I raised the bar -1

I thought that I have raised the bar several times unconsciously in my childhood for studying and helping my parents for housework. I grew up experiencing a hard but lovely childhood in a poor family where the father is a teacher and the mother is a farmer in a quiet rural area.
I remember clearly the time when I started to raise the bar consciously from the last year at my high school. At that time, the rate of students who passed the examinations to Universities was very and very mall. Beside that students in my school did not have a clear idea about the subjects or majors that they can study in the University or in a higher education school. Some students chose to study special skills from other ones in the area such as carpenters, radio set repairers, watch repairers, etc., to carry on their own practices after they graduation. These students could not successful because of the small market and the limitation of their knowledge and skill. A normal way is that they will become the farmers, or a worker with very low level of skill requirement.
What I should become? I don't want to be a farmer. I and some of my friends started to think by ourselves of our future. I was aware that it is very difficult to rival a University "ticket" from many city students. If I could not pass the exam I might become a farmer soon and late, however. I had to setup my goal. Trying to enter a higher education school or become a farmer.
I applied 3 applications for 3 schools with the rank from low to high. This could help me to improve my confidence. And then I started to stop going out with my friends frequently but stayed at home and practiced preparing for the examination. I started to solve problems from the basic to the advance ones. At the beginning I tried to practice the basic ones as most as possible. By this work, I could study more knowledge and improve my problem solving skills. I kept doing so every day with daily goal of solving at least 3 problems in Mathematic, Physics or Chemical Science.
Sometimes I disappointed that I could not finish solving 3 problems. However, I encouraged myself immediately to keep raising the bar. I thought by myself that, such problems might be classified in the advance ones. "Keep thinking about them, moving to other problems and they might be solved some time later". Kept thinking about those issues, kept raising the bar, I tried to discuss with my friends or with my teachers any time when it was possible. The problems were usually solved after then. Sometimes I found some hints in my dreams when I slept. Now I understand that I could study even when I slept if the goal of passing the examination was solidly setup and the bar for achieving that goal is kept raising.
Keeping raising the bar in that way for around a year, I passed all the exams to enter to the 3 Universities. One of them is a very famous University many clever students were studying and among of them several students had to quit the school since they could not catch up the heavy curriculum. I chose this school and set my new GOAL
I had raised the bar to a very important point. However, new challenges were waiting for me at the university. In general, the distance between city students and the students from rural areas were very far especially in foreign language, computer skills and the ability to reach the study equipments and tools (I even did not have enough money for my daily life). How could I catch up my new friends? Could I keep raising the bar efficiently in the University? I will tell you in the next story.

Just a little idea

This blog is created for pursuing the Real Relationship Marketing. It is started to be published in the beginning of 2010 with the hope that the world economy will be escape the crisis and start to develop in this year. I just would like to share with you all about small small and small ideas of the natural thinking daily. These opinions could bring me a channel of connection to the world. I hope that by sharing ideas, experiences and emotions, we will be closer, invaluable relationships will be created and develop.

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Small change, big effect

I have asked myself about what I should do to improve and contribute to this life. Ones created very cool stuffs for the daily life. Walkman helped me enjoy with my favorite music and improve my foreign languages skill. iPod can do the same role as Walkman but in a more clever and stylist way. Google helps me open my mind with the world. Many and many things like that are created day by day.

Wow, what I can do? I thought by myself, searched for ideas and dreamt so much. I wanna make some things similar but better than Google. I wanna make some things similar but smarter than ipod or iphone. I really wanna do some special things for this world. But... nothing happen. Dreams still are dreams. Good ideas yesterday are treated as nonsense stuffs by myself some days later. What is wrong with me? I am aging day by day but I can not contribute any valuable stuffs for this life. That thinking disappointed me! I was sad and lost my confidence.

Fortunately, my memory brings me an encourage message. "Be you. You are playing a good role in this world. Do you still remember the story of rising a bar in Honda that you've ever read? Please keep rising your own bar by your way"

Rising the bar? Well. This is the hint. Do not give up your goal of contributing much to this world but you should implement that dream step by step. Each level of the bar will bring you close to the goal. Keep doing so, very time and every day. Today you rise a little. Tomorrow, another little and the day after tomorrow a little bit more. Keep doing so you may reach the goal someday in a naturally way.

Keep rising the bar anytime and anywhere you are!

I Was Rush for the Money!

Where is the money for my MBA course?
Where is the money for my daughter's high quality school?
Where is the money for my wife's beautiful house and her dream expensive beauty services?
Where is the money for my deluxe car?
Where is the money for my family's holidays at oversea beautiful beaches?
Where is the money for improving our parents (my wife's and mine) living quality?
Where is the money for supporting other people that I think I should support in our society?
Where is the money...?
Where is the money...?

I can not list all the questions about where is the money for my needs in this life and for the future. I must be aware that the money will not come with one who do not work but just stay asking for where the money comes. Working, working and working hard will help? I have been working hard, stay up late for thinking of the methods to make money. That did not work well, however. WHY?
I could earn money from my previous ways but the income was not good. I tried to search for the reasons behind. Following are some major reasons that stuck me from improving my income
1/ I've so rushed for the money that I could not think for a long strategy of money making
2/ I've so rushed for the money that I might stuck in some projects of no relevant return which ruined my time, innovation and even my saving money from other projects
3/ I've so rushed for the money that I could not differentiate where are the stable sources of money
4/ I've so rushed for the money that I could not spend relevant time for my beloved. Why the money come with you when I could not share all my feeling with my beloved? That is why that the money could not come with me.
5/ Last but not least and very important that I've so rushed for the money that I could not feel about the truth value of the money I made. Sometimes I could not recognize "how much" $1000 is and how much different between $1000 and $10.000. This point is very dangerous since I could waste a lot of money for a small but not stable profit.

Fortunately, I have figured out that "Rush for the money" does not work, at least with me. I have to change my attitude with the money. Money must come with me if I am happy with it in the whole meaning. Like a friend, let money understand you well and you should understand her thoroughly. Saving her for every time, even for a very little amount but always listen to her and let her pay for what she thinks she should. She just temporally go and turn back with you accompanied with many of her friends (other money will come). Like a friend, she does not want to live in a boring circumstance. Always bring her creative and innovative stages for her to play.

Be calm down, don't rush for her and always make her creatively and innovatively travel with you in all your life's journey.