An Entrepreneur’s Journey

“It is not the world outside you that dictates your circumstances or condition. It is the world inside you that creates the condition of your life.”

Whatever I am having or not having is right now is what I had created. I attracted all things into my life.

If you are not getting the result that you are longing for, think about what you’ve done. Going around blaming people, government, wife, husband, children or luck is not going to improve your result.

By blaming them you throw the ball into their court. You lose the ability to control your life.

You can take control of your life by looking within yourself. Think about how you can create the condition that improve your result.

Once I was complaining to my business mentor about my business facng challenge because the market is changing.

My mentor shot me, “Joe, don’t bullshit wth me. You’re an entrepreneur, you go create the opportunity. If your business failed, it is your fault.”

Yes, I am an entrepreneur. It was a huge reminder and lesson for me. My business had been evolving since then. Evolve to meet the demand of the market.

Not only in business, even my personal challenge is about me. To control my own situation, I have to be calm, look at myself, and ask, how can I turn it around?

A quote that is simple to understand, it will probably take me a lifetime to master it.

You can read what he read at millionaire idea.

Are these some of the dreams you wish to achieve?

I believe most people wants money, wealth or financial freedom. But why are they not getting it?

Most people wouldn’t want to put in the hardwork. Getting out of their comfort zone is hard.

Most want to be in their comfortable seat and getting the money.

Most of them are using “I want” to have more money. “I want” to own a business. They are using “I want” from their vocabulary. “I want” is a weak word to use.

A weak word will result in a weak response. “I want to have more money, but it’s a good weather to sleep for 1 more hour.”

“I want” do not get you closer to your dream. Your dream will always remains a dream.

I faced this issue too. When I am building my training business, I just say, I want to call five schools today. Yup, you guessed correctly. Sorry no prize for you. I didn’t make those calls. I came out with 101 excuses not to call.

Until I told myself, “I Must” call today. All excuses stop, I picked up the call, dial the numbers, close the deal. “I must” is a much stronger word. It pushes you to take action.

If you want to write a book, say to yourself, “I MUST finish the book by end of the year.” Go annouce it to everyone. I believe you will sit down and start writing the first page of your book that very day.

“I MUST” is so powerful. It gets you out of your seat to do something for yourself. Start changing your vocabulary, use “I MUST”.

We went to Goldheart and Lee Hwa. I must say, they are good in serving us. The one who is serving us talked to us, joked with us, asked questions to find out what my friend really want. We are even served with tea.

The companies trained them really well in customer service and selling.

Then we went into the low range shop, Bits & Pieces. No one greeted us. When we were in looking around, the salesgirl didn’t even bother to serve us. She just kept talking to her collegue.

We left in 30 seconds, because we didn’t feel welcome.

I have a feeling she didn’t notice that we were there.

Bits & Pieces products are way lower than what Lee Hwa or Goldheart offer. With lower product range, does that means customer service is also lower?

Do we have to accept this kind of customer service? Singapore still have a long way to go in terms of customer service.

I was updating my blog, checking my internet business stuff. I have been building Millionaire idea for 4 months.

Today, I just happen to check on clickbank, and, wow, I saw money. I sold my first product last month.

I quickly log into another affiliate website, YES, there’s money in there too.

After all the hardwork, finally, it’s paying off.

Then the adsense in my site are giving me passive income in the last few days.

Another good news is………

Google picked me up…some of my pages are in the top 10 in google.

All this is not achieved overnight. Lots of hardwork, determination, discipline and faith.

i follow very closely what one of the guru teach. There is a huge amount of information in his site.

I probably spend 4 hours building the site every night in the beginning. Only this month, I kind of slow down a bit, cos my other businesses also growing.

I know I am bless. Many good people also appear around me. I am attracting good people who helped me grow personally and in business.

Affiliate marketing should be one of the most effective ways to create wealth for youself. But there are many who failed. I’m one of them.

Three years ago, I started a free website, sign up for a few affiliate programs and think that just by placing those affiliate banners in the site, people will buy.

I was wrong, I was darm wrong. They came, but they did not click, they did not buy.

I learnt from this experience. I learnt that the most effective way to be a affiliate is not to sell, but to PRE-sell.

PRE-sell is an art. I love to write to PRE-sell. You have to write in a way that it will not seems that you are selling, yet it must have enough sales message that will push people to click, or buy.

I found out many affiliate masters are good at writing to PRE-sell. They do not have a sales page, that keep selling and selling that just makes you irritated.

But they write in a way that sell subtly, gain trust, build relation. That is an art.

Sitesell advocate on PRE-sell. There are many success stories publish in sitesell, proofing that PRE-sell works.

Next time when you join an affiliate program, PRE-sell, don’t sell. Leave the selling to the merchants.

This place “Bath Culture Foot Therapy” aims to give you an experience in foot reflexlogy. I’m treated very well in this place. Having warm water with all those ingredients for my dedicated foot bath.

The foot bath helps to improve blood circulation. I can feel those small jelly beads that massages my leg gently during the bath. Playing with the beads with my feet actually made my feet comfortable.

They also serve very good tea. It’s not your usual Oolong or green tea. They serve tea with some chinese herbs in there. They even use very nice chinese type of cup for my tea. This is an experience.

Now is the best part, foot massage. They do not exert the kind of pressure where I squeeze my face.

For some, like my mum who is afraid of the pain, can try this place. They will put enough pressure according to your comfort level.

Liverpool finally won Chelsea in the Premiership. This is the Liverpool that I know of, crushing the giants.

Chelsea, the richest club in England, spending a total of more than 300 million pounds on players for the last two seasons, had no chance against Liverpool.

Without their best center defender, John Terry (injured) and Carvalho (fever), they are unable to contain Crouch and Kuyt.

Yes, Crouch was again in the starting lineup. In fact, he created the first goal for Kuyt. Although, I dislike Crouch due to his lack of skills, but he scored two goals against Watford last week and created one this week.

As long as he can keep the form, help my favourite team to win, what can I say? His recent form had been keeping my mouth shutted. I do hope that he will continue to keep me shutted.

Chelsea was playing better in the 2nd half. But the solid defence of Liverpool, lead by Carragher stood as strong as a brick wall. Even Drogba, a profilic striker had no chance.

This result really made my Sunday brighter. It made my football session even sweeter.

Tonight, Man U vs Arsenal. Another battle of the giants. 

Most of the time, Peter Crouch shoot direct to the keeper. It was the same before he scored his first goal.

How did he scored that first goal? A header to an empty net. Hahaha..no keeper, definitely must score. Right place, right time.

Well, I must admit that his second goal is a nice. A volley to a guarded net. 3-0.

A change in the formation for Liverpool in this match. An attacking formation, playing three strikers, Crouch, Bellamy and Kuyt. Not many teams in Premiership play three strikers.

Of course, the strikers must be able to score. You can have five strikers but they have “duck” legs.

I must say this strategy works against Watford. Bellamy is giving Watford’s defenders lots of problems with his speed, creating spaces for Crouch.

I almost got an heart attck on Sunday. I got a school project coming up this week. All the data are in the laptop. I have a meeting with my trainers on Tuesday, and the trainers manual are inside.

Fortunately, a very good and kind friend, Austin came to my help.

1st, he confirm my motherboard is burned. (initially I thought it’s the adapter’s fault, since there is no power)

I save the money on adapter. Then he save my data. He helped to remove my hardisk and pass me his hardisk casing. So now this hardisk becomes my external hardisk.

Some of you may thought that it’s a simple job. But hey, to a technology idiot like me, it’s a great help. Moreover, it’s Sunday night, 10pm. No PC repair shop is open at that hour.

SO, did I get a new laptop right? Nope, I’m still hunting around. I am again blessed with good people around me. Now I’m writing this with my sister’s laptop.

This week many angels appeared around me. In fact, they were around me, but I didn’t notice them.

Austin, sister, mummy, daddy, Jean, Jeremy, Adrian, Byron, Rosarita, Marie, Sean, Abu, Yuan Chong.

Everyday Austin is searching laptop for me. Any good deals, he will always inform me.

It’s a challenging and busy week. Irony is I learnt to see these people as angels.