I do not know whether you have seems this inspiring commencement speech by Steve Jobs before on youtube but I feel this is actually an inspiring words of wisdom by him. If you do not know who is Steve Jobs, make sure you go google it and find out how great this guy is.

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Javier

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Do you have tasks on hand that you are reluctant to do or it took a lot of your time before it is completed? Recently, I have been listening to an audio book called The Power of Less by Leo Babauta which teaches how to use the method of focusing on one goal to be more effective in achieving our goals.

One of the techniques called breaking down your task into simplest form which I have tried personally is quite useful for me. I have been trying to complete a task that I have been dragging for quite some time to finish in order to achieve my 1 year goal of creating a 4 figure online monthly income this year. Sometimes, although you know the importance of the tasks, you will still feel intimidated or relunctant to complete the tasks due to a cut in motivation when the task process takes a long time and lots of things to do in order to complete. However, after listening to the audio book, I have realized the real problem is the motivation and momentum of completing the task in order to achieve the goal. What is suggested by the author of The Power of Less is to try to figure out what is needed in order for us to achieve our goal or complete our task by listing them down one by one. After that, we have to start choosing the simplest thing on the list to do to get ourselves more motivated to do more as we have the tendency to continue our task once we start to build the momentum from the first step we took.

I have realized personally that once we start something small, we start to slowly build a habit once we consistently repeat the process. From my personal experience, few months ago, I have started the habit of buying fruits from my workplace to eat during lunch time and slowly I start to bring my own fruits to work which then formed my habit of eating fruits during my lunch time hours. Personally, I feel that this method of starting small and consistent do help me to build a healthy diet and I can feel my body is in a better condition compared to a few years ago.

I do recommend you to check out The Power of Less by Leo Babauta if you want to build a good habit to avoid procrastination. Personally, I think I have to spend some time replanning my whole mastermind of health habits, exercise schedule and wealth creation to see how I can relate and implement the steps provided in the program of The Power of Less to cut down on the clutter and use the power of focus to achieve my goals and dreams.

Cheers
Javier

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Recently, I have managed to find Tony Robbins Biography through a blog post on another blogger’s blog called From Bottom Up and it leads me to find the video of Tony Robbins Biography on youtube. Therefore, I decided to share this great mentor in life, Tony Robbins Biography with you on this blog post.

Hope you have learned something great from Tony Robbins through this video sharing that I found on youtube.

Cheers
Javier

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Recently, I went to catch this movie called “Invictus” after seeing Tony Robbins’s tweets on twitter recommending it to his followers. This invictus movie is really inspiring and there is a lot of great stuff to be learnt about our beliefs and thinking. If you have not watched it yet, I do recommend you go check it out as it will inspire you to do great things too.

Invictus Synopsis

The film tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa’s rugby team to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa’s rugby team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.

Before I end this post, I will like to share with you the Invictus Poem that is talked about in the Invictus movie.

Invictus poem written by William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Cheers

Javier

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Are you a book lover? All of us should know that reading books is one of the sources where we can grab a lot of knowledge. However, research have shown that most people tend to read lesser books after they have completed their school. If you are one of those people listed in the research and you are searching your journey to success too, make sure that you start your reading habits again. Previously, I have shared a few videos by Jim Rohn and through his seminar, he had shared with us that in order to strive our success, we must constantly plant the seeds by reading books and learn to apply them into our life. Do you know that while Tony Robbins was 19 years old, he had already read more than 1000 over books and his reading habits of a huge amount of books every month was stunning. While attending his seminar, I was quite curious about how did he manage to achieve that amount of books in a short period of time and become who he was today. After observing some successful people and through reading books, I realized that those people who achieved success in their lives are all having a common factor.

Do you know that we can actually grab a lot of knowledge through reading books but in the process of grabbing more knowledge, we will need to spend time learning the material shared in the books. Based on each individual reading speed, some people can achieve reading more books within a month while some can only read 1.  Through one of the books on speed reading by Tony Buzan, I have learnt that speed reading can be trained and the reason why most people tend to lose focus while reading is because they tend to read back the words they read before.

The normal reading speed of most people is 400 plus per minute and currently I still lie within the normal reading speed range as previously before reading Tony Buzan’s speed reading book, my reading speed was worst than normal reading speed. However, after realizing the importance of speed reading, I start to practise the techniques shown in the book and I tend to read books faster than before. Most people will think that reading faster will cause them to be unable to grab the concept of the book and they tend to read slowly in order to understand the book that they are reading. However, after reading the speed reading book by Tony Buzan, I found out that they had actually conducted a research in that speed reading field and the research showed that reading fast actually do not prevent people from grabbing the main concept of the book that he or she is reading. Research had also shown that all presidents in United States have to go through a speed reading course before getting into the president position. The reason why speed reading is so important is because there are so many things that a president need to know and understand so they have to read fast and act so that things can move fast.

I will stop here and let you think through whether it is important to read fast or not. However, before you conclude with an answer, make sure you have researched more about the topic of speed reading. Currently,I’m still searching for a speed reading software that can help to improve my reading speed to a next level and if you do have any great recommendation, please put a comment and let me know about it. For the time being, I will stick with the method taught by Tony Buzan and increase my word per minute reading speed one step at a time.

Cheers

Javier

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Have you heard of the theory of pay yourself first? Many of you may been thinking that almost everyone is paying for our own bills or buying something for ourselves is considered as paying yourself first but this is not actually the case. The first time I had heard of this method was actually through a book called Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. Initially, I do not really grab the idea of what does it actually means to pay yourself first when you are earning the money through working for others but I slowly get to know it clearing through reading books, attending seminar and listening to audio books.

You will get a better idea if you really keep on learning through the journey of success in life and I should say that I am slowly starting to understand the true meaning of paying yourself first. From the Rich Dad Poor Dad book, it mentioned that people normally pay their bills, fees, mortgages and other payment first whenever they received their salary from their job. What they will do next is buy what they want with whatever left over and save the leftover money after spending. This usually become a cycle as they do it every month and almost every year without much money left to try and make a difference in their life through becoming their own boss or even making any significant difference in their financial status.

The next great mentor that I learned about the pay yourself first method from is T.Harv Eker. I have read his book “Secrets of The Millionaire Mind” and attended his Millionaire Mind Intensive (MMI) Seminar where he taught how to set up different set of money jars where you can manage your money better. Personally, I have implemented his money jars method and trying to fine tune my finance as I have quite a few debts that I need to settle but I can say it is very useful to me as it motivate me to check on my own finance along my journey to success.

Another place I got to know about this method is through the audio book “The Richest Man in Babylon” where it mentioned to save 20 percent of your salary every month and pay off your debts and bills after paying yourself first. I got to know this theory more in dept after listening to the audio book “The Law of Success” where it mentioned the importance of consistently saving a percentage of money every month as this will helps us build more confidence in ourselves and our sub-consicious mind will feel motivated also when we consistently see growth in our financial portfolio.

The most recent reading that I found that really stunned me is another book by Robert Kiyosaki, “Increase Your Financial IQ”, where he mentioned that the amount of money he pay himself first is about 80 percent of his monthly income. Can you imagine how much money that is to a multi-millionaire? He started with a small percentage of 10 to 20 and now is 80 percent. It is mentioned in his book that the purpose of paying yourself first is to let you create the opportunities for yourself by preparing your money in advance and it will somehow build up your confidence in a way. Robert Kiyosaki also mentioned in his book that it is important that we start with a percentage that will make us feel uncomfortable so that we will not sit in our comfort zone and stop thinking about making more money to grow our own financial mean. Remember no matter how small the amount is, set a percentage that will make us feel uncomfortable with and once you feel comfortable with it, increase that amount as this proof that you have managed to find ways to counter the problem of not having enough to use.

As I have shared with you so many sources of great successful people mentioning about the importance of paying yourself first, you should start building your own financial freedom account and no matter how small the amount is, make sure it stretch your mind and create some stress in your monthly finance. This will make you think twice about spending the amount of money you have left behind after saving and let your mind think of more ways to grow that dollar.

Personally, I have set about 23 percent of my salary in my saving account and you may be thinking why I have such a weird figure. The reason behind it is I do set aside some money with my girlfriend for our joint account and I do have my personal saving portfolio which I put money into. I will update again on this topic in future if I do make any significant increase after creating a permanent passive income stream.

Cheers

Javier

Hope you have learned something through this pay yourself first method that I have shared and start doing something to your own financial future.

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I have been following Tony Robbins’s audio books, seminar and twitter tweets. Today, got to know from his twitter tweets about one of his mentors, Jim Rohn has just moved on to a next life. I have watched the video that Tony shared through his tweets and realized there are something great to be learned from Jim Rohn’s speech. I have decided to place in on my blog to share with everyone who come by my blog and for me to watch to study more from this amazing great guy that have touched so many lives.

The following videos come in a total of 3 parts so take your time to watch it. Rewatch a few times so that you can gain something great from Jim Rohn.

Video 1 of 3 valuable learning points:

- Make yourself more valuable to the market place.

- You can’t get rich by demand (Must supply the value).

- Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Video 2 of 3 valuable learning points:

- Take a measure at your results by checking by the end of the day or end of the week.

- How many books have you been reading for the past 90 days?

- How many classes have you taken in the past 6 months?

- We asking life simply to make massively progress in a reasonable time. Be willing to look at the number.

Video 3 of 3 valuable learning points:

- When the day you said “Enough is enough!”

- Go for the experience,don’t put up the wall to avoid troubles.

- Resolve means promising yourself that you will never give up. The magic word “UNTIL”.

Cheers

Javier

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