Seeing The Big Picture

Do you remember as a child how excited you got when you received a new toy as  a birthday’s present? Some of you ripped open the box the quickest way possible, played with the toy like nobody business and when you bored, you just put it away and hate to see it again .  Others read the instruction behind the box first, carefully opened the box and try as careful as possible not to ‘hurt’ the box, play with the toy nicely and you keep your toy in the safest place so nobody can touch your precious toy .  Remember when your nasty little brother suddenly grabbed your toy away from you and he immediately claimed that it is his toy.  What would you do? Well, some of you will cry and others will just let their toy being confiscated by others and play with other toys like nothing happened.  Does one of these characters sound like you?

Are you the Popular Sanguine (The Playful Master) who played with your toy excitedly and easily get bored?

Or, the Perfect Melancholy (D’Thinker) who read the instructions first, analyze the toy before you can even play with it?

Or the Powerful Choleric (The Action Figure) who love taking other people toy and take control whenever you feel you can or you want to?

Or the Peaceful Phlegmatic (The Pacifier) who rather stay away from trouble and try to live a simple non-troublesome life?

Whatever your character is, each and everyone of you is unique.  Our character and personality makes us special.  GOD created us with different personality so that we can learn from each other about the different we may have.  The world will be a chaos if everyone has the same personality trait.  Imagine the world where everyone try to control and everyone wants to be in charge of anything, we will live in a manipulating world try to win over power.

That’s why when we look back at the differences we had, it’s like putting together a puzzle especially when we face a working life nowadays.  Some people come in hoping to have fun; some play strict by the rules and inflexible; some tell everyone else what to do, even if there are not in charge; and some will compromise consistently if it will avoid conflict.  The question is, how can we ever understand all of these various personalities?

To answer that question, we must first answer this important question: Who Am I?  Am I a Popular Sanguine? Or Perfect Melancholy? Or is it possible that I might be the Powerful Choleric? Or would I love to settle as the Peaceful Phlegmatic?  Next, after we know who we are, it is very important to accept other personalities as it were.  Remember you can’t expect everyone to be like you.  Accept others differences and start to look people from the bright positive angle.  That way you will understand why people do things differently.

When GOD created humanity to express the four basic personalities, GOD also put that expression when creating our precious heart in our body.  Within our heart there are four chambers.  Two of these are receiving chambers (auricles), corresponding to the two introverted introspective personalities, Melancholy & Phlegmatic.  The other two are pumping chambers (ventricles) much like the extroverted driven personalities, Sanguine & Choleric.  Isn’t it amazing?

Just as the four heart chambers are essential to balanced, well-functioning circulatory system, and therefore to biological life itself, the four personalities are essential to well-balanced human condition.

What You Should Know...

• There are 318, 979, 564, 000 possible ways to play the first four moves of a chess game on each side of the board.

• The first chess champion of the world was Wilhelm Steinitz. He defeated Johannes Zukertort in 1886.

• American chess champion, Bobby Fischer, played his last match against Boris Spassky in 1992. He won the match after disappearing for 20 years.

• In 1891, a group in Dublin, Ireland formed the “Club of Living Chess,” where live players were used as the pieces. The group performed for charity events.

• The USSR banned blind chess in 1930. Authorities felt that a player’s mental health was in danger when they played without being able to see the board.

• In September 1976, Edward Lasker, then 90 years old, took part in the tetex chess match between New York and London. It’s believed he is the oldest person to participate in an international tournament.

• The shortest chess game recorded lasted for only one move. It was played between Rogoff and Huber in 1972.

• The youngest Grandmaster was Bacrot was only fourteen years, 2 months old in 1977 when he received the title. (but i think this title has just been broken by a 12 year old).

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Let's Be Good & Rich!

What’s the root of all evil? 

Money, right? Wrong!

You’d be amazed how many people think being rich will make their lives worse, like they won’t be judged for who they are but for their money. So even though they want to be rich, they shirk it at the same time.

This subtle yet profound fear keeps people from the truth: it’s good to be rich! Not just for the lifestyle, but because in the end, being rich makes us into better people.

I can hear someone screaming, “What about the rich jerk who doesn’t tip even though the service was great? How’s money made him a better person?” Here’s a clue: whoever you are, money will make you more of that. If you are a kind, generous person who attracted like-minded people before being rich, you’ll continue to do so after because now you’ll be able to be even more generous on a larger scale.

It’s our duty to become rich if we can. We have an obligation to grow to our greatest potential, developing the character that can achieveand care about other people at the same time. This is the growth that will ultimately make us into better people.

So what is the root of all evil? It’s not stacks of paper. Fear is at the root of our thoughts that tell us becoming rich will make things worse and take us away from being loved, accepted, and well-thought of.

If we don’t accept that being rich can be a good thing for ourselves and for others, fear and doubt creates envy. Envy says, “I can’t have that, and I resent those that do.” Acceptance of what you really want says, “I can have that, and I will be a better person because of it.”

So instead of secretly despising rich people, we should affirm them, even if they’re frickin jerks. We’re not affirming who they are as people—we’re affirming the idea that it’s okay to be rich. You can make a choice not to be selfish, arrogant, and thoughtless. Fear and envy negate thoughts of wealth and result in feelings and actions that take you away from it, even when you’re not aware of it.

Here’s a simple exercise in overcoming fear. Think of something that you’ve always wanted to do but never got around to, and just do it (Don’t break any laws, though!). Even if you end up not wanting to do it again, at least you know instead of just holding back for whatever reason. You’ve broken through something, and other breakthroughs become easier. It’s the only way we’ll ever grow.

This is not just about being rich, although that is one of the goals. This is about growing ourselves to become bigger than the obstacles we’ll face in life. The more wonder we experience and challenges we face, the more we expand to be able to take in more; the good and the bad; the money and the problems that come with it. In the end, striving toward becoming rich can only serve you, and if you choose it, serve others as well. How’s that a bad thing?