MYPOST 4: What things you learned from your family?

Family can be said that is our life long companion and appearing in every moment of our life. Family cannot be replaced by money, social status, and jewelry. No matter where you are, family always supports and protects you from the world. Father working hard for family, mother taking care of our living, brother and sister stay together as a happy family. Without the love and caring from family, I cannot grow up as a healthy person. To me, the important lessons that I learned from my family are as follow:

Be a humble person

One of the values that I learned from my family is to be a humble person. This is because people will show courtesy and respect to you in return. To them, there is no high and low-status division among people and be humble is essential so that it can leave a good impression on people as compared to the person who is arrogant and egocentric. Meanwhile, if you seek to learn something from others, you should humble and sincere while the person teaching you rather than proving yourself is smart. In short, be humble can connect to people, learn new things, and make people feel valued and respected in life.

Practice simple lifestyle

Practice simple lifestyle refers to learn and explore something that is helpful to you in living rather than put yourself in busy life. In this competitive world, one cannot deny that human competes between each other in order get a better job, income, living, and status. Certain people learn the various type of skills and knowledge as a competitive advantage in order to make themselves smart and clever. Unfortunately, certain of them still unclear the main intention behind and cause them to become busy and feel anxiety because no improvement after they have picked up new skills and knowledge. As compared to the people who have their own goals, they have clearly understood which relevant skills and knowledge are essential to them and they start to master all of them. After a few years, their living starts to be simple because they manage their own decision that they make a few years ago either explore new skills for improvement or improve their current skills as intensification. In short, practice a simple lifestyle every day can make you prioritize your tasks and it can also help you spend your time wisely to plan a goal that you wish to achieve in the future.

Read regularly

My father always encourages me to form a reading habit. This is because reading regularly can help you to explore new knowledge, reframe your mindset, and can see the changes of the world. For example, if you reading the books written by Napoleon Hills, you can see the success and failure experiences described by the writer and it can help you to improve your living.  If you reading the books written by Nick Vujicic, you will realize the beauty of life, make yourself feel motivated, and challenge yourself to overcome your limits. Therefore, read a good book not only can bring improvement for yourself, and it also lets you see the changing of the world from different perspective.

Have a grateful heart

My parents always provide admonition that always has a grateful heart in living. Don’t compare yourself with others, because life is too short. This is because if we have a grateful heart in living, our life will become better because we recognize what is good things happening around us rather than defining the problems. Instead of grumble about the current job situation, we should have grateful that we have a job and start to improve ourselves to get better job. Instead of comparing yourself with others, we should grateful that this is a new day for me to improve myself to become a better person and it is my time to change my current circumstances. If we always have a grateful heart, we will feel motivated and prefer to anticipate the new day coming rather than bring frustration to another day.

Be patience

Another value that I learned from my parents is patience. In this rat-race society, we always face unfair situations, disadvantages, loss of job, financial problems, and failure. We invest a lot of time and effort into something, but the result is below our expectations. We expect to get an ideal job this year, we sharpen our skills and knowledge, keep following up on the job progress, but we did not get the job in the year. Undeniably, we will feel disappointed, frustrated, and want to give up. Then my family will tell me, be patient, the existence of the problem is temporary, when we miss the job opportunity, maybe there will be better job opportunities coming, we should keep moving on and improving ourselves. When the new opportunity is coming to us, then we can fight for it and try to get the opportunity.

After I left my university, I still remember that I have applied nearly 20 companies to get my first job. Most of my friends got the job offer but I still have not got any response and even rejected by certain of the companies. I feel worried and frustrated. But my parents advise me to be patient and keep applying for another company. After a month, I got a phone call from one of my ideal company. After passed through assessment, I got my first job finally. I feel blessed and lucky that I get the job offer at one of the ideal companies because it is not easy to get a job from the company that you preferred. In short, be patient and keep believing about something great will happens is important because it indicates that there will be better opportunity to appear in your life

In conclusion, parents are playing an important role in our growing process in all aspects of life. They are willing to sacrifice their time and money without any hesitation so that we can grow up become successful people. As the quote goes by Robin Sharma, adore your parents, you will miss them when they are gone. Hence, always put your parents as the top priority by spending time to stick together with them. This is because family is everything!