The One Decision That Changed My Life
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When I first started in my training business, did you know that I actually worked for other training organisations for just $30/hr? This was rather pathetic, because I only worked for 2 hours day, and most of the time, just 2 days a week. This meant that I only earned approximately $480/month.
This was extremely bad because I had to dig into my savings every month to pay for the bills, housing loan and even food for myself. For four nights in a row, I could not sleep well at all and my wife asked me if I was stressed by what I was doing (I couldn’t admit it and I said NO). Things became very bad till the extent where I could remember that I was left with just $22 in my bank account. This left me very dissatisfied with the results that I am having.
After so much pain and frustration, I made a firm decision. I believed it was a compelling moment where I said ENOUGH WAS ENOUGH! I made a firm decision that I will NOT BE POOR, but will be one of the BEST trainers in Singapore. I will grow from strength to strength in training in the things that I strongly believe in and earn money from it. I must admit that it was only this strong sense of disturbance within the soul that when you make a FIRM DECISION and take Massive Action, it will change your life!
Fast forward many years: I have found a lot of success in training; teaching people what I am passionate about, influencing them to make changes and being paid well for it (what a dream job). All this happened because out of the moment of desperation, I made a FIRM DECISION. I am well paid currently in what I do and derive tremendous amount of satisfaction from my transformational work.
The reason I am sharing about this personal story is to ask you if you ever had a burning desire to do something but yet met with tremendous obstacles that faced your way, or were you ever been plagued by thousands of reasons why you will fail in a task, my encouragement to you is this: MAKE A FIRM DECISION AND TAKE MASSIVE ACTION.
Conclusion:
A Radical Change only happens when a person becomes extremely frustrated and makes a FIRM DECISION to do whatever it takes to overcome the situation. This change will be lasting because it causes a person to be an Overcomer! Remember, everything starts with a Decision. What is your decision today?
PS: If you are keen on embarking my route as a trainer, you can Dare To Train.
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Fantastic. You hit the nail right on the head. I am going through the same situation that you went through and this article of yours have added lots of motivation to me.
Thanks for sharing.
Kenneth,
I think I’m in the same situation as you were before. I also need to make a decision which follows by massive actions..
like your articles. keep them coming!
Jessie
Well done, Kenneth. You’ve made it! I feel the the same way as you do before. Dissatisfied, but never give up. I am determined to succeed like you with making a decision that takes massive actions.
Thanks for sharing. I hope to learn from you more.
Alfred
Hey Kenneth, thanks for sharing your inspiring experience. I like the part when u said enough was enough. I think that was the turning point in your life when instead of focusing to survive, you focused to be one of the best trainer in Singapore. Well done my friend, I’m happy for you.
For me the most valuable part of of your experience was when you made a strong determination to change your life and started to make the causes to be successful.
There is a famous quote from Mahatma Ghandi “Be the change you want to see in the world.” I think this can also be interpreted as being the change you want to see in your life.
Thanks Ken for sharing your personal experience…it is an oxygen to the soul. Also i’m embarking on your path as a trainer and it will be of great help if you post more “Dare To Train” articles. Thanks.