I quit being busy

[I QUIT BUSY] Not "I'm quite busy", I mean I quit being busy.

Last month I got a strong flu that hit me hard and felt like I had pass out for 4 days, followed by 10 more days of weak and low energy, forcing me to stop working and stayed offline.
Staying in bed got me bonus time to think from my heart, re-evaluate my goals & values, destroy and re-build my belief, so I ask myself:

"What do I want from this life?"
"How can I serve the world with my talent, so I can live an abundance life?"
"Why am I so busy? Why do I have to start 5 new businesses at the same time? Why do I have a never ending to-do-list?"

Turns our playing busy is part of my procrastinate strategy:

"I'm so busy so I have no time to sort my shit out"

"I'm so busy so I have no time to heal myself"
"I'm so busy so I can ignore my heart calling, no time to follow my real dreams."
"I'm so busy playing small and solving small problems, so I don't have to face the real bigger problems and take any bigger risks."

I also enjoy "Being busy", apparently I am proud to tell people that: "Being an entrepreneur, I haven't had a day off for 2.5 years!" 

I like the word "entrepreneur", because it is difficult to spell, difficult to say, and it sounds cool.

But at what cost for me to keep playing this busy card?

[Busy vs Effective] how to deal with overwhelm

The other day at my day job working with the International Jazz Festival organizer and chatted about what I do, suddenly I realized I was taking on way too many things:

1. 📸 Wedding photography & film company

2. 🤓 Life coach - studying & start up phrase

3. 🧖🏻‍♀️ Vegan skin care & wellness brand district manager - start up phrase

4. 🎶 Multiple roles at the Melbourne Recital Centre - 3-4 days a week

5. 💆🏻‍♀️ Access Consciousness facilitator

6. 🧘🏻‍♀️ Yoga & pilate - 3 times a week

7. 💰 Investor into multiple passive income assets, managing portfolios

8. 🥰 Wife duty

I try to do too many things at the same time which became counter productive and I was in emotional state of overwhelm. I became paralyze and start running my procrastinate strategy.

I noticed I was overload when I started coaching 8-10 hours a week back in April 2019, on top of all my usual businesses, I also tried to study 2-3 hours a day...
My laundry piled up and house is a mess, I realize I was doing everything at 10% effort therefore getting 10% results on all areas.

I divide my energy into too many pieces and lost focus.
What you focus on is what you get.
I was focusing on “being busy”.

I tried to achieve everything and actually achieving nothing.

😩 My to do list piled up and stressing me out even more.
My photography blogging is 12 blogs behind, I simply have no time to publish them...
Photography Instagram post from twice a week to starting to fall to every 10 days...
I stop follow up on leads after the initial quote...

😫 I started designing my life coaching business card, website, online program promotion and drafting a business plan, and then stopped due to mentally overloaded.
I also stopped coaching pro bono clients for 2 months and only keep coaching paying clients.

😫 I promoted to District Manager with the vegan skincare network marketing company quickly and about to lose the title because I stopped working on it.

I constantly feel busy but I wasn’t doing anything productive.
😷 Until early June a strong flu hit me and I finally had a 10 days break to reassess my life plan.
My body shut down and forced me to reevaluate my goals.

😣 Playing “busy” certainly not working for me right now.

How can I turn this around?
I must ask myself some smart questions.

What do I want to achieve in the next 12 month and in 3 years?
What is important to me?
What is my core values?
What is Lowina 2.0 would be like?

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💰 FINANCIAL FREEDOM + 🦄 EMOTIONAL FREEDOM!

Get out of the matrix (the 3D world), I can then travel the world and do things that I love! (Enter to the 5D world)
I can help others to live a full-filling and happy life, live their dreams and gain the power back, fully control and taking responsibility of their lives!

💰💰💰💰💰💰

Yes! I love money!
Money is a tool to achieve this goal.
Money is my business partner, they want me to use them wisely.

I forgot that I was pretty good with financial planning and manifesting wealth.

I forgot that I have spent weeks & months researching into Cryptocurrency investing back in 2015 and came up with a HODLer strategy which still serve me well today.
But I’m not going to settle with being a HODLer anymore.

I decided to join a financial mastermind group, invest into a new mentorship program, re-educate myself of the new crypto trends and market cycles.
I am not a HODLer anymore and now Becoming a value investor so I can best position myself in this coming cycle with a strong mindset, investment strategy & plans.

If my financial goal is to have minimum of 100k/year in passive income, let’s just cut the noise and crunch some numbers to achieve it!

It’s all a numbers game.

Once you have the answer of how much you need to become financially free, get a solid plan.
The more detailed this is the more likely you are to achieve your end results.
Money is made in the planning and research stages.

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Today Bitcoin has reached almost 400% from the last all time low, from $4500 to $18,000 within 6 months.
Activating a new bull market probably thanks to the news of Facebook coin Libra, bring bitcoin back to the mainstream media.
Causing institutions massive FOMO and pump the market.

I have made quite a few videos back in 2017 about why I invested in BTC & other alt coins, I think many of my old friends already know that I’m a die hard crypto fan, there’s no other market that will give you 50,000% return in a short few years.

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Traditional investment like bonds, stocks, shares, property, banks, super 💵... we are talking about 5%, 25%, 50% maybe 100% return in 10-15 years and you are doing well.
In the crypto world, we are talking about 20-80% up/ down a day if you Day trade (not recommended). Or 2x here and 10x fold there in the matter of weeks.
Of course thousands of dead coins & scammers too.
🎅🧟‍♀️ There's good guys & bad guys in the world, depending on what you focusing on.

Are you focusing on the potential growth or the potential lost?

Yes there is always risk, do you think working for one company, one boss, one salary is risk free?
What if you get fired?
What if you injured yourself?
Massive risk if you working for only one 9-5 job if you ask me.

🤔 Come to think of it...
If you lose your job next week and no passive income streams, how long can you live off with your savings?
3 months? 6 months? 1 year?
Do you even have savings?
What if you have no savings but debts?
Homelessness is not that far off when the next GFC hits and companies closing down and people getting redundant.
Or AI / blockchain era comes and replacing traditional repetitive or systematic jobs like drivers, lawyers, accountants, sales clerks, cashiers, waitstaff, fast food workers, dishwashers, real estate agents, bankers, etc...
Can AI or blockchain / smart contract technology replace your industry?
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Back to crypto...
What I lack of back then was an investment plan, that’s why I’m not a crypto millionaire yet. 🙈
I literally watched my first $300 coin rise to $30,000 and did nothing, and watched it went back down to $3,000 and still did nothing 😂
I hodl it like my gold, I was in for the long term, like 7 years long.
👴
Yeah millennial can't wait until age 65 to 'retired' with 5% gain on your superfunds, won't even catch up with the inflation.

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With the right mindset, strategies and disciplines, really spend time to educate yourself and learn how to invest safely, minimizing risks, this could be a game changer.
Stop listening to speculators or side liners or pop-up “market experts” when the market is running up, do your own research, invest anything you can afford to lose (def not borrow money or sell your house).
Maybe test with $500, treat it as school fee, learn how to buy & sell & store & trade...
Doesn’t matter if you only have $100 spare money, $100 can turn into $1,000 or $0, you don’t have to buy one whole bitcoin.

I’m no financial advisor here and will not tell you to invest or not. I don’t know your financial situation and what level of a risk taker you are.
This is my journey to financial freedom path and I’m happy to share my insights in my life coaching programs.

🦄🦄🦄🦄

[Emotional freedom]

this is gonna be my life long road to become enlightenment.

Constant healing, clearing karmas, releasing emotional baggages stored in my body, mind & spirit, meditation and learn how not to react to situations with irrational emotions, but to respond with calm & peace, learn how not to become a slave to my ego & emotions but to create my own life, stop living at effects and moving up to cause...

It’s not easy but def worth keep invest in myself in the personal development journey.

Hire a life coach, a mentor, emotional freedom programs, practice meditations... do whatever it takes to self care.

Love your body, clear your mind, listen to your spirit.

Be kind.

Don’t be a dick.

Eventually you will reach to the goal of emotional freedom when you committed to it!

Now it’s the time for you to stop and think about what kind of lifestyle that you want to live, come up with a plans and start implementing changes to achieve your desire outcomes.

If you do nothing, your 2025 will look like your 2019. Are you happy with your 2019?
If not, what are you going to do to change it for the better?

How to clear your money blocks

[How to clear your money blocks] 

The concept of money blocks is strange because on the surface, why wouldn’t we want to make more money? It’s weird when you think about it.

Do you feel tired of chasing money but you pretend that you don’t care about money?Do you tell yourself that 
“rich people are devils and greedy and they only take take take?”
“Money doesn’t grow on trees.” 
“I don’t need that much money, money doesn’t buy you happiness”“I’m just a normal everyday person who doesn’t have money”“I’ll never be rich because of blah blah blah”

How’s these beliefs serving you for having a financial freedom life so far?
Are these thoughts blocking you from receiving more money?
Are you blocking yourself from opportunity to learn how to let money flow into your effortlessly?
Because you believe in hard work for a job that you don’t like is the only way to pay the bill?
Or because you believe that you are not working for money?

[Melbourne Chai Latte] Prana Chai vs Fly High Chai

I have been a mocha drinker for over a decade, I liked a good dark chocolate sweet drink with coffee in it. Where possible, I would go to chocolate shop like KoKo Black, Lindt Chocolate, Max Brenner (Italian Thick), Ganache Chocolate or Mörk Chocolate Brew House to get a dark chocolate mocha.

Last year I have been introduced to Chai latte but it was from powder, tasted super sweet, way too sweet that puts me off.

During Xmas my Japanese mother-in-law introduced me to her special fresh Chai tea leaves and told me "to only order Chai latte from fresh leaves. You must first ask if their chai is from powder or from leaves, and better with soy milk."

Ah-hah! Secret revealed.

My first real chai latte was first Fly High Chai from Seven Seeds in Melbourne CBD, then Chai Boy latte from The Crus & Co in St Kilda and unknown brand from Qi Crystal shop.

Oh boy...

Having fresh chai tea in a summer garden reading oracle cards in a crystal shop? 

I joined a 30 days healthy living detox program in March 2019, had to quit sugar and coffee, so I thought I might as well replaced my mocha with home made chai latte (in almond or oak milk, as soy and dairy is to be eliminated during the body restoring process).
I have been on hunt to find fresh local Melbourne made Chai receipt that are easy to make, healthy and yummy.

After the detox program, I fell in love with fresh Chai latte so much now now I keep buying Fly High Chai and Prana Chai.

Here's videos of how I made them at home:

 Fly High Chai - Concentrate 

Melbourne Made. Fly High Chai is liquid concentrate which you can add directly to warm milk. Used in Seven Seeds cafes, the killer touch to this warming, balanced Chai is freshly grinding the spices just for brewing.

I like how easy this concentrate is, no mess, less washing up.
Great for when I just wanna quickly make one to keepcup and bring to work in the morning.

1. Just pour a bit of the liquid to the cup (I tend to pour more than recommendation)
2. Heat up soy milk in my Nespresso milk frother
3. Pour hot milk into the cup, stir

$16/bottle from Brother Baba Budan 

Prana Chai - Starter kit unboxing

Melbourne local made Prana Chai combines premium black tea with pure honey, cinnamon, cardamom, star anise, cloves, peppercorn and ginger root for the ultimate taste sensation. The result is a smooth, not-too-spicy, not-too-sweet chai blend that tastes great morning, noon or night.

Prana Chai continue to tinker away with their sticky chai recipes, developing a Vegan Chai Blend (sans honey), a healthy, tasty Turmeric Chai Blend, and a wonderfully refreshing Peppermint Chai Blend.

If I'm not in a hurry, I enjoyed cooking Prana Chai and mixed with my own extra spiced of turmeric, ginger, sage, fennel, mint, cinnamon and nutmeg powder to give extra flavor.

I would slow heat on stove for over 6 mins, sit for another minute or two then stir in honey before serve, gotta make sure all the goodies are soaked in with the milk.
Because it's taking me much longer to make Prana Chai at home, I enjoyed it better, like a treat.
I would paused everything that I was doing, sit down and sipping it while giving myself gratitude, thanks the universe for giving me such a good life, I am able to work from home and enjoy a warm drink  usually I'll be petting my cats too, my chai meditation for me.   

Started kit was $49 from online (Including shipping)

250g is $20 from South Melbourne Market

In terms of taste, texture and flavour once it's blended with soy milk, I found both Fly High Chai and Prana Chai have their unique essence of spiced, I love them both.

So if I'm in a hurry, I would make Fly High Chai latte.
If I'm in for a self care time, I would make a Prana Chai, which is almost everyday haha
I love myself.

Recently I tried Chamellia Chai at Stoker Pancake, yummm... May look into getting a pack to try make at home next.

I love how Melbourne people love making their own organic tea & coffee and sell to the public, so we have more choices for the best quality, healthiest options.

Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique | My experience in Melbourne, Australia

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[INVEST IN YOURSELF] Say yes and figure out how later

[INVEST IN YOURSELF]

When I was working full time in Fashion in my 20s, I had the employee's mindset: If I work hard to serve my company well, I'll get a promotion in a year or two, keep working hard day in day out and in 5 years time I'll reach my goal to be a manager that I thought was my highest goal (oh and hello for a 20-60% pay rise) Then I would buy a house, get married, live a happy life.

Which I did (I was using the Law Of Attractions without me knowing, I thought that was goal settings + taking actions + follow my financial excel spread sheet religiously)

After my dream had "came true", I got promotion almost every year until I reached to the top. I wasn't satisfy, my soul wanted more than just to be the best production manager in a small family fashion business (that is not my family), making my boss (and his family) a millionaire while I earned a fixed wage.

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To be honest I'm not even that into Fashion & Trends anyway, I still wear the same clothes that I wore when I was a teenager.

What I enjoyed in that job was the manager title, the perks (free clothes!), the stable pay check, the business trips, etc. I didn't even get to design or create anything anymore, we were copying actual final products from Europe and made it our next hottest 'new trends". Which was an insult to a creative person.

📷🎥 2016 Goal - Wedding Photography

2016 Xmas I realised that I can dream even bigger, set a even higher goal and make it happen:

Why can't I make myself a boss and build a 6 figures wedding photography company?

If I work hard for myself, I can achieve this goal in 3 years too right?

I've done it before and proven that it is possible right?

Yup I was aware that I had no idea about the Wedding industry (the market, the pricing structures, the business skill set, Social media & SEO, didn't know any of these).

I didn't even know how to use a proper camera that is not an iPhone. lol

But ignorance can be a bless sometimes.

All I had was guts, values and passions.

I was committed to learn, start before I was ready, took on paid wedding jobs before we even had a proper portfolio, invest time & money to this self learning journey.

Keep pushing & growing & expanding out of my comfort zone.

Glad that I had this breakthrough and just went for it.

Now I get to work with talented artists to create pretty wedding photos, albums & videos for engaged couples;

I get paid to travel the world to shoot wedding photos;

I am working for a company that I am truely proud of, oh and I get to keep the profits too, how can it get any better?

I can make any decision and set any price I want, I can say no to some jobs that I can sense trouble, or give discounts to brides that I would like to help, which empowering me, which is awesome! As long as I take 100% responsibility to the end result, keep my clients, my team and myself happy, this is a much more fun than working full time for someone else's company!

🧘‍♀️👩‍💼😎 2019 NEW GOAL

Now that our Wedding photography business is booming, I'm going for a even bigger dream and do something totally new again.

Why not?

What would I lose if I fail?

What is failure anyway?

Will I regret on "NOT" taking this "risk" when I die?

Or will I regret on taking this risk because it is risky?

What is risk by the way?

If not now then when?

If not me then who?

What would the future me say to me if I stay where I am because I am scared?

I'm committed to achieve this new goal (which I think this is it! My life purpose!)

Yup, I'm also aware that I have no idea about this next new journey might happen but I will make it happen and enjoy every second of this human experience!

I'm going back to school willingly to study all the skills I need to get there;

I will attend to as much workshops & seminar as possible to learn new things;

I'm reading lots of books / audio books / podcasts about these subjects already... And I'm gonna throw myself out there shortly and start getting paid clients before i'm "ready" haha

Say yes and figure out how later. Yeah why not?

Life is so much fun and exciting now, can't believe I wake up super early every morning and can't wait to go to "WORK"!

I'm gonna nail this Game call LIFE!

Be the master of my life!

Watch out to this space folks!