To Be... or Not To Be...

That is the QUESTION.

WARNING: This post is slightly out of IM topic but it might pose to be a good motivational speech to all tensed and depressed marketer out there.

I had been reminded by my **** TWICE about it. He predicts that within 3 years of working in my current position, I would start smoking. Surprisingly, today I bought this...

A cigarette case.

"So soon already?". To whoever that is thinking that I had taking up smoking... THINK AGAIN! I had always hated smokers & cigarettes. Come on... there are a lot more pressure reliever out there! Could be sports (archery, huh... so great picturing my **** on the bull's eye), could be love, could be anything! Anything than smoking, drugs or alcohol.

So what on earth am I doing with this cigarette case?

Card holder la!!

Hehe... GOTCHA!! "A creative mind knows no boundary".

Happiness

You Need Momentum

Momentum.

From Dictionary.com...

"A force or speed of movement; impetus, as of a
physical object or course of events: The car
gained momentum going downhill. Her career lost
momentum after two unsuccessful films."

Momentum.

You need it to survive the long journey of IM... of life. For newbies, to get your momentum, you HAVE to start. You have to pass the amount of inertia that drags you behind.

Your first sale. Your amount of traffic to your site. These 2 can be your momentum. ANYTHING can be your momentum, even negative results. You just need to think it that way.

Question Yourself

I had once came accross a quote that sound something like this: Knowledge and information is to be questioned, not received without any argument.

The older educational system and Malaysian mindset were so against this quote mainly because we will be bantered at if we asked too much question. This attitude is by far the worst murderer to intelligence and innovation.

When you received a piece of information, you should question it either it is correct or wrong, is it rellevant or not, does it apply to you, etc. I've always like to question myself these 2 questions when I'm studying or learning something new:

1. "What is..."
2. "What if..."

The "what is" question is the basic of gathering knowledge. You asked a lot of question when you were little, to get to know things. In this case, even the name will help you understand. (Did you know that our beloved prophet Nabi Adam A.S.'s mu'jizat is the name of things in this world? Without that we probably can never understand the things here, can never develop any language, etc.)

Whereas the "what if" questions are what spawn invention. When you're asking yourself "What if I do this? What happened?" You're basically trying on a new way to do things. It is essential in speeding up the learning process because the answers to this question might have already be there even before you asked it. The best part is that since you yourself think it out without the need to be spoon-fed, you understand it by intuition, better.

Quotes to Keep You Going

I'm going to add quotes (hopefully one quote per day) to this blog. The main objective is to keep everyone focus and motivated. And since I'm going to be pretty busy over the month I think I can get away with putting up quotes. Hehehehehe... So here's our first for today:

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

~ John D. Rockefeller ~

Aptly put for new beginners and those who're pondering over whether they should quit they steady job or not.

Another Reason to Be Your Own Boss

As I've mentioned in several posts back, I'll be assigned to a new position. I received the employment letter late afternoon... guess what? The whole employment letter is so full of b******. I daresay that our old contract is much better than this one. Sigh... you see what happened if you work under a boss EVEN in a giant company such as mine.

So every single students out there, every single working person, start creating your own company! Let's do online businesses!! Forget about earning a fixed amount of money each month doing soooo many things and dealing with a lot of pressure. Let's start earning infinite amount of salary and only then the loadssss of work and pressure will be worthwhile.

By the way, I've posted yet another new gadget review to be approved and posted at IdealGadget. Let's wait for what Mr. Liew said tomorrow morning regarding my previous post :D At DigitalPoint Forum I've managed to post 16 posts altogether (lost count how many for today's posts), it's kinda fun actually and you REALLY get a whole lot of tips on how to do IM there. Oh, did I mentioned that I got ONE GREEN yesterday?? That green is for reputation and there are 15 points altogether. Only my second day after joining in, one green, 16 posts, 5 PMs. Looking good.

I guess the pressure of a lousy salary is pushing me to the limits of IM.

Getting Yourself Updated

Good morning everyone!

Such a lovely Monday morning for those who have to wake up and face the morning traffics and being late on the first day of the week! *sarcastic*

Anyway just to update and log in some tips for new beginner.

Yesterday (Sunday, 4th March 07) I joined a website development workshop by the SaifulSham’s Team. One of the Fast Track course packaged along with the RBDDI Seminar. It is very basic, suitable for beginner (who really know nothing). They’ll teach starting from scratch. Mainly on how to make a sales letter webpage using Microsoft FrontPage. A compilation CD of all the softwares (these are FREE given to you) they used to make an e-book, to generate forms, to create auto responder, etc. are given away.

The workshop is considered slow to some people especially those who had already have the basics of computing, that is why I stressed out the fact that it is suitable for beginner who really know nothing. However there are some small things that a higher level of user can grab as tips to smoothen out their operation.

Most importantly, by attending the workshop I’m able to broaden my network of internet marketers to other fields. Networking is very important especially when you just starting up on something new. Already I’ve found someone to discuss with regarding the project I’m focusing on.

In gist, today's tips is always make a time to learn something new each day. At least an hour or so. Just pure study about IM. You'll never know that even the smallest tips you found could help you to achieve better traffics, etc. NEVER think anything is too simple or too low for your standard of knowledge.