Limiting beliefs

I'm a huge fan of Tony Robbins. In one of his videos, he stated that amongst reasons people don't succeed is because they are dragged down by limiting beliefs. A lot of people have goals but lack the faith to take action. Inaction may then lead to the belief that one is a failure and that cycle continues in a downward spiral.

However, limiting beliefs can also be broken. Beliefs are set up by how we interprete meaning of events. Failure could mean one should give up but it could also mean he is a step closer to success.

"Every failure learnt is a step forward"

I overcame a limiting belief today. About how I am not the best in math and that I will not succeed because of that. Backed that by another strategy; evidence. Evidence of people succeeding regardless of being weak in a particular attribute because they have their own strengths.

It is ironic how a limiting belief that runs in one's subconscious can create such uncertainty that can deviate one from their ideal path and how much energy it takes from someone. I'll pay more attention to my thoughts from now onwards. Looking forward to resolving those beliefs.

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Goals

“The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step, keep with the problem, or determined to carry our their dream.”

Revised and planned my goals this morning using The Official 2014 Goal Setting and Action Workbook (PDF)  from LiveYourLegend.  Took some time to complete it but now at least I have more peace knowing that my ideal is backed by a plan.  

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Meditation and lucid dreams

I did a brief meditation yesterday where I visualized myself stepping out from the present and visited my ideal in the future. After I'm done "exploring", from a 3rd person point of view I visualized how the ideals all lead back to the present (tomorrow's ideals comes back to decisions and actions of the present) and how there was also a route to mediocrity. I vanished the route to mediocrity and returned to the present feeling energised.

This morning, before waking up, I had a lucid dream of visiting my ideal. Nothing changed but it was a great way to start my day knowing how the future might unravel.

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Occupied.

So the last time I posted was about a year ago when I was so hyped up with achieving my fitness goals. A year after, here I am, still working towards that ideal as I lost focus back then.

I took and passed my last exam in Jan this year which means that I'm done with my Diploma in Accountancy. However, I feel that I'm not quite done with accounting just yet.

Also, I finally decided to study for the actuarial exams which I have been putting off for almost 2 years because frankly, I was intimidated by the Math.

In May, I started attending college again. I'm now doing a Bachelors in Finance and Investments.

In July, I enrolled for Exam P in September. I'll only be heading back home after I'm done with the test in September although holidays starts end of August. Also, I decided to participate in the upcoming marathon held in Penang this November. I haven't registered but I am training for it.

Yesterday, 9th August, I set another goal for myself which is to finish 30 books in year. The deadline would be 9th August, 2015.

Today, I renamed this blog to The Path because the old blog title would clearly not have much relevance to future posts.

That's all for now.



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Hard Rock

Since I have been craving burgers a.k.a Carbs with patties which are loaded with FAT not to mention cheese, dressings and fries which blows calories through the roof!


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You get the point. : P






So this was planned the week before . . .

Hard Rock Cafe, Kuala Lumpur

This is what we had;

CALIFORNIA BURGER @ MYR49.90

A toasted burn brushed with Ranch dressing, fresh cucumber slices, lettuce, tomato, fresh-made Hard Rock Guacamole and topped with Monterey Jack cheese.

S.O.B. BURGER @ MYR49.90

Basted with spicy Chipotle Pepper puree and topped with Monterey Jack cheese. Served on a buttered-toasted bun with Hard Rock Guacamole & grilled onions.

FRESH APPLE COBBLER @ MYR20.00

A country favourite, served warm with vanilla ice cream, topped with walnuts and caramel sauce.

I had the S.O.B burger. It didn't taste specially good though. As I'm writing this, I'm thinking of the burger I had in Howdy Grillhouse, Kuching. : P I'll blog about the burger @ Howdy's in another post some other time.

However, their Apple Cobbler did make it into one of favorite desserts; apart from brownies at TGIF and Nando's.



Hard Rock's Apple Cobbler served with a scoop of Häagen-Dazs ice cream with caramel is just something I think everyone should have a try. Period.

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The DSM: Psychiatry's Deadliest Scam

The Diagnostic and Statistical Model of Mental Disorder (DSM) is used by clinicians and psychiatrists to diagnose mental illness.

What I got from this video;

1. The DSM is growing thicker edition by edition so that psychiatrist have a larger client base.
2. Pharmaceutical companies are supplying psychotropic drugs that are harmful.
3. Treatment funding is obtained from tax money.  
4. Psychiatrists and Clinicians 'vote' for new mental disorders to be included in the DSM (and there is no empirical data to justify the existence of the disorder).
5. 'Chemical imbalances' is to be blamed for some mental disorders such as depression and studies can only hypothesize on the etiological aspect. This means that drugs (mainly SSRIs) that cause changes in biochemical functioning are given out based on studies that are non-conclusive. 
6. There is still no known causes of psychiatric illnesses.
7. Directors of NIMH do not acknowledge the use of DSM. 

For now, I stand neutral as I do not have enough knowledge in this particular area of study.
I'll make another post on this after I do more reading on the subject.






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How to Study Effectively?

Here's a list of what I perceive as Steps to Effective Study;

General rules;  (Credits to Robin Sharma)

1. Plan goals
• Decide on what to cover for the day
• e.g. number of chapters to cover
2. Plan time
• Decide on when and how long to study
• e.g. 2 hours a day
3. Plan resources
• Make sure you have everything you need so there's no reason to do something else
• e.g. have all your study materials ready
• a glass of water to have no reason to be in the kitchen
• this also includes having resources to effective study such as a friend to tutor
4. Minimize distractions
• Select a study location with minimal distractions 
• e.g. avoid studying in front of the television or while watching movies, even listening to songs as it is proven that we are poor in multitasking 

Execution; 

1. Determine on what you need to study
• For me, I take the number of chapters I need to cover throughout the semester divided by 80% of the number of days I have left.
• E.g. I have 4 subjects with 10 chapters each and my finals is 100 days away. 
• The total number of chapters I'll need to cover is 40 chapters (4 subjects x 10 chapters)
• 80% of 100 days is 80days
• So I'll have to study at least 0.5 chapters daily (40 chapters/80days)
• Allocate some time each day to recap on what you have learnt previously     
2. Study using the 25/5 method. (Credits to Azilleo)
• Study for 25 minutes and take a 5 minutes break
• Do not do anything else besides studying during the 25 minutes
• After 25 minutes of studying, reward yourselves during the 5 minutes.
• it could be as simple as listening to a song
• After 4 sessions, 2 hours. Take a 30 minutes break then repeat.
• ***Get a timer or use an online timer*** Without a timer, you might get into the habit of taking breaks longer
3. Study consistently
•  The 'Forgetting Curve' should explain why. 
4. Study effectively (Active Learning/Engage with the material)
• Try to engage with the material as many ways as possible as each different way will allow you to retrieve the information in a different manner  
• This can be done by understanding the material well 
• be able to elaborate on it
• be able to differentiate between concepts 
• Relate it to personal experience or other things
• Use studying tools such as;
• Mnenomic
• Abbreviation
• Mind map
• etc
• Recall the material you have just studied (Testing effect )

Things that do not help learning ;     (Credits to Stephen Chew of Samford University)

1. Motivation
• "Don't wait. The timing will never be just right" Napoleon Hill
• "We procrastinate because we don't think the conditions are perfect for pro-activity" Vik Nithy
2. Amount of time spent learning passively
3. Memorization of isolated facts
• mere memorization will not help you to understand the material well enough 
4. Learning styles
• different materials require different learning styles
5. Multi-tasking 

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