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Just like ordinary people, I need content for this blog. I published a new article every single day. So where do you think my idea for me to write comes from? I know that on the net, there is basically tons of information you can search for and make them your blog content. Sometimes I really feel frustrated and got no idea of what to write. It is not that I don’t have enough information to write, it is because I’ve got too much information and don’t know how to write!

So what I do is that I will write down every idea which comes into my mind in my notebook. Once I’ve written them down, I will not forget what I’m supposed to publish to you. Some of my topic idea comes from my daily life, when I think about something interesting to tell you, then I will write them down and it will become my blog post. I will even find information about success, make more money, financial education from newspaper. I believe that you read newspaper everyday right? Therefore you can make use of what you’ve read from the newspaper and tell your blog readers.

Find Your Content

Another source of my idea is from newsletter subscription. You know, there is a lot of websites which offer free newsletter subscription, and they will email you almost every week. However, most of the content from newsletter is made to promote their products, but sometimes you will find the information interesting and you may use it in your blog. And the biggest source of my idea to write comes from my life experience. Well, not to say ‘my’ experience, it is other people’s experience. Simply because I read many wealth, how to success and related topic of books. And all these information are from other people, I only use my own way of expressing to tell you.

If you’ve been a blogger for quite some time, then I believe that you will know where you can find your content. And I believe that once you’ve got the idea about what to write, you can write it without referring to any source, it’s free-writing. In fact, there are so much information you can find from, from your life experience, from your environment, and the biggest source, from the net.

Do you find your life joyful? Do you know your life purpose? Do you know what you really want in your life? Do you feel passionate about what you are doing? Do you know your desires? Since school age, we have been taught what we should do, what are are supposed to achieve and accomplish in our life. We have been given a life path to follow, which is the same as everyone else. We have to study, get good grades, find a job, and work for money. This is the route that everybody is taking. We follow and do it blindly without question why, we never asked whether this is right or wrong.

Decision Making

So is this really true? We don’t have any other choices? No, not at all, we can choose anything we want in our life. God has given us the power to choose, there is not necessary that we have to follow what others are doing. You can choose to be a rich man, a Millionaire today, and you can also choose to be like everyone else, work from 9 to 5 everyday. It is all in your hand, you choose it. The truth is that, if you are not going to make any decision in your life, other people are going to decide for you. Maybe you will end up becoming other people’s stepping stone for success, maybe you are going to work for other people which makes them rich.

So you see, you must make your decision now and choose your path. And you know what? This is all about ‘now’, and not the future. If you want to become a Millionaire and make more money than you can imagine, you must decide ‘now’! It is now that is going to affect your future, it is ‘now’ that is going to change your life forever. If you fail to decide what you want now, you are going to fail your future as well. Always keep this in mind, “What you are today it is because of what you were yesterday“. In fact, it is now that is more important than future. Your future is just an imagination, just for you to set goals and lead the path you should take, and it tells you what you need to achieve. As for ‘now’, it is the process that you should take in order to make your future comes true.

You always have a choice, and what you choose is to be is totally up to you. What kind of seed you plant today will decide what kind of plant you are going to get in the future.

Most of us hate savings. The only reason we hate savings is that saving seems to be a slow process, and it can be very boring task if you want to accumulate a large sum of money. However, saving is a good way where you can collect your money for future use. And many people don’t know about the power of savings. Before this, I’ve also written an article which discussed about The Power of Savings.

You should know that by saving up a small amount of money little by little each day, you can accumulate a lot of money after a long time. This concept is the same as Butterfly Effect. I myself is using 2 piggy banks for savings. I will put some money into both of them everyday. One is for investment and business purposes, and the other one is for tithing (donation). You can set up a few piggy banks for yourself too.

Piggy Bank

Often, people only sees what lies in front of them, for them $1 everyday is a small amount and they think that by doing so everyday won’t help them rich. Well in fact even by saving up $1 everyday, it will accumulates and become a large sum of money after a long period. However it takes consistent action to do so. Look at the above piggy bank picture, you can create 4 types of savings just like it, the one uses for spending, saving, donation and investment.

By doing so, you can manage your money more effectively, you will know where you money flows into. For example, if you don’t separate the types of savings, maybe you will use up all of your saving in just spending, and non for donating and investment. But if you separate your savings, then you will know exactly where the money should be going. This way you can manage your cash flow more efficiently.

Often, you can hear many people asking “How can I make more money online?” or something like “How can I be more successful?” I believe that even you yourself have asked this kind of questions before. People want to know ‘how’ more than ‘why’. For me, the ‘why’ is much more important than your ‘how’. Simply because if you know why you want something so badly, you will eventually achieve it. As the saying goes, ‘when there is a will, there is a way’.

Even if you know ‘how’ to make more money, it is not necessarily you will achieve this goal. Just like if I told you that you can make money by setting up a blog, and you can earn by implementing Google Adsense in your blog. However, you may feel frustrated, disappointed and give up in the end. You can know all the ‘how’ without knowing ‘why’, but when something hits you, you will give up very fast.

Do You Know WHY?

Most of the time, people who knows ‘how’ without knowing ‘why’ will not achieve what they want. Just like the internet here, it is flooded with information, you can find all your ‘how to’ on the net. But still you are not going to achieve your goals because you don’t have the ‘why’. If you really want to success, then you will have to ask yourself, why is it that you want to success? If you want to make $100k from the net, then you will have to find out the reason why you want it.

It is the reason that is going to keep you going. When you know exactly why you want something so badly, nothing can ever stops you. Like I said, you will need to know the reason for you to success. If you don’t have the will to success, you will give up faster than you can imagine when you face problems. The reason works as the biggest inspiration and motivation for you to go on. Therefore, you must know ‘why’. Ask yourself today, why is it that you want to be successful? Why is it that you want to make more money online? Do you know your answer?

This is one of the most famous quotes that I like. I never know about it until I read Donald Trump’s Think BIG. It is one of the ingredients that you will need if you want to make more money online. Since you are going to be thinking anyway, why don’t you think BIG? Our imagination is free, so don’t limit yourself. If you are thinking small, you are limiting your own beliefs, and you are limiting your potential as well.

Donald Trump Think BIG

People are capable of doing great things, but not if they don’t envision great things being done. Like I’ve always said, everything happens twice, once in your mind, then in reality. Without imagination without thinking, you are not going to make things real. Do you think that Thomas Edison invent the light bulb without imagine about it? I doubt it. I know that before we can run, we must learn to walk first. However, we should think about running when we are walking.

I believe that you have your own plans in achieving your goals. Do you set big goals with big plans? Or small plans and small goals? If you are thinking small, then you will need to ask yourself why. You will want to expand your horizon of thinking if you are thinking small. Here is a way to help you to think big. You should always focus on your future, think about your future and not the past. Indeed that you should learn from the past, but you mustn’t stay in the past.

Our limit is the sky. Since you are going to be thinking anyway, just Think BIG!

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Well, in your way to achieving your goals and your success, I believe that you’ll face loads of frustration and desperation. Don’t worry, I’ve a great way which can helps you in achieving them much more easily. By following this method, I’m sure that you can motivate yourself and keep yourself going again and again. So what is this secret method all about? Very simple, it is ‘Scared yourself to success‘!

This method works like this. Just assume that your goal is to make more money online. Hence what you can do is by using your imagination, imagine what is going to happen to you in the future. For example, when you feel frustrated, and when you are down, just think about what will happen in the future if you give up. You may imagine that you’ve given up, you failed to achieve your goals, your friends are going to laugh at you, you make no money and you are poor! Just like this:

You Are Poor!

I believe that you don’t want to be a poor guy in the future just likes the picture above right? Therefore this will scare you and motivates you towards your success. On the other hand, what if you keep on imagine that you are rich in the future? You made lots of money, all your friends envy you so much, you drive with your dream car, live with your love one, and money is not a problem for you, and you are financially free! You may imagine this:

You Are Rich!

Thus, what will you feel if you imagine this? I’m sure that you will become even more motivated, you will have the momentum to keep going on. You will pursue your goals with more energy. It will be much easier to success if you have all the energy. You will feel that everything happens so smooth and achieving your goals is not a problem at all. So you can see now, imagination can motivates you if you use it right. If you keep on imagine that it is impossible for you to make more money online, then do you think that you can success with it? It is impossible.

You must first change your belief system, then use imagination to keep your momentum going. Before this I’ve also written about how you can get motivated by visualization, you can read it here, Get Motivated By Visualization. To Your Success.

If you miss out the first part of this article, you can read them by following this link below:

The 11 Principles From Bill Gates

Principle 6 - Learn from mistakes. This is what Mr Gates urges us to do. We need to learn from our mistakes. Everyone will make mistakes, nobody is perfect in this world. If you ever made a mistake, then learn from it, and never repeat it again. Only by doing so, you can improve yourself to a higher level of success.

Principle 7 - Do it yourself. In this world, you will have to do most of the things yourself. Stop relying on others. If you keep on relying on others, you will not learn the process. The more you rely on other, the more you will lose yourself to them, and hence you will keep on relying on them. This is your own success, not others!

Principle 8 -You’ve got only one chance. Many things in our life only happen once. Therefore you’ve have to take that chance and appreciate it. Sometimes if you’ve lost that chance, don’t worry, you can always create it.

Principle 9 - Value your time. We’ve got only 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We’ve don’t have much time in fact, life is short. You must learn to value your time. Put your time into process that can makes you grow, makes you success. Just remember this, don’t bring today’s tasks to tomorrow.

Principle 10 - Do what you suppose to do. What you see in television everyday is not the real world. In the real world, you need to get out and work things out.

Principle 11 - Be good with everyone around you. This is the golden rule of life, treat everyone good, and everyone will treat you good. So if you want to be rich, make other people rich first. This golden rule of life will not change, and you have to follow it in order to success.

Bill Gates

All the above are the principles from Bill Gates, I grabbed this article from my local newspaper. I hope that you can learn from what Mr Gates had gone through. He is wealthy not because he is lucky or born with extra talent. He is wealthy because he lives through his life with his principles. Mr Gates believe that there is no “luck” in achieving success, he believes in principles and rules.

Bill Gates, the self-made billionaire start managing Microsoft since when he was only about 20 years old. He became the youngest billionaire in his 30s and at the age of 39, his wealth beats Warren Buffet (wealthiest stock investor), he became the world’s richest man. I grab this article from a local newspaper some time ago. Bill Gates was once an ordinary man just like you and me. However, he uses his own talent and hard work, he founded Microsoft and now has got everything he deserves, wealth, power, credibility. Look at the picture below, it is a picture of Microsoft company before it gets famous. Can you find out which one is Bill Gates?

Microsoft

So you see, even the richest man in the world has his hard time. Do you think that Mr Gates never fought for his career? Do you think that he was born lucky and with all the talents? Of course not! He learn through the hard time and able to cope with it. You know what, if he can do it, so can you.

Principle 1 - Adapt to your life. You must accept that life is unfair. Nobody is born perfect and lucky, you must learn to adapt to your life, then change it. How your live is going to be will be totally lies in your hand. You must manage and handle your own life.

Principle 2 - Pursue for success. This world will not care who you are, you must pursue for success only then you can get a foothold in your life. Success is the highest state of life, it can change your behavior and attitude, and even your self-esteem. If you think that success doesn’t belong to you, that is a lame thinking.

Principle 3 - No pain, no gain. Success will never come automatically, you need to pay for it if you desire for it. This is the basic principle in our life, you aren’t going to become a CEO of certain company if you don’t work for it. You will not going to make $10k a month if you’re not paying any effort in it. Therefore stop thinking that success will drop from heaven, without hard work , success will not be yours.

Principle 4 -Change your attitude. If you think that your teachers in school are strict, think about your boss after you’ve gone for work. So stop blaming other people and change your attitude on how you look at things.

Principle 5- Everything matters. No matter small or big business, they can make you money. Small business can grows into big businesses. Thus, by slowly taking small steps everyday, you can achieve big result one day.

Read: The 11 Principles From Bill Gates (Continues)

Like the title, know where your strength is, and use them, you can achieve a greater success. For example, if you are trying to penetrate through a market, then make sure that market is where you are good at. Don’t choose a market that you know nothing about. Indeed that you can learn from while you through, but if it is a market which you already have some knowledge about, then it will be much easier for you to cope with.

Here is another example, if you are to have a sport match with Tiger Woods, and you can choose any sports of your choice, are you going to choose golf? Of course not! You will choose some other sports which you are good at, and he is lousy at. This concept is exactly the same as you should find out where you are good at, where your strength is. And then use it to the fullest.

No matter in what businesses, blogging, affiliate marketing, everything, choose the one that you have advantage in. Maybe you are good in arts, or maybe you are good in maths. Whatever your strength is, you need to find them, and use them. Everyone has got our own strength, at least one. We’re born with them, and they are part of us. There is no such thing as you don’t have any strength. If you don’t know where your strength is, that is probably because you haven’t found them yet.

This is a gift from heaven, if you are not making good use of your strength, it will be a big waste. Therefore, start to find where your strength is now!

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Listen to this story. Sometimes ago, scientist carried out a simple experiment on a barracuda. They put the barracuda into a big glass aquarium. They began to feed the barracuda with small fishes. The barracuda would swim towards the small fishes and in one gulp would swallow the fishes. They continued putting the small fishes into the glass container as good for the barracuda. Then on day the scientist put a glass partition at the center of the glass aquarium. They put the small fishes into the opposite side of the glass aquarium. As the barracuda approached to have it’s food, it would hit against the glass partition. It was puzzled in the beginning, but it kept on trying.

Barrucuda

And It kept on failing and hitting against the glass partition until one day, it stopped trying. The scientist then removed the glass partition, and the small fishes were released to swim all over the glass aquarium. The amazing discovery was that the barracuda did not try to go for the fishes. It has been conditioned to think that it will only hit against the glass partition. The sad thing was that, eventually, the barracuda died surrounded with abundance of food.

And the moral of the story? Just like the barracuda most of us will stop ourselves from trying just because we experienced failures in the past. We will think that since we failed before, why we should try again since we will probably get the same result. We prefer to die rather than try, just like the barracuda. We have been conditioned not to try anymore because of the fear of failure. To be successful we have to get rid of this limiting belief, and accept a new and empowering belief, “the future foes not equal the past”.

This is too right, the future will not equals to the past. What’s past is just history, the future will be different. If you failed before, don’t worry, stand up and try again. It doesn’t mean that you are going to fail all the time. So don’t get hit by the phobia, the feeling of afraid to lose again. Success will not come in the first try. Since from before, we human uses the trial and error method to achieve success. Which means that if you never fail before, you are not going to discover how to success. Therefore, don’t stop finding your route to success. Grab more interesting articles from The Millionaire Secrets.