2011/05/21

勵志短語(二)

“When you have a purpose in life, a vision for what you want to achieve, and know why you want to achieve it, work becomes fun, and the time you spend working seems to just whizz by.” - Clayton J. Moore

“It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.” - Epictetus

"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.” - William Arthur Ward

"If you truly want to become a better you, it is imperative that you learn to feel good about yourself." - Joel Osteen

“To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy - this is success!” - Sasha Azevedo

“If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.” - Oprah Winfrey

"Your real purpose in life is to develop yourself. To successfully do this you must always be working toward a goal." - Bob Proctor

"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one." - Henry David Thoreau

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. - Bob Proctor

“We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.” - Leo F. Buscaglia

We are each creating our lives through our thoughts and feelings, and so you cannot hold yourself responsible for someone else’s happiness because you cannot jump inside someone else and think and feel for them. Focus on your joy, and be an inspiration to everyone around you. (The Secret Daily Teachings)

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure." — Napoleon Hill: Author, Think and Grow Rich.

“Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.” - Denis Waitley

“You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you’re doing, you’ll stop at the first giant hurdle.” — George Lucas

“Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.” - Henry Ford

“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.” – Buddha

Your life right now is a reflection of your past thoughts. That includes all the great things, and all the things you consider not so great. Since you attract to you what you think about most, it is easy to see what your dominant thoughts have been on every subject of your life, because that is what you have experienced. Until now! (The Secret, page 9)

"The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had." - unknown

"Decide the outcome and the action step, put reminders of those somewhere your brain trusts you'll see them at the right time, and listen to your brain breathe easier." - David Allen: Author and lecturer on personal and organizational effectiveness

"When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited." — Brian Tracy

"Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Visualization is simply powerfully focused thoughts in pictures, and it causes equally powerful feelings. When you are visualizing, you are emitting that powerful frequency out into the Universe. The LOA will take hold of that signal and return those pictures back to you, just as you saw them in your mind (The Secret, page 81)

2011/05/01

原諒別人就是善待自己

20110501

在公車上看到證嚴法師這句話:

原諒別人,就是善待自己。

心有所感,其實我們真正需要原諒的不是別人,在某些情境下,原諒別人反而會使自己陷於痛苦、不滿的心境情緒裡。

需要原諒的,正是自己。原諒自己,疼惜自己,不要將別人造成自己的痛苦和傷害繼續用來折磨自己。

原諒自己,才能原諒別人。

2011/04/28

勵志短語(一)

整理一下近期收集的勵志短語。

Every word you speak has immense power, because it is a thought in action. There is an invincible power in every word you speak! You are a human being filled with unlimited possibilities, and the words you speak can either build a jail around you where you see only limitations, or they can set you free to live your life without any limits. Change your words and you will change your life! (The Secret Daily Teachings)

“Never, never, never, never give up.” - Winston Churchill

"In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life." - Mary Manin Morrissey

"When we take control of our mental state by deliberately choosing our thoughts and attitudes, we can alter the meaning we associate to the experiences we have and results we see in our life." - Clayton J. Moore Author

"Learn to become still. And to take your attention away from what you don't want, and all the emotional charge around it, and place your attention on what you wish to experience" - Michael Beckwith

"Don't concern yourself too much with how you are going to achieve your goal - leave that completely to a power greater than yourself. All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord, and at the right time." - Earl Nightingale - 1921-1989, Syndicated Radio Announcer and Author

“If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.” - Swami Vivekananda

What you are thinking now is creating your future… Because you are always thinking, you are always creating. What you think about the most or focus on the most, is what will appear as your life. Like all the laws of nature, there is utter perfection in this law… Whatever you sow, you reap! Your thoughts are seeds, and the harvest you reap will depend on the seeds you plant. (The Secret, page 17)

"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." - Eric Hoffer

“Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so.” - Marcia Wieder

"Before a person can achieve the kind of life he wants, he must think, act, walk, talk and conduct himself in all of his affairs as would the person he wishes to become." - Zig Ziglar

"A happy life is just a string of happy moments.But most people don't allow the happy moment, because they're so busy trying to get a happy life." - Abraham-Hicks

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” - Jim Rohn

"You don't HAVE to be GREAT to get STARTED, but you've GOT to get STARTED to be GREAT!" ~ Les Brown

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." - Albert Schweitzer

"Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings." Andre Maurois 1885-1967, Writer

"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it." - Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821-1881, Writer

“Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.” - W. Clement Stone

The potential to attract money and create abundant wealth doesn't reside in your job, your circumstances, or even the economy. It resides within YOU.

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you're ready or not, to put it into action." - Napoleon Hill

"Do not fear - only believe. All things are possible to him that believes." - Jesus Christ.

“The value of achievement lies in the achieving.” - Albert Einstein

“When you have a purpose in life, a vision for what you want to achieve, and know why you want to achieve it, work becomes fun, and the time you spend working seems to just whizz by.”
- Clayton J. Moore

2011/04/24

認罪

凡人離至善、至美的境界,都有差距。

基督教認為這個差距,就是「罪」。

認罪,就是承認自己有不足,面對自己的缺陷,並願意往至善、至美境界努力。

2011/04/23

什麼叫「根本不合理」?

中國時報這篇新聞《「宣告死刑還鞭屍」 民股:很傷心》:

國光石化民股主管表示,國光石化案即使有條件通過,環評委員開出不准排碳、不准用大度攔河堰水源等條件,已宣告國光石化死刑;

通常在一個對立激烈的談判協商過程,在獲致結論使用的文字特別斟酌再三,必須跳脫使用文字本身的意義,而以「文本」(text)角度切進去,瞭解其真正的意涵。

以這段新聞引用的文字而言,當出現「不准排碳」這幾個文字時,放置在石化產業營運架構下來理解,正如下一段所言:

環評委員開出的附帶條件,十分嚴苛,根本就是要廠商無法生存;比方說,不准排碳,就很難解決,「人活著都要呼吸,都要『排氣』,其中就含二氧化碳,但是工廠運作就被要求零排碳,根本不合理。」

問題不在於「合理」或「不合理」,而是可以看出幾個問題:

1. 環評委員不願意或不同意通過該案。

2. 環評委員「不敢」得罪國光石化。

3. 對這條件,國光石化「可以接受」。

由此又衍生出二個現象:

1. 環評委員之所以「不敢」得罪國光石化,因為按其組織章程,環評委員本來就僅具「諮詢」性質,並非「獨立」、「客觀」、「公正」的單位。

2. 國光石化之所以「可以接受」,不客觀的講,就是台灣企業「管他違不違法,先做再說,有問題再找人解決」的心態。這種心態,好聽的叫「敢衝」、「有活力」,企管專家們美其名叫「彈性」、「適應力」、「執行力」。但究其實,只是為了自己賺錢,就可目無法紀的胡作非為。

2011/04/15

梁啟超的讀書方法

梁啟超在〈治國學雜話〉一篇文章中,對青年人的讀書態度和方法提出建議,整理如下:

中國書沒有整理過,十分難讀,這是人人公認的。但會做學問的人,覺得趣味就在這一點。吃現成,是最沒有意思的事,是最沒有出息的人才喜歡的。一種問題,被別人做完了,四平八正的編成教科書樣子給我讀,讀去自然是毫不費力。但從這不費力上頭結果便令我的心思不細緻不刻入。專門喜歡讀這類書的人,久而久之,會把自己創作的才能淹沒哩。

若問讀書方法,我想向諸君上一個條陳:這方法是極陳舊極笨極麻煩的,然而實在是極必要的。什麼方法呢?是抄錄或筆記。

好記性的人不見得便有智慧;有智慧的人比較的倒是記性不甚好。你所看見者是他發表出來的成果,不知他這成果原是從銖積寸累困之勉行得來的。大抵凡一個大學者平日用功,總是有無數小冊子或單紙片,讀書看見一段資料覺其有用者,即刻抄下。(短的抄全文,長的摘要記書名卷數頁數)。資料漸漸積的豐富,再用眼光來整理分析他,變成一篇名著。

青年學生"斐然有述做之譽",也是實際上鞭策學問的一種妙用。譬如同是讀《文獻通考》的《錢幣考》、各史《食貨志》中錢幣項下各文,泛泛讀去,沒有什麼所得。倘若你一面讀一面便打主意做一篇中國貨幣沿革考,這篇考做得好不好另一問題,你所讀的自然加幾倍受用。

每日所讀之書,最好分兩類:一類是精讀的,一類是涉覽的。因為我們一面要養成讀書心細的習慣,一面要養成讀書眼快的習慣。心不細則毫無所得,等於白讀;眼不快則時候不夠用,不能博搜資料。精讀之書,每日指定某時刻讀他,讀時一字不放過,讀完一部才讀別部,想抄錄的隨讀隨抄。另外指出一時刻,隨意涉覽,覺得有趣,注意細看,覺得無趣,便翻次頁,遇有想抄錄的,也俟讀完再抄,當時勿窒其機。

2010/03/14

超越自我的七個步驟

超越自我的七個步驟

*2010-03-14
*中國時報
*陳文和

面對職場上激烈的生存競爭,許多人都會對自己條件的不足感到不安。但專家認為,沒有人是十全十美的,每個人或多或少都有些缺點,但不應該因此自我設限,而是應該針對不足之處鞭策自己更努力追求進步。

美國「有線電視新聞網」(CNN)報導指出,要增進個人在職場的工作表現,就必須要面對並改善個人的種種缺點,而美國的企業諮詢顧問暨作家吉姆.泰勒(JimTaylor)對此提出了7項建議,據他表示,不應讓個人的不足之處綁手綁腳,當從了解自己出發,建立起基礎,以逐步改善自我。

泰勒強調:「若不了解自身弱點,就不可能改變自己。要想出人頭地,就必須要改進自身缺點。不要因為有若干缺憾而束手縛腳。要拿自己的不足之處充當資訊,增進職場的表現。」

泰勒表示,每個人的缺點通常都是可以控制的,只要努力一定能夠加以改善。他也指出,人們往往會高估或低估自己的短處,因此徵詢啟蒙者、親近的同事、朋友或配偶的看法至關緊要。

此外,泰勒也指出,對於改善自己的缺點將帶來何種變化,以及會如何造成變化,人們其實很難掌握,因而常會對此惴惴不安。泰勒建議可採行下列7個步驟,以改善個人在職場的表現並獲致成功。

1、了解自己

更深入的自我瞭解,是掌握個人職場生涯最佳表現方向的基礎。

2、自我鞭策

找出能激勵你勇往直前的動機。在落實目標的過程中,若沒有行動的決心與驅動力,一切努力都可能半途而廢。自我驅策能確保自己竭盡所能,做好一切實現目標的準備。

3、建立自信

相信自己。相信只要肯冒險,自己終將成功。這雖是老生常談,但也是積極正面的想法。但與其用「我最棒」這種不切實際的話給自己信心,不如告訴自己「我將努力不懈,我自信終有一日會功成名就。」

4、調適壓力

不論是運動選手或公司主管,處理壓力與應對危機的能力絕對不可或缺。壓力會讓人表現不盡理想,應當保持客觀判斷力,並做些可以讓自己放鬆的事。

5、專心一致

沒有人能一心多用,同時做好許多件事,這只是無稽之談。真正可行的是,處理好一件事,再明快地做下一件事。研究發現,一心多用,只會一事無成,所以別這麼做。

6、情緒管控

控管情緒是絕對必備的能力。要了解自己的包袱。人們面對某些處境時往往會產生憤怒、沮喪或絕望等情緒,這通常與個人被教養的方式有關。若能自知在特定處境下自己會有什麼反應,就能自行選擇其他的回應方式。

7、切莫自負

自尊心也是成功的必要條件。但卓越的企業除了追求事業成功外,還應勇於負責並注重倫理,許多傑出的企業領袖都非常謙遜。要在職場成功,應抱持謙遜的態度,避免夜郎自大的心態。