Life Promises

I believe that one of the hardest thing in life is to "trust" and the second hardest thing is to "change". Normal people deal with one or the other separately. But there are times in our lives when both merge together to bring life unexpected challenges. When that happens, it is up to you to decide how the story should begin and how it should end. Both really goes together if you really think about it. I believe the greatest reward is to be able to sail through the headwind of change and trust that it will take you to more places than you ever imagined. That probably sound more like a fortune cookies, but in reality who really are brave enough to take on the challenge? In my opinion, most normal people back away from things being different. Let's face it, it is easy that way. They do not believe that it can be pleasant. Most of the time, the initial stages are not. At that point they make excuses, redefine the situation, or even just simply deny the reason to have that change. Usually at the point, the person is starting to give up on the idea of change. Then, that is when I think trust comes in. The second headwind that push you back, push you forward, or to even push you to giving up. It is the double edge sword that people often mistakenly get cut by. Trust can only formulate when you first have the desire to take ownership of that task and then follow by the person's ability to accomplish that task. Once you can master both, then that is when trust begin to build and many time lead to exponential and unexplainable returns. Usually we have self doubt of our ability to even start that path or to even continue. We hit a wall where our motivation decrease to a point where we start creating the reason to reject that change. That is when you reach the two cross winds that blow you off course.

So what does all this rambling mean? Well I think first is to start with getting to the right state of mind. Embrace the unknown and believe. Just let go and believe. Nothing else. The simple belief that life is about embracing what you do not realize you will earn. The unexpected can come as a surprise or it can come when you just allow a door to be opened. It doesn't have to be unplanned, it just needs to have the opportunity for things to go according to plan. That is where the Almighty, the Ala, the Buddha, or god comes in. It is the force that call life that you can rely and trust. That force begin with His trust in you. In return you trust life and it circles back to trusting yourself. This is not self glamorization,but more preserving why miracle exist in this thing call life. I believe there is miracle evil, miracle good, miracle love, and many other miracles that life bring. These miracles may not be persistent and if were persistent, then they wouldn't be miracles anymore. So that "force" come into play in developing those miracles and the energy or that fuel to create that force comes from "change" and "trust". Bottom line, embrace life for what you get and what you do not get. Because you never know where that force of wind may take you to. But where ever it does takes you, it is the only consistent wind that will sail you to what life is about for you.

Our great Change

As earning season starts, I like to look back at who are our president's top donors in 2008 election. In recent news, Goldman just annouced on average their employees would receive 700K (average) in bonus. Also looking back at the people who gets hired into his cabinet and those who receive bail out money, I can see why Obama got praised by so many. See any trends?

University of California $1,564,490
Goldman Sachs $994,795
Harvard University $854,017
Microsoft Corp $833,617
Google Inc $803,436
Citigroup Inc $699,790
JPMorgan Chase & Co $695,132
Time Warner $589,334
Sidley Austin LLP $588,598
Stanford University $586,557
National Amusements Inc $550,683
UBS AG $543,219
Wilmerhale Llp $542,618
Skadden, Arps et al $530,839
IBM Corp $527,572
Columbia University $526,802
Morgan Stanley $514,881
General Electric $499,130
Latham & Watkins $493,835
US Government $491,420

Don't believe me? Check out http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638