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When we realize the role of time in making values, we tend to have two reactions.

First, we start to try our best to devote our passion and heart blood into time to make values and to show our appreciation of life.

But at the same time, we also become sort of impatient to the repetitive work and effort day in and day out. We become desperate by the long, ‘boring’ and slow process of making our own values and we hope to find all possible shortcuts. We hope time will fly faster and the way to success becomes shorter. However, all shortcuts turned out to be failures, more struggle, unquiet mind and more importantly, they helped you nothing but postponed your original progress.

Intriguingly, it is the steady pace, the key characteristic of time, careless to anyone’s personal preference or sense, that grants time the function of carrying heart blood to make values. If the pace of time is different for different people, personal effort for becoming outstanding is pointless. Thus, here we know the repetitive effort along a steady pace of time is a must for the final difference we make and we should be grateful for the steady pace of time.

So take it easy and slow down.

—Negentropist.Z

It is not what you are thinking about that reflects what you want, on the contrary, it is what you are actually doing that reflects what you really want. Explanations for not taking action do not matter.

In other words, it is not your thought that defines you, it is your work that defines you.

You are not what you are thinking, you are what you are doing.

I repeat the similar recognition three times trying to highlight the importance of taking action.

So show the world who you are and prove it by your actions.

—Negentropist.Z

Lubrication, I mean the unexpected events in life.

Although life is programmable, it it not running as rigidly as software programming. It is not like deriving mathematical equations that shows you your final result before you even actually start your journey. If it was indeed running as programmed rigidly, and you can see your final ending when you made the plan in your high school classroom, there won’t be any fun in life.

Programming itself guides you with the core direction of life that works just like the major ingredients of a dish and those unexpected events tune your route in minor scale along the major direction that work just like the sauce and make the dish flavorful.

—Negentropist.Z

There are many uncertainties in life. Fortunately, the major path of life for most people when we look back are traceable and comprehensible. The main direction of life is mostly determined by your arrangements of the twenty-four hours.

In this regard, if ideally you have your total control over your each day, you basically have the total control of each week, month and life. You can simply draw a table to divide a day into 48 sections and try to build up habits so that you are doing exactly the same thing the same time in a controlled pattern if not everyday. In this way, you are programming your life.

This method is not easy to practice. Thus to begin with, you do not have to struggle to control every detail. Just start with one major activity, such as time to sleep, time to work, healthy meals, time to do exercise, family time. Design every activity with the concept of time in mind. Slowly, you are gaining more and more control of your life.

—Negentropist.Z

It is true that life is tough for everybody. Thus we are always prepared for challenges and difficulties.

However, I see two types of misunderstandings of difficulties. With underestimation of potential difficulties in your work, you feel unprepared, upset and tend to give up. With overestimation of difficulties in your mind, you rejected yourself for possibilities thinking of some difficulties that may not even exist.

–Negentropist.Z

It sounds funny that sleeping can be one of the stars in the galaxy because it is not something only a few of us can accomplish. However the importance and luxury of a good sleep cycle is extremely underestimated.

The whole life is the repetitions of a twenty-four hour cycle. Sleeping takes about one third of the twenty four hours. It does not make sense that an activity takes one third of your life is not important. If going to the gym to workout for two hours a day, five days a week can ignite one star in your galaxy,  what about a commitment you do for eight hours everyday?

The rational that sleep should be a super start is not only because sleep occupies a major part of each day, but also because sleep set up the foundation for all the other activities in each day. It is the frame where you can insert all the other activities you appreciate. Only with a stable and healthy sleeping cycle, can you place and repeat other meaningful things for a constant improvement for brighter stars.

When sudden events happen, by pure instinct we freeze and then run. This sudden could be transient events that fade away quickly or some events that last long and are out of plan or never expected.

When we are confronting some divergence in life that we are not readily prepared for, we tend to freeze and run. It is safe to do so but may not be the best strategy. At these moments, we are trapped by fear, doubt or feeling unconfident or hesitation. We may not be able to find out our way out clear to move on, but we also don’t have to wander around until we figure it out.

It won’t be worse if we quickly pick one direction to pursue or continue the old track since we can also find our way out while we are doing something meaning other than doing nothing.

Eventually, as you’re working continuously things become clear slowly and peace comes to you again. Feeling lost of direction is a must-have component in growing up. Take it easy and keep working.

—Negentropist.Z

Our fate is like standing alone in a prairie where there is no predesigned direction for you to follow. No matter which direction we choose, even we stand still or choose random directions, eventually it will become a route.

Along the route, you see your own sceneries and stop at your own destination. There is no one else to worry about because they all have their own routes to explore. But for you, it is satisfying to dig into your mind constantly trying to find out what is the critical thing or process that makes you feel excited when thinking about it. It could be an exact item, a behavior, a process, a job, a scenario and so on, it could be anything. As long as it triggers your excitement and passion, go for it.

Remember, somebody and nobody are becoming equal long time after their time especially in a scope of thousands of years. You may leave profound influence in the history, good or bad or mixed or interchanged. But so what? You won’t feel it and it is not even up to you, so why bother so much about others opinions? Focus more on your self, your feeling, your goal and the people that truly care about you and wish you the best. You really don’t have more energy to worry about the irrelevant comments.

If only one short paragraph can be use to briefly summarize your life, less than 50 words, what do your want it to be? It describes your sense of mission.

—Negentropist.Z

To start something big, you always start with something tiny and rarely see progress. At this moment, it is so easy to give up not even with regrets since you haven’t paid a lot.

Before giving up, you should really dig into your mind you see if you yourself would appreciate your business if it grew big? If yes, then keep doing it brick by brick.

Both the process and the final result have values in it. No city was built in one day.

Almost all the families and social groups in the history that have long histories developed their own rules to regulate everyday life under the title of etiquette including cultural tradition at a large scale.

The developments of etiquette were not coincidences. It is establishing a system of methods and procedures that were tested beneficial in keeping the whole system, family, culture and each individual involved in an efficient and organized life style and in saving time so that people can focus more on producing values or making creative explorations.

Etiquette was designed to protect the triumph and to ensure that the family and offsprings who designed and followed the etiquette are in a leading position in the highly competitive and crude society.

It is a collected and condensed summary of what an ideal and successful life style should be like.

–Negentropist.Z