Guard my heart against daily laxity and hassles

Luke 21: 34 So be careful. Guard your hearts. They can be made heavy with moral laxity, with drunkenness, with the hassles of daily life. Then the day I’ve been telling you about might catch you unaware and trap you. 35 Because it’s coming—nobody on earth will escape it. 36 So you have to stay alert, praying that you’ll be able to escape the coming trials so you can stand tall in the presence of the Son of Man.

Press Forward to Be Like Christ and Forgetting what's Behind

I got a call this morning at 10:30, Carrie informed me that  "Algorithms and the translations of them to code are not as strong as desired. Therefore I did not pass" 我感覺我的努力不被接受。我因上帝拒絕了我的祈禱而失望。 Acts 20:24 我却不以性命为念，也不看为宝贵，只要行完我的路程，成就我从主耶稣所领受的职事，证明神恩惠的福音。 -使徒行传 20:24 Phil 3:13-14 Keep Going Forward 12 这不是说，我已经得着了，已经完全了。我乃是竭力追求，或者可以得着基督耶稣所以得着我的。（所以得着我的或作所要我得的） 12 Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus; 12 Not that I have already attained this - that is, I have not already been perfected - but I strive to lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus also laid hold of me. 13 弟兄们，我不是以为自己已经得着了。我只有一件事，就是忘记背后努力面前的， 13 brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing -- the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth -- 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have attained this. Instead I am single-minded: Forgetting the things that are behind and reaching out for the things that are ahead, 14 向着标竿直跑，要得神在基督耶稣里从上面召我来得的奖赏。 14 to the mark I pursue for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 14 with this goal in mind, I strive toward the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Run from temptation, run from VG (as suggested by Victor W)

Two days ago, I violated my resolve to relate to family using the Heart of Jesus, gentle and humble.

First, I said direct words to Shuyi
Second, I criticized VG.

Jesus, please guide my heart to be like Yours.

Still, I am yet to hear from Carrie Bookstein.

Proverbs 13:12-14

12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
    but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
13 Whoever despises the word[a] brings destruction on himself,
    but he who reveres the commandment (chasing after God) will be rewarded.
14 The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life,
    that one may turn away from the snares of death.

WHAT CAN I GIVE HIM?
by Christina Rossetti

"What can I give Him,
Poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd
I would bring a lamb,
If I were a wise man
I would do my part.
Yet what can I give Him?
Give my heart."

我的危機： 窮極逼變

今天的靈修中，我自己定自己的罪。我有禍大了，兒子也不想搭理我，我的霸道使太太傷心到極點。  窮極逼變, 改變從禱告開始，為一顆柔和謙卑的心來禱告

Proverbs 13:2-3

2 You will be well rewarded     for saying something kind, but all some people think about     is how to be cruel and mean. 3 Keep what you know to yourself,     and you will be safe;     talk too much,     and you are done for.

The challenge today: Luke 16:

8 The master praised his dishonest manager for looking out for himself so well. That’s how it is! The people of this world look out for themselves better than the people who belong to the light.

9 My disciples, I tell you to use wicked wealth to make friends for yourselves. Then when it is gone, you will be welcomed into an eternal home. 10 Anyone who can be trusted in little matters can also be trusted in important matters. But anyone who is dishonest in little matters will be dishonest in important matters. 11 If you cannot be trusted with this wicked wealth, who will trust you with true wealth? 12 And if you cannot be trusted with what belongs to someone else, who will give you something that will be your own? 

13 You cannot be the slave of two masters. You will like one more than the other or be more loyal to one than to the other. You cannot serve God and money.

2017: first 100 days review

Tay told Shuyi and I that he was confused by his life and is spending a good chunk of time questioning himself.

Should I also question and reflect on myself: how have things progressed since 1/1/2017 to now, 102 days in total?

First of all, what did I set out to accomplish? That is in the slide below.

However, new surprises took over the show:

1. During morning devotion, I felt pushed to commit myself into these Keystone Habits:
1. Make bed in the morning
2. Swim in the morning 
2. I became HV and IOMMU dev lead
3. nVidia and G invited me to interview. The G interview required studying Algorithmv4 and "Programming Pearls".
4. College dream for Tracy. To date, she made F.A.C.E at Del Norte HS, securing a spot in UCLA. She is aiming at Linguistics major at MIT or U of M.

2017 Plans:

Theme: slow down to create margin that I use to pass on the comfort from the God of All Comfort to suffering souls needing healing prayers. 去安慰那遭各样患难的人。

1.Sharpen the Saw

–Sharpen planning skill: create plans but only in War Room

–Discipline internet usage

–Model Zuckerberg to read 2 book/paper a month with one technical

2.Financial

–Increase the total job income by ~5% from $245K to $280K

–Pay 13 months of 30 year mortgage

–Allocate savings: switch to simple ETFs, trailing loss protected

–Just in case: Get life $1.5M insurance (cost: ~1700 / year)

3.Career

a)Teach ARMv8 Architecture Overview from the POV of Snapdragon Access Control   (dropped in favor of c)

b)Step through the code of QHEE, ARM TF and OP TEE

c)Nail down stable HEE and HAL IOMMU APIs

4.Relationships Family and Church

–Complete Stephen Ministry 2nd Course

•Focus: “Assertiveness freeing me to tell the truth with discretion and love:  DESC practices on Taylor 12 times”, describe, explain feeling, specify change, with a consequnce

–FaceTime with dad twice a week  including prayer.

–100 family devotion or twice a week

活出卓越

卓越的定义是什么？怎样算是卓越的人生？ 请分享卓越人生的例子。可以是圣经人物，历史人物，或你认识的家人朋友。 Desmond Doss in Hacksaw Ridge. 你有哪些方面可以向着卓越的方向努力？ 专注于自己的呼召，不断提升

洞察力与灵魂领悟

Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience. -Ephesians 5:6 proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord; -Ephesians 5:10 Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. -Ephesians 5:17 

腓1

9 我所祷告的，就是要你们的爱心，在知识和各样见识上，多而又多。 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;  10 使你们能分别是非，（或作喜爱那美好的事）作诚实无过的人，直到基督的日子 so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and void of offence unto the day of Christ;   being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God. 12 弟 兄 們 ， 我 願 意 你 們 知 道 ， 我 所 遭 遇 的 事 更 是 叫 福 音 興 旺 

-Philippians 1

I collected empirical reflections below:

1. 慢下來
2. 察驗外面的世界，对它好奇
3. 对里面的世界好奇，
4. 自我评估self aware，里面与外面的区别 Divide and meditate the Word, and discern phenomena with the Word
5. 希望、渴求自己和他人朝光明宁和的世界走
6. 逻辑思维
7. 想象, build images of things important like the Eyes of Jesus
8. 直觉
9. Let your heart be proactively propelling / pushing upward

Business World Insights：

1. 對身邊發生的事，常常思考它們的因果關係
2. 對做不到位的執行問題，發掘它們的根本癥結
3. 對習以爲常的做事方法和態度，對比新信息來反省，有果敢提出改進
4. 經常去找幾個別人看不出的弊端