I chanced upon the sermon of late Dr Myles Munroe and he quoted this verse above. He said that it is due to bad management that people suffer from poverty due to greed. People likes to take short cut , expect miracles from God without working for it. It is the management of money problems that we have to take care of in order to put things in order. Spending less than you earn, saving money, investing ,etc are good money management habits. 

God did not allow anything to grow as there was no MAN sent to work on the ground. God created man to have dominion over all creatures on earth which means he need MAN to manage the resources efficiently and effectively.

God wants us to be an economist, to maximise from the minimised. This is humbling from a trader perspective, to gain the most reward out of the least risks. Tithing is God's management training program for mankind. God needs nothing from us since he created the entire universe. He wants human to learn how to manage money efficiently. 

Can you consistently put aside 10% for my purposes, God said in the bible. Hmm, but of course the people who manage God's money - i.e. the pastors and team be better money managers! It is about discipline! Then, he can trust you with the remaining money (90%).

From this verse above, it shows that a good manager will manage his wealth well will be able to hand down inheritance to his unborn grandchildren. Abundance , that is what God is assuring the men who have the discipline and have self control over their money. 

Money remains a topic that remains a mystery to many people. It is so important yet it is not taught as a subject in school. 40 years ago and fast forward today, it is still the system , the education system has barely move on this area. I wonder why ? 

God, help me to understand better on this topic, draw the right people and resources that I need and bless me abundantly that I have no worries that  I could use this skills to benefit more people out there . Thank you God. 

Recently, I stumbled on this video by Dr Joe Dispenza and was pretty hooked on it. He talks about in great details about how the mind and body works individually and collectively in effecting changes in our lives. The part that truly attracts me is this phrase : You've to be a different person to change ......". I pondered over this for a while and let it sits in my brain for a while. 

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I find some comfort in the words of God to re-align my thoughts. God loves us unconditionally and allows us to stick to our own thoughts, words we used and actions. He wants us to REPENT , tolerating our behaviour though we expect a different results. No wonder Joe was saying ; we need to take on a different person role in order to change effectively, not merely cosmetic plaster over. 

To do things the same way yet expecting a different result is Insanity and yet that is what most of us (including me) doing it day in , nights out. So we allow external environment, like food, entertainment, social media ,etc to get our attention so that we can react to it. We become the victim of this world, unable to detach ourselves from its magnetic force.

​From a layman perspective, that means , we need to get out of our usual thinking and way of doing things to be on the path of change. If you are waking on the right side of the bed, try the left side. Take a walk home instead of taking the bus (if not too far). Sometimes, we need a little change in the physical environment to jolt our thinking and of course, we need to be expecting some positive changes coming up. God's way is past finding out and he has on numerous occasions prompt me to take a different path so that I can get lucky, triggered a thought or simply meet a person that can help me.

I think regardless of money issue, relationship challenges ,health problems, many people are confused and lost how to go about making the change. Like diet plans, they jump from one to another without much success. 

The missing link is the process, the steps to get from A to C. Some requires hand holding , offering them baby steps and ensuring they do not fall as they had failed one too many times before. 

That is why we need compassion, mercy , listening ear before offering any advice. It is easy to dish out advice to people without knowing their background. We can pray for them but God is really behind the scene who can lift them out of their situation. 

Encourage them, help them in ways that you can, speak positively of them, pray for them. It would take time but we need to be patient. Each of us have our lesson to learn, our journey of self discovery as  I put it and sometimes they needed more time to get out. I recalled when I was in a bad relationship and I sank deep , wallowing in grief and depression for far too long, wasting too much resources and time. But , I am glad I get out , nevertheless. May the Lord continue to pour his blessing on me and family and all those who needed change badly. Change them to be a different person as you had change me , Lord. 

Haha, because I do not record my last swim timing of 24 mins ++, I somehow do not register it consciously in my mind. Half an hour ago, I did the same 20 laps in 23 mins ++. I am elated, I have prove to myself that I had done it again!

Competence comes with practice but also from the high of confidence that you carry with you prior to the event. What did I do differently? I believe my lap kicks was stronger and for each lap, I was going harder and faster, totally ignoring the strokes and not allowing my thoughts to wander too much.

I kept chanting the words - 23 mins and that is the sole outcome  I want. I know I would feel high, confident, happy and excited when I achieved that. It is true that all these feelings of mine do surface. 

Is this what NG was saying about forming the internal images before the external coincides ? I am believing more and more of this concept and the link with prayers.

If prayers is all about thanksgiving ,then I am thanking God for what he has given me thus far. I am grateful to HIM for keeping my body fit and healthy and not allowing age or anything else to stop me in my pursuit of health.

Thank you God

This is a recent article  cum video that I watched recently and I thought nothing much has really changed since I was a single nearly 2 decades ago..........

My take on this video is as follows :

1. Most singles are still focusing on the external things - appearance, qualifications, etc
2. pressured by time - as they aged and feel more pressure from both parents and society, the more they want to settle down fast (as in getting married after a few dates, even 1)
3. They keep doing the same thing over and over again 

Let me break it down simpler. Good if you are single and are reading this !

First thing first, the focus is on the external environment. That means, they (males and females ) are looking at the pool of singles available. They focus on the LACK factor. If the demographics of this single pool is dwindling by the year (better be else it become a social problem for the government), then it is naturally both the quantity and quality of the singles will get lesser. 

When one focus on LACK, naturally, it invites anxiety, magnify self doubt and a certain perception before they engaged in the game of dating. 

Next, their belief system that they bring into this game. For those who had prior bad experiences with other dating firms or even through parents/friends, they too had a certain expectations of the person they are going to meet. They come with a list of dos and don't , to assess if the person sitting opposite the table measures up.  Sounds like an interview? Yup, except the candidate who passed gets to date the girl instead of acquiring a job.

With this as background, can you imagine how stressful it is for the singles to meet each other ? Outwardly, both can be wearing fashionably and appear relaxed (as a kind gesture for first time meeting) but once they warm up, the conversation can get quite heated up. 

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In my conversation with many, there are far too many of us who do not love ourselves. We lack self love. We are too hard on ourselves for small failures/mistakes that we made. I too am guilty from time to time as a parent, reprimanding my son for his lack of effort in his studies. I know I love him but my behaviour towards him may not be acceptable and appropriate for him. My intention is good but my actions is not. That explains why he is so resistant to change. 

Faith

We need to know that God has our interest at heart. He creates us, humans not to suffer but to be happy beings. It is we, humans we tend to make things complicated and mess up our lives. At least that is how I think. 

If we believe in God, then we know he is at work, having our interest at heart and the right partner would be given to us. The keywords is "earnestly seek him" - that goes to your prayers. Is it a one off request, sometimes hot , sometimes cold ? Think back of a time when you were a child, when you want something , say a toy real bad. You got the picture? Did you not pester your parents for days and weeks till you get it ? At a young age, we already know how to get what we want (through God) but as we grow older, we lost this skills to the world.

Next is the question of time. Look at this  bible verse : 

In my case, I had a failed relationship that lasted for 8 years. It was painful. I was prepared to be single for the rest of my life, giving up hope on finding a partner. But, God's way is higher than my way and it is past finding out. I was posted overseas to work and on my birthday, Christmas eve, He sent my angel to me. She was the love of my life, my girlfriend and now my beloved wife and the mother of my 2 lovely kids.

The sufferings that we go through is to mould our perseverance (a true test if you really want it ) and that shapes our character and eventually reveal our identity. 

I have often shared with my friends that our role is not to manage the TIMING part of the equation. Leave that to God, he is much better at time management. In the past, I would get worked up if I missed a trading opportunity for fear of missing out and rushed to get in , often ended up in small profits and unnecessary losses. I was thinking if I stay glued to the computer and watched the signals closely, I would increase my chance of success. Of course, it was more of a hit and run case.

Now, I am far more relaxed in executing my trades and my profitability has increased much much better. I feel more relaxed and not pressured to take a trade, no matter how good it may appears to be. I have understood, believing in the Creator would yields me the confidence and knowledge to find the next trading opportunity than to peel my eyes on the created , ie. the charts.

Similarly, in dating context, one should let go of the "making  my dating partner become my life partner" time pressure. Marriage is a lifelong commitment and you want to be sure or at least feel comfortable with the person you are going to share your pillows and bolster with each night. Take time to understand each other and let joy, peace and love flow within your heart. The answer will come to you if he or she is the one.

Hope - to have hope in God's words means to be positively expecting it to happen. 

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When you pray to God, say asking for a partner , then you must believe wholeheartedly God has granted you your wish. This is the part that many believers have challenges in praying. They prayed day and night but the words that come out from their mouth contradicts to what they requested from God. So, there is a conflict and when that happens, how can God grant you your wish? And you go complaining to the world, friends , social media blaming everyone but yourself why you remain single. Re-read this paragraph till you get its meaning !

The next time, when someone asked you; what are you doing this weekend ? Please replied that you have a date with someone else. On the surface, it mays appear silly or even hypocritical but it is not. Trust me, I have used this method unnumbered times and it works.

If you know you have  a date this coming weekend, how would you carry yourself throughout the weekdays ? Would you ask your colleagues or girlfriends to go shopping with you? Would you dream about what your conversation would entail and what compliments he would pay you?

Isn't that a sweet and lovely feeling to have ? Before you entertain this as wishful thinking and whack yourself on the head, I challenge you to take up this test. Forget about the dating agencies, the parents match making, etc. Just focus on this part  - the feelings of going on a date. 

If this weekend does not materialise, continue to carry forward the feelings to next week and the week after. This is not a 100m run where you need to complete asap. What factors would contribute to the success ? 

1. Your faith - how much you believe in it - some initially like the idea but as time passes and the work gets busy or  their MBA/PHD brains get the better of them, they quickly brush this silly concept aside, probably thankful they did not buy into it. How can such a simply and profound idea actually works ?

2. Your prayers - At any moment, you would be bombarded by news, friends' remarks, etc that this is not going to work. They would say things like :" if it is so easy, who needs a dating agency? My answer is simple - if more people are willing to try this method out and stand firm till their dreams come true, then that would be the day we can say dating agencies are redundant. Therefore, you have to keep on praying for your request day, noon and night. Let not disturbances of any kind affects you. Give this a reasonable time frame, say 2-3 months and you consciously do as what I had mentioned here. Stay away from other methods you had tried before but had not worked thus far. Give this method its exclusive rights, 100% intensity and efforts. 

3. If you are going on a date as you are, who would be the first person to know? Most likely, not your parents for fear of being asked too many questions. So, it is likely your siblings or your close friend whom you can confide this matter to. So, what would you close friend said to you?

Construct that short sentence in your mind and repeat that each day to yourself, having both of you in a dialogue. See yourself feeling excited, maybe blushed a little and nervous. Each time, the intensity of this feeling subsides, bring it up again. From a initial score of 3 , do your best to bring it to 8-9 and maintain it as naturally as possible.

4. Take action - Here, is the interesting part. Now, God knows what is your request and He is at work. How he does it is beyond our imagination. He could prompts you to think of someone whom you had not met for 10-20 years and suddenly you decided to search for that person on social media and connect with him. Or, instead of taking your usual bus home, you decided to take a walk and right in front of you, is the person that God has wanted you to meet. 

Just focus on taking the action, be it a hunch, reminder or even a dream. Do not doubt it no matter how silly you think it might be. Just trust HIM and follow his orders. 

In a nutshell, that is how you can truly and permanently break the spell of being single. Is there a lot of work to be done ? Yes and no, depending on how you look at it. Are you willing to abandon the methods that all other single friends of yours are using and tried this above ? Are you willing to suspend your need to control and relinquish it to God , having 100% faith that he would execute it timely for you ? If your answer is YES, congratulations. 

If you answer is NO,  I can also accept it since this is not the mainstream practice that everyone said it is. All I am asking is to give it a try and let the results speaks for itself. When your dream is fulfilled, kindly pass it on to the next person who might benefit from it. True blessings from God are free and if it is free, then it is my duty to share the gospel (the good news) with as many as possible.

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I have find it interesting that if we pay attention to God, he is constantly educating us in many different ways. For example, a friend of mine is desperately looking for a job. I prayed for him to land on a job that he truly likes and yet have time for his children. He shared that he is more stressful now that his wife may be "axed' too and he is taking on any jobs that come his way. 

He went for a driver interview job that promised to pay him more than a 1000 a day for a 10 hours shift. I told him is quite unlikely. The risks are way too high for the rewards. True enough, he phoned me to say what they advertised was different from what he hear during the interview.

On one hand, I am pleased that God has enlightened me on his words such as the one below :

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The keywords are - anything that we ask for that pleases him - so anything that is unethical, illegal , immoral or things that we do not want to happen to us then we must not do it unto others. ANYTHING - so what are we asking from God ? We need to be clear in our mind. 

If we know that he hears us then we know he will give us what we ask for - not later , not 1 year later but already in our possession. The challenge is we humans use the organs of perception - our eyes and ears to judge what we have in our possessions. If we treat what we want externally as already in existence internally, then at its appointed time, God will make both sides align completely. Our role is to believe in it, dwell in it, regardless of contravening evidences each day that it presents to us.

For example, I know I want to make 500 a day in my trading , and I see that , feel that in my charts, in my Profits statement, seeing the blue figures and the peace and excitement that it gives me. Because I believe in it, over time, I realised that I have become more calm in trading. I am alright to miss a few trades knowing the results that I want is already achieved. If it is achieved, why should I feel lousy about missing a trading opportunity ? Will it comes again ? Of course , even better ones too.

Believe, dwell in it, sleep in that assumption until it hardens into facts.

When vision breaks forth into speech, the deity is confirmed. NG 

2 things I changed when I went for my run yesterday at 2pm. The first was without my sunglass, not a good choice as the sun was scorching hot. Take note for future run. Next, I took off my shirt as the singlet marking seems to get ingrained into my skin over time. I needed the colour tone to be more even. I was listening to Tony Robbins on youtube as I was running and he was talking about the topic on Confidence. 

There are people who have the competence but lack confidence. He also said that confidence is a state that we can all acquire at will if we know how. First, by changing your physiology, for example, shoulders pull back, put on a smile, speak in a louder tone than usual, smiling,etc. These body movements will in turn trigger an emotional reactions and the feel good factors kick in, then the confidence engine begins to run. Along the way, recollect good memories of the last event when I was confident, for example, making $500 profits a day, feeling the joy and excitement and relief it brings. 

There are things that we more confident with and other matters that we tend to lack. It is not possible to be confident in all areas of our lives. For example, if someone is strong in his health area, he may be lesser confident in his finance/career especially if he is being retrenched or out of job. The black hole , the career portion if not treated well will expand into other areas of his life. Yes, it is infectious and must be treated soonest possible than to let it manifest on its own.

The more recent the event and the better the results it is , it creates a more lasting effect on our memories. Let this memory serves as an anchor for future events that we are embarking on. Also, things that we believes in tends to go along with our confidence level. There is a certain standards that we self-imposed on ourselves. 

​To be continued.....

As I was having breakfast with a friend and hearing his side of the story of how unfairly he has been treated in his new job (no longer) and how much stress he is going through, I can't help feeling life is much like filling up holes for him/others.

When one identified there is a hole, what does he do? He tried to find ways and means to patch it up before it gets too big and unable to contain the damages. So, he gets busy with the works to do. But before this work is finished, another hole starts to appear in others parts of his life. Frustrated, he puts off this job patching and attending to the next hole.

Taking a step back, you can imagine this guy frantically busy, running around each day, very busy , patching holes but honestly, not quite productive. In his words, he is at a crossroads, feeling tired and not sure what to do next. He said he has no choice but to take on this job , the one that he barely last a week. 

I shared with him the words of God. God loves us unconditionally and that would means he leaves it to us to make the right decision. And after much lengthy conversation, he finally agreed with me that peace is lacking in his life. Desperate time calls for desperate actions. 

When we are stressed up, with kids , with houseworks, spouse relationship, etc, it can be hard to see the bigger picture. we can get caught in the doing doing doing and forget what's the purpose behind. I am guilty of this as well. To take a step back and visit our purpose in life is important yet we were sold that if we are not doing something, be seen being busy , then something is wrong with us. We have been brainwashed by the media, by the mainstream crowd to do what everyone else is doing. That is so wrong.

That is why having "me-time" is crucial. Being alone with yourself is OK. Talk to yourself the desires of your heart, listen to your heart about its fear and challenges it is going through, pray to God for his divine intervention, direction and guidance. 

Thank you God for your reminder that I need to do the same thing for myself so that I am in a better position to help others. 

Read this article here.

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Apparently, I am not able to upload my video files here. Hmmmm, I recorded several of these videos recently to put forth my thoughts in trading, concepts of success and failures, goals setting,etc. I thought this change would be good for readers who like to hear this audio files on the go and be motivated by it. Once I figure out how to circumvent this problem, I will upload the files sooner possible. 

I was happy  as my spouse decided to join us for a swim at the pool yesterday. I did my usual 20 laps and was aiming for 22 mins + but was greeted with a 23 30 mins timing instead. I did a post mortem and realised this feedback :

1. I just completed my 10km run the day before
2. My legs are not completely recovered from the fatigue

Therefore, completing in 2330 mins was still nevertheless a good attempt and I should not take it too personally! I am still confident of maintaining or breaking my 22mins record very soon. See the new evidence in the next update, I promised.