D' Mindset Coach

I am now posting via our training website

2011-09-06T09:44:00.000+08:00

After taking time to review my blog, I have decided to create the blog in our training website ( www.srlmtraining.com) and you can now view all my articles for the mind posted here: MINDticles

See you there and do tweet to help me share my thoughts. Many thanks in advance.

Warm regards,
Stephen Ronee Lau

Dissatisfaction

2011-04-23T11:53:00.001+08:00

Dissatisfaction is one of the outcome whenever we are faced with a situation that we feel do not meet our expectation. It may begin with an uncertainty over an issue or concern and as it could not be solved amicably, then our mind may analyze the situation as being not beneficial to us and upon that conclusion, if we decide that we are not willing to forget it, then the feeling of dissatisfaction will occur.

It can happen to anyone and over just about any situation. Sometimes we are not dissatisfied over something concerning us but instead over someone else’s. By witnessing an event that has occurred to someone else and if we again conclude that the outcome over that event is not a win-win ending, then we may develop the feeling of dissatisfaction, too.

Feelings of dissatisfaction can impact us in many ways. While you are reading this and if you do feel that you indeed have some sort of dissatisfaction at work, do start finding out ways to get rid of it soonest possible. There can never be a better time.

Handling The Concept Of Lost

2011-03-19T00:37:00.000+08:00

I was asked "How does one handle the concept of lost" and I answered "We never lose what we have as in the beginning we did not have it".

Subsequently, "Does that mean that we should not have anything so that we have nothing to lose" and I answered "In life, many things will always come into our possession and in many cases, we "thought" it is ours but when we lose them, just re read my answer above and one does not need to handle the concept of lost as it will take up more of one's mental energy".

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Silence is a source of great strength

2011-03-16T21:13:00.000+08:00

In my opinion, to control one's mind requires a lot of energy. So, by placing all the energy to control it, the mind would have surplus of energy. So, is this what Lao Tzu meant by "Silence is a source of great strength"?

Don’t Use Negative Influence And Trouble Will Stay Away

2010-11-20T16:36:00.000+08:00

Almost everyone can tell that negative influence is not a good thing to do and yet many are still unaware of its relationship with trouble. Of course, there are at times, when using positive influence would also invite trouble.

Every person can reason what is right and wrong and when they realize that they had been negatively influenced, they would soon seek to move toward a positive thought and possibly followed by a positive reaction.

How we wish this to be as often the case and they would very quickly be on a positive note again. The problem is that when negative influence is used, our environment is impacted almost as instantaneously and trouble would have been created. As it is, what goes round comes around. So, if one were to be not ready for trouble to be back at where it started, it would be wise to refrain on using negative influence.

Look around you and try to see if you can spot any negative influence. Did you see “trouble” been created and did it go back to where it came from?

Have a wonderful weekend,
Stephen Ronee Lau.

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Stuck In A Traffic Jam… Use Your Thoughts Wisely!

2010-11-08T21:02:00.000+08:00

Many of my friends have always asked me how do I find time to do the various activities that I am working on and I tell them that I have always spend a lot of time thinking and thinking and especially when I am stuck in a traffic jam.

There are many ways in which people react to traffics jams, especially when they are stuck in it. Whatever it is, when we start to get all worked up and getting all sorts of negative thoughts about the jam, we will definitely use up a lot of our mental energy.

Listening to the radio and enjoying the music played or the chats of the radio DJ would be a great idea but using it to think about what you would like to get out of the day or your life may be an option you may want to consider.

Many get stuck in traffic jams everyday and just imagine if you were to take all these time and think about your future and maybe thinking about some plans on how to improve your career, wouldn’t you be proud that you did make good use of your time.

The more you think about what you want to achieve everyday or about how to improve your career, your brain would also get the workouts it need. So, do more thinking when you are at the place (as in a traffic jam) or time (as when you are not doing other important tasks) that you do not have much to do. Mental energy used for thinking about how to improve yourself would be better than using it on building up frustrations.

Stephen Ronee Lau, Mindset Development Specialist.

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I hope you enjoy listening to this..."Winter Sonata", a lovely song from a Korean movie that I played on the piano.

Challenge Yourself… You Will Be Somebody Someday

2010-10-18T00:06:00.000+08:00

Give yourself a boost in whatever you want to be by setting your mind for the challenge.

As an example, you may want to get a degree through a part time course. So, before you get worried about all sorts of issues including time, money, sacrifices etc, you would need to be able to tell your mind to make a non-stoppable decision. That is to take on the challenge.

When you start thinking about the rest of the issues, your mind would most likely become undecided due to its reasoning ability and you would soon find that it is quite difficult to pursue the degree after all.

Making up our mind is one of the most difficult task when we try to analyze to consider if we should proceed with what we want to do, especially for long-term projects. So, if you are planning to further your studies, make up your mind and then only start to find out about the rest of the stuff needed for you to pursue a diploma or degree.

For a list of positive mindset development programs, I invite you to visit my Mindset Development Programs' webpage

Article by Stephen Ronee Lau

Super Duper Easy Screen Capture Process

2010-10-10T10:06:00.000+08:00

Using the Print Screen feature to copy an image (together with everything on the screen) directly from your computer's screen had always been the normal way to save it for later use. The usual process would require opening another program such as PAINT and paste the copied screen content and then cropping or editing the image to get to the exact image area that is needed.

Now anyone can do this process with an even simple way, that is by using the SnapIt Screen Capture 3.7.

The features are simple to use. Besides capturing anything on the screen, I found the feature for selecting which ever the area that I needed to capture was so fresh and simple. Just pressing the Fn+prt SC keys will start the Print Screen feature and immediately enabled the selection of any area of the screen that I wanted to capture. After holding onto the click and dragging the mouse over the chosen area, the image is then automatically saved as a named file (I could choose the destination to save the file in the Properties section of the application) when I release the mouse click. That's it, done!

I then tried to capture sections of moving images including that of a recorded video clip of my own press interview and it sure was easy enough. All I had to do was press the Fn+prt SC keys and the particular spot freezes (while the video continued to play) and all I needed to do was just select any area from the freeze up screen that I wanted with the mouse and it automatically saved the selected area. Surprising, the saved image is very clear.

The program support hotkeys, auto-saving and clipboard and files can be saved in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG and TIFF formats.

If you had always been wondering if there is an easier way to capture a preferred area on your screen, try checking out this software at SnapIt Screen Capture 3.7..

To me, this is a fantastic product and I hope you will enjoy using it too.

Good Luck.

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Achieve Mental Alertness… Exercise Your Brain With Numbers

2010-09-30T19:32:00.000+08:00

When we are young, we enjoy all sorts of children games, especially those that challenge our ability to count. This may include the popular “Snake & Ladder” board game.

As an adult, we are so focus on so many types of activities that it seldom cross our mind that we should continue to give our brains some daily exercise. While some may say that just thinking about work alone would be sufficient, wouldn’t it be great that we can also do some additional mental exercise whenever we are not doing anything important.

As an example, you can challenge your mind to imagine what the numbers are if you keep adding 3 to the new total starting from…say number 1 (e.g. 1 + 3 = 4, then 4 + 3 = 7, and so forth and see how far you can go). You can then do it with number 2 and add a new decided upon number. Difficult at first but your brain will soon show it remarkable power. Just remember that you need to do this silently and do not get too addicted to doing it.

Article by Stephen Ronee Lau

Getting Stressed on Whether To Reformat Your Computer Or Not?

2010-08-31T23:57:00.000+08:00

Could this reduce your headache on whether to reformat your computer once poor system performance is notably high?

I have being using computers since 1992 and have seen pretty much and experienced the trouble with computers getting slower, freezing and even auto shutting down over time. My usual decision would be to reformat them and hours of work would be wasted while doing this. I have since tried to look for a more time saving solution that could be effective enough for me to rectify system issues and found that there are quite a few system optimization programs available.

Last month, I was introduced to check out the Digeus System Optimizer software and it so happened that my laptop was also running slow on performance and had several auto shuts that were rather annoying, too. Not sure if it would help, I decided to give it a try instead of doing a reformat.

What a surprise when the Registry scan report was shown. There were just too many registry invalid entries issues that were reported and I guessed this must have been the main reason for the poor system performance. I did not do a backup of the present registry and just proceeded to click the Fix and then proceeded to check out the rest of the features of this system optimizer.

This software has so many features to assist in optimizing the system that at one point, I was not sure if I am making the best decision when using all of the features that came with it. Anyway and based on my intuition, I completed checking and fixing whichever areas that I am familiar with and restarted the laptop. To my surprise, the laptop started and opening programs worked much faster.

The program's main features are divided into several categories such as Optimize, Tweak, Security, Window Tools and Administer and these came with quite a complete range of tasks that I could choose to scan the system on other areas. After trying a few of these, I then checked out the Optimization Wizard. It is really a good tool to use as it will provided the “what's next to do” process. All I had to do was decide if I needed the issue to be fixed. This should be good for users who have not much technical background about computers.

A note of caution though. I found that some registries that were deleted had an impact on my Celframe Mail application. I decided to reinstall the application and it worked fine after that. So, a decision on backing up for each area that would require fixing is highly recommended.

If you are having trouble with your computer's performance and do not want to do a reformat as yet, try checking out this software at http://www.digeus.com/. However, do take the Free Scan to see if your system does have registry issues and etc.

I have tried and liked it, so if you are wondering if your computer needs a reformatting, then do check out this software and see if it can resolve the issues. The least is that you will get to know so much more about the areas that may affect system performance.

Good Luck.

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a review of this product in any blog/forum/twitter/facebook, etc, please contact my new friend at Digeus Inc, Alise Johnson (PR Manager). Email her at alise.johnson@digeus.com if you wish to check out this offer. Don't just take my word for it and the last date for this offer is in her hands, so please do email her if you wish to clarify before beginning with your review. Hope you will enjoy checking out this software as much as I have.

Learn To Sketch And Sharpen Your Mind

2010-08-19T18:38:00.000+08:00

We tend to look at many things from a wide perspective. Imagine looking at range of mountains. We see it as our eyes glance at them but many would soon forget about how it looks like later on.

One of the ways to sharpen your mind in remembering what you see is to try to sketch it a while after later. Initial attempts may be difficult but after a while you may soon find that it gets easier.

This shows that with practice we can slowly develop our mind to remember what we see in greater detail.

Try & See For Yourself
Try thinking of the usual cup that you drink with and then sketch it out. You may use a pencil or a pen to do it. Just sketch the outline and then compare the real cup after finishing the sketching. Now look at the cup for 30 sec and then put it away from your sight and try to draw it again. Do you see a difference?

Take Some Stress Off Your Mind… Get A Camera

2010-08-16T00:15:00.001+08:00

There are many ways to get some stress out of our mind. One method would be to get a camera, a compact would do, and go out to places of interest and try your hands at basic photography. If you like birds, you can go to a bird park or for animals, you may want to try the zoo.

Take your time to snap the picture and while you are doing that try to focus your attention on getting the most creative angle of the object. When you get home and download the images to your computer, take your time to check how you have done. Do you find you had taken off some stress while doing this activity?

For a list of positive mindset development programs, I invite you to visit my Mindset Development Programs' webpage

Article by Stephen Ronee Lau

Negative Thoughts Reduce Energy

2010-08-16T00:15:00.000+08:00

Our brains need energy to keep it up and functioning efficiently. We can use various ways to achieve this but for many of us, we seldom take enough awareness to think about this and most often we are not even aware that our mental energy is low.

Food, exercise, rest and even the way we think and work can impact our mental energy.

All of us are pretty much aware that food and exercise play very important roles in ensuring that our bodies get the nutrients and bodily movements to keep in it good energetic form. Although one may say that he is consuming enough food and doing sufficient exercise and yet feel mentally tired, then we can look at whether he has taken enough water or rest. Even if the person has done all of this, his daily tasks such as working at the office, traveling around or even doing housework can impact his mental energy. What he thinks of during the time he is doing any of the tasks will impact his mental energy after the tasks.

So, if we were to set aside the effects of food, exercise and rest aside, we can then focus on how our thoughts can reduce our mental energy.

As an example, have you noticed that while you were doing something that you did not like and your mind goes into all sorts of thoughts (maybe positive or negative) and you feel terrible after completing the tasks? Lets look at the negative thoughts for our discussion here.

They tend to make you think quickly and move from one thought to another while you are doing the tasks. All these thoughts will take up our mental energy. The more you think, the more energy is use up. So, if you would like to prevent your mental energy from being drained off, try not to think about negative thoughts and just complete the tasks. Even better, try understanding the task while you are doing it and it may benefit you additionally by giving you the experience.

Start Now
Try focusing on what you are doing and email me if you can make use of this tip to improve your mental energy.

For a list of positive mindset development programs, I invite you to visit my Mindset Development Programs' webpage

Article by Stephen Ronee Lau

Achieve Mental Alertness… Exercise Your Brain With Numbers

2010-08-11T23:14:00.001+08:00

When we are young, we enjoy all sorts of children games, especially those that challenge our ability to count. This may include the popular “Snake & Ladder” board game.

As an adult, we are so focus on some many types of activities that it seldom cross our mind that we should continue to give our brains some daily exercise. While some may say that just thinking about work alone would be sufficient, wouldn’t it be great that we can also do some additional mental exercise whenever we are not doing anything important.

As an example, you can challenge your mind to imagine what the numbers are if you keep adding 3 to the new total starting from…say number 1 (e.g. 1 + 3 = 4, then 4 + 3 = 7, and so forth and see how far you can go). You can then do it with number 2 and add a new decided upon number. Difficult at first but your brain will soon show its remarkable power. Just remember that you need to do this silently and do not get too addicted to doing it.

Article by Stephen Ronee Lau

Observe Successful People… They Have Visible Trends!

2010-07-30T22:47:00.000+08:00

For good or bad, successful people have ways of making plans and reaching to where they are. Looking at their successes, either from a financial or non-financial point of view, one should not just look at what they have achieved.

If one were to ask, how did they do it? Then, there are just too many answers to it, too. From a financial perspective, they may have inherited their wealth. They may have worked hard throughout their lives. They may have the help of great friends. From a non-financial perspective, they may know what they want, such as getting a PhD or a Master’s Degree. They may have thought of a new idea, pursued it and won an award for it.

So, if one were to ask, what could we learn from successful people? One of it would be learn to observe their trends.

This may include observing how they speak, think and approach whatever they do. Are they perfect? No, of course. But, they definitely do have more positive than negative trends.

So, observing them would be a good start and who knows what you may learn from these observations.

Start Now
Choose someone whom you can see quite often and start observing them. Can you spot any unique behavior? Lastly, continue to observe him or her and then see if you can conclude if there are any visible trends.

For a list of positive mindset development programs, I invite you to visit my Mindset Development Programs' webpage

Article by Stephen Ronee Lau

Lack Of Inspiration? Visit A Book Shop!

2010-07-27T13:32:00.000+08:00

Everyone need some form of inspiration from time to time. A great way of doing this is to get it from the many books on inspiration.

So, which type of inspirational books that one should choose for the best result?

Almost anyone can start with any of them. If you are yet to get into the habit of reading, try picking up a book that has various types of inspirational stories. For ladies, you may choose titles that are written by other ladies as their stories may relate to you easily. As for men, titles on the achievement of other men would be recommended.

After reading an inspirational book, ask yourself if it had inspired you and what can you to do about it.

As for me, I just re-read Marketing Toolkit by Nick Robinson. Many of his techniques still impress and inspire me till today.

For a list of positive mindset development programs, I invite you to visit my Mindset Development Programs' webpage

Article by Stephen Ronee Lau

Inspire Your Mind – Attend A Seminar

2010-07-18T14:40:00.000+08:00

It always pay to listen attentively and one good way to inspire your mind is to listen to a speaker in a seminar. Of course, you need to choose a topic that is of interest to you.

Many speakers present their topics with various inspirational related tips. They have spent their time to search for them and strategically included them as part of their presentation materials. While not all of these inspirational quotes may inspire everyone in the audience, it would surely have a few that would be of significant value to those that find them interesting.

Start Now!
If you are looking for a new way to get inspired, try checking out your daily newspaper to see if there is a suitable seminar that you can attend. Do remember to jot down the tips that are inspirational to you while attending the seminar.

For a list of positive mindset development programs, I invite you to visit my Mindset Development Programs' webpage

Article by Stephen Ronee Lau

Developing A Positive Mindset Is A Great Challenge!

2010-05-04T01:28:00.001+08:00

Every living thing in this world has a brain. To many of us, a brain would look like a mass of gray matter that is divided into two parts. Well, if you can imagine a sea jelly, you would know that there are brains that not only do not look like our knowledge of how it should look like but instead we cannot even see it in them. So, lets concentrate on our own brain for our own personal development.

To me, our brain is the mother of all our organs yet it is our very own organs that it controls to get its experience and interact with the world. Thus, acquiring the knowledge that eventually would make up our mind, at least in the view of others observing us. Almost all training programs provide the necessary information for us to develop our brain, irrespective of whether we are aware of it or not. So, developing our brains would be beneficial for a better mindset and mental state. We can think, analyze, plan, create and execute tasks better and hopefully with more consistency.

Ensuring that our brains can absorb as much as we want everyday, we need to prepare it for our lifetime function. We constantly need to have enough rest, eat the right foods, exercise regularly and even learn to meditate so that its inert activities can also rest in a controlled manner. Even thinking negatively or behaving aggressively can impact our mental development. In this case, it may be negatively developed.

Playing a game of chess or even doing a round of gardening would be great for it, provided that we do not think of anything else while doing them.....Good Luck!

Article by Stephen Ronee Lau