Have You Stopped Your 'TUITION CLASSES' ?

Have You Stopped Your 'TUITION' ?

Have you stopped your TUITION yet?  Yes, this query is directed to everyone of us.  This is not a misplaced or misguided question.  In one of the talks hosted by Les Brown, a very respected American inspirational speaker, he did pose this question to the audience.  And expectedly, everyone felt stomped with it.

Oh, that toga. it brings us back to those nostalgic moments when you were formally confirmed to have graduated from your school's portals.  Indeed, who won't feel emotional after enduring so many long years of challenges in the academe but we got a bit of an issue here.  Most of us thought that, that was the culmination of all the tuition.  Les Brown disagrees though.

Did you get perplexed and confused ?  Because you likely thought that topics about tuition have been buried  as part of our school memories ?  But we're all wrong if we thought our tuition ended long time back because tuition is here to stay with us.  There's no just no way for us to divorce ourselves from tuition simply because of one key word.

It's all because of LEARNING.  LEARNING is a lifelong process.  LEARNING did not end when we graduated.  Nor did it end when you started working professionally.  And the more it won't stop even when you go up the corporate ladder.  LEARNING comes in various shapes and forms.  Your fumbling act will need LEARNING.  Your miscues can only be addressed with LEARNING.  Your hiccups in life can be best fixed by LEARNING.

Why do we need to continue LEARNING ?  'coz we gotta learn what we DON'T know.  It doesn't take an Einstein to learn and improve yourself.  And learning resources are everywhere.  You can tap people you trust to coach and mentor you.  By yourself, READ READ READ [not just in the proliferation of social media].  Talk to yourself. Be your own booster.  

Start encouraging yourself.  Get yourself together.  What you knowledge have you learned the past months ?  What new skills have you equipped yourself ? Let's monitor subconsciously our inner selves and start talking to yourself. Start encouraging yourself and start saying 'I CAN MAKE THIS HAPPEN' Always remember you can handle all these, except that you haven't figured it out yet.✅✅✅

The More I Learn, the more I learn that I have more to learn

The More I Learn, the more I learn that I have more to learn

For Christians, today is a Good Friday but whatever the day is when the calendar flips over, my thirst for learning remains unabated, unrestrained, unperturbed.  So I concocted this kilometric-long quotation [hehehe, I can secure my copyright for this]:  THE MORE I LEARN, THE MORE I LEARN THAT I HAVE MORE TO LEARN.  But this is exactly how I feel, how I breath life, how I lead my life.  Everyday that dawns upon me is another opportunity I grab and leverage on BECAUSE I am fully cognizant that if that slips past me, that is a LOST OPPORTUNITY I cannot recoup by all means.  BTW, I don't take TRAININGs simply for compliance.  No Senor.

Albert Einstein, one of the greatest physicist ever, said: 'ONCE YOU STOP LEARNING, YOU START DYING'.  I'm sorry, this is neither a THREAT nor a WARNING.  Do take this as a 'WAKE-UP CALL'.  Unfortunately, this pandemic is used as a reason by many to stop learning.

If you're in a very bad shape, if your house is 'on fire' [figuratively speaking], you could be facing ten top burning priorities all at the same time but hey, we're just humans, we can just execute one task at a time.  BTW, even those supercomputers who swag and swank their MPP [massive parallel processing] but from a technical jargon, their multi-threading still means one execution at a time.  Difference is, their execution is a thousand times faster.

If there's one major DON'T, DON'T FOCUS ON WHAT YOU CAN'T FIX.  That simplifies the equation and that restores order to the mess you're now in.  Akin to that picture where you're caught up in a ring of fire, the TOP PRIORITY is NOT to fight that fire but rather, how to extricate and wiggle yourself out of that inferno.  It's all SETTING PRIORITIES.

Borrowing the favorite keyword of Former US President Bill Clinton, it was 'KISS' [i.e. keep it simple, shit].  In a topsy-turvy world, you gotta clear things up before you clear things up.  Where there are one too many priorities pulling you across different directions, first things first, you gotta take things in control.

Problem is, some [or rather, MANY] of us, just think too much, OVERTHINKING in fact.  But as Chinese martial arts expert Bruce Lee said, IF YOU SPEND TOO MUCH TIME THINKING ABOUT A THING, YOU'LL NEVER GET IT DONE.  In two blunt sarcastic words, that is ANALYSIS PARALYSIS no less.  Before you know it, it's GAME OVER, zero time left for you.

On the other hand, there are times when we want to just do one too many things which is laudable and understandable especially when there are multiple TOP PRIORITIES.  Hmmmm, let's look how those tournament standings are all tied in total points and they had to break up those ties.  But you might ask me, when we're at home, locked out because of this pandemic and we got ten priorities, how do we break up those ten very top priorities ?  In basic accounting, we call that the 'T' account wherein I use the 'T' table to list all benefits on the left, disadvantages on the right.  Obviously, you factor-in the impact to either side of the 'T' table.  And that's when you can simplify a rather complex equation.

At the end of the day, you gotta 'MAKE THE GRADE'.  Don't settle for something less than the best performance you can give but as the old cliche goes, 'IF YOU AIM FOR THE SKY, IF YOU FAIL, YOU WILL FALL ON THE TREE TOP.  IF YOU AIM FOR THE TREE TOP, YOU WILL FALL ON THE GROUND'.  BTW, 'falling on the ground is spelled "M-E-D-I-O-C-R-I-T-Y' and that's a blot of ink we should avoid because eventually, that blot can become an stigma.  You might get tagged for that MEDIOCRITY.  And this brings us full circle back with LEARNING LEARNING LEARNING because that is a life-long process we can't just get away with folks. ✅✅✅