Interloper View

What occupies our thought most is what our mind will focus on and get good at. Recently I realized that I have allowed myself to get distracted and am no longer focusing on my goals. I used to ask myself the following question, “Is what you are doing useful?” I have allowed too many distractions into my life - movies and comic/manga, computer games which do not benefit me in any way. Some distractions may be good to help us relax but I just realized that many of these activities seem to occupy more and more of my waking hours. None of them help me achieve my goals. These are the goals myself back in 1999 but somehow along the way I got sidetracked. Faith in God Physical and Mental Health Financial Security Self Improvement Now that I have come to this realization, it is time to take charge of my life again and redirect my focus and control the things that occupy my mind most. 

Recently I attended a training on whole brain thinking. It is provides an interesting way of understanding why people behave differently. It explains the difference in the preference in thinking. The brain is divided into four color codes - Yellow, Blue, Green and Red. Blue Goal Oriented Facts Based Quantitative Yellow Holistic Future Intuitive Green Process Driven Organized Red Emotional Social The thinking preference usually sets in after the age of 18. Once we reach the age of 18, our preference usually does not change. Based on our preference (what makes us happy), we can usually tell which is our color preference. Most of us have have a preference combination but there is usually one trait that is our strongest. Even though we each have a preference, being able to address the different preference will help us communicate better. For example, if you are communicating with a person with a blue preference, you need to provide lots of facts and f...

This is a snippet from the following url  which I thought may be useful for those dealing with Stock Market.  The summary of the article is as follow: Trading Do not wait for a reason for price movement. Do not trade when conditions are not favorable. Do not blame the market. Learn from losses. Find the path of least resistance Lose small and win big Be patient and sit tight through the bull run. Do not try to pick market top and bottom Average up not down. Do not have a position too large for your psychology Reverse your instincts. You cannot beat the market. Do not focus on how much money you are going to make. Do not listen to others. Do not trade the market to clear your debts. Know yourself Booms and bust will always happen because human nature does not change Sell after a reaction Do not follow or give tips Learn how to diagnose the market Manipulation Find an appropriate time to unload a large position. Make a stock active during the bull run. ...

I am currently reading the book A Mind at a Time (actually more listening since it is an audio book). I found this to be a very interesting book in helping understand myself and my children. A couple of things I took from the book are: Some people are visual thinkers - for these people, it is difficult for them to absorb if you provide too many words to them. We have three types of memory, short term (works only for 2 seconds), middle term and long term. For cases where the short term is faulty, it may sometimes cause the person not to be able to grasp input that is too fast. Sometimes, our memory is selective, so some people have very good recollection in certain subjects but not in others (I believe I fall into this category). Our long term memory is potentially unlimited but sometimes the way we store it may cause them to be unretrievable. Many times due to certain mental development dysfunction, people misunderstood. For example, a person may be very intelligent but because of prob...

Today I was introduced to an excellent site to help children learn. The URL is as follows: http://www.bbc.co.uk/children/ It looks like an excellent site to help learn English, Maths and Science.