so happy because of you

Today, it is really wonderful. I breath my home town's, Taipei, air, see my family and chatted with my WSI friends. Do you know that? When I arrived Taipei, I was so excited. I am so glad that my friends also welcome and expect me to go there. Fortunately, I met Alex, Ellen, Ruby, Kevin...etc. I am so pleasure that she is always willing to share her secret with me. I am so lucky that Alex always teaches me a lot about " life". I am so happy that I make Ruby be my friend. All of them are really nice. They are not only my friend but also my motivities for speaking and listening English. They have big significances on me. I would like to say "Thank you for those."

The 90/10 Principle

Author : Stephen Covey ( Management Guru) Have you read this before? Discover the 90/10 Principle. It will change your life (at least the way you react to situations). What is this principle?
10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react. What does this mean? We really have no control over 10% of what happens to us. We cannot stop the car from breaking down. The plane will be late arriving, which throws our whole schedule off. A driver may cut us off in traffic. We have no control over this 10%. The other 90% is different. You determine the other 90%.
How? By your reaction. You cannot control a red light., but you can control your reaction. Don't let people fool you; YOU can control how you react.
Let's use an example. You are eating breakfast with your family. Your daughter knocks over a cup of coffee onto your business shirt. You have no control over what just what happened. What happens when the next will be determined by how you react.You curse. You harshly scold your daughter for knocking the cup over. She breaks down in tears. After scolding her, you turn to your spouse and criticize her for placing the cup too close to the edge of the table. A short verbal battle follows. You storm upstairs and change your shirt. Back downstairs, you find your daughter has been too busy crying to finish breakfast and get ready for school. She misses the bus. Your spouse must leave
immediately for work.
You rush to the car and drive your daughter to school. Because you are late, you drive 40 miles an hour in a 30 mph speed limit. After a 15-minute delay and throwing $60 traffic fine away, you arrive at school. Your daughter runs into the building without saying goodbye. After arriving at the office 20 minutes late, you find you forgot your briefcase. Your day has started terrible. As it continues, it seems to get worse and worse. You look forward to coming home, When you arrive home, you find small wedge in your relationship with your spouse and daughter. Why? Because of how you reacted in the morning. Why did you have a bad day?

A) Did the coffee cause it?
B) Did your daughter cause it?
C) Did the policeman cause it?
D) Did you cause it?

The answer is " D".

You had no control over what happened with the coffee. How you reacted in those 5 seconds is what caused your bad day. Here is what could have and should have happened.
Coffee splashes over you. Your daughter is about to cry. You gently say, "It's ok honey, you just need, to be more careful next time". Grabbing a towel you rush upstairs. After grabbing a new shirt and your briefcase, you come back down in time to look through the window and see your child getting on the bus. She turns and waves. You arrive 5 minutes early and cheerfully greet the staff. Your boss comments on how good the day you are having. Notice the difference? Two different scenarios. Both started the same. Both
ended different.
Why? Because of how you REACTED. You really do not have any control over 10% of what happens. The other 90% was determined by your reaction.
Here are some ways to apply the 90/10 principle. If someone says something negative about you, don't be a sponge. Let the attack roll off like water on glass. You don't have to let the negative comment affect you! React properly and it will not ruin your day. A wrong reaction could result in losing a friend, being fired, getting stressed out etc. How do you react if someone cuts you off in traffic? Do you lose your temper? Pound on the steering wheel? A friend of mine had the steering wheel fall off
Do you curse? Does your blood pressure skyrocket? Do you try and bump them? WHO CARES if you arrive ten seconds later at work? Why let the cars ruin your drive? Remember the 90/10 principle, and do not worry about it.
You are told you lost your job. Why lose sleep and get irritated? It will work out. Use your worrying energy and time into finding another job. The plane is late; it is going to mangle your schedule for the day. Why take out your frustration on the flight attendant? She has no control over what is going on. Use your time to study, get to know the other passenger. Why get stressed out? It will just make things worse. Now you know the 90-10 principle. Apply it and you will be amazed at the results. You will lose nothing if you try it.

The 90-10 principle is incredible. Very few know and apply this principle.

The result? Millions of people are suffering from undeserved stress, trials, problems and heartache. We all must understand and apply the 90/10 principle.

It CAN change your life!!!

pumpkin pancake

I am so missing my family, because I didn't come home last week. I am counting down. Tonight, I ate a pumpkin pancake. It is so good that I would like to cook for my parents. I plan to buy some ingredients of a pancake. I also prepare to cook different tastes such as sweet potato and taros. About the ingredients are flour, cassava, Chinese broccoli, radish ,and dried laver. I forgot to tell you a thing. I would like to try another way to cook that is baking. Oh! I am too hungry to think. I will cook it by my heart, in order to make them feel my love. I hope I can do it successfully and express appreciation as much as I have. I can not wait for a minute

my brother \)^0^(/

Today, I would like to introduce a special person. Who graduated from Chenggone High School and now study at the same school and department with me. Recalling before, one day we went home together from our college. At first he told me he forgot his key so he must go to his uncle's home to get it. I could tell you if I wouldn't have gone with him, he haven't had known where his uncle's home is. Actually, I don't know where it is. But ,fortunately, the house is near mine. How could I know it? The reason is he told me the house is at the same MRT station with me so he could accompany with me to go home. As soon as we left the station, he was not sure which direction is correct. I told him thet the probability of that location direction was 90%. At least as we went a long time he remembered it. However, after that day, he told me he still took a mistake. The right place is the next road. The thing was his uncle told him. There are a lot of this kind of examples. Except those he is a not only kind but generrous person. He really cares about me. He also has a sense of humer and good temperament. Finally, what is our relationship? We are brother and sister. I am so lucky that he is my old brother-non-in-blood.

Today! I don't have any topic! But I want to say I will go to WSI this Friday! And I should take my fighting fish go home. Because next week has four holiday about praying ancestors. And I had better buy food and some decrations for my fish and its home. I plan to have my hair cut and preview my textbooks. There will be a lot of mid-term exams after two weeks, so I should study hard and use my time well an order to get pretty grades. And there is a traveling in me schedule. It is my class traveling. When I come back, I will tell you how is it. Please expect it. SEE YOU SOON

cultivate the heart and nature

This weekend, I attended a conferecne about religion. The target was how to cultivate the heart and nature. We should not be let by external factors affect ourselves, but be as hard as iron and stone. We should learn how to identify whether the thing is true or not. We should understand helping people is equal to helping ourselves. We had better think more others than ourselves. We had better introspect ourselves but not criticize others. We should learn the way of examint our mind when we go to bed everynight. Therefore, we could know what we did is wrong and find which one we can do will be better even the best. As a consequence, we might not take the same mistake twice even be more successful. Finally, the most important and the most basic thing is filial towards our parents. One of the reasons is they not only the most intimate with us but also volunteer to do more things for oueselves than for themselves without payment. The other is if we want to be at the top of society, we must be able to live with our families in pease and deal with problems well at the first step.