Inspiring Journey To Financial Freedom

Thanks for visiting this blog, a life transformation blog.

This blog is right for you, if:

You feel that work-life balance is missing in your life.

You are currently struggling at work.

Fed up with your bosses, colleagues, office politic, etc.

Tired of running in the rat race with no direction in life.

Looking for “the secret” to financial independence.

Or, you are confused with what does it means by financially free?

Personally, my definition of financial freedom does not mean debt free but generating adequate passive income to maintain my desired lifestyle.

At time, financial independence is misunderstood as being rich.

While we know that the rich have millions of dollars in their net worth, they might over commit millions of expenditures which could also mean that they are not as financially success as they seem.

Therefore, financial freedom is a concept attuned to our lifestyle and the money that we need to maintain our desired lifestyle. In this perspective, to be financially free is not as hard to achieve as I first imagined.

To me, financial freedom is also time freedom. I am tired of the meaningless life running around the rat maze without time freedom.

A financially independent person will see that money is time. Once we are able to develop a sense of time freedom, then, we are in a positive direction to acquire financial independence.

Financial independence allows us to take time on our desired activities without trading our valuable time for money.

How to achieve financial freedom?

If you want to be financially free, it requires:

1. The right YOU
2. The right Knowledge
3. The right Tools/Vehicles at the right Time

The right YOU relate to the inner you, your mindset, your attitude and habits. According to T. Harv Eker, to obtain our desired outer results, we must first master the inner game of wealth. It is interesting to note that unless a person’s whole mind changed toward the acceptance of wealth and being a creator of wealth internally, we would get nowhere.

Not until we mastered both the “inner game” and the “outer game” of wealth, would our lives be transformed.

The “outer game” here is referring to the right KNOWLEDGE such as business knowledge, sales and marketing skill, information and money management, investment strategies, etc.

The right VEHICLE at the right time can be running a business, for examples, online business that sells digital products, network marketing, coins machines operated business, etc that generating multiple streams of passive incomes. In these instances, a business is not a job. It is a vehicle to wealth.

Then, probably, you will ask:
“How can I have the right Mindset, right Knowledge and running the right Vehicle at the right Time?”

Learn!

“Any Master Was Once A Disaster!”

Invest in ourselves and learn the right Mindset, acquire the right Knowledge and skills to operate the right Vehicle now!

With the latest technology and internet, our world is flatter now. Technology creates a “level playing field” in which previously marginalized people and countries can play a competitive role in the world economy. It has increased the risk of losing our traditionally “secured” jobs to others if we failed to maintain our competitiveness and equip ourselves with the right education and skills.

On the other hand, with the internet, we can now invest in our education and learn from the best any time any where. Other than the traditional offline resources such as books, attending seminars and courses (some might not be readily accessible to us due to the distance), we can also gain the right knowledge from internet, websites, blogs, ebooks, online seminars, audio, video, etc.

After wasted some time wondering around, I realize that it is either we learn from the best, or die like the rest (in the rat maze)!

Learning from the masters or gurus (who have been there, done that) is the short cut to success and the highest form of leverage. It saves us a fortune in time and money by leveraging on other’s people knowledge and learning.

Trust me. The best investment in our life is still US! (not United States!)

What we invest in self education will stay with us.

What we learn will stay with us.

What we deposit in our “minds” will stay with us.

Our knowledge will stay with us.

We can never know less.

At the same time, the investment in personal development will pay off quickly because we make decision everyday. Equip ourselves with the right mindset, knowledge and skills will help us to make the right decision which will affect our end result.

If you think investment in self education is expensive, try ignorance!

Search For True Freedom

"The search for true freedom is what all my communications are ultimately about--freedom of the self and from the self. Freedom of the self means literal freedom: freedom from oppressive environments and relationships, the freedom of a satisfying career, and the freedom to make life meaningful.

Freedom from the self means freedom from domination by fear-based emotions such as prejudice, anger, selfishness, jealousy, hate, repression, greed, possessiveness, envy, guilt, inhibition, egotism, malice, resentment and blame. These fears are your karma. They keep you earthbound on the wheel of reincarnation."

~Dick Sutphen

Engage Your Heart And Your Mind

Great Sharing By Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard...

"At any one moment you often can't see where your path is heading to...

Logic and intellect alone won't lead you to make the right choices. In fact, they won't take you down the right path. You have to master not only the art of listening to your head but you must also master listening to your heart. You have all the tools you need up in your head and in your heart.

All you have to do is engage your heart and your mind in every decision you make - engage your whole self and the journey will reveal itself with the passage of time.

The lesson I learned early in life was to love what you do - or don't do it. Don't make a choice of any kind, whether in career or in life, just because it pleases others or because it ranks high on someone else's scale of achievement, or even because it seems that logical thing to do.

Make the choice to do something because it engages your heart and your mind - all of you.

Remember that the freedom to choose is yours. To make the most of that freedom, use your mind and your heart."

Life Is About A Choice That We Make

Life is like a road.
There are long and short roads;
smooth and rocky roads;
crooked and straight paths.

In our life many roads would come our way as we journey through life. There are roads that lead to a life of single blessedness, marriage, and religious vocation. There are also roads that lead to fame and fortune on one hand, or isolation and poverty on the other. There are roads to happiness as there are roads to sadness, roads towards victory and jubilation, and roads leading to defeat and disappointment.

Just like any road, there are corners, detours, and crossroads in life. Perhaps the most perplexing road that you would encounter is a crossroad. With four roads to choose from and with limited knowledge on where they would go, which road will you take? What is the guarantee that we would choose the right one along the way? Would you take any road, or just stay where you are: in front of a crossroad?

There are no guarantees.

You do not really know where a road will lead you until you take it. There are no guarantees. This is one of the most important things you need to realize about life. Nobody said that choosing to do the right thing all the time would always lead you to happiness.

Loving someone with all your heart does not guarantee that it would be returned. Gaining fame and fortune does not guarantee happiness. Accepting a good word from an influential superior to cut your trip short up the career ladder is not always bad, especially if you are highly qualified and competent.

There are too many possible outcomes, which your really cannot control. The only thing you have power over is the decisions that you will make, and how you would act and react to different situations.

Wrong decisions are always at hindsight.

Had you known that you were making a wrong decision, would you have gone along with it?

Perhaps not, why would you choose a certain path when you know it would get you lost?

Why make a certain decision if you knew from the very beginning that it is not the right one. It is only after you have made a decision and reflected on it that you realize its soundness. If the consequences or outcomes are good for you, then you have decided correctly. Otherwise, your decision was wrong.

Take the risk: decide.

Since life offers no guarantee and you would never know that your decision would be wrong until you have made it, then you might as well take the risk and decide.

It is definitely better than keeping yourself in limbo. Although it is true that one wrong turn could get you lost, it could also be that such a turn could be an opportunity for an adventure, moreover open more roads.

It is all a matter of perspective. You have the choice between being a lost traveller or an accidental tourist of life. But take caution that you do not make decisions haphazardly. Taking risks is not about being careless and stupid.

Here are some pointers that could help you choose the best option in the face of life’s crossroads:

· Get as many information as you can about your situation.

You cannot find the confidence to decide when you know so little about what you are faced with. Just like any news reporter, ask the 5 W’s: what, who, when, where, and why.

What is the situation?
Who are the people involved?
When did this happen?
Where is this leading?
Why are you in this situation?

These are just some of the possible questions to ask to know more about your situation. This is important. Oftentimes, the reason for indecision is the lack of information about a situation.

· Identify and create options.

What options do the situation give you? Sometimes the options are few, but sometimes they are numerous. But what do you do when you think that the situation offers no options?

This is the time that you create your own. Make your creative mind work. From the most simplistic to the most complicated, entertain all ideas. Do not shoot anything down when an idea comes to your head.

Sometimes the most outrageous idea could prove to be the right one in the end. You can ask a friend to help you identify options and even make more options if you encounter some difficulty, but make sure that you make the decision yourself in the end.

· Weigh the pros and cons of every option.

Assess each option by looking at the advantages and disadvantages it offers you. In this way, you get more insights about the consequences of such an option.

· Trust yourself and make that decision.

Now that you have assessed your options, it is now time to trust yourself. Remember that there are no guarantees and wrong decisions are always at hindsight. So choose… decide… believe that you are choosing the best option at this point in time.

Now that you have made a decision, be ready to face its consequences: good and bad.

It may take you to a place of promise or to a land of problems. However, the important thing is that you have chosen to live your life instead of remaining a bystander or a passive audience to your own life.

Whether it is the right decision or not, only time can tell. But do not regret it whatever the outcome. Instead, learn from it and remember that you always have the chance to make better decisions in the future.