces re-arranged. Be prepared for some unreasonable remarks or action said or taken against you maybe even a couple of blow and at the right time when the facts are out it is never too late to go for the jugular.  You know exactly what I mean when you watch Rocky usually being portrayed as the underdog and severely punished before he lashed out furiously and victoriously. It's like a good military doctrine which exudes confidence being a able to take at least a blow first before retaliating. After taking this unnecessary and aggressive attacks, retaliation, defence and counter-attacks must be swift and decisive. Take no pri...

Continuation from Inner Piece 1 - A New Hope... Ever wonder how things will be like if you only had one more day on earth? Nature becomes more beautiful than ever before, simple things in life would bring about great pleasure, you'll fight for every chance just to spend quality time with family and friends, build better relationships. You'd probably smile at everyone and that is because your senses are sharper. Change Obama said: Change has come tonight. I wish him, America and the world well. Often, people wanted change because they got tired of the same things. The new President will have his hands full. Six months down the road, can all the good things come and be sustained? Just like you and me. Can we change and sustain? Our world becomes how we choose to make it. You can achieve success or just accept a miserable life beyond hope. It's our choice. When one takes positive action, a powerful force is released for a more fulfilling life be it love, fami...