In this life to be a WOMAN like this...

Tomorrow is International Women’s Day. As it is said "Behind every successful man, there stands a woman,” however, nowadays women are playing diversified important roles in this fierce competitive business world just as men. Women are becoming more economical and spiritual independent and being good at social connections and communications. There are tons of vivid and successful stories and articles about powerful women with their inspirational sharing.  

Even if each of us is unique and different, everyone has his/her own definition of success; nevertheless, success should be measured not only so much by the position or social status that one has reached in life, but by the obstacles which he/she has overcome, how happy and satisfactory your life is and your inner spiritual fulfillment.

In this life, do you want to be a woman like this?

• Being a strong woman. Embrace every moment, be honest to yourself, understand failure goes hand-in-hand with success, learn to forget people and things that are not belonging to you, do not afraid future and dread of taking risks.

• Being an exquisite woman. Deeply passionate about what you do no matter it is job or life, take care of yourself physically and spiritually, cherish your life, believe that you will be successful one day, don't expect perfection of yourself or those around you. Perfection never really exists in this world. We each, if we're lucky, will have our chance to leave a mark on the world, but we are trying too hard to be perfect. 

• Being a happy and warm-hearted woman. Know how to foster genuine relationships and keep them strong, express gratitude to those around you, give your beautiful smile everyday as we only live in this life, and enjoy your charming days, ladies! 

Appreciation –Blissful and Strong

Recently, some unexpected frustrating things happened that completely remind me how bad it could be if there is no trust between people, especially if people lie to their beloved families and friends; How worse it could be if people only think about themselves, being selfish, cruel, and hardhearted; How worst it could be if people take others’ care, love, help for granted, they never show their gratitude and appreciation. When all these negative thoughts come into my mind, suddenly, I feel depressed and sad. However, I am always the one with unswerving beliefs of humane love and warmhearted help as well as kindness appreciation. More importantly, I feel so blissful and lucky that I give my goodness love to those who need it; ultimately, I received all my love back.

Personally speaking, staying in Canada alone only five and half months, there are indeed a lot of things I need to encounter and experience exclusively besides the inclement weather. It is extremely colder this year, but I actually have the utmost warmest appreciation in my heart. We didn't know each other before, but when I need help, they are always willing to give me their warm hands. Even tiny and negligible help, caring words, warm hugs and simple smiles could make us feel much better and more positive about lives. Frankly, I just don’t know how to express my huge appreciation to them. But I do remember my best friend once said to me recently “We all need others’ help, nobody could veritably live alone. Now you need help, one day when you are strong enough, you will also help others because you know how happier you could give your help to them and how harder whatever they have had been through.”

As Audrey Hepburn once said “If you ever need a helping hand, you will find them at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. ”  

Here is the book I like The Simple Truths of Appreciation. Hope it is helpful and enjoyable for you too.

Time is Power

Have you ever thought about time? How much of time can we have in life? Recently, there is a series of startling numbers that really catch my eyes and make me give it a serious consideration.

Suppose if we can live up to 83 years old, 365 days a year, then you could have 30, 295 days for this life. If you are 20 years old, then you already lost 7,300 days. You only have 22, 995 days. Essentially, life is a subtracted journey. All the past will be gone forever. We all know “there is no regret remedy for all the past things”. Everyone only lives in this current moment. So, life is short. You may feel like it takes forever sometimes, but the reality is that you live, and then you die. It happens so quickly, many people don’t even realize they had a life until it is already over.

Time is power. We should not take it as granted. Here are several things we should stop doing. 

• Stop procrastinating. I don’t feel like procrastinating right now – I will do it tomorrow. When you procrastinate, you remain stagnant. Whatever things you are putting off don’t go away; resolve the problems, and move on.
• Stop wasting time. Time is the most valuable resource we have. Don’t waste your time on unproductive things.
• Stop being lazy. Laziness is annoying. If I can’t do something as simple as going to a movie with you without wasting an hour to convince you to get your lazy butt out of bed, I would rather go alone. We all have enough trouble motivating ourselves; please don’t make your friends and family waste their valuable energy motivating you as well.
• Stop doubting yourself. If you don’t believe in yourself, nobody will. Success starts in your mind, and if all you are doing is putting yourself down and predicting failure, it will become a failure-fulfilling prophecy. Instead of doubting yourself, think positively. Not only will you be happier and more successful, you will spread it to everyone around you.  

You are that Unique Sparkling Star

Do you come across a moment that you need to make a life-changing decision or pull the trigger on some things to be done? Do you dread to face failures in life? Because nobody can tell you what is your future will be, will it become better or worse? This is a big unpredictable question mark coming into our minds when thinking about change and future, challenges and opportunities, success and failure, what can make us cheering up and keeping going? 

In the depth of our hearts, we are eager to do something special or obtain a sense of achievement, but sometimes we are vacillating for a long time, maybe due to lack of courage and determination, or just dread of failures. Everyone is growing and learning in your own unique life journey. Essentially, you are that unique sparkling star in the darkness. You are your own master, no matter what happen to you, calm down, take a deep breath, you are stronger than you could image. Over the next few months, I will take you into this magical journey finding your miraculous inner strength, actually nothing can defeat you, as long as you believe I have my perpetuating inner power, I can do it. Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come.       

“God doesn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but he does promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.”