Oh-My-God, it’s DECEMBER!

Shit man, it’s finally the last month of this year. Not sure whether should I be excited or pressurized, and it’s left with how many days? Just 28 days! GOD.

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Happy things happening!

- I incepted nearly 20,000 API last month! Although not remarkable enough but it’s my highest record so far! Haha. I can do better! =D Peter said this morning, ”Kristin, if you don’t do QC, you really need to find a wall and bang your head against it, you know?”

- I hit my $500 Robinson Shopping Vouchers incentive! And so, I’m gonna get crazy spending on cosmetics, travelling goods and other miscellaneous stuff before Christmas!

- I’m 500 API (ONLY) away from my free lappy. (Shucks! I should be jumping with annoyance instead!)

- I’m not sure whether it is something worth celebrating but I’ll most probably be going Bangkok twice during the next two months! Bossie doesn’t allow encashment for the incentive hit! I asked for reimbursement from her and she went ‘NO! It’s an agency trip! *Sigh* You don’t love us already right?… Aiyarr, just go twice!’ *Shrugged*

- LFA threw yet, another incentive trip to keep us running harder!! Taiwan Taiwan Taiwan! With just 10,000 API inception this month! Seriously, I really think it’s not that difficult, but considering that there’re some upcoming free-look cases requested by a few dumbs.. I’m not gonna slack!

- I finally started my very first savings plan with 70% discount for the entire first year! *Cheer!*

- Prettiest manager of PTO, Diana is getting married! She’s just like a little lady happily beginning her next stage in life.

- Baby said that he misses me today! ♥

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Bad things (In nicer words, learning experiences sound better) taking place!

- My persistency is in danger, HOWEVER, awaiting to be improved real soon!

- I’m only left with 28 days this year to achieve something for my 1st year of this career, HOWEVER, I know I will achieve something!

- I’m working on the actual Christmas Day! … HOWEVER, I know that I’m going to gain more than the one-day celebration and enjoyment from my work. Besides, I get to have my Christmas Eve off!

- This month’s roadshow cost is gonna burn my pocket big time! HOWEVER, I’m sure that I will earn back much more than the amount I’m paying off.

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I have yet to receive photos taken prior to my birthday celebrations, so i’m updating on that next time round! After all, I wanna take this chance to thank everyone who was involved. ‘licia, OSY, Bobo, Dor, Soh Hoon, Feii, Don, Sharon, Vern, Samantha and of course, my dearest Darling, whom has brought me some heartfelt surprises! =)) And also not forgetting all those who have wished me, some people complained that I did not take effort to reply to their greetings hahaha so sorry! =P

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Enjoy the remaining days of Year 2009!

Last Boost of Production for Myself in 2009!

Shortfalls and shortfalls everywhere! Everyone I talked to at work would talk about shortfalls, especially my Bossie! Oh my god. Even I myself will constantly remind myself about shortfalls because I’m really dying to achieve them!

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Shortfalls to:

- November target: $19,000 API to be incepted! ($9,000 API at pipeline!)

- Quality Club award: $ 20,000 API to be incepted up till 31st December! ($9,000 API at pipeline!)

- Quality Club Elites award (Comes with a free trip to Perth!): $40,000 API to be incepted up till 31st December! ($9,000 API at pipeline!)

- Free HP laptop (including sure-incept cases in pipeline): $2,000 API!

- Free $500 shopping voucher for Christmas (including sure-incept cases in pipeline): $1,000 API!

- Free Bangkok trip for 2: $14,000 API to be incepted in Nov! ($9,000 API at pipeline!)

- Free Hokkaido trip: $ 36,000 API to be incepted up till 31st December ($9,000 API at pipeline)!

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Just wanna take this opportunity to thank Jesslyn Goh! Haha. She’s my very first female client from COLD market (meaning not anyone I already know or even hear of before being my client) who has gotten from me a savings plan! Whee! Seriously I have never so far, thought of aggressively approaching females to convince them to sign up savings account from me because I’m more comfortable talking to guy prospects. As far as I’m concerned, I only have Prushields with my COLD female clients and only less than 3 out of them all have heard me sharing the savings account. Jesslyn is my Prushield and Prushield Extra client (only signed up 2 weeks ago), I met her up today and shared with her PruFlexiCash. Within 15 mins, she’s ready to get it from me (not a big case though). I was so delighted (although I was 99% sure that this girl is gonna support me before I met her up) I don’t know how to thank her! Haha. She’s such a nice and sensible girl who is someone among my female client list that I’m very comfortable talking to. I’m noting this down so that I’ll remember it forever. =D

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Of course I’m also thankful to my other sincere male clients that signed up savings account with me recently. Even CE shows his little support by getting the accidental plan from me. Haha. However, he kept talking about free treats and free gifts like teddy bear or whatever sort of things he could think of. BOO! =P Anyways, I just have to continue producing cases up till the end of this year! I can’t wait for the long-term break in Jan and Feb even though I’ll wanna meet up each and every client of mine  during those two months to catch up a bit, however, no stress at all even if there’s no production! =D

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Jia you to me! =)

Learn To Feel Loved!

A week ago I was bugging and bugging Baby to say something creatively mushy to me while doing roadshow at AMK, he hesitated before he refused and rejected that request explaining that he’s too shy to do it because he has never done that in the past. Haha. I didn’t feel unhappy because I’m not someone that takes mushy words seriously, however I find it something good to hear. Sweet talks and mushy words are like garnish on a dish, enhancing the beauty of an already-pleasant relationship.  There aren’t a lot of couples out there who have been at least 5 years together that sweet talk to one another every now and then, yeah? Of course there are but stands at an extremely minor rate. So if couples are still that verbally sweet with each other even after half a decade together, isn’t it proving that they are as good as ever? If you don’t give a damn to your other half anymore, will you still bother to tell him/her the sweet things that you used to say? No! =) So few days back, when Baby walked me home, I happily requested for mushy words again. This time, he managed to blurt out something which initially, I didn’t catch it properly. Before I ‘huh?’, he already turned away looking so adorably shy. Lol. After some aggressive demand, he finally repeated and looked away once more.

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“You’re just like the air. Without you, I will perish…”

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Awww… So sweet of Baby! He claimed that he thought about it for days after my very first request for sweet talks, in case I remembered and ask for it again. Haha! Sometimes I’m just impressed by how much he understands me and how much he cares about how I feel, it makes me feel deeply loved =))

In a relationship, it doesn’t need tons and tons of sweet talkings to maintain the stability of the bonding because too much of it will either cause dullness or a routine habit that both parties need. Most importantly, we gotta learn seeing the positive side of everything in a relationship and even more importantly, we gotta learn to appreciate for every little things that the other half has done for us! Jem says “we don’t exactly talk about the good parts, do we?”, I totally disagree! We should not only know when to share with our close friends about the problems in a relationship, we gotta also talk about the good things as well! Focusing on problems will only attract more problems, no? Girls gets affected easily by good and bad tiny matters, our thinking is being emotionally connected around our brain, bringing us mentally from one affair to another. On the other hand, guys totally can’t link up things that girls have on their mind. This has been a proven fact being passed on for the past few centuries! It is a fact that can never be changed, so both genders, give up! Nevertheless, one thing we all can do is to acknowledge every little effort put in by the other half and feel loved! =) Love is amazing, yet a very wide topic for everyone to explore. Of course, I’m not a love expert, I’m still learning… and it’s going to take me forever… ♥

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P.S.: The movie “2012″ completely moved me. It rocks!

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Shortfall from my November target is $12,000 API! 10 days to go!!

Start Thinking Differently!

What’s the main difference between happy people and unhappy people? Happy people focus on what they have. Unhappy focus on what’s missing. If you get up every morning and look for faults, you will find them:

* in your girlfriend/boyfriend – “He/she has put on weight and is getting boring!”

* your job – “The boss is an idiot!”

* your day – “Another uninteresting day to endure again!”

You can send yourself into a descending spiral. If every morning, you look for reasons to feel good, you’ll find them:

* in your boyfriend/girlfriend – “He/she is thoughtful and is always there for me…”

* in your job – “It’s great to have one!”

* in your day – “I get to live another brand new day! Let’s cherish it!”

As you develop the daily habit of looking for good things, your life will steadily improve. If someone or something cause you grief, don’t pretend that those don’t exist, but look for the good things about those to make yourself feel good towards it. For example, if your job is underpaid, don’t try to convince yourself that it is well paid, but look for good things in your job. As you start to feel good about your job, you attract unexpected opportunities! Learn to see the positive side of everything/everyone to make yourself feel happy because only happy people attract other happy people and good outcomes. Don’t focus on something that you don’t want. If you’re about to go on stage for a speech or performance and you’re babbling to yourself ”don’t forget my lines… don’t go wrong… don’t be nervous… don’t shake”, the outcome is most likely going to be shitty because you already get mental pictures of yourself shaking and stammering. These images filter into your subconscious and program your brain for a shaking, stammering performance! Instead, visualise and picture the scene of that best outcome you can get in your conscious mind, be confident and tell yourself “let’s put on a good show! I will do a great job!”. =)

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So, start focusing on something you WANT and MOVE TOWARDS IT! Make yourself happy. There’re no disasters in life, only learning experiences! Treat every problem/trouble as a learning experience and be grateful as every experience makes your mentally-stronger! Make it a habit to see positiveness in everything, be it good or bad, look for the good things to make yourself feel better. Eventually, success won’t be far from you. =D

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Shortfall from my November target is $14,500 API! 15 days to go!!

Happiness in Hard Times!

If you find the title of this entry familiar, yeah it’s a book’s heading. I happened to come across the advertisement on the train today and I just felt the urge to get this book, so I dragged Darling to the Popular bookstore after lunch and happily purchased it!

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Buying this book doesn’t mean I have hard times now and I need solutions, alright? Haha! But I need to read up some motivational articles and books to keep my thinking positive. There are few other series by this author, Andrew Matthews, as well. I just gotta wait till I finish up the latest one first!

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I’ve read up a few pages so far. There’re several meaningful lines written by the author that I love!

 

“To turn things around you first make peace with your situation.”

 

“Acceptance isn’t giving up. Acceptance means: “This is where I am – and now I move on to what I want.”"

 

“To be surrounded by positive people, you first put a smile on your own face.”

 

“In the real world, other people don’t change our lives. We do it ourselves.”

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I once came across this saying, “Genuine happiness isn’t found by happy people, it is only discovered at the turning point of a disaster.” Pretty true, isn’t it? =) After all, it all depends on self-attitude. You want to better everything around you, begin with yourself. “To start afresh, you gotta start from where you fell.”

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Shortfall to my November target is $18,000 API! Towards my goal of 24-OH! Only Baby knows what I was trying to babble about. =D

Look Only Ahead…

Peter said this morning during the weekly motivation session, “it is already left with another 51 days, ask yourself what have you achieved so far? Is that what you want or you actually desire for more? Year 2009 will soon be a history, please run hard for the last 51 days, don’t live with regret.”

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Now the important thing is, Peter has set a minimum target for LFA agents to hit on a weekly basis. Agents who don’t manage to cross the target will have to see him on every Monday morning for accountability, which I will NOT be attending at all because I definitely won’t wanna see him for a good lecture session! Especially when he told everyone in LFA that I was the one who suggested this target-boosting method, which I did not even speak a single word related to that, shucks! However, I can’t deny that this really motivates people to work doubly harder just because we don’t wish to attend his accountability. It would be disastrous. Seriously.

Fortunately, I did pretty fine last week! *Clap Clap* =D I gotta continue to focus, focus and FOCUS!!

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My 4th month’s sincere and truthful compliment to my Baby – You’re very Honest. Baby doesn’t delibrately hide things from me! Even though it may be something that may cause me feeling unhappy, he is always being direct and frank. To me, honesty is the 2nd best factor to strengthen the trust between one another. The first factor is keeping to promises made! Baby always says that ‘trust’ is something really siginificant in a relationship, but I think we ought to first access whatever that help to build that ‘trust’, isn’t it? =D Anyways, thanks Darling for being open up to me in everything! *Hugs and kisses*

It’s All About FOCUSING!

Lunch with Peter wasn’t as bad as I’ve expected. He said loads of encouraging words and motivated us with yet, new incentives. What a nice chairman! Haha. 20k AIPI this month will entitle me to have one extra ticket to travel to Bangkok in January! Well, initially I already planned to travel to Bangkok before Chinese New Year, since Peter is being generous, I’m really thankful! =) Finally, I’m not as pressurized anymore after absorbing the motivating theories that he’s given us, he just wants us to focus, focus and focus for the last two months.

“To be successful is actually easy, it’s whether you want or don’t want. But, to be unsuccessful is easier. And sadly, many prefer the easier way.” – Peter Tan

Totally agree. I really hope to stay focus because to be consistently focused has been my weakness! I told Peter that it’s really hard to focus because I can be really complacent at times. He just smiled and said ‘you just have to be happy everyday about your work and not think about any other things, put those behind your mind and tell yourself what you should achieve in the every day of your life to make your time spent justifiable, you have to learn to block distractions.’ *Sigh* After all, I felt so much better after hearing all the things that he has said to us. Really. Hanging out with V40 the entire day also chased away the little grudge I have towards my Bossie. She tend to turn softer with her nags and hyped up our mood with more acceptable ways, making me feel rather encouraging than being stress.

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While doing SP with V40, Sharon started to tell me her very secretive problems and a lot about a person’s character. She asked me for opinions and I simply told her my truthful comments. I said, ‘a guy who always makes you cry with unhappiness will never be that right one for you’. All of a sudden, I recall those unhappy things again and so I could easily relate to how she felt, which made me feel quite down. And I have to believe that thinkings in the day form dreams at night. I had a bad dream last night. Shucks. However, that doesn’t stop me from concentrating on my work. I was just exasperated with certain things. The more I don’t wish to know about something, the higher the chance I will know it. Ironic! Initially I wanted some time to cool down and think through, but it’s after Peter’s talk, I realised that I don’t have the time to do so already and those doubts are unneccesary to fret over for. I just gotta learn to be emotionally stronger, put the things aside and FOCUS on my production. =)

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There are times we should not expect, just learn to accept.

May Time Flies… Or Not.

Mondays’ accountability with the unit is ALWAYS nightmare! Hate it! Comparisons and shootings and MORE figures-talk. Like I’ve not gotten enough of it. Yeah it’s last two months, I’ve been reminding myself with that. I felt like I was going to break down all of the sudden after accountability with her. Luckily I met Baby and Jem after that, which made me feel somehow better. There were so many mixed feelings running through me, mostly occupied by pressure and I just feel like I don’t wanna care about anything at all! Madness. What’s the use of ALWAYS verbally putting people down and sending SMSes to attempt to pull people up again? Totally tactless. I guess she just likes the way harshness works, but it works the other way round on me. The more stress I have, I tend to avoid and procrastinate even more! She just doesn’t understand that even after I honestly came clean with her about that. Hmmm… However, I reckon that I gotta face up all challenges before I get the taste of success, the frustrating thing is that, I feel terrible to allow people hit on my ego and cause myself feeling depressed. Thank goodness, meeting Peter tomorrow for lunch will be another round of serious discomfort again. Great.

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Sometimes, how I wish these two months can swiftly pass. I want my more than one-month break from January to February! But to think about the long break that I will have by then, it makes me wanna work harder than ever for these two months to deserve that kind of long work-less period. And I’m afraid I need more time to achieve whatever I wanna achieve, that’s when I feel disgusted about time going by too fast. *Sighh* Very contradicting.

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Let’s chiong! =D

Another Random Day!

Coaching with Bossie this morning was good and bad. Good because I have learned, yet another few more skill techniques from her, which I realised are going to be useful. Bad because I simply can’t take anymore naggings and stress from her. It’s been like 10 months and she’s been injecting those same theories into me over and over and over again, as if I haven’t been absorbing. I admit sometimes, I tend to be slightly complacent as I lose focus damn easily, thus she has to continuously remind me the same old things that I, seriously can recite. However, like I’ve frankly told her before, even if she doesn’t nag at me about figures and targets, I will tell it to myself as well. I gotta set my mind correctly from now, I’ll wanna work only because I WANNA work, not because of any reasons that people ‘create’ for me, which I have no feel for. I wanna work hard only for my family, my future and the bench mark I set for myself to have started off with this career, not whatever unit productions or the pride for I’m most senior in my unit. It’s left with last two months, I’ll do all I can to achieve what I wanna achieve for myself! All I have to do is to mentally block myself from the wrong goals and set my focus right on the right end. =)

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Went to Darling’s house this afternoon and we watched a show that he has recommended! That show – Paranormal Activity, claimed by Baby, has very VERY good rating and is about to screen in cinemas soon. It was a horror show, said to be the scariest movie of the year! Initially I was really curious so I was like bugging Baby to immediately download it and I gotta watch it right away.

*SCREAMMM!* =D

The setting of the movie was only in a house, no elsewhere. A pair of couple was using a video camera throughout to shoot everything day and night, and those bloody freaking scary stuff only happened when they were asleep. Totally freaked me out like mad that I went yelling and babbling fears to Baby. Lol. People who know me well will know that although I’m afraid of horror shows especially the sound effects, but I won’t be mentally affected when horror shows come to the end. However, this show is an exceptional! It kind of deeply traumatized me for sometime after it ended, it didn’t get involved with sickening sudden ‘BANG!’ or ‘BOOM!’ so it left me realising that horror shows without plenty of scary sound effects can be this freaking frightening as well. After all, it’s gonna be screened on 12th Nov 2009. GO AND WATCH IT! Alicia, yes, I’m refering to you. You love to catch horror movies, don’t you? WATCH THIS! =D

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