Friday, March 12, 2010

Tips to fight the lacking of motivation and laziness

Have you ever feel like you plan to do so many things is life but as the time goes by. You start to feel lazy and lack of motivation to do.

Learning things are complicated process. First, you have to study which need some motivations, dedication and time to practice. After you know how to do is the perfection process which to create and polish your work to make it separate from others then you still need another push to create and then to market yourself.

I think many people used to feel like this in life and each step make you stuck for awhile. How we can overcome this. Basically, I saw one thing that we always need to be filled or fill by ourselves. Energy!! Where can we find it. This is what I do.

1. Go out side, not stay in house - to find inspiration - sitting all day long always not be productive.
2. When I start to get tired - eat something that I enjoy so much (also good for health) or take a nap and eat :-P
3. Have right attitudes - never give up and enjoy with work
4. be sure that you stay focus with work but it doesn't mean you have to be stressful
5. When stress hit, I change to do another thing because creativity can't stay with seriousness
6. Looking for the best - find the great works from great people to inspire but not to copy
7. read something that I enjoy - many idea can come from these things
8. Do when you have clear picture in your head - this make thing faster
9. not relax too long - that call lazy and I don't feel that make me happy also
10. when feel Tired - just take a rest
11. Do many kinds of work - so when you stuck with one thing, you can change to another thing. I can't sit and do only one thing. It makes me uncreative.

That's all I have for now. Hope my own tips can help you a little.

CrazyKav :)

Monday, March 8, 2010

Formula of succes

Formula of success - know urself -> Set goal(m/d/y) -> believe -> do & fill positive stuffs in ur bucket and throw away negative stuffs

I'm also one normal guy who want to suceed in life. For 3 years, I tried to find the meaning of life, formula of happiness, and formula of success. I think those are all I want to know so far. I'm not a smart person, so I struggle along the way to try to understand all of those aspects.

Today, I listen to the show call "Surivipa" in Thailand on Youtube. The guest of the show is a successful $30milllion business man who still be an normal office guy on his 26th year body but when he turned to 30, he became $30 million business man. How? mostly believe, be positive, do it correctly, and has specific goal. His formula of success = Past 0%+Present 100% + Future 0%. I answered this formula right because I've studied a lots about this and realized how important of every second in life. Every second in life is my present which means my present change every millisecond. The present millisecond is the answer of your next millisecond so called "Future." After I watched the show, it reminds me how forgetful I am. I always forgot the important element or old thing that I learned in the past although I knew it really well. That's why I said I'm not smart.

Many year ago, I was a negative person who love to say negative, saw negative, thought negative, and not even know that what i was doing. These actions created tons of junk in my mind(still thought I was positive). On the other hand, I'm also not a person who throw shit to other people. I care people and try to be better person in society. Therefore, I don't have the place to throw the junk that I created to which make me feel so confused and uncomfortable to myself. Nonetheless, I was negative, forgetful, lost person who thought he was positive and be a good person several years ago.

Also, I know that to be a successful person, you have to be creative. This part also take me many years to figure out how these things work. I studied so much about creativity because I love arts and arts are all about creativity. Creativity related to positive. However, positive need some causes to make it happen. You can't just know the theory but you have to practice. To me, I chose to avoid negative stuffs instead because I still can't be positive all the time but I still keep believing that I can be better but I found that the truth is truth. I saw somebody get lost by believing in the thing that not true, such as, a trans gender in Thailand who got strong believe that he's a women while actually he was born as a man body. He/she insisted that he is 100% to accomplish her goal (to use Ms. in her ID card). That's too strong believe for me! I understand why she has to do but that's not the belief I'm talking. It has to be belief like "Human can go to the moon or cellphone etc." That's what I'm talking about! Belief can really make something from impossible to possible. No one think you can do but it doesn't mean it is impossible but also doesn't mean believe to lie to yourself. That's why you have to know yourself in realistic way first and also have to make sure that you know who you are by checking from people around you if your real self and perceive self is the same. When you know what you love (not just like) and what you're designed for, you believe in the right way, and you keep doing it, nothing can't stop you from success. Belief is another power that can help you pass through the problems along the way. You can see power of believes from numerous stories around the world. Sometimes, they lose. Sometimes, they win. If you study in depth. You will found that just believe is not enough. You also need knowledge and do it right methods also.

BTW, this is the formula that take me many years to create. As the last paragraph, I told you the first step of my success formula which is to know your own path because if you don't know the right destination, you'll never arrive. The next step is to set goal. I set the goal for myself but I didn't do enough. I set my goal that I want to be a great movie director but I never set deadline. This is wrong. For anybody who are in the same situation, if you are not set specific goal in your life. Your motivation will decrease as the time goes by." I'm so grateful to the this person, people who upload this show and the show. This how reminded me the importance element of success "Specific Goal." As my psychology taught me. I realized how important of the goal to motivation. I really understand but I missed little but big value bit of information which is deadline. You have to be specific with it. I had goals but they don't have any deadline. "When" is really be a big push after I realized. My goal has very good detail in it. I knew what style specifically but I don't set goal when. Wow! I can't believe that just the word WHEN is so important to the drive in me. Thus, You should have lots of details with your goal and do it consistently. Little by little everyday. This will be a little push for to to accomplish goal life goal faster. As long as, you never stop to walk forward. You'll arrive your destination anyway. Oh be realistic with your specific goal as well.

Another problem, I love to learn and think so much until one of my teacher (monk) give me a really good sentence. He said "Thing's difficult because of thinking and thing happens because of doing." When I rethink about this sentence, I understand how this "too much thinking" habit suck my motivation. I saw my negative thinking in the past such as wow this is hard!, there are so many things to do! All of these sentences kill my motivation. Hence, I recommend to follow the Nike campaign "Just do it!" Nevertheless, there are many obstacles along the way of success. The obstacles come from many ways. I think problem along the way come from two sources; outside and inside. Outside is from people around you, environment etc. Inside comes from yourself. your mind will constantly develop negative, neutral, and positive thoughts. Positive and neutral is great but not negative. If you know how to handle negative, you'll be fine but how? It is the tool call "mindfulness or Sati in Thai." All these things happen naturally. The more you hate negative, the worse result you will get. You just have to see how these thing work and stop feed the negative power by just watching and learning. Now negative becomes your teacher. When you understand it, nothing can stop you from success. I hope that this article will help somebody who face the same situation as me. I don't know if I will have another revised of this article. Good Luck everybody.

This is longer than I thought, should be some errors that make you confused (my bad English+I didn't check error).
Leave me your question if you have any doubt.

Best wishes,

CrazyKav :)

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Why I always see negative thing

Most people know that we should be positive but I think we can't do. We always see the negative thing first. When I was young, I always thought "Why you never see when I did well or smart" to my parent. Until now, I understand why. This is suck because I see how this thing always pull me down. It makes my idea stuck. When you are not creative, you'll never produce great work. I realized this, so I start to check myself. Why this is happen. I'm not a bad guy but I can't stop myself to focus on negative side sometimes because personally, I love to see my weak point and change it to strength. I tried to be positive and I discovered that I can't do. Positive is not the thing that you can force to happen. I need to study how mind work. First, what I did is to avoid all negative thoughts, so I'll be neutral or positive. This way is good but still not feel great. One day, when I feel relax, some ideas shew up in my little brain. Yeah! It's easy to see negative thing because there are much more good things or normal things around. It looks like, you always see little dark spot on a white shirt although much more good things is lied around. Therefore, I'm normal because I was designed to see thing this way even though somebody is just born positive. I think "That means it's not wrong to see negative thing but what's next?" Yeah it looks like the psychology picture that we can see two pictures in one black and white picture. How to flow with black side? Yeah no one never make mistake! Forgive is one way out. Forgive others and myself! Forgive yourself today and you will fly out of the negative frame.

Why I always see negative side? Ans. Because I grow up this way. No one want to be be negative person but when you missed, learn to forgive yourself, brave to say sorry to others and try to do better next time.

Peace,
CrazyKavin :)

P.S. This article is not to support you to do wrong thing or be negative person but when you did wrong, be responsible and forgive yourself, so you come up with better way to create better future.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

My life and my thoughts from studying in US

My thoughts changed so much since I came to study in US since 2007. From Feb 2005-May 2007, I worked as the program and training manager and class leader at a company in Bangkok. My life is great. It was a great time with so many challenges that I overcame. I got lots of reputations from my boss and colleagues. In May 30th, 2007, it's the day that my life changed because I had to come to study in US. This turning point was so strange because I didn't come to study Master Degree as 24 year-old guy usually do but I just came to study 2nd B.A. I chose the path that not many people want to choose because I feel that I have to do what I really love (not just like it).Why do I need the degree that I don't love? If I don't change now, I have to stay with the thing I just like forever and that's not my life. Love and like are different right? I had to go back to be a college student again. Ego from manager was still big and it killed me. Ego caused me the bad attitudes and suffering (by my own thoughts). I found that I was lost, so I learned to overcome it. Besides, working part time job and study in the same time. Overcoming big Ego in me was the toughest challenge and one of the biggest rewards in my life. Ego is suck and it's sneaky like cancer. It brought negative thoughts in my head and made me so tired. Nonetheless, I won. Damn u Ego!! Good bye forever!!

Finally Dec 2009, I graduated from E. Media major. I produced few works that might look bad as a pictures but they have great idea (I think). I felt sad that I can't produced professional quality look because many difficulties occur during production. I don't have car, so I have to carry all equipments across campus by walking which was really pain in the ass. I don't have good team. I wished I had but I didn't. Our department have only SD DVcam but it's not all bad. I learned to make the best out of SD camera though. However, I realized the importance of teamwork. I can't produce great work without team. I strongly hope and wish that I will have chance to work with people who has strong passion with their art works in entertainment industry in the future.

After graduated, it's another life episode. I did what others new graduated college students do "apply for a job". As everybody know, it's hard to get job at this time. Economy is bad. However, I start to addicted to photography(actually since August 2009 when I bought my first DSLR camera). I started to go through all tutorials and books from internet and university library. After 7 months of learning about photography, this is the result (http://www.flickr.com/photos/42556453@N04/). I still don't like it. I wanna go beyond this. At the same time, I start to write down movie script to turn in for some film production company in Thailand. This will be epic and proud for Thai people if it's made nicely.

So far, I'm still learning so much from internet sources however today is another day that remind me the importance of practices again. This is what I wanna tell everybody "No matter how much you know, without practice or get your hands dirty, you'll never truly understand everything until you did it." Today, I go out to take photo because finally, I have a model(my sister). Although, she is not photogenic but that's all I want. I feel this is another challenge because it is easy to make professional model look good but not everybody is photogenic. If I can make my sister look good, that'd means I achieve something.

My little steps is going! Start practicing and stop thinking too much(that's how you put yourself in the frame)!

Good Luck everybody!

CrazyKavin :)

Friday, March 5, 2010

First Blog first thought

Finally, I have a place to keep my thoughts. I don't know why I don't eager to write on paper but I feel this is easier for me. Good thing about blog is that I don't have to worry that I gonna lose it and it also help world save paper. Basically, I just want to find the place to write my thoughts down and re-read it sometimes in the future.

CrazyKav