tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-375835662012-03-17T06:59:07.660+08:00Experiences and trials on the route to success. A record of my random thoughts and ideas on becoming successful in LIFE.Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05149475563024971319noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37583566.post-62926814771645079362009-02-05T03:53:00.008+08:002009-02-05T04:02:29.470+08:002009-02-05T04:02:29.470+08:00

Do you have a purpose in life? Are there any reasons why you are brought on to this earth? Life without a purpose is without direction nor meaning, and each day without purpose can only bring hopelessness. Conversely, with a well defined purpose, each day becomes focused, meaningful and motivated. A few years earlier, I thought that I had found my purpose in life but recent changes in my life

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Happy New Year 2009! I hope that all of you had a wonderful time counting down to the new year and that 2008 had been a good year for you despite the gloomy economic climate!2008 was a year of major changes for myself, and the changes are hopefully all for the better. Let me try to recall some of my more major milestones for the year 2008:April - Left my job as operations analyst(after 3.5 years

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What a year 2008 has been, plenty of negative events worldwide to remember it by, quite like a chain of dominoes falling down one after another! Are these events such as the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the collapse of Iceland, the giant ponzi scheme of Madoff, global recession etc just unfortunate anomalies? Or have all of us just been living in blissful unawareness all this while? I think

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Looking back at what had happened in the past one year, I find that we cannot take what we have for granted and continue to live in blissful unawareness as many significant negative events(such as the sub-prime crisis, natural disasters such as the Myanmar typhoon Nargis, Sichuan Earthquake etc)have started to unfold as the day progresses. All the above events came out of the blue, catching us

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Ever had problems finding stuff that you need amidst the tons and tons of items that you have amassed over the years? Are there piles and stacks of books, magazines, clothes etc just lying about everywhere in the house? Then there is definitely a something you need to start doing: unclutter and get rid of the stuff that you don't need!“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so

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What is more important than becoming very successful in your career, in your businesses, or even in your relationships? The answer is your physical health.Back when I was at my previous desk bound role, the only exercise I ever get daily is simply the trips I have to make to get between my desk and the water dispenser, the restroom, or the photocopier. After a hearty lunch, I'll be stuck at the

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I've always considered myself a passive person, one who tends to prefer to take what has been offered to me rather than express my true feelings or exert my personal rights, choosing to step down during stressful situations in order to avoid confrontations. However, I've realized that this behavior does not serve me well, as most of the time I will end up in a lose-lose situation. What drawbacks

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Is the buying and selling of stocks risky? Why do we often hear of both success stories of people who have made it big in the stock market as well as people who lose all their money in their stock "investments"? Why are some people more successful than others in trading stocks? Before we start putting our money into the market, there are some important mental preparation that we need to do.What

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Are you feeling down on your luck, and nothing seems to be going good for you? Are you waiting for opportunities to knock, but fortune always seem to elude you? Stop fretting on your misfortune, shake off those negative thoughts and create your own luck!Everyday we make hundreds of decisions from the time we wake up to the time we sleep. Some decisions are made consciously while others are made

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Have life been hectic for you, a complete blur of events such that there never seems to be enough time for everything? Do you wish that you could clone yourself so as to be able to divide and split up your workload between two of yourself? Time to slow down and smell the roses!It's been almost a month since my last post, so for those people who has been wondering what I've been up to, here's an

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Chanced onto a fantastic post on Lifestyle Entrepreneurship over at Anywired! I think that it is one of the most comprehensive post I have come upon on the idea of creating a business that allows you to enjoy your lifestyle goals, a MUST read for everyone who wants to succeed in doing this!What differentiates a lifestyle entrepreneur from a normal entrepreneur? In an earlier post(What are true

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What's the most important thing to look out for selecting a job? You might be thinking that the answer to the above question is very straight forward. The career that pays the MOST money of course! How much you get in terms of dollars and cents is important(you wouldn't want to be shortchanged), but there are other things that are just as important to be looking out for as well!When I started my

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Do you dread waking up for work everyday and having to drag yourself to work? Fact is , if you hate your job, you also hate half of the time you spend on this planet! If you hate half the time you are spending, then it is really time for a change!Having worked in the same role for two over years, I'm at a point where I feel that I'm not being challenged enough. Although hours are good and I've

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Just read a blog entry "Escaping the entrepreneurial seizure" over at the Four Hour Work Week and it struck a chord with me. Does firing your boss and starting your own business equate to entrepreneurship? Or does it just mean that the status quo has just changed from you being an employee to you being "self-employed"?Quoting Michael Gerber of "The E-Myth Revisited" fame, entrepreneurs "invent

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"The nature of Mind is emptiness and LuminosityInseparably conjoined...Spontaneously merging with the original stateI am indifferent to experiences of good and bad.With mind free and effortless, I rest in happiness and joy.Where subject and object are realized as a single sphereHappiness and sorrow mingle as one...Whatever circumstances I encounter,I am free in the blissful realm of

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As a continuation of my previous post on the MBTI personality test, there's one more commonly used personality profiling tool that I find rather interesting ie. the DISC profiling tool. The major characteristics of each of the four main patterns used in the DISC profiling are described below:Dominance: To the point, decisive and bottom line oriented. These people tend to be independent and

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After reading a post on the definition of wealth over at Productivity501, it sets me thinking on my own definition of wealth. What does true wealth really mean to me? What does it mean to you?A textbook meaning would define wealth simply as a measure of personal net worth ie. your total assets minus your total liabilities. If your assets are worth more than liabilities, you have positive wealth,

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Have you ever wondered why people behave differently in the same situations? Is there someone whom you absolutely cannot click with no matter how hard you try and will most definitely get into an argument with if you are put into a project together? Why does some people seem more outgoing, likable and more social than others while some others simply hates socializing? How can some people go for a

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Are you leading a very frantic pace of life such there there always seems to be too much to do but too little time? Do you find yourself always stuck at work with little time to spend with family and friends? Then its really time for you to take a break. There's much easier ways to kill yourself than overwork, even a robot requires rest for maintenance and repairs! What better way is there to

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For most of us, getting a full three meals a day is not a problem. Some of us can even afford to dine at expensive restaurants now and then! However, not everyone in this world can be just as lucky.Apparently, in Haiti, people can be so desperately poor that they depend on baking and eating cookies made from mud(read "Poor Haitians Resort to Eating Dirt") in order to satisfy their hunger pangs!

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News of a single rogue trader, Jerome Kerviel defrauding the largest bank in France, Societe Generale of a massive US 7 billion dollars has been all over the newspaper headlines in recent weeks. I find it quite amazing how a single person, not even a star trader but just junior trader, can manage to chalk out such a massive loss in just a short span of over a year. Most surprisingly, is the fact

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What does success really mean to you? Is it solely defined by the amount of money you earn or the number of big ticket items such as a shiny new sports car or wide screen plasma tv? If the above is what you really think success really means, I suggest you take a reality check and reexamine your definition again!If I were to make you an Offer A of a pay $10,000 per month, but in exchange for it

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Do you find it very hard to wake up every morning and wish you could stay in bed longer so that you do not need to face another day of problems? Do you dread the prospect of going to work because your job seems to have no meaning other than providing you with cash? Are you starting to feel miserable because nothing you do seems to be working out right for you? These are danger signals that you

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Was lunching today with a friend of mine who works at Citi and he told me that his immediate colleague who joined his team barely a few months earlier had just been shown the exit. Just last week , the global bank announced further losses and write-downs due to the US sub-prime debacle, together with a mandate to lay off 20,000 over staff world-wide.Well, I guess Citi wouldn't be the last

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Have you ever wondered why people behave in a certain way, or make decisions in a particular style? What makes us so unique such that it is so easy for our friends, family or colleagues to identify or even predict our actions? I guess that one way of explaining this would be that each individual is defined by his personal value system which also influences how successful we can become!A simple

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