Archive for May, 2010

How To Be Successful By Investing $10 A Month

May 21st, 2010

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!

Where Will You Be 10 Years Down The Road?

May 19th, 2010

Just like the title suggest, where will you be 10 years down the road? Will you be doing the same thing? Are you still working with the same company? Will you still be earning the same income and living the same lifestyle like now?

This is a very important question if you want to be successful in life.

This question triggers you to think about your future. It does not necessarily needs to be 10 years. It can be 20 years or just 5 years.

The key is to think ahead of your life. Most people never think about their future, which is the biggest reason they are living an ordinary life.

If you don’t believe me, just try to think back 10 years or 5 years of your life. What have you accomplish?

For some, they will have increased the quality of their lives and achieved some of their goals.

However, for most people, they are still the same. They will be doing the same thing again and again. Caught up in the rat race and the life maze.

They never live the life they desire and they keep on living their lives without knowing the true purpose of life.

If you are reading this right now, this will be the wake up call for you.

Think about your future and plan for it right now. You have to think about what you want in the next 5 years and so you can come up with a plan on how to achieve it.

You must not wait until after 5 years only to say out what you want. It will be too late by that time.

When Is The Best Time To Succeed?

Do you know what is the best time to invest? Or what is the best time to lose weight? Or what is the best time to plant a tree? Or what is the best time to study to score?

The best time to be who you want to be and to achieve what you want to accomplish in your life is right now.

In fact, the best time will be 1 or 2 or 3 or 5 or 10 years ago. However, since you cannot change what had happened and you cannot go back to the past, the best time to create the life you always wanted, is now.

Therefore, think about the future you want right now and start to create a plan to achieve it. You will need to move slowly and take steps to achieve your goals and make your dreams come true.

Success Is A Big Step Chunk Down Into Many Small Steps

And remember, achieving success is not a one step process. It is a multi-step process.

Most people think that success will come to them right away and in just one step. This is not true. It is just like building a house. You first need the blueprint. Next you will need to have land surveyor to do their work. After that you will need to have people building the foundation.

The slabs, the column, the first floor slab, the roof, and then only comes to the brick work. What I’m trying to show you is that success or achieving your goals will take a lot of small steps.

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.

Just Do It And The Road Will Reveal Itself

You don’t have to know exactly what you need to do or all the details of your future if you want to achieve it. You just need to have a rough idea of what you want.

For example, if you are planning and thinking about your future 20 years from now, you will have difficulties if you think about all the details in one time.

The thing is, you don’t have to. What you have to do is to know what you want, but not to the smallest details. Just an idea of what you want to accomplish, what kind of lifestyle you want to live or how much you want to earn will do.

The most important key is for you to take action each and everyday.

Just like driving in the night. You don’t need to have a super light that will show you the road. You just need an ordinary headlight. You just need to be able to see through what lies 50 meters ahead of you.

And you can reach your destination that is 100km away. See what I mean?

You just need to know where you are going. In other words, you need to know your destination, but you don’t have to know all the small steps that you need to take in the journey.

Just start taking action and the road will reveal itself.

How To Turn Your Goals And Dreams Into Reality

May 4th, 2010

Do you want to turn your goals and your dreams into reality?

What a dumb question, everyone wants to achieve their goals and make their dreams come true. Sadly, most people fail to achieve what they want in their lives.

Do you know why?

The answer is pretty simple, they don’t align themselves toward their goals and their dreams.

Well, first you need to have the desire to achieve it. The desire is the most important factor that will determine whether you will achieve what you want in your life.

Think about it, if you don’t have the desire to achieve what you want, do you think you will be motivated to take action?

Obviously, you need to have the desire to get it. You need to make your goals and your dreams a must-achieve for you.

Next, once you have the desire, you will need to align yourself toward what you want.

What I mean by aligning yourself toward your dreams and your goals are these…

1. You must constantly learn and improve in the field that you want to excel in.

Think about it, if you don’t know anything about investing in the stock market, how are you going to be a great investor and profit from the market?

The answer is by learning and improving. Unless you tell me that success is by luck and talent is born within you, you will need to learn to improve.

Think about it, why do kids go to school? Of course, the answer is to learn and improve!

Why do you think athletes train a few hours everyday? If talent was born within them, they can don’t bother about training, they can relax, have fun and play the whole day before they get into the tournament.

The fact is, talent is not born within you and success is not by luck.

And luckily, you can learn the talent and make success yours if you want to.

So do you learn the lesson right now? You need to improve yourself by learning so that you will become better in the field that you want to be successful.

2. Associate with people who have similar targets.

Yes, by mixing yourself with other people who share the same goals with you, you will definitely benefit from the network and relationship.

Birds of the same feather flock together. This is another important step that you can take to align yourself with what you want in your life.

Think about it for a moment, if you are trying to lose weight but you fail to do that. And one day you come across a friend who has successful lost the weight and stay thin for some years, and he is willing to share with you how he did it, wouldn’t this be something great?

When you fail to close the sale and feel down, your colleague comes to you to inspire you, he tells you that he has been in your situation before and he is now doing great job, do you think this is going to help in achieving your goals?

You bet! This is one of the best ways to stay positive, motivated, and it is also a great tip to learn from others.

3. Act as if you are the person whom you want to be.

This is another way to align yourself. By acting as if you are the person whom you want to be. I’m talking about your physiology, your breathing pattern, your thinking, your level of confidence, and your way of acting.

What you need to do is to act as if you are the one who you would like to be and you will produce the results you want.

I don’t know whether if you have heard this phrase, “fake it until you make it”. It is so true.

4. Act until you get what you want.

It is impossible to achieve what you want if you are not acting toward it.

The failure to take action is one of the most common reasons people fail to produce the results they want in their lives.

Think about it, if you want to score straight As in your results, but if you are not willing to study and do revision, do you think you can score well?

Do you think you can be a top athlete without training?

You know the answer. Unfortunately, most people fail to do what it takes to achieve what they want, simply because the desire to achieve what they want is not strong enough.

That is why I mentioned that desire is the first and the most important factor of all. If you want to be successful, you must first have the desire, and then only you align yourself toward your goals and your dreams.

This is how you can produce amazing results and achieve the success you want in life.