21 Days Habit program

Problem : There's been alot of thing i told myself that i want to change ages ago, some examples include, waking up on time when the alarm ring no snooze, read the news daily, do exercise daily, update my financial statement, clear my personal/work email daily, blog something of value daily, enforce my subconscious on things i want to achieve, so many on the list. But its always the same thing, i have the drive for a few days then i will skipped a few days then remembered and do it once or twice then down in the memories lane. Or the worst, i procrastinate then tell myself later, tml etc.

This time round is my 2nd attempt on the 21 days habit program written by celestine chua refer to the how on her blog topic on this. My first attempt was like 3 or 4 mths back whereby i want to wake up on time but fail miserably. The past few days have been different, i feel the hidden power in me to change or rather its because of the event that happened. I m able to see it positively (thanks to those books that i have reading and audio program)

From 7 habit of highly effective people and Adam khoo's teaching, We cant or have little control about things that happen to around us or to us. But we can have control of our state or thoughts, how we interpret the events that happened. ie some time back i was complaining why my boss sound so pissed and kinda harsh on his tone on why i did this and did not inform him or why you are not putting this as priority. My interpretation was, why me ? i have already tried my best to do so much why still not happy ? I have so much things on hands, it overflowing. The feeling sucks man and when i tried to explained he will says you are not listening. Yucks i m writing so much on this lol i still have bad feeling on this ?

Or the way I could interpret as he's teaching me on things i did not see and miss out. I could be more efficient and learn the technique of asking for help. He wants to groom me, why so many people out there he choose me to do it. The change of seeing it, the feeling change to positive energy !

Ok i m drifting abit far from the topic, back to the 2nd attempt on the 21 day habit program. I have wrote a list of things i want to form into a habit.

1. Read news daily
2. wake up when the alarm ring NO SNOOZE
3. Daily exercise (push up)
4. Millionaire hour daily (update financial statement)
5. Drink 2 litres of water daily

Now i m thinking should i start one at a time or all together. Looking at the above i challenge myself to do all at the same time. But this time I m going to track the result daily and update here.


Why : I want to prove to myself i can change my habit. I have the capability to achieve all these, I can achieve whatever i set myself to achieve.Why i want to openly declare this, also another technique I learn, when I declare publicity on something, it put myself on the line. If i dont do it, people will know.


How :
http://celestinechua.com/blog/cultivate-a-good-habit-in-21-days/

Sam's Experience :
One term to note : the activity or in my case activities must be performed daily, if for some reason i skipped, i have to redo everything from day 1.

Tracking

topup Paypal account 4 steps

Problem  : I want to buy something online via auction site but my paypal account doesnt have enough money.

If you are a savvy online shopper, then paypal wont be unfamiliar to you. But if you not, i would suggest making online payment via paypal especially buying from auction sites.

Lets say you bid for an item in an auction and win the bid. If you did not receive your goods or seller does not response to you. You can hold the payment payment(not sure about this) or open a dispute case.

Any reason, its easier for seller to setup payment option such as paypal compare to credit card.

Sam's Experience : If you are staying in singapore and wish to topup your paypal account, here's the steps( theres a video too but think you have to login to your paypal account to see it)

https://www.paypal.com/sg/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/Marketing/general/DBS_Topup

Pretty straight forward,
step 1 : login to your dbs/posb account.
step 2 : under payment service, select topup paypal
step 3 : enter the paypal customer reference no and confirm
step 4 : select topup and enter amount

Quotes of the day (28 Dec 2010)

when you want to do something and negative thoughts or fear arise in your head, just keep telling your mind, "I CAN, I CAN, I CAN .... " it's empowering !

Car servicing - Mitsubishi lancer Ex

Problem :My Xiao Hong aka Mitsubishi lancer Ex is long overdue for servicing. Current mileage at 87000km ++ i think. I used to do the car servicing at cycle and carriage but everytime i sent xiao hong for servicing, in my mind "its gonna be another big cost again". I dont have the records with me right now but average servicing will cost around 290+ SGD plus they will tell me this and that need to replace another few hundreds. So on average about 500+ spent. I want to look for a more competitive pricing for car servicing.

Why I want to learn it ?
If i need to do 4 servicing each year, base on the above average it will cost me 4 X 500 = $ 2000 just on servicing !

If i find another workshop that offer the same quality of service or even better at a more competitive price, ie
300+ on average, 300 X 4 = $1200
There's $800 worth of saving for other things =D

Research :
Article 

http://www.lancermotoringclub.com/showthread.php?t=17976&highlight=Kaki+Bukit
http://www.huatleeauto.sg/Services.php

Video


Podcast


Sam's experience :
Day 1 (27 Dec 10)
Had visited the lancermotoringclub few months ago to search for good workshop to service my xiao hong. Remembered that I came across a workshop that was highly recommended for good service and competitive pricing but just cant remember the name. I know it's somewhere in kaki bukit. Thus i visit the forum again and try to search for it, finally i found it. It's huat lee, visited their http://www.huatleeauto.sg/Services.php and it ring a bell in my head. (haha i remember better by pictures) Look for the contact number and wanted to make an appointment for servicing and found out that the contact is actually in my phone all this while.

Day 2 (29 De 10)
Man i procrastinate or somehow lose  my focus, only call the workshop 2 days later and found out that they are fully booked till next week. Will be going down on next Wed 5 Jan 2011 at 0930hrs

Essence

Speed reading

Problem : So much information to read every single day, from emails, SMS, message on whatsapp, facebook, books, newspaper, magazine, contract/agreement and the list goes on.

"I want to master the skill of speed reading, but i do not know how" like many others out there, I read word for word. ie the example i would read, I....want...to...master or if you think reading in your head is much faster (reference form web call it vocalization which is a subconscious habits we learn)

Imagine the amount of information you need to read every single day. For example, I take about 5 sec to read "I want to master the skill of speed reading, but i do not know how" imagine i m able to master speed reading and reduce the time taken to 2.5 sec which improve my speed of reading by 2 X ! that very powerful here's

why its important ? : ie if Sam used 2hrs each day on reading information (can be anywhere consolidated), with effective speed reading skills, he can read the same amount of information using only half the time which is 1hr.

1hrs a day
360hrs in a year ( that 15 days man!)

Now I have identified the problem and the reason why i want to solve, next ? find the solution

Here's my research
Day 1 (26 Dec 10)
http://www.mindtools.com/speedrd.html
video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPOIZ6DGXWE


Sam's experience
Day 1 (26 Dec 10)
started applying some technique with a book that was place on my desk for a long long time.
1) use my sight to read instead of word for word sub vocalisation.
2) using the technique taught by this video, finger as a index to scroll through the text and reading "1,2,3,4"

I manage to try it on 3 pages and as the video says, i wasn't able to comprehend the information but definitely the speed of reading a page significantly reduce. Practice make perfect, i will continue to try and revise accordingly.

Essence

Farmville Share links 9 Dec 2010

To Farmville friends, here's the share link for the day
3 Lonely Animals

#1

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Fuel Refill:

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2 Centipede:

#1

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1 Rhode Island Red Mystery Egg :

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1 Black Foal:

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1 Holstein Calf:

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1 Baby Turkey:

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1 Morning Glory Bushel:

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1 Starfruit Tree:

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Farmville Egg Grab 7 Dec

1 Rhode Island Red Mystery Egg :

#1: http://apps.facebook.com/onthefarm/reward.php?frHost=565696323&frId=2u86r6itqum8sc4gokg0048oc&frType=EggFriendReward