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I’m really excited about this!! T. Harv Eker is coming to Malaysia this May 2008!! He’ll be conducting his most raved about seminar, Millionaire Mind Intensive at the Mines Exhibition Centre from 23 to 25 May 2008. I must give my thanks to Lee Men for informing me about this. She’s provided me with the following link for further details regarding the seminar:

 http://www.fastsuccesstips.com/harveker.htm

I am still undecided about going. My heart’s saying ‘yes, yes, yes you know you want to go!’ but another part of me is thinking…. oh well.. never mind what the other part of me is thinking!!

oh gosh, this is a chance of a life time!! I wished for it (read old post) and I got it! Talk about the power of attraction. Yes, once again Azrina has attracted what she wants most..

So yup, I am thinking of getting some friends to attend this event together. Hey girlfriends!! Give me a shout out!

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I won! I won! I won! Wow..truly amazing! I am so happy and grateful to JoeTech and all sponsors for the fab prize! Thanks to Lan for alerting me about it too :). I’d just gotten back from a refreshing educational day at the national zoo and was greeted by this great news.

I am thankful that I’d joined entrecard and gotten acquainted with JoeTech and other savvy friends. Saif, if you are reading this, and if you haven’t done so already I’d suggest you put up an entrecard on your blog (only if you want to buddy). Really helps to get more visitors to your site and more opportunities to stumble upon valuable blogs/website.

Oh..and on the side note, come join Saif and our team, sign up as a Gratitude Journalist (limited places) for free!!

Cheers everyone!!

P.S. Visit JoeTech’s site and RSS feed it! Enter this month’s 100 bucks contest now!

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Believe it not, even the youngest children are able to teach you something about life. My son today taught me that if I didn’t make plans for myself, others will do it for me. And that reminds me of what Johnny Wimbrey mentioned in one of his motivational talks.

He said something along the lines of “when others make plans for you they often make it too small..” And he is way right. Only you can plan the bestest life for yourself.
So how did my son, a young one who is just learning to talk teach me or rather reminded me of this valuable lesson? He made plans for me. Yup, that’s right. So I didn’t plan my free hours (when my son was napping) too well and ended up not being able to make time for myself and had to devote time to him when he awoke.

On the subject of children, I watched an Indonesian movie just now about a young blind girl who did not get the love she deserved from her parents. She befriends a lady who turns out to be her own father’s long lost daughter from a previous marriage. In the end, when at last lost daughter and father reunites through blind girl, an unexpected accident occurs and lost daughter/new sister dies tragically. Blind girl is unaware of the death of her new-found sister until she recovers from a major eye operation and is able to see the world for the first time. She asks for her new sister but is told that God has taken her away and although that being the case the blind girl’s sister will forever be with her through her new found vision.

Ok, so that movie left me in tears despite me having no intentions to watch it at first. I just conveniently had it on while I was checking my emails. After the movie ended, my thoughts drifted to my son who is now peacefully asleep. I vow to be a better, more patient mother. Although he is fast approaching the ‘terrible twos’ and is currently at the throw/destroy everything in sight stage, I must learn to understand him. I discovered that raising my voice would only cause him to react and act more mischievously while keeping my cool produces better result.

Being a great mom sure takes learning..

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I’ve been getting quite a few healthy enquiries about Success University lately. It’s a good sign showing that more and more people are interested enough to find out more about the program. And they’re doing their homework which I encourage. Afterall why invest in a program you have no interest in just for the sake of trying to make more money, right?

I also noticed that these people wrote in to me for a more human and personal touch. I can understand where their coming from. There is a need to be understood and taken care of that is core to human nature.

 These days where most online business are automated, personal correspondence is often being replaced by autoresponders and templates or standard responses to a client’s/customer’s/prospect’s question. It’s actually a smart move by the people in this industry. It saves time and your answers are delivered fast and accurate. It’s one beautiful way of ensuring that your business goes to work eventhough you’re out for a break.

This is actually RK’s definition of a business - a system that can be worked successfully without your presence.

People new or just venturing into this internet business/marketing industry must seek to understand this.

Despite an autoresponder email starting out with a ‘Dear (your name),’ it is often seen as impersonal unless it is the first time you’re receiving an email of this sort. However, if it’s contents provide you with value in form of new useful knowledge, I’m sure you wouldn’t mind receiving it. It’s a bit like reading a newsletter, but a more personalised newsletter with your name on it.

In an effort to provide more friendly service to prospective members, I’m thinking of setting up a community blog. We can pose questions there or decide on a theme to blog about each day in our own blogs (themes can range from SU marketing success tips to the best lessons we’ve learnt from our SU courses).

But doing that would not exactly be duplicating the system from my upline. But who’s to say you have to do the exact same thing to produce good results? Afterall, don’t you want to produce better results? So doing extra and going the extra mile can help you do just that (that’s me talking to myself). 

At the moment I am thankful to my sifu for we have a very useful forum to participate in. It is from that platform that I launched into this business. But now I must become a leader to create more leaders in my team. It is part of the journey to achieving success in this business. And to think that we can do it all online.

What’s great about Success University is that it focuses on personal development. Each and every one of our members must have something that they are good at. It is that particular area of expertise that we want to enhance on and develop into a niche they can blog about while still being relevant to personal development. No matter what field you’re working, studying or are interested in, Success University’s program will always prove to be useful.

Develop yourself to develop your dreams and realise your goals.

Tags: Internet Marketing, Personal Development, Success University by Me Rina
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I’ve been working hard on this one. Who was it that told me the first three years of your marriage is the hardest? Well she may just be right. Knowing this, it also make sense to stick together and work on it, nurturing the relationship to bring it to a more mature level.

 To me, marriage is about love, respect, trust and responsibility. I really do admire the couples who make it past the golden years.

I have been putting a lot of effort into making our marriage work and last. And without my other half cooperating, it probably would not have been easier.

Discovering how the law of attraction works has been a blessing to me. These days, I am much calmer, I notice how I react to incidences and try my best to control my emotions.

I wake up every morning thanking Allah for everything I’ve been blessed with. I pray every day that I’ll be taken closer and closer to my goals until they are finally in my grasp.

For couples who are thinking of tying the knots I would highly recommend that the following issues are discussed and resolved before embarking on this great journey of love:

1. Issue of where to reside - buy your own home, rent, stay with family..

For me, we planned differently but as our plans were dependent on another person, so were the outcome. So I suggest you make a plan with outcomes that you can control so the both of you would be happier.

2. Financial planning - have you saved enough?

Start your marriage with good credit. Planning your daily, monthly and yearly budget is totally a must.. Also make sure you set aside part of your income for savings. Impulse buy is never rewarding. It’s lead us to alot of debts and also an unhealthy lifestyle since we have be forced into a more frugal life now that we’ve realised our mistake.

3. Family planning - when to have your first child.

What preparations will you need to prepare you for parenthood? Read, read, read!

4. Chores delegation

Who does what based on who is good at what and who likes to do what.. this will avoid the ladies ending up doing everything and asking the why me question.

Why am I listing all this? So that my bachelor friends and my younger bros can learn from my mistakes.

But all in all.. it was a mistake well learned. I’m praying that our marriage is stronger than ever as a result of coming out of it.

Yes, for my husband (and son) I am willing to:

- move into a more favourable home,

- further my studies in UK,

-work in this service a tad longer,

- control my emotions,

- become a more loving person,

- cook more meals at home, and

- pursue my passion!!

When you do something for others, apart from feeling great you will often be rewarded with better. And this I am experiencing first hand :). Here’s to a better life!

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I’m due for an update! Geez, I’m finding it not easier to write a post these days. I suppose it has to do with me not concentrating on one given task before jumping to the next. I need focus!

Lately I’ve been thinking about how I can give back to my parents. I got the idea from our country’s recent election - instead of thinking, what the ruling government can do for us? think, what can WE do for our country..

So yes, back to my parents.. my mum doesn’t have any specific wants. According to her, she’s got everything she needs and everything she ever wanted. She just wants more respect. I’ve been dropping hints that she could make more money and earn more respect by compiling her yummy recipes from round the globe into an easy to read manual for first time cooks - I’d be the first to buy it from her!!

Now my dad a very hard working, respectful man who’s dedicated his life to support his family and provided each one of us with the best he could offer. I think he very well deserves to have the house of his dreams. But how can I, having not yet acquired my house of dreams do something to help him get closer to achieving his dreams? Well I could come up with a brilliant business idea that I know my dad is capable of doing. More in the line of writing a book. Afterall, my dad’s a fabulous writer and editor. I’m trying to get him to blog as well. And yeah, he still needs to complete his PhD dissertation before he can have a Dr. before his name. He doesn’t have a Dato’ ship but I did manage to bring his level up to ‘datuk’ by bringing into the world his first grandson.

My dear, dear parents.. what more can I do for you..

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Two months have passed and it’s time for me to review my goals again for the year. The purpose of doing this review is for me to see how much I’ve achieved in the previous two months. Let me just go through my list:

1. Success University Program:

I’ve slowed down on it’s promotion a bit though I know many more people can benefit from the program. My main goal for SU is ofcourse to earn recurring income from it. The program alone is great and the monthly newsletters and cds/dvds keep me motivated. As for enrollment, I’ve managed to enroll a few prospects however I am still in the process of finding the right people to pass on the knowledge to. By that I’m referring to people who are really serious about succeeding and acquiring riches with the program. I guess it all points back to me in the sense of how far I myself am willing to go to advance in ranks. This needs more working on. I need to find passion in Success University (right now my mind is on the postgraduate program I’m eyeing at Brunel University) and reconnect myself to it.

2. Financial Goals

I have managed to keep track of my daily spending in my diary. I find tracking purchases and expenses help keep it under control. I find myself buying only necessities and even when I eat out, I tend to seek the cheapest eateries/food stalls. Reading Alan Corey’s experience to become a millionaire by the age of 30 is pretty inspiring. Although his ideas are more suited to those who are still single, his drive to save money and earn more has made me wanting to do the same. I’ve also been devouring various other books on finance, wealth creation and investment. I find them rather addictive and will keep on reading books in this category for the rest of the year to increase my financial knowledge (thus putting me in the right path to financial freedom). I can already see how I’m going to fund our new home and still be able to invest in unit trusts (managed to find good agent). I have also already bought insurance and still have some amount in savings which I will need to top up.

3. Blog for WAHMs

My dreams of becoming a work-at-home-mom is still undergoing progress. I had intended to come up with an ebook on interviews with successful Malaysian WAHMs to find inspiration from them and for others. Have to start working on this. So far I’ve managed to interview Sandra Rocco of Miabambina.

4. Becoming an Independent Certified Instructor for BabySigns(Malaysia)

It’s another income earning opportunity I recently found. I’ve actually been wanting to be certified as an early childhood instructor since last year. At first I thought maybe hypnobirthing would be a good niche (though that’s not early childhood). But then babysigns came along and since my son is still at the right age to teach baby sign language, I am thinking, why not? (Yeah, SaiF - Why not me right?;)) It’s double opportunity for me to teach my son the useful skill and earn extra teaching others. So I recently returned my completed application for this and now I have an interview with Jamie of BabySignsMalaysia. Now that’s rather exciting

5. Plans to further my masters degree abroad

I have finally decided on a program (anthropology of education) and university. This will be finalised after I attend the UK Education fair end of this month. I’ll be able to meet up with my chosen university’s representatives and get to find out more on the program. Also still keeping a look out on the scholarship offer.

Wow, it looks like I have alot to focus on already other then my day job which I am still dedicatedly working on. I realised that I just reviewed my goals based on my written goals for last year and not the new goal I set out for this year. But it hasn’t changed much and I am progressing a bit with baby-steps.

Phew! This was good exercise to keep my momentum going. I’m glad I did it. Sharing it with others only puts me in action mode since I will surely only want to report back positive outcomes. To quote from SaiF of SaiF Improvement, here’s to Constant And Never-ending Improvement (CANI)!

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My husband and I have come to an agreement as to the house we’ll call our home. I’ve blogged about this several times. Quite some time ago I dreamt of an even more luxurious dream home. But I’ve dropped that dream. This house we both found to our liking is far more real. I am so tempted to put up a photo of our soon-to-be home here but I always say that (I’ll put up a photo) and hardly get around to doing it. I suppose I’m a more wordy person who prefers to display her visions in words instead of pictures. So I won’t mention wanting to put up any photos unless I make it a point to really get around to doing it. Deal.

So our dream home.. How should I describe it.. It’s located in the current golden triangle of the state I’m living in. Close to my place of work and hubby’s. Not far away from my family and his. Supermarkets, hospitals, banks, police station etc just 10 minutes away. Yet the place is serene away from the highway though can be seen glimpse of it from the busy roads. The house is very modern designed with an open concept - no walls in between living room, dining room and kitchen (hubby likes this very much). It is a teres link appropriately priced in a themed neighbourhood surrounding gardens with excercise equipments, children’s playground and jogging track. Double gated community for peace of mind (which we will be having to pay for..).

All this will be ours soon (ok, let’s be more specific: our target is before end of January 2009)! Insya Allah..

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Last weekend was spent hanging out with my son. I kept myself away from the PC. My son deserves to have my full attention. He’s grown up so fast. At one and half years, he’s already gotten a good understanding of our mother tongue. He understands a few words in English too and can say words like ‘car’, ‘now’ and ‘cat’ perfectly:) He’s also shown increased capabilities to build his own toys using the lego set I bought him. And he’s always seeking for my approval in anything that he does. That’s how a child learns. I treasure every moment I spend with him.

I’ve been thinking about which field I should pursue my masters degree in. After some thoughts and endless browsing through of MBA brochures, I’ve decided maybe I’m not up to doing an MBA. I feel I should be doing something more related to my degree in the field of human development. Maybe more on child development or family ecology. The reason I’d previously wanted to do an MBA was for the business, finance and entrepreneurial knowledge that it covers. But I could always learn that else where and not have to compete with others who already have basic knowledge. It’d be more fun that way. So my search for the most suitable university still continues.

I also visited the site for a house I’m eyeing to buy towards the end of this year (when it launches - it may be as soon as June). The houses look 70% done and the show units are beautiful and very much to my liking. I shall be visualising this house everyday like I have been for the past few months.

As for my shelf full of unread books, I’ve managed to start reading Dave Ramsey’s Total Money Makeover. From the few pages that I’ve read, I understand that financial planning is a crucial part of life. No matter how much money you earn, if you don’t budget your spendings there is always a tendency to overspend foolishly. But we all know that already. Regardless of that, we still have to learn methods to go about budgeting, saving and investing. And this is what Dave covers in a book that has embettered many lives. Having gone through a bad financial experience himself makes Dave an even more reliable teacher. Hmm.. it looks like I have to still cut down on more expenses and earn more on the side. As for buying a new house, I’d have to sell my old one first. The new one will be an upgrade as it’ll cost more that the current. But if it that’s what it takes to restore and maintain harmony in our household I am more than willing to pay for it. And we shall live in that house which is just the right size for our family and not have upgrade anymore unless we can really afford to.

Yeah..that’s our plan for now..

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