Review of my 9 month-old goals

Hi guys Im back!

School has started for me, and I'm busying with alot of administrative stuffs. Yup. Let me continue what I have to say!

I did say that I wanted to look back at my Goals I set last time, all the way back in Nov last year, and had a deadline- the day my school starts. Yup. So its time to look at it again!

Let me post them here again...

1) Able to last a Cantonese conversation for at least 5 min b4 Dec 08'
and fluently b4 March '09

2) $20000 before Uni ( 9 months time )
3) Travel to at least 2 countries for Free&Easy Shopping b4 Uni
4) Improve Myself in terms of: - Communication- Confidence- Speaking- Personal Grooming- Motivation- Presentation- Financial IQ b4 Uni
5) Open up my Social Circle-know at least 300 more people b4 Uni

Yes... these are the ones which are due this week, the week my school started. Let me review it one by one..

1) Conversing in Cantonese.
Haha. This is due earlier this year, in March! Alright. I can't really speak fluently yet. Not very fluent as I wanted to. Conversation wise, I can understand more Cantonese words people use, at least 50% of the verbs and simple nouns used daily. Ya. words that are used daily in our lives.

I did understood questions or conversations in Cantonese, but I still had some way to go to answer or converse back in Cantonese. haha. You know, it's like some old school TV drama series... Someone speak Mandrin to an Ang Moh, but the Ang Moh replied in English, and surprisingly, Both understand each other, while conversing in different languages!!

ok. I gonna improve on that.

2) $20000 b4 Uni.
Ok, I dint go where near $20000. haha. Not even $10000. Amount I earned during these 9 months is just enough to cover my daily expenses, transportation fees, books, seminars, lessons, courses I've gone to. Yea. I can say there is not much in flow or out flow of cash. However, I did this w/o doing 8-5 jobs.

3) Travel to at least 2 countries for shopping
Hmm. I went to Hk, and Malaysia so far i think. Been to both countries, but not much of shopping, because I'm there not to shop. haha. Yea. So I think I didn't really achieve this goal. Let's make it happen again this year!

4) Improve Myself in terms of: - Communication- Confidence- Speaking- Personal Grooming- Motivation- Presentation- Financial IQ b4 Uni

Ok. I dare to say I achieve this.

Communication: I had seen myself communicating better with people around me. I'm not saying my vocabulary is getting more profound, my sentence structure is getting creative. No... What I mean here is, I can have a person talk to me, non-stop, and will never run out of topics. This include people who I don't know well..

Maybe this is nothing great to some people, but I can say, it's not easy for me at 1st. People tend to run out of topics to say!! and when this happen, the conversation becomes cold, and both parties have awkard feeling... thinking "damm, what can i say now..." Yup. I have somehow mastered this skill through extensive reading, and practicing.

Confidence: I learnt this, and have tried it. Here, I mean how to have people look at you as a person of confidence, someone who is not afraid of trying anything. This goes into communication too. Confidence in answering questions, objections, and speaking. I can say I need to improve a little bit more, and most importantly, applied what I have learnt more.

Speaking/Presentation: I can say this is more about public speaking, or speaking to more than 1 person. Regarding this, I have spoken to small groups of people, and I can say this is something I had not done this before. Not even when Im in my JC choir. It's really enjoyable to do it, if its done well.

Presentation wise, I did alot of presentations on different things, people whom I presented to should know. Haha. Some went quite smoothly, but some did not. Either way, I still learn to refine my presentation skills! After presenting different things to different people, I learn that presentation is not always about talking. It's about listening. Interesting? Remind me to share it here :D

Personal Grooming : Ok. For me, personal grooming here does not mean getting the Best Dressed award. To me, it just means dressing appropriately. Dress appropriately for events, for anything you go to. If going to a formal company meeting/ interview, dress formally. If going for a trishaw riders' gathering at a kopitiam, then just wear like what trishaw riders wear... and
probably bring a trishaw there too :D.

I just got a book on How to mix and match your clothings, so you won't look the same with the same clothes. :D

Motivation: I can say I really did alot of things these 9 months, and even though some are crazy, 'out-of-the-box' stuffs, it is not easy. Motivation is something that keeps me going. And often these are words from Above. So can i say I'm a super motivated guy? No!

Everybody has their Ups and Downs. There are people who can stay UP for a very long period of time, but there are people who stay DOWN and never go UP. It's just how they manage themselves. I wouldn't say I can stay UP for a super long period of time, but at least I can stay UP to finish something I want to finish:D

Financial IQ- Yup. I did manage my money well, calculating all inflow and outflow of cash. i also learn emotional control through the trading of Forex last time. However, my emotions still controlled me sometimes. haha. I spend what is needed to spend, invest what is needed to invest, and save what is needed to save.

However, I'm gonna improve more on this area!

5) Open up my Social Circle-know at least 300 more people b4 Uni
Ok. I had made a mistake in writing this goal down. There is no point in knowing 300 more people. There is no use in numbers. It's the PEOPLE whom I should know. But it's okay. I did not meet 300 people. But I met people who has influenced 300,3000, or even 30,000 people in their lives.

This is what that is important. Quality counts, not quantity. "It's not what you know, but who you know." This is important too, anywhere, everywhere, even in looking for jobs, or business ventures.

Some of the great people I know personally, includes the founder of Asia Speakers Bureau, founder of Netprofit Quest, a Property Investor who played Cashflow game with Robert Kiyosaki before, Millionaire mentors online and offline. It's really inspiring to talk to these people, they are Big Thinkers. They can really shape your life.

Alright. As you can see, I dint manage to achieve all the goals I written down. However, when a goal is not achieved, it just simply mean you have achieved another goal!

I will come to blog again!

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