Personal Development Blog – Top 3 Reasons Why It Is The Best Decision?
It has been a while since my last article and many things had happened. So I’m back here what I’ve learned to love doing and that is writing. It has been also more than a year since I started this site after attending an Internet Marketing Boot camp by Fabian Lim. I actually started my personal development blog just after 2 months from the course since we did an exercise on creating a landing page.
Why create a blog in the first place? It was a great start for me to start on my journey about internet marketing and learn how to use wordpress at the same time. Now, why blog about personal development and not about internet marketing or make money online? During those times I was actually doing network marketing and I’ve immersed myself a lot about self improvement materials. So I made a commitment after learning it from Tony Robbins Unlimited Power about this word ‘CANI’ which means Constant And Never-ending Improvement. This inspired him to create an English version of Japanese term kaizen that means improvement or change for the better. The closer meaning is continuous improvement since I’ve worked with Japanese manufacturing company for several years. That’s how I came also about my never-ending personal development story. Oh by the way, I’ve ranked number 2 on google for the keywords – personal development story.
I believe that personal growth is the best decision that I made. Â Here are some top 3 reasons why.
1. The person I become – tremendous changes have happened to me ever since I took this path. If you can ask my mother, before I think I have a very negative attitude among the 4 siblings even I was the eldest. Now, it’s the other way around, I have a positive mental attitude as the most dominant. I see my environment as a reflection of myself. I am more open and expanding my view to the world of unlimited possibilities.
2.  Attract and inspire – If I developed myself ten times more imagine how much I can affect my family and friends. Just recently, I gave lots of personal advice and some inspirations to my brother who was at his crossroad after failing an exam for 3 times. After sometime he was very thankful to me for introducing him to Jim Rohn and other inspiring references. A friend of mine was also inspired and started his own blog after reading some of my posts. I must say that the law of attraction really works. Here’s a great attraction, someone from Michael E. Gerber Company (He is the best selling author of the E-Myth books series just for your information) contacted me to do a joint venture in one of his projects. How cool was that?
3. Time Value – time is the most important and precious resource that we have. I have a television in my room but I seldom turn it on. I spend most of my time on reading books but more often listening to audio books from my iPod. It has been a habit every time I travelled on a bus or MRT (Mass Rapid Transit here in Singapore) to listen to my audio books, even in my workplace.  Also I love to spend my time in the public library every time I have run out of audio books to listen.
How To Become An Entrepreneur – 3 Essential Truths You Need To Develop
Are entrepreneurs born or made? This had been an old battle of discussion. Everyone of us is an entrepreneur in one way or another. We just have to tap deep within us if we desire intensely. Let us define what does an entrepreneur means. The word entrepreneur is originally taken from the French word, etreprendre, which means ” to undertake.” In the business context this simply means to start a business. The Merriam- Webster dictionary defines an entrepreneur as one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise. It looks to me that not everyone can become an entrepreneur based from this definition. The definition actually varies from which perspective you are referring be it either business, social, economics, political.
Entrepreneurship must be a very diverse subject to discuss. I must say that all entrepreneurs started deep within themselves. That’s the topic that I want to talk about here as I am on this journey of becoming an entrepreneur. Yes I am still working on a job as a mechanical engineer for over more than 10 years already. Its never too late for me to pursue and become a dreamer. I have quite experienced some sort of an entrepreneurial skills development in my past 3 years of working here in Singapore. I had my first taste of engaging in a business through forex trading. Then I got involved with multi-level marketing business until I committed to being an online entrepreneur as a search engine marketer.
Here are 3 Keys you need to develop to become an entrepreneur within.
1. Definiteness of Purpose – when I started a network marketing business, we were taught to write down our dreams and goals. Why do you want that dreams and goals?  Why is that important to you? Its all about WHY? You need to develop to ask below the surface questions. In any kind of business this should be the starting point of where you want to be even one’s life purpose. Purpose is very powerful specially if you get emotional.
2. Passion – this is the driving force of your purpose. Passion gives you the energy to do what you love doing regardless of time. It drives me to learn things that I don’t know. To express myself openly and to be the best that I can be all the time.
3. Continuous Practice – I have to commit on practicing the necessary skills and traits of a great entrepreneur as much as I can. It took me more than 5 years to become a mechanical engineer and more than 10 years to be an impeccable expert on 3D CAD Modeling. This same practice should also apply to becoming an entrepreneur. I played and practice a lot of times playing basketball almost everyday before. I even imagined making the shots while I am in my dreams.  What distinguishes a star from the other performers is the number of hours of practice. A 10,000-Hour Rule was the norm  based in Malcolm Gladwell’s  book Outliers: The Story of Success.
My take is everyone can learn to become an entrepreneur.  Read books about entrepreneurship, meet people who are entrepreneur, enroll in a course or even hire a coach.
I need to act like one, dress like them, talk like an entrepreneur, be like one. Then in time entrepreneurship will find me.
“Being an entrepreneur is not a group effort. You have to trust yourself.” – Donald Trump
Inspired from Michael Gerber E Myth Mastery
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