Compiled and cited by Mr Moth Pheap
What if I tell you that you can be successful by investing $10 every month?
Do you believe that this is possible and would you like to know the answer what to invest in?
I hope you already know the answer before I tell you. The answer is to invest in yourself.
By simply investing $10 into yourself reading an improvement book will do. The key is to position yourself to be an expert in your field.
No matter who you are today, a teacher, a manager, a soldier, a pizza delivery boy, a salesman, a student, a mother, a father, a chef, an engineer, a blogger, an athlete, etc.
You have to become the expert or be in the top 5% in your field if you want to be successful.
So here is what you can do with $10 each month. Save $10 every month to buy a book that will help you to improve yourself in the field you want to excel in.
$10 a month is not much. And I believe everyone can afford this.
Think about it. If you’re a salesman and you invest yourself by buying a book that teaches you how to double your sales, do you think it is going to help you to build a brighter future? Do you think you will be able to achieve better success?
The answer is obvious. What if you are a student? No worries. You can buy books that will teach you how to study and boost your brain power. You can learn how to speed-read and free up your time for doing exercise.
What if you are a father? Do you want to be a good daddy that really cares about the family? Guess what, you can get a book in this topic and learn all the tricks and tips about how to become a good father.
The key is to constantly improving yourself to become the best in what you do in your life.
Hey listen, life is short and I believe you want to live your life to the fullest. If you don’t believe that life is short, look at your age right now.
What have you accomplish for the last 5 years? Do you want to stay the same for the next 5 years?
If you want to be successful, you must do this - keep on improving yourself and live a quality life.
Learning and improving constantly in your life is one of the main purpose of life. In fact, achieving success is not about the end results that you are going to get. It is not about the money or the materials that you get in the end.
It is about becoming the person you want to be. It is about the journey you have been through and the experience that you learn that forge you into a successful person.
Thus, stick to this plan by investing in a book each month. Read at least a book each month and you will see the difference in you real soon.
If you can follow this plan for even a year, you will be reading 12 books and learning a ton of knowledge. You’re better than many other people in the world who most probably won’t read a book after they get out of their school.
What if you continue to do so for the next 3 or 5 years or even 10 years down the road? Can you imagine the positive impact that this is going to cause in your life?
Let me give you an example. Let’s say that you are passionate with investing in real estate and you want to be a millionaire real estate investor. So you follow through this plan and you learn all you can about real estate.
You read books each month, you update yourself with the latest market trends, you know where is the latest project development, the pros and cons of a location, you know the pitfalls and you know how to avoid making a lousy investment in real estate.
And one day you flip the newspaper and you saw a golden opportunity. You saw an advertisement saying that such and such property for sale below the market price. You know the location very well and you know the rule of the game as a result of your learning effort.
And you decide to take action to buy this property. After that, you flip the property for a nice profit or you rent it out for good return on investment.
Now, stop for a minute and think about this, if you don’t read, learn and improve yourself in the field of real estate, do you think you dare or have the confident to make that investment?
The answer can be a yes or a no. If you make that investment, you will earn.
After all, learning and improving can make success easier for you, however, you will still need to take action and apply what you have learned to make it work for you. Are you willing to do it?
There is no doubt that learning and improving can greatly shortcut the road to your success. What you need then, is to take action and apply what you have learned.
Don’t just buy books and put them aside. Read them and use the knowledge that you have learned. That is real power!
Posted by Shawn on May 21st, 2010
Staying motivated is one of the most crucial factors to success.
Without the motivation, you’ll never take the necessary action to make your dreams come true. Most people procrastinate and give up simply because they don’t have the motivation to do it.
Successful people are motivated people. They’re motivated toward their goals and their dreams. They’re willing to do the necessary task and take the right action to produce the results they want in their life.
Are you motivated?
If you are not, chances are, you’ll procrastinate and give up whenever you face any obstacles in your journey. Or you may put things off whenever you face with distractions.
So in this post, I’m going to share with you the 5 ways how to stay motivated all the time. As long as you follow through the techniques below, you’ll be able to feel motivated from the inside and get things done.
Once you’re motivated, you’ll feel like you can get things done, you’ll be able to achieve all your goals, you’ll feel like you can take on the whole world and you’ll have the confidence to be successful…
1. Review Your Dream, Goals And Your Purpose
The first and the easiest way to get you motivated is by reviewing your dreams, goals and your purpose to achieving them.
It is just like if you want to be rich for your family and whenever you see the picture of your family hanging on the wall, you’ll feel committed to take action.
This is why reviewing your dreams and your goals will motivate you. Especially your purpose. Why do you want to achieve what you want in your life?
If your goal is to be a millionaire, why do you want to achieve it? The reason is what propels people into a motivated state. In other words, if your reason is not strong enough, you’ll never produce the motivation that will keep you going.
Some people are so motivated to take action because they have a strong reason to achieve their goals. It is a MUST achieve for them and not merely a wish.
2. Changing Your Focus
When you’re not feeling motivated, it is because you’re not focusing on something that will motivate you.
For example, when you’re feeling down, it is because you’re thinking about sad things in your mind. You are focusing on the wrong thoughts. Can you tell me what you think about most of the time when you’re happy?
The answer is you’re thinking about happy events in your life whenever you’re feeling happy!
This is what I mean by changing your focus. You have to focus your thought on something that will motivate in your life. Such as a luxury car, a million dollar, a fat bank account, a happy family, a lovely wife and so on and so forth.
If you want to be rich because you’re from a poor family or because you’re deeply in dept, then focus on your family and your will to be rich because you’re in dept.
This will help you to think about why you want to be rich and give you the energy to go on from within.
3. Listen To Songs And Music That Will Motivate You
This is one of the strategies that I’ll do when I don’t have the motivation. Listen to a certain song that will get me going really help me a lot in this.
I believe that there must be a certain song or music or even movie that will make you feel motivated when you listen to it.
It is the trigger that will motivate you, so make good use of this.
You’ll feel motivated when listening to a certain song is because in the past, you listen to that song when you’re in a motivated state. This create a strong chain in your mind that whenever you listen to the song, you’ll automatically trigger the motivated state you’re in. Great technique!
4. Spend 30 Minutes To Read Self-improvement Books
Again, this is an easy step, but most people will never do it. Whenever you feel like procrastinating and don’t feel like want to get things done, spend 30 minutes to read some self-improvement books that will make you motivated again.
It does not matter which book you read, as long as it can get you motivated. You can even read articles in my blog if you feel that what I’m sharing with you is going to motivate you.
I have a lot of self-improvement books. I’ll buy at least a book each month. Right now, when I’m typing this post, there are a few in front of me on my desk. They are Live The Life You Love by Barbara Sher, Having It All by John Assaraf, Tough Times Never Last But Tough People Do by Robert Schuller, Awaken The Gian Within by Anthony Robbins, The Power Of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale and more…
You see, I read a lot of them and I reread them whenever possible. As long as the material can motivates you, you should invest time to digest it.
5. Rest, Relax And Enjoy
Sometimes, when you’re feeling overload, you can try to rest and relax to gain back the energy of motivation.
Try to have a walk in the garden, get close to the nature, do some exercises, go for sport, jogging, swimming or go shopping.
This technique is great when you’re feeling stress and overload. You will want to distract yourself and relax your mind so that when you get back on your task later, you can stay even more focused on it.
Don’t feel guilty by taking time to relax yourself. In fact, some of the experts claim that the more you relax and rest yourself, the more productive you’ll become.
Just make sure that you take action and do what you need to do. Rest and relax is not a way for you to procrastinate, but it is a technique for you to get motivated.
Whenever I visit bookstore and scan through all the books in business, self-help, marketing, finance and success-related category, I’ll feel motivated. I can feel a surge of energy flow through me. There are so many books that I would like to buy and read.
I don’t know about you. I’m just telling you that you should find out what will motivate you in your life and leverage on it to make you motivated.
Posted by Shawn on January 7th, 2010
I’m not sure who wrote it, but I found it from an interview with Brian Tracy.
This is exactly what you need when you’re down in your life. This is what you need when you face obstacles in your journey to success.
This poem will be the source of motivation for you to turn your life around…
Don’t Quit
When things go wrong as they sometimes will
When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill
When funds are low and the debts are high
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh.
When care is pressing you down a bit.
Rest, if you must, but don’t you quit
Life is queer with its twists and turns.
As every one of us sometimes learns
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out:
Don’t give up though the pace seems slow
You may succeed with another blow.
Success is failure turned inside out
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt
And you never can tell how close yo are.
It may be near when it seems so far:
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit
It’s when things seem worst that you must not QUIT.
When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill
When funds are low and the debts are high
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh.
When care is pressing you down a bit.
Rest, if you must, but don’t you quit
Life is queer with its twists and turns.
As every one of us sometimes learns
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out:
Don’t give up though the pace seems slow
You may succeed with another blow.
Success is failure turned inside out
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt
And you never can tell how close yo are.
It may be near when it seems so far:
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit
It’s when things seem worst that you must not QUIT.
Posted by Shawn on December 31st, 2009
What drives you? What gives you the energy to keep moving on?
Do you know why sometimes you’re motivated to do something while sometimes you just want to put things off?
What you have to do is to notice your states, the thought you run through your mind, your breathing pattern and your physiology when you’re in a motivated state.
Once you noticed all these factors, you will come to better understand what drives you. And if you know what drives you, you can then repeat the same process and keep yourself motivated all the time whenever you want to.
Conversely, you can take note about the factors when you’re in a lousy state. What thoughts you’re running through your head when you’re feeling unmotivated? For most people, when they’re in a lousy state and when they’re trying to put things off, they will focus on the pleasure of not doing the things and the pain of doing it.
Let me give you an example, when you’re feeling motivated, most probably you’ll be thinking about being successful in your life. You’ll think about driving the car you have always dreamed about. You’ll be thinking about having all the money that you desire and traveling around the world with your loved ones.
Your breathing will be deep and your physiology is in a certain position. This means that you are focusing on the pleasure of achieving your dreams. You’re thinking about what you want to accomplish in your life.
Therefore, if you know that you have to focus in these thoughts to be in a motivated state, do you think that you can control your thought and make yourself motivated when needed?
Of course you can! You just have to think the exact picture in your head, breathe the same way you’re breathing when you’re feeling excited and make sure your eyes, your facial expression and your physiology is in the exact position like when you’re feeling motivated. Then you will feel motivated.
It is something like copy and paste. You do exactly the same thing, and you will get the same results.
One plus one will always be two. So if you do the same thing just like when you’re feeling exciting and passionate, you will get back the same results.
In other words, you can choose to feel and be in the states that you want. Anthony Robbins says, emotion is created by motion. And I think it is very true.
When you’re feeling bored and sleepy, try to move faster and you will feel energetic. It is your motion that created your emotion.
I believe you’ve learned something useful today. You don’t have to use coffee or candy to stay awake. Instead, you can use your motion to produce the kind of energy you want.
Make good use of what you’ve learned here today. Try it and you will get the results you want.
Posted by Shawn on November 8th, 2009
Successful people are those who radiate energy from them. You can know it from the way they walk, the way they talk, the way they think and act and make decisions. You can always feel the energy from them.
They’re passionate and full with energy!
This is the secret that you need to get your work done in effectively and efficiently.
Here are 7 ways how you can keep yourself energetic all the time…
1. Always Read Motivational Materials
This is one of the simplest ways. If you want to stay positive and energetic, read motivational books or listen to inspiring audios. This is a very common motivational technique, but yet, most people never apply it into their lives.
If you can do this for 30 minutes everyday, you will go through big changes in your life in a few months. If you don’t believe me, just try it. You’ll see the amazing changes you’re going to get in your life.
2. Think About Your Dreams
Yes, thinking about your dreams will get you motivated. If you want to be rich, driving a BMW 5 Series, just imagine that you’ve already achieved this goal in your mind. Visualize the vivid picture. Imagine the color, the smell, the touch of the steering and more.
You’ll feel great if you do this right. Do this every time when you feel no motivation or when you’re in a low energy state. The more you do this, the better you’re going to get in visualizing it. Great technique, try it!
3. Identify Your Motivation Starter
When you feel motivated, try to ask yourself this question, “what makes me motivated?”
You have to identify the things that make you move into the high energy state. It can be a thought, a song, an image of a happy family, a voice in your head and more. Once you knew what makes you motivated, you can then repeat the process and stay motivated all the time!
Again, the more you practice, the better you’re going to get.
4. Take Rest And Relax Your Mind
Think about it, when you’re overloaded with works and stress for a long time in the office, what should you do to refresh yourself?
The best way is to take rest and relax your mind. Take a walk in garden, slow down your pace and notice all the great and beautiful things around you, listen to soft music or songs that inspired you.
After you’ve refreshed your mind, you will find that you have all the energy to take on the world again. Sometimes it is a wise way to take a break to relax when you’re feeling stress. It will help you to stay focused and be more effective after you get back to your work.
5. Stay Healthy All The Time
The secret to live in a high energy state all the time is to be healthy! Many people sacrifice their health for their financial future. If you let me choose, I’m going to choose both.
You can say that I’m greedy, but I want both. What is the point of having all the money in the world but you cannot enjoy it and suffer serious illness?
Make sure you take exercise often and eat healthily.
6. Have Faith And Enjoy Your Life
Yes, simply have the faith and enjoy every moment you have in your life will make you a happy-go-lucky person. This is one of the easiest ways to stay motivated and energetic all the time. Most people keep themselves busy and lose the faith to live a happy life.
Sometimes, living a simple life will be the best option. You don’t need to have all the money in the world to be successful. Appreciate what you have at every moment will give you a sense of succeed and live your life with passion.
7. Read The Millionaire Secrets
Frankly, I don’t know what you think about The Millionaire Secrets, but I hope that it is a great blog that will inspire and help you in every way to living a better life.
Simply tell me what you think by leaving your comment below. Thanks.
Posted by Shawn on October 25th, 2009
Long ago there’s a professor. He is a very prestigious man with 3 PhDs and he is the dean for his school. One day, he would like to cross the river to his university. He did not know how he can cross it and until suddenly he saw a boatman row his boat over. He then asks the boatman, “Hello boatman, can you row me across the river to my university?” And the boatman agrees.
So as the boatman rows his boat across the river, the professor point to the mountain and asks the boatman, “Boatman, do you know where there is and have you ever learned geography?”
The boatman shakes his head and answers, “No, not at all.” And the professor tells the boatman, “Boatman, 25% of your life is gone.” The boatman seems sad and he keeps on rowing the boat.
After awhile, the professor pick up a left from the river and ask the boatman, “Boatman, have you ever learned botany?” And the boatman answers, “What is that? I have never heard of it before.” Then the professor tell the boatman, “Poor boatman, 50% of your life is gone.”
The boatman feels sad and he keeps on rowing the boat. A moment later, the professor asks the boatman again, “Boatman, boatman, do you know what is mineralogy?” Again, the boatman answer the professor, “No…”
The professor then tells the boatman, “Boatman, 75% of your life is gone.” The boatman is very sad and he rows the boat without noticing that there is a huge rock in front. As a result, the boat hit the rock and it starts to sink. The boatman and the professor both are panic and the boatman asks the professor, “Professor! Professor! Do you know how to swim?”
Guess what the professor answers? The professor says, “No! I don’t know how to swim!” And the boatman replies the professor, “Professor! 100% of your life is gone!” The boatman jump into the river and swim away to the shore…
What Is The Moral Of The Story?
What I’m going to share with you in this story is that knowledge and skills such as goal setting, visualization, affirmation, success mindset, millionaire habits and more are very important in your life.
Often, it is these skills that will help you in achieving what you really want in your life. Unfortunately, most people do not really bother about these skills and they ignore them. As a result, most people live a mediocre life and they struggle all the time.
If you are serious in achieving what you really want in your life and if you are truly committed in becoming successful, you must learn and improve in this area of your life. Learn and adopt all these success strategies or techniques or skills into your life.
I always received emails from my readers asking me where did I learn all my success knowledge. What I’m going to say is, if you are serious about getting the success you want, you will eventually come up with a way how to acquire all this knowledge.
I learned from reading books. I read a lot of books especially in self-improvement topic. I have developed reading as my hobby and until this day, I will feel odd if I did not read any book in a day.
You don’t have to buy a lot of books and read like crazy. You can buy a book each month if you can afford. However, make sure you finish every book that you bought. More than 70% of people who bought a book did not finish it. It is such a waste to spend your money on something that you never use.
The Book That I Strongly Recommend
Of all the books that I’ve read, one that truly grabs my attention is this, Adam Khoo’s Master Your Mind, Design Your Destiny. It is a book that is written with you on the mind. What I like about this book is that Adam explains his success strategies from the head until the toe and every of the techniques are in step-by-step manner. This means that you can follow through and apply the strategies much more easily.
Adam uses Neuro Linguistic Programming as the core principle in his success. It is the technique that you can use to master your mind and achieve anything you want in your life. You should know that your #1 asset is your mind. If you can control your mind, you can basically achieve anything you want in your life, no doubt for this…
Read this book once to grab the big idea, read it twice to sink the idea into your mind and if you read it for the third time, achieving what you want will never be a problem.
Posted by Shawn on March 26th, 2009
It is either you take the wrong action and lead to the wrong results, or it is because you’re not doing anything at all. If you take action but fail to achieve your goals, it is because you’re using the wrong strategies, change your strategies and keep on trying until you achieve your goals.
While if you’re not doing anything and you’re just sitting right there waiting for money to fall from the sky, there is one thing that you can do to drive yourself up and get in excited state again.
And that is what I’m going to share with you today. I’m going to share with you the instant motivation technique that you can use the moment you’re down. After you use this instant motivation technique, you’ll get excited, back to your peak state and ready to take massive action.
#1 Common Reason People Fail To Achieve What They Want In Their Life
One of the reasons most people fail to achieve what they want in their life is this, the lack of action. Most people just dream about what they want and wish that their dreams will come true someday. But you know it very well that if you’re not doing anything, nothing will ever come true.
And the reason people are not taking action is because that they are not in the motivated state. Did you notice that sometimes when you’re motivated, you get more things done? This is why you need motivation and drive to propel you into taking massive of action.
And this is also the reason I come up with this post, to share with you this instant motivation technique. If you use this technique correctly, I believe that you’ll be able to drive yourself into your peak performance state again and so you’ll be able to get more things done.
The main key here is to get you motivated so that you will take massive of action. Remember what I always say? “Success is about getting things done“.
Let’s discover this technique now…
Instant Motivation Technique
Actually, this technique is a common technique. I believe that you’ve used it in your life before, just that you did not realize that you’re actually using this technique.
Well, let me ask you this question, why do you feel motivated some of the time? For example, if one of your dream is to buy a luxury bungalow by the sea, and when you hear that one of your friends have just bought this kind of house, will you feel motivated? Most probably. Maybe you’ll tell yourself, “I’m going to buy it too”. So you end up feeling a little bit excited but it is not enough to get you 100% motivated.
But what if that friend of yours suddenly calls and invite you over to his new bungalow and he would like to share with you how he ended up buying that house? What do you feel? You’ll feel even more excited and you’ll boost up the level of motivation.
Let me show you another example. If one of your dreams is to own a BMW, then one day, when you’re walking in a shopping mall, suddenly you see that there is an automobile show event and there is a BMW that you always wanted there. So you walk there and have a look at that car. The salesman then tells you to have a seat and feel the feeling of actually driving it. Do you think that this will motivates you to get a BMW? Of course it will.
The question now I would like to ask is, what triggers that motivation force?
It is the things in your goals or in your dreams that you can see, smell, feel, touch, hear or taste that motivates you. Therefore, you can simply use this as an instant motivation technique.
What You Can Do With This?
What you can do to motivate you with this is that, for instance, you can write down on a piece of paper of what you want to achieve or own or buy in your life. And then keep this paper close with you every single day. When you’re down, this paper will be the savior.
Take out this piece of paper and read aloud when you’re down, and see what happens.
Of course, this is just an example of how you can make use of this technique. There are still many ways you can trigger your peak state. Such as, if there is a key chain that has a picture of your dream car on it, and the moment you look at it you’ll feel motivated, it can be used when you’re down as well.
The key to make this technique a success is to make it as tangible as possible. It is even better if you can include your 5 senses into it at the same time. The level of motivation is higher when you see and hear something that motivates in the same time than when you are just seeing or just hearing something that motivates you.
One of the most powerful techniques that I shared in my previous post is this, The Power of Anchoring. It uses the same technique, just that you in anchoring, you create your own ‘pattern’ or ’style’ to motivate you.
I urge you to read it if you are looking for instant motivation technique. It works and it works wonder. So head over and read the post now.
Posted by Shawn on November 26th, 2008
How often have you heard people keep on telling you that it is not that they don’t want to succeed, it is just that they don’t have the opportunity. God has forgotten them and did not create any opportunities for them. Is this true? If you are someone who has a millionaire mindset, you will never think of it this way.
When you are ready, opportunity will come to you! Don’t believe? Try this out. Try to save a portion of your money. Maybe you are just a student and you got no income yet, or maybe you are an adult and you work for living. No matter who you are today, just save a portion of your money. When this portion of money reach a certain amount, miracle will occur!
When you are ready, something will eventually happen. I cannot tell you what kind of opportunity you will get, but I can tell you that somehow opportunity will come when you are ready. If you are a student and wanting to score A’s is always your dream, when you are ready, maybe you will stumble upon a great book that teaches you how to study. You grab that opportunity and you buy that book. As a result, you pass your exams with flying colors.
The same if you are a working adult. When you are ready, opportunity will drop in front of you. Just like if you take up the test to save a portion of your money. When the money reach a certain amount, you will somehow use that money. No matter how you use it, maybe you spend it or maybe you invest it, you will eventually use it. It depends on your mindset and your habits. If you are someone constantly pursuing for higher wealth, maybe you will invest the money. However, if you are someone who spend heavily, maybe you will end up buying something you dream of with that money.
Just like what happened to me last month. I always had a dream of wanting to go for this guy’s seminar in Singapore. He is the world’s number one super affiliate, Ewen Chia. Maybe you have heard of him, maybe not. But that’s not the key here. The thing I want to share with you is this, the moment you got yourself prepared, God will send you the opportunity that you always looking for.
And one day I read the newspaper and I saw Ewen’s face was on the ad section! He is holding a seminar in Malaysia and he is going to have a 3-day workshop too! What a great opportunity for me. Without thinking much, I straight away decided that I’m in for that seminar. So you see, when you are ready, opportunity will come!
