As I have stated in my year 2010 posting that I have a personal reading goal of at least 15 books per year, this year is quite similar as I have managed to read more than the amount that I have set. However, I did not read very intensively in year 2011 compared to year 2010 as I have set priorities in other areas like taking up real estate courses and creating my new housing in Singapore site.

Personally, I start to love the library and the books as they provide a lot of useful information for me to enjoy. Recently, I watched a youtube video by Darren Hardy which my colleagues shared with me that made me ponder about how to make use of the knowledge that I have gained from the books I have read. I think I might have to start learning about taking notes like a student and implement the useful information that I have found in the books into my personal life.

Anyway, the following is the list of books that I have read in the year 2011:

As you can see, I have started picking up a lot on real estate books and a few books on selling. Personally, I feel that things are getting more interesting as I am planning to venture full-time into real estate in a few months time. There are a lot of people that I met tell me to stay put at my job as the economy is getting worst but I really see it as a challenge for myself to learn more through it. I know those people who gave their advice to stay put is fearful about the upcoming financial crisis and hope that I can bear through it without any problems but I feel that in life, we must always challenge ourselves in order to excel and achieve what we want. I do have a belief that we should never give in so easily to life challenges or you will not have really live a meaningful life. I do hope more people can support my point of view and wish me all the best along my journey to success.

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

Year 2010 is a great year for me as I started the habit of reading more massively after watching Jim Rohn’s seminar as he asked a question in his seminar about if you are going to change your life, how many books have you read in the past 90 days. This question has pushed me to start thinking about my future and the lifestyle I want to achieve. If I really want to see the change in my life, I really have to expose myself to a greater and broader mindset thinking and the place to go is to read those books that people had wrote about the things I want to achieve in life. We all have to start seeing through the author’s viewpoint about the world and exposed ourselves to their ideas in order to really open our eyes to a bigger picture. Year 2010 is the start of year that I started reading books massively and if I will to compare the books I have read in year 2010 with other previous years, I can say that I have read a lot as usually I don’t read so many books in a year. Anyway, one of my goals in year 2010 is to read at least 15 books but I have exceed that goal without even adding the amount of audio books I listen to and the ebooks that I have read.

Here’s the list of books I have read in the year of 2010

I do not know whether I will read more books or not this year 2011 as I am into listening to podcast recently but I will still continue to read along the way. I will update when I learn something great on my journey to success and share it with all my readers but I can say year 2011 seems to be getting more interesting for me. Let’s see how it goes and when the time is right I will update on my blog too. Hope you have a great year too this year.

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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This is the second year that I am doing this year end review of what I have achieved in the year of 2010. As similar as last year 2009, this post is scheduled on 31 Dec 2010. Currently, I should be on my way to Malacca with my dear for a short trip to celebrate our 5th year anniversary on the 1st of Jan. By the time I am back in Singapore, I will be facing a new year with new challenges ahead of me.

The following are the personal successes that I am grateful and proud of achieving in the year of 2010:

- Learn Inline Skating at a cheaper cost (managed to get it through Law Of Attraction)

- Won a 2 Nights resort stay at Chiang Mai through online survey (Plan to go in march 2011)

- Got my driving license before the year ends

- Completed 16km, 21km and 42km marathons (learn about persistence)

- Start outsourcing my online work (able to see a significant improvement in work being done)

- First time visit Indonesia (Went to both Batam & Bintan Trip in April and August respectively)

- Read more than 20 books (greatest record so far in a year)

- Learn from Jim Rohn videos and started reading habits

- Able to meetup and learn from overseas affiliate friends

- Made consistent monthly income online (have to scale it up in upcoming year)

- Managed to get one of my sites up on first page of Google

- Start using mindmap software to plan (able to see a bigger picture)

- Realize the importance of lifestyle design & definite major purpose in life (from internet business mastery)

- Started the 21 days habit formation trial (manage to wake up earlier to do my stuff)

I have learned quite a lot of things along the journey of success in the year of 2010 and I feel that it is important for me to learn how to stay focus in order to see the results coming in. In the upcoming year, I will focus more on making more online sales and try to replace my JOB income with the online income. All the best to everyone including myself in the upcoming year 2011 and Happy New Year to you. I will update more after my trip from Malacca so do have fun in your journey of success too. See you in the year 2011 after this post.

Signing off from this year 2010,
Javier

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Is today my lucky day? Actually, I should be asking is this month my lucky month as I have a lot of lucky occasion all happening in this month. Today is a special day for me as I have managed to pass my driving test after taking it for a total of 5 times. lolx. Anyway, it is not a very glamorous thing to say as I have friends who managed to pass their driving test with just 1 try. However, I do feel lucky as I thought I was going to fail after making so many mistakes during the test.

As I have mentioned previously that I have a lot of lucky occasion happening this month, I have won an overseas trip of 3D2N Baan Saen Doi Resort & Spa Chiang Mai stay through one of the online survey I have done previously. I was surprised when I received the email from the organizer but I do have a feeling when I was doing the survey. One thing that I noticed is that whenever we are filling up a survey form or prize sheet that will allow us to stand a chance to win a prize is that we did not actually monitor our thoughts. What is the first initial thought in your mind? If you have the mindset that it is hard to win a grand prize or even winning a prize, do you think you will really stand a chance to win? As the law of attraction states that what you focus on will expand, what I realized was the first initial thought that I have when filling up the online survey form was it would be very cool to win this prize and enjoy myself to chill at the resort.

Aside from getting my driving license and winning an overseas trip, I have also won a key chain from the national library after taking part in a contest by filling up a few questions that I did not even know the answer at all. Upon winning the contest, I was really feeling lucky as all these winning actually comes from having the right mindset in the initial stage. Therefore, I have decided that I will learn to monitor my thoughts in whatever contests or survey that I am taking part in.

Cheers
Javier

P.S. Hope today is your lucky day too!!

Yesterday was the 21km Singapore Bay Run Challenge aka Army Half Marathon. I have managed to complete the run in 2 hrs 58 mins. I have took more time than I have anticipated as I expect myself to run within 2.5 hrs. However, I can say it’s a great run with lots of cramps happening in terms of legs cramps and human traffic cramps. haha.

As usual like the previous 16km run, I am going to share with you what I have noticed during the run.

- Something that I have learned through this run is to have sufficient rest before the run. I did not have enough rest before the run as I reached home late and this resulted to lots of cramps I experienced during the run.

- Keep on looking at signs board around to motivate yourself to run further as normally there will be banners put along the road sides by marathon organizers to motivate you to reach your destination.

- Put on your mp3 to run as it will keep you moving forward. Previously, I have mentioned about the mind chatters that want to stop you from moving forward during my 16km run. During this 21km, I have actually put on my mp3 player to listen to audio book on Napoleon Hill’s Your Right to Be Rich and I can say my mind did not have much other thoughts as I am focusing on moving forward and listening to the principles listed in the audio books.

- Pain is temporary. If you focus your mind on the pain, you will really feel the pain but I choose to focus on finishing the race. This really move me towards the finishing point and although I felt the pain of the cramps during the last 3km, I managed to finish the run with lots of relieves. When you managed to bear through the pain, what is left is the joy of relieves and experiences you have gained.

- Spraying of muscles relieve solutions really helps to relieve my aches but it brought cramps to my legs instead. During the last 3-4km, I was having aching feelings in my legs and I saw medical post helping people spraying muscles relieve solutions. Initially, I was thinking I should just carry on without spraying it but I can’t stop the urge of trying it out and in the end, after a few steps of run immediately after spraying it, my legs started to cramp and I think I should have just carry on instead of having instant relieve. This kind of instant relieve is just like instant gratification in life where you may feel relieve temporary but right after that, you will feel the pain of getting the instant gratification.

- Do more stretching along the way when you feel cramps as it really do help.

- You can definitely achieve more than what you think if you push yourself further or setting a higher limit point. Just nice I saw a posting by one of my online mentors about EXACTLY what you SETTLE FOR!

Cheers
Javier

P.S. Just a disclaimer, what I have experienced may not be the same as what you have in your own run so make sure you make your own decision before carrying out any of the suggestions mentioned in my blog. Anyway, hope it helps.

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Recently, there have been a lot of goals around in the world cup and since now the world cup had ended, I have decided it’s time to do a half a year review of my own goals (promises) for this year. Normally when we do a review for our goals, we should do it regularly but as my goals are more of a long term type, I have decided to do it half a year basis. As you can see, this is already in the month of July and I have seemed to have slacked off the time chart. However, just to have a quick update for my 3 promises that I want to achieve in Year 2010.

1) Prepare and participate in a 42KM Marathon.

As I have mentioned previously in my blog that I have already completed my 16km marathon in march 2010, my next target will be 21km in 12 sept 2010 (Singapore Bay Run aka Army Half Marathon [AHM]) and the final goal is 42km (Standard Charter Run) in 5 Dec 2010. I have already signed up the two marathons. Currently, I have already been running regularly every week at my neighbourhood park and occasionally with my colleagues for longer distance plus weekend sports games like badminton or soccer with my friends. I believe there should not be any problems with the final run in Dec.

2) Read at least 15 self-help books

I have managed to complete this goal by reading more than 15 books already but I am going to continue to read as reading seems to be a joyful thing to me now compared to last time. I felt that the books that authors wrote are actually a place where they can share their lifetime knowledge that they have in their books. Will give a final update on the books I have read this year towards the end of the year so that you can have a view of the books I have read so far this year. Personally, I can say this year I have read a lot of books compared to any years I have last time and this actually make me feel great.

3) Make a consistent 4 figure income online and at least a 5 figure for one month

Currently, I am still working on this as I have only managed to make a consistent 2 figures income online per month which I know is a pretty insignificant amount compared to someone who is working part time at Mac Donald’s. Personally, I have been learning and working on this internet marketing field for 1 year plus and I have realized I have not really take it seriously as a business stand point. I have been using my employee mindset to see the returns of investments which stopped myself from achieving what I am supposed to be achieving now. Personally, I have done some changes in my mindset and will try to step out of my comfort zone.

Here’s a quote which I found recently that caused me to think through:

When the record book on you is finished, let it show your wins and losses. But don’t let it show you didn’t try ~ Jim Rohn

Personally, I feel that goal number 1 and 2 can be achieved easily so I will not put in extra effort in them. However, now I will focus on one goal and I will update my progress again once I have made a more significant increase for my goal number 3.

Cheers

Javier

I have completed my 16KM North East Run Marathon with a great success as my personal timing was 1:36:19 which is 1 hour, 36 minutes and 19 seconds based on the finishing board with running tag number 1450. Why do I say that completing the 16KM marathon is a great success to me as I have never run 16KM before at one shot and I have observed and learned quite a lot of things during the run.

I am going to share with you what I have noticed during the run.

1) Always arrived earlier (about half an hour) to get yourself mentally and physically prepared for the run as you may want to visit the washroom or save keep your belonging. Most important is not to miss the warm up exercises before the run as I have noticed some of the runners have leg cramps during the run and have to stop to stretch their legs or some even can’t continue the run due to the cramps.

2) Try to follow your usual own pace and try not to follow other people paces as it will interrupt your whole running momentum. Start the run with your own pace and as you build up your momentum, you can start choosing someone as your target who is about your pace to run with as you will be able to remind yourself to keep moving forward and not slow down yourself due to your mind chatters of asking you to rest.

3) Focus your mind while you are running and observe your mind chatters. There will definitely be times where your mind will tell you to stop running and asking how many more kilometres do I have to run to reach the destination. Always keep postive thoughts and keep on moving forward and tell yourself that you will definitely reach the destination faster if you keep on running. Focus on your run instead of the floor marking or the surroundings as those will distract your running momentum.

Most important of all is keep yourself hydrated before and during the run as water can give us energy to keep on moving forward. One more thing that I noticed after meeting up with my mastermind group one day after the run to review our progress is that I tend to think too much about the small stuff and become paralyse in taking actions to solve a problem. I have read books in this area before and was not awared that I am caught in the analysis paralysis stage. After thinking through it, I realized that I should make use of my running strategy of keep moving forward and stop the mind chatters to take more actions in order to see the results.

Hope this post has bring you some great tips too in your running or even your own personal growth to success.

Cheers
Javier

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This post is scheduled on 31 Dec 2009 as it is coming to an end of the year and currently I am still in Macau on my way back to Singapore. Therefore, I decided to schedule this post to ensure that I list down my personal success journal of year 2009 before a new year starts so that in future I can come back to review on it.

The following are the personal successes that I am grateful and proud of myself in the year of 2009:

- Grow my relationship with my girlfriend with more understanding

- Made my first dollar online

- Received my first ClickBank cheque

- Start making money on CPA network

- Attend my first concert (JJ Lim)

- First time travel overseas

- First time visit Malaysia (JB & KL)

- First time board an aeroplane (Macau & Hong Kong)

- Have my own mastermind group to discuss weekly

- Pass my driving final theory & start learning my driving lessons

- Setup my own personal blog to keep track of success & learning

- Got complimentary ticket to attend Tony Robbins Unleash Your Power Within Seminar in Singapore

- Learn more about Internet Marketing from mentors and coaches

- Learn about speed reading

- Started reading more books & listening to audio books

- Found Holosync that helps to increase my mental threshold

- Get to know more Singaporeans who are successful with internet marketing

Lastly, I would like to say that I am very grateful about my current life as I have found more meaningful through this journey to success and I do believe that what your mind can conceive, it can be achieved so make sure you do not live life with regrets and move forward one step at a time. We will definitely grow along the way when we persist in the journey to success.

Cheers
Javier

P.S. Just to let you know that those success above may seems insignificant for you but its a big step for me in my journey to success as I feel more happy for myself as I dare to make the first step to give things a try instead of saying no like before (with limiting beliefs in myself).