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Excel Your Life Newsletter: March 15 2003

I. From the Desk of Dr. Keith To

Hi and welcome again.

1. Recently, one of our friends told me that he is going to take a break from his busy life. He is not asking my advice as he had already decided. Even if he ask me, I would 100% agree with him. Most of the time we are just lacking break. I am going to take my 10 day's break later this month. Take a break and take care of yourself.

2. New Service from the Excel Centre: Life seems to be too difficult to many people nowaday in Hong Kong. We need more laughters. So, I decided to start a new email list service, the Friday Laugh. When you subscribe to this new service, you will get some good jokes every Friday. Some are in English and some are in Chinese. Mostly clean ones. We just need more laughters.

Subscribe Free of charge by sending a blank email to FridayLaugh-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. Enjoy your fridays and your weeks.

3. We had sent out our 2nd free classic ebook, Confidence by Henry James last week. If you missed it, you can download this free classic at the following link:

http://briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/drkeithto/vwp2?.tok=bcDu4NRBRZacyCfm&.dir=/Free+Ebooks&.dnm=Confidence+by+Henry+James.pdf&.src=bc

You need to have the Acrobat Reader software to read and print it. It can be download free at:

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

II. Activities Updating

1. The DiSC Personal Profiles Administrator Training will be started on March 20 2003. We will closed for enrollment by March 17. This advanced training will organize only once a year. This is surely one of the best investment onto yourself. Don't miss it.

Send a blank email to discprofile@... to get more information or call 2135-8734 Ms Kanny Chou for details. Email keithto@... Now to reserve your seat.

2. Recently, some of you had emailed me asking me when I will re-organize the Scientific Meditation Workshop as they had missed it last month. Now, please mark down the date on your calender. Only next coming Scientific Meditation Workshop is scheduled on April 14 & 28 at 7:30pm to 9:30pm. Email keithto@... for reserving your seat. To make more people can be benefited from Meditation, the course fee is still HK$500 only. If you want more information about the workshop, send a blank email to scientificmeditation@....

This will be a very small group training. Only 20 will be accepted. In our last workshop, we had nearly 50 satisfactory participants. Enroll Now by emailing keithto@.... You can pay on the date of training.

3. Quite many of our members missed our first module of NLP Practitioner Training. We are thinking of doing another first module during summer. If you want to complete your NLP Practitioner Training this year, it might be advisable to start with Module 2 in April and take the make class Module 1 later in summer. Call 2835-4396 Mr. John Lau for details of enrolment.

III. Weekly Cut & Paste: 袋鼠與籠子

作者：不詳

有一天動物園的管理員們發現袋鼠從籠子裡跑出來了，於是開會討論，一致認為是籠子的高度過低。所以他們決定將籠子的高度由原來的十公尺加高到二十公尺。結果第二天他們發現袋鼠還是跑到外來，所以他們又決定再將高度加高到三十公尺。

沒想到隔天居然又看到袋鼠全跑到外面，於是管理員們大為緊張，決定一不做二不休，將籠子的高度加高到一百公尺。

一天長頸鹿和幾隻袋鼠們在閒聊，「你們看，這些人會不會再繼續加高你們的籠子？」長頸鹿問。

「很難說。」袋鼠說：「如果他們再繼續忘記關門的話！」

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事有「本末」、「輕重」、「緩急」，關門是本，加高籠子是末，捨本而逐末，當然就不得要領了。

管理是什麼？管理是抓事情的「本末」、「輕重」、「緩急」。

IV. News Cutting of the Week: 長與短

Kanny Chou

居民區的巷口有一個留言板，一天，一個小學生用粉筆在板上寫上：老師給的家課太長，遊戲的時間太短。賣早點的小販推車路過，隨後寫上：聞煙火氣味時間太長，搓麻將的時間太短。他的老婆隨其後，看了一眼，趁他沒有注意時，悄悄加上一句：排的隊太長，炸出的油條太短。毛頭小伙子調皮地寫上：情太長，夜太短。學校的嚴老師路過，看了上面的一段段話，揮筆寫道：廢話太長，有用的話太短。剛失去老伴的丁婆婆，卻悠悠寫上：人死的時間太長，活著的時間太短。此後巷子裏的人看了這一則留言，尋思其中的味兒，覺得有點啟發，便再也沒有人往下續寫了。此段刊在三月四日經濟日報的故事，實在值得我們去沉思一下，在生與死面前，人世間的一切長短均變得不再重要了。

既然活著的時間太短，我們願意花時間在一些無關疼癢的事情上嗎？

既然活著的時間太短，我們願意錯失任何一個活得精彩的機會嗎？

既然活著的時間太短，我們願意對自己所愛的人有所保留嗎？

如果你的答案是不願意的話，請珍惜每分每秒，無人能保證我們的生命還餘下多少時間。在你的人生中，有什麼願望是你想做而不敢去做的呢？好好衡量得失，然後放膽去嘗試，只有將念頭付諸於行動才能點綴出精彩的人生！在你的人生中，有誰是你想愛而不敢去愛的呢？找個機會表達出來，沒有答案的愛情是最令人憒憾的！

既然活著的時間太短，花多些時間在你覺得重要的人和事上，短促的人生就能更有意義了！

V. My Management Tip: Busy-Ness

Ever have a day when you have been in constant motion, looking like you were productive, but at the end of the day, you know you didn't get anything important done? (You can fool the others but you can't fool yourself!)

A day full of "Busy-ness" doesn't mean you have a day full of "Business". It's time to think about how to set the priority of your tasks. Looking busy can make you busy only, but not productive. Everyday, identify the most productive task and get it done within that day.

The idea is simple but it can be one of the most effective time management systems. Everyday, find out which task is most productive and get it done within that day.

Keith To
Your Success Partner
www.keithto.com

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