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How to be blessed beyond your wildest expectations

Today I’d like to let you in on a secret.  Do you want to feel blessed? Beyond your expectations?  To your wildest dreams? Simple. You just need to learn to be ‘grateful’.

What? That’s it?! You say.  This is one of life’s biggest paradox.  That what you think about most, will come back to you a thousand-fold.  The more you think about your problems, the more they become bigger. The more you listen and entertain yourself with mindless gossip and tragic events of other people’s lives, the more you get depressed and think that life is miserable.

This is the reason why I think, listening to “news” on TV is the single biggest mistake you can ever make during your day. Why? Simple. You get all the negative things from all over the world, the strangest and the most tragic events throughout the day, seamlessly collected and served to you 100%, in its purest, unadulterated form.  If you let yourself watch this garbage with your 100% attention, it’s like having a bunch of worms forced down your throat while your hands are tied to a chair inside a torture chamber.

Gruesome isn’t it? It’s like a bad horror-movie.  Let’s stop the movie from playing.  Press the stop button on the remote now, and decide to be more conscious of the thoughts that you feed your mind.

Now that I’ve got that out of the way, let’s practice being “grateful” for a change. Let’s start with reminiscing the wonderful blessings of the past year.

Until now, I’m still asking myself what I must have done right to deserve so much blessings in this world.  Truly, living a blessed life is such a wonderful gift.

At the start of 2011, I mentioned 3 goals in my mind that I wanted to accomplish.  One is financial in nature, another is for my health, and last is for personal growth.  You can read more about them here.

The journey in achieving my financial goal has gone beyond my wildest imagination.  For one, I not only achieved my earnings goal handily but even multiplied it 5x, and achieved it faster than I can imagine possible.   This has allowed me to be able to quit my job as IT consultant for the last 9 years and focus on helping others achieve the same.

In the last quarter of the year, I shared with you my new goal that is to help 100 other people do what I did.  I wanted it to happen before 2011 ends, but I over-estimated the reality that before you can help other people, they first need to be willing to be helped.  It’s a two-way street, and unfortunately, I have to live with the fact that I can only control the one on my end.

Nevertheless, the results have been really inspiring because to date, there are already 35 others who are already earning $40 – $400 a month and on their way to their financial goals.  They are earning US dollars in the Philippines without having to go abroad and take the risk of being abused or maltreated away from home.  They are like you and me, ordinary people with different backgrounds, IT professionals, accountants, engineers, veterinarians, linguist specialists, and more. What they have though, is the deep thirst for learning to improve their lives, the relentless positive attitude and solid character, and the bias for action to match their desire.

These are people who have given me their trust and allowed me to mentor them on a personal basis, in the hope that I bring them closer to their financial goals.  These are people who have raised their hands, and are willing to do whatever it takes to realize their dreams.  In return, they get personal access to me, my time, resources and all the knowledge and experience I’ve been through all the years.  If you want to be blessed just like them, you can email me here.  Only 65 slots left.

On my fitness goal, I achieved my weight goal in the middle of the year but gone back astray, and gained back the pounds.  That’s what you get when you have too much time having fun. 🙂 What excites me though is that I now have more time in my hands and the means to do it faster and healthier next year.  Watch out for that! 🙂

More importantly, for the first time in my life, I’ve had the healthiest year so far.  For the first time in years, I’ve not had the usual one or 2 weeks of colds and cough that I normally go through almost every other month.  Now, whenever I get sick, which I had only a couple of times the whole year, it only takes me a day or two of rest to bring back my old healthy self.

The side effect of being healthy though is that you tend to stretch your limits going for days with limited sleep.  Unfortunately, when that happens for far too long, your body can only go so far, it still needs to rest and recharge.

The last of my goals is to go out to places I’ve never been to before.  One thing I learned after travelling to the US, Malaysia and Singapore is you learn a lot about life when you travel and explore.  It’s in those moments that I realize there’s a greater world out there most people are not able to see and experience.  Yes, you get excited hearing stories and adventures of other people.  But that pales in comparison to the feeling you get when YOU experience it for yourself.  Those moments are priceless gifts you will treasure for a lifetime.

I’ve had little success in this goal of mine this year, not because I don’t want to travel.  I certainly do.  But a bigger blessing has come my way, that I feel it is more important to focus on at the moment.  I am not one to complain, because I am enjoying every moment of excitement and waiting.  Perhaps next year, the travels will even be more blessed.

Now for the other blessings that came my way that I sincerely prayed but didn’t expect to become reality so fast…here are just but a few of them.

…for the gift of time, and of not needing to rush off to work every morning

…for the gift of life, and to our greatest blessing this year, our first baby is on the way

…for the gift of home, a new place of love for the people closest to my heart

The past year has been very very good to me and my family.  I feel really blessed beyond my wildest imagination.  If you would have told me a year ago, that it would be THIS GREAT, I would have chuckled and told you you were joking.

Sometimes, in life you just need a little faith.  All I did was dream and trust God that what He has prepared for me is even better than what I was asking for.  I wish all that for you and much much more.  Be grateful to the blessings around you. Have faith and be prepared to receive the avalanche of blessings running through your door!  Cheers to a blessed 2011!

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90 Days To Freedom

Around the same time last year, I was an overworked, physically, mentally and emotionally exhausted employee…this time, I feel healthier, more blessed and truly happy.  Things change for the better, only if you want it to be and are willing to pay the price.

A year ago, I was trapped, and I didn’t know it at that time.  I thought, I only needed to ‘work hard’ and the money will take care of itself.  It could be the farthest thing from the truth.  Just think, if working hard is the way to riches, then many hardworking jeepney drivers, porters and farmers would have certainly gotten rich by now.

mondays before and after
mondays before and after

If you’ve been working hard for quite some time, you know how mentally and emotionally draining it is, waking up early in the morning even when you don’t feel like it, mindlessly attending endless meetings every day just because you are forced to.  I was in the same boat last year, and the sad part was, my body was literally telling me to stop.

Just when my vacation leave finally got approved and was ready to take a vacation, my body got sick…the ironic thing is, I was sick throughout my only long vacation of the year. Imagine going through a 3 days 2 nights stay in Bohol, island hopping, chocolate-hills trekking, and touring the island ala amazing race while nursing a nasty cold, cough and slight fever.  Believe me, it is NOT the best feeling in the world.

That’s when I finally decided that enough is enough.  There are more important things in this life other than earning a living.  There’s spending time with your family.  There’s being able to get back control of your own time.  There’s living a passionate and spirited life.

And so I decided that this year will be different.  And it WAS different, in more ways than one.  I didn’t have the slightest idea what great blessings were waiting for me.  All I knew then was that something’s got to change.

When I look back, I had the faintest idea that the CHANGE would be THIS GREAT!

The blessings have been pouring like heavy rain.  I’ve already shared that one of most cherished blessing from God in my last article and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

What I haven’t told you yet, is that I have also gotten back control of my own time…and it excites me more knowing that I now have the time freedom to spend it with people who matter most to me, that is, my wife and my baby.

I get nostalgic sometimes, and it’s been an emotional battle the past few months not being able to share this with you.  I feel now the time is right for you to get a glimpse of what it is like to take the journey.  I want to share with you the same letter I wrote months ago titled, “90 Days to Freedom.” —

“Today, is the start of the 90 days before I finally resign from employment.  It’s been 9 years since I started working in the IT industry.

I got lucky, I managed to land a job right after graduation.  Even luckier, I managed to get promoted almost every year for the first 4 years.

Before my 5th year, I resigned from my employer and sought opportunities outside the country by working as an IT consultant in Malaysia.  I only had one goal in my mind then – to earn enough money so my girlfriend (now my wife) and I can get married.  After a year, my wife and I tied the knot.

Another year and a half and we decided to come back home to the Philippines.

It’s been a whirlwind 9 years of my working life.

In 90 days I will be saying goodbye to the 8am – 5pm job.  Or should I say, 5am to 8pm?  Considering all the time commuting to the office and back home, and everything you have to do in between I feel it is the more accurate description.

I don’t know if it’s a quarter life crisis (Yes, I want to live up to a hundred, healthy and living happily!).  May be it is.  May be it isn’t.  But one thing is for sure.  There’s no doubt in my mind.  My heart is now craving for my next journey.  I want to take back control of my own time.  I am counting down to freedom.  And I am excited for the next chapter of my life.”

On my last week as an employee, my bonus from one of my part-time income streams was more than I was being paid full-time in my job.  A good omen indeed.  And only the beginning of blessings that were about to come.

They say, luck favors the prepared mind.  It is true.  Everything in life is a preparation for you to be ready when the blessings come pouring through your door.  Your blessing are already there in front of you…you only need to open your heart and mind to recognize it for what it truly is and be ready to receive it with open arms without any hesitation.

I can honestly say, I am blessed for God has been good to me.  And because I am blessed, that’s why I also want to be a blessing to others.  I thank God for giving me the opportunity to be a part of your life, if only to inspire you in your own journey.

Keep believing in your dreams.  Act now.  Act fast.  For you will never know when your time is up.

 

P.S. If you’re looking for a change in your life and want to find out if you can do what I did and also get started in counting down the 90 days to your own freedom, add me up as friend in Facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/akosiallan, PM me and we’ll take it from there.  God bless you.

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