Oasis of Inspiration

Here’s a ‘Don’t Quit’ poem that has been hanging on my bedroom door for about 6 years now. Wanna share it with you. Hope it lifts up your spirits.

Don’t Quit

When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you are trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must but don’t you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As everyone of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about,
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don’t give up though the pace seems slow,
You may succeed with another blow.
Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,

And you never can tell how close you are
It may be near when it seems so far;
So stick to the fight when you are hardest hit,
It’s when things seem worst that you must not quit.

I was riding in the MRT (Singapore’s subway system) today at about 10pm and was observing the facial expressions of Singaporeans. Trying to read their feelings and I made a startling distinction. There were around 30 plus people in the area I was standing at and many of them looked miserable! No smiles…. With a frown….. In deep thought that looks more like deep worrying……

While observing that, I immediately got a gloomy feeling, like I was getting sucked into some world of misery. It felt terrible and I asked myself, are Singaporeans generally miserable?

Then I remembered the saying, “what you see is always what you get.” I was focusing on the misery, and that’s exactly what I got. So I started looking around again for a happy face and there they were. 2 people smiling and chatting with each other, in a happy mood! I checked my feeling and found that I felt happy too. Interestingly, all it took was to change my focus!

I believe that all people are looking to be happy in their day-to-day lives but are sometimes trapped in a zone of misery. I guess the moral of this story is “No matter how much misery you are being surrounded by, there is always a happy incident happening around you that could lift you up.”

So please my dear friends. Watch your thoughts. Choose your focus.

Sometimes in our life when we feel pessimistic or even worn out, maybe life has been tough and we think we cannot carry on, that’s the time when we truly need to persevere, to be able to grow despite all the challenge. Cos with No Pain, comes No Gain.

Thanks to Sam who shared this with me, I hope it inspires you, as much as it has inspired me. To know that it is the toughest, when you are reaching you goal. Don’t Quit!

Many times I see good people seeking to make relationships work……. or people who lost hope on ever having a great relationship, I hope there was something that could just give them a little hope about relationships.

I also see friends of mine, whom… because they didn’t nurture their relationships well from the beginning, end up getting a seperation. Ain’t this sad, aren’t we all good people who just want relationships to work?

So why do couples choose to be “Right” rather than choose to be Harmonious? To choose to fight or choose to “teach the other a lesson” rather than talk it out and resolve? Is our egos so important that it is worth ruining a great relationship?

Barbara De Angelis said in an audio program, withholding information from your other half about even as trivial as something that happened at the workplace, is like putting a brick in between you and your loved one. When all these bricks finally become a brick wall, couples come to a stage where they say things like… “I know I love him/her, but I don’t feel like I’m IN LOVE with him/her”. Ain’t that tragic? When all that is needed to rekindle the love in that relationship is to open up communication again? Something to think about…

But rather than letting relationships come to a sorry stage, perhaps I could share with you some info that builds relationships properly, on a day-to-day basis so as to create a strong foundation in your relationship. For those who are single, I hope that the 10 things happy couples do can give you some added inspiration about relationships.

Ultimately, my hope for the world is for people to have happy, fulfilling relationships that nurture individuals as well as allow couples to attain couple goals, with strong and lasting love still growing from strength to strength. Hey, perhaps even the troubled youth situation could be reduced.

For the article on the 10 things happy couples do, please visit http://oasisofinspiration.com/blog/

Many of us have heard of the Law of Attraction and how it can be used to manifest Lasting Love and Meaningful relationships. However, how many of us have really tested it out and manifested the relationship we wanted? Allow me to share this story as it is one of the greatest success stories of my life.

In March 2000, I came out of a 5 year dysfunctional relationship which really drained me and left me jaded about relationships. It wasn’t really a question of who’s fault it was, I guess we were just not compatible for each other. Despite putting in a lot of effort to make the relationship work, it had always felt like we brought out the worst in each other and therefore had to end a bittersweet realtionship.

Over the next few months, I opened myself to healing and “took a break” from dating and partying. Synchronistically, somehow Rangy Gage’s audio program “Prosperity” landed into my possession and it taught me about the Law of Attraction and manifesting the dream relationship I always wanted. Initially I was skeptical about it but by faith I decided to put the law to the test. Moreover, at that time, I was ready to release all the old painful patterns of “getting into the wrong relationships”. (I know some of you can relate to this)

Here’s what I did. I wrote out on a piece of paper all the things I wanted in my dream relationship. I wrote them in 3 main categories:

1. How does my dream girl look like
2. What are the characteristics that I’m looking for in my girlfriend
3. How are we going to complement each other

I wrote them down in point form, describing in detail. After which, I pasted the list next to my bed and I read it once before I went to sleep and once after I woke up. I did this everyday without fail.

Here’s the good part… (more…)