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I am inspired by your story! You prove that despite the many obstacles in life,
we can still overcome them and turn adversities to opportunities. A life-changing
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Acknowledgements
This book has been in my heart for a very long time. I am so glad that I finally
penned it down. There are some special people I must thank for my journey thus
far.
To my friends who stayed by my side no matter what through the good and
the bad time. You know who you are!
To my mentors and teachers who helped me to discover the true power within
myself.
And
YOU!! Thank you for reading my eBook right now. Thank you for your precious
time. I hope you will become inspired after reading it. =)
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Table of Contents
Introduction
My Life at University
#5: Be Optimistic
#7: Prioritization
#12: Dont Let Other Peoples Opinions Define Who You Are
Introduction
I was born in 1987, the year of the biggest financial crisis that has ever hit the
planet Earth. Born in a poor family with few resources and many responsibilities,
my mother is the greatest woman I have ever seen in my life. My mother gave
me the best that she could to make sure I was happy and healthy. My mother
had to take on most of the responsibilities of the house as she cooked, taught
us and also took care of us. Although we could not afford much, my mother
often gave us what we asked for and did her best to make us happy.
Just when the financial status of our family was about to improve, it keeps on
getting deteriorated again. My parents endured financial difficulties. I found my
parents arguing about the expenses that they were not able to afford including
my sisters tertiary education fees and other utility expenses.
It was an alarming signal and it made things worse but rather than losing hope
and ending up feeling disappointed, I decided to stand against all odds to
improve our life. This alarming situation only made me stronger.
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I started working at an early age. At the age of 13, I got my first paying job by
helping my neighbour who was a tuition teacher to teach her students. My
neighbour was busy in her daughters wedding preparations and hired me
temporarily. Getting a paid job at such a young age wasnt frustrating but
exciting, especially when I received my first pay at the end of the month. It was
one of the most exciting moments in my life. Woo sealed in an envelope; it
was no more less than a lottery. I got RM 80 as the first pay. I thought I have
won a lottery and was very happy. Never thought I would get my first pay at only
13.
This temporary job has become my stepping stone towards earning money. It
was really a great start for me. Since then, I started looking for suitable jobs
every semester break rather than staying at home. I became a helper in the
bakery shop, an admin in electronic shop, a sales promoter, a part-time teacher
and a home tuition teacher as well. I took every job seriously, gained
experiences and enjoyed earning the hard cash.
The more experiences I gained, the more confident I became. I could earn my
own living and get myself a good job whenever necessary. As our family was
already in deep financial difficulty and could hardly make ends meet, I started
living on my own and didnt burden my parents for my expenses. I paid for my
education and took up part-time jobs to pay my bills.
University served as one of the best periods in my life. Every student always has
incredible opportunities for personal growth. I enjoyed my university life to its
fullest. Shopping, travelling, partying and hanging around with friends every
weekend seems to be a trend of university life, I started living the same way.
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I applied for a government loan to finance my course fees. The government paid
me RM 3,250 each semester to complete my education. From these RM 3,250,
I also paid for hostel accommodation which cost around RM 1,000. Other
expenses were settled from my personal savings. After paying for all the
expenses, I was able to save RM 1,000 over the next six months.
My university was located in the vicinity of some very famous tourist spots like
Hatyai and Langkawi. However, I couldnt afford to travel to any of these places.
The only thing I could do was to search for the pictures on Google, listen to my
friends and visualize it after closing my eyes.
When my friends shared their story about their wonderful trip to Hong Kong, I
started imagining myself with them on the same trip. So, when my friend asked
me to join them for the trip, I took a gander at my financial stability and rejected
immediately because of the costly flight ticket. Realizing the fact that the RM400
ticket price was half of my living expenses for six months, I rejected to
accompany my friends. To them, I was anti-social. In my defence, I was saving
money to get through the semester.
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My Life at University
I was not from a business school before this. I never studied accounting before I
stepped into university when compared to most of my peers who have at least
2 years of experiences in accounting.
So in order to keep myself in line and same pace with my peers, I knew that I
had to work harder than them. When my peers used to put in 100% effort, I have
to put in 120% effort; when my peers tried 200% hard, I made sure to put at
least 220% effort.
I used to read and learn the module in advance before lectures. It helped me
understand better. After lectures, I started practising questions of the module
myself although I was never told to do so by my lecturers.
Going through all this, I can say that life is hard, but it is not hard enough to beat
my passion for changing and succeeding!
My efforts paid off at the end of the first semester, I managed to score a GPA of
3.90 and had an outstanding result as compared to other undergraduates of my
batch where most of them could score only 3.50. Since then, my peers started
to consult me for advice on their studies.
I have bought a printer, I started to provide printing services for RM 0.10 per
sheet. The printing business was good especially at night where most of the
assignments came in at the last minute.
Soon I managed to make a huge profit from my printing business and it got
stable. The printing business not only earned me money but also my time. Since
I started my printing business, I didnt have to queue at the lab for printing
services. I also managed to cover all my expenses on assignments.
I graduated with First Class Honours and was among the top accounting
graduates of my batch. Who would have thought that someone without an
accounting background like me would succeed? At first, I doubted myself, but
through the hard work and passion I showed in all these years, I have become a
point of reference for my peers.
I managed to enter two of the worlds best accounting firms. And now I am
working in the worlds best accounting firm located in Singapore. I have travelled
to many places like Australia, Korea, Hong Kong, Bali and etc which I dreamt
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before. My life has improved and I took my mother to Australia and Bangkok as
well!
I know that life is hard and it pushes us. There are many situations in life when
we doubt ourselves but what I believe is that everything happens for a reason.
The challenges I had to face made me stronger. As such, I wont give up in
everything I do. I do whatever it takes to get to my goals. I keep improving
myself.
Life isnt about waiting for the storm to pass Its about learning to dance in
the rain Vivian Greene
Life is not about simply waiting around for a good time to start. It is not about
avoiding the storm nor waiting for the storm to pass. Rather it is about living
your life!
Life is a about learning to dance in the rain. Its about learning to live with, and
even enjoy the inevitable storms of life. Sing or dance, enjoy your life, no matter
what the weather might be.
Mindset
I am going to share with you the 12 Proven Principles For Overcoming The
Storms Of Life. These are the proven principles that are instilled in my mind and
enable me to sing and dance even when my life was hit badly by the storms.
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Many people are afraid of setting goals. Even if they do set a goal, they are afraid
of setting big goals. Why does this happen? This is because they get worried that
they might fail if they set a big goal, and if they fail, people might look down on
them. They want to avoid the feeling of disappointment.
As such, most of the people have created a boundary for themselves. They tend
to stay inside the gate, where they feel protected in their comfort zones. They
are reluctant to make any changes. Therefore, these people will stay stagnant at
their current stages for years, or only make slight changes in their life.
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of
failure. - Paulo Coelho
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. - Robert F.
Kennedy
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You will never know how powerful you are if you never try. Failure forces you to
grow and to evolve to overcome the challenges you face. If you have never
experienced failure in your life, you would have very few reasons to grow. Say
thank you to failure and dont let failure turn you down.
So many people never realize their potential and achieve anything in life
because they never dare to dream and go for their dreams Adam Khoo
Its never too old to dream, go after your wildest dream now!
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Successful people believe that success is not a destination but a journey. Success
does not have a destination, but is a never-ending journey. It means that what
matters is not necessarily where you are in the end, but what you have
accomplished while you are trying hard to reach the end of the road.
Only when you believe that you are successful, you will have the confidence and
motivation to move forward to become a more successful person.
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Many people tend to believe that they are successful only when they achieve
their goals and if they do not meet their goals they are not successful. If you
keep thinking that the only way to become successful is to reach your
destination, you would not have the motivation and morale to move forward.
Consequently, you will find it difficult or will never reach your goal.
Success is a learning journey. If you learn something new towards your goal and
are better today than the person you were yesterday, you are successful. This is
because you grow stronger from your experiences.
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than
the outcome. Arthur Ashe.
Some people might set their big dream goals, but they never take action towards
their goals. They will just stare at the tree, hoping that one day the apples may
fall down. But when will the apples fall?
Action speaks louder than words. You have to take action, dont made blind
dreams.
You dont have to get it right the first time round. You just have to get started.
Imagine that you just aim at the archery board, but you never fire, how do you
know how far or how accurate you can hit?
Successful people know that imperfect action is better than no action. It is better
to take action and fine-tune it after failing than doing nothing.
You Miss 100% of the Shots You Dont Take Wayne Gretsky
The Greatest Failure in Life is the Failure to Participate in Life Adam Khoo
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Only when you take action, you know how to adjust it, and turn failure into a
lesson which you can learn.
The best day to take action is always yesterday. So, dont doubt now, just do it!
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Imagine when you go to work in the morning, your colleague keeps complaining
to you that he is going to lose his job or his promotion, how would you feel? You
will end up with a negative emotion, feeling that nothing good is going to
happen to you in the same or even the rest of your day.
In contrast, if your colleague keeps motivating you with the word like I can do
it, how would you feel? You will feel that something positive is going to happen
to you in the same way.
While it is hard for you to find all positive people to fill up your life, is it easier
for you to eliminate those negative people in your life before it consumes you.
When you are surrounded by positive people, you will hear their positive stories
and their positive affirmations. The positive energy will eventually affect your
words, thinking and actions.
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It is also important that you do whatever you can to improve the positivity of
others and let their positivity affect you the same way. Dont let their negative
energy or words consume you.
Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who
wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best
shot, but dont hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you
down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people. Zig Ziglar
#5: Be Optimistic
During your journey to success, there will be some people who might turn you
down, criticise you and tease you. Dont let this negative energy, negative words
bring you down. Be optimistic all the time.
Focus on positive things even if they are small. Think about negative things in
positive ways. This principle is applied to every aspect of our lives, in work,
studies or even in relationship.
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Instead of blaming your boss of firing you, why not thank your boss for opening
up your chances to get a better job? It is all about your mindset.
An optimistic person believes that they can overcome any obstacles and
difficulty. In contrast, a pessimistic person thinks they will fail in whatever they
do.
Optimistic people will feel happy all the time, and only get upset once when
things might fail. Pessimistic people will get upset all the time, and only happy
once when they success. Stop thinking about what could go wrong. Start
thinking about what could go right.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without
hope and confidence. Helen Keller
What type of person do you want to be? You want yourself to be happy all the
time or upset all the time?
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When people are merely interested, they change their directions when their
mood changes. They are not committed to the outcome so they allow their
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emotions to drive their actions. This means that they do only what they feel
comfortable and safe.
#7: Prioritization
Do you sometimes feel that you have spent all your time working on something,
completed drained of energy by the end of the day, yet nothing significant is
complete? This is because you are focusing on something which is important not
something which is urgent.
Many people confuse between the urgent and the important. Even people who
have been in management roles for years or people who work in large
corporation will feel drained in their profession because of a wrong sense of
priority.
Urgent tasks are things that require immediate actions. It is mostly the tasks
which have an immediate deadline or the deadline which has passed. Urgent
tasks are largely governed by deadlines.
Important tasks are things that contribute to our long term mission, values and
goals. It need not have a deadline. Important tasks are governed by impact or
significant changes it can have in our life.
What you consider as important might be different than what others consider
as important.
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Tasks which require your immediate attention and contribute to your long term
mission, values and goals. Example: Responding to a business opportunity that
requires immediate action.
Tasks which do not have immediate deadline and contribute to your long term
mission, values and goals. Example: Attending a self-improvement class might
be important but need not be done immediately.
Tasks which require your immediate attention and but will not contribute to your
long term mission, values and goals. Example: Answering a phone call is urgent
but does not lead you to your long term goal.
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Tasks which do not have immediate deadlines nor contribute to your long term
mission, values and goals. Example: Surfing Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
You have to be clear on what is important and what is urgent to you. There is no
such thing as no time. It is all about your priority.
Lets say if your goal is to lose weight. Instead of spending hours of your time
watching movies or drama series after work, why not spend the time on some
workout? It is because watching movie is more important for you as compared
to workout.
Some people succeed not because they are destined, but because they are
determined. Some people succeed because they are destined, but most because
they are determined.
If you fail in your first attempt, it does not mean that you are failure, it means
that you have to adjust your strategy and fight again. Stand up again and try
again.
Dont let your failures define you; let them teach you. Barack Obama
You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your
own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be. Napoleon
Hill
Work hard in creating your destiny rather than waiting for miracles to happen.
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You dont need people to believe in you. Rather, you have to believe in yourself.
Only when you start to believe in yourself, people will start to believe in you.
Believe you can and youre half way there Theodore Roosevelt
Confident people inspire the confidence in others; confidence in turn gives you
the power to conquer the world. So, start your day by telling yourself that I can
do it!
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Every day is a brand new day, every morning is fresh and a kick-start to a new
day. Morning brings hope for new beginnings.
Sometimes, our day starts on a bad note, for example being caught in a traffic
jam, late for work and etc. in the morning, and in consequence we would keep
grumbling and be moody for the entire day. But if our morning starts positively,
there would be a sweet tune to our day.
By simply giving yourself a positive affirmation in the morning, your day will
change.
What is an affirmation?
"We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and
repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation."
- Florence Scovel Shinn
Simply start your day by looking at mirror and tell yourself that today is going
to be a great day, you are feeling healthy and strong today. You may find that
great thing will going to happen to you in the day!
So, what is your favourite affirmation? Have you given yourself a positive
affirmation today?
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Do you feel angry or jealous seeing others succeed? Do you feel superior to your
peers? This jealousy and egotism is the root of all failure.
Egotism will only bring temporary success, but eventually you are going to be
knocked down by your own egotism. If you want to be successful, accept
yourself, accept who you are and kill your ego.
People get jealous about others successes because they cant accept who they
are and the more they cant accept who they are, the more depressed they feel.
In contrast, the more you accept yourself and celebrate other peoples
successes, the more success you will achieve.
People like people who make them feel good. That is how our networks extend
and grow. Try to put yourself in others shoes, understand how much hard work
they put in and how much obstacles they went through before they succeed.
Feel their success, and applaud them on their successes. Seeing the positive
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experiences people have will open up your mind to how amazing possibilities in
this world.
If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life
mightily Gerald Good
Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into
acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarityit makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Melody Beatties
How many people you could thank but you have overlooked them in the past?
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#12: Dont Let Other Peoples Opinions Define Who You Are
Do you let people define you? Do you let people decide what should be done or
what you are supposed to be? Does your self-perception change according to
the people surrounding you? If yes, you are living others lives and others
happiness.
People always label others in a way that make them most comfortable. But yet,
you want to grow, you need to change for the better. So, lead your life the way
you want it to be.
Dont lose sight of who you truly are and the unique qualities you have built
within yourself. Always remind yourself who you are and what you want to
achieve in your life in good ways.
Your time is limited, so dont waste it living someone elses life. Dont be
trapped by dogma which is living the results of other peoples thinking. Dont
let the noise of others opinions drown out your inner voice. Steve Jobs
Remember, dont let your mind limit or define who you are!
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I have shared with you the 12 Proven Principles For Overcoming The Storms Of
Life. These are the proven principles that are instilled in my mind and helped me
to go through the storms in my life.
What is the BIGGEST takeaway for you? Its different for everyone but once
you apply even just one or two of these proven principles, I am absolutely sure
that it will bring incredible changes in your life.
THANK YOU for reading 12 Proven Principles For Overcoming The Storms
Of Life.
Cheers!
Lai Wen Li
(Just call me Wen Li or Potato!)
http://www.masterpotato.com