Someone I talked to last week was out of job for a year. It’s his choice to be out of job. He went around looking for an answer, a purpose in life. He made a million, and lost a million. He comes to realize money is not his purpose.

I am glad that I discover my purpose. No, it should be the other way round, the purpose found me. When I walked on the streets, took the bus or the train, I felt a sting to my heart. Because there are so many who don’t know what their purpose is. There are so many who are living someone else’s lives. There are many who lives in someone else’s environment without realizing it.

Many were blinded since young. They were blinded by TV commercials that tells them they must live in a certain way. In school, many were told by teachers, parents or media to only choose certain professions. Upon growing up, many were told by the government in how to live their lives.

Many were brought up conforming to someone else’s expectation. If you continue to live someone else’s life, then where is your life?

Finding that purpose in your life, doing what you are meant to do is the greatest joy you can experience. How can you discover your purpose in this world? How can you find out why you are here in this world for?

Get rid of these two words. NO CHOICE. These two words are the culprit to many who are trapped. “Why don’t you just change to a better job?” NO CHOICE! “Why don’t you just leave this abusive man?” NO CHOICE! “Why don’t you just do something to change your situation?” NO CHOICE!

You definitely have a choice. When you start to believe strongly that you have a choice in your life, and you are willing to take charge of your life, your purpose will be shown to you.

Many were closed in their mind, not believing that they can have that choice. Purpose will not be shown to a close mind. When you are willing to break away from all the conformation, you will be liberated. You can feel a sense of freedom falling upon you.

Be open minded. Be willing to take charge of your life even though it may seem crazy to make certain decision at times. A guy sold all his assets and move to a mountain for 8 months because purpose came to him. In the end he became a famous musician who won the Grammy award.

At times you’ll be face with strange decision just to go with your purpose. It’s your choice. Follow your purpose or follow someone else’s live.

One of the traits of successful people is the ability to focus on their task until it is completed. One of the traits of unsuccessful people is the ability to lose focus easily.

Talking about focusing seems so easy, yet it’s not easy to accomplish. If it is, you will see more successful people around the world.

When you are fully focus onto a task, all your energy will be on this task. With that 100% focus, your brain creates a wave-length that taps into the Universe. This wave-length attracts whatever that’s out there in the Universe to support you in accomplishing your task.

Say when you are focusing on increasing your income by 100%. You can attract team members to support you. Or opportunities that make you more money. Sometimes, it may not come in a way you expect, but be open to where it comes from. It may not happened according to your plans, but make necessary adjustment by looking at the bigger picture.

Also, when you are focusing fully onto a task, your body will move with it. It will want to take action to complete it. Your body will want to make that phone call, close that sale, change a strategy etc.

When you are thinking of that particular prospect long enough, your hand will pick up that phone to do a follow up sales. Your focus will drive your body to act.

Some people got stuck because they focus on the fear. Focusing on the fear, creates more fear. Instead focusing on the act itself. By focusing on the act hard enough, it drives you to act on it.

If your workload is overwhelming for you to focus on one thing, you may want to write them down.

Write down tasks that you need to complete every morning. Then tackle them one by one. Cancel them once you complete one task. By canceling, you feel good about it, thus will want to complete more tasks.

Feel free to add on your ways of focusing in this post. I am happy to learn from you as well.

Mastery – becoming so good at what you do that people are willing to pay you a high price to get your service. Achieving mastery allows you to amass tremendous wealth and freedom.

There is mediocrity in this world, too much of them. And Mediocre can only charge at what other mediocre is charging. But a master can charge 2 times, 5 times or even 10 times that amount.

I walked past a training centre having a road show yesterday. As a trainer and businessman, the inquisitive nature brought me to the booth. I wanted to see what courses they are offering at what kind of prices, and their business model.

The price is $200 for a 2 days course. We charged 10 times that amount. From that price, I can gauged the quality of the course. I’ve been to some of this kind of courses, so I have some idea of what is going on in the course.

In order for them to make $20,000 they have to work very hard. Say a class of 20, so 1 class they make $4,000. They have to run 5 times to make $20,000. For our company we just need to conduct it once to make the same amount.

That’s because the way we conduct our program is very different from the rest of the training companies. And our trainers have gain a level of mastery in the industries.

On the other hand, mastery can never be achieved. Mastery is a journey not a destination. When you thought you achieved a new level of competency, you’ll realize there is room for improvement very soon.

Life is about improving and improving, getting better and better at what you do. The purpose of gaining mastery is not to feed your ego, but to feed your soul. Always check back on your feeling. Do you feel at peace with yourself? I admit there are times Ego got the better of me. Fortunately the spirit in me continues to warn me about feeding my ego too much.

Continue to gain mastery, continue to improve. The better you get, the more people you can serve.
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I was reading the book, A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle and something struck me. At one part of the book he was sharing about self esteem. He was sharing human needs to have an identification or attachment to something because this is the nature of the EGO.

We use these attachments to build our self esteem. Like some lady likes to have branded handbags or men want to drive bigger car. Or you may have heard of people who tends to mentioned that they are associated with some groups or organization. All these create a belonging, identification or attachment to something for the person.

If we look at it this way, that means the things that we possess and the groups that we belong to shaped our identity. The things you own determine who you are, is it true? Or is it the other way round – who you are determine the things you own.

How about this – take away all your possession, now who are you? Without your car, your house, your group, who is this person? Do you still have that level of confidence without all those possession?

Most use possession to form their identity and build their self esteem. This comes from advertisement that we are exposed to daily. Advertisements show us that if we own those products, we will find ourselves. Therefore many build their self esteem based on the possession they have. Once it was taken away from them, they lose all their self esteem and confidence.

I know of women who will never walk out of the house without make-up. What are they trying to hide actually?

If I were to strip off all my possession, who am I? I am searching, what about you?

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