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Hey there Friend,

It’s almost over. I’m writing this in the middle of one of the most treasured times for School-goers: School Holiday! And like I said, we’re in the middle of a one week school break.

My daughter is still ‘under-aged’ and it’s too early for me to ask her, “What shall we do for your holiday?” I hope yours (son or daughter) is not too young to answer it because I can see swarms of people coming to my town…with some hotels pack to the teeth, and the parking lot at the beach was filled to the last inch.

* Someone just sends me a SMS and wishing me a prosperous day for today is 20082008 – double happiness *

Whateva…

Coming back to our School Holiday break…

What does it means to take a break?

Some Learning experts suggest that a short but frequent break during a long learning period actually increase the brain capability to absorb the material BETTER than forcing oneself throughout.

Some Study experts (these are different experts folks) suggest that to better study a material, a ‘controlled and spaced’ study strategy OUTPERFORMED lengthy, non-break study period.

So believe me, when those Education experts devise the School Breaks and School Holidays, they have all these Experts findings properly implanted in their mind.

Meaning…

A year long learning period will be more effective for the School-goers if they learn to take a break from it. But of course, I’m not interested with that kind of meaning.

What it means to take a school break TODAY?

Maybe you’ve read or heard that Worldwide, crude oil price is on the downward roll. And those beautiful faces in the Parliament are heralding that maybe…maybe we’re going to see fuel price reduction soon (after Permatang Pauh by-election?).

Easily today, to bring ‘our beautiful faces’ at home for a nice, relaxing break is going to cost more than just arm and legs. For some Private Sectors ‘slaves’, it could cost their job!

How so?

Can they take a break from their job for just say, a week, and still see their sales, commission or incentive intact? I doubt it. If I take a break now, my Boss and customers will be screaming for some troubleshooting and undelivered stocks.

And that’s compromised my sales… What more if I’m a GM, MD or CEO. Maybe I’m exaggerating just a little bit because I do see my Boss and some GMs on leave for this school holiday but…

They can afford it.

Why can’t we afford it?

Well, maybe we don’t own the company…we keep our leave for the coming Hari Raya or Christmas or what have you…maybe we’re not the Boss…or maybe it’s simply because we CAN’T afford it.

But can we afford not to take a break…with our LOVED ones?

Of course we can, and that’s when SACRIFICES comes in.

What kind of sacrifices am I referring to?

First, sacrifices the thought of ‘my ego is everything’.

This is not easy to do. If your job is all you have and losing your job means losing everything then that’s ego at work. Are you kidding me? Human being is more than just a title on top of a desk. We have more than just a cubicle.

Think, “I am energy and the expression of it.” Love is one, if not, the strongest form of energy. Express it. Take those breaks.

Second, sacrifices some ‘debilitating’ habits.

Now, not all habit are destructives but there’s a few significant ones that need full attention before they totally destroy oneself, and when referring to today’s economic environment, it’s living ABOVE our means.

Living below our means is, for me, another debilitating habit, and the best is to live WITHIN our means.

What it means is simply live within your allowable ‘income-expense’ limit. If you earn 3,000 a month, don’t live like you’re earning 4,000. That’s what I meant. In fact, if you’re smart, if you earned 3,000, live on the 2,700, with 10% of the 3K goes to ‘pay yourself first’ habit.

Pay yourself first – not less than 10% – is a good habit to live by. Start cultivating it.

And for the final sacrifice…sacrifice some quality times.

It may not be the whole one week of school break but do spend some quality times with your loved ones. Make time for them. Schedule it.

How to simply do this?

Cut back on the so called ‘important’ schedule of yours.

There’s a category of time called ‘discretionary time’ which you get from recording your daily activities and cut back on certain activities which is not productive. Of ten times, these non-productive times were deemed ‘important’ before they were put under the microscope.

There you have it…some simple brief and hopefully clear meaning for this school holiday plus some ‘ground-breaking’ sacrifices for you to seriously consider.

My time will come when my daughter starting to appreciate what’s really happening around her and to make sure I’m prepared, I wrote this post to remind me of the Day.

Hope this post does the same to you.

Happy Holiday!