MY 150 Day Challenge: Getting Ready to Enter the Next Phase of Life

This post was written on 29 November 2020  

I am going to enter into the 3rd phase of my life in 2021. Looking back of my life journey, the 1st phase of my life was the foundation years to develop me as a person. The second phase was the foundation years to develop my family life and my career. It is good to take stock of my life journey so far and prepare myself for the 3rd phase of my life.

Phases of life stages:

Phase 1: 0 to 24 years old – these were the years we built our foundation as a person and prepared us to build our life. I am grateful that I had a good education provided by my parents and studied in a good high school (Jit Sin High School, Bukit Mertajam, Penang) and university (Monash University). My involvement in scouting and promotion to the troop leader in secondary school has a significant influence in my foundation year.

Phase 2:- 25 to 49 years old were the year we built our career, our family and the quality of life we want. In this period of time I had an opportunity to learn from my father by working in his life insurance agency for few years before setting up my own financial advisory practice to pursuit my dream in building Independent Financial Advisory practice. In 2005, I was approached to join an established licensed financial advisory firm that joint ventured with the largest independent financial advisory group from Australia. Subsequently I was assigned by the board of directors to move to their Singapore operation in 2009. Thanks to the Australia firm, I had an opportunity to move to the global financial center to continue in pursuing my dream that started humbly from my hometown Bukit Mertajam (Penang), to Kuala Lumpur and Singapore!

When the Australia firm left the Asia business, I decided to join the Largest Independent Financial Advisory firm in Singapore after many rounds of meeting with the co-founder & MD, Mr Vincent Ee. Fast forward to today, I have been with Financial Alliance Group for 8 years (since Oct 2012, Financial Alliance 10th Anniversary) and managed to help the group venture into Malaysia market in 2014. FA Advisory Sdn Bhd is a profitable business now and managed by a dedicated team that lead by our General Manager, Bryan Zeng.

Over the last few years, Financial Alliance Group has been focusing on building the eco-system to support our financial consultants and we are ready to expand to the next level. I am grateful that I made the right decide to join Financial Alliance group and be part of the team to grow the company from good to great!

It is time to take stock at the age of 49 and prepare myself for the next phase of life.

My 50th birthday will be on the 25th March 2021 and I started the 150 days challenge from 26 Oct 2020 in order to achieve 4 major goals below so that I am very clear of what I want to achieve on my 50th birthday. And on that day onwards, I will be ready to begin the next phase of life with clarity and direction.

Goal#1 Building Great Mind and Healthy Body – Mindset. My first 30 days challenge summary on goal

Goal#2 Learning new Knowledge and Skill for the “Future of Work” – Skillset and Toolset

Goal #3 Cultivate good Habits – High Performance Habits and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Goal#4 Connecting with Right People, building win-win collaboration – good relationship will enrich our life and good collaboration will make a huge difference in others life.

My ultimate goals in my next phase of life from 50s:

#1 To achieve #IKIGAI and improve quality of life with Healthy, Wealthy and Happy life.

#2 Impacting more lives and adding more values to Financial Alliance group – leave a legacy by doing well, doing good and doing right!

Massive action from now to 25 March 2020 – Everyday Counts!

Reminder to myself: Know is not enough, we must APPLY. Willing is not enough, we must DO. These are constant remind to me in order to achieve my goals and the challenges that I set to achieve.

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