Most people whom I have came across, has this perception that I am only selling products for my partnering company. Everytime I try to strike a conversation with them, they will immediately say, "No, I have nothing to buy." That's the very sad part for me, because I feel people are very blatant to the fact that EVERYONE who approaches them just want to cheat them out of their money. I always emphasize to the people whom are open to listen to me, that I am not interested in selling them products, and expect them to sell the products for me; I am interested in helping them to get the life they deserve - their freedom, and hope they can help the rest to achieve the same too.
A recent episode which really moved me, is when I decided to talk to a woman on a flight, from Bangkok to Malaysia. I always like to strike conversation with random strangers, only difference is when in the past, random conversation topic would be meaningless. But lately, conversation are strike with the thought of wanting to bless someone's life. It's an awesome feeling to know that I have something great to offer to these people, which they do not know, and spend their lifetime searching for the solution.
Anyway, from the attached picture, you could have guessed that I felt really happy to have talked to her. It's because everyone may look normal from the outside, but you will never know who is actually dealing with problems silently. All it took me was just to start a conversation, and it changed her life. This person was suffering from something: a Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep apnea and thyroid. If I didn't talk to her, she would have had to decide which to sacrifice: her health or her liver/kidney.
And it turns out that she has a very young son of age 4, and she really want to spend her time looking after him than spending 9 hours at the office. With her current health condition, she couldn't have imagined being able to see his kid grow up, but now, knowing how good the products are, it can change her life.
All I had to do, was just to give her videos of the products, and everything else can be found on the internet. There are so many successful results from the company and the fact that the partnering company has penetrated the Australia/New Zealand market increases her confidence level in the company. This is because these 2 countries are very particular with the food and being able to have an office there, reflects the company's reputation very well.
She was right. I think we were meant to meet. I gave her an opportunity to regain her health, and also an opportunity for her to stay at home with her family, at the same time, earn a living out of the business.
Thank God, for giving me this opportunity to bless someone's life.
For the past few weeks I have been reading a lot of articles popping up, about how unrealistic the Gen-Ys are and how most of us set our expectations too high, and in reality, life doesn't work that way, and thus, we have to be really down-to-earth. Hmm..
Is it supposed to work that way? When our dreams get too big, and seems unbelievable, are we supposed to put them aside and not think about it? Is it how it's supposed to be? When we were younger, I don't know how many of you dream of becoming a singer, or a writer, only to be told off that these ambitions do not bring any bacon home? (Pardon me, the muslims.) And so many of us, were asked to pick something more common, like a doctor for example, and work towards that direction.
Let's turn the tables around. What about those who chose to become doctors, or lawyers from the start, but due to incapability of scoring well in exams, or the parents could not afford the school fees, thus those who have such high ambitions are forced to do something else instead. So what now?
I don't know what went wrong along the way. Is it the way of how we were brought up, or simply because our mindset is always set at "Come what may, deal with that first!" which is why all of us just go along with life, and deal with obstacles one step at a time. Do we necessary have to shrink our dreams to what we can afford, or do we expand our affordability to the dreams we aspire?
Which do you think is a better way out?
If we keep making our dreams smaller and smaller, our children will only live in a default mode. If we restrict our own dreams, our children will probably follow suit and then what? Is that, really life?
Sorry, I do not want to live that way.
I do not want to tell my parents that I dream of driving a fast car, only to be told that, that's a ridiculous idea to start of with. It's my dream, and it's good to have something to work towards for. Imagine having to work hard, but to not have anything to work towards to, life will just be like a conveyor belt.
I do not want that.
I went to Singapore over the weekend to attend the UPS and to see the numbers growing every month.
What does that tell you?
That more and more lives have been blessed; more and more people see the need to change their way of living; more and more people see the urgency to change.
It's great to be down there, staring at those people who has gotten their success, but very humble to share about their life journey, and you know what, all of them find their lives transformed because of the Happy Life Project. All of them acknowledged how the UNIPOWER system has helped them in achieving their success, and yet, being on stage today, they are still very humble beings.
I can assure you that none of this can be found in ANY companies out there.
On Sunday, I attended the training. I woke up with a bad case of flu and wasn't feeling well.
But I did not let that stop me.
I went to Singapore, to SEE more, and to learn new things. I had to leave halfway, because I had to rush home.
I slept through my entire journey home, and I thought I could catch more sleep during my journey home from the airport, WHEN the cab driver asked me, where was I from, and what am I currently doing. In the past, I always tell people that I am an Engineer, in the Oil and Gas field, so that people can see that I am actually quite "atas", don't play play ah. But that day, that question, woke me up. From being all tired, I jumped into the first opportunity I could share with him what I do.
"I help people to redesign their lives, teach them how to get what they want in their lives, which they don't already know."
It came out so fluently, for a second, I was expecting a comeback remark from the taxi driver. His eyes grew slightly bigger and I knew it triggered his curiosity. I then, asked him how he became a taxi driver and this is how his story goes:
"He was a Mechanical Engineer who graduated from UTM, Skudai, Johor, and he worked for Sony. Just like everyone else, he thought this was the company he could retired in, and did his work whole-heartedly. Little did he know that when his age touched 40, he was asked to leave the company under the VSS scheme. Imagine at the age of 40, when you have reached the prime age, to be comfortable, and has build a solid foundation in an organization, the company has to let you go. How do you think it made him feel?
He has 7 children. That's 9 mouths to feed, including his wife and himself. He took his VSS money, started a small business in the motorcycle repairing shop and also because his friend told him that by being a taxi driver, he can earn quite a good income, so he took up driving taxi too.
And then I asked him, if something happens to him one day, which resulted him not being able to work, is there any money coming in to feed his family?
His answer was no.
That's when I shared him the difference between active and passive income. That's when I shared with him the danger of being the only sole breadwinner for his family. That's when he shared with me that his biggest goal in life was to bring his wife to tunaikan haji. I asked him, why his wife only, he told me that's what he can afford to. I asked him wouldn't it be better if he can bring his 7 children along with them too? Will that be better? He said, "Yes, but I cannot afford."
I told him, that's what Happy Life Project is for. If he has planned to bring his wife to Haji in 2019, in a budgeted flight, staying the budgeted hotel, I offered him an opportunity to work hard this 2-3 years, and then bring all his family members to Haji, in the most comfortable flight and stay nearer to the Kaa'bah.
He was amazed. And asked me, "It sounds too good to be true. Is it a MLM? I have joined a few companies before, but none of them gave me what they promised."
To which I replied, "And so why do you think you failed?"
He replied, "Everyone promised me something, but after they got their money, all of us cannot get of what we were promised. We weren't able to do what our uplines did."
I smiled, and told him, "That's where our system comes in."
And then spend 30 minutes explaining to him how it works and he was really surprised to know that I was only 26 to see the importance of time and health freedom. I am glad I was able to share about what I know, and I told him if he were to know Happy Life Project today, and you know of people who needs this, I believe you will share right?
To which he nodded, dropped me off safely, and promised to make time to see me again.
And you know what, my flu and tiredness vanished along the way, and it made me really happy to be able to share with people proudly, of what I do.
This morning, on my way to work, I was doing my KPI while driving.
What KPI you mean? Doesn't matter, that's another story for another day, but you see, today I inserted this CD into my CD player, and started playing its content.
It only took me about 15 minutes to finish listening to the contents. It got me thinking the whole day.
On my way home after work today, I listened to the same CD again. This time, I listened to it for 3 times (due to the terrible traffic today) and I really felt the need to share about the content of the CD.
This is a story of Khun Nuanvirat Kraubua.
This is a story of a girl, who grew up in an average family. When she was young, her father told her to study hard, get good results, and come out to the society to get a good job. And so she did. She took a degree in law in a local university in Thailand, did her barrister with the Thai Barrister (insert correct term) and came out to work in a law firm. In her mind, she set a salary target for herself, and when she did not get it, she went on to further studies in Masters in Law, in London. She completed her studies in due time, and came to to Thailand to be attached to one of the top law firms in the country.
She was hired with her desired salary. She worked very hard, most of the time 12-13 hours a day. Even though she only works for 5 days in a week, she finds it difficult to actually be detached from her work. Even when she goes out partying during the weekends, she was constantly worried about her work. Her salary then, was about RM10,000. She led a very steady, comfortable life. She then added, that with that salary, her work also came with a liability. Since she is in the legal business, her legal opinions and advises came with the great word of responsibility. She cannot afford the tiniest bit of mistake in her field of work. She worked hard for about a year, when she was diagnosed with a high potential risk in Colon Cancer.
That was her turning point.
She said she begun to realize that if she no longer works, her parents will be affected by the halt of her income. So, one fine day, in the midst of all these, she was approached by her good friend, who is an actress in Thailand. This good friend of hers, was earning about RM20,000 then, but was also doing a business. She told her that this is a good opportunity for her to make money and also gain more. Well, being a lawyer, Khun Nuanvirat was very skeptical about such good opportunities. Being in the legal field, she has dealt with so many cases of fraud, money business that she told her good friend that there is no such thing in this world. Even though she was skeptical about the business, she did not let that get into her way. After her meet up with a friend, she went through the legal documents of the company, scanned through every piece of legal documents, as well as she took her time to buy books regarding passive income to understand the theory behind it.
I won't write the full story BUT if you are interested to know how her story develops, I can lend the CD to you, FOC.
Now, enough with her story.
After I heard that, it hit a chord in my system. I can relate to this girl's story.
I come from a humble, average family. Not poor, but not rich either.
I was educated to study hard, go to a good school, work hard, and then lead a better life than I used to. I have a professional background, which means my title comes with a liability. Being an Engineer, all the drawings, documents, reports, analysis, etc comes with a heavy responsibility. If, in the event, any of your designs fail, you are hold accountable to the failure. And what are we paid for? What are we paid for such a heavy responsibility?
I used to work, more than 10 hours a day. For money. I used to think about work when I am away from the office. I am worried if I can't finish certain tasks, and end up worrying the whole weekend. I was skeptical as well when the idea was presented to me, but I did not let that stop me. I went to find out more.
I did not close my doors. And that's something really important.
You may not like the idea, for now, but that simply just mean that it's not your calling yet. It's not because the idea of it isn't a good one.
It's just because you don't know much about it yet.
And because this scenarios are just so common these days. I am sure 3/4 of my friends' list here are professionals, are professional employees, earning a comfortable income, leading a comfortable life. See if you can relate to this story of Khun Nuanvirat Kraubua.
Do you think it's difficult to be the Go-Giver?
I personally think it requires more than a big heart; it requires a full-fledged thick skin and also a whole set of patience. Yes, patience was what I lacked of. I am not the kind who will slowly nurture into something or someone. I did not have patience with people who are not competent enough to work alongside with me and almost always I did not have the patience to even repeat my sentence whenever people could not hear me.
So this thing about being a giver, really tires me. But then again, I have a gigantic heart and well, very substantial amount of skin on my face. I felt that the people should be given an option to how they live their life, and my job is fairly simply. To share about Happy LIfe Project.
Most of the time, it seems like I have to beg for people's time and attention to hear me out, when I felt it should be the other way around. No, don't get me wrong. You don't have to beg me, but I'd rather people would be open minded to listen/receive, regardless it can be something they want, or would want in the future.
No, I do not believe anyone would want to work for all their lives, and just to have their next generation to do the same, and then what?
A lot people gave me the remarks of wanting to lead a simple life, yes, but what's a simple life?
To go to work, get your monthly paycheck, pay bills, survive?
What if, you have to work hard for a short period of time, and have the privilege to see your children grow up, spend more time with them, provide anything for your parents without the worry of having to scrape through the month, do not have to worry about the hospital bills, and age gracefully along the way; would this be an alternative to your current default mode of living?
I'd say you have nothing to lose, more than a mere 30 minutes to hear me sketch out how your future will be like, with the happy life project.
Otherwise, you can just go back to your default mode of living, and trust me, no one will take that away from you.
