From zilch to great

Since last year, I was determined to start changing my life, my lifestyle. In the process I ventured into a few dubious ventures that placed me in severe financial predicament. Some of them may be legitimate, and some of them may not be straight and narrow, however in the process of change I participated in several misadventure despite my fairly advanced financial literacy. These hoodlums are unfortunately smarter than I am, while I know zilch, nada, zero, telur and the list goes on.

From there after exhausting any goodwill I have left I decided to re-educate myself. I again listened to everyone and anyone that make sense without asking for cents (get it?). Some did with everyone promising to teach you everything but no matter how well off they are, very few do it for absolutely nothing. There will always be a certain pay off requested. After all, they are sharing and possibly sacrificing their time for us. So, paying for their time is something I am willing to do.

At the same time too, I became hooked to this series called Only Murders in the Building with Steve Martin and Martin Short (both whom I absolutely adore) along with Selena Gomez. Good mix to attract a wider demography. In the story, they themselves are hooked to true crime podcasts, having shared an interest in a podcast known as It's Not OK in Oklahoma by Cinda Canning.

Why am I talking about podcast and a tv series? I am getting to do that and why it has everything to do with financial literacy etc.

After months and years ignoring webinars, I begin to listen to a few webinars to get me on track for my next venture, that I hope won't be dubious. One of them was Daniel Tolson. He came through the Vince Tan network. Amazing people every one of them. From Daniel Tolson, he spoke of Grant Cardone. I have been listening to Grant Cardone's podcast whenever I can. The topics that he spoke of is amazing. Completely mind-blowing. Along with his guests, they were amazing too. I recommend listening to Grant Cardone.

Grant Cardone photo from geeknack.com

Let's just say that I am hooked. Everything he says makes absolute sense. One thing that he said got me thinking. He said we need to be committed to greatness. To be great we need to be committed. He said it is more important to be committed to the wrong thing rather than being non-committal to the right thing. He repeated that, again and again.

Frequently, we always perceive that the grass is always greener on the other side. When we do that, we are not being committed to what we are doing, and where we are now. That got me thinking and feeling a little guilty to my previous jobs, no doubt I gained a lot of experiences and knowledge along the way, but I did change jobs from the banking and financial industry to the fast-moving consumer goods industry related to agriculture, the oil and gas industry, the chemicals industry and then with the government. I felt that I was committed to wherever I was and yet Grant said otherwise. When your eye is looking at the other side, one cannot claim to be committed. It is all the way or none at all. My mind's blown!

I am struggling but I am now focused to change avoiding all sorts of pitfalls. On the home front, things are not hunky dory being totally unhappy with my misadventure as a big hammer is waiting to whack me upside the head. For now I am still at zilch but I aim to be great. In the days and weeks to come I will be venturing into stuff that you will notice as I need to do a big turnaround and I barely have weeks.

But listening to these people like Grant Cardone with many people claiming to want to help albeit with some form of payments I intend to truly turn it around. For now, I am quite excited to follow Sean Seah, he sounds real. I am also praying to Allah the Almighty that I will be taken away from my predicament.

I am also doing something else, the something else? Watch this space.