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what I need to do ...

  • Continious learning -unlearn as necessary
  • Reach out to family & loves ones
  • Maintain fitness - strong core and clear IPPT
  • Pick up parenting skills
  • Save up and plan for renovation
  • Build passive business & investment income
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  • Manage $ Cash flow
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Worse Than A Job Loss


Notes compiled after reading:
Worse Than A Job Loss by John Ong
Publisher: Singapore Professionals' & Executives' Co-operative (SPEC)
ISBN / ISSN: 9810511248
Softcover - 209 x 147 mm, 172 Pages - Price $12-14

The following are key points i picked up, you might want to get the book to try out the exercises provided ....


Remember the 'F' word ??

"F" size lifebuoy to deal with adversity .....

Family
Friends
Faith
Fortitude
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  • Forgiving
  • Fitness (Mental,Physical)
  • Focused Actions
  • Fun
  • Flexibility


  • Enjoy the sunshine while you prepare for the unexpected.
  • Be courageous and not reckless
  • Never take the find weather for granted - note the external & internal environment
  • Men are not disturbed by things, but their views and judgments of those things. - Marcus Aurelius, the Roman Philosopher
  • Job is not everything, Health is - Tuesday with Morrie by Mitch.
  • Don't curse the darkness when you can light a candle - a Chinese proverb
  • If you wait to do everything until you are sure it's right, you will probably never do much of anything - Win Borden
  • You should Open up and who should be first?
  • Recognize emotions via the eyes
  • When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited - Ramakrishna
  • What lies behind you and what lies before you pale in significance when compared to what lies within you - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  • You can do almost anything if you have a steady income. Little or much, what matters is that you can count it, month after month.Without the regular flow of funds, you will be constantly distracted from you goals - Norm & Bo
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  • Without passion nothing happens in life but without compassion the wrong things happen - Jan Eliasson
  • The poorer you are the more you need to plan and act wisely. Any undesired outcome you have little resource to manoeuvre.
  • “Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.”
  • To get to where you want to go in life you must start from where you are - Tan
  • Maturity does not come with age,it comes with the acceptance of responsibilities - Tan

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