Maintain A Balanced Life

Day 105 - 895 days to go

Today I decided to skip the Chinese medicine preview class as I have not been spending weekend afternoon with my daughter lately. The reason is that I have been attending various types of classes lately during weekend and also when I was free, she was not free due to her preparation for exam for the past few weeks.

We went for movie with my wife and we had a good time. Sometimes, we should take a break and live in the present rather than always prepare ourselves to live for future. Take a break is for us to prepare ourselves for a longer distance. We need time to relearn and unlearn. We should spend time to reflect what we learn. Just like driving a car on the road towards a destination. we need to always check the read and side mirrors and also rest before we continue a long journey. even a machine cannot operate without stopping, let alone human being.

Besides taking a rest as I felt a bit tired both physically and mentally as a results of my office work as well, I have to spend time for a few tasks. First of all is to find out what happen to my wifi router as it does not work. Secondly I need to bring my mom out for haircut. Another one of course to spend time with my family. Well, I achieved all these by going to a nearby shopping mall.

Happy Events:

1. Able to let go i.e. to skip a preview class and spend time with family.
2. Spent a few hours to check some files for my work purpose and found some interesting and useful powerpoint and PDF files that i have been keeping all this while.
3. Watched a fun movie with family and had a good laugh.
4. Able to sleep till 9am as I always wake up at 6am or before for the last few months due to training for rat race and other commitment.
5. Well health is wealth and thus enjoy a bit more rest and happy moment is also part of wealth building strategy.
6. 
   

Option Training Session

Day 104 - 896 days to go

Today is a fruitful day. Woke up at 6am and went to company to train for rat race. After the run, freshened up myself and went to office to prepare myself for an option training later at 10am. We partner with an investment bank for the half day workshop.

I achieved a few things from one morning.

1. Train for my rat race.
2. Conducted an option training which is my own office function.
3. Know a few friends from the investment banking.
4. Learn from other speakers.

Happy Events:

1. Achieved the above few tasks in one morning
2. Made a few friends from the investment bank
3. Learn more from the acupuncture class.

Copycat Marketing

Day 103 - 897 days to go

Today, hundreds of people gathered at the Nirvana Memorial Park in Semenyih to offer prayers to their ancestors as part of the annual Enlightenment Ceremony which will last for 3 days from today. It is estimated that a few million revenue will be added into their annual income from the 3 days activities.

Bereavement care business is a big business in the region. It has evolved overtime from a very traditional business to a very modern type of business. They employ direct sales and multilevel marketing strategies to grow their business. They even include investment scheme with attractive projected investment returns to sell as investment products. Of course, not surprised that they also offer installment scheme. In other words, almost whatever sales strategies that you find in other types of businesses, you will find it in this industry too.

Happy Events:

1. Met a friend who is a savvy property investor in commercial property and learned some investment knowledge from him.
2. Able to reach the meeting place for less than an hour which is much better than I estimated given the expected massive traffic jam on a rainy Friday after work.
3. I learned to follow my heart to do thing that I want immediately instead of doing it later as I may regret for not able to do it later.
4. This week is 1/3 of the one month long slimming contest. I slimmed down about 3 kg withour much efforts except eat very little after afternoon yoga class and also consume bnergy power bar and b-fit pill before my meal. Both products help me to be slimmer.

Follow Your Heart

Day 102 - 898 days to go

Today is another great day to me. Went for a run near the office and benefited a lot. People who do not run on the road will never know the benefits such as watching the vibrant city life or traffic jam, listen to the lively sound of music or the noise pollution and smell the prosperity flow of city chi or pollution. we all live in the same environment but simply a mindset change will make or break your day.

I had a good run and appreciated the beautiful scenery and greenery around the neighborhood. The good thing is I am not alone as there were so many workers rushing back to home while I was running up and down. Despite the busy environment, I had good soul searching at the same time looking at the greens and also enjoying all the beautiful sight around me. Well, I wish I have more time to do running and soul searching at the same time...

Happy events:

1. Always follow your heart. If you feel like reading a book, making a call, having a cup of coffee or merely going for a walk, just do it and you may be surprised with the end results.
2. Persistence - never give up with what you like despite some major changes in life. Never give up will result in victory. Marathon runners do not win the race but their own enemy within them i.e. the little voice who keep on telling them to stop in order not to suffer from tiredness anymore.

Career Change

Day 101 - 899 days to go

Today is a unique day as I have farewell lunch and dinner with two colleagues by chance. I hardly have farewell meal with two two resigned or outgoing staff on the same day. Quite a number of staff left the company late with different reasons, some are voluntarily, some are due to reach retirement age and some are due to non confirmation and so on.

Well, regardless of the reasons, one thing is similar in common. They left with their experience acquired during their working period in the company and most often than not, big chunk of their experience is not captured, learned or retained within the organisation. Well, it may be a loss or may not be a loss to the company depends on how valuable or relevant is their experience as one wrong decision made can cost the company million.

I wish them all the best in their future undertaking. One thing for sure is that our friendship will not end with the termination of their employment with the company.

1. Despite farewell might be a sad occasion, the chance to have meal with some of the not-so-often-eat-together colleagues is a happy event.
2. Had a good briefing and meeting with our regulators and both had a much better understanding between both parties, the requirement expected for proposal submission and also the various product knowledge discussed.

Day 100 - A First Significant Milestone to Freedom

Day 100 - 900 days to go

100 days is a significant milestone and as such we always read about write-up on 100 days become a President of a country like Barack Obama or even a President of a political party, for instance. Today is my 100 days into my 1,000 days journey towards personal freedom which include financial freedom.

Just want to do a quick review of the last 100 days based on my memory as I do not plan to review all my blogs for this round:

1. Well, I would say I am quite discipline in writing my blog. I have been writing everyday except the 7 days that I either work in overseas and have not access to internet (as I do not want to pay for the ridiculous high cost for my less than one hour of internet access or I failed to log on blogger.com which happened a couple of times during the last 100 days.
2. My action plan is to create multiple streams of income learned from my mentor i.e. Robert G. Allen from USA. My multiple streams of income are infor-product like writing a book, investment in property and internet marketing. I may also want to do coaching and become a speaker after I acquire more knowledge in the fields that I want to venture into.
3. I bought a property during this 100 days.
4. I wrote 93 blog posts as the input for my future infor-product.
5. I attended numerous internet marketing sessions to prepare myself.
6. I attended numerous property investment, personal development, technical courses and other type of workshop to prepare myself for my current job and future undertakings.
7. I have been building my network both online and offline as Network = Networth (locally and overseas).
8. I took part in 3 marathon and 1 ultra-marathon from 2 April to 25 June this year to be part of my preparation for more running event and be fit and healthy.
9. I am still putting in my best efforts for my full time job but swap my leisure time at night, during weekend and on leave for my 1ooo days to freedom preparation.
10. I am still spending time with family and taking care of my mom who is a stoke patient for the last 3 years.
11. Financially I am more stable now due to better financial planning and less burden with the dismiss of my father last year. In average, I will give him RM2500 per month for his pocket money, living expenses for him, my mom and the maid. Furthermore also due to the fact that I have fully paid one of my cars' monthly installment.

Well, I believe that without this 1,000 DTF action plan, I would not have achieved so much. Therefore, think big and achieve big. Action plan rather than a plan only , is a must for success.

However, I think I can do more and better if I have better time management and more organised. I am facing the two minor problems due to the fact that I always want to find a balance in life i.e. I will try my best but try not to stretch myself until I feel extremely tired and bored. I think a happy life should be a balanced life between work, family and personal dimension.

I will give myself a 70% i.e. high pass but not good yet. Plan to achieve better results until I achieve at least 95% upon 1,000 days. I will do a checklist to define what is 90, 95 and 99%. I do not believe there is such level of 100% as it means thatthere is no room for improvement.

Options Training by CBOE and CFA

Day 99 - 901 days to go

Today is another wonderful day. Two speakers from CBOE and CFA delivered great presentation to our staff, SC, BNM an dmarket participants. Both speakers have their unique way of conducting the workshop and they are very experienced in their respective field.

Glad to meet up with my ex classmates in IMD and also got to know more market participants. One important achievement is to provide more training to SC and BNM staff in order for them to understand options market better. Some of the questions asked on the spot not only enlightened the audience but also allowed them to confirmed their understanding or cleared their doubt.

Happy events:

1. Jointly organised an Option strategies and risk management workshop conducted by CBOE and CFA. Many positives feedbacks are gathered.
2. Buka puasa with my colleagues and we had a good time at the canteen.
3. Started training for rat race again. Just realized that I am not as fit as I thought. Time to catch up.