Hi, I am Teresa, I am a Leo.

Ever since I chanced upon the statement - your Job Description is not your Self Description, I've been thinking about what other ways do we introduce or describe ourselves?
It is so true though -that how often we are our job descriptions?!

Sometimes I introduce myself based on situational settings:
At the Dog Run: Hi, I am Teresa, I have a Sheltie
At a Blood donation drive: Hi, I am Teresa, this is my first time donating blood
At an Marriage Encounter: Hi, I am Teresa, I am married for 8years to this handsome man by my side.
At my sister's party: Hi, I am Teresa, I am Lydia's sister.

But so often we are in a situation introducing ourselves at a party, or at families gathering, what do we say?
Here's some other ways I'll intro myself next time:
- I am Teresa, I am a Leo
- I am Teresa, I love to read
- I am Teresa, I love dogs
- I am Teresa, I am an asthmatic
- I am Teresa, I love to climb trees
- I am Teresa, I watch CSI for leisure
- I am Teresa, I love eating my mom's cooking
- I am Teresa, I don't like to talk about my job, i might have to kill you after i tell you.

The above exercise is actually quite hard. It took about 10min to come up with such simple sentences! and I really find them to be quite personal and frankly, boring. The more juicy details of my life have to be saved for other occasion, really. Will the new person i am meeting be INTERESTED with such detail? I'll maul it over coffee.

Did you say Yes today?

Ever since the movie "The Secret" was launched and taken a worldwide hit - we are now often bombarded with the notion that the universe we live in is governed by these Universal laws - Law of Attraction especially.

I do believe in the Law of Attraction - but not from the "woo woo" aspect of it. Being an engineer by training, I was once asked to develop a devise that measure brain waves - trust me, our brains do emit energetic and magnetic wave forms to our surroundings. Imagine when the waves emitted from your brain gets really powerful (charged by emotions of happiness, sadness, anger etc), how it influence and changes other form of matters around? All quite possible.

But I have a very simple point to make.

My mother - I decided to stop giving her presents - besides Ang Pao's (red packet). Why? She always have something to say about the present. "I don't like this", "Oh please, not this - I hate it! I don't want it." boy, it sure makes me feel bad for giving her a present!

Applying this to our lives - Do you say Yes to presents? I know, you probably will never reject a material gift - money, toys, food. But what about ideas, suggestions, a kindly advise, a constructive criticism?

Recently I've been keeping fit and active by sweating it out in nature. When I share my recent interest with some friends - some really liked the idea and I'll invite them to come along. While this is an invite to just a form of activity - it is also an invitation to meeting new friends, forming new network, business ideas -the possibility is endless. It may not be obvious - but it is when you say Yes to the Universe, the Universe says yes back to you.