80 - 20

...by "popular" demand..

Factor Sparsity is a principle in economics which states that 80% of any consequences is due to 20% of the causes.

Statistically this has found to be true in many seemingly unrelated scenarios:

- Wealth Distribution: 80% of wealth controlled by 20% of population

- Business: 80% of sales income contributed by 20% of clients

- Criminal: 80% of the crimes are committed by 20% of the criminals

- Your Closet : 80% of the time you wear 20% of your clothes

Quasi-true at best, though, i think it gives a reflective perspective in life. If 80% of your success is factored from 20% of the effort, then Work hard, work smart is gravely WRONG in today's standard. Work hard, work smart is a given, work smart on the right things is what makes you successful.

Problem is we spend too much time  on the unyielding 80% of things, yet we complain, and keep complaining about not getting the deserved rewards. The saddest part is, we never realize what is worthy of doing and what is of value. The bigger problem is: we may never know. 

A truly successful person should be able to identify the yielding 20% in every aspect: Work, Friends, Love.....Everything. I find myself so far from it.

Contemplate.

Ajer told me this " Today, less is more, nothing is something. "

Love could be blind. Love could be deaf.

But YOU shouldn't.

"it takes 30 seconds to know if she is your cup of tea" sadly, though, "it takes much longer than that to realize she is NOT."

-ajer

i have said this too many times...yet...

you are one of the best things ever happened in my life.

love you, for all the right & wrong reasons

hate you, because you are such a heart breaker

RY

Pause for Thought

I take a deep breath and ignite a cigarette.

Through my air passage, particles of nicotine engage my nervous system, inducing a soothing comtemplation.

Exactly one year has passed by since my last aspirational change.

It is the...

Time for a pause

Time for a thought

Time for an appreciation of gain & loss.

Momentarily, flashbacks hit my head.

from what i wanted, to what i am getting (then i begin to accept the fact that life is not always about getting what you want. It is about survivial when life puts you out of expectation, then you turn the table and take control.)

.......from nothing to something

from something to accompolishment.....

then again i suffered losses, losses that i could have avoided, as if life is trying to teach me what it means to be satisfied.

Constantly I have come  across many "what if" scenarios.-- :what if i could have done differently at that specifc point of my life?" --> and i figure the best way to stop myself from regretting is to add a "so what" in the end of that sentence.

Another year of my youth went by so constructively, proactively yet unbearably fast.

Making sure that I am ready for the challenge, I will go to the computer and parepare the add/drop for the new semester.

Confident that my revenue target will be exceeded by a considerable percentage points, I will go to work early and execute my action plan.

Missing my friends whom i have neglected because of work, i will pick up the phone, dial the usual numbers and tell them how much they mean to me.

The cigarette burns out. As my fingers feel the heat, I put it off -- heart feeling a high note of ambition.  ^.^

Jeffrey Tam -- the next Rupert Murdoch ?