Improve our A.S.K. everyday!

"Everyday, do something to increase your useful knowledge, improve your attitudes or acquire new skills so as to enhance your personal growth and worth." ... Jonathan Ooi

We often hear people say, "That's me!", "I am happy with what I am doing!", "That is too difficult for me!", "IT is for the Y-generation!" etc... All these words reflect on the person's negative attitudes towards learning. Naturally, a person with such negative attitudes will never grow personally and his or her personal worth will not be enhanced either.

There are three aspects we should always make conscious efforts to increase, improve, enhance or enrich, they are our Attitudes, Skills and Knowledge (ASK in short).

Attitude is everything and it affects everything that a person is doing. It is the mindset of the person, and because our mind is usually so set in a particular track or way for years, and we are so reluctant to change it. But, once we begin to change our mindset or attitude for the better, everything else will change for the better as well. It is said, "Change our mind, and we will change our destiny." That is absolutely true! So, start changing our attitude in the positive direction. Be positive and stay positive at all times.

Skills are what we employ to do many tasks in life and at work. There are so many skills that we need to learn and use in our daily lives and work. With constant economic and technological development and advancement, we need to learn new skills or upgrade our old skills in order to perform the new tasks and perform them more efficiently. Those who do not do so will find themselves being marginalised or disadvantaged in many ways.

Knowledge is something that is ever expanding and exploding at this IT age and on the internet. We can practically find anything we want on the internet. For example, just type "encyclopedia" into a Google search, we would get 70,300,000 search results. Enormous amounts of information and knowledge at our disposal! We simply can't take all of them due to time constraints. Therefore, we have to learn to acquire the information and knowledge on a very selective and need-to basis. There is simply too much out there for us. Acquire what is relevant and useful to our purpose. Discard the rest.

It would be most useful and helpful if we could do something everyday to to increase our useful knowledge, improve our attitudes or acquire new skills so as to enhance our personal growth and worth.