Positioning Yourself Toward Your Goal

Do you really want to be rich? If your answer is yes. Then, next question to ask yourself is what are you doing now? Are you an employee or self-employed? If you are an employee, then, ask more question? How much can an employee make? How to become rich as an employee? Of course there are people who become rich as an employee like to top managements of fortune 500 companies. If you think you want to be an employee and become rich, then, ask yourself how to get into the top management of the fortune 500 companies.

If you are not in the USA, then, look at the to 100 companies in your own country and ask yourself how to be at the top management of these companies.

What I am talking about is positioning. If you want to achieve something, you need to position yourself towards it. If your aim is to earn $10,000 per month, you can live a decent life but you will be in the middle class or upper side of the middle class. You are unlikely to be able to become rich.

If you are serious to become rich, then, you need to be operating a business. You need to be able to make more money than just standard salary. Otherwise, whatever your dream is will remain as a dream. You need to start to take some risk and do it.

Give some thought to it and decide what you really want to do. If you are in the middle of Sahara desert, you don't get seaview. You get sandview. Does that sound simple? Common sense?

Getting Rich Skill: Position Yourself to be Rich!

Just Do It!

There was a financial crisis some years ago and it affected many people. Two men were severely affected. The invested heavily in stock markets and the prices of their stocks was down by as much as 80% on average. 5 years later, one of them was back again with even more fortune while the other is still living in misery. What makes them different?

Both had equal paper qualifications, almost equal skills and they both had gone through nearly same process of wealth building in the past. They were both equally capable of doing similar things. They both had the ability to build almost equal amount of wealth within the equal amount of time. Why one could rebound from the setbacks while the other could not? Are you interested to know? You would be, wouldn't you?

The answer was simple. One of them use back the same skill that he built his fortune and immediately start re-building again. While the other man spend all his time grieving about his losses. One man sees that he cans till come back even stronger because he has now gain even more experiences and he can do it much faster because he now knows how to avoid the costly mistakes he made in the past. The other man spends most of his time seeking sympathy and self pity. He has forgotten about how he used to build his fortune. He spent his time in
blaming and frustration.

See the difference? What is gone is gone. If you can salvage, you do it fast. If you can't salvage, you move on. Build on your past experience and do it faster this time round.

There are better things to do than to self pity.

OK. You have heard this hundred times. Now just do it.

What do you want from holidays?

What can holiday do for you?

What is it that you want to gain from holiday? That is my question. Sometimes, you can get a good break by just going to some nearby places and have total relaxation and re-charge. Or it could just be staying in a hotel in your own town and away from friends and have time by yourself and thinking through. What is best for you? Some people prefers some packaged tour where you jump from one tourist attraction to another in great hurry. Look, take picture, go to bus, next location, take picture go again.... Hmm... That is not my kind of holiday. I would rather take it easy and have my own time...

Well, to me, if you are looking for a break, you do not need to pay through your nose. Go to a nearby hotel. Have some good meals, relax, swim, relax, watch TV, think, relax again... All these is when you need to rest and relax. To travel out of your country to experience different thing is a good thing to do. But I think we should set out goal and take our time. So, I prefer free and easy time of holiday. I would wake up late and take slow breakfast and only visit one or to locations each day slowly.

These are just me only.... Depending on what kind of person you are, what kind of things you enjoy, I can say too much... Do whatever suits you....

Conquer Your Fear!

What is the number one obstacle to your success? You know it now. It is your fear.

Hard to believe? Maybe not. How frequent you have an idea and you do not have the courage to act on it? Not having courage means fear. I am not saying you have no guts. Fear is different from not having guts. It is difficult to explain but you must feel it yourself. Maybe, I am not too good with words. One of the common symptoms of fear is procrastination and hesitation. You thought you wanted to act on some plan and it sits there for months and never ever got done. Some many times that you were about to get started and then just think that you will do it tomorrow or next time. That, is the first symptom of fear.

Another symptom is giving up too easily or finding excuses to support the notion that it will not work. You only give it one and only one try and then to confirm that it will not work. Worst, your that try was not even half-hearted. It was touch-and-go kind of try. There was no commitment and conviction. It was simply meant to confirm the negative, that's all. Yes, I have seen it all. I have done that too many times. Hey, does that sound familiar? If so, then, you better watch out. You have the perfect formula for failure if you don't change that.

Learn to conquer these negative attitudes or habits. These are Self Limiting Beliefs that ought to get rid off immediately. Do some soul searching and surface them. You must surface them so that you can face them. Counter each of the excuses with a postive reason and habit. Put faith in yourself and move on.

Success is only another 3 feet below. Why are you stopping digging now?

Trying once is not trying. Trying twice is onlythe touching the surface. Trying 10 more times and each time come back with an improved strategy and you will really learn something even if you have gotten what you want.

Have more faith in yourself and keep the hope alive!

Self Limiting Beliefs

Being afraid and success and being afraid of failure can act together and destroy your life.

These are the 2 most damaging fears human have that can paralyse you completely. They can make you fail in anything you want to do and they can make you stop at where you are and not moving forward. Both of them are different but yet they originated from the same source. That is self limiting beliefs. And I say: Self Limiting Beliefs is the Mother of All Failures!

If you look at any failures deep enough, all of them boils down to only one thing. That is Self Limiting Beliefs. You must always remember that this is your greatest enemy. You must fight it with all your mights. You must destroy it as fast as you can. You must not let any of these destroy you. The more important thing is to able to catch it early. Early Detection is the key to curing any diseases. You must look at self limiting beliefs as diseases. There is a cure for it. But you need to first detect it. Once you know about it you will be able to fight it and win it.

Make it your aim in life: To fight against my own Self Limiting Beliefs!

Dealing with set backs and failures

Do you remember who built Taj Mahal? Oh, maybe you don't even remember what Taj Mahal is. Never mind, let's try this. What about the only apparatus on earth that can be seen from the moon? OK, never mind. That was supposed to be the Great Wall of China. Who was the architect? The ancient emporer Shi Huang Di.

Why am I asking these silly questions? No, I am not trying to tease your memory. I just want to make a point and all great things maybe forgotten one day. Nothing will last in your memory forever. And that is precisely how you should be dealing with your set backs and failures. Don't leave and set back live in your memory for too long. The shorter the better. Pick yourself up as quickly as possible. As much as you want to learn to improve your memory, you should also learn to forget.

Somehow, human being tends to forget good times and remember bad times. If you want to be happy and seccessful, you must learn to forget your set backs and remember your achievements. Let your mind be associated with success and success will come to you. And one more point, what ever good thing you have done, don't expect people to remember you forever. It will be forgotten over time. Don't get upset over it. Just move on with your life. Looking forward is more important than looking backward.

Remember, when you delete a file in your computer, you need to empty your trash bin.

Let's start new today and practise to Forget Our Set Backs and Failures...

To our happiness!

Fear of Failure & Success

Why am I touching on this subject (again)?

I mentioned before that Fear Can Kill You. And that was an experiment done some 50 - 60 years ago. But, I feel that I can't talk enough of this topic. This is such a huge topic that I can write a whole book about it. Maybe, one book is not enough to cover all. I should be doing a PhD on this subject.

Seriously, there are so many things to be afraid of today. There are so many thing to fear. You will never know when disaster will strike. You will never know when you will get fired from your job. How well are your children doing? Are they going to make it in their future.

We must conquer fear in order to achieve success. There are 2 types of fear interacting with you and hold you back from the success you had ever wanted. The strange thing about fear is that you can be both fear of failure and yet fear of success. Human is such a paradox.

To conqure fear, you need to have faith. That was one of the survival skills I mentioned.

Are you afraid of success?

You must be kidding! How can anyone be afraid of being successful? So, you said.

Look, I am not kidding. Many people failed to achieve what they set out to be because they are afraid of being successful. This fear of success is the number one self limiting belief and self sabotage of the world. I had never believe it until recently. Why would people be afraid of success? There can be a lot of reason. It maybe linked to afraid of failure. See, when you are successful, don't you expect that your friends and relatives expect you to be always be successful? Won't they be expecting you to be successful in everything you do? Maybe you got lucky this time. Can you really maintain it always? Aren't you going to worry that you can keep up the expectation?

Wow, there are so many reasons that you should be afraid of. There are so many things that can go wrong. Don't you think that you are going to lose some of your best friends after you achieve success? Don't you worry that they are going to stay away from you?

See, I told you so. There are thousand and one thing that you can worry about. How can you just ignore them and try pretend nothing happened?

The fact is: You are what you think you are!

Get to know yourself and have less wory. In this world you can never have enough worries. I would rather stay away from the negative thoughts and concentrate on what I have on hand.

Acres of Diamond

Have you ever heard of this story? Have ever read of this book? As this is an old classic, Acres of Diamond has been read thousound times or million times. But, how many people had really learn from the teachings? If they had done so, they should be living a decent life.

Why are we not rich? How do I know that you are not rich? Very simple. If you are rich enough, you would not have mid life crisis. You would not be looking at this blog. You would not be seeking for survival tips. You would not have enjoy reading this column. You would have been giving away tips on how to be rich. Anyway, these are not my main concerns. As long as someone is seeking for hints, I will be there to provide one.

The simple theory of getting rich is firstly, you need to be able to leverage. By selling your time to earn a living will not get you rich. Next, you want to be in business. To do that you need to first find a product or service that people want. Then, you need to secure the product and you need to let people know about it. That means market survey, obtain rights to resell and advertising. Selling things that people want. This the universal truth.