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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Diving into the unusual
I had been on a writer's block the past 6 weeks whereas come to think of it, my wife and I had been in 3 countries and there is really so much to tell. So much to tell but so little time. Well at least that's what I thought..
Until I got to sat down and pondered on an email Mr Jomar Hilario, an online entrepreneur guru, had forwarded me. It got me to clicking this Kindle thing and how I could earn passive income from it. Kindle? Well I (and probably 96% of Filipinos) are so used to reading pdfs as ebooks instead of kindle books so why bother?
That's when I began checking out this link he sent me and within an hour I was truly convinced that kindle books are the more user friendly ebooks in the market. I was amazed with its functionality..Just by touching a word a little longer in any of its text, a menu pops out giving you its definition and asking you either if you want to highlight such or take extra notes of or share it thru twitter or FB. It's an interactive book!(Nope, Amazon did not pay me to say kind words about this haha).
What caught my interest all the more was that the opportunity makes any interested writer make his own kindle book easily and have it published online in the Amazon stores for selling instantly entitling the author or publisher lifetime royalty income. Hmm, something which I had dreamed when I was in high school and thought as impossible (imagine National Book Store or Rex book store approaching you and asking if they could publish your work and put it in their stores...hmm far out!) is now something which I can now do at home and be seen and sold everywhere. :)
So having studied it well and watched Mr Deiss' videos, I was truly convinced to make the investment and dive into this. Of course, I investigated and checked some third party reviews on the site. It's not actually a walk in the park.. I paid a hefty sum (Philippine standards) to get enrolled and be in the club and get the course & necessary special softwares (let's just say it's much like our college tuition fee). But my heart is into it and in order to commit to it, I should not place myself once again in analysis paralysis again. I TOOK ACTION. Now that it takes extra effort & resource to do such...I have no excuse to fail.
I had searched online for solutions how to get rid of writer's block and the common suggestion is just observe & observe then write & write. Now to hurdle the most difficult task, "What will be my topic and title?"...... Please feel free to comment or suggest. Thank you!
What about you, what drives you?
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher.
Until I got to sat down and pondered on an email Mr Jomar Hilario, an online entrepreneur guru, had forwarded me. It got me to clicking this Kindle thing and how I could earn passive income from it. Kindle? Well I (and probably 96% of Filipinos) are so used to reading pdfs as ebooks instead of kindle books so why bother?
That's when I began checking out this link he sent me and within an hour I was truly convinced that kindle books are the more user friendly ebooks in the market. I was amazed with its functionality..Just by touching a word a little longer in any of its text, a menu pops out giving you its definition and asking you either if you want to highlight such or take extra notes of or share it thru twitter or FB. It's an interactive book!(Nope, Amazon did not pay me to say kind words about this haha).
What caught my interest all the more was that the opportunity makes any interested writer make his own kindle book easily and have it published online in the Amazon stores for selling instantly entitling the author or publisher lifetime royalty income. Hmm, something which I had dreamed when I was in high school and thought as impossible (imagine National Book Store or Rex book store approaching you and asking if they could publish your work and put it in their stores...hmm far out!) is now something which I can now do at home and be seen and sold everywhere. :)
So having studied it well and watched Mr Deiss' videos, I was truly convinced to make the investment and dive into this. Of course, I investigated and checked some third party reviews on the site. It's not actually a walk in the park.. I paid a hefty sum (Philippine standards) to get enrolled and be in the club and get the course & necessary special softwares (let's just say it's much like our college tuition fee). But my heart is into it and in order to commit to it, I should not place myself once again in analysis paralysis again. I TOOK ACTION. Now that it takes extra effort & resource to do such...I have no excuse to fail.
I had searched online for solutions how to get rid of writer's block and the common suggestion is just observe & observe then write & write. Now to hurdle the most difficult task, "What will be my topic and title?"...... Please feel free to comment or suggest. Thank you!
What about you, what drives you?
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher.
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Eighty twenty
I think I might have done too much rest (that is, from blogging) thanks to my previous post. My other side had been quite filled up, it's really sick season these past few weeks both in the clinics and in the hospital. Actually had just been back from a seminar and some respite, I might as well post on the same topic as promised.
The world literally had trained us to keep busy if we want to go up the ladder of success. Tim Ferris puts this in a graphic tone as follows: "If you want to move up the ladder in most of our corporate world, and assuming they don't really check what you're doing (let's be honest), just run around the office holding a cell phone to your head and carrying papers from 9 am to 5 pm. Now that is one busy employee". Unfortunately ( or quite fortunately), that's not how you increase your results and attain objectives.
Being effective is different from being efficient. Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task ( whether important or not) in the most economical matter possible. Sadly, being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.
It is no different to you to see so many people working in a company or more so in the government, when you visit their offices. It would surprise you why even with so much manpower, you find yourself with so much people waiting like you in a queue where the service staff seem to have no regard for your personal time. Then observing them closely, some of them just chatting with each other, some just having their eyes fixed to their documents not even looking at you when they talk to you, and most just running around in circles. All for the routine of just to consume their 9 to 5 regimen. It is a wonder why it takes months just to get some simple government permits done. The society is infected with AIDS (As If Doing Something).
Applying this to your life, there are two truisms to take note of.
1. Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.
2. Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
Enter this principle of a renowned economist who lived from 1848 to 1923, Mr Vilfredo Pareto. The principle he conceived and presented then is now one of the secrets of the most successful people in the world. His Pareto principle is more popularly called the "80/20 principle".
His principle originally describes how uneven the income distribution was in all parts of the world. "80% of the wealth and income was produced by 20% of the population". But this proportion is found actually in almost all aspects of human life.
So with this in mind, here are two basic questions which you should work on to free your precious time (as recommended by Mr Tim Ferris in his book "The Four Hour Work week)".
1. Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness?
2. Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness?
Just set an entire day to ponder on these questions and write and record your answers in each aspect of your life ( family, business or career). Your goal is to find your inefficiencies in order to eliminate them and to find your strengths so you can multiply them.
Being overwhelmed with things to do is often as unproductive as doing nothing and is far more unpleasant. Being selective- doing less- is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.
It;s easy to get caught in a flood of minutiae, and the key to not feeling rushed is remembering that lack of time is actually lack of priorities. Take time to stop and smell the flowers...
"One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but decrease. The height of cultivation runs to simplicity. - Bruce Lee
The world literally had trained us to keep busy if we want to go up the ladder of success. Tim Ferris puts this in a graphic tone as follows: "If you want to move up the ladder in most of our corporate world, and assuming they don't really check what you're doing (let's be honest), just run around the office holding a cell phone to your head and carrying papers from 9 am to 5 pm. Now that is one busy employee". Unfortunately ( or quite fortunately), that's not how you increase your results and attain objectives.1. Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.
2. Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
Enter this principle of a renowned economist who lived from 1848 to 1923, Mr Vilfredo Pareto. The principle he conceived and presented then is now one of the secrets of the most successful people in the world. His Pareto principle is more popularly called the "80/20 principle".
His principle originally describes how uneven the income distribution was in all parts of the world. "80% of the wealth and income was produced by 20% of the population". But this proportion is found actually in almost all aspects of human life.- 80% of the outputs result from 20% of the inputs.
- 80% of the results come from 20% of the effort and time.
- 80% of company profits come from 20% of the products and customers.
- 80% of all stock marketgains are realized by 20% of the investors and 20% of an individual portfolio.
So with this in mind, here are two basic questions which you should work on to free your precious time (as recommended by Mr Tim Ferris in his book "The Four Hour Work week)".
1. Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness?
2. Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness?
Just set an entire day to ponder on these questions and write and record your answers in each aspect of your life ( family, business or career). Your goal is to find your inefficiencies in order to eliminate them and to find your strengths so you can multiply them.
Being overwhelmed with things to do is often as unproductive as doing nothing and is far more unpleasant. Being selective- doing less- is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.
It;s easy to get caught in a flood of minutiae, and the key to not feeling rushed is remembering that lack of time is actually lack of priorities. Take time to stop and smell the flowers...
"One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but decrease. The height of cultivation runs to simplicity. - Bruce Lee
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Hurrah to rest :)
It seems a little bit odd for me to be sitting here at the balcony of our hotel typing on Blogger thru my iPad right on top of and almost beside the blue clear resort pool and the gushing waves of the blue sea. My wife is attending her lecture, the kids are already having their classes so they were left home, and here I am alone in the room just pondering on what to do.
It's a bit odd coz just days or even hours ago, my mind is filled up with so many things to do and self guilt as to why I'm not accomplishing everything as planned out. Is it my old habit of postponing things again at the helm? Hmmm, let me work at why I don't think so...
So far, I was already able to take a step forward as far as medical pursuit is concerned. Had already fulfilled & submitted the requirements to be a member of the prestigious American College of Physicians. And as of last week, I had received an official email from them confirming me now as an official international member. :).
It was not just the title I was after. What lured me was the perk of being able to access all the full text journals of the Annals of Internal Medicine (whether past or present) and their other resources which certainly would help me a lot with my practice and in my teaching. So far the past few days I had been actually been busy downloading some PDFs which some I had come to and were indeed very good material. I hope that as I intend to share them with the medical residents, they would have the enthusiasm to appreciate them and use them in their training.
As for my online marketing ventures, I was able to get involved with a low entry network marketing company with good products which is also backed up with huge online resources to boost its marketing and pay plan. I felt it was a good fit for my brother in law and my wife's secretary whom my wife and I are trying to help. So we got them in and in the past few days had managed to enroll too my other 2 sis in laws and placed them in my bro in law's downline. I missed attending their online marketing seminar this Saturday and missed clinic too but in exchange was able to attend my niece's daughter's birthday and saw our son dance with her.
Enough mumbling.....it's now time to go back inside, rest so I could clear my mind for the following days and be more in tune with my life purpose (or maybe in tune with the latest hits on Myx or what's up at HBO). I believe I should take heed of what Tim Ferriss says, "Less is not laziness". Doing less meaningless work so you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness. Focus on being productive rather than busy.
I have a full week ahead once we get home but for now it's rest time......... :) Why slave, rest, and retire when you can do the mini retirements and enjoy things at the moment . The next few posts will be about achieving results by not necessarily being busy.
Hurrah to rest!!
"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day..." - Robert Frost (tsk tsk tsk)
It's a bit odd coz just days or even hours ago, my mind is filled up with so many things to do and self guilt as to why I'm not accomplishing everything as planned out. Is it my old habit of postponing things again at the helm? Hmmm, let me work at why I don't think so...
So far, I was already able to take a step forward as far as medical pursuit is concerned. Had already fulfilled & submitted the requirements to be a member of the prestigious American College of Physicians. And as of last week, I had received an official email from them confirming me now as an official international member. :).
It was not just the title I was after. What lured me was the perk of being able to access all the full text journals of the Annals of Internal Medicine (whether past or present) and their other resources which certainly would help me a lot with my practice and in my teaching. So far the past few days I had been actually been busy downloading some PDFs which some I had come to and were indeed very good material. I hope that as I intend to share them with the medical residents, they would have the enthusiasm to appreciate them and use them in their training.
As for my online marketing ventures, I was able to get involved with a low entry network marketing company with good products which is also backed up with huge online resources to boost its marketing and pay plan. I felt it was a good fit for my brother in law and my wife's secretary whom my wife and I are trying to help. So we got them in and in the past few days had managed to enroll too my other 2 sis in laws and placed them in my bro in law's downline. I missed attending their online marketing seminar this Saturday and missed clinic too but in exchange was able to attend my niece's daughter's birthday and saw our son dance with her.
Enough mumbling.....it's now time to go back inside, rest so I could clear my mind for the following days and be more in tune with my life purpose (or maybe in tune with the latest hits on Myx or what's up at HBO). I believe I should take heed of what Tim Ferriss says, "Less is not laziness". Doing less meaningless work so you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness. Focus on being productive rather than busy.
I have a full week ahead once we get home but for now it's rest time......... :) Why slave, rest, and retire when you can do the mini retirements and enjoy things at the moment . The next few posts will be about achieving results by not necessarily being busy.
Hurrah to rest!!
"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day..." - Robert Frost (tsk tsk tsk)
Friday, June 15, 2012
No excuses please!
One of the common reasons why people fall back from their plans and promises is that it's easier to just let things happen, stick with your old habits, and hope and believe that something better will just come by.
Alcoholics anonymous define insanity as " continuing the same behaviour and expecting a different result. Nope it's not going to happen. If you're an alcoholic and you keep on drinking, your life is not going to get any better. In much the same way, if you continue your current behaviors, your life is not going to get any better either.
People are so used to believing they should be getting all the good things in life but they could not take in the thought that they should take action for it. Jack Canfield in his big white book "The Success Principles" puts out as Principle #1: Take 100% responsibility for your life.
He likens most people as this man who was on his knees looking for something on the street under the streetlamp. A passerby asks him what he was looking for and he answers that he's looking for his lost key. The passerby offers to help, bends on his knees too but after an hour of searching, nothing was found. "Are you sure you really lost it here, asks the passerby. The man replies, "No, I lost it in my house, but there is more light out here under the streetlamp..(Tsk tsk tsk, toink!).
It is time to stop looking outside yourself for the answers as to why you haven't created the life and results you want, for it is you who creates the quality of life you lead and the results you produce.
As you take 100% responsibility of your life, you have to give up all your excuses, all your victim stories, all the reasons why you can't and why haven't until now, and all your blaming of outside circumstances. Mr Canfield brought out this life formula:
E + R = O
( Event + Response = Outcome)
The basic idea is that every outcome you experience in life (whether it is success of failure, wealth or poverty, health or illness, intimacy or estrangement, joy or frustration) is the result of how you responded to an earlier event/ events in your life.
He says there are only two basic choices you can make if you don't like the outcomes you are currently getting.
Choice A: You can blame the event (E) for your lack of results (O).
Choice B: You can instead simply change your responses (R) to the events (E) - the way things are - until you get the outcomes you want.
Examples:
Common Event: Traffic is at a standstill. Two 10 wheeler trucks collided with each other at NLEX causing a traffic jam. Your usual 2 hour trip turns into 3 hrs.
Response A: "Nakakainis talaga, buwisit! ( What the f...., I hate this!!! Grrrr!). " Then the guy opens his window and shouts curses.
Outcome: 1. A very bad day. The bad mood shortens his life quality 3 notches lower.
2. He created equally hot headed people by inviting other people to join him in the "Ain't it awful" club...
Response B: "Well ok, at least I have some more time to eat my snack in the car, listen to inspiring audio CDs, and maybe even do some leisure reading..good thing knowing traffic can happen anywhere, I had prepared a traffic survival kit. :)"
Outcome: 1. A great day. I was able to finish my snack.
2. I learned new skills and ideas from the audio CDs and entertained myself with the book which I planned to read in weeks.
Everything you experience today is the result of choices you made in the past.
Examples:
Event: You are given a P20,000 bonus.
Response: You spent in a casino thinking you'll win a million the easy way.
You spent it with the guys drowning yourselves with beer and gin.
Outcomes: You are broke!
Event: You are given a P20,000 bonus.
Response: You invest it in mutual funds or a well thought off business.
Outcomes: You had an increased net worth!
You only have control over three things in your life --- the thoughts you think, the images you visualize, and the actions you take (your behavior). How you use these three things determine everything you experience.
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie -
Alcoholics anonymous define insanity as " continuing the same behaviour and expecting a different result. Nope it's not going to happen. If you're an alcoholic and you keep on drinking, your life is not going to get any better. In much the same way, if you continue your current behaviors, your life is not going to get any better either.
People are so used to believing they should be getting all the good things in life but they could not take in the thought that they should take action for it. Jack Canfield in his big white book "The Success Principles" puts out as Principle #1: Take 100% responsibility for your life.
It is time to stop looking outside yourself for the answers as to why you haven't created the life and results you want, for it is you who creates the quality of life you lead and the results you produce.
As you take 100% responsibility of your life, you have to give up all your excuses, all your victim stories, all the reasons why you can't and why haven't until now, and all your blaming of outside circumstances. Mr Canfield brought out this life formula:
E + R = O
( Event + Response = Outcome)
The basic idea is that every outcome you experience in life (whether it is success of failure, wealth or poverty, health or illness, intimacy or estrangement, joy or frustration) is the result of how you responded to an earlier event/ events in your life.
He says there are only two basic choices you can make if you don't like the outcomes you are currently getting.
Choice A: You can blame the event (E) for your lack of results (O).
Choice B: You can instead simply change your responses (R) to the events (E) - the way things are - until you get the outcomes you want.
Examples:
Common Event: Traffic is at a standstill. Two 10 wheeler trucks collided with each other at NLEX causing a traffic jam. Your usual 2 hour trip turns into 3 hrs.
Response A: "Nakakainis talaga, buwisit! ( What the f...., I hate this!!! Grrrr!). " Then the guy opens his window and shouts curses.
Outcome: 1. A very bad day. The bad mood shortens his life quality 3 notches lower.
2. He created equally hot headed people by inviting other people to join him in the "Ain't it awful" club...
Response B: "Well ok, at least I have some more time to eat my snack in the car, listen to inspiring audio CDs, and maybe even do some leisure reading..good thing knowing traffic can happen anywhere, I had prepared a traffic survival kit. :)"
Outcome: 1. A great day. I was able to finish my snack.
2. I learned new skills and ideas from the audio CDs and entertained myself with the book which I planned to read in weeks.
Everything you experience today is the result of choices you made in the past.
Examples:
Event: You are given a P20,000 bonus.
Response: You spent in a casino thinking you'll win a million the easy way.
You spent it with the guys drowning yourselves with beer and gin.
Outcomes: You are broke!
Event: You are given a P20,000 bonus.
Response: You invest it in mutual funds or a well thought off business.
Outcomes: You had an increased net worth!
You only have control over three things in your life --- the thoughts you think, the images you visualize, and the actions you take (your behavior). How you use these three things determine everything you experience.
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie -
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