Reflections from seminar
Last week I attended Benny Ho's seminar titled "Finding Balance in an Overloaded World" at Wesley Methodist Church. Sharing some of the things that left footprints in my head.

stress is not based on circumstances, it's based on our response to the circumstances
that would explain why we all react differently to the same things, eg. deadlines, exams. we can be cool or we can work ourselves batty. just depends on how we react to it. and that it is possible to choose to respond to these things in a calm, controlled manner.

we are living a margin-less lifestyle
best illustration of this is imagining two pages full of words - one with a decent margin on all sides, and another with no margin. when there's no margin, there is no room for error. our lives are choc-a-block with too many things. too busy. there's hardly any room to breathe. for our sanity, we need to put in more margin. the more margin we have, the better our health - be it emotional, mental whatever. margin actuallly grants us more freedom.

we are ruled by the tyranny of the urgent
we are impacted by our surroundings. when in fact, it should be the other way around. we should impact our surroundings.
things that are important may not be urgent. however, over time, the important things WILL become urgent. however, by then, it will be a very differerent ballgame. for example, a teeny tiny cavity. it's not urgent but it is important. because in time, that cavity will get bigger & bigger. it will become urgent when it manifests itself as a throbbing toothache. if too late, it will have to be extracted. big consequence for ignoring the important when it was not yet urgent.

learn to do less for greater impact
we need to prune our activity branch.

There's a lot more but I'm going to stop here and chew on these for a while.