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February-23-10

Consideration

posted by ryan

Consideration is the evaluation of facts and benefits keeping in mind of something.

It is the process of weighing the difference effects and consequences to something before, during and after the decision has being made. Thinking about the results, if it will produce positive or negative impact, who are the affected parties, who will benefit, who is the main targeted market who directly benefit from the decision.

The poor, takes lots of time to come up with a decision, without first knowing what they want, how they will judge and access anything when the time calls for a decision to be made. First thing that comes to the mind of the poor is “let me go home and think” which not only isn’t productive, efficient and it will further delay the growth in all aspects. When poor people goes back to think, the people they talk to are people who knows nothing, and when a ignorant person ask another ignorant person, the answer after the decision is nothing thus hindering their own success and growth.

The wealthy and successful people have their own way of consideration and will set a date line for all decisions to be made with the exception of when the project/proposal will implicate the whole business, employees, than no time limit will be set. The general consideration factors typically hang around these few.

Projected return on investments, target market, strategy to penetrate into the market, what are the risk and rewards to themselves, the employees and the company/business. Will it be possible to expand business into a new area to increase profits and slowly build an empire, who is the partners they will be working with, do they have the clean past track record, their respective style of doing business, how they treat their partners after a successful project, if they turn their backs around them and run off.

Wealthy and successful individuals have their own respective consideration factors to think first before making any decision. The higher appointment you hold in the business, the deeper your consideration needs to go under to areas which will be overlooked.

When it comes to making a decision, they are fast, efficient in this aspect while the poor takes their time, drag this drag that, thinking the opportunity will wait for them living a their own made believe world.

People who go from rags to riches will understand this time, timing which is why all self-made millionaires and billionaires keep increasing their wealth as compared to businesses whereby it is handed down from generation to the next.

People who are already successful born in a silver spoon might not necessarily understand the essence of it because they have the power (money) to do things from the start.

If you don’t know what to consider, ask the person who introduce it to you, they can help and assist you in making an informed decisions with them knowing the differences among their competitors.

The more time you think without discussing and asking questions and keeping those questions to yourself, the higher your chances are of failure. Wealthy and successful people are not afraid to ask, it is only when they start asking, they learn something new and thus more windows of wealth accumulation will be opened up to them.

If you don’t know, start asking. Be humble, but never be modest. Give credits where it is due.

“The more you learn, the more you realize how much you don’t know” – Donald J.Trump

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February-18-10

Freedom

posted by ryan

Freedom is the ability to do anything without being held back by the powers or ability or influence of anyone.

It is the ability to do as we wish without any limitations or obligations.

The older and wiser we grow up with time, the more freedom we seek. Freedom comes with a price, a heavy expensive price.

Expensive price is the reason wealthy and successful businessmen than can have the freedom.

People who are poor are trapped in their own invisible prison they built themselves. Working hard for a job, just getting paid peanuts, benefits being utilized greatly by employers it’s like rearing an elephant that can do so much work but only feeding it the required food and nothing additional beyond their diet.

People travel to break away from their barrier or prison which they built themselves. When they can’t afford for luxury items and expenditure, than will it be of a misery for such people.

When they are not able to fulfill their goals or give up, their determination changes to despair and with that feeling engraved in their mind, they than resort to negative methods to get what they want or they pay more than what they can afford to resulting in crimes and bankruptcy.

What hobbies you like determines the lifestyle you will live. It is similar to a pet owner buying a pet which he/her likes. With time and observation, you will notice that it is not coincidence that a pet owner purchases a pet displaying similar behaviors and habits like their owner. It is like a spoilt brat is all due to the failed upbringing of their parents who failed terribly to discipline and instill proper education to their children.

Look at the older generation of uncles in Singapore, those people who enjoy keeping singing birds in cages, taking them out on weekly basis to an area for singing birds to sing and show off their birds to others, thus making friends, deals of transaction etc. Hobbies to me are not only a simple affair, it is the reflection of your inner desire, the subconscious and your thinking, it has to do with psychology.

If you seek an expensive hobby and have strong desire and urge to realize it, than network and meet up with successful businessmen who can help you achieve your dreams of realizing your expensive hobby. It is only when you speak up your true desire, than your mind will really take it into serious consideration and the natural law of attraction (as shown in The Secrets) will automatically comes to you with opportunities, provided you must grab it tightly.

Only when you hang around with people who have attain such results deem impossible by many, than the odds of success increases and is on your side, because the successful people will not only encourage you, but also give you a helping hand when you show with actions and trust with time and commitment, the delegation to helping yourself first before anything else.

To the successful and wealthy businessmen, anything is possible as long as you work towards your goal whereas for the poor people, everything is impossible and beyond their reach plus the common phrase they always say, don’t be crazy, stop day-dreaming which only put them one more step closer to living with regrets and misery.

Do you want to fly like the eagle in the sky or do you want to craw on the ground like a centipede cutting each others throat for survival? Be magnificent and be admired or be a beautiful poisonous creature that nobody wants to avoid?

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February-16-10

Revenge

posted by ryan

Revenge is to harmful action in response to a grievance. It is to let the wrongdoer suffer the same or greater pain than that which was originally inflicted for the suffering, pain, torture and humiliation a person has gone through.

Revenge falls into two types, positive and negative.

Negative revenge is whereby the sufferer is determined to get back to the wrongdoer paying any price to the extent of death and dragging the wrongdoer down together with the sufferer together.

Positive revenge is whereby the sufferer will undergo a complete transformation and shed of its previous skin, learn new business skills and traits whatever is required to succeed and topple the wrongdoer legally and get their hands back on the property, assets that the sufferer once possess if not for the wrongdoers actions.

Once the sufferer is ready to make the move for revenge, the land mines are all ready set and position in place, which is a method whereby all alpha males does but they do it so brilliantly that nobody except those who speak and know their language will understand with the help of their networks to other business partners thus blacklisting any individual who will serve as a treat to ruin their reputation which is why wealthy successful businessmen always hang around each other, helping one another.

Helping one another to succeed is the way and how things works, you can’t climb up the ranks by upsetting other people. Do your best to create all win situation, even in employment, it is a huge win to a win situation in a employer employee relationship thus when both sides are happy, they profit together even if the compensation isn’t really that equally distributed but at least everyone is ‘happy’.

To prevent employees from stealing or using trade secrets, make sure they are satisfied with the compensation to prevent employees turning their back against their former employer and stealing their business.

Whatever you do, do it gracefully without offending anybody, else when the time and opportunity comes, you who have a dark history will suffer the consequences of your actions previously.

Revenge can be the catalyst to entrepreneurship if done the correct way and with proper guidance and coaching.

Never be offensive unless and until provoked.

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February-14-10

Use

posted by ryan

Use is to employ for some purpose, to take unfair advantage of, to exploit people, animals for their personal gains and benefits.

It is a word for people who are witty but not intelligent who employ such tactics on people who are not as witty as them. Boss will only use employees for their own benefits. Giving employees a market rate pay and keeping most of the advantages to themselves thus there is unjustified

Employers will only exploit employees who are willing parties to overwork and get paid a small sum. In the corporate sector, benchmarking is a bad practice for us the ordinary people for people like you and me to ‘think’ that it is right for us to be paid so a tiny fraction for working so hard. There’s no right and wrong, there is just do you think you deserve to earn more and much more than the others?

If employers are exploiting employees, but only when employees are willing to be exploited and sign by the contract, than it’s a willing party and no blaming should take place at all.

In the world of poor people with poor mentality, it’s more of a dog eat dog society, fighting for the same piece of meat, that’s the world of society from people who are near millionaire but not yet to people who are extremely poor and really is hard up for money to meet daily three meal problems.

In the world of wealthy and successful businessmen filled with billionaires, multi-millionaires and millionaires, it’s like the lions, tigers, cheetahs, jugulars and leopards helping their own species to grow and share food together which makes them king of their own territory.

By working together, growing stronger together is better than cutting and slaughtering each other, growing up weak with lots of scars and flaws so visible to on-lookers.

You are what you think.

It is often said “You reap what you sow” which is wrong. This phrase only applies to people who are being exploited like how farmers exploit cows, bulls for farming etc which is silly and dumb getting satisfied for peanuts.

You should carve this into your mind “You reap much more than what you sow” which is what employers are doing, to have a equal chance of opportunity to get wealthy and successful.

Throw away the wrong education and knowledge which brain-wash us to work like a slave getting peanuts. Put on your thinking cap from now onwards and start to think on how you can reap much more than what you sow to succeed.

If you want to know how to reap much more than what you sow, I have just what you’re looking for, all you need to do is to contact me.

Good luck and build wealth.

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February-11-10

Fair

posted by ryan

Fairness is what every poor mindset people think of only, to have a fair game, no advantages or biases towards anyone.

Advantage is what wealthy successful people neither seek, which does not and neither looks nor sounds fair to majority of the poor mindset thinking majority.

Decades and centuries have proven that there’s no fairness in this world, the strongest and fittest wins, the natural order of life.

All babies do start of on the same footing, having the same equal chance of survival, but there are other factors which babies can’t control, their family background, their genes, the blood line of heritage they will inherited etc. These are the unfair advantage of born in different family backgrounds.

Poor often say if I have this amount of money, I also can make it big and successful like those super rich with my business ideas. Some people even claim that they steal their ideas, when the fact is they neither know each other nor spoken to each other, let alone even know of each other existence, so how can the poor mindset person say their idea of success was stolen?

Throw them the people with a sudden increase of money, in a short period of time, they will be reduced back to the same old person, it has being proven countless times without anybody purposely sabotage or anything. It just happens.

How many times have you read news articles, know of people who suddenly became rich from being lucky with lottery, TOTO, 4D and hitting the jackpot can maintain their sudden surge of money to the next generation? No one has ever done it, even those who said they wanted to invest also failed to roll the money bigger.

The reason that is holding the truth to this, is the belief, mindset what is in their head, their financial literacy, how much do they know about wealth management, investment that will help them to get wealth not rich not money. It is only when you change your thinking, than only your wealth status quo will change as you increase your mindset towards being positive and learn plus apply and perfects it.

If you understand the essence of this blog entry, than start looking for your advantage, and don’t expect the world to have fairness, even if there is, you have choose to abandon the equal chance presented to you when the opportunity was there presented to you, but you just rejected it.

Don’t blame others, blame only yourself not even your parents for the result you’re getting now.

Get this into your head. “Life is not fair, it’s about having an advantage”

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February-8-10

Choice

posted by ryan

Choice is an option of careful selection between different options offered, excellent, good average or bad products, merchandise and services. Different buyer decision leads to different customer experience and satisfaction, thus creating different classes of customers and businesses targeting a specific group of customers.

Choice is an opportunity for each of us to decide what we want, how we want it, and the expected results is already clear when we make a decision, knowing that the decision we make will have direct effects affecting our desired results.

It is a very fine and thin line between making a wise choice and a negligent choice. Whatever you do, do the right thing, make the right choice, but most importantly ask the right people.

Getting wealthy is not a want, it’s a need, a necessity for Singapore given that Singapore’s high-end property is snapping up fast by foreign investors, as fellow Singaporeans, are we so useless to submit and raise the white flag and allow their to take over and run our property, assets, earning money from us? Is this a repeat of history when the British took over Singapore only to run away giving Singapore to suffer at the mercy of Japanese during WWII?

Are we throwing away our choice to the foreigners? Getting wealthy is no longer a want, it’s a need that we need to protect Singapore, and be able to lift our heads up high, able to show the world what a little red dot can do in the globe, whoever that looks down on the little red dot will regret for making that choice and for even saying it and think about it. The Singapore founding leaders have done an excellent job in this aspect, but what are the majorities of the people doing to this? Nothing, so getting wealthy is no longer a want, but a need and a must do it. The world is your oyster, will you allow others to take the credit from you, taking away your fruits of labour only paying you a miserable small sum of money?

We the Chinese holding the huge population percentage should work together instead of cutting each other fighting among one another and giving the opportunity to the on-lookers who took advantage of it. Look at China; they made a very wrong choice, to be a fake dominant country producing products, food, merchandise that’s not real, giving foreigners a chance to grab a slice of the pie. All can be avoided, but it’s the thinking of the leaders running the country that needs a good washing to plan long term and not short term.

Singapore has done a great job in this aspect, and now not many countries dare to even mention the “little” again. It’s a fact that we’re small like a dot, but together we make a difference, and are the envy of a lot of other neighbouring countries wanting our help to grow their economy.

We should and must learn how to uphold, fortify our fortress, promote the Singapore brand, increase our advantage in the region, and work together to be a wealthy and successful.

Just like Jay Chou who wants to help his fellow singers in the music industry in his country, and China also being proud of themselves without the need to neither depend on foreigners nor even bother about what the world wants. So work towards being self-sufficient and depend on ourselves for our living instead of dependent on others.

Are you going to be a loser or do you want to grow together with Singapore and shine, even if we are the little red dot, but we are in fact multiplying our little red dots in other countries with their nations’ approval, so do you want to have your imprints all over the world helping Singapore multiply the red dots in other countries or are you happy to have others taking away our hard earn labour?

As we pursue our dreams, ambitions, we can throw away our pride, ego, face, reputation, and even work like a slave, but we can never ever throw away our dignity which is the core of ourselves, something which we need to be proud of despite how little and small our efforts may be but it makes a huge difference.

Even a beggar have dignity to stay at a place, work hard at begging for food, rather than a stray dog making pitiful sounds and a sad eyes tears rolling begging for food.

Dignity is what makes us who we are regardless of how small we will make around us, but if applied and used correctly, dignity will be the source fuel like the Sun in the galaxy burning its own fumes warming other planets that stay around the sun. Like Bruce Lee, he started low, throwing away his pride, learning multiple disciplines of martial arts, keeping his dignity and respect for our yellow skin and done us Chinese proud.

Do you want to be the person offering and extending a helping hand to others or do you want to be the receiver asking for help? It’s your choice and only YOU can decide what you need!

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February-3-10

Endorsement

posted by ryan

Endorsement is a agreement either between two individuals or between a company and an individual with celebrity-liked status with creditability, trust and reputation. He/she can be either an media artist, model or athlete and others.

Endorsement is just a simple business strategy which allows the company and business to leverage on the celebrity’s reputation and the trust which they have built with us through different Medias inclusive of their own effort and hard-work over the years. It is the act of getting paid to endorse products and that doesn’t mean the celebrity endorsing the product have to use the product himself/herself when endorsement agreements are carried out as long as the agreement of a highly remunerative compensation in return for the celebrity to endorse a product.

Celebrity endorsements can be taken likely with a pinch of salt because when the celebrity himself/herself don’t even use the product or is unable to use the product and services because of specific gender targeting, than the endorsement may create a curiosity among the customers and the public which is another strategy which businesses often do depending on the market they want to penetrate into.

The most recent case is Ris Low endorsing a condom brand – Zander Asia who is the distributor of the condom as reported in Channel News Asia. She has said in a morning live interview that she endorse the product condom purely because it promotes a healthy image, which most of us will agree, other queries or doubts with regards to this endorsement, lets leave it to you to discuss and think about it.

Business endorsement is another story and a completely different ball-game in this same aspect. When a business endorses a product or service, the firm is entrusting their reputation, creditability on the line for any business endorsements.

If in the event should a endorsement products or services failed to satisfy the customers’ needs and failed in delivering the promise, the business that’s endorses the product and services will instantly overnight facing huge business loses which will definitely implicate other business endorsement they have a hand into even if they are not related together with the company that pay the business for the endorsement deal together down in times of trouble.

An perfect example is Tiger Woods after the sex scandal for sex addiction and most brands has since removed him and terminated the endorsement contract with him. More details in Time website.

With such heavy risks, that is why not many, in fact only a handful of businesses out there are willing to put the business brand and reputation to endorse their products and services. The most successful business endorsement is Trump which belongs to Donald J.Trump a billionaire property investor.

The next time you decide to buy any products or services with endorsements, find out if there is any ambassador who took up the endorsement and if he/she is a businessmen/women or it’s a firm that’s endorsement the products and services.

If you find any businessmen especially successful ones personally endorsing any company, products or services, than don’t even think about it and jump right in joining them to earn wealth together if there’s ever an opportunity to work together with them. Businessmen access and do their own investigation for months first before any commitment etc so if they are happy with the results which risking their business reputation which could tarnish and collapse over night due to a silly mistake, they will jolly well make sure that this doesn’t happens.

Make the right choice in purchasing opportunity, products or services from businessmen endorsements rather than celebrity endorsements. Be smart, save money, and time and grab whatever opportunity that comes your way.

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January-31-10

Rush

posted by ryan

Rush is a movement to move in a certain direction with speed. Rushing Is an habit cultivated over time on everybody who has gone through the same education system regardless of nationality, race, religion age or gender.

Rushing is a habit forced on us as we study in schools, slowly getting used to the momentum of school life, than followed by working life and the rush to earn money.

Rushing is not wrong but it’s definitely also not right in certain ways. Look at the successful businessmen. Ask and interview anybody who are successful in the past, present and future down the road, and you’ll realize something that they all had in common – patience.

Successful businessmen don’t rush into businesses, they take time, effort, to understand and master the industry, know everything they can before committing themselves and their capital into whatever their niche is.

The people, who do rush, are normal people like you and me, but I’m slowly but surely learning how to reduce my pace and learn from the successful businessmen. Just look around you, simple observations will tell you a lot of things which will give you more wisdom adding bits by bits to your success which will come to your with time and at the right opportunity.

Look at the bus and MRT passengers, how often and common can you spot people rushing into and out of the public transport, in and out of their work place especially on Fridays whereby everybody will be super effective and efficient when it comes to this day if the company or business has a five day working week. At 5pm, all work and task will be allocated nicely in order for next week. 5.30pm or at 6pm, most of the employees will be rushing back home and than enjoy their weekends.

Look and observe all around you. There are so many observations to be made, but do you even have the time and can afford to slow down your pace to just observe? The rich don’t rush, they have all their schedules planned and appointments made in advance.

The poor, rushing day in day out, getting the same results without continuously pay increment despite working and slogging so hard to increase the company profits.

Look around and ask yourself what kind of life you want to lead. Seek advice and better make sure you ask the right people who have being there, done that, and make sure he/she whom you are positive about it, and successful.

You don’t not ask a failure to give you a positive reply that allows you to be successful because its common sense that a person who has failed will only share the experiences and being a act Mr-Know-How to act like they know everything when in fact they know nothing except being failures themselves.

Failure can’t wait to drag you down together to hell with them for more companionship.

Last but not the least, as the right people; get the right coaching, advisers and successful businessmen.

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January-25-10

Money

posted by ryan

Chinese New Year is coming, which represents a new Chinese Lunar Year welcoming the zodiac Tiger this year. Every Chinese New Year, Chinese will practice certain beliefs to keep the wealth inwards to the home rather than outwards.

There are taboos during Chinese New Year. Like for instance, sweeping is not allowed during the Chinese New Year period, if there’s really a must to sweep, than it must be sweep from outside inwards to the home so as not to sweep away for God of Fortune.

While everyone is preparing for New Year and welcoming the god of fortune, most of the people however, will not open the door even if god of fortune is knocking on the doors. Those who open the doors will be given and be blessed with fortune and prosperity.

Majority of the people in Singapore have being trained and bought up to look, think and plan only for short term. All that they see and ask of is money, only real hard cash is what they want, they don’t want opportunity which requires hard-work. All that they wish for is money to fall from the sky just like a game played in television shows annually, shaking the money tree in game shows.

Money comes in many variations. It can be in gold, silver, jade, antique, home, insurance savings plan, investments and businesses. It can also come in a form of a business opportunity. An opportunity to be trained by the rich, wealthy millionaires who knows the secrets of doing a business successfully greatly reducing the risk of loses with their valuable experiences.

New Year Resolution is a wish that everyone will make, but only a minority of the people will actually welcome anything opportunity that comes their way. Most of which either give reasons which are excuses to turn away money or tell the opportunity to wait for them, thinking it is their right to get rich and the opportunity must wait for them.

This kind of thinking is completely wrong, but suitable for respective nations, who wants to groom a large pool of civil servants, but I view them as slaves slogging hard for the rich without having a justifiable income for their efforts.

A bull who works so hard, will still be a bull after many years of hard. If working hard is really the proven way to get rich, than the third world should be richer than us already but why are they poorer than us?

The answer is simple and straight-forward: make the right choice choose the cash machine wisely before working hard to grow that cash machine.

Do you want to continue servicing your cash printing machine, or do you want to build a bigger, better cash printing machine with a New Year? If you’re working in the same job, have the same pay, doing the same thing which you have being doing for years, nothing have changed and like wise same for your income over these years and it will remain stagnant for years to come and even is losing in value thanks to inflation which is happening.

Inflation is the number one factor why the rich is getting richer while the poor is getting poorer. Without using the same tools which the rich are using to get rich, the poor will only get poorer because their tools are rusty, broken and not efficient to make more money.

Money is only possible if the poor is willing to change their tools (thinking) and adopt (follow) what the rich do (business investments) instead of slogging (planting a bean sprout) as compared to the rich who’s working hard too in a different way (panting durian trees) looking ahead for the long term continuous income once it ripens and bear fruits.

Here’s the difference: The poor use a green bean to plant a bean sprout with each bean, there can only be a bean sprout which is exchanging an item for an item.

The rich is smarter: Using a durian, to plant a durian tree, for the first twenty-years, there will be no fruits, and required constant care, attention and fertilizer as nourishment. After the twenty-years is up, when the durian tree is ready with deep roots, the rich (famer) will than no longer be required to care for the durian tree as it is ready to stand on their own producing rich quality and quantity of durians with zero effort from the twenty-one year onwards reaping the fruits of labor than sharing it with the people who assisted him during those difficult years.

Earning money is easy, exchanging time for money. Building wealth is much more difficult like planting a durian tree, but success will only belongs to people who are not only hard-working but also smart in making the right decision as to what kinds of seeds to plant and looking ahead of the benefits of planting the right seeds.

If you want to work with millionaires in printing money right now, don’t hesitate, contact me now and I’ll show and share with you what seeds I will be planting, and how I know it’s going to be the next durian tree. Success belongs only to people who makes the right decision and seek proper guidance. I’m learning from millionaires, and so should you. Join me as we go on a journey planting and farming durian trees.

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January-22-10

Opportunity

posted by ryan

Opportunity is often linked to luck and luck can be linked up to knowing the right people. Opportunity is a chance to take a shot for a contender of a certain position for a reward within a stipulated period of time.

Opportunity cost in business is often and commonly associated with networking with is all about knowing the right people. Sometimes, the most geeky or nerdy person next to you might turn out to the your benefactor in future which often take people by surprise.

Opportunity should be grabbing on tightly, and cherish for people who were being presented with such chances, but when people reject by saying no, they are giving themselves up without even attempting to try. Than when the second person who were once presented the same opportunity right after the person who rejected it experience success and even unprecedented level of success, those people who rejected the offer will than be commenting, it’s just being lucky only la, I’m better than him in so many aspects, if he can do it, so can I and so continue to brag about the lost chance claiming he was once offered the position and not reflecting on his/her personal problem.

Even if another opportunity comes their way, the same mentality will surface again this time saying, trying to pick bones from eggs picking on small little issues not important and discrediting him/herself from the opportunity.

Do it once, do it twice without reflection, and opportunities will just keep on flying across you without you even knowing if you don’t know how to grab and cherish the opportunity which could help you succeed.

How I know this, because this happened to me lots of time, back when I was young and can’t think for myself, often following the masses, thanks to the gullible side of me, which I made a failed investment decision causing me myself to part with more money thus increasing my mental prudence and intelligence which isn’t taught in school.

Such experience will only be share and learnt when individuals are willing to accept their own mistakes, do reflections and than be committed to changing themselves

Once you change your thinking, perception to what stays and leave your brain, getting the right knowledge and thoughts for success, than only will the opportunities be cherish, maximized and successful will prevail.

There’s a common saying: You are what you eat; but I think it should be you are what you think.

Thinking translates to action; action translates into results, which justifies the process contributing to the results. Results is only made possible when an individual picture him/herself in that situation, and work hard towards it, looking at the details, and overcoming the hurdles and difficulties that comes their way via perseverance and by being a visionary.

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