Showing posts with label Secrets of Success. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Secrets of Success. Show all posts
Monday, February 25, 2008
I Build, I Dream, I Love, Anyway
You can spend your whole life building
Something from nothin'
One storm can come and blow it all away
Build it anyway
You can chase a dream
That seems so out of reach
And you know it might not ever come your way
Dream it anyway
God is great
But sometimes life ain't good
And when I pray
It doesn't always turn out like I think it should
But I do it anyway
Yea- I do it anyway
This world's gone crazy
It's hard to believe
That tomorrow will be better than today
Believe it anyway
You can love someone with all your heart
For all the right reasons
In a moment they can choose to walk away
Love 'em anyway
God is great
But sometimes life ain't good
And when I pray
It doesn't always turn out like I think it should
But I do it anyway
Yea - I do it anyway
You can pour your soul out singing
A song you believe in
That tomorrow they'll forget you ever sang
Sing it anyway
Yea, sing it anyway
Yeah, yeah!
I sing
I dream
I love anyway
Sunday, February 24, 2008
A Dance That Moved Millions to Tears
Zen Lesson of the Day:
Never give up your dream! Even if you have lost your right arm or left leg, in real life, or in the stock market!
This award-winning dance is a miracle and a real life story of the life struggles of a dancer who lost her right arm and a man who lost his left leg.
The girl dancer, Ma Li, lost her dance career and boyfriend after she lost her right arm in a traffic accident. She tried to commit suicide at home. Fortunately the attempt was discovered by her parents. The whole family washed their faces with tears.
The boy dancer, Xi Xiao Wei, fell from a tree at the age of four, was ran over by a rural tractor over his left leg. He slept in a coma for seven days and nights. Upon waking up and feeling so hungry, while his father was trying to give him a lecture on setbacks in life, the boy asked: “Do setbacks taste good, papa?” Dad left the food on the table and walked out in tears while murmuring: “Setbacks taste good. You eat slowly, one by one, OK?”
The boy had no background in dancing and did not know how to hold his partner. During their rehearsals, the girl had to endure countless painful falls for endless days and nights...
And the end result is this dance of amazing grace and beauty that drove millions to tears all around the world.
THE LESSON
This is another testimonial that the biggest setback in life is often the unusual springboard to unprecedented success, just like what happens in the stock market. This fall down and rise up phenomenon is the manifestation of the cosmic force behind value investing: The Law of Yin-Yang. You always have the darkest night before the light of the day.
Therefore, success springs from painful setback and struggle. Failure murks from self-congratulation and arrogance.
Just as Benjamin Graham quoted: "Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that now are in honor." (HORACE -- Ars Poetica.)
Brian Zen, CFA
http://www.zenway.com - from wisdom to wealth
Never give up your dream! Even if you have lost your right arm or left leg, in real life, or in the stock market!
This award-winning dance is a miracle and a real life story of the life struggles of a dancer who lost her right arm and a man who lost his left leg.
The girl dancer, Ma Li, lost her dance career and boyfriend after she lost her right arm in a traffic accident. She tried to commit suicide at home. Fortunately the attempt was discovered by her parents. The whole family washed their faces with tears.
The boy dancer, Xi Xiao Wei, fell from a tree at the age of four, was ran over by a rural tractor over his left leg. He slept in a coma for seven days and nights. Upon waking up and feeling so hungry, while his father was trying to give him a lecture on setbacks in life, the boy asked: “Do setbacks taste good, papa?” Dad left the food on the table and walked out in tears while murmuring: “Setbacks taste good. You eat slowly, one by one, OK?”
The boy had no background in dancing and did not know how to hold his partner. During their rehearsals, the girl had to endure countless painful falls for endless days and nights...
And the end result is this dance of amazing grace and beauty that drove millions to tears all around the world.
THE LESSON
This is another testimonial that the biggest setback in life is often the unusual springboard to unprecedented success, just like what happens in the stock market. This fall down and rise up phenomenon is the manifestation of the cosmic force behind value investing: The Law of Yin-Yang. You always have the darkest night before the light of the day.
Therefore, success springs from painful setback and struggle. Failure murks from self-congratulation and arrogance.
Just as Benjamin Graham quoted: "Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that now are in honor." (HORACE -- Ars Poetica.)
Brian Zen, CFA
http://www.zenway.com - from wisdom to wealth
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