Success And Money

A Successful Man

Let me introduce you to one of my beloved mentors having greatly influenced my life in such a remarkable way. This mentor effectively taught me some of the most important wisdom that he learned while he is still a teenager. Definitely, meeting him was one of the most magnificent things that ever transpired in my life.

And without the influence and guidance of this person, I may not be able to be where I am now in my life and career.

Go to any TSS Malls nationwide and you will most likely be bewildered by their relentless development. The first coach that I have is Mr. Alvin Go – the humble son of the renowned TSS founder Samuel Go.

Years ago, while I was bringing my books to Mega Bookstore located at the TSS MegaMall, Alvin saw and waived his hand to me. At that time, I was not really sure if I was the one he was calling. When I came near, he extended his business card and requested me to visit his office. Without any hesitation whatsoever, I replied yes.

At that time, I was personally doing the delivery myself because aside from me there was no other person working for my company. As I could recall, I was just wearing t-shirt, blue faded jeans and I think slippers. I literally looked like a delivery man.

However, before that chance encounter with Mr. Alvin, he first saw me at the debut of IMAX. Right after the first movie ended, I approached Mr. Alvin Go who was seated near me and personally handed him a copy of my book “The Changing Face Of The Job Market.”

I also brought a laminated copy of my Chronicles column talking on my experience of meeting his famous father. We sat and started to talk about more on his deep personal understanding.

“When a wise man pushed you to do something, it must be for a purpose.” This is the very first message I got from him.

Alvin remembered going to his father’s office to help for the first time. He was thinking that just like his father he was going to be a mini-boss that’s why he dressed up very neatly, had a tie, black pants and shiny shoes. When he finally got into the office of his father, the very first thing that his father ordered was “to toss the trash outside and sanitize the trash can.”

And he thought it was unfair. For his very young mind, it’s definitely ridiculous. He is a son of the owner of a big company and you had to do that. Was there any rationale?

To make the story short, his journey within the company included becoming a salesman, a cashier, a supervisor and a manager — before assuming the presidency of TSS Premium Holdings.

He confessed, “I must obey my father and do everything he asked me to do in following the tradition of respecting our parents.” Naturally, it was quite unsettling at first but later I realized that everything was done for a purpose.

Right now, no lowly employee under my leadership can grumble in our policy — not even on their jobs practically because I was also there in their positions and I was definitely one of them.

Always pay attention to your mentor or coach. Once they are asking you to do something — it must be for a purpose!

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Your professional life and business success require you to be empowered by self-confidence as you deal with people both big and small. Self-confidence is a very pivotal ingredient to get ahead of the competition and establish your own personal branding along the way. And one way of acquiring self-confidence is surrounding yourself with loving and supportive friends.

Develop the kind of friends whom you are comfortable with and help you feel more positive. Your friends should encourage and push you to be professionally competitive and bring home the bacon – the “Go go go!” friends. To have friends like this, I am sure you will realize of their fantastic empowering power.

Divide your friends into two groups: the “Be cautious” friends and the “Go go go” friends.  If you want to compete well and move upward in life, listen to both but always lean more with the latter – as in go, go go! “Be cautious” friends may constantly warn you of the possibility of failure and could at the end hold your growth back. While most of them are well-meaning and might be only looking for your welfare, they should never be your focal influence.

Your first best friend should be you. Love yourself and believe in your innate ability to rise up and climb the ladder of success. Stop being negative – it just put you down! Believe that you have the power to make things happen. Be optimistic in a gloomy world we are in and you are on your way to becoming a totally self-confident person.

To make yourself surrounded with positive people, you must first become one yourself. It is just like the first secret of having many friends: be friendly! Positive attracts positive. It would virtually impossible to expect people to surround you if you are a pessimistic person – a person who has nothing to hope for is a person doomed. And who would want to take a ride with gloom?

Successful and happy people are always self-confident.  And self-confident people make sure they are surrounded with optimistic and active people. Nothing less!  If you want to join the club of self-confident individuals, it is imperative that you have  “Go go go” associates – people who cheer you up to be courageous in facing many challenges as you carve out your dreams in life and be financially free. Looking for “Go go go” friends means that you first become one.

Friends are important as they could help us propel to make our dreams come true. Be a good friend yourself and expect others of the same orientation to get attracted to you. Always be positive with things and with people. Positive thinking blots out stress and adds magnitude of colors to an otherwise dull world you might be in.

Go go go!

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