Setting Goals

Ways to set goals

• 1. Self improvement in that moment
• 2. Don't blame anyone & your parents for steering you in the wrong direction (there's an expiry date, as you need to take on full responsible at certain age)
• 3. Help eliminate poverty, it entails fear, threats, depression, humiliation & hardship (fear of failure)
• 4. Benefits of failure it strips away the inessentials, and focus all my energy on one thing I know. Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
• 5. Counting my blessings, a strong will & have real friends, which you won't know until they have been tested by adversity
• 6. Imagination. the most transformative & revelatory capacity is the power to empathize with humans whose experience we have never shared. (learned through serving Amnesty International).
• https://youtu.be/wHGqp8lz36c (Einbetten)

Extract of wise & inspiring words

• What we changed inwardly, will change outward reality.
• We touch other people's lives simply by existing. Identify ourselves with the powerless & the voiceless, instead of the powerful. It is not how long it is, but how good your Life is that matters.
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• Bildunterschrift: Meaning & measure of success

Be (Become) Do (How) Have (Results)

• What is your FOCUS?
• If you can choose only ONE goal to achieve in your life, what would you choose?
• What is the meaning of SUCCESS to you?
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• Bildunterschrift: Acronym of SUCCESS

Improve (v) cải thiện

• French améliorer
• Spanish mejorar
• German verbessern
• Chinese 改进；改善
• Indonesian meningkatkan, memperbaiki
• to (cause to) become better, of higher quality etc
• Examples:-
• His work has greatly improved

Blame (v) khiển trách đổ lỗi

• to consider someone or something responsible for something bad
• Examples:-
• I blame the wet road for the accident.
• I don’t blame you for wanting to leave.
• French blâmer
• Spanish culpar a alguien de algo
• German verantwortlich machen
• Chinese 责备；责怪；归咎于
• Indonesian menyalahkan, menyalahkan

Eliminate (v) loại ra

• to get rid of; to omit or exclude
• Examples:-
• He was eliminated from the tennis championship in the first round.
• A move towards healthy eating could help eliminate heart disease.
• French éliminer
• Spanish eliminar
• German ausscheiden
• Chinese 排除；消除；清除
• Indonesian menyingkirkan

Strip (v) (away) dọn sạch, chuyển đi, tước

• to remove the contents of
• to deprive (a person) of something
• Example:-
• They stripped the house of all its furnishings.
• The officer was stripped of his rank for misconduct.
• French vider, destituer
• Spanish vaciar, despojar (de)
• German ausräumen, entblößen
• Chinese 拆卸，拆开，除去，剥除
• Indonesian menyingkirkan isi, mencopot

Blessing (n) điều sung sướng, phúc lành

• a wish or prayer for happiness or success
• any cause of happiness
• a prayer of thanks to God before and/or after a meal
• Examples:-
• The priest gave them his blessing.
• Her son was a great blessing to her.
• Father said the blessing over the food.
• French bénédiction, bonheur
• Spanish bendición, un regalo
• German der Segen, die Gnade
• Chinese 祈神赐福；祝福
• Indonesian berkat, kebahagiaan besar, doa syukur

Empathize (v) thông cảm

• To understand someone else’s feelings and problems, especially because you have been through a similar experience
• Examples:-
• I can empathize with Dan because exactly the same thing happened to me a couple of years ago.
• French
• Spanish empatizar, sentir empatía
• German
• Chinese 同情；同感，共鸣
• Indonesian menunjukkan empati

Imagination (n) trí tưởng tượng, điều tưởng tượng

• The ability to form mental pictures
• The seeing etc of things which do not exist
• Examples:-
• I can see it all in my imagination.
• There was no-one there – it was just your imagination.
• French imagination
• Spanish imaginación
• German die Vorstellung
• Chinese 想象；设想
• Indonesian imajinasi