Personally, year 2011 is quite an interesting year for me. I have traveled to two different countries through flight and it is my first time enjoying the airplane flight twice in a year. I am pretty happy about the two different trip as one let me see a relaxing lifestyle while the other taught me about the importance of story.

On the other hand, I managed to make a consistent 3 figures income through my internet marketing venture and when I thought everything was going on plan, the google panda update came in and my income was slapped to close to nothing left. Luckily, I do have a backup plan on mind which was to learn to become a real estate salesperson. In my heart, I knew that affiliate marketing was not something I loved to do as I did not have the passion to write those articles of the different niches. After taking the course of real estate salesperson, I realized that what I wanted to learn and do has already revealed itself. In the end, after passing the real estate salesperson exam, I decided to create a housing site with a few partners called Housing in Singapore to become an expert in this industry through the use of internet marketing (which is what I have learnt so far).

The following are the personal successes that I am grateful and proud of achieving in the year of 2011:

- Gone for a trip to Thailand in March 2011 with the winning resort stay at Chiang Mai (Bangkok and Chiang Mai)

- Strike 4D second prize in ibet (buy for fun)

- Start making consistent 3 figures internet income (Got google panda slap after that)

- Win a pair of movie tickets from lucky draw

- Bought my first apple ipod touch which help me a lot in learning through audio books as there are speed listening apps available

- Found a running buddy from my current workplace

- Passed my Real Estate Salesperson Exam with just one try

- Made my first rental commission within a few months

- Started a housing in Singapore project website with a group of partners

- Travel to Shanghai-Jiang Nan (China) for a 8D7N trip which is my first long trip

- Read 21 books throughout the year of 2011

- Decided to set 10 personal values to achieve in myself

- Start to make full use of dropbox and skype for my own real estate site

Are you comfortable with dress smart? Do you realize something about dressing smart do help in boosting our self image plus confidence through the eyes of others and even ourselves. Recently, I have started changing my way of dressing when going to work and I was astonished by the looks and questions of my colleagues in my working areas. The reason for the change of dressing was because I am actually preparing myself for my upcoming career path (Real Estate Salesperson) and I did not really inform a lot of people at my current workplace yet as I do not want to spread the words too soon until the day I am about to leave.

There are questions from my colleagues asking why am I dressing so smartly in a school environment and some even thought that I am actually going for a job interview. However, I do feel surprised that they have this kind of reactions as I am only dressing in smart casual without the full smart shirt yet. Personally, I do know a few colleagues who actually dress up even more formal than me and they gave me a very good first impression whenever I see them as they look smart. Let me ask you a question about what is your expectation when you are going to meet someone who is in the professional field or someone who are going for a corporate  job interview. You will definitely expect them to dress up nicely unless they are someone who has their own style of looking cool (like Steve Jobs). Basically, what am I trying to get to you is that dressing smart is something very important that I feel can help to boost your client’s confidence in you through their first impression and what you really need to build in yourself is that confidence level. However, dressing smart is just a first part of building a good impression in someone’s eyes. There are still things that need to be work on like training yourself on how to speak confidently in front of your clients in order to protrude a  convincing message towards them to show that you are a capable person who can deliver. Other than learning how to speak well, the way you walk with the body language that you deliver is also very important towards boosting the first impression in someone else eyes.

I do not know whether you have different views about how to dress smart to boost impression but this is what I feel through my own observation and experience. Right now, I am on a path to discover more of what I want to achieve in my personal life and also learning from people who have already achieved what I want. Do checkout on this site once a month to find out more of what I will share on this personal site of mine. I will keep track of what I have learned and explored along my journey to success on this personal blog. Cheers.

Recently, I watch this movie called “Coach Carter” and was pretty inspired by the belief that the coach inspired on his team members. Therefore, I decided to share with you this movie that I felt is a must to watch if you are really on your journey to success. I do learn a lot of stuff from this movie itself as personally you can learn how one person can change other people’s lives if he has the belief and persistence. There might be a lot of negativity along your journey but you must really stay persistent with your principles to let other believe that you are providing the values and help.

The following is one of the most inspirational coach carter quotes in the movie:

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It’s not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. 

Personally, I am in the transition of moving from a stable job income to become a real estate salesperson which would not have a basic pay as it is fully earned by commission service basis. I do feel the fear in me as there are a lot of commitment in life that I need to keep and it is a new field that I will endeavour . However, I also know that this move will bring me greater experience and challenge to become someone with more confident in myself. There are a lot of fear that I see in myself but I do believe that I will do great along the way if I stay firm with my belief that I will succeed in my journey to success. I will definitely meet more greater people in my journey and I do hope the sites I have created will provide values for people along the way. Do check out and support my housing site at Housing in Singapore. If you have a Facebook account, hope you can support my facebook page at by liking it through the following link at Housing in Singapore. Cheers.

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Recently, I have been pretty self busy with my mind as there are a lot of thoughts flying through my mind. I feel a bit overwhelmed with my thoughts that really makes me feel so tired about thinking. However, I do remember hearing an idea from Tony Robbins’s material about the why and what questions that we keep on asking in our mind. The main difference between the WHY and the WHAT questions that we prompted ourselves is that one will make us become inaction and another will make us start moving and become motivated. However, make sure you are asking quality questions on yourself in order to get quality answers. Okay, let’s compare between the WHY and the WHAT questions and you will see the differences.

Examples of WHY questions:
- Why did this thing happen to me?
- Why can’t I get this to work?
- Why must I do it anyway?

After seeing the above WHY questions, do you feel a sense of weakness in the questions and feel like a loser who can’t seem to get things to work as things are not moving the way you want it to be. If you are feeling that way, somehow I have caught your attention. Let’s move on to the WHAT questions and you will understand why we should start asking the what questions in order to get things to move.

Examples of WHAT questions in a quality way:
- What are the top 3 things that I can work on now to make it work?
- What are the things I should focus on at this very moment?
- What are the things I can work on to substitute my income?

Examples of WHAT questions in a ineffective way:
- What should I do now?
- What is happening to me?
- What if this thing don’t work out? (negative way – never try to put a if behind your what questions)

As you can see above, I have given some examples of asking the WHAT questions to ourselves and you should be feeling more positive when asking the what questions as it keep you in an active state of mind. Although starting you might not be aware whether you are asking the what questions in a quality way or not, you should get a better result compared to asking the why questions as it keep you in a more positive and active state of mind.

How do you actually determine whether your WHAT questions are quality or not? You can determine through whether it will provide you with at least some excellent answers that will close the loop in your mind and set you to take the necessary actions. Therefore, it is very important to ask quality WHAT questions as it helps to close the loop in your mind to allow you to move on to the next action tasks. Personally, I have learnt some programming skills during my polytechnic days and I know in order for any programs to work, you must always close the loop of whatever tasks you ask the program to do in order for the program work properly and smoothly. 

Anyway, I have managed to pass my real estate exam in one go and I have decided to work on it full-time once I have settled some personal stuff. Personally, I have some doubts in myself that need to be cleared as I know I may not be getting a stable income from the real estate industry but I do feel excited about going through the journey as I can see myself learning the life skills I want from those successful real estate salespersons and my mentors in my company. If you love this post, do drop me a comment or share it with your friends on facebook. Thanks.

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Recently, I got a self-thought idea about this question about whether am I giving in to myself too much. I do not know whether do you feel the same way to yourself or not but I do have this kind of feeling that I am giving in to myself too much. I do not wake up on time or finish the things that I am suppose to complete and also delay my schedule of things on hand due to other things that surface up in my life. I do not know whether are you feeling the same way as what I am feeling.

Anyway, let me ask you a question about whether will you be unhappy when your friend is taking advantage of your kindness. If you are feeling unhappy with someone or something, it is because you got your own principles and belief that something or someone should behave a certain way. Therefore, you do not tolerate the way others behave and will not give in to how they behave. However, do you treat yourself with the same principles and belief that you put onto others? Are you expecting yourself to behave the way you want others to behave? If you do expect yourself to behave in a certain way and do not wish to change your belief on yourself when unexpected things comes into place, you have to start to learn how to discipline yourselves to get more aware of your own actions and decide whether you are giving in to yourself or not.

Personally, I feel that in order to achieve what I want in my journey to success, there will definitely be a price to pay. I must not be able to easily give in so easily to my own wish when things occur in my life, I do have to stay firm to my own initially plan and follow through in order to gain the pleasure when see the fruits coming in after bearing through the hardship. Currently, I have settled down to set my definite chief aim in life after thinking through Napolean Hill’s philosophy and I will start to put things into place to fill up the blanks. Will update here again once I start to put the pieces into place. Cheers.

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It’s been quite a while since my last update as I have been quite busy recently due to the big decision and comfort zone stretch that I have done on myself. Firstly, I have to update some good news regarding my internet marketing effort as I have break the point of consistent 2 figure income to 3 figure instead. My second site that I least expect to make money starts to generate some sales and my 1st site boasted in traffic and caused more sales to come in. Although the good news came in, I am still not quite satisfied with myself as I feel that my growth seems to be quite slow. This caused me to go through quite a while of low mood period as I find myself progressing too slowly already as I have started doing internet marketing for quite some time already. Therefore, I start to think of alternatives to ways to grow myself and build more passive income.

What actually comes to my mind is going for commission based jobs like becoming a real estate agent or insurance agent that will help to build more income for myself so that I can use that money to invest into building a system for generating more passive income. Personally, I start to have a love for real estate and wants to find out more about the details of those big beautiful houses that I always sees in the movies. Therefore, I decided to take up the real estate agent course instead and learn why the rich want to acquire some money assests. My course has already started and it falls on every Monday, Wednesday and Friday after my work. Personally, I do believe that learning how to sell is an important aspect in my journey to success and one of my plans  is to join a local toastmaster club once I have passed the real estate agent test and managed to join into the real estate company. On the other hand, I will still continue to build my affiliate sites and hope to make more income from it so that it can support my marketing effort for my future real estate business.

Next, I have also signed up Robert Kiyosaki’s rich dad coaching course and hope that the rich dad coach will be able to hold me accountable for my goals and plans that I have toward building a financial freedom lifestyle. Let’s see how things will go as I start to feel the comfort zone stretch in myself after making all the above moves. Personally, I feel that all the above things will help me grow but there’s so many self doubts and negativity about investing my money into all these courses do make me worry about the plan. However, what I believe I can do is keep on moving forward and one day I will definitely reach the point I want to achieve. Do look out for my updates along my journey to success. May success be with you too.

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Are you a speed reader in reading books? If you are, you probably like to grab ideas fast and want to save time. Personally, I started speed reading in year 2009 and found the importance of learning speed reading through my friend. Didn’t really realized that speed reading is so good until I see the benefits of time save and the amount of stuff I learn throughout the short period of time.

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Recently, I was listening to an internet marketing podcast and I was surprised that there was actually a software that allow speed watching of videos at a faster pace. The name of the software was called Enounce MySpeed and what it did is to let you watch flash videos on any website at a faster or slower pace from 0 to 5x the speed based on your own adjustment. After checking out the website, I went to download the 7 days trial version of the software. I was thinking whether to buy the software after the 7 days trial as it cost about 30  bucks. One disadvantage about the software was it only allows you to watch flash videos at a faster speed which means almost all kind of videos online. On the other hand, those training or seminar videos that I have on my computer that are in other file format such as wmv, avi, mp4 and etc will not be able to watch at a faster pace through the software unless I go and convert them into flash format. Anyway, I did not convert the file format of all my videos on my computer and went to find for alternative solution to the problem. I found a solution through my friend and realized that we can actually use this free software called VLC player to play offline videos of any format at a faster pace. Therefore, I managed to solve the problem of watching offline videos at a faster pace and I was able to re-watch all my training and seminar videos at a faster pace which save up a lot of my time as I am able to grab the ideas through repeated watching. When i mentioned about time save through watching it a faster pace, what I actually mean is that when you watch the video at twice the speed for an one hour video, you will only take half an hour to finish watching it. Just imagine how much time is saved when you have a lot of videos to re-watch again.

Although VLC player is able to allow you to watch offline and online video at twice the speed, it does not allow online videos that are stored inside a training portal. In the end, I went ahead to purchase the Enounce MySpeed software and has already been using it with great delight as I was able to filter out a lot of training videos online with a much shorter time especially those product launch videos that teaches you their methods of doing things online to make money. Personally, I will definitely recommend anyone who want to be more productive with their time spend on watching training videos online with the use of Enounce MySpeed software. If you are interested about the software, go check out through my affiliate links and give the software a try for 7 days. No matter whether you are buying the software or not, I think you must really give it a try to see whether it is useful for your own learning growth.

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Previously, I was thinking whether is there any way I can finish watching those training videos within a shorter time frame when I was trying to repeat watching the same thing again to grab a better concept of the ideas shown. It seems that my wish has come true through the help of law of attraction as I manage to know this great software through the recommendation of some great internet marketer. I will stop my post here and hope this software that I recommend today can help you in your own journey to success too.

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Happy New Year to everyone who is visiting this blog. Year 2009 has ended and a new year has started. I was pretty excited about this new year after my overseas trip to Malacca in Malaysia. I had a great trip with my girlfriend as we went to Malacca on 31 Dec 2010 and we were able to watch fireworks in our hotel room during the countdown to Year 2011. It was a memorable night as it was my first time seeing so many places putting on fireworks at the same time. The feeling was left, right and center of the night sky filled with fireworks which you can’t see it in Singapore. The trip was a great experience as I got to tell my girlfriend about my ultimate lifestyle plan and we also have more intimate talk about our plans for the future.

After seeing the private companies putting those fireworks, it makes me want to add another item into my bucket list for putting fireworks on my own too. During the trip, we didn’t just went sight-seeing but shopping, massage, jacuzzi and we also managed to catch Singapore Mediacorp TV couple artists (Pan Ling Ling with her husband) too. Too bad we didn’t manage to catch a photo with them.

Here’s the photos for my Malacca Trip:

Last year during my last year end trip to Macau & Hong Kong, I managed to make some income online and this year I managed to make some sales too. After seeing the small success, make me want to hit the real success like other affiliate marketer that I knew as I want to be able to pay for my trip through the income made while I was overseas. Let’s see how it goes for this year and hope it will be a great year ahead. Have fun and live your life with passion!

Cheers
Javier

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Recently, I have a talk with my girlfriend regarding a few things about our future. She mentioned something that I feel is very important about treating everyday like a brand new day. Personally, I was hit by her words straight in the head as I have read about this theory before in some self-help books but I did not really apply it in my daily routines.

What do I mean about treating your everyday like a brand new day? Everyday is actually a brand new day as the sun rise and set daily but do we actually treat our everyday like a brand new day? Most people will think that everyday is just another day in their lives but what we shouldn’t really do is bring our past experiences to the future which is the next day. Example like keep on thinking about the bad things that happened yesterday or even a few years ago and get affected by feeling depressed or low due to it.

Personally, I have been putting a lot of mental weight on myself through the past bad experiences and I am feeling guilty about it too. Therefore, I have decided to learn to treat my everyday as a brand new day. Let me bring you to a situation where you will see a clearer picture of what I am talking about. Imagine you are a basketball player, if you keep on thinking about why you miss the shot previously in the first half, will you able to focus on the game in the second half and make a comeback? The answer will be no unless your opponent is not doing a good job. Therefore, we have to learn to turn our mindset around by focusing our energy in the right direction.

I have given this method a try on a mahjong game last weekend and it seems to work for me. I have lost in the first few round of the game but the game has not ended yet as it is still quite early in the game. I change my mindset and stop focusing my mind about the games I have lost in the first few round. I focused all my energy on the next few games and the overall game results turned out to be me as the overall winner.

I think that all of us should focus our mind in the right direction and stop letting those negative thoughts from bringing us down. I will start implementing this findings and will update again if I do see a big change in my life in the upcoming future.

Cheers
Javier
P.S. Do remember to remind yourself today is a brand new day!!

Affiloblueprint Members Meetup at Singapore Merlion
(Clayton Terao is beside me on my left)

Do you know that Clayton Terao is in Singapore? You may be wondering who Clayton Terao is and whether is he a superstar that you may not have heard of. Haha. Hope I have caught your attention so far towards reading this post as I am going to reveal to you the answer of who this secret person is.

Clayton Terao is the owner of this blog called JourneyOfMyOwn.com and you can actually find out more about Clayton Terao at his site. Clayton is not a superstar or a celebrity that you have seen on TV (maybe someday he will if he wants to..) but someone who has inspired me and became a friend of mine from Seattle. It is my first time experience to meet up a friend from another country in Singapore and it is a very amazing experience because I have been reading his blog for close to a year and I had started what he has doing in March 2010.

Clayton has been traveling around in South-East Asia for the past 2 months using the money he has made online after implementing the course called Affiloblueprint. He was previously unemployed due to his high qualification but he did not give up and made a difference by living a travel lifestyle through the income he had made online. Personally, I have learned a lot through his blog and I can say that when he mentioned that he will be coming to Singapore, I was pretty excited like going to meet my idol as he has achieved what I want to achieve so far. Anyway, after meeting up with him, I realized that he was just like me “Another person from Planet Earth” which means that what he has achieved so far, I can do it too. This has struck me hard as what he had done for his internet marketing effort are all his hard work and persistence that really pays off itself. After meeting up with Clayton, I am inspired that I can do it too and he is a really fun and interesting guy to meet up with.

Anyway, for those who are reading this may be wondering why do I made my title of the post to be “Clayton Terao Is In Singapore”. Firstly, it is to catch attention and next is to give Search Engine Optimization (SEO) a try to see whether few days down the road whether this keyword “Clayton Terao” will appear on first page of Google or not. haha. You will never know as maybe one day this name will be a hot keyword where people will key in Google to look for when the word of mouth spreads when clayton become a super affiliate like the uncle who caught a lot of prawns (our joke at Singapore Prawn Fishing area).

Our Prawn Fishing Session

Do check out on the course that Clayton has been implementing if you want to live the internet lifestyle of travelling around the world just like him. Anyway, be prepared to work hard to make it happen.

Cheers
Javier

P.S. Clayton, if you are reading this, thanks for the inspiration and the sharing you have with us.