Last Friday marks the end of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People core training program. It's a compulsory training program for all employees. I must say that these 3 days were really relaxing. Most of the time, we were either doing group work, playing group games or playing games as an entire class. I must say that this is a really fun training program to attend, at least you don't get information overloading for once!

End of the 3 days meaning the start of a 7-weeks contract. Together with the participant's manual given to us, there was a 7-weeks contract. What this contract wants us to do is to follow what's written on the contract and do as per what is stated. They are all very easy stuff to accomplish, however, frequently, everyone uses the "No Time" as an excuse. Well, I guess I am once of those who will use this excuse as well, however, I am going to try to complete this 7-weeks contract. Darling is puzzled what will this help to achieve. According to the trainer, it is supposed to help you practise to use the 7 habits which you have learnt. Habits takes time to become part of you, and the 7-weeks contract is to help you let it become part of you. However, bad habits are usually very fast to pick up. Hee. Let's see if I can finish this 7-weeks contract.

Once I have completed the 7-weeks contract, I will be given a nice name card holder. This shall be my motivation to complete the contract. I hope I can perservere throughout! Wish me luck please!

Apart from this, there's also another challenge posed to us, that is to read Stephen Covey's book - 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Upon finishing reading the book, we have to write a 2-page summary of what we have done to practise the habits. Upon completion of these 2, we will receive a goose and a golden egg. Why a goose and a golden egg? Well, in one of the lessons, we have learnt that the goose is a production capability, and the golden egg is the product. This means that the goose lays the golden egg. The golden egg is the goals and targets I would like to achieve and the goose represents what you have used to achieve the goals and targets. This will be the second motivation. :)

Today, Darling and I were at Toa Payoh. Walked up to the Popular looking for card holder, and thought I would like to check out the price of the book as well. Saw that it was well affordable and decided to get it. Darling and myself have doubts on whether I will complete the book. Well, I said, at least I am going to try. If I never ever got the book, I will never ever know whether I will complete it.

Then we went for Dinner and sat at Coffee Bean to chill for a while. Sat there and chilled for about an hour. I attempted to read a few pages of the book and my eyes got smaller and smaller. I told Darling that the words were so small to read! Darling closed my book and started to talk to me. Hehe. We chatted about anything, sometimes though words are few, it's the presence that counts!

Took some pictures and personally prefer this one. Yes! I look very tired after one long day at my mum's stall. Haha. Isn't this always how I look after I help out at my mum's stall? Get used to it ba....

After that, headed home. Gotta get ready for 2 more days of training and finally on Wed, I will be back in office, hopefully doing some things which I call work. Felt that I have been taking salary for nothing for the past 3 weeks already. This is the fourth week and I hope after this week, I will be right on track, doing work.

Alright! Till the next update. Busy busy week ahead!