For all my friends: Happy Chinese New Year!
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Dear Friend, Imagine with me a little scenario... It's 7 AM and the doorbell rings. Your spouse shuffles to the door, opens it wide and says... “Honey? Some guys are here and they want to talk with you...” You stumble out of bed, shaking your head and thinking, “Who could be stopping by at this hour?” Pulling on a bathrobe, you slowly make your way into the kitchen......and you can't believe what you're seeing..
For all my friends: Happy Chinese New Year!
The first book I read and complete it recently is Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. It is an interesting book that opened up my view about financial matters, how I should really give a good thought on it and start to take control on my financial future.
2nd book halfway is by Donald Trump. My impression of him from reality show Apprentice is not very good somehow. Maybe it is because whenever I tuned in, it is when someone get fired haha...and I will hear him saying "You are Fired". But interestingly, the book (How to get Rich) itself give a lot of insight to me as an employee thougth the title is saying how to get rich haha. Key thing that struck me so far, Be passionate of what you are doing and IT will keep you going...how true it is.........................
For the past few days, the people in my office are busy packing due to office. I as one of them also tried to clear out my stuff early especially stuff you rarely use.
So, I started with my cabinet drawer. I know there should be many stuff that I can throw away especially those receipts, papers or even the small - small gifts from company events. Somehow I have the habit to keep things and clear it at one time. At home, I do keep my phone and credit card bills up to 2 years ago. Well …yeah this is me.
Back to the story, in the midst of clearing the unwanted stuff, I stumble upon one slip of paper and it is a check dated back to 30 Oct 2003 payable to me only. I tried to recall how did I get this check and the company name also did not help much. Till one point, the date did give me some clue; it is a check from my part time job in Japanese restaurant before I get this permanent job! I started my job on 1 Nov 2003 and this check somehow landed on my drawer and sitting there for the past 5 years!!!
Trying my luck, I deposited this check to my bank account, however as expected the check bounce back with the reason that the account has been closed. I have expected that since the restaurant I worked in has closed down few years back. This has been a good lesson to money in regards of handling money; I can still feel the pinch when I imagine what I can do with this money huhuhu…..how all my work for 1 whole month were gone….
Relate this back to bible, I was reminded by Matthew Chapter 25 that talks about the parable of the Talents. Everyone are given their own share of talent (money, wealth, happiness, etc), it is the matter on how you handle it. Are you going to MULTIPLY it or just like the servant with 1 talent that go and hide it? We all have the responsibility to be the steward for what God has given us.
I know from this episode, I have acted like the servant with 1 talent with check hidden in the drawer for past 5 years but God has been good to me! This is the good time to learn it rather than when He entrusted me more. In fact, He has been very good, after I learned my lesson; He replaced whatever I lost with the same or slightly more amount through the profit from stock options. He is AMAZING!
I have found an interesting website selling books. You may wonder why, there are maybe thousands of website selling the book, what is so special about this website.
Basically, this website still purely sells books, but if other website is categorized say by topics e.g. Business, Finance, Leadership, non-fiction, etc. This website categorizes the items by the recommendations of famous people!
Say if you are big fans of Oprah Winfrey, you may wonder want kind of books that she read in her free time, what kind of books that she will recommend for her friends. Same goes to other famous name like Barrack Obama, Brad Sugars. By knowing what they read, you will know what are their interests and it may help you to be as successful as them
Go and check it out www.famouspal.com
Hope Faith Love
1 Corinthians 13:13
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And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
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