Day 40 - It's About Doing What You Love To Do

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My schedule for today was definitely a hectic one that I became so sleepy while we were even meeting with the entire mastermind.

In the morning, I had to make a new post for my internet marketing blog and my sales blog, which took longer than the usual since I had a lot of "distractions". Distractions which are in the form of questions from my brothers or my beloved mother. Although attending to these "distractions" are a bit annoying at times, I have long decided that I will chose my relationships among anything in this world. So I chose to answer specially if it's from my beautiful wife that's involved in the distraction.

By 11:00 am :

I had an appointment with Mr. Edwin Chiong, CEO of Fresh Catch Inc. Fresh Catch Inc. is a manufacturer and distributor of frozen fish products for the entire Luzon and Cebu City.

Mr. Chiong is planning to expand to the provinces of Negros and Panay, wherein he would need to tap a distributor for his frozen fish products. Since we had a common friend, Mr. Choing opted to partner with me as his distributor for Negros - Bacolod City. He offered me a good discount (12%), a term on my payments (30-day term), and free delivery from Cebu to Bacolod.

Although Mr. Chiong knew that my distribution business is just in a small scale, he knew that my experiences as marketing consultant with San Miguel will be favorable to grow his business in the future.

After our meeting, I shouted WOW! I told myself that everyday I'm meeting more and more people that adds value to my life.

At 12:30 - 3:30pm

I then had a fast lunch and continued posting on my other blogs which were about Business Ideas, Entrepreneurship and Financial Planning.

At 4:00pm in the afternoon :

I had an appointment with a client for my financial brokerage business. I believe with this business, there is a good room for generating income. The company is International Marketing Group (IMG). It is an information company that focuses on teaching financial education and the selling of health care plans, insurance, mutual funds, and other investment vehicles. For the average person who does not want anything to do with their money, this will be their solution.

The good thing about this business is that it is something that you can grow exponentially through growing the number of financial brokers. It is a networking business but not a "pyramid-scheme" type.

During my appointment, my presentation was very good and I believe my client was 90% convinced. Our conversation took a while but I believe it was good as a close deal. But again I will have to find out tomorrow whether how good of a sales person I truly am.

After my appointment, I had to go help my beautiful wife, Tita Gloria, and Gail pack up the projector that was rented for a wedding. We then proceeded to follow Tito Tony, Jan, and Hanz with their night run.

It was really a busy day. My feet hurts. I felt sleepy after 10pm. But there was a million value on that day.

I HAD FUN ALL THROUGH OUT THAT DAY.

Whether my post will not lead to traffic on my blogs. Whether my partnership with Mr. Chiong will not work out. Whether I won't be able to close my appointment with my client for IMG.

I will do it again and again because it was all fun.=)

Well again, I will be seeing you at the finish line. To a Million in 90 days.


Dedicated to your success,
Jake the Multi-Millionaire    

Day 40 - It's About Doing What You Love To Do

Day 39 - Father Let Me Serve You Again

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I had such a great day today.

Last Wednesday, we were able to meet Tita May of Light of Jesus (LOJ), wherein we had a short meeting about us helping with the marketing of the upcoming Kerygma Conference (K-Con) this coming December which will be held in Cebu City.

So today we had our first meeting with the entire marketing team for K-Con. Other attendees of the meeting were fellow members of the mastermind - Hanz, Drew, Jan, Tito Tony, Tita Gloria and my beautiful wife.

As our meeting started, we each started to give information about ourselves and what we believe brought us to that meeting.

We were all very happy that each member of the team had their own expertise to contribute to the entire team but what really struck a question in my heart was "why did God bring me here?".

I was suppose to be at work, acting as the usual marketing consultant and sales head of my territory but God chose to take me to LOJ. And finally I remembered a prayer that I used to pray to God, "Father let me serve You again".

I remember during my days as a Youth For Christ leader, my conviction was so high that I'd travel to the different youth camps around the Visayas just to serve in the music ministry. During those times, I was usually given surprises wherein I was asked to share or even give talks.

So here it is, given to me in another form of service. Serving God through what I've learned in my life as a marketing consultant and sales manager.

With this I am truly grateful to Him, and again He has proven that all my experiences will be used for the greater glory of his kingdom. Whether I learned it through business, marketing, my job, my failures, my skills and talents, my relationships. It's sole purpose will be to spread His love and forgiveness.

In my life, I know I will always be given the opportunity to share His love and for that my life is forever full of meaning and purpose.

See you at the finish line, to serve and love Him more through our wealth. To a Million in 90 days.


Dedicated to your success,
Jake the Multi-Millionaire
 

Day 39 - Father Let Me Serve You Again

Day 38 - To Work or Not Work?

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It's been a while since I've written in my journal and so far there has been tremendous changes in my life.

Today is already my 39th day in my 90-day journey towards 1 million and the direction of my life has already changed 180 degrees. 

First.

I am on the process of leaving my job. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaatttt?! That's the common reaction of my friends and some relatives. As I mentioned before, I work with San Miguel Corp. (SMC) as a sales manager. I received a hefty pay check, plus monthly commissions, good benefits, and a service car.

They say that SMC is a very stable company to work with, and it is really "good" for the longterm. In fact, I've known people who retired from SMC that were able to recieve 3-5 Million by being loyal employees. But the problem is that, they spent most of their lives, 25-30 years of working for the company.

So for me, I don't think that depending 30 plus years of my income into one source is a sound financial decision. But my reasons for leaving is not only based on a financial decision but more of a personal choice.

You see working in a corporate world is like being a Samurai using a double-edged sword. You are paid well but the monetary amount requires a much higher form of asset - TIME. The more you move up the corporate ladder, the more time you need to give to the company. And since we all have the same 24 hours a day, it takes a lot away from your "family-time", "business-time", and "personal-time".

Another big problem here is that you will tend to cling to the feeling that a job is equals to security. Instead of being open to other opportunities outside your job, you adapt the common life process of most baby boomers today. They work till 60 years old, save up for retirement, and then spend all their savings (retirement money) on medicines, hospitalization, and needs for their health.

Obviously, I don't want my life to end that way. Above all, I want to own my time. Owning my time will be very important in building my relationship with my family, so with my current job I don't think that would be possible.

Secondly, I believe that life's success is not measured by your achievements but who had the most fun. Fun for me is simply defined as love. We were created out of love so our sole purpose is to love. A lot of people relate love as something mushy but it is actually being able to do what you are meant to do.

So this is my prayer. That God will grant me the strength and the grace to finally cross the bridge of risk across the other side which is financial freedom. Giving up a safe and secure job is definitely a risk but beyond that is financial freedom.

I'll be seeing you at the finish line, to a million in 90 days.


Dedicated to you success,
Jake the Multi-Millionaire. 

Day 38 - To Work or Not Work?