It's not crowded up there

According to a research, 95% of people who buy a program or read a book never finish it or make it past the first few pages.

I know this is true. It happens to me so often. While you think you have found a really delightful book and you pay for it happily at the bookshop. Reach home you unwrap it enthusiastically but barely a week later, you have lost that interest. I think it is very common among people.

So this should be motivation for all of us.

If you apply just that others are not doing, you will be in the top 5%. It's not crowded over there.

I also think this applies to most things we want to accomplish in life.

You want to have a perfect figure, but you go to 3 months to the gym and then quit.

You want to have a successful tennis game, but you practise every 10 days, then you quit.

Persistence is one of the skills that everyone lacks, and it's not a gift, you just have to make it a habit. I believe that what stop us from staying in the same road for a long time is that we never see results at first, none does.

Signs or just dreams?

Recently I was convinced that I'd been seeing visions, not blurred visions though. They started off as innocent, weird dreams; but as the next day went along, these dreams were obviously more than just my imagination — they were signs. Marie Callas says some signs should be taken spiritually as it could mean what your intuition is trying to tell you.

When I had a dream about going to classes with old high school classmates from 10-12 years ago, an old friend whom I've known for many years, who also hasn't been online since I added her on MSN, went online and messaged me the next day. When I dreamt about being tickled from the back by an invisible person while standing in front of a mirror, there was this tickle scene in a little flash game I played the next day, which looked oddly similar to the reflection I saw (not to mention of the thousands of flash games I've played, only about 5 had tickling in them).

When I dreamt about a friend letting me use his very personal computer during a party held at my place and I downloaded porn on it by mistake, an online friend gave me his username / password of his game account to help him with stuff the next day, and... it's a great shame relief that it wasn't possible to download porn through the account.

... So when I dreamt about the landlady's bunny creeping onto my bed and licked me on my neck last night, I was seriously expecting some interesting encounters or proposals today.

Oh well, maybe some of those visions were really just dreams, after all.