Today, while I was reading an amazingly wonderful article titled “Are You A People Pleaser?“, written by Kelly, I remembered my own experience when I made my first steps as an online text-based game programmer/administrator.

I’m sure most of us have read a similar quote or philosophy, but may be not all of us have really experienced it. That’s why I will take this opportunity to share my own experience and show you the moral or conclusion drawn.

The Big Start As An Administrator And Coder

The first time I got the opportunity or privilege of being both an administrator and a programmer of an online text-base game, I felt like I was the most happiest man of this world; since I just love playing such web game systems. To have the chance of taking up the responsibility of actually handling it, was just one of my dreams come true. I owed this mainly because I seemed to have a very special feeling, emotion and care for that community and partly due to the fact that I was among the top players of that game (I ranked #1 for at least 2.5 or 3 years). I was really enjoying the big chance of making new friends from all over the world. All of them were just wonderful friends and players. I still remember, everyday, it used to be a must to communicate with each other and on the game parliaments. We had different countries and hence Prime Ministers, in the game and most of them treated me so well and it was just marvelous.

The Big Mistake Of Pleasing Everyone - I Was Unexpectedly A Big Failure

Since I was a friend and colleague (ingame) of most of the players, I was actually working too hard (not to say working my ass-off like a fool), to please everyone. Yeah, I was madly trying and giving my level best to please EVERYONE. I, thus, felt and assumed that everyone should be happy with my earnest effort.

But alas, a small group of players developed a different mentality. They thought I was siding with my friends and partly jealous for whatever reasons. They even thought I was a corrupted administrator. This gradually brought havoc in the community as those players, who by now madly hated me, strived to make the game go downhill until it disrupts

As a young administrator (some 2years back), and baring the fact that it was my first ever experience, I was really badly hurt and at some point I even abondonned everything. You might say I was a coward to turn back, but believe me, you cannot imagine what was being said about me and what I was undergoing; it was like hell. People who once loved me, was now against me. I think one of the catalyst in this process was while constructing a management team in the game and you know how elections goes..

The Big Lesson I learned

I took a lot of time (months) thinking about why things went wrong and how I could solve it. But the main point which I realized (and which many of the players told me) was that I was a fool to try to please everyone. This time, when I will come back with my new online game soon before the end of this year 2008 (yes, I will be back), I will surely make things the way I want it to be. You can never please everyone; it’s best to make something generally accepted and move on with your own concepts and creativity.

Use Your Pitfalls To Lead Yourself To Success

It is very important that you know what mistakes you made in the past, and use it to shape your future success convincingly. It is undoubted that when you fall due to some reasons, you will not fall again if you’ve mastered what made you fell down the last time.

Before I end up, I want to share with you my all-time favorite quote related to success:

=> Sun Tzu, the famous Chinese Strategist, wrote in his book “Art of War”:
“Know thyself, know thy enemy and in a hundred battle, win a hundred victories!”

How about you, have you experienced any harsh moments like me? I would love to hear yours..

Last time , in Phenomenal World Record Winnings Of Michael Phelps At Beijing 2008 Olympic, we also mentioned Michael Phelps’ Iron-Will Power To Perform Beyond The Accomplished. Today, I want to show that Michael Phelps is really an inspiration and had the right attitude. Having the right attitude is necessary, or even crucial in any field, including blogging, in determining your success.

Michael Said: “Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn’t be done, all it takes is an imagination, and that’s something I learned and something that helped me [..]”

Besides, having an iron-will power to achieve, Michael Phelps is a brilliant mastermind; the ability to have an imagination to go beyond our own limits or the thought of others, is just exceptionally wonderful! He sets his aim and keep focusing on it. He adds his imagination, concentration, courage and deal with every step like a piece of puzzle and in the end assembling each pieces to mould and concretize his aim into history.

I have gathered 3 small-length videos on Michael Phelps just to show you the attitude and trust (in himself) of Michael Phelps.

Michael Phelps - Setting Goals (Have the right attitude)

Michael Phelps-Prepares for Beijing (Keep focus)

Phelps Aims For 8 Gold Medals - Just Before the competition starts

Today I share with you three prayers from three different great, wise personalities. These prayers seem to be simple, but if you take some time to meditate on them, you will see that there are so many wise hidden meanings in them.

- Sioux Indian Prayer -

“Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins for two weeks”

- Rabia al-Adawiyyaa -

“O God! If I worship Thee for fear of Hell, send me to Hell; and if I worship Thee in hopes of Paradise, withhold Paradise from me; but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, then withhold not from me the Eternal Beauty”

- Sir Alex Paterson -

“O God, help us to be masters of ourselves that we may be servants of others”

Voice Your Perspectives?
Please feel free to contribute your part..

Also while we are at it, Jirel from Positve N Success, recently had a discussion on Believe in God or not and why? You might want to check it out since Prayers and God are always related

What’s Next?

=> Knowledge - An Important Word In All Important Inspirational Words Of Important People
=> Secret to your success! Do you have a vision of who you are & who you want to be ?

Knowledge is a word which has so many meanings and varies from people to people. But, whatever the extent of knowledge someone has, it is always not enough in this rapidely changing world. Every little thing that we experience in our daily life, contributes to increasing our knowledge. We are reading something in an old newspaper, still we are gaining something. In every little thing or person, there is something to learn!

1) Knowledge is power - by Hobbes

2) Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns - by J.M Clark

3) That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone, is true knowledge; all else is only a negation of knowledge - by Sri Ramakrishna

4) The law of nature is that a certain quantity of work is necessary to product a certain quantity of good of any kind, whatever. If you want knowledge, you must toil for it - by John Ruskin

5) We broaden our field of knowledge and reach generalisations of considerable magnitude as the result of numerous small thoughts brought together in the mind and carefully considered - by Alexander G.Bell

6) Knowledge is of two kinds. We know one subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it. - by Dr. Johnson

7) knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers - by Tennyson

Science is organised knowledge - by Herbert Spencer

9) Knowledge is proud that he has learned, wisdom is humble that he knows no more - by Cowper

Do you know any other? I’m sure you may have some great ones too.. Feel free to add to the list :)

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