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Common scenarios of what your friends will say to you about success

Houston — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:08:18 +0000

Some fine day, you will come across this. You tell your friends, family members and love ones about your goals, your dreams and they doesn’t seems to be supportive of it. Instead they tell you this :”Please get your soul back and come back to earth and be realistic and down to earth.” You feel sad, disappointed but inside you, you have this fire, burning inside you that you can’t describe, now you are at a cross road, two ways, one is to give up and listen to them, the other is to go ahead and just do it, either way, you choose, it’s your life anyway.

In the following example, it is a real life example that I had gone through and I am going to tell you what had happened.

Most of my friends around my age, plus minus 1-3 years old, most of them have got a girlfriend, boyfriend, husband and wife. Mostly got married, have a job, have a house and a car. They have their commitments, that I understand. But now, here is the deal, they are in a different state of mind then mine. I am still single as of this date, I don’t have this kind of commitment and I would seriously like my mum to stop working in 2-3 years time. I want my family members have a good life ahead. My friends mostly are quite stable in that sense of survival and having a good family life and I am happy for them.

I am starting to have a very different thinking between them cause I believe I can achieve more for myself and I will not settle for the less than I can do. They doesn’t agree or even support the idea of mine and at the point of them, same thing, two ways, listen to them and give up or keep going doing the things that I had put in years to learn and master which I believe in the next 3-5 years, I will be more better off than them. One thing thou, I am not trying to compare between friends as that isn’t good thou. What I am trying to drive at is that if you have a dream, a goal, plan, take massive actions and go for it, if you think that goal is really what you want dearly for a reason strong enough for you to keep at it long term and never give up! It’s not easy and I promise you, it’s one hell of a road but the fruits is there at the end of the road for you to enjoy, are you willing to do it? Ask yourself many times over and if the answer is still a Yes, Keep Going and you will not be deny!

My friends are in a state mind of in a comfort zone and life will be like that for them as time goes by. I don’t want to settle for less, I believe I can achieve more than that and I am at it for more than 3 years now. I will not give up forever until the day I leave this world.

Give yourself a pat on the back as nobody else will.

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Houston — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:59:08 +0000

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What does family meant to you?

Houston — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:37:22 +0000

Would you fight for your family for survival? Would you do whatever it takes to let your family have a good life? Family meant the most dearly to me and I will do whatever I can to keep them out of harm way and live a better life. Different people have different definitions about success. Some people thinks that success is having an own family, having kinship, friendship, relationship and also having good health for their love ones. Some people thinks that having success is having a lot of money, being able to tour the world and do whatever things they like and wish too.

Family is very important to most people and more often times, many people doesn’t really have what it takes to keep their family alive needless to say to having a better life. Take for example, during your free time, how do you spend your time? Playing games? Going out with friends? Enjoying yourself? Playing and drinking and clubbing? I had seen many of that. I am not saying doing all these things is wrong but if you were to use every of your free time on these kinds of enjoyment and knowing at the back of your mind that your family needs more support, how would you feel? Do you feel good after enjoyment?

To be frank, I work very hard night after night right after work. I know it myself, that if I keep going this way, my health is going to be heading down hill. But what does that compared to my parents at a very old age and still have to work day after day, month after month, year after year, where they should be already enjoying their retirement life after bringing you up to be a grown up. I am not trying to mean you can’t enjoy yourself, but spend some time and thoughts for you yourself and your family. To be able to achieve everything that you want and at the same time providing your family a good environment to live, is not easy but keep going and do not give up!

At any point in time, if you are going to give up, give me a contact through my contact page or better, let me know through the comments and I will get back to you at soonest! Head On!

Family = Father and Mother, I Love You!

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The road to success is not easy always

Houston — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 07:45:11 +0000

Being successful in your goals and dreams is always not an easy task. I have came to realize it on my way pursuing what I wanted in the long term. You need to have the following feelings:

Faith
Perseverance
Belief
Never Give Up Spirit
Patience

It not easy to have all the above mentioned. There are too many things in life where it will beat you to the ground permanently, if you let it. One thing I want to let you know is, the bigger the obstacles, the greater the sense of achievement. Imagine you are just a seed planted in the soil. You try your very best to grow and break through the soil, you kept trying and trying and just about when you are about to break through, you give up and in that instant, everything is over. Once you give up, everything is over, there isn’t a need to say anything at all.

If you are trying your best in doing something and you fail, change your strategy and try again. A matter of fact, many people tried something and failed and keep using the same strategy. You can’t expect a different result using the same strategy over and over again, something needs to be changed. Being successful or not, only depends on the 6 inches in between your ears, that’s all it is. We all have the same mind, same body, same soul but the difference is the software running in the mind that makes the difference.

In your road to success, you need to humble and keep learning. A cup that is already full, no more water can be pour into it, you need to empty it before new knowledge can flow in, always remember that. Lastly, I would like to share with you a small paragraph of what Steve Jobs had shared in 2005 at Standford Commencement Address.

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

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Success Through Hard Work

Houston — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:47:53 +0000

To date, I am not sure how many friends came to me and complaint to me about their working life at their work place, about their bosses, about their colleges, about their life how bad it is right now. Immediately, I asked them just one question :”So what are you going to do to fix that problem at your work?” About half of them continue to complaint to me further without providing any solutions, the other half have simply no idea how to fix or break the vicious cycle. Many time over, most of the people on planet earth wanted a lot of things that they wanted but to get there, they need to put in more hard work and effort, most of the them either didn’t ever start or give up half way.

It is because of that, I realised that being successful is not easy, it’s really not an easy task. Working adults like us for sure knows how tired are we after our work and went home, have a good shower and dinner, spend time with our family and went to sleep. The very next day, things repeat itself. In order to be successful, one have to work harder than that, planning and taking actions creating a side income for themselves instead of just rumbling, complaining about life. Some of the more motivated ones, will tell me, ok they will not give up, they will do this and that, they are fired up and ready to work harder but the moment they go back to their work, things fall back into where it is just like nothing had changed at all. This is life and to be frank, it is the fact of life to be exact. Now then I realised that successful and rich people deserved where they are right now, what they had achieved, what is the lifestyle they are having now just because of the fact that they had already put in the effort many and most of the people can’t do or do not have the will power to keep going. Right here, right now, you really need to ask yourself one question, just one :”How determined you are to want to achieve successful in your life.?”

“Do what the most can’t do now and you will achieve and enjoy what most can’t have later”

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Do paper qualifications prove your capabilities?

Houston — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:51:13 +0000

The answer to this question to me is a definite, NO! It had been proven by other universities that how high or how good your qualifications are, doesn’t have an impact on the capabilities of yourself. Look at Bill Gates, Warran Buffett, Steve Jobs etc, they are all high school dropout but had achieve great success on their business. We are no difference from them, what is the only difference is the software that is running in the mind. They have all the attributes I had said in my previous post. They find solutions for their problems and also trying to solve problems for the world. They are not impress by how smart they are, instead they are humble, always trying to learn new things from other people and they understand the matter of fact, learning is a life long thing, it’s forever always on-going non-stop.

Many people will say :”Well, they have this and that, I don’t have this and that, I don’t have the money, I don’t have the time, I don’t have the spouse I want etc etc etc…” Take a step back and look back at your complaints, beside complaining, what can you do to improve it? What are the solutions? If there are solutions, what are they? How do you execute them? What is the time frame needed? What resources you have now to help you on your solutions? These should be the questions you should be asking yourself. There are no definite ways on how to go about doing something, it’s how you think and what actions you plan to take and do, that makes the difference!

Right now, stop complaining and look back what you had done so far? Good or bad. You need to start thinking, what good things had you achieved and what are the things you can learn from it. What are the bad things you had done and can they be avoided further in order to not to repeat the same mistakes again in the future. If you ask yourself all these questions, you will remain positive and keep moving forward!

Life is always not easy, it’s a test, a challenge, it’s always on-going and it never stops. No matter how high or low your qualifications are, never ever stop being humble and learn all the things you need to learn, keep faith, keep going and you will be there where you want to be one fine day!

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Ant theory for success

Houston — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:54:49 +0000

What do ants have an impression in you? Are they small to you? Are they useless? Are they strong? Are they hardworking insect?

Not to disrespect anyone here, ants have a lots of good points in them. One very good point is that they always plan ahead into the future. Allow me to explain why it is so, hope it can be of help to you.

What ants do during summer? They gather all that they need to build their homes and store up food and I mean lots of foods. Why do they do that? For one very simple reason, they think winter in summer! They prepare themselves in the summer for the winter. How much would they do to build their homes with stones and store up foods? As much as they possibly can!

What ants do during winter? They rest and make sure they are ready for the work ahead in summer! Why do they do that? For one very simple reason, they need to work hard in the summer after the winter, as they know the winter will not last and summer will come by pretty soon. Ants think winter in summer and think summer in winter, that’s one of the best points they have.

Now, how many people of you here, really take the time and sit down and plan ahead and most importantly, stick to the plan? I bet many of you did sit down and plan but didn’t stick to the plan most of the time. Being able to stick to your plans, need lots of discipline. Often times, many of the people can’t keep it till the last. Many of you give up. That when you are into the vicious cycle of planning it again and never stick to the plan and give up and re-plan again and again and again, until one fine day, you had enough of yourself and did stick to your plan at last but thinking back, how much time had you lost. Time you can’t buy it back and you regretted but everything was just too late, sounds familiar to many of you?

If you do not wish to live to regret then follow the any theory for success and really make it a point to never settle for less than you can achieve, you will be great!

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Warren Buffett Success MBA Talk Part 1 to Part 3

Houston — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 07:03:51 +0000

I had been watching Warren Buffett’s video clips on youtube and there is one series that I particularly like which is the Warren Buffett MBA Talk. There are 10 parts to it and they were ware amazing. I will be linking those videos here below later at the later part of this blog post. I would just like to share with you what I had learnt from those video clips.

Many people misunderstood the meaning of being successful and that money is evil. Let me tell you this, money is not evil, it is what it is in the beholder’s eyes. If you wanted to make lots of money to do good things then money is good thing but if you are using money to do bad things then money is a bad thing to have for you. One important point that Warren Buffett bring out is, imagine you have 100 million dollars right now, does it have any impact on your life? Most likely some will say yes and some will say no, for a start from the time of having this 100 million dollars, it will change your life to a whole different level at first, then it will more or less settle down. Now, if the following year, from the 100 million dollars, lets say you invested in some business or stocks and your return on investment (ROI) turns out to be 10 million dollars worth and now you 110 million dollars, what changes does it have in your life? Let’s say for a matter of fact, you have another 20 million dollars earned and now you have 130 million dollars, what changes or differences does it have in your life? Properly now most people will say it doesn’t matters at all.

Now I would like to ask you, in the process of being successful or becoming a millionaire or whatever you want to call it, what do you gain beside money? Take a moment in time answer this question to yourself truthfully. if you were to ask me that question, I will answer you this :” It is the person you become in the process.” Now you are a millionaire and became a powerful man on earth, the thing is so what right? What matters most is you had became someone stronger mentally and even physically with a never give up, never say die attitude towards your dreams and goals, now that’s what I called true success! Hope you had learnt something from this post and hope it will help you in your life and take control of it.

As promise, below are the youtube videos for part 1 to part 3. You can view it here or watch it on youtube directly. You are able to find the other parts of the series,until part 10 on youtube.com. Enjoy the series!

Warren Buffett MBA Talk -- Part 1

Warren Buffett MBA Talk -- Part 2

Warren Buffett MBA Talk -- Part 3

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What does life meant to you?

Houston — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:36:41 +0000

Different people have different thinkings, comes from different backgrounds and very different upbringings, mindset etc, nobody in this world is exactly the same, everyone is different in one way or another. When life and age catches up, you will come to understand that you can’t change anyone, unless he or she want to change himself. Take for example, Person A might want to have a successful life having an own business, online or offline and also be a millionaire, Person B might think that being successful is having a normal family, not being too rich or poor and having good kinship, friendship, loveship, partnership and relationships.

As you can see, 2 person with two totally different beliefs. Now here is the thing thou, there is no right or wrong to that, it only depends on the beholder’s eyes. If you think that is right for you, just go do it. In each everyone oneself, their ownself is always correct. How many times over, when someone tells you, you are wrong if you do this but you still do it in the end? Sounds familiar?

Life to me is being successful having owning my own company in the near future. Being a millionaire where my family’s life can improve for the better without a huge burden of financial problems. Well, of course, being able to reach there is not easy. In Asian countries here, many old generation people always said :”You don’t have the kind of “life” you want in your life, no point forcing it, what is not yours, is not yours.” Many times over, I don’t even care about it. Why do I have this kind of thinking, you may ask. To me only, I believe in myself most, if you want something so dearly, then go get it and not saying this to yourself :”Hey, this is not yours, forget it, give up.” Now, even if the something is not yours, so what then? At the very least, you tried to fight for it and you didn’t do nothing. Now that’s that I called courage.

I will be writing more on this subject in time, as I love to study life and success in any areas and just hoping to share with the world who likes it, stay tuned!

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What does money means to you?

Houston — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

This is a very sensitive issue to many and I believe most people who talks about this issue with friends, relatives and love ones, many will just keep quiet and will not comment much. Those people who discuss about, they actually compared their paycheck with each other and then very slowly, internal “competition” will happened. Many will try their best to beat the other in terms of paycheck amount. I myself hated this very much.

I am not saying money is everything but it is definitely part of wealth. Imagine, this very day right now, you are financial free and have no financial worries, would it change your life by a great extend? I am sure it would! Many people had set great goals year after year but nothing seems to have change much over the years, why? One of the most common reason is the comfort zone they are in right now. Things are ok, everything seems smooth and just one day, things gone wrong, very wrong and all hell break loose, money is always part of the reason, well relationship can be also part of the huge reason too. Only till the time when things happened, people starts to think more in depth and more into the future and planning for rainy days.

What is money anyway? Money is just some paper made from trees, nothing special. Human called those papers, money, then it is money and this papers can allow you to buy and do a lot of things in this world. These papers also include qualification papers like, “N” Level, “O” Level, Diploma, Degree, Masters and PhD. They are all papers but all these can allow you to survive in this world. Since you can’t change the world, change yourself and play in the game, that’s the only thing you can do.

In the 21st century, there is no such thing as “metal rice bowl” in a company. Any company can just terminated you when the economy is in bad shape and that’s is, you are done, if you have little or no savings, it’s going to be tough time for you for sure. I believe in 5 – 10 years to come, everyone of you on planet earth must have a side income, be it online or offline, if not it is very hard to survive in this world, where almost everything is going up in price and worse still inflation. You have to do something now, right now, to stay on track. Best if you can be at a stage, you really don’t have to worry about “paper” problems and live life like a king. It hard as hell but once you are there, you are so much better off than anyone else and it is that time, it’s your time to rest, a well deserved rest.

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