Raymond Chua’s Blog

Sunday 11.01 pm

From Raymond’s desk,

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Today is the last day of 2006. So, I would like to take this opportunity to greet all my loyal readers a very Happy and Prosperous New Year and to share some of my alien feelings.

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This afternoon, I planned to do something meaningful before the year end. I actually planned to write down my plans and goals for next year. This time I’m going to be very specific. I would lay out all the Whats and Hows.

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Besides, I also planned to spend whole night to do some make over for one of my salesletter since I do not have any activities/appointment. (In fact, I do not have any friend to go out with)

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However, when I reached home and sat in front of my computer. I totally did not have mood to do anything. I was thinking, Hey, is this the way I am going to spend my New Year Eve?

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All of the sudden, a strong negative feeling grew from within and spread like virus. I feel guilty for the way I treat myself. I spend all my time for my job and business. I rarely spend some quality time for myself. Lonely is never a word in my dictionary but the feeling pay me a visit without being invited.

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After checking some mails. I don’t know what to do. I don’t have mood to do anything. I feel so bad. I can hardly breath. I feel so confuse for the feeling that was sprouting within me. I don’t know exactly what is/are the cause(s).

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At this very moment, Wei Sea, a former coursemate of mine appeared in my MSN and chat with me. We chat for a while. She gave me some valuable advices. Then I excuse myself and went for my dinner. While waiting for my dinner to arrive, I did some soul searching. I tried to find the root of my problem.

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After the soul searching, I ‘guess’ the root of my problem is, I have not yet made any great achievement in 2006. I am still trapped in the rat race. I believe this is where the pressure came from. This is the cause that caused me hard to breath. I only have 4 years left to my retirement and I have achieved NOTHING so far.

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What have I done this year? Well, I moved to a new neighbourhood, still stucking in a court case, built a website which  is only break even with the operating cost and invested a huge amount of money for my personal and business development.

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I can say that I’ve done a lot in building a better future in my life but I can’t see the result yet. In another words, My achievement = ZERO.

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So, one of my goal for 2007 is to free myself from this nasty rat race by 31st Dec 2007. Hopefully, tomorrow I’ll be able to work out the plan of what and how.

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Now, I wanna go to bed and get a good sleep to get rid of all my negative thoughts, which is very harmful element in my plan.

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Hopefully tomorrow will be a great day for me.

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Thank you for spending your precious time to read this rubbish.

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Goodnight.

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Happy and Prosperous New Year

Raymond

www.green-rectangle.com/sub/acne

If ever I go looking for my heart’s desire again. I won’t look farther "than my own backyard, because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with"

- Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz

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"The more simple we are, the more complete we become"

-anonymous

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"Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow"

-anonymous

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"Failure is not having courage to attemp"

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"The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the street"

-John D. Rockefeller

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"The person who writes the bank’s commercial is not the person who makes the loan"

-anonymous

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Warm regards,

Raymond

www.green-rectangle.com/sub/acne

Your future life is governed by a series of choices
which you make. Little choices. Hourly, daily, weekly
choices.

Most people always choose the ‘jelly now’ option. This
route leads to failure, I promise you that. Every
little choice they make is an ‘instant gratification’
choice - to watch another hour of TV, to sleep late
again, to go down the pub again, to have some
entertainment, to lie in at the weekend, to buy some
more goodies, to book a holiday they can’t afford, and
so on.

Life, you know, is incredibly short. Those of you over
forty will know this already; those between 30 and 40
will be glimpsing the truth of this, and those under 30
probably still think they are immortal. I certainly
did!

But, you know, the rewards of life come to the doers,
not the talkers. This is so true. You receive riches
from life in direct proportion to the amount of effort
you put in. True again.

There is no ‘miracle’ short cut to wealth - basically,
it’s about getting off one’s backside and actually
fighting, daring and winning against the system.

That’s really it.

It’s a fight now, just as it was a hundred years ago,
or a thousand years ago, for that matter. The rules
have changed, but the game remains the same.

You need a better life and more money? Here’s an
important key to wealth:

Life doesn’t respond to needs, wishes or desires. It
laughs straight back in your face. Only your
disciplined effort right now will plant the seeds of
future crop which will meet your needs.

To complain that your needs should be filled right now
is effectively to say: "I have needs. Someone else
should work and slave so that my needs might be
provided for."

What would the soil say to your statement "I need some
corn"? Why, the answer would be "Bring me your seed and
your sweat!" The soil would not care a finger snap for
your needs. Who cares about your needs? Nobody.
Furthermore the seed alone is not enough, is it? You
must also plant, tend, water and hoe it.

These activities can be summed-up by the phrase
‘disciplined effort.’ Effort means the sweat of your
brow; discipline means meticulously and regularly
applied. A little each day. Gradually. This is how the
rewards build up over the years. Not in a rush. You
don’t hoe, weed and water all in one day and expect a
bumper crop the next. No, it doesn’t work like this.
You hoe a little one day, weed the next, water when
it’s dry, then go right back to hoeing.

Sounds like hard work? Welcome to the real world!
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Go ponder about it,

Raymond

www.green-rectangle.com

1. If they want to loan you money, tell them you just filed for bankruptcy and you could sure use some money.

2. If they start out with, "How are you today?" say, "I’m so glad you asked, because no one these days seems to care, and I have all these problems; my arthritis is acting up, my eyelashes are sore, my dog just died…"

3. If they say they’re John Doe from XYZ Company, ask them to spell their name. Then ask them to spell the company name. Then ask them where it is located, how long it has been in business, how many people work there, how they got into this line of work, are they married?, kids?, etc. Continue asking them personal questions or questions about their company for as long as necessary.

4. Cry out in surprise,"Judy! Is that you? Oh my God! Judy, how have you been?" Hopefully, this will give Judy a few brief moments of terror as she tries to figure out where she could know you from.

5. Say "No", over and over. Be sure to vary the sound of each one, and keep a rhythmic tempo, even as they are trying to speak. This is most fun if you can do it until they hang up.

6. If MCI calls trying to get you to sign up for the Family and Friends Plan, reply, in as SINISTER a voice as you can, "I don’t have any friends… would you be my friend?"

7. After the Telemarketer gives their spiel, ask him/her to marry you. When they get all flustered, tell them that you could not just give your credit card number to a complete stranger.

8. Tell the Telemarketer that you work for the same company, they often can’t sell to employees.

9. Answer the phone. As soon as you realize it is a Telemarketer, set the receiver down, shout or scream, "Oh No!!!" and then hang up.

10. Tell the Telemarketer you are busy at the moment and ask him/her if he/she will give you his/her HOME phone number so you can call him/her back. When the Telemarketer explains that telemarketers cannot give out their HOME numbers you say "I guess you don’t want anyone bothering you at home, right?" The Telemarketer will agree and you say, "Me, either!" Hang up.

11. Ask them to repeat everything they say, several times.

12. Tell them it is dinner time, BUT ask if they would please hold. Put them on your speaker phone while you continue to eat at your leisure. Smack your food loudly and continue with your dinner conversation.

13. Tell the Telemarketer you are on "home incarceration" and ask if they could bring you a pizza.

14. Ask them to fax the information to you, and make up a number.

15. Insist that the caller is really your buddy Leon, playing a joke. "Come on Leon cut it out! Seriously, Leon, how’s your mom?"

16. Tell them you are hard of hearing and that they need to speak up… louder… louder…louder…

17. Tell them to talk VERY SLOWLY, because you want to write EVERY WORD down.

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Warmly,

Raymond

www.green-rectangle.com

Any failed or mediocre life is permeated through from
top to bottom with lack of discipline, and it starts
early. Here is a life report from one such man:

Failed at school because of lack of discipline (always
mucked around instead of working; always out with the
mates instead of doing some homework). Due to poor
school results, got mediocre job. Never had a decent
pay rise because lack of discipline meant he was often
late for work and never did the job properly; always
clock-watching and never went the extra mile. Never
saved a penny - always spent the lot (and more) as soon
as it came in. Never invested time for a better future,
’spent’ the lot on trivial pleasures. Always in debt,
never solvent - it takes discipline to control your
finances. Retired - broke, bitter, disillusioned… and
surprised at his poverty!

This needn’t happen to you. Everyone has a sense of
discipline. Heck, without it, you’d never get out of
bed in the morning. Discipline is exactly that voice
which says to you after the alarm has gone off: "Right,
come on, up you get!" Without that, you’d just lie in
bed all day. The trick is to start cultivating that
sense of discipline - that small voice which nags away
at you. You need to make it habitual. Don’t suppress
it. Listen to it and follow it. This is the difference
between success and failure. The ’secret magic formula’
of getting rich can be encapsulated in the quality of
self-discipline. It’s little more than that.

As an example, if you were disciplined enough to go out
cleaning windows on a Saturday (or a few evenings a
week) instead of frittering away your time, then after
ten years of doing this and investing the money you
would have $150,000 in the bank! I mention this not to
encourage you to start a window cleaning round, but to
prove that you don’t need to start a stock broking
business, or open a chain of restaurants to make money.

A simple piece of self-discipline in a lowly profession
makes you a $150K in ten years, $450K in twenty years!
Imagine what would happen if you really applied your
talents! The only thing which stops people doing this
is lack of self-discipline, or laziness by another
name.
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Warmly,

Raymond

www.green-rectangle.com

Yahoo!!! I have achieve my highest weekly sales again. I beat the previous record.

At least those efforts bear some fruits. It gives me Umpphh! It takes me another step forward.

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Gotta carry on with my marketing work.

Till then,

Raymond

www.green-rectangle.com

Hi Blue Wavy Sea’s readers,

Discipline produces success even if your definition of
success has nothing to do with money.

If your idea of success is to be a great pianist or
painter or gardener, then to get there you must
postpone immediate trivial pleasure such as watching TV
or going out to the pub.

Instead you must practice the piano, study painting, or
weed the garden ready for the spring. I would submit
that even if your definition of success was to be at
peace with the world and to be in a blissful connected
state with the universe you must first practice the
long hours of discipline required for meditation, and
practice the minute-by-minute discipline of pushing out
the constant chatter of thoughts from your mind. A Zen
monk, for example, could be said to be almost perfectly
(and excessively) disciplined.

I think unsuccessful people are often that way because
they have these two characteristics:

1. They rarely think of the future or plan for it.
They live only for today.

Self-development guru Jim Rohn’s secret of happiness is
‘enjoying today whilst planning for a better tomorrow,’.

Living for the moment is only half of the story. You
can only enjoy today because of the plans you made or
work you did ‘yesterday.’ Similarly you can only enjoy
tomorrow because of the plans you make or work you do
today. This includes simple pleasures like a day
walking in the countryside listening to the birds sing.
You can only do that because ‘yesterday’ (last year,
etc.) you worked hard enough and saved some money so
that you could take time off. It is obvious that you
can only eat today because of the work you did
yesterday, unless you have set up your life to sponge
from others.

2. They spend every single penny they earn (and
usually more) on pleasures right now, today, and do not
put anything away for the future.

This is similar to being given a week’s worth of sweets
and eating them all in one sitting!

Disciplined people use their time and talents to create
present and future wealth for themselves. This means
getting out of the armchair and doing something. This
is hard. This takes effort and it takes will-power.

Undisciplined people watch soap operas three times a
week, go down the pub all the time (a net outflow of
money), go out for meals, buy all the latest toys or
generally fritter away their time and talents for
thirty of forty years. And then…. huge
surprise…they’re broke when they retire!

Look, this hardly needs saying. There’s nothing wrong
with watching television sometimes, going down the pub
now and then and having the odd meal out. These are
pleasures. This is jelly now. Then, you turn the TV off
and get to work on projects which will make you
wealthy. You stay in several nights and work through
until midnight on the same thing. This is investing
time in your future, and is an identical concept to
investing (saving) money for your future.

A disciplined person does not spend all his/her time
now, in trivial pleasures, they save some for the
future. Time is funny stuff. You can’t put it in a box
and save it for a future day, say the end of your life,
and then haul it out and get extra days of life. The
rule with time is that you have to invest it straight
away. It multiplies and produces money in the future.

You use this money to buy time from other people. For
example, the money releases you from the need to work,
and so that gives you a whole lot of time - much more
than your original investment of time. Or, you use the
money to pay someone to do your garden or your DIY, and
that frees up a whole lot of time for more pleasurable
things.

So the analogy is exact. Undisciplined people squander
all their free time now on pleasures (eat all the
jelly) and get, say, 100 units of pleasure. Disciplined
people use a little of their time for pleasures (eat a
little jelly now), then invest their time for the
future. This multiplies many fold, and frees up vast
amounts of time in the future. The net result is that
they get (say) 1,000 units of pleasure in total over
the years. This is their reward for being disciplined.
I hope this makes sense.

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Are you there with me?

- Raymond

www.green-rectangle.com

p.s. Please comment

BOY : May I hold your hand?
GIRL : No thanks, it isn’t heavy.

11) Teacher : " Can anybody give an example of COINCIDENCE?"
One Student : "Sir, my Mother and Father got married on the same day and at the same time."

12) Teacher : " George Washington not only chopped down his father’s Cherry tree, but also admitted doing it.
Now do you know why his father didn’t punish him ?"
One Student: " Because George still had the axe in is hand."

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Have a good laugh,

Raymond

www.green-rectangle.com

Hi readers, here’s an article I found very interesting and would like to share with you. Read this……

Here’s how to get in touch with every talent, every ability you ever wanted for yourself, even if you’re convinced you don’t have a shred of ability in that area.

Physicists and mystics agree that all of time co-exists simultaneously. The way we experience time, with one moment following another moment after another moment, is (they say) an illusion. In reality, all moments of time are hanging around together, and our consciousness is threading its way through and among those moments of time.

(Just stay with me for a bit longer, and we’ll be past all this theoretical stuff.)

They also say that there are an infinite number of variations of each possible moment. That’s what they call "parallel universes" in the science fiction movies.

As it turns out, those parallel universes are not actually science fiction after all. They’re really there-the physicists say so. We just can’t usually see them.

But there is one way to perceive them. It’s your intuition (or imagination).

You can actually tune your mind in to a talent you don’t have, but would love to, and you can attract it to you. There is "another you" in that alternate "now" that has all the talent you wanted but didn’t get.

So how do you benefit from this "other you"? How do you siphon off the abilities from the "talent gas-tank" of that other you, and get it into your mind?

The short answer is, you don’t.

You don’t try to take anything away from anybody. Instead, you reach out with your intuition and imagination and offer to combine your talents with those of that other you. You suggest a win-win merger that benefits you both.

Then you start training those new talents, and-surprise-those very talents appear from out of "nowhere" (but you’ll know where).

Do this…

It’s simple to do a bit of "day-dreaming" and talk to other versions of yourself. How do you reach them? Just imagine it. You’re always talking to that policeman or judge or parent in your head. So why not your other selves in other possible universes? Just imagine them. Talk to them. Offer to do a joint venture-share some of what you know for some of what they can do.

And then, once you’ve made an agreement, just accept what comes. And enjoy it.

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Warmly,

Raymond

www.green-rectangle.com

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