Yesterday, I asked a question on what are your favorite articles here in LessonInLife.com for 2007. I’ll try to compile the list of 20 must read articles for 2007

1) Do You Know Uncle Pareto
2) Things About Ramadhan You May Not Know Series
3) How To Make Decision Series
4) Secrets To Remember 50 Items In Any Order
5) Relationship – Pisau Cukur Ockham
6) Mind Reading 101
7) One Way To Handle Difficult Customer
8] How To Forget And Move On
9) A Personal Letter For You & The Conclusion
10) Two Great Love Quotes That Contradict Each Other
11) Personal Blog The Hidden Bonus
12) Tips For First Day At Work
13) 2 Steps To Realizing Your Dreams
14) 13 Tips To A Happier You
15) How To Know He/She Is The One?
16) The Secret To Washing Dishes
17) 2 Route To Freedom In A Relationship
18) 5 Top Methods How Blog Ideas Generated
19) Secret Of Happiness (To Be Read By Couples)
20) 4 Uncommon Ways To Escape From Pervert

Statistics
Altogether there are 207 post in 2007 🙂 Good number. Comments are recorded at 1632, half of it are most probably mine, so statistically it was 816 comments overall. That’s about 4 comments per post. I personally would like to thank you all friends visitting for continuously supporting the blog. It has really been a pleasure writing for you.

Achievement
Just to highlight some of the achievement of the blog this year. An article “Unbelievably Arrogant” had been chosen by the editor of “Prasasti” (an online magazine) and was published in the July issue. That really was a boost in my motivation. Not long afterward, the blog had been nominated by dearest Noushy and won the World united Blogger Award. It was however awarded to the previous blog which is Immortal Wisdom. The person I owed gratitude for the success of this blog is none other than you guys. Thanx again!

Personal Note
The year has been a very good year for me. One of the most important event is the Charity at Darul Izzah, held on 12th of August. I’ve also found my long lost friend, Nur Syikri via blogging :). We had been separated for 15 years . On the negative side, My mother had to be admitted into hospital due to hypertension on 13th of August. Alhamdulillah she is now doing so much better. The last important event worth mentioning here is when I had to represent my family and discuss the engagement of my brother,DaPocket on 21st of December. Life’s surely treating me good this year.

Conclusion
I now bid farewell to 2007. And welcome the new 2008. Let us make this coming year our turning point in life, to become the best we can be. And hopefully sharing your ideas here in LessonInLife.com will catalyze the change. So keep on pouring your ideas here ya..

Happy New Year everyone! 🙂

I’m actually spending the night reading back my previous entries. Trying to come up with a list of ten of my best entries. I end up with 36 entries, each is equally special to another. Now that is not a top ten.

So for my fellow friends who are a bit free today, can I ask you a favor? This is only if you have an extra time helping me.

Kindly check the archive of this blog, and maybe just go through the list of articles there. All I need from you are your favorite articles among the 206 articles there..

You can give me any number of articles, and I am not expecting you to read all the entries. Even though, I’m sure you will enjoy them 🙂

This survey will not only help other friends to benefit from your favorite articles, it will help me to produce better topics in the future.

Again, I understand if everyone’s busy. But for those who aren’t, please help me ya 🙂 I will be forever appreciating it. Thank you dear friends

Summary – Working with mind – relax, help and force.

How to write a post in 30 minutes.. Not just any article, an article which is beneficial to those who read it.

First of all, we need to acknowledge that the biggest problem about writing an article / entry in a blog is to know what will it be about. I know that coming up with a good post can sometimes be hard. It happened to every blogger I know. So this is my way of solving the problem, writing an article on it.

As always, we need to redefine the problem. Why are we not getting any ideas to blog?

1) Tired so rest
If you’re tired, then there’s only one way to solve it. Take a rest. Being tired is like driving with a punctured tyre. Yes, you can drive.. but it will be very slow and equally painful. If you take the time to change the tyre, you will arrive faster than people who drive with the punctured tyre. So go to sleep.

2) Eliminate distraction
Your mind is trained everyday to do thing in multitasking mode. You study, while listening to music, your feet is dancing in its place, and your mind is remembering the recipe for Rendang Daging you just learnt. Still you get good result. We do this all the time.

The truth is, our mind will work more efficiently if we physically eliminate the distraction. Logic says.. that if two computer is using the same modem, both people will share 50% of the internet bandwidth.. period.

Don’t try to eliminate that background music in your head. It’s plain impossible. Eliminate what you can eliminate. Like instead of writing your enty in front of television, go inside the room and really start typing (That’s what I’m doing right now hehe. That Preity Zinta is really a distraction)

3) Educate your mind
This is the harshest method. Our mind is very creative, believe me. If not we will still be in a cave hitting people’s head with a club. The only way we can get the juice from oranges is really by squeezing it. The same goes to our mind. We need to squeeze the idea out every other time. Just looking at the oranges will result in.. well a very good looking orange 🙂

Don’t do this everyday. The mind will adapt to the pressure and simply resist better. Do this in an alternate day. Sit in front of your pc, with the cursor blinking and your 8 fingers in its position, ASDF and JKL: and type away. Don’t move until your ideas start flowing.

I finish this post in 20 minutes 🙂

– I wonder –
Care to share how you handle mental block?

———— Personal Note —————
I was introduced to computers when the computers still use DOS diskette to operate. I believe I was about 8-9 years old then. My father always give me article to retype in the “Wordstar” (the word processor at the time) and force me to type using all 8 fingers. But of course I would do that in front of him. When he’s not around it will resort back to two finger typing 🙂

I have to say that I start learning to type with all 8 fingers fast when I was about 18 years old. All thanks to IRC 🙂 addicted to it for quite a while

Summary – Daily resolution

Including today, there are still five days left in 2007. What are you going to do with it?

Resolution is actually what we aim to get with a one year work. We can plan in full detail on what to achieve. But whether or not we can achieve it will always remain a mystery. Why? because usually we will only know whether we had achieved our target (weight loss, promotion etc) at the end of the year.

But by then, it will be too late to do anything. Even if we had the time, we will lack the motivation to do so. So what should we do?

The only thing we can do is to not only come up with a one year plan, but to also come up with a daily plan, or a weekly plan. This way, we will know immediately the effectiveness of our plan every week and we can improve and review it accordingly.

I prefer a weekly plan because too much things to do to fit in a day.

– I wonder –
What are you going to do today which will help you in achieving your goals? This is the most important question we need to ask ourselves.

———— Personal Note ————
As promised yesterday, these are my resolution for 2008

Islam wise

• Never miss Solat. All missed Solat must be Qadha within the same day
• To download Islamic preaching and listen to it at least once every two days
• To finish reciting the Quran (Khatam Quran) within the year, that means at least one page per day.

Family wise

• To visit dearest grandmother in Kedah as often as possible (at least every 3 months)
• Most importantly must learn as much as possible about parenthood, since there will be a new member in the family this coming May InsyaAllah. Need to buy a book on this.

Career wise

• To study and sit for the steam certificate examination by July 08

Health wise

• To restart jogging / power walking at least thrice per week

/end list

These 4 are at the moment the most important things need to be done. I’m sure you have a similar resolution. Let’s pray we will be able to achieve them 🙂