{"id":15880,"date":"2022-01-04T15:12:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T07:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycnsgroup.com\/?p=15880"},"modified":"2022-01-04T15:17:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T07:17:11","slug":"living-and-leaving-a-legacy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycnsgroup.com\/zh_cn\/education\/living-and-leaving-a-legacy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I am thankful for 2021 and hopeful for 2022<\/p>\n

I was asked some weeks ago about what I would see myself doing in 2022. I paused for a moment and answered, \u201cLet me peer into my crystal ball to see what\u2019s in store.\u201d But really, jokes aside, I can\u2019t honestly say what I would be doing in the next 12 months. These days, even tomorrow seems uncertain.<\/p>\n

As I ponder about the future, I am whisked back into my past. Growing up in Pontian, helping my father on his rubber and pineapple plantation and at the sites where he ran his construction work, I never imagined that I would even leave my hometown, or be able to become an engineer, #entrepreneur, let alone an #educationist. If you have read my stories, you would know how \u201cgood\u201d a student I was before my Form 3.<\/p>\n

#Intuition<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, life always has a bigger plan. The passing of my mother for one, made me turn over a new leaf that #empowered me to do well in school after my Form 3, continue my studies in Kuala Lumpur, and thereafter begin a career as a mechanical engineer.<\/p>\n

When I was 35, I passed by a row of shophouses. Call it a gut feeling but something told me that I should buy the lots to turn a profit. I didn\u2019t have any money then but, as fate would have it, I managed to get a loan, bought the lots, and sold them later for quite a profit. This would be the beginning of my entrepreneurial forays.<\/p>\n

Through the years, intuition has served me quite well. I am sure that intuition will continue to play a role in how my decisions are made, but alongside it, I am #thankful to the many people who have shared with me their insights and intuition.<\/p>\n

#Gratitude<\/strong><\/p>\n

I believe that intuition and gratitude are two sides of the same coin. Gratitude gives me an insight into my past, inspires the present and aspires the future.<\/p>\n

The following are some of the #practices and encounters that have given me much to be thankful for in this past year.<\/p>\n

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  • 30 minutes of walking daily<\/li>\n
  • The moringa tree, a super magic food, in my backyard<\/li>\n
  • People who are more knowledgeable and much smarter than me<\/li>\n
  • The passion and commitment of the employees of the CNS Group of Companies to uphold the values of GRIT (Gratefulness, Respect, Integrity, Teachable)<\/li>\n
  • Friends who say it as it is<\/li>\n
  • Faith and family<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    As we turn a new page into the year 2022, I wish you and your family a #HappyNewYear. May you have many blessed days ahead and a better and hopeful 2022.<\/p>\n

    Do drop me a comment to share your takeaways for 2021. I look forward to being inspired by them.<\/p>\n

    Dr Sim Quan Seng<\/p>\n

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    #WhatInspiresMe<\/p>\n

    #PassionForEducation<\/p>\n

    #EverybodyMatters<\/p>\n

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    I am thankful for 2021 and hopeful for 2022<\/p>\n

    I was asked some weeks ago about what I would see myself doing in 2022. I paused for a moment and answered, \u201cLet me peer into my crystal ball to see what\u2019s in store.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycnsgroup.com\/zh_cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycnsgroup.com\/zh_cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycnsgroup.com\/zh_cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycnsgroup.com\/zh_cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycnsgroup.com\/zh_cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mycnsgroup.com\/zh_cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15883,"href":"https:\/\/mycnsgroup.com\/zh_cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15880\/revisions\/15883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycnsgroup.com\/zh_cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycnsgroup.com\/zh_cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycnsgroup.com\/zh_cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycnsgroup.com\/zh_cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}