Are you a good swimmer who can swim very well and able to swim many laps during your swimming sessions? If you are good at swimming, you would feel that it’s pretty easy for you to swim across the pool without much effort. However, it is not the same case for me. Although I do swim from time to time, I am still pretty afraid of swimming as I have past childhood phobia of drowning incident and a recurring shoulder dislocation issue. Usually, I do not dare to swim in the middle of the deep pool (1.8m in Singapore) even when I have friends accompanied me and I would always swim by the side of the pool in case of emergency where I can reach out to the side wall. I am able to swim quite well on my own as I have tried going to the swimming pool a few times without any friends going with me. However, I have those limitation created by myself that caused me to only enjoy swimming at the side. I knew that I can do better as I have managed to improve my number of laps from a few laps per sessions to about 10 laps per sessions. Some of you might think that 10 laps per swimming session is considered too little but if you have a past recurring shoulder dislocation issue like what I had and when you could only swim breast stroke with a aching shoulder due to that past injury, you will understand how I felt after per swimming session.

For a start, I did feel disappointed as most people can do more with little effort but I start to understand that different people has different journey to go through. No point comparing yourself with others but the most important thing is to enjoy the moments in life. When I start to feel this way, I ended up start to slowly increase my own pace and improve my shoulder strength. I start to enjoy the swimming sessions I had and feel happy that I had managed to accomplish the goals that I have set for myself to improve along the way. As my confidence level starts to increase, I decided to break through my fear of swimming in the middle of the deep pool and I do change my focus from being scared to keep on moving forward.

What I have learnt through swimming is that no matter how much obstacles (past shoulder problems), fear (leg cramp what to do), phobia (past drowning cases) and distraction along the way, what you need to do is know where is your end point and keep moving forward. This is how I managed to get through and made my first breakthrough in my swimming session. I will definitely continue to practice and strengthen my shoulder so that I can truly enjoy my swimming journey. I hope that you do find some inspirations through my journey along the way and I will keep you updated here on my own journey to success.

It’s been a while since my last post and today I am thinking of sharing some learning lessons from thomas edison famous quotes that I have read through the book that I have picked up in my local public library. Recently, I went to my local public library to look for some inventors’ biography and managed to find a photobiography of Thomas Alva Edision called Inventing The Future. I have been wanting to read up some successful people biography for quite some time and have finally managed to pick it up from the local public library after some conversation with my colleague. …..Click here to read more

Recently, I have been doing some soul searching and re-accessing on my own self to find out what is the thing that I truly want in life. After going through some up and downs in my own journey to success, I found out more about myself and I can say that giving up on some stuff is not considered a failure as it is just a decision that you have made when you start to align what you truly want in life.

During my soul searching period, I got to know about this documentary from another well-known speaker who was doing an interview with the guy in the documentary and I went ahead to watch it. Therefore, I have decided to share it with you here if you have not watch this Three Feet From Gold documentary. For those who have read Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich book before, you should watch the documentary as you will definitely like the idea behind it as it is actually based on the teachings of Napoleon Hill.

Cheers

Javier

Recently, I have watched this meaningful movie called The Blind Side. It is actually based on an extraordinary true story which I felt very touched and meaningful to share with others on my personal site. I will not tell you the whole story about the movie as I felt that you should go and watch it as it is really very meaningful. …..Click here to read more

When is the last time that you write a journal to keep track of your daily stuff? Today, I am going to share with you this concept of morning pages that I got to know from one of the internet marketers. How does this morning pages come about? It started off from this book called “The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron” where the author put it in a way of every morning when you wake up, the first time you do to clear your mind is to write a three pages long morning pages. You can write anything under the sun that you want or even complain about anything in your life that comes into your mind. The concept is to get rid of all the clutter things in your head through writing them out first thing in the morning without any editing or censoring in any way. The main idea is that if you can get into the habit of writing three pages a day, it will thus help you clear your mind and brings in more creativity into your life and let ideas flowing for the rest of the day.

In order for you to see the effect of writing morning pages, it will be best that you try it out for a period of 60 to 90 days to really see how useful it is to help clear your mind. On the other hand, I have another website to recommend you to assist you in writing this morning pages. As mentioned, morning pages required you to actually write three pages of stuff first thing in the morning when you wake up and there is actually a website that lets you type down all the things there. From research shown that 3 pages of A4 paper is roughly about 750 words and this website is called 750words.com. Something good about this website is because the creator is also a follower of this morning pages concept and he created this site with the mindset of making this morning pages writing interesting with the use of technology. He also felt that writing morning pages should be a private and personal thingy as compared to writing on a blog where the rest of the world can see once you published it online. Therefore, he made it so private that only you with the user login and password can view it. However, please make sure that you do not review your previous days writing until about 3 to 4 weeks later as it is a process of gaining awareness through your daily writing.

Personally, I like to write on 750words website as it gives out different streak badges if you are able to complete certain milestones and it is not easy to create a habit of daily wake up to do your morning pages for starters so these streak badges actually keeps you motivated to continue doing it.

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Over the years, I have been creating my own websites through different methods such as HTML, PHP coding, Joomla, C++ coding, XSitePro and even paid someone to create website for me. Personally, after going through so many different ways of building websites, I still prefer to use wordpress to build my sites as it is more cost and time savings.

WordPress is actually a Content Management System (CMS) that is easily adjustable and it organised your content in a very well-maintained manner. This personal blog that you see here is actually built up through the use of wordpress and you can actually see how organised my postings are in the form of categories and I am also able to change the look and feel easily through the use of different wordpress themes (which is like changing different clothing for my website). If you have taken notice, some of the major websites on the internet uses WordPress to build their corporate sites, ecommerce website or even blogs. If you are interested, you can take a look at this blog post on the “21 Popular Brands That Are Using WordPress.”

There are actually quite a number of people asking me this question about how do I go about creating my own personal website or even a corporate website for a small online stall if I do not have the money to actually pay someone to do it or without the technically knowledge to do it on my own. After replying so many people through emails and Facebook private message, I have decided to create this blog post on how to create a website through wordpress. If you are those who have big pockets to go about getting someone to do it for you, you might want to go ahead and do it. However, please make sure that you find someone credible and good in this area to assist you so that when it comes to maintaining and updating your website in the long run, you will not have so much problems. Some programmers and designers do not like to follow the conventional way of writing comments on how to edit and update their work and this actually cause a problem for someone else who take over to maintain and update your website. …..Click here to read more

Recently, I have been busy reading books and attending workshops that will enhance my knowledge and improve my career opportunities. One of the books that really caught my attention was called “What Your School Never Taught You About Money” by Dennis Ng who is actually a local millionaire. How I get to know about Dennis Ng is actually recommended through one of my online friends who took up his course and mentioned how sincere he was as compared to other gurus that he have met before. Therefore, I decided to follow Dennis Ng on facebook and get to know about his latest book launch. …..Click here to read more

Recently, I watched this movie called “The Billionaire” which is based on a true story of the creator of the seaweed product, “Tao Kae Noi”. It is a really awesome movie for anyone who are on their journey to success to remind ourselves why we are pursuing  the path we chose in the first place.  …..Click here to read more

As I have stated in my year 2010 posting that I have a personal reading goal of at least 15 books per year, this year is quite similar as I have managed to read more than the amount that I have set. However, I did not read very intensively in year 2011 compared to year 2010 as I have set priorities in other areas like taking up real estate courses and creating my new housing in Singapore site.

Personally, I start to love the library and the books as they provide a lot of useful information for me to enjoy. Recently, I watched a youtube video by Darren Hardy which my colleagues shared with me that made me ponder about how to make use of the knowledge that I have gained from the books I have read. I think I might have to start learning about taking notes like a student and implement the useful information that I have found in the books into my personal life. …..Click here to read more

Personally, year 2011 is quite an interesting year for me. I have traveled to two different countries through flight and it is my first time enjoying the airplane flight twice in a year. I am pretty happy about the two different trip as one let me see a relaxing lifestyle while the other taught me about the importance of story.

On the other hand, I managed to make a consistent 3 figures income through my internet marketing venture and when I thought everything was going on plan, the google panda update came in and my income was slapped to close to nothing left. Luckily, I do have a backup plan on mind which was to learn to become a real estate salesperson. In my heart, I knew that affiliate marketing was not something I loved to do as I did not have the passion to write those articles of the different niches. After taking the course of real estate salesperson, I realized that what I wanted to learn and do has already revealed itself. In the end, after passing the real estate salesperson exam, I decided to create a housing site with a few partners called Housing in Singapore to become an expert in this industry through the use of internet marketing (which is what I have learnt so far). …..Click here to read more