KianAnn.com - Life is About Living Your Choices

Yesterday, I met up with my friend and insurance agent for dinner, and he was sharing with me his first few years of experience in the financial planning business.

According to him, the first 6 months were the times which he really gave it all - putting a 100% focus on the business, determined to make one case every single day before he is willing to head home and rest.

Today, he is a manager, and is in the million dollar round table (MDRT).

That kind of spirit and determination and hard work is admirable. It really impresses and inspires me.

Nothing beats persistence and hard work.

From the short session with him, I’ve come to realise that I am STILL focusing on too many things. I want to do too many things, and then I end up not excelling in any.

I spent some time thinking about the things I have on hand, and I have decided to drop a few things in my life - or at least, put them aside for the next 6 months to a year, so that I can have a single one-eyed focus on ONE business.

Its a challenge.

I’ll focus on my N21 business. I’ll drop my Internet Marketing business. Not because one has greater potential than the other, but because I feel that if I want to succeed in something, it’d be the N21 business.

I’ll give myself one week (until next Wednesday) to just tidy up some things, and then I’ll leave my websites aside. They’ll be in “maintenance mode” until I am a Platinum in the N21 business.

I will not help people (friends, relatives alike) not because I don’t want to, but because that might make me lose focus. I’m sorry.

Then it’ll be FULL ON, no distractions!

I realize its been a couple of days since I last posted. Time really flies when you put focus in the things you need to do… and when that list of things to do keeps you motivated until its time to sleep everyday… But I’m glad that amidst these recent hectic days, I still manage to spend some quality time with my parents and PX. Maybe not enough, but at least I did.

Okay. Some updates.

1. Twittering

Yeah, I’m on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/tankianann. Just signed up for fun and then realized I can update that through my mobile phone. Pretty cool way to waste time keep updated about who’s doing what.

2. Erm… Dates

Met up with Kenneth together with PX on National Day to calculate auspicious dates for our marriage. ROM on 12 Aug 2009 and customary on 9 Apr 2010. Now its time to make arrangements… and make money to make the arrangements.

I’ve been offered a position to be an e-learning executive for a local educational group. I’m half tempted to switch jobs, because of the promised increase in salary, and the fact that my work location will be near to the sports amenities - which will spur me to get moving.

I have no doubt that I will be able to do well in the position. However, I need to remind myself what and why I am working for now. Work is a means for survival, and the only reason I am working full time today is because that will motivate me to build my N21 business after work hours.

So I must stick to my plan. My business mentor once told me - that distractions (like the job offer) are just tests for you to see how focused you are to your success plan.

So I must stick to my plan.

I’m going to be free by next year. Its a must. So I must stick to my plan.

Yesterday I had a short business review with my mentor - and I really appreciate him for his time and advice.

Frankly, things are not going as well as it is supposed to be - I’m still not doing enough to make sure things are moving the way it needs to be.

In our short discussion, I realised again that I have in a sense “lost the dream” once again.

I’d admit, its very easy to lose focus when you have a regular 9am to 6am job. Afterall, its 9 hours of of your life everyday - a third of your life spent in a boring cubical.

Life is also full of distractions. Recently I had tonnes of them.

Last week, my computer fan messed up - and I had to send it back to IBM. When it came back, after some minor software updates, the operating system just refused to load. Spent the whole Sunday formatting it… and then it crashed again. Formatted again… and yesterday I almost lost my entire partition of data (all my data). Good thing it was recovered.

It doesn’t feel excellent to be surviving on total 6 hours of sleep for the last 2 days and knowing you won’t be really sleeping soundly until the weekend.

But I think I need to get back in focus. Daryl asked me yesterday - if I can guarantee a I’ll get $80,000 if I show 30 plans from now till the coming WLS, will there be a problem doing it?

I’m just not focusing on the right things recently.

Things will get better today.

Yesterday evening I had a short business review and consultation session with my business mentor - and through the session we actually identified and realised that one of the main issues that might be causing my delayed success is because I am not affirming myself regularly enough…

Or to put it in another way - While I know in a general direction where I’m heading, I don’t have the exact vision of what my future is, and I don’t yet believe that it is going to happen.

I took time today to stop focusing on the present, and really dream about what is possible in my life one year down the road. I really like what’s coming ahead of me.

When the “why” is strong enough, the “how” doesn’t matter.