Under-promise, over-deliver
"Under-promise and over-deliver" an all too familiar phrase as I scanned through ST Online.
The government has under-promised and over-delivered, so yay, the economy sparkles.
Hmm...I must have returned all my Economics concepts back to Mr Chan in VJ when I graduate for I can't remember how does a healthy economy affects me, the average Singaporean? Either that or we didn't really place that much emphasis on it then, because I'm sure I'd remember if it was drilled into us a million times. :p
Still, "rosy picture of healthy broad-based economy", "unexpectedly strong growth" and "glad tidings" sounds like good news to me, if not to most reasonable right-thinking members of the society I'm sure.
Does it mean now that it'll be easier for graduates to find jobs? Or that we are all going to have a pay rise and big fat year-end bonus? Does it mean our GST will be lowered? Or things will become cheaper? More sales? Discounts? Smaller income disparity?
I reckon the a healthy economy probably has a macro effect, and will affect some other things which will in turn affect me.
Someone please enlighten me.
As with anything else, I suppose the formula to positive outcomes is to under-promise and over-deliver. It's like saying I can't promise you a diamond ring but subsequently going on your knees with a 3-carat marquis-cut brilliant rose; or I can't cook for nuts, but whipping up Buddha Jump Over the Wall during Chinese New Year.
Which brings me to think if this is the way to happiness?
I hear couples fight and quarrel, (I wonder if it's the season) and at the end of the day, it boils down to the same things -- expectations and the lack of communication. You want something from someone, whether it's emotional security, psychological support, financial stability, material desires or what-not, and in wanting that, we form expectations of how much they should give. To make it worse, we don't tell them how much we want. Maybe we can't even quantify it sometimes. So there's no way they can gauge what we mean. And when it's not enough, or not exactly the way we expected it to turn out, the earth splits.
Under-promise and over-deliver.
It never fails to bring me great joy when someone who can't promise me big pockets of time suddenly sets aside half a day.
Or that Rochor taohuay opens till 12 midnight but I turn up at 12.30 a.m. to find hot steaming taohuay still on sale.
It's hard to find someone who'd think on the same level as me, who'd want to communicate as much as I do, whether it be a family member, a friend or a lover. So I've learned to try and let go of all expectations and just let the under-promising and over-delivering take its effect.
It reduces a lot more emotional baggage.
For me at least.
:)
The government has under-promised and over-delivered, so yay, the economy sparkles.
Hmm...I must have returned all my Economics concepts back to Mr Chan in VJ when I graduate for I can't remember how does a healthy economy affects me, the average Singaporean? Either that or we didn't really place that much emphasis on it then, because I'm sure I'd remember if it was drilled into us a million times. :p
Still, "rosy picture of healthy broad-based economy", "unexpectedly strong growth" and "glad tidings" sounds like good news to me, if not to most reasonable right-thinking members of the society I'm sure.
Does it mean now that it'll be easier for graduates to find jobs? Or that we are all going to have a pay rise and big fat year-end bonus? Does it mean our GST will be lowered? Or things will become cheaper? More sales? Discounts? Smaller income disparity?
I reckon the a healthy economy probably has a macro effect, and will affect some other things which will in turn affect me.
Someone please enlighten me.
As with anything else, I suppose the formula to positive outcomes is to under-promise and over-deliver. It's like saying I can't promise you a diamond ring but subsequently going on your knees with a 3-carat marquis-cut brilliant rose; or I can't cook for nuts, but whipping up Buddha Jump Over the Wall during Chinese New Year.
Which brings me to think if this is the way to happiness?
I hear couples fight and quarrel, (I wonder if it's the season) and at the end of the day, it boils down to the same things -- expectations and the lack of communication. You want something from someone, whether it's emotional security, psychological support, financial stability, material desires or what-not, and in wanting that, we form expectations of how much they should give. To make it worse, we don't tell them how much we want. Maybe we can't even quantify it sometimes. So there's no way they can gauge what we mean. And when it's not enough, or not exactly the way we expected it to turn out, the earth splits.
Under-promise and over-deliver.
It never fails to bring me great joy when someone who can't promise me big pockets of time suddenly sets aside half a day.
Or that Rochor taohuay opens till 12 midnight but I turn up at 12.30 a.m. to find hot steaming taohuay still on sale.
It's hard to find someone who'd think on the same level as me, who'd want to communicate as much as I do, whether it be a family member, a friend or a lover. So I've learned to try and let go of all expectations and just let the under-promising and over-delivering take its effect.
It reduces a lot more emotional baggage.
For me at least.
:)
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