Last week I was in Canada as a part of Oracle Club Excellence, and I am fortunate to listen the speech of Jaime Clarke through business session. He is a mountaineer and climbed Mt Everest Summit in 1997.
During his speech, he talk lot about how you can achieve the goal that you set. He talk about fear, and how to handle those, how to learn from past experience. How not to give up with your goal etc.
Some of his demo presentation I found in his website, if you are interested visit him at
http://www.jamieclarke.com/MMpresSegments.htm
earlier this year, I also learned about Sir Ed Hillary, I read his interview and following I found is thoughtful.
"I really like to enjoy my adventures. I get frightened to death on many, many occasions but, of course, fear can be, also, a stimulating factor. When you're afraid, the blood surges in the veins and so on. If you get rigid through fear, quite obviously, fear is not a very satisfactory characteristic to have, but if it's a stimulating factor, then I think you can often extend yourself far more than you ever believed possible. And instead of being just a mediocre person, for a moment anyway, you become someone of considerable competence. "
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/hil0int-1
that's all for now.
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
How did we survive?
We had a great time with kids for their Firework on Jul 4th. And I hear the news regarding Fed is considering ban on Firwork in US. They are so much worry about kids due to few accident and some kids was dead/injured. I think this is wrong.
The person born before 70s they know they survived, eventhough they did what they are unsecure and harmful.
Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint and some of the baby has not seen the cribs, on the floor wow. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets, ...and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets. As children, we would ride on bike on lap. Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat. We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. We ate cupcakes , bread and butter , and drank soda pop with sugar in it,but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rodedown the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes..After running into the bushes a few times , we learned to solve the problem. We would leave home in the morning and play all day , as long as we wereback when the street lights came on . No one was able to reach us all day. NO CELL PHONES!!!!!
We did not have Playstations , Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no video games or even TV at all, personal computers , or Internet chat rooms. Still we had friends! We went outside and foundthem. We played ball, and sometimes, the ball would really hurt. (not us someone in 80s even though they survive no lawsuit). We fell out of trees , got cut and broke bones and teeth , and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to blame but us. Remember accidents?
We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get over it.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms, and although we were told it would happen, we did not put outvery many eyes , nor did the worms live inside us forever.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door, or rang the bell or just walked in and talked to them .
Some students weren't as smart as others, so they failed a grade andwere held back to repeat the same grade. Tests were not adjusted for any reason. Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. Our teacher beat us badly. The idea of a parent bailing us out if webroke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law.
Imagine that! This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problemsolvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
And still we survive and feel great.
The person born before 70s they know they survived, eventhough they did what they are unsecure and harmful.
Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint and some of the baby has not seen the cribs, on the floor wow. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets, ...and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets. As children, we would ride on bike on lap. Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat. We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. We ate cupcakes , bread and butter , and drank soda pop with sugar in it,but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rodedown the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes..After running into the bushes a few times , we learned to solve the problem. We would leave home in the morning and play all day , as long as we wereback when the street lights came on . No one was able to reach us all day. NO CELL PHONES!!!!!
We did not have Playstations , Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no video games or even TV at all, personal computers , or Internet chat rooms. Still we had friends! We went outside and foundthem. We played ball, and sometimes, the ball would really hurt. (not us someone in 80s even though they survive no lawsuit). We fell out of trees , got cut and broke bones and teeth , and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to blame but us. Remember accidents?
We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get over it.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms, and although we were told it would happen, we did not put outvery many eyes , nor did the worms live inside us forever.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door, or rang the bell or just walked in and talked to them .
Some students weren't as smart as others, so they failed a grade andwere held back to repeat the same grade. Tests were not adjusted for any reason. Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. Our teacher beat us badly. The idea of a parent bailing us out if webroke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law.
Imagine that! This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problemsolvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
And still we survive and feel great.
Monday, July 03, 2006
Don't trap in this rally
| Dow | 11,228.02 |  77.80 (0.70%) |
| Nasdaq | 2,190.43 | 18.34 (0.84%) |
| S&P 500 | 1,280.19 | 9.99 (0.79%) |
Mr BB had hike the rate and market like so much that it went up too much. They like comment "Recent indicators suggest that economic growth is moderating from its quite strong pace earlier this year"
It means the macro-econ0mic indicator is not good, and eventually corporat profit may stall. But market like this comment so much just by thinking Fed will stop hiking the rate, which is indeeed good for corporate profit in longer term. But longer term economy will stall as well.
Bottom line, sell sell sell in this rally and wait for good opportunity by end of this year.
Sunday, July 02, 2006
My moustache gone
After long time, I finally decided to remove my moustache and did it. Actually, I was always wondering about the look without moustache but this morning just did it without thinking futher. And it feel good. So once a while do the stuff you like without thinking of its consequences. Here is my pic.
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