2007 - Learning to inspire myself

2007 came and went rather quickly. Before I knew it, I was already in the first day of January 2008. Let me recall some of the memorable events of 2007...

I went for Strategies for Financial Freedom on the 13-15 July by Dr Clemen Chiang. Looking back, what he taught was pretty basic but I guess this is because he was catering to people from different backgrounds. Some of which have never traded stocks in their life. Anyway, what he taught was enough for one to get started with trading options and he even included how to manage your money which is the most important element in investing.

From this point on, a friend of mine started introducing me books and cds on how to improve myself through acquiring more knowledge. He let me copy Lead the field by Earl Nightingale, The Secret by Rhonda Bryne(this was the video). Later, he introduced me The 7 habits of highly effective people by Stephen R. Covey. I have been listening to all these and I would not say that it doesn't help but somehow, if you don't really put into practise what you learn, you would not benefit much from it.

One day, this friend of mine lent me a book titled Secrets of The Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker. From reading this book, I went on to attending the 3 day Millionaire Mind Intensive seminar in Singapore and have since been practising improving my mindset so that I manage it to not beat me up :)

Anyway, other things that happened during the year include me cutting my hair short in December as I had resigned from the company which allowed guys having long hair...I also changed my car from a mid sized one(Proton Waja) to a Perodua Viva(an A segment car). I did this after reading T. Harv's book. Not that the book preaches this but I wanted to simplify my life to achieve financial freedom in a shorter period. Well, I'd probably get a larger car later when my finances improve. Would be great to be able to achieve putting away for good(yes, you can never use this money to buy anything) 10% of my income to my Financial Freedom Account.

I plan to achieve much more in 2008 so here I come :)