4/02/05

*holiday mood* Don't feel like doing anything except slacking. Engine has almost come to a halt. After the final boost today for my in-class test, the total breakdown of my engine occurred. I, now prepares my mind for the concert on sunday. Never has a concert been so important to me before, and i'm going to put in 101% into it. Its gonna be mind over body. I know my lips doesn't have enough stamina to last through the whole concert, but i'm gonna put in every bit of my energy to focus my energy.

Today's test is just sooo difficult. Its just an unfair measurement . Those people who took this test last sem had a relative easier paper. This sem, we had to prepare Income statement, Statement of changes in equity, balance sheet, and notes to the accounts. Last sem, the balance sheet wasn't there. Theres not enough time to write all the necessary things in the notes! Although its an open book test, how i wish I hadn't flipped the notes for such a long time.

I made another stupid mistake that prevented me from balancing my balance sheet. The difference between Total Assets, and Total liabilies and equity, was 6'550'000, which is a darn obvious amount staring at me in the question paper. I have mistaken the Closing Retained earnings figure as the Opening Retained earnings. I would have balanced that damn thing if i've used the opening figure. That would probably cost me 5 marks. The good thing is that, the test amounts to 10% of the overall grading, so 5 marks out of 100 is 5% of that 10%. Not much eh? But that little percent might cost me dearly.

I couldn't finish my notes to accounts! I couldn't balance the damn thing. I sweated so much during the thing because the air-con isn't strong enough and i was wearing a sweater. I don't even have the time to take my sweater off!. So the mistakes I made would result in a probable deduction of marks, and i would give a reliable estimate of 20 marks gone. Based on the recognition principle provided in the Financial Reporting Standard, I would set a provision of lost marks in my mind. The prudence rule sets in. I wouldn't be soooo optimistics about my results. Darn

Slice of Life

The Way You Wake Up

Success in life can be as simple as looking at the way you wake up. If you can wake up in a happy, peaceful and positive frame of mind, then you will reclaim your confidence, your love for life, your desire to succeed. The mood with which you start the day sets the tone for the rest of the day.

One way of ensuring that you wake up in a positive and powerful frame of mind is to change your ritual before you go to sleep. Look back over your day. How are you describing what happened to you today?

Are you focusing on those incidents that drained you or the actions, feedback and feelings that made you feel good? You should concentrate on issues that give you power, what made you feel good. You see, what you focus on is what you get. So if you continue to focus on the negative and the draining issues then you have no choice but to feel sluggish and drained all the time. If you can allow yourself to drift off to sleep while thinking positively of your successes then you have the opportunity of being recharged through sleep and waking in a dynamic frame of mind.

It may sometimes be impossible to see the successes of the day. Maybe one particular day, everything seemed to go wrong for you. What can you do then? Well, think about it this way - it doesn't matter how bad the experience is; work with it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. Nothing can happen to you that isn't for your benefit. Even though when it is happening it doesn't feel like it. Do not just accept the draining incident and make yourself tired and discouraged but refocus your mind. Imagine that whatever happens to you is meant to happen to you and coming through it can only improve you.

And throw away your alarm clock. For many people this sounds ridiculous. How would you ever get up in the morning if it weren't for your alarm clock? But have you ever stopped to wonder what it is about your life that requires you to shock yourself awake? Can such regular rude awakenings be good for you? If you need some assistance in waking up by a particular time, try waking up to music, or use a more subtle method like a Zen Clock which gives a soft tone of increasing frequency, that will slowly and gently wake you up.

Wake up 5 to 10 minutes earlier, sit quietly and plant the seeds of peace and love in your mind. Listen to soothing music. Cultivate a feeling of warmth and peace. A feeling of love and acceptance. When you do this you are connecting with your natural power of peace and love which naturally bring freedom and positivity to your life. The result is a feeling of harmony and contentment. Now you're ready to face the world!

ahh i need to get rid of negativity before i sleep haha, and stop my alarm clock, but i need it!