Today my sister and I were caught in a bad traffic and rain. We didn't want to spend hours on the road cursing the rain and the cars so we decided to divert into a mall, have a nice dinner... we had good Thai food and then walked around the mall looking at all those new things that was crying out loud for attention.
Then we came to a nice boutique... it looked so beautiful and me being big, definitely can't fit into those cute clothes... :( hhmm I looked at my sister and yes, she can fit into it! My eyes, glittered and said... "you must try this"! She gave me that stare and asked me, can i carry this off... I have never wore something like this...
I said... look we have more then an hour to kill... we have a choice, we die of boredom or lets have some fun... I quickly picked few nice stunning looking outfit and being the shopping freak, it just took me couple of seconds to figure her size out... took her to the fitting room and sat down there and asked her to try it on!
She hesitated for a while but she couldn't run anywhere and out of no choice act she tried! The moment she put on the first dress and looked at herself on the full mirror... she didn't say anything... she just starred at herself without a single word for sometime... I was getting worried and asked her, "what's wrong?", and slowly she said, "I never thought I can look this beautiful... Is this what money can do?"!
I looked at my little sister and yes that was a beautiful woman standing in front of me... so beautiful, so elegant and gorgeous! She couldn't believe her own eyes... :)
We spent the next 30 minutes or so in that little room, trying out few more outfits and admiring how beautiful she looked!
To all ladies out there it is not a co-incident rich woman always look beautiful... yes, money can bring out the best looks in you!
My sister's way of looking at clothes will never be the same anymore... and the best part, she brought one of those beautiful dress back home! We should get caught more in rain and traffic!
And on our way out she said, " we are making hell a lot of money and living this life to the fullest"!
Who said... money can't buy happiness? Money is not everything but a lot of good things in life comes with good money!
Live Your Best Life
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Adapting to my existing reality
Once someone told me that I have to adapt to my existing reality! I didn't understand this at that time but guess lately it is beginning to make sense to me...
I worked so hard to be where I am today but most of the time I still make decision thinking of who I was 7 years ago... I want people to treat me the same way they did 7 years ago, I want to handle things the same way...
Guess this is what has been holding me from moving to another level. If I can't even begin to act from where I am today, how would I pass this phase?
Reflecting few events that took place in my life last 2 weeks, I realized it was an effect of me not acting from this phase of life!
I am going to take some time, list down exactly who I am now and pen down where I want to be 5 years from now and work towards that.
The only way I can climb another level is by me adapting to my existing reality!
Live Your Best Life
I worked so hard to be where I am today but most of the time I still make decision thinking of who I was 7 years ago... I want people to treat me the same way they did 7 years ago, I want to handle things the same way...
Guess this is what has been holding me from moving to another level. If I can't even begin to act from where I am today, how would I pass this phase?
Reflecting few events that took place in my life last 2 weeks, I realized it was an effect of me not acting from this phase of life!
I am going to take some time, list down exactly who I am now and pen down where I want to be 5 years from now and work towards that.
The only way I can climb another level is by me adapting to my existing reality!
Live Your Best Life
Saturday, August 15, 2009
The dreaded journey.
After very long I woke up at 6am this morning to be out for a breakfast meeting at 7am! I can't remember when was the last time I ever did this since I left the 9am - 6pm corporate world 5 years ago!
For all those who are reading my blog for the first time... I left my profession as an electrical consulting engineer 5 years ago to do network marketing full time! I am where I am because of network marketing...
As I was driving to the meeting place, suddenly I asked myself, what would my life have been today if I still had my job and didn't find network marketing...
Yes, I would have climbed the corporate ladder. I can work real hard and I am a performer... yes, I would have been married with 2 kids and yes, I would have driven a nice car and take home a five figure income from job... but I don't think I would have been rich like today... no there is no way I would have been this rich!
I don't think, my mind, heart and soul would have experienced richness the way I do today... I am definitely not talking about money. One can make money anywhere but very few places that truly makes you rich and I found that in this journey that I took 5 years ago!
7 years ago, my only sister walked out of my apartment and said there is no one on this planet that can live under the same roof with me! My mom & dad cried many nights silently wondering what they did wrong with me... I was young, energetic, excited about making it in life but little my life contributed to anyone around me but only to the buildings I built!
Today, I sit with anyone and they tell me... their life is touched... the giant in them is awaken or they just feel uplifted! My sister says... she can't imagine her life today without me.... mom & dad love to have me around and most importantly... they just love to share their thoughts and hearts with me... and I give every credit to my network marketing leaders that worked on me for last 5 years! As much as many do not want to hear this, yes it is network marketing that created me today!
Then why is this industry so much dreaded by people?
In normal circumstances, I am not the kind of person that would look into network marketing as an opportunity. 7 years back, I met a very fine successful businessman who showed me how in network marketing I can be more financially successful then in corporate and business world... how I can make more money and have the time luxury that conventional system do not offer! He was so good that I was convinced and I bought the idea of this free enterprise!
Then I struggled to make money here. I, who took home a comfortable income from job struggled to make anything here... then life brought me to another amazing 'guru' who basically took me in his hands, turned me around... inside out and gave me back to the world! And that is the girl that went out and created what I have today!
The challenge this industry has today is, it is lacking of people that truly want to dedicate their lives to making difference to others. Many come into the industry only to make money and I guarantee you these same people put anywhere else will not really excel either! Don't get me wrong they might make money but making money is only the first step of your search to a rich life!
Network Marketing is a beautiful vehicle to finding the true richness in life... and how to find the right company for you? It is not the product, it is not the marketing plan or even the size of their office but the only thing that will make a difference to you is when you find someone in that company that can gain your trust and somewhere deep in you, you can believe that person can make a difference to who you are today... and when you find that person, join them and hang in there till you make it!
Let me remind you... it might not be the person who introduces you to the opportunity. Like me, I don't even know where my sponsor is now and the last I saw him was 7 years ago!
A true network marketing leader is the one that makes you the finest product of his or her organization!
Live Your Best Life
For all those who are reading my blog for the first time... I left my profession as an electrical consulting engineer 5 years ago to do network marketing full time! I am where I am because of network marketing...
As I was driving to the meeting place, suddenly I asked myself, what would my life have been today if I still had my job and didn't find network marketing...
Yes, I would have climbed the corporate ladder. I can work real hard and I am a performer... yes, I would have been married with 2 kids and yes, I would have driven a nice car and take home a five figure income from job... but I don't think I would have been rich like today... no there is no way I would have been this rich!
I don't think, my mind, heart and soul would have experienced richness the way I do today... I am definitely not talking about money. One can make money anywhere but very few places that truly makes you rich and I found that in this journey that I took 5 years ago!
7 years ago, my only sister walked out of my apartment and said there is no one on this planet that can live under the same roof with me! My mom & dad cried many nights silently wondering what they did wrong with me... I was young, energetic, excited about making it in life but little my life contributed to anyone around me but only to the buildings I built!
Today, I sit with anyone and they tell me... their life is touched... the giant in them is awaken or they just feel uplifted! My sister says... she can't imagine her life today without me.... mom & dad love to have me around and most importantly... they just love to share their thoughts and hearts with me... and I give every credit to my network marketing leaders that worked on me for last 5 years! As much as many do not want to hear this, yes it is network marketing that created me today!
Then why is this industry so much dreaded by people?
In normal circumstances, I am not the kind of person that would look into network marketing as an opportunity. 7 years back, I met a very fine successful businessman who showed me how in network marketing I can be more financially successful then in corporate and business world... how I can make more money and have the time luxury that conventional system do not offer! He was so good that I was convinced and I bought the idea of this free enterprise!
Then I struggled to make money here. I, who took home a comfortable income from job struggled to make anything here... then life brought me to another amazing 'guru' who basically took me in his hands, turned me around... inside out and gave me back to the world! And that is the girl that went out and created what I have today!
The challenge this industry has today is, it is lacking of people that truly want to dedicate their lives to making difference to others. Many come into the industry only to make money and I guarantee you these same people put anywhere else will not really excel either! Don't get me wrong they might make money but making money is only the first step of your search to a rich life!
Network Marketing is a beautiful vehicle to finding the true richness in life... and how to find the right company for you? It is not the product, it is not the marketing plan or even the size of their office but the only thing that will make a difference to you is when you find someone in that company that can gain your trust and somewhere deep in you, you can believe that person can make a difference to who you are today... and when you find that person, join them and hang in there till you make it!
Let me remind you... it might not be the person who introduces you to the opportunity. Like me, I don't even know where my sponsor is now and the last I saw him was 7 years ago!
A true network marketing leader is the one that makes you the finest product of his or her organization!
Live Your Best Life
Thursday, August 6, 2009
I can only work on myself!
Every Tuesday in Malaysia, I do a session called 'Questions & Answers'. It is simply a forum for all new business builders to come with their questions and a facilitator will put all the questions on the board and I will answer them and if I am not in town, one of my senior leaders will continue the tradition.
Last Tuesday, one of the questions that caught my attention was, "how do i build closer relationship with my core leaders?"! Hmm.. what is the secret?
Interesting enough, the word 'relationship' has been in my head for last couple of days! I have come to realize it is easier to make money then to keep close relationships alive :)
Do the relationship rules and methods really work? Can one really have this perfect relationship with someone... or is there even such thing as a perfect relationship or to start with 'secret' to relationship?
Let me be very open with you... I am really bad at keeping a relationship alive! Made many mistakes... destroyed some... still struggling with some... but have seen some tremendous improvement lately in many different relationships!
So, I went back and really thought about it... how could one improve his relationship with his core leaders?
Today, I was talking to my better half and we were discussing how our relationship has evolved and how we are in a different phase now and etc...
Then it clicked! The only reason why my relationship with many people around me seem to be getting better it is because I am working harder on myself... that is the secret!
There is no way I can work on a relationship. I can only work on myself! Then I realized, that is what my better half and I have been doing. We have been setting small goals for ourselves and have been helping each other to keep ourselves on track and that has helped to grow our relationship without even realizing it!
Then I reflected on my relationship with my core leaders... yes, it is far better then it was ever before. And it is because I have continuously worked on myself! It is so right... I can only work on myself!
Live Your Best Life
Last Tuesday, one of the questions that caught my attention was, "how do i build closer relationship with my core leaders?"! Hmm.. what is the secret?
Interesting enough, the word 'relationship' has been in my head for last couple of days! I have come to realize it is easier to make money then to keep close relationships alive :)
Do the relationship rules and methods really work? Can one really have this perfect relationship with someone... or is there even such thing as a perfect relationship or to start with 'secret' to relationship?
Let me be very open with you... I am really bad at keeping a relationship alive! Made many mistakes... destroyed some... still struggling with some... but have seen some tremendous improvement lately in many different relationships!
So, I went back and really thought about it... how could one improve his relationship with his core leaders?
Today, I was talking to my better half and we were discussing how our relationship has evolved and how we are in a different phase now and etc...
Then it clicked! The only reason why my relationship with many people around me seem to be getting better it is because I am working harder on myself... that is the secret!
There is no way I can work on a relationship. I can only work on myself! Then I realized, that is what my better half and I have been doing. We have been setting small goals for ourselves and have been helping each other to keep ourselves on track and that has helped to grow our relationship without even realizing it!
Then I reflected on my relationship with my core leaders... yes, it is far better then it was ever before. And it is because I have continuously worked on myself! It is so right... I can only work on myself!
Live Your Best Life
Sunday, August 2, 2009
You are the bearer of hope!
No excuses for not writing for very long... many times, I wanted to write but just couldn't get my thoughts to words. Guess that is the challenge with people like me who likes to follow the little voice inside my heart!
I am happy with that little voice inside me... is that voice that has brought me this far...
Today I am compelled to share with you one of my interesting experience i had during my recent visit to the continent that changed my destiny!
From the moment I arrived till the 10 days I was there, I did nothing but listen to many of my leaders bringing up to me their 'challenges'! Many different things, from wanting a change, just wanting to be heard to some even said they care and don't want me to be let down... etc!
I was frustrated, I wanted to blow up! My first reaction was, " I have done so much for you guys and can't you figure your life out??"!! Then, my anger took over, "Screw you, I will do what I have to do, to keep this market going... even if it means I have to make you irrelevant"!
Then... the little voice inside me spoke in that usual gentle soothing manner... "hey girl you have gone through worse then this... you can figure out the best that is required..."
Then I remembered something i read sometime back... as a leader, my first role is as a bearer of hope for my people! Hhhmm... no matter what happens, I am the bearer of hope for my people...
I went into my room... i sat on my reading table... i said a prayer... took some blank paper and i drew my action plan on that blank sheet.. my heart told me, i probably need to draw this out clearly so everyone can see what I have! So that is what I did... i drew out everything clearly... defined and structured!
I called for my core leaders meeting, i gave them my input, they were shocked and most importantly i saw that hope in their eyes... never in their wildest dreams... they thought there was a solution for their differences!
Then I called in my second layer leadership, and they got excited! Seeing them getting excited, the core leaders just knew this is the way forward!
Then one of my older leaders said... maybe, all those meetings you had was preparing us for today!
I smiled... and my heart said again... you are the bearer of hope for your people!
Live Your Best Life
I am happy with that little voice inside me... is that voice that has brought me this far...
Today I am compelled to share with you one of my interesting experience i had during my recent visit to the continent that changed my destiny!
From the moment I arrived till the 10 days I was there, I did nothing but listen to many of my leaders bringing up to me their 'challenges'! Many different things, from wanting a change, just wanting to be heard to some even said they care and don't want me to be let down... etc!
I was frustrated, I wanted to blow up! My first reaction was, " I have done so much for you guys and can't you figure your life out??"!! Then, my anger took over, "Screw you, I will do what I have to do, to keep this market going... even if it means I have to make you irrelevant"!
Then... the little voice inside me spoke in that usual gentle soothing manner... "hey girl you have gone through worse then this... you can figure out the best that is required..."
Then I remembered something i read sometime back... as a leader, my first role is as a bearer of hope for my people! Hhhmm... no matter what happens, I am the bearer of hope for my people...
I went into my room... i sat on my reading table... i said a prayer... took some blank paper and i drew my action plan on that blank sheet.. my heart told me, i probably need to draw this out clearly so everyone can see what I have! So that is what I did... i drew out everything clearly... defined and structured!
I called for my core leaders meeting, i gave them my input, they were shocked and most importantly i saw that hope in their eyes... never in their wildest dreams... they thought there was a solution for their differences!
Then I called in my second layer leadership, and they got excited! Seeing them getting excited, the core leaders just knew this is the way forward!
Then one of my older leaders said... maybe, all those meetings you had was preparing us for today!
I smiled... and my heart said again... you are the bearer of hope for your people!
Live Your Best Life
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