by Dexter Damien Chan on March 4, 2010
How’s everybody lunar new year celebration? Good? Collected many red packets as well? Do remember to do some savings for yourself – for any emergency funding and also for your retirement! The main reason for starting early is that you can let compounding interest work its magic!
A Special Shout-Out To Some Personal Friends (okay, no names will be mentioned)
I would like to thank two of my lady friends who chanced upon my humble site (I do not really do much site promotion) and reading some of the posts here. And I managed to catch the attention of both with regards to my family background (not intentional) and this led to a small talk which also let me know more about them!
In summary from both conversations: You are never alone when you are down. Even when you are down, always look at the positive side. Live happy and take things at a time and you can see solutions to any problems.
My Resolutions Update:
1. Mentally. Yeah. Managed to get down another book – Know What You Want and Get It! by Norman Monath
. This is a good book that shares with you on how to make good use of any situation and any environment to help you get what you want. If you want to create luck in your life – there’s a practical way which makes quite a fair bit of sense. 28 Books to go!
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by Dexter Damien Chan on February 6, 2010
Resolutions Update:
- Mentally. I have managed to finish a book by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer - Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits to help improve on my mental attitude which I also believe many Entrepreneurs will definitely benefit from (to stop giving yourself excuses due to personal limitations). I am on my second book now. So this leave me 29 books to go!
- Giving back. I have realized profit (already credited) of US$7.93 so I will be contributing $0.793 to both my Church and World Vision. As this is still a small amount, I will make the contribution once both hit $25.
- Health. Weight is currently at 72kg. And I am also consuming one less coffee each day. Good way to better health!
- Financially. As a Financial Planner, it seems like I am not doing well in getting people insured in the month of January. Which also means that I did not really hit my sales quota. This, which I hope, I can have a turn-around real soon. May God Bless Me!
- Online Entrepreneurship. In this area, I am more organized now by having proper planning and updating. Overall my sites are maintained and updated at least twice in the month.
What I Have Learnt As An Online Entrepreneur:
>> You must have a strong and positive mindset.
I am naturally a negative person and easily affected by the opinions of others (signs of low self-esteem). End day will be that the whole day is affected. This affects my attitude towards my customers (less enthusiastic face-to-face consultation) and also towards my style of blogging (writing sub-standard blog posts). Therefore a strong and positive mindset is very much necessary. As an Entrepreneur, you have to think of solutions around your problems and not to keep bothering about the problem.
>> You must understand what you are good with.
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by Dexter Damien Chan on January 1, 2010
Happy 2010 To One And All!
And specially to you for supporting this blog and following all my postings!
Also a special thanks to my colleague who spoke to me yesterday – telling me that she found my personal blog by doing a random search for “surveys” and she landed on my site. Guess that’s the amazing power you get from blogging so for those who are interested in becoming an online entrepreneur in 2010 – start blogging!
My Resolutions For 2010
I was thinking through of what I intend to do for 2010 and had nowhere to jot them down and what better way then to do so with this blog post. At least I “sort of” made a personal commitment to you by posting them here. So here goes:
- Debts – to clear major part of my study and tuition loan (outstanding of around $27K), take care of my brother’s medical expenses and which I hope to clear with my current salary and from the earnings with my online activities.
- Financially – I am currently working as a Financial Planner (on a fixed pay system and with a new monthly incentive scheme coming up real soon) so I would like to really make good money out from this. Time to get serious and work hard!
- Online Entrepreneurship – In 2009, I created numerous sites dealing with different genre – affiliate marketing, online retailing, home-based business, web design templates, financial planning, blog aggregator. Personally all these sites are very much under-managed. I guess in 2010, I will personally make these sites grow and make a good monthly profit out of them.
- Giving Back – I believe in the idea of giving back. Before I became independently on my own – surviving through university education and having my mum and brother in a nursing home – there was a lot of financial and spiritual help given by my church – Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and from 2010 onwards, I will be donating 10% of my online profits (my only condition – money has to be credited to my account) to the Church and also to a charitable organization – World Vision Singapore. All these donations will be done on a regular basis! And maybe I should do up a sidebar widget to keep track of my progress on these donations.
- Physically – My current weight is at 73Kg (do not laugh) at a height of 1.68m. This is not a good sign that I am healthy. A good commitment for 2010 will be to reduce this weight to around 65kg.
- Mentally – Books are good and I intend to build up my own knowledge by reading at least 30 books.
Guess I should stop at these 6 or else I will start to make up a lot of excuses why I cannot achieve at the end of 2010.
So have you personally made any resolutions and posted it somewhere? I would like to read up what you have posted (and steal a few more ideas and suggestions).
Once again! Happy 2010 to you all!
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by Dexter Damien Chan on October 8, 2009
How is your September 2009 been like? Good? And it’s time for another personal review!
It’s Been A Sneezy Month!
Do not know if you are affected by the haze but it’s been affecting me quite badly and I have been sneezing away for most part of September 2009. This is a good time to start looking into your health aspect. Boost up your immune system with supplements and lots of exercise today!
It’s Been A Personal Month!
This is also the month that got me quite affected personally in terms for my family. My mum passed away in June 2009 at the age of 68 due to Alzheimer’s Disease and Urinary Tract Infection (after 9 years of battling this two illnesses) leaving me and my Elder Brother (he’s 40 and mentally handicapped) as Orphans.
And also that my Elder Brother is in a Nursing Home, it’s my sole responsibility now to take care of him (though not 100% physically) but more of Financially.
So guess so, this is one of the many motivating factors that will keep me pushing forward to become financially independent as a Financial Planner and Online Entrepreneur!
So What Did I Do For My Online Adventure In September 2009?
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