by Louise Lague We live in an age of
choices, when something as simple as picking
toothpaste— do you want to fight cavities or tartar?
whiten your teeth? freshen your breath?— is
complicated enough to send us to the candy aisle for
comfort. So if you occasionally suffer from
indecision, rest assured you are not alone. In fact,
your confusion might be a sign of an
extraordinarily rich mind: Buridanitis, the term for the
mental gridlock we all experience now and then,
afflicted great thinkers like Socrates and Saint
Augustine, whose imaginations saw endless options and
opportunities. Contemporary philosophers have developed
a science to overcome indecision, the principles
of which are used by major corporations and
government agencies to decide anything from hiring
employees to allocating money. The good news is you can
apply those same methods to resolve everyday
situations. “People are afraid of making decisions
because they’re trying to find the perfect answer, and
there is no perfect answer,” says Gary Klein, whose
company, Klein Associates, Inc., trains high-powered
executives to make choices. He is also the author of
Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions, for
which he interviewed firemen, nurses, and others
who are paid to make up their minds in just
seconds. People usually make decisions in one of
two ways: They analyze the pros and cons, or they
go with their gut instincts. In psychology and
business journals, writers who you’d think have better
things to do use up gallons of ink arguing about
which approach is better. Klein recommends a
combination of these methods, in this order:
Get in touch with your gut first. Once you start
listing pros and cons, your rational mind will drown
out your intuition. Klein defines intuition as
the accumulation of experience converted to
flash-fast thinking. “As you ponder that new job, you
might think about the way you were treated at the
interview and that may color your reaction,” he says.
“Even a bit of body language could instill some
discomfort that could be warning you off.”
To uncover your intuitive point of view, you can
even flip a coin—not to make the decision for you,
but so you can register your gut reaction to the
result. How do you feel when one option drops out? If
you’re disappointed, ask yourself why.

Do you pushed your kids too hard ? Do you send them to tuitions and what nots so that he will do very well in his studies?Tuitions is a must for those ‘kiasu” (afraid to lose mentality) parents as they want their child to be the top in their schools. Whether, he will never enjoy his childhood or not is not important. It is performance and performance that matters to those parents. Children have no time to play or be like children.They are forced to grow up quickly to be like adults and to compete for everything. If they dont have a childhood and when they have children of their own , how would they know what childhood is .Some parents pushed too hard and their children breaks down and had to be send to the funny farm. All their life, these innocent children suffers because their parents are too conscious of the social status.
Some mothers even lied about their status of their children. Why is everyone so concerned about whether you are a grad or not? A grad does not mean that you will be succesful in life. There are many grads who are jobless or it would have been better if they did not get a degree because their degrees are useless and what they learned is not used or applicable to their life.

If your child is brilliant , by all means give him encouragements but if the child is just mediocre, no amount of tuition will make him a genious….He will be a genious in his own way…

Do not take anything as being forever,
because forever is only as long as today.

Know that the people who are the richest are not those who have the
most,
but those who need the least.

That we are at our strongest when life is at its worst,
and at our weakest when life no longer offers a challenge.

That it is wiser not to expect, but to hope,
for in expecting you ask for disappointment, whereas in hoping, you
invite surprise.

That unhappiness doesn’t come from not having something you want,
but from the lack of something inside that you need.

That there are things to hold and things to let go,
and letting go doesn’t mean you lose,
but that you acquire that which has been waiting around the corner.

Most of all …
remember to use your dreams as a way of knowing yourself better,
and as an inspiration to reach for your star.

~By Nancye Sims

The new salary structure has kicked in and from now , you will see many prices will float up….
The private sector will be hard hit and business will all have to up their prices or sink….the rot has set in…..