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Is your life now same as what USA is suffering now? Having a crisis in anyway that is draining you dry? If you are not, you are very lucky and please maintain where you are now as ecnomic will not be recovering so soon accessing from the “damages” so far.

Why am I writing about this, because I realise I have unknowing walk into a crisis mode, walk into a tough time which I need to manage it well, else I will be suffering terribly in next few years to come. Sound bad? It can be really that bad or it can be another typical problem some of you had went through in the past. But at least for me, I want to recover fast and get back to TRACK again, get back to the track that I wanted and chosen.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. it is only by facing the challenge of a crunch point that you demonstrate to yourself and others what you are really made of. As the Greek philosopher Epictetus once said” Circumstances do not make the man; they merely reveal him to himself(others as well)”

So what is cruch, what is problem or challenges in your life?

• Declining sales
• reduced revenue
• Low cashflow
• Unexpected costs or reversals
• Lose your entire investment
• Business failure
• Business partner left
• Been lied or cheated, betrayed
• Personal problem
• Family, Finances or Health
• Endless….

In any othe these cases, you will suddenly find yourself against the wall, in crunch, in depression, with your financial or emotional success or survival in the balance. For myself, I have been badly hit by some past business decisions, bad planning and financial habits. Now I just have to clear my “shit”. Sound similar, I am just another USA! A country who always live without worries, having luxuy lifestyle, buying house, car without a penny, expanding businesses without worries of future and until last year April everything start to collospe, despite warning from some “angels” they ignored. End 2007 everything collospe one after another, until now still spreading the crisis to other industries and countries.  I see myself just like USA at time, when you are in crisis, usually your neighbouring or related friends and loved one will be affected and in worse case suffered together with you.

Question is How to Respond to these Challnges? Or to Escape again?

By nature, sudden challenges, problem and crises come unbidden. They are unwanted, unexpected and often serious in their implications. They also are unavoidable and inevitable. You can never stop hem completely. The only part of the challenges-response equation that I can control is my response.

All that I can determine is how I am going to respod to the inevitable up and downs of business, financial and personal life. My respond is under my control.

For this reason, my personal level of response ability determines my survival success, health, happiness and prosperity. By responding effectively, I rise to the inevitable challenges. I always console myself and telling by friend “Yes, I hate myself for getting myself into this situation, but I always tell or console myself I am grateful that I get through this stage right now, at this young age so that It will never be forgotten and repeat in my life again.” In the learning to respond effectively, I will contiune to grow in knowledge, experience, wisdom and maturity. Yes, I know and convince that if I manage to recover from this crisis right now, I will eventually triumph and grow another 10 years in personal growth.

“What doesn’t Kill Me Makes Me Stronger”

The only way that I can realise my full protential and become everything I am capable of becoming, is by dealing with crunch points effectively. The only way that you can achieve all your goals is by responding and reacting effectively to the inevitable crises of day to day life.

They key to performing at my best during the crunch times of my life is for myself to focus single mindedly on the SOLUTIONS, rather than the problems. The more I think about possible solutions, the more solutions will occur to myself and the better they will be. So brainstorming for solution now! In the process of thinking about solutions, the more positive, focusd and creative I am becoming. But this process need to be motivated, it is not easy but I am trying hard baecause I know the more I think in terms of specific actionsI can take, the more control I will be.

Being a leader, I truly understand the quality of leadership is the ability to function well in a crisis. it can be said that leadership is the ability to solve problems, of all kinds, including huge problems that arise suddenly and unexpectedly.  Success is too, the ability to solve problem. The most effective and respected people in every field are those who are the most capable of dealing with problems that arise in that field.

Right now I have drill myself to change my mindset that ther is no difficulty I cannot reseolve by intense concentration. There is no obstabvle that I cannot overcome or get around if I am determined and persistent enough. My job is to prevent myself from falling deeping or wanting to fall, but to rise to thechallenge, perform effectively and continue to move onward, upward!

if you are also having some problems in your life, I hope my sharing will help! Else thanks for reading, I will be addressing more on how I am going to handle all my problems in next few posts, do add me in your RSS and leave your comments.

Thanks again! Cheers

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It is 16 days to standard charter marathon 2008! Guess what preperation have I done so far?

I just ran a total of 20 km in 2 sessions! If I am not going to do something about it, I will be in deep shit! 16 days left for compress training, conditioning and weight reduction? How can I make it happen?

I guess I really have to do a simple planning now and be discipline to make it happen.

Gym Training - At least 10 KM Running on Trackmill
Gym Training  - Strengthening of lower body muscles
Gym Training - At least 2 Body Combat Classes for Body Conditioning and Weight reduction. Cardo Workout

Running Session - Pandan Reservoir 2 session of 2 rounds  each 12 KM
Running Session - East Coast 1 Full 20KM running

Cycling Session of 3 Hours - Cardo Workout, Body Conditioning and Weight Reduction.

Diet Plan - No Fried Food. Lots of Vegetable and Fruits for Detoxification
Diet Plan - Carbo loading only 2 days before the run. Targetted running weight 71km (4 KG Lighten)

If I can manage to complete all these, I am quite confidence this year marathon will not be that painful. At least my body is prepared for the hash run. Of course I can’t be wanting for better timing since there is no proper consistent training in place, just have to blame myself again!

So friends, don’t temp me with good unhealthy food for the next 16 days ok! Just 16 days, I CAN DO IT!!

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2008 has proven to be an exceptionally hard year due
to the global economic crisis and like so many others, I too have been
affected. In particular, one of my businesses is currently under
tremendous pressure due to some equity being severely restricted which
is in essence, a vital factor in any effective company management.
However, I continue to believe that the financial difficulties the
world is currently experiencing is yet just another necessary part of
my learning curve.

Even in these uncertain times, I have taken the bold step of going
ahead with my marketing company. Why? Simply because I have set myself
goals and just as I started out by denying myself the luxury of doubt,
so too I aim to continue. My newly formed company, “Intrillion Pte
Ltd”, provides a one stop online marketing solution for fledgling
businesses and SME’s. In addition, Intrillion also offers extremely
competitive domain hosting services both for businesses and private
use. If you require further information or some additional advice,
please don’t hesitate to contact me or visit our homepage at http://www.intrillion.com.sg and http://www.intrillion-asia.com for domain and hosting!

2008 is ENDING Now!

Well, with the end of 2008 drawing near and so many personal goals
still to be met, I can only say that I’m not exactly ecstatic regarding
my performance but then again, I do still have a few weeks left before
this year, like so many others, simply becomes part of history. In
order to witness first hand, the goals one can achieve with the right
motivation, please continue reading my blog.

I have updated my About Jack Page! Do drop by and remember your feedback or comments before leaving it. Read About Jack Here

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Was browsing through the web and come acorss this new plugin for Firefox- Scribefire Blog Editor. After successful installing and setting up, here I am trying out the software.

Accordingly to the website http://www.scribefire.com/, Scriberfire Blog Editor enables blogger to easily drag and drop formatted text from the web into their blog(s), post entires etc, and optimize their ad inventory directly through the firefox browser, which I have yet to try.

Some of the general features are:
Categorize and tag your blog posts

• Upload images
• Set timestamps
• Save works-in-progress as notes
• Post an entry as a draft
• Share your posts on social websites
• Upload files via FTP

So now I have added my personal blog into this plugin, typed this short review post. I am going to post it to my blog.

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Peace of Mind comes from concentrating on what you have now, NOT on what’s missing. When you accept your life, you see how everythings in it serves you.

IN a Nutshell!

If you are serious about peace of mind, at some stage you’ll need a sense of gratitude. And here is the crunch- if you want to be grateful, you woke up grateful. If you say” When my life gets better, then I will be grateful”, you neve will be.

Gratitude and Peace of Mind

Jack

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I was shock, today while I login to my investment blog, which I haven’t been visiting for a few months already, I was shock to see 6,532 comments awaiting moderation. All are spams!!! The next horrible things i realised was I cannot do mass deletions of spam comments. Is there a function to do that?

The best function is to delete 20 at a time, which will take me 300+ time to delete all the spam comments. Lesson learned, always update my blog and find a spam plugin to prevent this from happening again. Anyone has any recommendation?

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Key concept: Negative scripts one is writing which run or affect our lives Throughout my life, my unconscious mind tells stories to speak of its journey. It speaks in terms of symbols, archetypes and myths. This is because we are story telling creatures, telling a story with our lives. We choose the type of story we want to tell. We can tell happy or healing stories. Or we can tell death stories. The major negative ones which we might be telling are: Tragedy, Guilt, Revenge, Martyr, Soap Opera, Nightmare, Victim, Heartbreak, Maverick/Independent, Fear, and Tantrum. Using the card: Here are some questions you could ask yourself about your life story: * If my life were a book, what would its name be? * If my life were a movie, what would its name be? (We are the writers, producers, directors, stars, and even all of the assistants in our stories). * Do I have the kind of movie for my life that, if I were watching it, I’d fall asleep in it because I am so bored; where I’d get up and leave when its half-way through; or the kind I’d spend most of my time in the washroom or at the refreshment stand? I know that a Dark Story is trapping myself in some way. I shall do some homework later today! * Write each of the negative catergories (Tragedy, Guilt, Revenge and so on) on separate pieces of paper. * Fold the pieces of paper and drop them into a bowl. * Ask my Higher Mind for help and pick a piece of paper to find which reflects the Dark Story that is most holding myself back. Each one of these Dark Stories is a core pattern, which you have chosen, and whose script I am living by. While it seems to occur on its own, I have chosen it for some purpose. Ask myself what that purpose is. I could change your Dark Story through choice: by using the power of my mind to make a new choice about what it is that I want, and to keep making that choice. I can say to myself for every little bit of the old Dark Story which shows up, ‘I don’t want this. What I want is ____’. Whatever my Dark Story, I have a purpose for writing it. Ask myself: * ? What purpose do I have for writing this kind of story? * ? What is the payoff for this story? * ? What is it I get to hide about myself? * ? What gift or opportunity stays hidden by this? * ? What is it this allows me to do? * ? What is it that I don’t have to do? Ask my Higher Mind for help to transform my Dark Story to one which is true and authentic, to one which has to do with my truly giving myself. I could be choosing a Happy Story, a Love Story, a Healing Story, a Heroic Story, an Adventure Story or a Spiritual Odyssey. Please Help Me!

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Was trying to send an image MMS and failed in all my attempts! Decided to search the web for solution and this site come to my rescuse.

http://www.trendsmobile.com/main/showsection.asp?SectionID=114&ParentID=97

Decided to place the instruction in my blog as nowadays more and more people are using Pocket PC (PPC) and of course there are increasing Starhub users, these information might be useful to some. But if you are Singtel or M1 user, i afraid you have to do your own search while the instruction should be similar but the setting are confirm different.

Here is the details is you are setting up your PPC for surfing Web using GPRS Starhub Gee!:

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Have been working at home for the past few days. Doing endless reports and presentation. Finally, the big storm is over and now I have some time for myself. I have been reflecting about my life yesterday night until now. The more honest I am to myself, the more I start to hate myself and soon build up lots of stress.

Many people know I choose a different path comparing to my peers who enter University and only recently graduated. I decided to took on a roller coaster right which is to be a self employed. Honestly, I had never regret being a self-employed, in fact I am very sure this is the right path for me. I enter the financial industry as an independent consultant after I left the army. I started the career with a great punch but soon i started to slow down and concentrate on my internet business.

Internet business brought wealth to my life but also slow down my growth rate in the past 2 years. It is a love and hate feeling. Being an internet marketer, I started it smoothly despite some failure. But these setback never stop me until I successful reach a 5 digit income level. At my age, earning this income is something I am very proud of, because of this, I began to have some followers and gain some respect in my circle of friends. My lifestyle changes, everything in my room started to be replaced, bought my first car and the second car come by closely after 1 years only. This is when my life reach a downturn point without myself knowing it. Because my internet business is on auto pilot, self generating income by itself, I began to stop my learning curve, I begin to spend more time in learning expensive hobbies especially modifying my precious new car, being to start going tracking and buying gadgets etc.  I spent so much less time in doing productive things to further increase my wealth. In my financial business, I only services my existing clients and seldom prospect new clients. I never feel incorrect for doing this, only feel bad for my manager. I understand manager always want their adviser to be very productive but I decided to do it more like a “part-time”.

Even though throughout this time, I ever push myself to get back to work several time, both in internet and FA business, but it never go long. The only reason is I am too comfortable. Therefore I make a bold move by shutting down several of my major stream of income from internet businesses. It is all about pain and pleasure. I wanted to create pain to myself, I know I cannot be in my current stage for long. And most importantly I know I deserve much better life than what I am getting now, but only if I decided to get up again.

Getting up is not as easy as I thought, until recently. Just like the Tsunami, I activated the earthquake, but the wave took sometime before it hit the shore. I guess the biggest wave just hit me badly. I am still feeling cold now.

Reflecting back, when was the last time when I am very focus in my life. When I decided to sign on in the army and draft out every single details of my life? When I have a mentor whom I always meet her regularly? When I am broke and I need money badly?

I asked myself, why did I stop there and lost the momentum to charge to the next level? Am I happy with what I have achieved so far or I just refuse to move forward or I don’t believe I can reach any better! I think I am just too comfortable for what I have achieved so far. Reflecting and reflecting, I am just enjoying myself being the most successful one in my peers and even many of my senior. So have beening successful almost kill myself in the journeys to dreams?

During these time I have helped many people gain knowledge and wealth, I have help many friends found a new purpose in their life, I have help by sharing my knowledges and introducing them to courses and even my mentor. Right now, my most grateful mentor has even become my good friend loved one. So much of helping others, have I ever stop to help myself during this journey. Maybe I have! I always remember what my mentor has taught me, we must always learn to contribute without asking for returns. To master something is not about learning, the entire process is to Learn, Apply and Teach. Teaching become part of my life since I have followers. My mentor always say there are only 2 effective ways to motivate ourself. One is to get someone to motivate us, else, to motivate others. Yes, I have countless session of motivating people but when is the last time I have been motivated by someone? I understand back in my financial business office, they will always motivate me to come back and start working hard, but it just don’t work for me. When you have reached a certain level ,you just see things differently. When they try to motivate me, I appreciate it but I see only those don’t work on me anymore. Maybe I don’t see the result I want in them, or what they are offering is not what I desire? Countless of excuses but end of the days it is all myself.

Taking about contributing without wanting return, I am a strong believer in this teaching ever since being taught by my mentor. I have benefited a lots from this teaching both in networking , business or simple life until recently when I am put to challenge by my girlfriend. Initially I always argue with her that we must always help people despite the outcome or how they had treat us before. But she always second that and end us in arguments. But recently I started to reflect and I guess I need to find tune this teaching in my life. Sometime people just simply abuse us. Being nice to people, helping people, lending people money and even working FOC for people will reflect well about you. But some people will just take things for granted. I have a habit of making payment for every meals and most of the time people will want to returns back their portion. Sometime close friends we are not calculative as we always take turn to share. But after some reminder from  Elaine, I see a trend in some of my friends who always automatically wait for me to make payment and never bother to ask the total cost and making things worse, if ever they foot the bills, they will ask you to return them the equal share and even calculate it to cents, the worst still haven’t happen yet. If I give more than the right amount, I never get back my change. I hate to say this, but I think I am really being too nice to people. I even argue for them that, I didn’t ask from them so I can’t blame them for not returning. I know if I ever ask one of my friend, he will surly reply me this way. Anyway lesson learned, we can’t be nice to everyone, just don’t be bad to them.

Recently one of my friends who started his own business in some trading and asked me to help him in designing an online platform to market his product so I got my partner to come out with a proposal for him, furthermore I still insisted in special discount in the proposed price but rejected. I don’t know is the price too expensive or he is hoping for a free job again. But I am not happy about it, again I reflected. The only reason is I have pre-set an expectation on him. Because few years back when he started his business and asked me for help in sponsorship, I helped him and contributed $10,000 into the event sponsorship and honestly I didn’t get what they promised, not even 50% not to mention did my business benefited from it. Because I have once helped him, I am thinking if he will now help me by handing my company to handle his web portal project. Sad to say, No. To say I am not bother, I am lying. But it is all my expectation, since he didn’t force me to make the sponsorship initially, and he have a choice not to take up my proposal. It is myself being inbalance, but I learned a hard lesson. We must learn to contribute smartly and gratefully (look clearly) and really don’t expect much return. Not even sub-consiously.

I think I have drifted my topic into my complaining. Anyway reflecting back. I guess I need to talk to someone and I will look for the someone. I cannot always be motivating others and end of the days leaving myself behind. Looking at the other angle, I must not be happy with what I am having now, in fact I am feeling the stress already, since my peers have graduated and started to enter the work force. I must end my high expenditure lifestyle and spend like a successful investor and not like a poor who just strike TOTO.

People who know me will know that I hate to write, and when I really write I am usually in either the lowest or highest point of my life. I guess this is good news for me too. I rather handle these crisis now rather than later. This is a Tsunami, I got to rebuild the entire island again!

I must be focus! First get to the right environment! Friends if you realize I am avoiding you, i am sorry, because the number 1 key to success is the right environment. There is a simple formula, if you want to know your net worth, just find the average net worth of friends you always go out with. It is the same! It is not about the amount of money they have, but the amount of money is equal to the type of mindset and values system they have in this cruel sociality. I feel very tired repelling negative mindset and the best solution is to avoid. You can blame me but one day you will understand, especially when you have children, you will never put your children to play with a group of gangster.  I must start expanding and looking for highly motivated people to talk to and start working together with. I must start finding back my mentor.

It is late afternoon, I must prepare to leave my house for an business presentation. Wish me luck, it is very important to my company!

Jack Lan

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It has been a long time since I am updating my blog. This June has been like a roller coaster month for me.

It started the month with lots of running, firstly the exotic night marathon with my IPPT 2 days later which I failed my 2.4 by 4 seconds. Back in army, IPPT 5 items, the usual standing board jump, pull up, shuttle run and sit up are never a problem to me. But once out of army, exercise and keeping fit soon become a very foreign words to me. While struggling to finish my static station, I still manage to get all 5 points but my 2.4km was a pain. I started running as if I am still a commando active solider, one round in Maju almost killed me. My leg almost refuse to run and my breath was never enough. In the mids of running, I decieded to adopt a different way of running, to sprint and walk, hopefully it can bring me a margin pass. But I am wrong! With the bad effort, I still fail my 2.4 run and with a messy finishing. I almost burn out all my energy. I have no choice and it is just 3 days before my birthday, I NEED to pass it by 5 June before I will be sent to the remedial training usually known as RT. Quickly, back I home, I login to www.ns.sg hoping that I still can book my IPPT on my very last day. Heng, really heng! 5 June 2008 my final day to prove myself and escape from the time wasting RT.

Decided to rest for next big day and not going to train for it. Decided to use a different strategy, a well design strategy to complete my 2.4km in 11.40 ! Choose not to train but to rest because of the “cross country” night marathon which I had completed 4 days ago. I think my muscle need a good rest to really perform. Yes, need strategy, firstly my last strategy to sprint and run was a bull shit method which almost drain me dry. After much thought decided to further break down my goals to complete before 11.40 into smaller goals, usually I will break down the timing into 3 parta, since in Maju camp I only need to run 3 rounds, I will have 3 timing to complete so that I can complete in the desire time I wanted. But I realised this strategy can be further improve by further breaking down into smaller goals and much achiever able timing.

So My final strategy, 8 different timing and to start slow and slowly increase to a comfortable constant speed as long as my timing is met every 400meter. This strategy successful stop me from stopping and leaving great energy for my last 200 meter sprint. I know i made it but not sure what is my timing, and when I collect my result slip and I was SHOCK and a bit disappointed. Why am i disappointed? It show 11.04 which is 4 second to silver awards, 4 seconds more to extra $100. Oh man, I cannot believe I can be so close, in fact my goals was to complete between 11.30-1140. But nevertheless, I passed and escaped the time wasting RT.

Lesson learn after some reflection of myself with this simple IPPT. Sometime we limit ourselves due to our past experience, in the past few IPPT, my 2.4 timing was always between 11.30- 11.50. And I believe that without training, it is impossible for me to achieve Silver award timing which is under 11 minutes. I limit myself with my self belief, but this last IPPT proved to me that I can easily achieve a better timing. Because of this reflection, I decided to always impact and challenge my belief system to BELIEVE I can do much better than what I think I can or cannot.

6 June my big day, my darling bring me to the southern side of Singapore for a rejunevating and relaxing holiday SPA in one of the most luxury resort in Sentosa. The morning didn’t start smoothly because some unexpected stuffs to be completed before I can go link up with my darling. But everything was put aside after some cooling time. We drove to Sentosa and checkin into the 5 star hotel resort. This is my first time staying over in Sentosa. We were warmly greeted and brought to our room. http://www.thesentosa.com/

The room was fantastic and well furnish with a luxury and posh theme. The super king size bed look so comfortable and soft that make us want to jump onto it right away but something stop us! Photo taking first, haha, silly me didn’t bring my Canon Power Shot digital camera along. So we can only take some picture using our phone and PDA. Because we check in quite late, soon we have to prepare for our SPA session at SPA Botentica . Spa Botanica, a 6,000 sq m tropical garden spa, is the first of its kind in Singapore. http://www.spabotanica.com/

We took a short walk, and soon we were well oriented to the entire spa by the friendly staff before we head to our individual changing room to get started. We are hungry, so our spa session started with a light meal before our free and easy relax mud pool. We took our meal in our swim wear and accompany by a huge hungry peacock. Anyway, I ordered a dish call Kingfish Sashimi.

Until now I am still drownling on it. It was well prepared by the chief with a special sauce. Great dish and it is a MUST TRY if you are a Sashimi lover.

After the meal we proceed to use the Mud Pool, The Labyrinth and Swimming Pool at the Spa Gardens. The mud pool is something very new to us. Imagine covering yourself in mud?

This is not the dirty mud in the soccer field after a heavy rain. These are mud imported from Australia volcano which said to be very good to our skins with lots of benefits. Overall fun experience , especially taking off the mud in the warm jacuzzi pool with darling.

After much fun, we proceed to our 2 hour of Spa treatment in a couple room. it is an out door rain forest tropical theme. As usual, I always fall asleep during Spa treatment. After the relaxing treatment, we proceed back to our room and enjoy ourselves before dinner time.

I deiced to pay a visit to one of the most prestigious restaurant in Sentosa. The Cliff, Designed by famed Japanese designer, Yasuhiro Koichi, The Cliff sets new standards in the culinary arts. Perched on a cliff overlooking the South China Sea and blessed with gentle breezes, this alfresco style restaurant is a heaven for connoisseurs of fine seafood and wine. The menu reflects the creative spirit of our Chef de Cuisine Shawn Armstrong who prepares his dishes with a distinct modern French flair.

We ordered a few of their signature dishes even though the serving was reasonable, after the meal we feel extremely full. Great place to dine in but you must be prepare for the bill, got my hint. Haha!

After an relaxing night, we headed back home the next day. Brought my relatives to No Sign Board for a meal, really feel bad didn’t bring the out to tour around for this visit to Singapore. Hope they understand =)

Next day was a running day for me again. 15KM Passion Run at east coast. Woke up 5am and reached east coast with my car fully loaded. A group of us including my sister and kelvin, geng hui and of course my darling took part in the passion run, lucky for us to find a parking load but have to walk 1 km to the start point. I started the run with Kelvin, but after 4KM i begin to fall back slightly as I couldn’t follow his pace since it is still not even half way of the run, i decided to maintain my peace throughout the race rather than pushing to the limit which had been proven in the previous IPPT not workable at my current fitness. Even though I still walk a few distance along the entire run, I still manage to push myself and completed the race 3 minutes more than my targeted timing. I completed my 15KM in 1 hour 33 minute. Despite not achieving my timing, I still feel great since i push hard for the run, after all I did my best and I know I can do better.

After all had completed the races, we toured the sport fair for awhile before we headed back home. Back home I was too tired and fall asleep almost immediately after washing up! It had been a great running week for me.

42KM Night Marathon 2 X IPPT and one 15KM Run all in 7 days! 3 Cheers for myself! But I still need a good rest! I am no longer as fit as my Commando days.

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