The 5th Elements of Success (Part 3, add on)

I got a few feedbacks from some blog supporters and friends of mine. They gave a whole new idea about the Elements of Success. 

The add ons are:

WIDER NETWORK: 

That covers INTERNET! In fact, internet really shorten the time of success as well. Our generation is really bless. During the old days without internet, information is hard to reach. People can only ask people, search from library or buy books off the shelf. Now, with just a click, the information needed is feed to our screen in just seconds. 

Internet does really help us in saving time and expending our knowledge. Further more, people now a days use internet to earn $ too. 

In order to main the internet network, we still need to spend our time, knowledge and money just to access it. Am I right to say that?

The 5th Element, Attitude:

This is the last key and it is the "most most most most" important one compared to the other 4, hahaha! I would use very simple words to explain the biggest circle of all -

Take ACTIONS with the correct INTENTIONS! 

After we know how and we apply them, then it will lead us to where we want to be!

The 4 Elements of Success (Part 2)

The 4 elements of success are strongly interrelate with each other. Each of them exist because of contribution from one another.

Knowledge:

Knowledge can be gain from many different ways. Reading books or online materials, watching documentaries or sometime through movie. And now you even can listen to podcast to grasp the knowledge.

Think about how you get through the process of gaining the extra knowledge you need? Do you spend money and time in order gain it? Example, you buy a book with money, then you plan your time to read and to complete the book you bought.

So in exchange of knowledge, we spend money and time to gain that. 

Money:

How does the money goes into your hand? You work, you invest, you gamble? Some even rob or steal to have money into their pockets. No matter how the world goes, money exists and accept it. We need to get money not to buy happiness over here. We need money to buy us necessities. We need money to get ourselves to live on. You work hard and spending more than 8 hours a day for a month to get your salary (which is money). Beside you spend your time working, do you use your knowledge, your expertly to exchange money as well. 

So in exchange of money, we spend our time and our knowledge to earn it. 

Time:   

How about time? How do we exchange money to earn time? Let's think about it together. Can you buy time with money? The answer is Yes. As an example, how do you travel from your home to work? Walk which is free but you will end up either wake up early in the morning or you'll be exhausted and ate when you reach. Compare to walk to your company, you pay money to get there. Paying money save your time in reaching to the company. Let's say you take public transport - buses. They are cheap, slower and compare to your own car which is costlier, you drive by your own you get the reach your work place faster and you can have a better time management as you do not need to wait for the bus. 

How about exchange of knowledge to earn time? These 2 elements are so closely bond together that we often ignore it's co-relationship. Everything we do, every decision we made, every problem we solved can be answered as using our brain to come out a solution to achieve the goal in shortest time as possible. Think of human evolution in cooking. A few thousands year ago, our ancestors use probably 1 hour to light up the fire by using 2 stones and it took another 30 minutes to cook the raw meat. Now, we just put our food in mircowave oven and everything is ready in 10-15 minutes. The world is improving in time. Everyone just want fast results, immediate effects kind of thing. Everything you enjoy now is the evolution of human being from the contribution of inventors and thinkers. Now, human are so smart that they are trying to stop aging! 

In exchange of saving time, control the time or even "prolong" the time, we trade of our knowledge and money!

Network:

Last but not least, the network circle is placed directly in the middle of the triangle and pointing towards to the outer 3 elements. This is where the most critical and useful of all. It affects all the 3 and you need all three together to gain and maintain it. The most simplest example I can think of is your friendship. Do you spend time to maintain your friendship? Do you spend money on your friends? Do you exchange knowledge with your friends?

We as a human can't be expert in any field. Individual resources also very limited. That's why people network. People borrow others expertise or knowledge to save time and money. We learn from other's people experience so we can achieve we goal in shorter time, lesser money. We borrow other people time to gain extra knowledge that we do not have the time to spend to read on it or we split our jobs between 2 person to save more time. We combine 2 people money together in investment so we can have bigger pools and lesser risks. 

We always use our network of people to achieve our goals because network help to cut short and hasten all the 3 elements and it also requires all 3 elements to gain and to maintain the network!  

Learn and acknowledge all these 4 elements. Plan them well. Play them well and Progress them well. These 4 key elements will eventually lead us to our own goals. 

The 4 Elements of Success (Part 1)

There are 4 key elements that can lead to success. They are knowledge, money time, and network. Every successful entrepreneur and businessman know how to manage these 4 elements well. How they do it and what is the relation between these 4 keys? 

1. KNOWLEDGE:

Knowledge that can lead you to the road of success is very important. A person without knowledge and knowing the skills but never apply or use them is as good as blindfold and doing with both eyes covered. 

Knowledge can be acquired through a lots of ways. The most common ways are reading, listening or tapping to other people talks. 

Acquire the correct knowledge will lead you to success!

2. MONEY:

Money is another key to success. The money mention in this column is not the root of evil. Money in here means planing of your own financial. Plan the spending and saving well. Plan on how to utilize the money to work for you. Live below your mean and try to maximize the saving. From there plan out on how to invest your savings. 

Learn on how to identify good debts and try to get rid of bad debts.

3. TIME:

Out of the 4 keys, this is the fairest of all. Every one has the same amount of time - 24 hours a day regardless you are rich/poor, young/adult. Time management is very important and people always neglect this. Plan your time wisely in everyday. Not only that, plan it for weekly, monthly and even annually. 

Every seconds you waste, you'll not able to earn it back. 

4. NETWORK:

Network means your own people's web. There are so many different types of jobs, professionals, and people working in so many different fields. the society is built from multiple single organism. How the society is linked? It's linked and formed from the people network! Imagine you are a single thread of the cob web, can you catch the prey? So what if you work with the other 10 threads together by linking each other up and form closer, do you think it'll be easier for you to trap the prey? The more threads you mixed, the bigger the web and smaller hole you form. End up, the big big dense web is able to trap prey easily and even the smallest creature also can not escape from it. 

Go out, network so you can form your own big web.  

In part 2, I'll be sharing on how these 4 keys are related so closely together to achieve success. 

Success is Continuous

My Friend shared a very good phrase to me: Success is the result of Good Judgement. Good Judgement is the result of Experience. Experience is the result of Bad Judgement. - Anthony Robbins. 
Another friend of mine replied to his buzz by mentioning: True, we have to gain experience by doing the same thing to improve ourselves. Properties investment requires property viewing in many many times to gain our experience and knowledge. Then it results in good judgement and successful investment at last! No pain no gain...it closely applies to what we are doing now. 


A lot of people afraid of having bad judgement and meeting up with failure. How to avoid failure resulted from bad judgement? There are 2 ways:
1. 80% of the people choose this - Don't think of it, Don't judge on it/Don't hold responsible on it, Don't do it and you'll not face it! 
2. 20% of the people choose this - Learn and study from others. 


Then from the 20% of people that have the knowledge on how to avoid bad judgement, only 20% out of these people really practice it and try to avoid meeting failures. The rest of the 80%? End up in the state 1. after knowing more!


So, these 20% people of the 20% in total (state 2.), do it in order to be successful and there are only 2 outcome after they do it:
A. Only 20% really gain experience they want and successful by practicing what they have learn and applying good judgement. 
B. The rest of the 80% met with failure even if they know how to avoid due to some bad judgement or something they do not know happened. 


Let's continue with people from State B. Still 2 states will happened: 
80% back to state 1. and 20% will continue in the state 2.


How about people of state A.? Do you think only 1 judgement you make in your whole life time? The 20%:20%:20% will continue to judge and experience and again some will stop there. 
80% from the scarce will get lucky on the 1st attempt and not that good on the 2nd time and end up in state 1. The 20%:20%:20%:20% left which is so few people will continue the whole cycle above and more and more will be filtered out from these vicious cycles!


Success is not a single moment, it's a long continuous cycles of good and bad judgement. Only those who are persistently practicing the 20% will continue to MAINTAIN SUCCESS!!! Not only need to not stop learning, not stop attempting as well!

Daily Intention setting

Intention to me is like purpose of doing something in order to get another thing. It can be an aim or goal you set as well. No matter what you do, what you want to get in term of material or non-material form such as knowledge or satisfaction, there is always an intention or purpose behind.
Intention can be good and bad. Good intention always lead you to positivity and constructive result to you or people/things surround you. Bad intention will lead you to negativity and destructive to people/things around you and yourself. Both results are measurable by time. Is just the matter of fact that you can received it in immediate or later.

My life is set with an ultimate goal that I need to achieve no matter how! In order to achieve it, I have a long way to go to. Many personal obstacles I have to overcome. Many wisdom I need to learn and apply. It's not easy and the journey is long. Proudly said that I'm not alone in this journey. I have many people supporting me to strive to the goal. This is a very very big stride.
The big stride start amazing starts with a small single step. Every single day of what you do and perform will lead you to the ultimate goal you have. As an engineer, here comes the equation:
Small steps -> A big Stride
Daily performances -> Goal of your life
Daily performance = Small single step
So in order to achieve the big goal of life you need to accumulate every small little steps you do daily. The ultimate goal will not achieve in a day nor buy doing a single step!

Everyday, I think of my personal ultimate goal. I've been ignoring the small littles steps that I need to take before I reach there. I just keep dreaming that I will reach there someday and without taking much serious actions everyday.
Now I finally realized that, I need to set an positive and good intention daily. Not only that, time need to be well planned as well. For each and every occasion in a single day need to set at intention behind to drive you there or to motivate you to learn something.
How can I do that?
1. Well planned schedule ahead. It can be plan day before or even every morning before you start your day!
2. Take a deep breath and close your eyes.
3. Think of what you want to do; what you want to learn; what you want to achieve.
4. Set it right with a positive intention behind. Use positive and encouraging words in setting your intentions.
5. Focus and complete it.
6. Acknowledge yourself once you complete. (very important as acknowledgement can drive you further and this is what I do not practice.) Acknowledgement can be as simple as praising yourself!

Set it daily in the beginning and slowly advance to weekly, monthly and yearly.

PS. I start doing this today. I split it into day and night and sharing this in my blog is part of my night time intention. I intent to record this down to remind myself and share this to others. My mind is focused, and it feels great after blogging it out and fulfill my daily intention!

TV entertainment revolution soon

Apple iTunes that split the music album and revolutionize the music entertainment industry and personal music entertainment,

Now, the apple TV is going to a new level that I believe that will revolutionize the new home entertainment industry with more affordable and flexible rental services!

"Longest" stare

Eye contact is very important when you communicate with people. By looking at the other person eyes when you are talking to them or listening to them is not purely just a good manner, it is to create a rapport with them. Eyes are link to the soul of a person and I really belief in that. In more practical term, eyes are connected to human brain. You can know the person interest in your speech by looking into the eyes or you can show your interest to the person by sending "signals" from your eyes to the speaker.
Normally, you talk when you look at the person. But have you ever tried blank stare? Staring or looking into someone eyes that you love is not a blank stare. When couples look into each other eyes without talking, signal waves are transmitting and receiving from both parties to get rapport or layman term call "shock". I tried staring into a person which I totally don't know, new met for 1 minute. A 1 minute of blank stare with him is really uncomfortable especially we can't speak and only can smile to each other. When the person you are staring is the same sex as you, even worse!
However, this practise can help you to become easy when you speak with stranger or talking in the stage or in public.