You wrote this blog post in 2006 and i happen to read it only now. BAck then, i didn’t know i need to plan for my life and i thought that just follow what everyone is doing which is go to school get a degree and get a safe and secure job. It was until last year which i begin to realise that i seriously need to plan and i need to increase my financial education and intelligence to become successful. I read the book rich dad poor dad and it totally changed the way i think. From last year until now, i’ve been actively learning more about investing, ways to create multiple streams of income and building up my passive income. As i was searching for all the information, i saw your story and conrad alvin lim’s story. This really inspired me to move on and i’ve attended conrad’s preview on wealth academy trader. I’m now actively investing in the stock market and have learned precious lessons that i’ve never known before.

Regarding your blog post, i feel that you actually know God more than some christians do. I grown up in a christian family and have been a christian all my life. I’ve seen how many people believe that they don’t need to plan for their life and let God plan their life. Even have people believing that being rich is evil and God does not like you to be rich. As what you’ve said, God gives us a passion for something and we should actively pursue our passion and talents that God has given to us. Without hard work, we’ll not be successful. In the past, i was also one of the people who believed that i don’t need to work hard to acheive success. I thought that God will do it. In the end, i did not study hard for my exams in secondary school and failed most of my subjects. Now i believe that if you fail to plan, you’ll plan to fail. All the experiences that i had in my life were not a coincidence and i can see God leading me to what he wants me to do.

I really respect the things you’re doing now for the society. Especially changing people’s mindset and teaching them the right values. I can see alot of students benefited from your programs and have gone on to lead a better life and also stronger relationships with their family. This is my aim and my purpose in life also: To make a difference in society. I hope to teach people and also contribute back to society by helping those in need. Thank you for your passion and your love for people. Keep on doing and changing people’s lives. All the best!!!

Adam does sound like he is a Christian although he is not. What I am going to say might offend many religion followers but I just want to say a piece of my mind, hopefully some of you can get something worthy out of it. Ask yourself why you enter a religion; do you want to let someone take charge of your life because he can do it better? Ask yourself whether your beliefs came from you and not from others; why do you believe in something in the first place? Believing in yourself is a religion itself (at least that’s how I see it), it doesn’t mean believing in yourself excludes yourself to believe in other things. Yes, there are absolutely no conflicts.

A conflict occurs when you hold on to a belief as an absolute reference. Its like the theory of relativity. All the differences should be given a reference of themselves, meaning you should look and explain things at all view points. That is why if you consider only one view point, other view points are in conflict. Adam’s reader only sees things only from his religion point of view and he had forgotten about himself. Remember, the reader cannot believe in anything, let alone his religion if he doesn’t know or even believe himself. In the reader’s case, he should still believe in his religion and also himself. The reason that he is in conflict with himself is that he wanted to believe in Adam but from his religion point of view, its wrong. He is not doing justice to the beliefs he has in himself. The theory of relativity has made speed of light as absolute, so what is the speed of light for living, in my analogy? You must have believe in yourself.

Many have lost themselves while holding beliefs dearly to their religion (not referring to any particular religion). I really do not like the idea of explaining the universe using science or religion or whatever, because these explanations are mostly mutually exclusive. Well, maybe they do overlap at some areas but let’s not dwell into that. My point is, savor all perceptions and viewpoints about everything you see. You will find it more interesting in appreciating the things around you from different angles rather than trying to find the One correct answer for everything. Yes, like Adam said, look at how life is formed, its so miraculous that anyone could easily understand there is some powerful force/person/machine behind all these.

I did not make any viewpoints on any particular religion as basically I don’t have an “official” or “registered” religion if you know what I mean. No religion has managed to convince me totally, so I am just following my beliefs. There are some stuff I believe in various religions and of course there are also stuff which I don’t. And I am sure you guys can find ways of explaining my phenomenon from your own viewpoint (religious or scientific or even out of this world). As a result, this has become my own unique religion if you guys want to put it this way. I hope I didn’t digress. I think I didn’t.

Cheers!

Well, first I must say that I agree with what Adam said that a christian SHOULD NOT be lazy. For example, I believe a christian student should not go to the exam hall expecting God to give him good result without him first studying hard. Likewise for work, wealth, life etc. In fact there’s a saying that goes ” Do our best, and let God take care of the rest”

I think perhaps your participants who says let God take charge of it, is coming from a point of SUBMITTING his life to God, this is not equal to being lazy and not taking action.

Allow me to clarify something here, that God is not a force, but He is someone with character and emotion. He is righteouss, loving, merciful, patient and just. Since he is like a “person”, when someone believes in Jesus, he starts a personal relationship with God. He prays, read the bible, make friends and serve in a church. Basically he grows. And God will show His love to the person, guide him and bless him. It will come to a point that he realize his life purpose, or a calling or life destiny.

Now, the question is: does God choose for us our destiny? I would say YES and NO. Yes He has a plan for us, a plan to prosper all of his children ( if you don’t believe me, check out the bible book of Jeremiah chapter 29 verse 11). How about the No then? We are responsible for not achieving the destiny that God chosed for us too.

How? (1) laziness, like what Adam mentioed. (2) along the way ppl stumble into some sins or lifestyle that distract them away from following God. (3) too often people want to take charge of their own life and refuse to let God guide them. Yeah, you hear me right, ppl want to take control of their own life. You may ask, ” What’s wrong with taking control of your own life?” The answer is: Sometimes we really do not know what we are doing. Only God knows everything, and He desires us to have the best.

Letting God take control, I must admit that this is the hardest part even for myself. “Why can’t I have my own ways?” often I asked. But I have learnt that God knows far better than me, that’s why I need to submit, sometimes even die to my will to trust in God’s guidance, so that God can take me too my destiny.

So, after much had been said, the point is: It is not wise to leave things to fate. Plan carefully, work diligently. However there’s another element about trusting God’s guidance, sometimes even to a point of dying to your will.

I’m not an eloquent person, I hope you get my point, nor I am here to debate, just want to share a thought and hope it benefits someone.

You sound like you’re a christian. Are you? dont mind i ask, which church u’re from?

ps. you got gd points there.

david,guang xiang,xianbi,adriel, do add me too. if u’re willing to allow me to be part of the conversation:)
thks!