For the past week, I have been busy celebrating Chinese New Year with my family and friends. The special day that occurred this year was on 14 of Feb as there were two special occasions falling on the same day and they were first day of chinese new year (nian chu yi in chinese) and valentine day. I have been eating a lot of new year goodies without maintaining my diet as it was a special period and I can say those food have made me put on some weight and caused me to feel tired easily when I was back at work compared to the time when I was regularly eating fruits with normal portion of food. Luckily, chinese new year is not all year round or else I think I may have put on a pretty huge amount of weight on myself if I keep on going to different places (relatives and friends houses) to eat good food.

During this chinese new year period, I have seen a few of my nieces and cousins growing up faster than I have expected. This shows that I may have to work on myself to grow or else they may be growing faster than me and my progress in life will not be in time for my schedule. I have bought a motivational board and placed it in my office to motivate myself each and every day whenever I am feeling down. Take a look and see whether the words give any motivation to you too.

If You Think You Are Beaten, You Are.

If You Think You Dare Not, You Don’t.

If You Like To Win, But You Think You Can’t,

It Is Almost Certain You Won’t.

If You Think You’ll Lose, You’re Lost.

For Out Of The World We Find,

Success Begins With A Fellow’s Will.

It’s All In The State Of Mind.

If You Think You Are Outclassed, You Are.

You’ve Got To Think High To Rise.

You’ve Got To Be Sure Of Yourself

Before You Can Ever Win A Prize

Life’s Battles Don’t Always Go

To The Stronger Or Faster Man,

But Sooner Or Later The Man

Who Wins Is The Man Who Thinks He Can!

Hope I have shared something great to you too and hope you have a great holidays during this occasion. Wishing you a Happy Belated Valentine Day and Chinese New Year.

Cheers

Javier

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Have you heard of babies start running without learning how to walk? Most probably “NO” unless there are some special cases that is happening to the baby. What I am trying to get to you is that we all need to start something no matter how small the event might be, once these baby steps are formed, we will slowly start to see some progress or success. …..Click here to read more

Recently, I went to catch this movie called “Invictus” after seeing Tony Robbins’s tweets on twitter recommending it to his followers. This invictus movie is really inspiring and there is a lot of great stuff to be learnt about our beliefs and thinking. If you have not watched it yet, I do recommend you go check it out as it will inspire you to do great things too.

Invictus Synopsis

The film tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa’s rugby team to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa’s rugby team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.

Before I end this post, I will like to share with you the Invictus Poem that is talked about in the Invictus movie.

Invictus poem written by William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Cheers

Javier

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Are you a book lover? All of us should know that reading books is one of the sources where we can grab a lot of knowledge. However, research have shown that most people tend to read lesser books after they have completed their school. If you are one of those people listed in the research and you are searching your journey to success too, make sure that you start your reading habits again. Previously, I have shared a few videos by Jim Rohn and through his seminar, he had shared with us that in order to strive our success, we must constantly plant the seeds by reading books and learn to apply them into our life. Do you know that while Tony Robbins was 19 years old, he had already read more than 1000 over books and his reading habits of a huge amount of books every month was stunning. While attending his seminar, I was quite curious about how did he manage to achieve that amount of books in a short period of time and become who he was today. After observing some successful people and through reading books, I realized that those people who achieved success in their lives are all having a common factor. …..Click here to read more

#Quote: Successful people don’t have reasons, they have results. ~ Greg Secker

Are you successful in your life right now? If you are successful right now, this means that you focuses your mind on the results more than the reasons. Recently, I have realized that one of the reasons why I’m not successful is because I keep on coming out with plenty of reasons why I can’t achieve what I want in life. Example of not having enough money to perform certain things, not having the right opportunities, not motivated to complete my task on time and so on. I realized I really focus most of my energy on the reasons why instead of my end results of what I want to achieve in my life. …..Click here to read more

Have you played Role Playing Game (RPG) before? In most RPGs, there are monsters of all sorts of levels for you to fight against to train yourself before meeting the bosses of each specific location. Personally, I have learned something about life through playing RPG. For example, sometimes we feel that a specific problem may be overwhelming for us right now but once we become bigger than our problems and look back at the problem, it seems no longer that big anymore.

Almost everyone start from low level (Level 1) in RPG and we fight our ways through with monsters of our current level in order to gain level. Sometimes, we do fight monsters of slightly higher level in order to level up faster. The most interesting part is when you are at a pretty high level, you won’t feel a kick anymore when you try to kill those monsters at lower levels. Remember those are the monsters that you are having troubles killing when your level was pretty low previously. What I’m trying to get to you from this post is that don’t always take problems as a bad thing as problems are actually ways for us to grow ourselves in order to reach a higher level.

I got the idea of writing this post through the book I have read previously by T.Harv Eker called “Secrets of the Millionaire Mind”. The author of the book has mentioned about how most people treat their problems in life and make themselves so stressed up. The most interesting part where he teaches us in his book how we can remind ourselves when we faced problems in our life is to keep on repeat the words “Mini Me” to ourselves. By repeating the words to ourselves, we will realize that we need to be bigger than our problems in order to grow to the next level.

Cheers
Javier

Fisherman’s Wharf

Macau Grand Prix Museum

With my Dear at Venetian Main Lobby

Ruins of St Paul Macau

Tang Cheng

Happy New Year to everyone who visit this blog, this is a new year 2010 and I will like to update some progress along the way. Recently in late December 2009, I went to Hong Kong, Macau and Zhu Hai for a 5 days 4 nights holiday and it was my first time taking a flight overseas. When I start to think back about the past 1 year, I realized that I have actually grown quite a bit as 2009 was the first year that I stepped out my home country, Singapore. Once the plane starts to take off, I started to panic as this was my first time sitting on an airplane but once I thought of my desired travel lifestyle, I started to feel better. Sitting on the airplane allowed me to experience what Tony Robbins had mentioned before in his seminar that an airplane took so much energy to take off and due to the weather conditions, they have to adjust the flight in order to reach the destination. If you are aware of what I’m actually trying to get you, you will understand that we have to take massive actions and adjust our plans along our journey to success in order to reach our destination.

A few things that I enjoyed during this overseas trip were the food and cold weather, the temperature over there were from 8 – 18 Degree Celsius which I could not experience in Singapore. When the last day of my holiday, I started to realize that this is actually the lifestyle that I always desired with no worries about work or money and able to travel around freely to new countries to explore the new places with my loved ones.

One interesting thing that happened when I came back in Singapore was that I found that my CPA commission had increased in profits during my trip which I have left my campaign untouched during the 5 days. Now, I start to see some consistent real profits coming in and I will update here again once that amount become more significant. This overseas trip has allowed me to see new things and opportunities in my journey to success and I become more clear of what I want in my life.

Before I end this post, I will like to write down my 3 main promises that I want to meet in Year 2010.

1) Prepare and participate in a 42KM Marathon.

(Have signed up a 16KM North East Run recently and will take part more along the year)

2) Read at least 15 self-help books

(Have to restart my morning reading habit again)

3) Make a consistent 4 figure income online and at least a 5 figure for one month

(Have to put in more effort and work on my belief to make this works for myself)

Lastly, a happy new year to all my readers and all the best in your journey to success too.

Cheers
Javier

P.S. Remember to take massive actions and adjust your flight accordingly along your journey to success.

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This post is scheduled on 31 Dec 2009 as it is coming to an end of the year and currently I am still in Macau on my way back to Singapore. Therefore, I decided to schedule this post to ensure that I list down my personal success journal of year 2009 before a new year starts so that in future I can come back to review on it. …..Click here to read more

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This is going to be a short post that record down my running experience as it is about a month since I crossed the 5KM running mark. To many people, crossing the 5KM running mark is not a very significant moment especially for those people who has run a marathon (42KM) before. However, crossing the 5KM mark is considered a special moment for me as this is the first time that I have run beyond 5KM in a single run. I can say the feeling of running more than 5KM is great as your knees and legs will be aching for the first timer. Personally, I faced acute pain in both my knees from that particular run and I have to rest for 1 week before I continue my schedule number of rounds.

When I got the acute pain in my knees, I was quite surprised about it as it was my first time having such pain in my knees and I thought I could no longer continue to run in this kind of condition of long journey distance. However, I heard from one of my friend that it is considered normal as our legs are not seasoned enough when we first run such a long distance and he advice me to rest a week before continuing my running schedule. I followed his instruction and to my amazed, I am running cross the 7KM mark now with no pain in my knees.

What I have learned from this experience is to stay persistent and let no fear or pain stop you from achieving the success in your journey. Along the journey to success, you may face obstacles that will hinder your progress towards success so be persistent on your promise to yourself and you will feel greater and better along the way. I will end this post with a quote that I read recently from Bill Bartmann book: Billionaire Secrets to Success.

#Quote: Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eye off your goals. ~ Bill Bartmann

Cheers

Javier

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Have you heard of the theory of pay yourself first? Many of you may been thinking that almost everyone is paying for our own bills or buying something for ourselves is considered as paying yourself first but this is not actually the case. The first time I had heard of this method was actually through a book called Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. Initially, I do not really grab the idea of what does it actually means to pay yourself first when you are earning the money through working for others but I slowly get to know it clearing through reading books, attending seminar and listening to audio books. …..Click here to read more