New Year 2018 - How to set goals?

Happy new year 2018! I hope that you are doing great celebrating the new year. And of course, 2017 have left us with some powerful lessons of life. Only those who spend some time to reflect on this lessons will actually learn from all the lessons that life taught us.

Perhaps you have some powerful lessons that you want to share. Please write down on the comment below so that we can learn from your lessons. And some of you might have a lot of achievement. Reflect on it and express gratitude towards all of your achievement. The attitude of gratitude will bring more of good.

When we talk about the new year, most people will talk about new year's resolution. And to me, I would prefer to talk about goal-setting. Why do we need to only set goals on 1st January every year? I have no idea why people do that, but for me, it is very simple. My company account will start fresh on 1st January so that when we set goals for the new year, we are actually planning according to our account cycle.

A goal is very important because when you don't set a goal, you are missing the clarity of what you are going to achieve. And CLARITY IS POWER!

When setting goals, let us set 3 categories of goals.

1. The goals that it is almost impossible to achieve. For example like when you earn RM100,000 a year, you want to target of making RM1B in the next year. To me it is not impossible, it is just a belief that we put in. But let's be rational, it is almost impossible to achieve that. But who cares, you don't to pay anything to set a goal. Might as well, set it very high.

My impossible goal for this year is I am aiming to own a Tesla Model S for this year. Let's see if I can achieve this. (according to Tesla website, if you book now you have to wait between 12 - 18 months).

2. The medium goal. This is the true goal that is possible and using SMART or some use SMARTER goal can achieve. It is more possible (attainable based on the acronym) and the goals that you have to focus on.

3. The bare minimum goal. This is the least that you have to achieve no matter what. There are certain things that it is a must for you to achieve. Go and put it on the list and work on it!

I am a fan of the Law of Attraction. I have my vision board and I have experienced miracles from the vision board that I created. A lot of them I don't realize that I have achieved it until later after I own it. Law of Attraction is great and it is embedded in it the word Action. So go out and take action!

I wish you all the best on your journey in 2018! May success be with you, Insyaallah.

Steve Vai's advice on How to Become Successful

Steve Vai is one of my master idol in playing guitar. For those who know me during my Uni time, I am so much crazy about Vai. Why I like Steve compared to others such as Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen or John Petrucci? Owh... maybe about his Green Brained is more compatible with my Green Processor and the melody match. To me, his music has a story-line behind it and he is a great story teller. Not the technical part of playing the music or how structured the music should be.

Steve talks about Success

It's like the Law of Attraction - like-attract-like - Steve is now talking about success. He really sounds like a success guru motivating people to become successful - in his area. This video shows his advice on how you can become successful. Not only you can apply in playing guitar, but also in your life.

"Because the only thing that holding you back is the way you're thinking"

- Steve Vai

The summary of the video:

With the background song 'Whispering a Prayer', there are 5 things that I identified lessons that we can share together:

1. Identify What You Really Want - Like any successful people, Steve started with "We need to identify what it is that we really want! Because what ever it is we really want, that's gonna come out!" "Because that what you gonna do the best!" Do what you enjoy to do and you'll be doing the best!

Beating Your Procrastination

People do procrastinate. And for me, this is one thing that keeps people from moving. If we know this is the root-cause, we should fix it and start to create different result.

In his video, Robin Sharma told us on the 5 strategies to really beat your procrastination. This 16 minutes video tells us on some of his strategy to get things moving. If you don't have that 16 minutes, I write the summary below:

1. Write down your magnificient obsession statement - create a dream collage. Read it the first thing in the morning and last at night. This is the things that Napoleon Hill been teaching in his multi-million best seller 'Thing and Grow Rich'. Our sub-conscious mind consume 95% of our brain and the secret that our sub-conscious operates through pictures. Your performance always aligned with your sub-conscious mind.

Focus will determine what you'll see

I am so touched that recently there are so many people that really wants to see me succeed. It does not happened once, or twice. But it were in series. One after another. How could this happened?

Reticular Activating System (RAS) - the antenna inside our brain (by the way, this is metaphor) that makes us pay attention to the things that we focus. And if we put more of our focus, then only we can see such things happened around us.

The principle of Law of Attraction makes tells us that if what we focus on will expand! This is exactly what it is. Once we started to focus on good things, more of it will occur and because of our RAS is activated to focus on it, our mind will see it!

You have your facebook aren't you? Have you noticed that people that makes negative comments most of the time will continue to make a series of negative comments. Vice versa.

Gratitude: The fastest way to manifest!

If you are familiar with the Law of Attraction, you must be familiar with the word manifestation. Manifestation is the process where you say, think and feel which this action will allow you to focus on something that you want.

On many occasion, people manifest once in a while, when they taught back about the law of attraction, or remember that they need to focus on what they want, only they manifest. And the process still work but they move slowly.

How to be good at manifestation?

5 Ways to Use The Law Of Attraction

Most of us must have heard and have some ideas about the Law of Attraction. Some might have gain some results out of what they have attract, while some others might have not getting any and they blame that it does not work. Well, to share with you some of the good tips of using it, here is 5 suggestion how to make use the LOA and start getting what you always wanted.

1. Feel The Desire
Desire or passion is the accelerator to get what you want. In my experience, for the thing I really wanted, I always receive them early and sometimes effortless. There is 2 ways to use this accelerator tools which is:
i. Desire what you want.
ii. Wanting what you desire.
If it fulfills one of these 2 conditions, Insyaallah, you are very-very close.

Formula for Success

Today I read the book I bought 2 years ago, 'Your Right to be Rich' by Mal Emery. I just opened randomly at the middle of the page and found something interesting to share here.

According to Mal, there are 4 basic things that we need in order to success:
1. Decide what it is that you want and be specific. Write it down in detail and read it 3 times daily.
2. Believe that you can actually achieve what you've written down and be willing to pay the price.
3. Take action to make it happen!
4. Lastly, the best way to get result is to model someone who already doing what you want to be doing.

These are the things that basically needed for anybody to success in anything they desired. Sound familiar? Yes, I have mentioned some of the points before. And if you go and talk to anybody who are successful, this would be the basic things most of them will explain.

Michael Gerber, the author of best-selling E-Myth once give a talk in a seminar and during his opening speech he mentioned "If you guys have come to hear something new, you're not going to! You see, the problem is you guys ain't doing this sh-t!"

In-fact 98% of people already know this and they lack of step no. 3. I myself have to admit that I have not really there yet at step no. 3. It is not something which is easy, yet it is not difficult either. But most people who is already in the comfort zone will not take any action until the situation become uncomfortable.

So, first of all I need to remind myself to take the first step. How many among us are reading the dream list every day, or every week, or every month?

Value : Who decide

I learn a lesson last week. I have a long chit-chat with one of my good friend and we talk most about financial and life. We share our opinion and thought and I think it's great to exchange view on your opinion with one another.

What he thought me last week?
He asked me a question. If I gave you RM5 and 50c, which one will be more value to you? I am clueless, thinking what is the trick and the message he wants to deliver. Just to get the answer done, I told him RM5 and waited for the answer of the puzzle. Actually you who decide the value. It doesn't mean that the higher the amount, the higher the value. But you yourself decide!

Sound very simple and tricky. But it is relatively true. If you think back, do you think RM10 is a big amount? The same number can give different answer to different people, different situation and different environment. RM3 for a can of coca-cola will sound very expensive at a stall. But when you go to hotel or pub, the value can reach RM10. The hotel maybe located 10 meters away from the stall. So, number is just a number.

Let me give some example from my experience. Last month I had a minor broke period when it near to end of the month. Suddenly somebody gave me RM30 and I find out that RM30 is very valuable to me at that period of time. But if gave me during I received a bonus, do you think I will value the RM30?

Get excited when you receive money. Don't look at the numbers, but if you can get excited even to a very small amount, you are actually attracting it. Don't complain and always be grateful. Than you will attract the good thing coming your way!

Dream

Dreaming is a process of manifestation. Everybody dream especially when they are kids. It is important for a parents give a good influence on their children on whatever they are dreaming. When I was a little boy, I dream a lot and I am sure that everybody did too. But when most of people grown up, dream slowly fade away and we are concentrating on whatever we do and whatever we feel comfortable.

Let me share some of my stories :
1. When I was a child my uncle had a guitar. When I hold the guitar, I always dream I am able to 'goreng' the guitar with a fast speed of solo. I once achieved some skills of how to solo a guitar and able to play some incredible songs.

2. When I was young, I always wanted to be an engineer because my elder brother mentioned the word engineer as one of the ambition option. (at that moment I was filling a form and there is ambition (cita-cita) column). I never knew what is an engineer but I really wanted to become one. See what happens to me? I am an engineer. When I was in form 3, I put computer engineering as my target. When I further studied, I really wanted to take the tele-communication engineering but I have set this goal long time ago, that is what I achieve.

3. When I'm taking PMR, I always put the target of 8As on each and every reference book I had. Then I moved to form 3, there is an option for arabic language which I am very confident to get an A. What happened? Yes, I only manage to get 8As, because that is my target.

4. I always wanted to marry at the age of 25, as the prophet Muhammad was married at that age. I told most of my friend especially after SPM. Then guess what, I married at the age of 25.

Get my point? Just set a goal or a dream. You can become one. I was very frustrated that I never thought of becoming a multi-millionaire at the age of 25 long time ago. Never in the family mentioning about becoming a millionaire at young age. If I did so, I will become one.

Be specific on your goal

No matter what you dream of, be specific. Don't just said you want financial freedom, you want passive income, you want a car or you want a dream house.

- If you stop working and living in a remote jungle. That also can be financial freedom. But is that what you really want?
- If you said passive income, you might receive RM1 every year as the bank interest on your saving account. Isn't that a passive income?
- You wanted a car. Proton Saga 1985 is also a car. When you fill in RM30 of gas at Shell, you'll can buy a ferarri. A toy car. Is it that what you really want?
- Dream house... What type? A peaceful type? Inside jungle is very peaceful also. 3 stories? A 3rd floor flat?

Be specific in your dream. I made a mistake by dreaming of becoming an engineer. Not a high income engineer with very less job, high power, flexible working hour and more time to spend with family and friends.

Passive income. Name the exact amount of money you want. RM1 million per year, RM1 million per month?

Dream Big


Dont just dream. Dream big. 30 years ago nobody would predict Malaysia will become on of the most respected country in the world. Luckily we got 1 person who his dream is big enough. We could produce our own car, when most people laugh on that idea. We once have the tallest building in the world (now ex-tallest la...) Why do you think all this is possible, if not because a person is dreaming about it?


Reason

Reason is the most powerful things in achieving whatever you wanted. Why you want a job? You wanted a job because you need the salary. When your reason strong enough, you don't care about your working hour, the distance from your home, got a crappy boss and so on. The reason is you need the money to pay your bills and support your family.

If you really want to marry a woman, your reason is strong enough, you might not care if you have to pay high for 'hantaran'. Travel all the way from north to south. Even Sabah, Sarawak. Sometime when the family won't approve you might go to Siam. It is only because of 1 reason, Love.

Just dream whatever you wanted and put a reason behind it. When you know what you want and you know why you want it, the how will appear. Be patient, it will not happened in the next second. So, set a short, mid and long-term goal and start dream of success. I mean a huge success!

Law of Attraction

One of the topic that interest me the most at this moment is the law of attraction. I can see a lot of speakers, authors, wealthy persons and most influence person in this world are giving some tips which when we analyze, most of them came from one basic. It's the law of attraction.

Robert Kiyosaki when he wrote the cashflow quadrant mentioned that mindset is the main cause of most people did not shift from left side of the quadrant to the right side of the quadrant. Left side of people will said something like, "I want a safe and secure job", "oh.. that is too risky", "I can't afford that" etc etc.

T. Harv Eker emphasizing on the millionaire mind by making a lot of self declaration. "I have a millionaire mind". Harv teaching also emphasize on how the universe will re-act to some of our words, thinking and action. Admiring reach people. etc. etc.

Nestle, once said try to avoid the words I don't have time and you will have the time to do almost everything you wanted to do. Napoleon Hills talks about the desire to be rich. Lim Goh Tong before he made a fortune, he dream about building a city on top of the forest mountain of Genting Highland.

All of this common things can be explain by the Law of Attraction. The Law of Attraction states that what ever you think will become your reality. If you think that it is difficult to become rich, it is difficult. If you think you can go to the moon by using car, sooner or later you can. If you want to have a brand new car, just imagine that you own the car.

It's seems like very simple, but a lot of the people out there don't aware of this true power of attraction. All you need to know is how to apply the law of attraction and your life will change.

You can do more research on this topic on the net, or the book I would highly recommend is "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne and if you want to know some techniques to apply it, you can read "Law Of Attraction" by Michael J. Losier.