You Rock

This is a post from Seth Godin's Blog

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This is deceptive.

You don't rock all the time. No one does. No one is a rock star, superstar, world-changing artist all the time. In fact, it's a self-defeating goal. You can't do it.

No, but you might rock five minutes a day.

Five minutes to write a blog post that changes everything, or five minutes to deliver an act of generosity that changes someone. Five minutes to invent a great new feature, or five minutes to teach a groundbreaking skill in a way that no one ever thought of before. Five minutes to tell the truth (or hear the truth).

Five minutes a day you might do exceptional work, remarkable work, work that matters. Five minutes a day you might defeat the lizard brain long enough to stand up and make a difference.

And five minutes of rocking would be enough, because it would be five minutes more than just about anyone else.

Dont go anywhere!

Hello my fellow readers.

I have to deeply apologize for the absence of my blog posts.

I am back to school at the Richard Ivey School of Business for my last year at undergraduate studies. My ambition to be well prepared for classes and attending information sessions of potential employers have been occupying my time. Frankly, I thought it was appropriate to push the blog aside to focus on the immediate priorities of my life.

Sadly, I've been mistaken.

It is the times when you feel hectic and utterly helpless where you should spend time doing the things that harness your creativity and make you the person you are. We all have times in our lives when all the projects in the world have fallen onto your lap. You lose sleep over the fact that you wish there was more time to complete it all. What you should think is, how can I reorganize myself to complete these tasks well?

Deadlines exist and the clock is ticking. But doing work over a longer period of time doesn't add real value. It's about doing value-added work in the time you can do the work properly. Work will still be there even if you don't nurse it over night so why don't you do work when you are fully capable?

Again, I apologize for the time chasm of my blog posts. Stay tuned for my next post: "You can learn anywhere, from anyone," summarizing my travels to South Korea.

Playing Inside

We took the day to go to an indoor playground with tunnels, balls, and trampolines. It's great for kids, not so much for the people taking care of the kids as it's easy to get lost in the maze setup in the area.

Master driver.

Drawing Doraemong, a very, very popular animation figure in Korea and Japan.

Lotte World

Ran and I went to Lotte World, Korea's half-indoor amusement park. I remember going there with the family before I moved to Canada. It was a fun time of both nostalgia and excitement.

Rubik's Mine!

It took a good part of yesterday and a little repetition this morning. I am now able to solve the 3x3 Rubik's Cube!

Seoul Tower During the Day

Jason, Victor and I took a trip up Seoul Tower during the day. The sights were much different from the night. However it was a different look at the same tower I visited already.

Changdeokgung 창덕궁

Jason, Victor, and I took a walking tour around Changdeokgung, the most well maintained palace around Seoul. It was the governing place for the 3rd King of the Chosun dynasty, Taejong. He was the father of Sejong, the king who developed the Korean letters.

The English tour was nothing to boast about. Even for me, it was very difficult to understand the sentence structure to what the tour guide was saying, on top of her poor pronunciation. So, I acted as a tour guide for the majority of the time there.

Despite it all, it was quite amazing to see the intricate details and the maintenance of such delicate pieces of buildings for 500+ years. However, after awhile it gets pretty boring as all the palace structures are same whichever palace around Seoul you choose to go.

The place where the King sat.

His throne.