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  • Eugene Goh

    Eugene Goh 7:40 am on May 13, 2008 Permalink  

    I don’t know much, but I know I love you… 

    Just the day before I travel, my newborn son was waking almost every other hour requiring attention from my wife and I and as I was about to travel the next day, I was trying to get as much sleep as I could.

    I suddenly felt very helpless and incompetent as it all seems to be that my wife is managing the home affairs and I couldn’t help much. At that moment, I thought to myself and even told my wife that since I couldn’t help much, I might as well and be better off traveling doing my work and bring the bread back home.

    My wife did not say how surprised she was listening to what I said until about a week later when I started telling her that I feel that our passion and lovingness seems to be dwindling ever since our second child was born.

    What a coincidence or is it the attraction that we are doing that while having dinner at a restaurant in Central Java one night, I heard an old song from Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville, “I don’t know much but I know I love you…”

    At that instant moment, I was overwhelmed by the song as I thought to myself, I may not really know as much as I would probably should in the business that I am working on or even the work that I am working laboriously on but I definitely know that I love my wife very much.

    Honestly speaking, I have to thank all those personal development that I have been engaging these years not to sabotage my balance for family time with my work and more importantly, expressing my love for the loved ones before it is too late.

    For those of you who have not been expressing your love to your loved ones, is this the time to dedicate this song to your loved ones?

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  • Eugene Goh

    Eugene Goh 7:24 am on April 11, 2008 Permalink  

    My Son Can’t Come Back Yet… 

    My wife just had a call from the paediatrician and was told that even after the phototherapy, my son who is slightly jaundiced when we left the hospital yesterday, his readings was even higher today and it seems like he has to stay in the hospital for another 2 days.

    I must admit that I do miss him and being a father again, there is an entire different feeling when you have a daughter and when you have a son.  My sister in law did mention that there is a difference but I did not notice it until now.

    I am quite keen to find out what is the cause of jaundice.  Is there a way to prevent kids from staying longer in the hospital because of jaundice?  My wife heard an old wives’ tale that taking coconut juice during pregnancy will prevent the kids from getting jaundice but it doesn’t seem to work as well as we expected it to be.

    Well, will find out more and hopefully we can find a way to prevent it so that all mothers can go home with their newborns when they are discharged.

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  • Eugene Goh

    Eugene Goh 5:46 pm on April 9, 2008 Permalink  

    New Addition To My Family! 

    Life is never the same again.

    6th April was the day where we have a new addition to my family.  My wife delivered on Sunday our son who is our second child.  My first is a daughter and the second a son, what a perfect combination.

    In Chinese, if we will to combine the first letter a girl ???and a boy ???for the second letter, it will mean good???.  Now that I have the perfect combination, I am poised and geared for the successful life I believe I can achieve.

    While I have been commuting from home to the medical center, I have been listening to Jim Rohn’s CD album: “The Day That Turn My Life Around” and in one of the tracks, Jim mentioned how one can turn nothing into something in 3 steps:

    1. Imagine the possibilities of the ideas one have!
    2. Believe in the possibilities that it is possible !
    3. Go to work and make it real!

    As such, I am writing my goals all over again using Brian Tracy’s and Jim Rohn’s goal settings techniques to constantly remind myself the possibilities I can achieve with all the ideas I have now; believe in the possibilities and take the disciplined activities to make it REAL!

    What about you?  Are you willing to turn nothing into something?   I am sure you can too if you have great ideas and imaginations.

    Eugene Goh

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  • Eugene Goh

    Eugene Goh 10:07 am on March 15, 2008 Permalink  

    Have I Asked My Family What Do They Want? 

    About 10 days ago, my wife has written in her blog that we have registered our marriage for 11 years and I have known my wife since 1992 when I started courting her.  I was still serving my National Service in the army during the time when we started dating and shortly after NS, I started working.

    Throughout my whole working life that started since 1995, I have been travelling to countries like China, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Germany and Sweden starting from 20 – 30% per year when I just started to about 40 – 60% per year at the current moment.  It may not be that much as compared to some other people who are travelling up to about 80% of their time per year but a lot of people including myself previously would make this classic statement:

    “Why do you think I am working so hard for?  I am working so hard and making more money all because of the FAMILY!”

    Have you heard of this statement?  I bet you had.  But the biggie here is that have we actually asked our family what do they really want?  What about me?  Have I asked my family what do they want?

    I just did.  Now that I have a daughter and expecting a son sometime in April, life will definitely not be the same again.  I just asked my wife if she is comfortable with the way I am pursuing our dreams on behalf of the family and if she is, I will continue to do what I am doing right now but if she isn’t, then we got to sit down and straighten things out and see what can be done.  I will always like to paraphrase what Lee Iacocca said:

    “No one on Earth will wish that he had made one more sale and spend one more day in the office but all will wish they had spent more time with their family!”

    I am determined to make things work according to how my wife and I have planned out together.

    What about you?

    Eugene

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  • Eugene Goh

    Eugene Goh 3:20 pm on February 23, 2008 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Listen to your kids whatever you do and they will come back to listen to you! 

    I was listening Denis Waitley’s Seeds of Greatness where he was talking about communication with our kids when they are still with us. Denis and his wife has written a poem about communicating with kids and I felt that it makes so much sense that I copied it down and want to share with all parents out there. Enjoy:

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