Winning the Race of Life Series - 'A Simple Life'

A simple life: Well, how simple is simple my friends? To win in a race, one must keep things simple and not make it complicated. Very often, I would say that things always go back to basics. For example, to grow your wealth, you need to first learn how to save. To have a healthy body, you need to exercise. To gain knowledge, you need to read more books and attend more classes. As simple as it sounds right? But I could tell you many people often complicate things and make life difficult.

Warren Buffett, although the 2nd richest man in United States still drive to work with his 2nd-hand vehicle. He has no driver. He has no entourage. He still lives in his Bungalow in a middle-class neighbourhood he bought 60years ago at USD 31,500. Buffett always keeps his meal simple and hardly ate in an expensive restaurant. Mostly fast food for Coke for his drink.

One thing I discover about people is they love making things complicated. For example, a student life is very simple. Just making sure he or she attends classes on time, do assignments and presentations, do some revision etc. If he or she could cope well with studies, then move on to other activities. All a student needs to do is to make sure things are organised and balance his or her life with family, friends, health, studies and probably other activities. It is just that simple! If a student finds it difficult to cope with studies, then spend more time with friends studying or seek guidance from lecturers on tips to study effectively. And not spending time going for mamak, or hanging out in shopping malls which is a waste of precious time. Remember, the clock is ticking and time flies.

By the way, they are many books in the bookstore that teaches you how to study effectively. A good read will be Adam Khoo "I Am Gifted, So Are You!"
As for working adults, it is more challenging as there are more and more commitments to cope with but it could be simple if a person leads a simple life.

Let me share with you how simple a guy I really am:

Family: Family is very important to me. They take good care of me and I love them very much. Besides, its always good to love your family.

Action: To make sure proper advices are given to them to lead a meaningful life, and to make sure I spend time with them no matter how busy I am. Example: I spend quality time (3-4days) with my cousins every end of the year.

Friends: I only make good friends...friends that are sincere and good to me. When I said good means they help me and treat me well without any hidden agenda behind. If not, why waste time on people who are bad and would destroy or complicate your life? Get away!

Action: Always calling them to keep in touch. Always looking for them at least once a month although they are a distance away. And yea, we always go countdown to usher the new year and have fun together.

Health: It is important to be healthy. What is the point of having all the money in the world but not being healthy to enjoy life right? So yea, remain physically healthy and lead a healthy life.

Action: Hit the gym 2-3 times a week... work out and do some jogging.

Girlfriend/Wife: Very simple, she is there for me and I am there for her be great. When we are not together, she will always think about me and I be thinking about her. Both hearts are deeply connected no matter where we are and what happens. Both will remain faithful and loyal to each other.

Action: Just do my part will do, and provide the best for her.

Financial: It is important to achieve financial freedom because that is what real freedom really is. To do what u love to do. To be rich, one has to learn how to be rich and that takes a tremendous amount of dedication to increase your financial education. I wanna be financially free because I hope to spend quality time with my family in the future. Example: I would love to spend more time at home to take good care of my babies/kids. Bring them to school and see them coming back and call me: "Daddy, we are back home... wanna show you what we did at school today! "Dad, your food is delicious...thank you for taking good care of us, love you dad"

I know its a bit too early now...but guess what, one has to work towards it. If a person wants that kind of life, its better to get started now and be prepared for the future. Don't you agree?

Action: Read many financial books and attend seminars and courses. Take massive action to achieve the financial goal although its so difficult and requires some sacrifice. It is definitely worth it in the future though.

These are the simple examples of how I lead a simple life.

Winning the Race of Life Series – ‘Setting Priorities’

Definition of Cambridge:

Priority means something that is very important and must be dealt with before other things.

It is important to understand the word ‘priority’ as it determines the way you lead your life. It determines what you will do in your life.

Issue: People have a difficulty understanding priority in their lives. They get their lives mess up and often fail to win the race of life.

Example 1: A student not leading a student’s life as many often hang out with friends in shopping malls, having long-hour meals, coming home late at night etc.

Transformation: If you are a student, studies come first. In fact, that is your main responsibility. No other things should come first before studies. If your friends ask you out, you may excuse yourself and only hang out in the weekends.It is just that simple. Furthermore, you have paid for your tuition fees and you should make good use of it. If you could manage your studies well, you could then proceed to focus on curricular activities or other business ventures.

Example 2: People often place personal pleasure above family well-being. For example, people often spend much in having nice meals and go vacation with friends and not having a thought of contributing more towards the well-being of family members. They always said I love my family members but never demonstrate that in their actions. What a pity!

Transformation: It is always better to give than to receive. Contribute towards your loved ones and make them happy. These are things money can’t buy… I agree that money plays a part, but your family members are not happy because of your money. They are happy because you have the kind thought of contributing your hard-earned money towards their well-being. For example, the intention of buying them a nice TV, buying them a nice fridge, treat them a sumptuous meal and not merely using your money for personal pleasure like buying personal stuff and go for a massage. It is your intention they are happy about and this is what money can’t buy.

Isn’t that meaningful in life? Something you are proud to share with your kids in the future. You may start by saying: “Do you know that PAPA did this in the past? Are you happy and feel proud to have DADDY doing this? Do you want to follow PAPA footsteps in doing meaningful things?”

To me, that is living life to the fullest. ENJOY!

Winning the Race of Life Series – ‘Life is a Race’

Happy New Year my fellow friends… How have you been doing in year 2011? Set your resolutions for year 2012 and getting ready to achieve them?

I am back in blogging and I will begin sharing my thoughts with all of you. Let me present to you the ‘Winning the Race of Life Series’. This is a series about the winning principles of life which everybody could apply in their daily lives. Hopefully you will benefit from it and enrich your life for the betterment of family members, friends and the community. Of course, you feel better too as you begin to live life to the fullest.

Living life to the fullest does not mean vacation, hanging out and go partying. It literally means a person is able to travel the extra mile and achieve his or her passion in life. It is the process that enriches a person’s life. Of course, one has to make sure that the passion does contribute to the betterment of mankind. Something of good moral values and is meaningful. If not, QUIT IT!

Life is a race, that is what my daddy taught me since young. We could either win the race or lose in the race. If we are slow in our approach in gaining knowledge and applying them, we would be left behind. If we do not learn the strategies of winning the race, then we are set to be a loser. In fact, there is a valuable lesson for every race we compete in life.

First of all, let us be clear about this. Should we:

(a) Be in the race, or
(b) Be a spectator that watches the race

My dad often encouraged me to be in the race as he said a person in the race is able to experience what life has to present to him or her. It is a different feeling, a feeling that will enrich your memory lane. People who chose to be a spectator all the time is set to only be a commentator. Only giving comments and opinions and lose the opportunity of experiencing what life has to present to them.

Question: How to experience life to the fullest?

Short Answer: Be in the Race!

Further Explanation: Be the best in the things you do… for example: a champion in running events, successful entrepreneurs, successful scientist, charity etc. Make sure the things you do are MEANINGFUL and have GOOD MORAL VALUES!!!

If not, don’t do it, you are just wasting your precious time!

Question: How to win the race?

Short Answer: Learn how to win!

Further Explanation: If you take notice, you will find that successful people often applied the same strategies in their approach. It is the pattern of winning. For example, bright students often have proper time management (strategy) in their lives. Making sure they study every day and mix with friends that are smart + hardworking in their studies.

Another example would be successful entrepreneurs are focus (strategy) in their work. They do not let temptations affect them. For example they do not spend time hanging out in shopping malls, to them it’s a total waste of time. Just observe and you would find it right.

To win in the race of life, all you need to do is to discover these secret strategies and apply them in your life.

HAPPY NEW YEAR BUDDIES!!!

PURE & GENUINE

1) It was a nice Sunday, went to church and yea~ got a very important message from Senior Pastor Dr. Daniel Ho. It is more of a wake-up call from pastor and I am happy to realise my mistakes and get back on track.

2) GOD, forgive me for my mistakes... I realized that I did something that go against my very own principle. I realized my mistakes and is willing to make that change. And YES, I wanna be the high value person again that friends and 'fans' used to be very proud of me.

3) It does not matter how a person start, because some may have a very good start while some people from a bad background are off to a bad start... The most important thing here is not to start right, but to END RIGHT!

4) We are interested in knowing what happens in the end, but right here and right now, are we faithful? are we practicing what the bible says? are we traveling this interesting journey the right way?

5) Life would be meaningless if we are not living with reference to GOD.

Why?

7) Because your right would be my wrong, and your wrong would be my right... So how would we measure who is right and wrong? We often say and ask people not to judge us, may be that's an excuse to get away from any wrong doings... GUESS WHAT? The word of GOD & bible would be the one to judge our action.

8) For those who lose faith in GOD, please do not give up... For GOD loves you very much, come back to GOD and give yourself an opportunity again to see and experience for yourself the love of GOD...

9) Well, I am only interested in meaningful things... a person can only be really happy if his or her soul is pure & genuine. I am ready for that... and I am back again to where I belong, the 'little chiwei' who is always willing to do meaningful things, and make an impact to this world.

10) To transform the world, first of all, I need to be transformed...

11) I LOVE YOU GOD!

TAKE ME, MOLD ME, USE ME, FILL ME!

Are u happy with your life?

1. Recently my friends have been facebooking me or even asking me questions through the phone or in person about 'studies, investment, life' etc. Many asked me why am I so HAPPY about my life!

2. Well, the answer is actually very simple, I am a firm believer of going back to the BASICS OF LIFE! And believe it or not, many of my approach are very simple ones, if you have an IQ of 160, please donate 30 to others. What I am amazed of is 'simple approach sounds simple, but it's very difficult to apply in ones life.'

3. For example, if you are a student, you better have good time management. You need to make sure you sleep no later than 1am (assuming you are really busy on meaningful things) and wake up no later than 8am. As what we were taught since young, sleep early and wake up early by our beloved parents. With this simple approach, you would be so energetic and attentive to important works for the day as you had enough sleep.

4. There are 24hours a day, and if you were to take 7hours off (sleeping hours), you would have a cool balance of 17hours. Lets said you have classes for 9hours a day, you would have a remaining 8hours of free period for your other undertakings. You could exercise, revise your homework, be involve in extra-curricular activities, gaining knowledge in money matters etc.

5. Next, what you need is the ability to FOCUS! To stick with things that work best for you, and carry on doing it with DISCIPLINE would bring you further in life. Imagine you just invest 1hour of your precious time on gaining knowledge about wealth creation everyday, you would expose yourself to all the money-making tools that would make you richer as time passes by.

6. Life is really short, one should treasure it and make the best use out of it. One should make a fruitful contribution to family, friends and the people in this nation. As the saying goes 'do what you love, and you would not work for another day,' its so true.

7. I am LOVING what I do, infact people actually got a surprise when they really understand me and find out what I am doing, and for my 'dream plans' for the future. It is such a joy to live each day the way I want it.

8. I love to share my knowledge with people and therefore involve myself in the education industry. I also love training people to assist them reaching their goals faster and lead a meaningful life, therefore I am also involve in the training industry. Besides, investment and business valuations are also part of my interest.

9. People who knows me well would know my exciting plans for the future, patient is what one needs to master as a habit to realise those interesting & exciting plans.

10. I would say that I have little worries for finding 3meals a day, and finding shelter for the day as I am a very simple guy. A basice & simple living is what I seek for, just that I love doing wonderful & interesting things in my life, whether for the family or in business. Many said I had a different taste for life, but yea~that's just me since young. My parents, brother and true friends would actually understand what I mean, and the interesting part is, all of them supported me wholeheartedly. Pray that my future wife would do the same. It would be great and I be the luckiest man on earth. Whether it will come true, that's me to find out!

11. It's an interesting journey to travel, and trust me IT WILL BE! Just that, one needs to have:

• Good Time Management


• Focus


• Discipline


• Patient

12. So friends, start planning and manage your life. If you find your life is pretty mess up and felt you are not enjoying your life, may be the above could help you to rectify that.

13. Lets do something INTERESTING, MEANINGFUL & FUN that is MEMORABLE in the future. We want to be proud to share these memories with our children one day in the future. How would the story goes, ITS UP TO YOU TO DECIDE TODAY!

A Father's Love

LOVE YOU DADDY!!!

1. Hello EVERYONE, I am back to blogging...sorry for keep u guys waiting as I am way too busy recently to balance and integrate all aspects of my life, glad things are working fine at the moment, hope it will continue to be so I prayed!

2. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU DADDY!!! THis is the first time me writing a post about you... Certainly its a very meaningful 'father and son' relationship we shared for 23years. When I looked through my childhood pictures, I could recall the exact scene we shared together, some are really funny ones, and some are really touching ones that I would sometimes have tears around my eyes when I think about it. All these memories are still and will always be very clear in my little mind dad!

3. That makes me realise what A WONDERFUL DADDY YOU ARE, you always spend time with the family no matter how busy you are, you taught me to be a RESPONSIBLE PERSON and pay high emphasis to the GOOD CULTURE A GOOD & LOVING FAMILY should have. For example, contributing to the family whether its on house chores or paying great concern to family members feelings in any situation. In addition, family members should also do their very best to make everyone in the family happy at all time (meaningful ones).

4. You taught me to be a true gentlemen in life, and shared many life skills and business experiences with me. I truly APPRECIATE IT VERY MUCH! I certainly enjoyed the little things we did in life like:

(a) accompanying you fixing the water pipe late at night (haha, I just sat next to u and just watch)

(b) watching u working at midnight at a site

(c) traveling with u in the car to outstation

(d) the day u taught me how to ride a bicycle at a lake in Petaling Jaya

(e) the day u taught me how to swim

5. They were VERY SWEET memories... although some of it are more than 15years ago, but the picture is still very clear in my mind hehe!

6. DAD, I would want and will model you to be A GOOD MAN & A GOOD FATHER. Will certainly do my very best to take good care of my family in future, and shared what I learned from you to my children in future. Let the good culture of the family continues...

7. DAD, I promise I will work very hard to achieve something GREAT & MEANINGFUL in life to make u feel proud of this elder son of yours. I just cannot wait for the day that we (father & sons) could achieve wonderful things together, as we believe very much in charity, let our dream be a reality. It's just a matter of time daddy, I am very confident we could made it 1day with GOD's BLESSINGS!

8. Lastly, I LOVE YOU DADDY!!! It's time for me to travel the extra mile and continue the family ambition and aspirations.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LOVE YOU DADDY!!!

Fairness

1. There is this recent development of students (particularly non-malay) who are not able to gain scholarship even when they scored very good results.

2. YB Wee Ka Siong has been contributing to the community by going public to pressurise the relevant authorities to take stern action against civil servants who practiced biasness in the awarding of scholarship process.

3. Here comes the issue of fair distribution of opportunity to the citizens, in this case, the students.

4. Opportunity should be given to all qualified ones to pursue their dreams and not be sidelined due to racial cards. It is rather sad to learn that students not being able to pursue their chosen profession just because they are not given the opportunity to do so even if they are well qualified.

5. It is a life-time issue here, as that student will not be able to realise his or her fullest potential in his or her area of interest and that really put a stop for productive contribution in that chosen profession, that hinders the nation's vision towards becoming a developed nation by year 2020 whereby 50% of the country's labour workforce are skilled labour.

6. Fairness based on merits is what all government needs to pursue to ensure fair and just distribution of opportunity and the country's resources. This promotes good governance and demonstrate competency, transparency and accountability.

7. For those unfortunate ones (students) that are unable to receive a scholarship, never ever give up on your dreams, work harder and be stronger to work your way to achieve your dreams.

8. That makes you a better person because you simply get to understand what OPPORTUNTY & HARDSHIP really is... and most important of all, that makes you a STRONGER PERSON!