Thinking Doll

How to keep New Year’s Resolutions

thinkingdoll — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 03:22:18 +0000

Happy New Year 2011 Ladies and Gents!

After a long night of boozing and partying and waking up with a stranger beside you, welcome to the year 2011!

As for me, I celebrated it totally alone and in quiet, fell asleep before the fireworks went off. But you know what, i was at peace with myself and with the world. That’s the important thing isn’t it? That is the goal that everyone works towards to. To be happy and at peace. But I digress.

Today, as is totally cliche, let’s talk about resolutions. I am totally a resolutions girl. I make new resolutions throughout the year. Every time I hit bottom, I sit up and think my way through and make resolutions to help myself stand up again. I look at resolutions as more of goals to achieve in the coming year. Last year, I achieved at least half of my resolutions. So why do some people succeed while others fail miserably?

These are a few rules to follow:

1. Keep the resolutions simple and achievable. e.g I will reduce my weight by 5 kg.

2. Be as detailed and as specific as you can. e.g I will reduce my weight by 5 kg by not eating fast food and drinking sugared drinks, exercising 3 times a day on Mon, Wed, and Friday for 30 minutes each session.

3. Outline an execution plan.

4. Visualize yourself or your life after achieving this goal. This will be the main motivational drive that keeps you going.

5. Keep the list of goals in your pocket / PDA and look at it every once so often to remind yourself and what you want.

This website provides a list of the top 10 new year’s resolutions: http://pittsburgh.about.com/od/holidays/tp/resolutions.htm

Life is a Miracle

thinkingdoll — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 04:36:13 +0000

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle” – Albert Einstein

Who would have thought Albert Einstein can be so philosophical. There are days when we’re down and nothing is a miracle, when even a smile is hard to summon up. But there are others, when everything is good and you can’t believe how lucky you are. But have you noticed? The days when you’re positive and happy are the days when everything falls into place, when life is a string of miracles. Does being positive pull positivity and ‘luck’ into your life? Think about your own positive days and you tell me.

So go out, look for the miracles in your life, and appreciate them:)

Aim for the stars

thinkingdoll — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:36:28 +0000

” Aim for the stars and reach the sky”

Aim for the highest that you possibly can and you’ll get three-quarter or even half of what you aimed for. And that’s already more than great:D

Gratitude Journal

thinkingdoll — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:53:39 +0000

One of the ways to be happy is to constantly realize how lucky we are. Most of us forget our blessings and tend to focus on the small and inconsequential irritants in our lives. Starting a gratitude journal would be a great way of reminding ourselves about all the blesings in our lives. At the end of everyday, list 5 things that day that you are grateful for and thank God for them. It could be something big like ‘i am grateful that the car did not hit my child’ or something really small and insignificant like ‘ I am grateful for that nice cup of coffee this morning’, as long as its something that made your life better:)

Today, I’m grateful for:

1. meeting the guy I’m interested in and having him ask me out for bowling ( I couldn’t go coz i was working tonight but that’s not the point:)

2. meeting that same guy again when i went back for locum and coincidentally looking quite pretty enough that his eyes shone when he checked me out and he complimented me on how pretty i looked:D

3. that I am slim enough that I can eat ice-cream on an almost daily basis and yet keep my figure (thanks to daily exercise:)

4. that it’s a Friday! Which is my favourite day of the week:) no matter that i have locum tonight and working tomorrow.

5. What are YOU grateful for today?

What are your Dreams?

thinkingdoll — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:02:32 +0000

You have this one life, to do and feel and see all the things you want to do. There is SO MUCH to experience! I always have this thought where I’m old and frail, wheel-chair bound, and I look at my past and realize that I didn’t live. All I did was exist. Scary isn’t it? Coz there’s no going back to do it again. There’s no second chance, so do it right the first time. So here’s a list of my dreams.

1. Experience as much of the world as possible

2. Write a book

3. Have an immensely popular blog:D

4. Meet the man of my dreams and have a beautiful family

5. To be a great Specialist who can help an uncountable amount of people

6. To know God and to trust in Him

7. To be a thinking doll – beautiful, intelligent, confident, joyful, peaceful – 5X factor

I know 7 is a weird number, but I have 7 dreams, not more, not less.

I looked around the net and I found some good dreams to have.

1. Living in an eco village

2. To help others achieve their goals in life

3. To film my own independent movie

4. To create an educational model that will revolutionize education

5. To find a cure for AIDS

What about your dreams? List them down because once you do, its concrete. It’s a promise to yourself to achieve these dreams. List them down, and print them out. Paste them around the house so that you’re reminded everyday, so that everything that you do is geared towards achieving these dreams. Because, a life without dreams is just an existence.