Our 1st in door plant!

1st day we saw this cute little thing pop out from the can!
After 14 days of watering, it finally comes out. Further more, we wrote some encouraging words to the plant on the 11th day to give hope and strength to the little plant.
My wife thought I din't plant it the seed on Thursday and finally in this lovely Saturday morning, we saw it!

How to read faster and better

     The author of this book, Franklin Agardy 

is to acknowledge the great reading dynamics

creator, Evelyn Wood. She has created a 

reading method that can help many to read
faster, understand better, remember longer,
learn speedier and think sharper. Here, I
would like to share the essence of this book
that helps me to improve my reading skills.
     First, you have to know your reading speed.
Here is a link to know your reading speed at
words per minute. Those interested to know more,
click here. There are rating in this link as well.
For those who can read more than 600 words
per minute, congratulations. :D
     There are several reading habits that slow a
person reading.
1. You speak each word to yourselves while
reading.
2. You read only one word at a time
3. You backtrack - reread
     So, in order to improve. Break those habits.
Try to read without speaking the words to your-
self and try to read more than one word at a
time. How? Very simple, you just need to start
practicing by using you index finger as pacer
when you read. Use the index finger to glide
through every line you read. Practice by gliding
faster each time you read until you reach a level
that you do not need the finger anymore as you
have built in yourselves a invisible pointer.
     However, by just pointing and read is not
good enough in helping you to understand what
you read. Every books, articles even news have
a title. From the title, set an intention of what you
want to know, what you expect to learn, what are
the data or facts that you need. How? Set an idea
which normally you can get from the title. Then ask
a few simple "how, what, when, who and why
questions. This will help you in finding the answers
as you read through the paragraph. This method is
also useful in helping you to recall what you have
read as well.  (By the way, this is not a good reading
method for novel, story or fiction book, I have to
be honest will you all just like the book is telling me)
     You all must be curious why I blog in such
a method like what is printed in the newspaper.
Evelyn Wood invented this "eye movement cut"
pattern is to aid in reading. Now it has become
the printing standard of all newspaper.
     This is just a very brief summary from the
book. There are too many details in this book
that can really help and guide you in your reading
skills. I am here to share some simple tricks that
can help people to improve in a short period of
time. If you really want to know more, click the
link below and buy the book to explore yourself
in How to Read Faster and Better

Thanks to my all blog readers!

To all my dear readers, thanks for the support by viewing my blog. Although I hardly post as I write and share only either when I finished a book or when something I saw that strikes me, add values to me.

 I'm taking the opportunity here to thanks to all the readers that commented on my posts as well. Your comments are valuable to me. They are the acknowledgements, validations and the motivation factors for me to keep writing and sharing to everyone.

A close friend of mine where sharing with me that I should be thanking all the valuable comments that people gave to me. Here, I'm truly sorry that I missed that and I'm hereby sincerely thanking all the known and anonymous people that have been following, reading and commenting in my blog once again.

How many ten years do we have?

I found this chinese movie clip very interesting and really meaningful. For those who don't understand I'll translate the story narrated into english for all. The story is talking about "The Ladder of Life". The story begins like:-

There was a young married couple living in 80 storreys high of a building. One day, they were back from mountain hiking, and found that there's a power cut in their lift of the building. The young couple is carrying a big bag pack they bring to hiking. They are in sweat and hurrying for a nice warm bath. Running out of option, the wife initiated to the husband that they will climb up the building using the staircase. The husband agreed and step by step, both climbed the stairs toward their home.
When they reached the 20th floor, the husband proposed to the wife that they could leave their bag packs on the 20th floor. When the electric restore, both can take the lift back to the 20th storey to collect their bags. The wife noded and praised the husband for being such smart! So, they left their burden and continued to climb the stairs joyfully.
When they reached the 40th floor, they were tired and they only reached half of their journey back home. With another 40 more storeys of stairs to climb, they started to quarrel and blaming each other for not noticing the power cut off earlier. Both were quarreling all the way towards the 60th floors!
When they reached 60th floor, both are in exhaustion. They don't even have the energy to continue their quarrels. The husband told his wife to stop the meaningless quarrel together and use their remaining energy to walk slowly toward the 80th floor where their home is.
Finally, they reached to the 80th floor. The husband was looking at his wife and asked her to bring out the keys to open their door. The wife replied: "Aren't the keys with you?" With shocked, they realized that their keys were left on the 20th floor with their bag packs.

The story is some how showing the resemblance of our life. When we are born till the age of 20's. We live under the care of our parents/guardians. Their expectations on us are just like us carrying the heavy bag packs. After 20's, we'll leave the bags and live happily for the rest of the 20 years without restrain. Once we reached the age of 40's, we'll start to regret for not doing well over the pass 20 years. We'll start to blame the company we work for, blaming the government of our country for not taking good care of us!
Once we reach the age of 60's, there is not much remaining energy or life left on us. So we'll bluff ourselves and comfort our own by telling ourselves to stop complaining and treasure the moment left in our life. At the 80's where nothing much is left in our life, looking back to the ages that we've been through, we only realized that our ideals, our dreams are still left at the age of 20's, undone; unrealized; unfulfilled!!!

The story is to encourage and enlighten the people to work very hard on what we desired for, to realize what we really want and leave no regret in this life!

The Secret

I've been wanting to read this book long ago. It's really a great book to read through and I would just summarize what they have in the book. All thanks to my sister for borrowing me this fabulous book.
There are total 10 chapters in this book. Something special of this book from the others is one main author Rhonda Byrne in the book and there are 29 contributors!

Chapter 1: The Secret Revealed
1. The great secret of life is the law of attraction.
2. The law of attraction says like attracts like, so when you think a thought, you are also attracting like thoughts to you.
3. Thoughts are magnetic, and thoughts have a frequency. As you think thoughts, they are sent out to the universe, and they magnetically attract all like things that are the same frequency. Everything sent out returns to the source -you.
4. You are like a human transmission tower, transmitting a frequency with your thoughts. if you want to change anything in your life, change the frequency by changing your thoughts.
5. Your current thoughts are creating your future life. What you think about the most or focus on the most will appear as your life.
6. Your thoughts become things.

Chapter 2: The Secret Made Simple
1. The law of attraction is a law of nature. It is as impartial as the law of gravity.
2. Nothing can come into your experience unless you summon it through persistent thoughts.
3. To know what you're thinking, ask yourself how you are feeling. Emotions are valuable tools that instantly tell us what we are thinking.
4. It is impossible to feel bad and at the same time have good thoughts.
5. Your thoughts determine your frequency, and your feelings tell you immediately what frequency you are on. When you feel bad, you are on the frequency of drawing more bad things. When you feel good, you are powerfully attracting more good things to you.
6. Secret shifters, such as pleasant memories, nature, or your favourite music can change your feelings and shift your frequency in an instant.
7. The feeling of love is the highest frequency you can emit. The greater the love you feel and emit, the greater the power you are harnessing.

Chapter 3: How To Use The Secret
1. Like Aladdin's Genie, the law of attraction grants our every command.
2. The creative process helps you create what you want in 3 simple steps: ask, believe, and receive.
3. Asking the universe for what you want is your opportunity to get clear about what you want. As you get clear in your mind, you have asked.
4. Believing involves acting, speaking, and thinking as though you have already received what you've asked for. When you emit the frequency of having received it, the law of attraction moves people events, and circumstances for you to receive.
5. Receiving involves feeling the way you will feel once tour desire has manifested. Feeling good now puts you on the frequency of what you want.
6. To lose weight, don't focus on "losing weight." Instead, focus on your perfect weight. Feel the feelings of your perfect weight, and you will summon it to you.
7. It takes no time for the universe to manifest what you want. It is as easy to manifest one dollar as it is to manifest one million dollars.
8. Starting with something small, like a cup of coffee or parking spaces, is an easy way to experience the law of attraction in action. Powerfully intend to attract something small. As you experience the power you have to attract, you will move on to creating much bigger things.
9. Create your day in advance by thinking the way you want it to go, and you will create your life intentionally.

Chapter 4: Powerful Process
1. Expectation is a powerful attractive force. Expect the things you want, and don't expect the things you don't want.
2. Gratitude is a powerful process for shifting your energy and bringing more of what you want into your life. Be grateful for what you already have, and you will attract more good things.
3. Giving thanks for what you want in advance turbo-charges your desire and sends a more powerful signal out into the universe.
4. Visualization is the process of creating pictures in your mind of yourself enjoying what you want. When you visualize, you generate powerful thoughts and feelings of having it now. The law of attraction then returns that reality to you, just as you saw it in your mind.
5. To use the law of attraction to your advantage, make it a habitual way of being, not just a one-time event.
6. At the end of every day, before you go to sleep, go back through the events of the day. Any events or moments that were not what you wanted, replay them in your mind the way you wanted them to go.

Chapter 5: The Secret To Money
1. To attract money, focus on wealth. it is impossible to bring more money into your life when you focus on the lack of it.
2. It is helpful to use your imagination and make-believe you already have the money you want. Play games of having wealth and you will feel better about money; as you feel better about it, more will flow into your life.
3. Feeling happy now is the fastest way to bring money into your life.
4. Make it your intention to look at everything you like and say to yourself, "I can afford that. I can buy that." You will shift your thinking and begin to feel better about money.
5. Give money in order to bring more of it into your life. When you are generous with money and feel good about sharing it, you are saying, "I have plenty."
6. Visualize checks in the mail.
7. Tip the balance of your thoughts to wealth. Think wealth.

Chapter 6: The Secret To Relationships
1. When you want to attract a relationship, make sure your thoughts, words, actions, and surroundings don't contradict your desires.
2. Your job is you. Unless you feel yourself up first, you have nothing to give anybody.
3. Treat yourself with love and respect, and you will attract people who show you love and respect.
4. When you feel bad about yourself, you block the love and instead you attract more people and situations that will continue to make you feel bad about you.
5. Focus on the qualities you love about yourself and the law of attraction will show you more great things about you.
6. To make a relationship work, focus on what you appreciate about the other person, and not you complains. When you focus on the strengths, you will get more of them.

Chapter 7: The Secret To Health
1. The placebo effect is an example of the law of attraction in action. When a patient truly believes the tablet is a cure, he receives what he believes and is cured.
2. "Focusing on perfect health" is something we can all do within ourselves, despite what maybe happening on the outside.
3. Laughter attracts joy, releases negativity, and leads to miraculous cures.
4. Decease is held in the body by thought, by observation of the illness, and by the attention given to the illness. If you are feeling a little unwell, don't talk about it - unless you want more of it. If you listen to people talk about their illness, you add energy to their illness. Instead, change the conversation to good things, and give powerful thoughts to seeing those people in health.
5. Believes about aging are all in our mind, so release those thoughts from your consciousness. Focus on health and eternal youth.
6. Do not listen to society's messages about deceases and aging. Negative messages do not serve you.

Chapter 8: The Secret To The World
1. What you resist, you attract, because you are powerfully focused on it with emotion. To change anything, go within and emit a new signal with your thoughts and feelings.
2. You can not help the world by focusing on the negative things. As you focus on the world's negative events, you not only add to them, but you also bring more negative things into your own life.
3. Instead of focusing on the world's problems, give your attention and energy to trust, love, abundance, education, and peace.
4. We will never run out of good things, because there's more than enough to go around for everyone. Life in meant to be abundant.
5. You have the ability to tap into the unlimited supply through your thoughts and feelings and bring it into your experience.
6. Praise and bless everything in the world, and you will dissolve negativity and discord and align yourself with the highest frequency - love.

Chapter 9: The Secret To You
1. Everything is energy. You are an energy magnet, so you electrically energize everything to you and electrically energize yourself to everything you want.
2. You are a spiritual being. You are energy, and energy can not be created or destroyed - it just changes form. Therefore, the pure essence of you has always been and always will be.
3. The universe emerges from thought. We are the creators not only of our own, destiny but also of the universe.
4. An unlimited supply of ideas is available to you. All knowledge, discoveries, and inventions are in the universal mind as possibilities, waiting for the human mind to draw them forth. You hold everything in you consciousness.
5. We are all connected, and we are all one.
6. Let go of difficulties from your past, cultural codes, and social beliefs. You are the only one that can create the life you deserve.
7. A shortcut to manifesting your desires is to see what you want as absolute fact.
8. Your power is in your thoughts, so stay aware. In other words, "remember to remember."

Chapter 10: The Secret To Life
1. You get to feel the blackboard with whatever you want.
2. The only thing you need to do is feel good now.
3. The more you use the power within you, the more power you will draw through you.
4. The time to embrace your magnificence is now.
5. We are in the midst of a glorious era. As we let go of limiting thoughts, we will experience humanity's true magnificence, in every area of creation.
6. Do what you love. If you don't know what brings you joy, ask "what is my joy?" As you commit to your joy, you will attract and avalanche of joyful things because you are radiating joy.
7. Now you have learned the knowledge of the secret, what you do with it is up to you. Whatever you choose is right. The power is all yours.

Help the polars!

It's been long time I din't watch TV, especially my favorite documentary channels . During my wedding week when I was at my hometown, I saw a very shocking documentary about polar bears. It doesn't seems like the size I saw in the zoo or from the documentary I watched years ago. They were so thin, and looked exhausted after long hour of hunting, swimming, starving!

The key factor is thinning of the polar ice results in thinning of the polar bears too. Not only that, over fishing, polar bear hunting are the other factors that contribute to the slimming and extinction of the bears!
Look at how adorable, how healthy, how fluffy they were!

Now look at what human has did to them! Look at how sick, how thin they are now. 

I believe the Nature is balance. The more you destroy, the heavier they will pay back! Now, the earth is too hot right? Not enough ice right? Look at the snow fall, the blizzard in winter this year. Is a sign of nature on trying to balance back. Think of the movie 2012. I believe most have watched it. It was saying the super solar flare that cause the end of the world but now I don't think so. It's us! 

Validation

This is a short clip of a young parking attendant giving free parking validation and personal validation. Validation to a person is to recognize, to confirm on that person behavior, appearance, clothes, and some time even someone thought.

After watching the fable, I found that giving validation on someone is a good way to start a topic with stranger whom you just met. Not only that they will start talking and tell more about themselves, they will smile and they will like you and remember you. Giving out compliment or validation is a very powerful method in creating rapport between people in a very short time as well. So, guys and girls, praise more to people. You'll not only create more smile and laughter to the world, you'll also leave a good impression to others as well.

Money Personality Type

People always relate success with money. Every successful people are rich people! Somehow, I find it quite true as well. Most of the successful people learn and know how to deal with the money they have. How you treat the money is how the money treat you back! So get to know a few major types of money personality that consist in the society.

1. Spenders: I would say there are a few levels on spenders. In general, spenders are people who enjoy spending money to fulfill their emotional needs. They are instant gratification type.There are very disintegrate type of spenders (spend on whatever branded items they see even they don't need it) and there are also not that crucial type of spenders (they shop and they bargain, yet they still spend to fill the emptiness in emotion). Basically, spenders are people live rich die poor. The worst type is end up debts more than income and yet their income will not be able to catch up their monthly debts. Credit cards will be their lifelong partners!

2. Hoarders: Another term is call savers. They are the opposite of spenders. They feel money as security instead of materials. They spend only what it is need. They do not like to owe money to others. They will try to clear debts as soon as possible if they ever have one. They tend to be more conservative and do not take much risk in investment. So Hoarders are those type of person that live poor die rich! The extreme one will even think credit cards or borrowing money from bank as evil. From hoarders: Die off you credit cards!

3. Avoider: Try not to speak about money with avoiders. They are worse in remembering money and figure. Money basically will not be affecting their judgement. They are not very particular in how much they spend or how much they save. So, they are very weak in money management. Besides, they are the one who pay bills after the payment period. It's not they don't want to pay, its, they don't even care to pay them. Extreme case is they wait until people chase after them then only they pay the bills. If they owe you money, they can forget to return you; and if you owe them money, hurray for you as they tend to forget who owe them money and how much you owe, hahaha!

4. Money Monk: Money monk is somehow like avoider, they hardly talk about money and when it comes to pay bills, they are very similar to avoiders. Although they don't avoid money as avoiders do. Just that, they are more neutral towards money. They focus more on relationship, spiritual finding. To them, money is not everything and money is also the least important thing. Basically, money monk treat money as nothing!

5. Amasser: Unlike the hoarders, amasser like to accumulate money. They enjoy growing money. Amasser can be very good investor or employee. One enjoy using money to grow even more money and the other enjoy working to gain more money. The layman term is one enjoy money working for them the other enjoy working for money! Extreme amasser tend to over leverage or overstressed themselves in getting money.

For a successful money manager, you need to learn to be BALANCE in these 5 types. Successful people know when is the right time to spend and spend on the right things. They also learn on how to save money but not hoarding the money tightly. They also know the balance between their family relationship, friendship and partnership versus with money. Sometimes, having an avoider mindset is good as not everything is related to money and not let money influence your decision. Amasser is a too strong a word for successful people. I would say they are investors and do not over leverage on themselves in investment or any money making opportunity. Lastly, I would also encourage people to DONATE some money according to own comfortability frequently to religious and non-profitable organization! So become success with a noble deed.

Speed Wealth

Recently, I just attended a 3 days seminar by T. Harv Eker. The Seminar name is Millionaire Mind Intensive (MMI). From there, I met my friend and she lent me a book name Speed Wealth written by T. Harv Eker. The book only consist of 70 over pages and yet contains a lot of useful information and experience shared by Mr. T. Harv Eker.

In the book Speed Wealth, the author mentioned that there are 8 important principle that lead to success in less than 3 years.
The 1st principle is to develop a speed wealth mindset. Must always position yourself to be willing to learn as the product cycle of Start, Growth, Maturation, Saturation, Decline happen so rapid.

The 2nd principle is to deliver massive value. Demand, Supply, Quality and Quantity defines your value. Demand = how much market wants it. Supply = how much readily available in elsewhere.Quality = how good your products and services. Quantity = how much you deliver your products and services. Make "cloning" of yourself as well.

The 3rd principle is Timing: choose the right business at the right time. Right vehicle at right place and right time. Model a proven winner and improve on it. It's often faster, easier to affiliate with a company that's up running than to start from scratch.

The 4th principle is to systemize. Create a business system (a repeatable process that produces a profit) that you do not work IN it.

The 5th principle is to duplicate. Duplicate to serve bigger market.

The 6th principle is to leverage. Work smart instead of work hard.
Sample of leverage:
1. start with little or no money
2. use other people's talents, skills, contacts, credibility and resources
3. fully utilizing the latest technologies to increase speed and efficiency
4. use the power of media to get millions of dollars of free publicity
5. borrowing celebrity fame for endorsement
6. selling products before you have them, or at least before you have to pay for them
7. expanding business using you customer's or supplier's money
8. getting the best people in the industry to work for you now, for almost "nothing"
9. getting more from your employees by properly training them, treating them well, giving them the space to express their true talents.
10. getting more from yourself, enhancing your business knowledge, developing your personally and increasing you stamina and energy.
11. managing your time more effectively so you do the right things instead of just do the things right.

The 7th principle is cashing out. Start with the end in mind! The 4 enviable choices:
1. keep the business, continue to hands on and make a huge income
or 2. keep the business, cash out your time be delegating the day-to-day affairs and make a huge passive income.
or 3. sell part of the business and become an instant millionaire.
or 4. create a combination of all the above.
Bear in mind that everyone thinks they can do better than you, once they take over! Deal with large successful corporations where a million or 2 is a drop in the bucket!

The 8th principle is to do it now! Practice being happy now! Practice does not make perfect, practice makes permanent. Practice whatever you want to be in future, now. Get money handle! and learn, learn, LEARN!

The success spirit in my self! You have it too!

I would like to tell a story about myself in the past that has a very strong image until now.
Until the age of 15, I still don’t know on how to ride a bicycle. Everyone was laughing at me but I don’t care until a day I see all of my friends were riding bicycle and how enjoy they were. I was the one that left out. So I told myself that I need to learn how in order to enjoy the fun. 

First I start by borrowing a 4 wheels bicycle. I started off with it. I start to ride and enjoy with my friends. People still laugh at me even I know how to ride! “That was how baby ride a bicycle”
Basically I do not care on how they look at me and the problem is 2 wheels bike is more common that 4 wheels. 2 wheels bike is harder to control as compared to 4 wheels. So I decided to take up the challenge to ride a 2 wheels bicycle. HAHAHA! 

At 1st, I can’t even make 1 cycle out of it. Thankful, these friends are true friend and mentors. They are willing to teach me HOW. They guided. I still remember those keywords. They said learn how to BALANCE YOURSELF, CONQUER YOUR FEAR (my mind was keep telling me it’s difficult to balance!!!) and JUST KEEP PADDLING! WALAH! I start to able to paddle a few cycles! True joy were form in my heart that time. 

That’s not the end yet, only able to make a few paddles doesn’t mean I can sustain. It took me 3 months from riding a 4 wheels bike to start paddling a few cycles of a 2 wheels bike. I fell and hurt myself in order to maintain the ride. I fall, I bleed, I never give up and continue to do it. I can’t even remember how many times I repeat the above statement. 

However, I do noticed improvement, the numbers of falling and the severeness of injuries decrease inversely proportional to the number distance I can cycle. Finally, in 6 months time, I manage to “graduate” and now the cycling method has implanted in my subconscious mind. I know how to ride once I’m on bike. Thanks to those friends who teach me and I'm grateful on that.

I believe everyone will have this kind of story within their own. Recall it, bring back that type of similar feeling, energy and apply it on everything you do. This is the true you that can lead you to your own success!

What is your success definition?

There are a lot of definition for success. Most of the people defined their success in the form of monetary, materials or status. As an example, people defined their success status by owning millions of dollars, owning some luxury cars or properties and etc. Some define it as successfully climbing to the top of the corporate ladders and having more digits of income.

All the success definitions are defined by own individual. All the definitions mentioned in the paragraph earlier are alright. I would just like to add on that doing the things you like everyday is also a success in life. Doing something you are passionate about everyday will drive yourself towards to success too. Not necessary must be driving big car or living in a mansion.

Let me share a story.
Once there was a boy who likes shoes. He has a very strong passion in making shoes. He starts to make his very first shoes when he was kid. When he was in studying as fashion design in college, he worked in a factory as shoes cleaner to fund his education. He just so passionate about shoes designing and non-stop designing in his own style. During the early times when he just started his company, he is still infamous and that doesn't stop him from what he love. He just keep designing and making shoes until one day people start to recognize his work and he become a super famous ladies' shoes designer in the world. Do you thing this is also a success story? He just become success and famous by just doing what he passioned about everyday. Even though there are a lot of noise beside him to influence him from quiting what he is doing but he just ignored them and continue to do what he loves to.

So, have you found the things you love to do? Are you doing the things you like everyday? Are you defining your own success? Find what you really love to do and do it everyday!
To me success is just a very simple theory, Do what you passion and passion on what you do!

How to fight fire??

Fire is start from a spark.When the thing caught on fire, the fire will channel to the next object. The fire will spread to nearby object and grow bigger. If the object beside the fire is water, do you think the fire can spread?
Since ancient, water is known as the nemesis to fire. Water is the most common ways use to extinguish fire.
A small fire need quite some amount of water to put it off. The bigger the fire is, the bigger the amount of water requires to extinguish it! (According to volumetric size, the amount of water require to put out the same amount/volume of fire is always insufficient.)
If there's a big fire, and not enough water to put it off, watered the surrounding objects will help the fire from spreading and eventually the fire will put out itself as there's nothing for it to burn.
Even though the water is insufficient, pouring the small amount of water onto the fire will cause the fire to flicker and get smaller in a short period of time. Constantly pouring the small water is as good as putting the fire off with a one time big amount of water. Probably the process only took longer time but end up will putting off the fire as well.
Think of the 3 situations below:
1. If initial fire is surrounded by more fire?
2. If initial fire is surrounded by wind? Especially the wind blowing from a single side 1?
3. If initial fire is surrounded by  only water?
What do you think of the initial fire?

Try link the article above with
a. Fire = Anger
b. Water = Calm
c. Objects = Human/Person
What do you think?

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.  

Penny Wise in using credit cards

I have a few friends who are very penny wise. They know how to get the cheapest things, where to find best bargain available and with them around me, I definitely can save a lot of trouble and money in finding the greatest  deal in town.
There are so many ways to explore to further reduce your bills by paying them credit cards. But do you know that even your credit card bills also can get discount as well? They are very familiar in maximizing their credit cards points and even know how to minimize their credit card bills!!!
For example, when you know there's sales from certain credit cards, you'll purchased the item using the credit cards to get points + discount. This is normally you'll do. Some times, the discount will go higher if you purchase exceed certain amount of $. So, you can pull people around you who is buying from the same shop to enjoy that. This will help you to accumulate your credit card point higher and faster. By end of the month when you need to clear your credit card bills, some bank card eventually will give you rebate whenever you pay ANY bills using their card. This further reduce your credit card bills accordingly! End up, you are enjoying tons of discount, rebates!
Really an eye opening after learning that from them! Will I do that to save all the pennies? You do your maths and see how much you can save.