Posts Tagged ‘work’

Valuing Time

Wednesday, November 17th, 2004 by Alan Yu

Often enough, I would meet people who seem to have it all under control in terms of finance. With their high paid executive jobs or their established business, it was like a non stop cash flow. However, one thing that they never seemed to have enough of is time to do other things in life. Similarly, I remember when I was working virtually every day to no end as I got used to falling into a routine as it satisfied my current financial needs. Eventually, I started thinking about my future and how if I complained that I don’t have enough time to do things now, imagine how it will be when I go into the next phase of my life such as starting a family.

While reading about stories of other financially successful individuals, the one’s that seemed to be able to take the vacations when they want and arrange schedules to suit their needs are one’s who have learned to leverage their time. For example, a manager of a store would most often need to achieve certain sales numbers and he or she does this through the efforts of everyone below them. This was a revelation for me as I realized that I to must find a way to leverage my time if I was to ever be able to do the things that I really want to in life. One of the first things that I did was that I made my money work for me.

I started up my Internet site and I began to utilize my marketing skills to generate traffic which then translated into income through methods such as running various affiliate programs. Basically, I leveraged my time through my site as it was like my personal employee who was working 24/7 to help promote my products and services. While there are many other ways to create an income stream, your time is valuable and leveraging your time to accomplish this is a great way to ensure that you will always have time for other things in life.

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The First Entry

Friday, November 12th, 2004 by Alan Yu

Hello to everyone who has stumbled upon my personal blog on the Internet. Everyone is probably wondering what this blog is all about and why I decided to write one right? Sounds like the perfect topic to write about as this is my first official entry for this blog.

I personally consider myself a very ambitious individual who always strives to be the best at what I do while constantly growing and expanding my life experiences as there is so much to do and learn in life. While money isn’t everything in life, it definitely does play a role in determining what type of lifestyle one can live. Every day I hear of people who struggle to pay bills or individuals who drool over the thought of owning the latest and greatest. Bottom line, they all complain that they don’t have enough money. I’m personally not a millionaire, not for now at least, but in terms of finance and being able to get the things that I really want, such as going to school without worrying too much about tuition or buying a video game without fearing that my credit card is going to be declined, I have done fairly well for myself. Many of my friends and colleagues also recognize my financial stability and often joke that I am some kind of billionaire.

Quite honestly, most of the people that I have met who complain about their financial situations can easily turn things around if they would just change their habits and attitude. While I do many things to generate an income, one would automatically assume that the answer to their financial problems would be to simply make more money. How you spend it though is also an important factor to consider as I’m sure everyone has read of stories of wealthy individuals becoming broke. Hopefully from writing this blog, I can aspire people to take control of their financial situations and by sharing the events happening around my life it could provide others with ideas to help enrich their lives.

Writing this blog may also come with some consequences as due to the nature of the theme topic, I am prepared to take a lot of criticism from people who feel that they can offer superior advice and lets not forget about the amount of spam I will probably receive from people trying to pitch ways on how I can get rich quick. As I mentioned above, learning different things are always goals that I strive to achieve and writing this blog is something new for me which I hope you all will find beneficial and entertaining.

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