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Show me the numbers and I will know how you fare in life.

Numbers play an important part in our personal development journey. Jim Rohn introduced this concept to me. I got this concept from one of his audio books and I would say this is a pretty simple yet powerful concept.

If you look closely in your life, you can put many things into numbers. Usually the numbers tell you the harsh facts and reality.

• Show me the number in your bank account and the number will show how well you are doing financially.
• Show me the number on your pay check and I will know how well you are doing in your career.
• Show me the number on your weighing scale and I will know whether you desperately need to slog it out on the treadmill.
• Show me the percentage of growth or loss in your investment portfolio and I will know whether you need to pick up more books about investing.

Numbers don’t lie. They show you the reality.

Do You Even Know Where You Stand Right Now?

To improve yourself, you need to know how you are doing currently. If you do not know where you stand, it is impossible for you to make your desired progress. You need a benchmark to start with. Without knowing where you are now, it is impossible to track your progress. This isn’t a very smart thing to do.

You need to have the self-awareness to know where you are right now. The numbers in your life can help greatly in identifying where you are right now.

Some people think they are currently better than where they are right now, which may be false. Some people think they are worse off than where they are right now, which also may be false. How many times did you see yourself in the mirror, saw the fats around your tummy, and think that you are still doing ok? I admit, I tried to lie to myself before I weigh myself on the scale.

Numbers do not lie and they help in this case. The numbers provide you with the cold and harsh fact on where you are right now.

Learn How To Use Your Numbers To Raise Your Standard

Your numbers are here to help you but most people do not bother to use it. Keeping track of your numbers (finance, paycheck, weight, hours spent with love ones, portfolio, investment, number of books read) will allow you to know which area of your life needs improvement.

There are a few ways you can start tracking your numbers now. It is time to create your own excel spreadsheet to help you measure your progress in life.

I use Google Docs for creating my spreadsheets and here are some numbers that I keep track.

• Number of books I read in a year (to ensure that I am growing and learning more about my field of expertise)
• Income (to ensure that I am progressing smoothly towards achieving my desired income)
• Expenses (to keep my expenses in check)
• Portfolio of stocks (make sure that I am investing in sound companies to help me accumulate wealth)

You have to put the numbers in place and start analyzing whether you are progressing in that area of your life. You can start to track your weight, the number of books you read in a year or your personal finance. Whatever area of your life you want to make improvement on, record it down in your own spreadsheet.

Example

If you want to make improvement in your financial area of your life, you may want to set up an income and expenses account in a spreadsheet. It does not have to be complicated. All you need is just a column that includes the month of the year, a column for your monthly income and another for monthly expenses.

At the end of every month, add up all the expenses that you had made for the month. I use an iPhone app, iXpenselt, to keep track of my daily expenditures. On the other hand, you can collect the physical receipts, jot down in notebooks or use gadgets to help record of all your expenditures. Just choose a method that works for you. Once you had totaled up your expenses, record it in your personal finance spreadsheet.

Do the same for your income too. Record everything at the end of the month. Try to make it as fun as possible. You can name the file as “Financial Mastery”, “Financial Genius In Making”, “Journey To Financial Freedom” or whatever sounds nice to you. These titles can entice you more to update on it and they definitely sound much better than “Personal Record Of Income and Expenses”.

If your goal is to increase your wealth, you need to ensure that your income is increasing and your expenses are not more than your income. By recording your monthly income and expenses in a spreadsheet, it helps you to have a bird eye view of the situation you are in now.

Are you spending more than you spend? Are you saving enough? Are you doing anything to increase your income to your desired level?

You can answer all these questions by just looking at your finance spreadsheet that you had created.

Start Tracking Your Numbers And See The Improvement

Making improvements in life is not difficult. Whatever you want to improve upon, just improve the numbers. When you start to track the numbers in your life, it makes it much easier for you to come out with strategies to make improvement. The strategy is simple, improve the numbers and you will see better results.

If you want to excel in your field, instead of reading one book on your field of expertise per year, you can start to read 2 books per month. If you want to achieve financial freedom, you can either make the effort to increase your income or reduce your expenses. Alternatively, if you want to increase your sales income, you can increase the number of prospects you see in a day and increase the ratio of conversion.

So if you want to start making some serious progress in your life, start playing the numbers game, track your numbers and take the necessary steps to make significant improvements in life.

Vincent
Playing The Numbers Game

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I am still pursuing personal growth in my life and I am still far from my desired standards. I immerse myself in books, audio tapes and blogs of successful personnel so that I can gain the knowledge that they have that made them successful in the first place.

I believe the differences between someone who is successful and someone who is not are the things that they know. Successful people definitely know something that others do not know and that is what made them successful in the first place.

I Need To Share This With You

I picked up something very valuable and I believe I need to share this with you.

Think about what needs to be done, not whether you can achieve it or not.

Most people doubt themselves before they even attempt to try. This is why many people fail to live up to the high standards that they are capable of. They failed before they even reach the starting line.

When I am in my unproductive state, I always doubt my capability instead of focusing what needs to be done. This causes me to stay stuck at a certain level and slow down my progress.

But if I flick the switch in my mind and think about what needs to be done and proceed on to do it, I usually can achieve rather incredible results.

Move Towards Your Goal At The Speed Of Light

Your doubts can kill your dream. Giving up before you even reach the starting line is regrettable.

What we focus on can affect how we feel and act. When we focus on the negative, it is natural to feel depressed. On the other side, when we focus on the positive, we tend to feel up beat and enthusiastic.

In order to move towards your goal at the speed of light, you need to learn how to focus on the right things. Nobody can focus on the positive side of things every time. But if you are able to focus on the right things 60% to 70% of the time, you are on track to achieving great results.

If you are experiencing plateau in your personal growth or whatever areas in your life, it is time to stop and reflect. It is good to ask questions at times like this and one great question to ask yourself is, “Am I focusing on what needs to be done or whether can I do it or not?”

My Example

Let me share with you an example. I know I need to be doing more marketing with my blog (things that need to be done). There are tons of methods to do this. It can be writing more guest post, commenting on other blogs, participate in forums or even creating a free ebook to share around with others.

I know that if I am able to do the tasks that I had mentioned above, achieving my goal of 2000 blog subscribers at the end of the year is definitely feasible. (By the way, if you have not subscribed to my blog, click here to subscribe now. )

However, sometimes I have doubts in my mind that stop me from doing the tasks I had mentioned. I still have doubts in my mind to create guest articles. Sometimes I doubt my capability to create great articles for other blogs (this is the part where I am focusing on whether I can do it or not). Focusing on my doubt kills my desire to take action.

By flicking the switch in my mind to focus on what needs to be done instead of doubting my capability, I instantly know what I need to do to get the results. I know that by doing what needs to be done, I am able to achieve greater results faster. When you cast your doubts aside and set your mind to achieve your desired goals, you are on the highway towards achieving your goals.

Parting Words

To move to the highway to achieve your goals at the speed of light, you have to change what you are focusing on right now. Imagine how much more you can achieve when you are constantly completing what needs to be done instead of walking in circles and doubting your capability. What do you think you are capable of when you are operating on the highway?

As always, I welcome your comments and I look forward to hearing from you in the comment section below.

Vincent
On The Highway

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You reap what you sow

This sentence has a profound effect on me. I call it the Law Of Harvesting and it is one of the important laws of nature.

In order to harvest the crops, you have to plant the seeds. If you do not plant the seeds, you will not have any harvest. It is as simple as that and this theory applies to all areas of our life. If you know this theory and put it into work, you will receive your fair share of rewards.

Some People Mess It Up

What does the sentence means? It means that for the efforts you are putting in now, you will receive the rewards later. It can be putting in the effort for trying to lose weight or the 100 bucks you save every month. Things like these are the seeds that you sow now in order to reap the rewards later.

However, there are people who got this all wrong. They thought that they can reap before they sow the seeds. Some common examples would be…

• When I earn more money, I will start to save money.
• If they treat me better, I will treat them better.
• I will try to eat healthier if I am slim.

These are messed up theories! It is not align with the laws of nature, or specifically, the law of harvesting.

You will only be slim if you eat healthier now. Not the other way round.

Others will treat you better and befriend you only when you treat them better first. Not the other way round.

The I-will-start-to-save-when-I-earn-more mindset is the reason of why they are broke in the first place. Their financial situation will only turn around when they start to pay themselves first (save).

If you mess up the law of harvesting and try to reap before you sow, you usually get really awful results. I used to be like that and it makes me miserable.

When I have the mindset that I will only save money after I earn enough, this mindset never fails to make my bank account goes dry. I’m speaking from my personal experience and if anyone of you has this mindset of reaping before you sow too, you will find that you will get pretty awful results and that may include your bank account.

My Hungry Bank Account

Things start to turn around after I constantly pay myself first by saving 10% of my income. I’m far away from being rich but it helps to boost my self esteem greatly when my bank account is constantly growing. By having a savings account that is only growing and not depleting, you start to function in a state of abundance.

In this state, you are operating in a more positive state of mind instead of being in a state of lack. It can boost your self-confidence enormously. Nothing sucks more like walking around worrying about your depleting bank account. How do you feel when it is near the end of the month and you are always worrying about how you will get by? It sucks!

When you are constantly in a state of abundance, you feel good and opportunities seem to be everywhere. All these positive changes will only happen if you start by applying the Law Of Harvesting; sowing before you reaps the rewards.

The World Doesn’t Owe You A Living

Nobody owes you a living. The world does not owe you a living. You do not simply get what you want because you want it. You need to work hard to get what you deserve. You start by putting the effort to sow the seeds first, work hard to grow it, be patient, and wait for your reward.

To summarize, the three steps are…

1. Start sowing (Start taking action)
2. Work hard to grow it. (Consistent effort)
3. Be patient. (Never, never, never ever give up)

Miss any one of these steps and it is an incomplete recipe that will guarantee mediocre results. However, once you got the Law Of Harvesting right, I believe anything is within your reach.

I believe in our potential. The human potential to grow is limitless and I have seen people turn their life around and achieve what others think that they could not in the first place. I believe we too can achieve great results and all we need to do is to start planting the seeds for our future.

Food for thought – What is the first thing that you can do now to start planting seeds for your future? What is the one small step you can take to bring you closer to your goals? What is your true potential if you start planting the seeds now?

It will be interesting to ask yourself these questions and think hard about your answers.

I will talk with you again next time.

Vincent

Sowing Seeds For The Future

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Your doubts can kill you. It does not kill you physically, but it can kill the inner genius within you. For us to start achieving in life, we need to have the beliefs that it is possible to achieve what we want. The presence of this belief unlocks your potential to help you move faster towards your goal.

Your doubts act like a lock. It stifles your inner genius and lock out most of your potential. If we want to start growing exponentially, the first thing that we need to work on is to clear out the doubts in our mind.

You Have To Clear Your Doubts

When you think everything is possible, you will take a shot at anything that interest you. That is how we are when we were kids. The process of growing up took a toll on our inner genius due to negative influences of others and maybe, the media.

As kids, we do not take ourselves too seriously. We can make faces, shout in the public, make mistakes and we don’t really care about it. However, things changed when we grew up. We started to take ourselves too seriously. Every mistake we made seems like death penalty, and we try our best to avoid making any mistakes.

When you want to avoid making any mistakes, doubts start to grow in your mind. Your doubts act as a protector to prevent you from making any mistakes.

This is when factors like fear, procrastination and lack of confidence will start to surface in your mind. It makes it hard for you to keep on moving forward when you experienced all these negative factors. It also seems harder for you to make significant progress in life.

My Marathon Training

I have a symptom, which I call TTM (Think Too Much). I think too much about things (negative thoughts) that do not matter and one negative thought just lead to another. It is hard to function positively and make significant progress when you have so much doubts and negativity in your mind.

In fact, I believe most people have this TTM syndrome. They waste too much time on negative thoughts that are not helpful, which create doubts.

I am currently training for a half marathon and one of my goals is to complete a full marathon by the end of the year. (You can read about my goals for 2010 here.) I have not done something like this before and I think it will be fun to run a marathon and experience how it is like.

When I focus about how exciting the new experience will be, my body fills up with positive energy and this inspires me to grab my kit and go out to train. However, when I have doubts about whether I can complete a full marathon, my confidence got affected.

When you have doubts in your mind, you experience physical and emotional weakness. When I train with doubts in my mind, I start to breathe heavier and my legs seem to become heavier. My doubts try to slow down my progress and make things appear harder as it is.

How To Clear Your Doubts

1. Awareness

It is impossible to clear all your doubts. Doubts will definitely pop out at anytime and you can do nothing to stop it from appearing.

To stop your doubt from creating a chain of negative thoughts, the first thing you need to have is awareness. Without awareness, it is impossible for you to catch doubts surfacing in your mind.

It is hard to teach others on how to have more awareness. You have to experience this yourself by listening to your inner voice.

Jogging is a great way to listen to your inner voice. When you jog for a longer distance that you are not comfortable with, your inner voice tends to surface and you can listen to it more clearly. In this situation, your inner voice usually tells you things like your legs are tired or you cannot complete the longer distance.

It can also be situations when you are out of your comfort zone. The same inner voice will appear, fill you with negative thoughts, and try to discourage you from getting out of your comfort zone.

As I said, it is hard to teach this and you can only experience this yourself by trying to be more in tune (awareness) with yourself.

2. Acceptance

Awareness of the existence of your doubts is the first step to clearing your doubts. Acceptance is the next course of action you should take.

Accept your doubt as it is. Do not abuse yourself because doubts exist in your mind. It is normal for people to have doubts and I think they serve the purpose of protecting us against changes, regardless of whether the change is good or bad.

You should know that your doubt is there to protect you but doubt itself does not have a thought of its own. You need to take control of it instead of letting it control you.

3. Draw From Your Past Successes

You cannot stop doubt from appearing in your mind but you can diminish it until you are able to conquer it. To make your doubt appear “smaller”, you need to draw from your past successes.

What you need to avoid is to draw upon your past negative experiences. If you are drawing from your past negative experiences, you feed your doubts with food that can accelerate its growth. This is counter intuitive to what we are trying to do over here.

Focus on positive experiences in the past. If you have doubt that you can lose weight, think about how slim you were In the past or your past successful attempt at losing weight.

If you do not have any positive past experience in regards to what you are trying to achieve, tap on others successful stories. The point here is to reinforce the positive feeling and belief that you can do it.

4. Action, Action And Take Action

Taking action makes doubts appear smaller. Do you have this experience when you have so much doubt about something previously, but when you took the necessary action, the things that you are trying to achieve seems to be much easier than expected?

It works the same way as fear. Fear diminishes when you take action.

Our doubts grow bigger when we focus on them too much. We tend to play mental movies in our head and creating lots of negative “what if…” situations. Our doubts will feed on these thoughts and keep on growing bigger until it robs away your will to take action.

The remedy is to action instead of spending too much time thinking. That is why you should always know your outcome and start brainstorming for a list of actions that you should take. You can read more about creating action plans and goals from this guest article that I had wrote over at MarcAndAngel. (How to achieve your goals)

Parting Words

Your doubts kill your will to take action and this will eventually kill any dreams that you have. One doubt is all you need for this to happen. Conquering your doubts is never easy but it is possible. If you still want to keep your dreams intact, protect it by first killing off your doubts.

Cheers,
Vincent

P.S: For my next article, I will be updating you guys on the progress for my goals in 2010. Stay tune! Be sure to subscribe to my blog so that you will not miss the latest update. See ya then!

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Maybe is not a word that we should use often. It causes us to become indecisive and slows us down. When we try to avoid making decision, we stay in an idle state. Staying in an idle state means that we are not progressing.

Putting Things On Hold

Do you like to put things on hold? If you want to achieve more in life, it is not wise to put too many important things on hold. Each important task that you delay will slow down your progress in life.

Saying maybe to these tasks is like putting a stop to taking action. Sometimes we use the word maybe to avoid making decision. Making decision means that we need to be committed to it and being committed to something can be daunting at times.

That is why people try to avoid making decisions and start saying maybe to put things on hold.

Some Examples

Let us look at real life examples. Do you have this moment when you avoid doing something important and you know doing it can help you get better results in life? Maybe it is to write a book? Volunteer to work on an important company project? Write a guest post for a huge blog?

Actually, most of us know what we need to do in order to succeed, but we delay our decision by saying “maybe I will do that”.

When you say maybe, nothing gets done.

When you say maybe, you put things on hold and you may probably be avoiding tasks that can bring you 80% of the results (refer to 80/20 principle).

Conclusion

This is not a long post today, but the point I want you to take note is to think whether you are putting off too many decisions for your own good? Are you saying too many Maybes and slowing down your own growth? If you are, it is time to decide to avoid saying maybe and be more decisive in life.

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Whether it is to lose weight or to earn more money, people are always looking for short cuts. They want instant results because no one likes to wait for their rewards. This is why we have microwave dinners and fast foods. These foods cater to our society that does not like to wait and expect instant results.

Finding a short cut is beneficial. You will be able to get your desired results using the shortest amount of time and resources. However, many people indulged in finding short cuts and they are losing grip of reality.

Why Are You So Smart Yet You Fall For Weight Loss Gimmicks Everytime?

I find it interesting to see people fork out money for slimming programs or pills. Those programs and pills are expensive and I really doubt that it works. I have seen many people that are unsatisfied with the results of these slimming pills and treatments but what amazed me is that they will still lay their hands on the next big slimming product advertised on TV.

I think losing weight is easy. The theories behind it are to eat healthier and exercise more. These theories work! I bet everyone knew it. However, why are people not using it?

It Is Hard Work!

Yes, you are right if you guessed hard work. These theories are simple but it takes hard work to execute them. Exercising 5 times a week is hard work. Giving up your favorite fried chicken is hard. These things are hard to do and human tend to avoid things that can cause them pain. Why do something so painful when there are gimmicks that (shortcuts/slimming products) promise eating a pill daily can help you lose 20lbs in a month? Sounds pretty easy, doesn’t it?

The point I want to drive home today is not about losing weight. It is about putting in hard work into achieving your goals.

I am guilty about shunning hard work and trying to look for short cuts too. I have dabbled into creating niche sites online selling affiliate products. I did not have much success with it and I was constantly looking for easy ways to make it work. I thought that there might be a new software or short cuts that can save me hours of labor and help me make some sales easily, but till today the miraculous short cut still eludes me.

I was frustrated about the lack of results. I decide that I am going to stop looking for short cuts and start putting in hard work. Once I decided to put in the hard work into building up my site, I started to make some sales. Even though the progress is not as fast as I like it to, I am getting better results.

Your results in life are congruent to the amount of effort you put into it.

How You Can Achieve More In Life?

Do you want to achieve financial success? Stop waiting to strike the lottery. Start working hard on improving your financial IQ.

Do you want to lose weight? Stop depending on gimmicks. Start working hard on improving your diet and exercises.

The only thing that is stopping you from achieving is your tendency to avoid hard work. Once you shift your mindset from “finding-short-cuts” mode to “working-hard” mode, your life will start to change.

Parting Words

When you make your decision to put in hard work to achieve your goals, you get back into the driver seat of your life. It is not a smart move to depend on the lucky break, because it may never come when all you are doing is waiting. However, when you start to put in hard work and take action, the chances of you having lucky breaks or new opportunities are much higher.

Before I end this post, here is one of my favorite quotes that I always refer to: “The harder you work, the luckier you become.”

Vincent
Working Hard

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When you are facing a list of tasks that you need to complete in order to help you move closer to your goals, are you being choosy on your tasks or you are doing what is essential for you to move faster towards your goals?

Most people make the mistake of being choosy on their tasks instead of focusing on what needs to be done. When you are being choosy about your tasks and only pick easy tasks to complete instead of doing essential tasks (which may seem harder to complete), you slow down your growth.

Different Questions, Different Results

When you set a new goal, you will need to generate an action plan. This action plan consists of the tasks that you need to do in order to reach your goals. The difficulty of the tasks in your action plan can varies and there will be some tasks that are harder to do than others. Let us look at an example:

If you are trying to lose weight and stay healthy, some of the tasks that you can think of may include;

• Lifting weights for 3 times a week
• Performing Cardio exercises for 3 times a week
• Avoid foods that are high in sugar
• Avoid high glycemic index foods such as pasta, white bread, rice etc
• Reduce intake of fried foods
• Give up some of your favorite but unhealthy food
• Have your cheat meal once a week
• Start brisk walking 3 times a week
• Eat an apple a day

Some tasks may seem easier and most likely, you will try to do those first. Human has a tendency to avoid pain and change. You will tend to avoid tasks that seems too hard to do, overwhelming and tedious. However, these tasks bring you the most rewards (go read about the 80/20 principle).

If you scan through the list, there will be a little voice in your head telling you which are the tasks you dread and try to avoid it. Usually these tasks seem harder than others do and they cause you to question your ability to accomplish it.

There are times that I took my eyes off my goals and start being choosy. The result is that I avoid my essential tasks that lead to mediocre results. To attract more readers to my blog, I should write more guest articles, conduct more interviews and write more new ebooks (If you have not get your copy, download your copy of Unleash Your Maximum Potential for free now).

The reason why I am not doing as much as I should is because these tasks seem like hard work and I am being choosy on picking tasks to complete. I am picking easier tasks to complete and avoiding the harder tasks that will bring in more results.

I find that when you question your ability to complete tasks that seem harder, you create doubt. Doubt creates inner friction in your mind and you will find that you are trying to move forward but something in your mind is dragging you back from achieving. The only way to get rid of the inner friction that is slowing you down is to focus on what needs to be done instead of being choosy and questioning whether can you do it or not.

Inner Friction

I am curious about human behavior and I am trying to find an answer on how to help one to achieve his or her goals without many obstacles from the mind. I noticed that there are people who can achieve their goals at a rapid rate while there are others who are crawling painfully trying to catch up. So what are the differences between them?

One big difference between the fast achievers and the slower achievers is their ability to keep their eyes glued to their goals. The fast achievers will complete essential tasks that need to be done instead of choosing to complete tasks based on their difficulty.

Conclusion

The reason why you are not doing what needs to be done is that you took your eyes off your goals. If you are not focusing on what needs to be done and you are being picky on your tasks (choosing to do only easy tasks), you will face frustrations because of your slow progress. Stop being choosy about your tasks. To move faster towards your goal, think about what needs to be done instead of choosing tasks that you think that you can easily complete.

Vincent
Keeping my eyes glued to my goals

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One of the traits of successful people is to take massive action. You can find personal development authors stressing that taking action is important in every self-help book. This shows that taking massive action is important to help us reach our goals and achieve our desired success. However, there is always one thing that is stopping us from taking action. It is the feeling of reluctance to do anything and the lack of motivation.

Recently I have been thinking about how can I sustain my motivation for taking action. Even though I am blogging about personal development and I had written about taking massive action, I have to confess that there are times when the feeling of reluctance and lack of motivation stop me from doing so.

There will be times when procrastination takes place and the feeling of reluctance to do anything kicks in. My productivity usually takes a dip when this happen. I will spend some time in this low productivity period before I start to take massive action and be productive again.

I wonder what will happen if I am capable of taking massive action in a more consistent manner? What if I can overcome the feeling of reluctance and take massive action consistently? I believe my life would change more drastically if I am able to do it.

Brainstorming For Answers

I have been brainstorming for answers to help me boost my productivity by overcoming the feeling of reluctance and to sustain my motivation. I did not find any answers to my questions. I have tried out other methods shared by personal development authors and speakers but I find that something is lacking in their methods.

I did my night run yesterday and I was listening to an audio book, Cultivating An Unshakable Character by Jim Rohn. He spoke about the topic of how to sustain our motivation and how to overcome our feeling of reluctance. This is what I am looking for and it is great that Jim Rohn already has an answer for me.

He mentioned that to overcome reluctance and sustain your motivation, there are 2 things that you need to do. The first thing is to keep track of your time and the second thing is to bring others into your plan or goal.

1. Keep Track Of Your Time

If you do not keep track of your finance, you will not know where your money went and you may end up broke at the end of every month. If you do not keep track of your time, you will lose your most valuable asset and achieve nothing in the end.

Jim Rohn has recommended keeping a time log and taking note of everything that you did every day for at least a week. This can help you to reflect upon what you are doing, how much time you are putting into serious work and how much time you are wasting daily.

I always experience inertia (reluctance) when I want to start taking action. For this article that I had wrote, I had wasted 30 minutes walking around doing nothing before I set my mind to write it. This little amount of time wasted daily when accumulated in a week is a lot of time.

By keeping a time log and recording what you did in every 30 minutes interval daily can help me to track where I spend my time. Keeping a time log can help me know how much time I have wasted. This can help me to overcome the feeling of reluctance and get into action faster to avoid wasting time.

I plan to start recording my time log tomorrow. I will write a post on it after a week and share the results with you.

2. Bring Others Into Your Plan

It is easy to break a single chopstick but it is hard to break a bunch of chopsticks. It is hard to achieve your goals alone. I already have a mastermind group and I know how important it is to gather like-minded people together and try to achieve their goals.

I have a weekly meet up with my mastermind group. We will meet in person every start of the month and for the other weeks, we will conduct a talk using Skype. This weekly meet ups allow us to reflect upon our action for the week and plan for the new week. We also encourage and motivate each other into taking massive action to achieve our goals.

Jim Rohn mentioned something that caught my attention. He said that to sustain motivation, you would need to think about how achieving your goals can help your family or others. This is what I am missing. I do not have a clear picture of how my goals can help my family and others. It has always been me, me and all about me.

I believe this is why I am constantly experiencing a dip in motivation and productivity. I have decided to write down my goals once again and this time round, bring my family members into picture. For example, writing down how can achieving my goal in running a highly profitable business can help out my family and how I am able to help provide for my love ones and allow them to experience abundance.

Parting Words

How much difference will it make to your life if you have 50% less feeling of reluctance? How can the increased productivity help you achieve your goals much faster? What if you can sustain never ending motivation? I bet you will be living a life of abundance and prosperity.

I believe anyone can achieve their goals much faster and experience lesser obstacles if they can overcome their feeling of reluctance, start taking massive action and have never ending motivation.

When you are trying to achieve your goals with feeling of reluctance and lack of motivation, it is like running with a heavy weight tied to you. Stop allowing your feeling of reluctance and lack of motivation tie you down. Get rid of them and start achieving like you are suppose to.

Vincent
Overcoming Reluctance
Sustaining Motivation

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We are living in the information age now. The internet makes it easy for us to share and obtain information. This is a great benefit because we can get what we want in just a matter of milliseconds. The information age also helps people to get richer and smarter faster.

Billionaires are getting younger. Mark Zuckerberg, owner of Facebook, became a billionaire in his 20s. Alex who is 21 created history by creating a website that contains 1,000,000 pixels and selling them for $1 each. He managed to sell out each pixel and became a millionaire in the process. This is the power of the information age and the people who have the right information can succeed in just a short amount of time. You can read more about Alex over here.

You Need Better Information To Achieve Better Results

Everything you want to do it better, you need better information. If you want better information, you can simply visit the library to search for books. Even better, search for the information online. Everything takes place online right now and you can have valuable information at your fingertips by searching for it on Google.

Most people are not making full use of the internet. They are searching for entertainment instead of valuable information.(Think Youtube and Facebook) You are misusing the power of the internet if you indulge in online entertainment. There are people who make money online or get valuable information to improve some aspect of their life. Isn’t it a waste if you are only using it purely for entertainment and miss out on those improvements that you can make? (I believe you are not since you are reading this personal development blog now.)

To improve any aspect of our life, we need to find better information so that we can use it to do things in a better way. I am always looking for information to help me to be more productive, earn more money, build up a successful business and improve my relationship etc. This is a great habit to have because if you are constantly searching for improvements, you will make improvements.

If you want to lose weight, make a conscious decision to find better information to lose weight. If you are not satisfied with your financial circumstances, find new and better information to improve it. Information is within your grasp and all you need to do is to search for it. Once you are committed to search for better information to improve any aspect of your life, that aspect of your life will definitely improves.

Better Information = Better Quality Of Life

Be aware of where you are getting your information. You tend to suffer if you get the wrong information and apply it. Investors who get the wrong information about a company will make huge losses if they invest in them. Others can give you the wrong information.

Someone can give you a health tip that says eating chocolates everyday is good for the heart. If you believe it, you are seriously in trouble. I would rather believe in the old proverb, an apple a day keeps the doctor away instead of a chocolate a day keeps the heart healthy. It just make more sense to me.

Make good judgment when you are picking your information.

The rich get richer because they have the right information. They are financially educated, they know what to invest in and what to avoid. They have the right information that can help them to keep growing their net worth and this is why they are rich.

The poor continues to stay poor because they lack the information to be rich. I do not mean insider-trading tips when I say information. It is simply better information to save money, invest, being frugal and be financially educated.

Parting Words

There is definitely some aspects of our life that we want to make improvements. With better information, it is definitely possible. Make it a habit to obtain better information everyday on what you are planning to improve on. Correct information is wealth. Being able to obtain them easily in the information age is the edge that we have right now.

Vincent
Collector Of Better Information

P.S: How frequent do you search for better information online or offline to improve any aspect of your life?

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Lately I have started to feel bored. I remembered what Tony Robbins had said, “your emotions are action indicators.” I don’t remember clearly what he had said but it is around these lines.

Things have started to get repetitive and dull for me. I have been writing to this blog twice weekly regularly and the tasks that I need to complete to reach my goals are getting repetitive. My blog is growing steadily, my affiliate site is not doing as well as I have expected and my training for my marathon is going smoothly. Overall, things are going well but the feeling of boredom lingers.

I tried to dig deeper for reasons that cause this feeling and I finally stumbled upon something.

Boredom = Action Indicator

I noticed that doing the same things repeatedly can lead to boredom. Boredom is also a sign that you need to be doing something new and get out of your comfort zone.

I thought about it and noticed that I am not doing anything new at the moment and it seems like I am running in maintenance mode. Running in maintenance mode means that I am not growing and all I am doing is to maintain the standards. So to shake things up, I have decided to introduce things that I am not regularly doing into my routine. The only way you can kill off boredom is to start stepping out of your comfort zone and seek new challenges.

Upcoming Projects

1. Interviews

Long time readers know that I have conducted podcast interviews with successful people in the past and it has been drying up lately. I enjoy doing these interviews and I think it is a great way to learn from successful people. However, I have avoided doing it as I still have the fear of rejection and the feeling of nervousness when interviewing others.

I need to work on these negative emotions that are holding me back and start getting those interviews done. Practice makes perfect and I believe doing it repeatedly will definitely make me feel more comfortable with conducting interviews.

Note: If you have any person in mind that you want me to interview, do tell me in the comment section below.

2. New eBook

I have decided to write a new ebook. Writing an ebook is easy, writing a high quality ebook is a lot of work. I got to admit it that the first time I have completed “Unleash Your Maximum Potential”(If you have not downloaded your free copy, you can download it here), I thought to myself that I do not want to write an ebook again.

It is tedious to write an ebook as there are tons of work to do. Things like getting ideas, editing, formatting, hiring ebook designers and etc. However, I have decided to just go ahead and write my second ebook. Laziness has a limit.

If you have anything that you want to see me write about, do tell me.

3. Videos/Podcasts

I will make my own videos and post it over here. Instead of words, words and just words, I will present my ideas in videos to add more personal touch to it. I hope that this time round, my videos will turn out better. My first video for HealthMoneySuccess is a total failure. I talk like a vampire and you can laugh at it over here.

4. Consulting/Coaching

I have decided to venture into consulting/coaching. I do not have a definite plan in mind but I will definitely keep you people updated when I have some ideas about it.

What Can Your Boredom Do For You?

Boredom is an indicator that you need to do something new or challenging to push yourself out of your comfort zone. The next time when you feel bored, dig deeper into the causes of your boredom and brainstorm for new ideas and challenges. It may lead you to something exciting and help you to experience exponential growth.

Vincent
Stepping Out Of Comfort Zone

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