I reckon that all successful people have very powerful minds with Amplifying Power Energy (APE), which I defined as the innate power to channel very powerful energy into their thoughts and actions. In _____, I listed down what my husband and I have achieved, even though we have no advantages in life. We achieved all our accomplishments, even though we had no maid, and I still had to do all the housework in my flat, right down to scrubbing all 3 toilet bowls 🚽🚽🚽! I’m sure those of you who have to do the housework know that it is very energy draining to be the only one cooking and cleaning. It’s not easy! 😅Nah, it’s not that my husband and I are that bunch of successful people with Amplifying Power Energy (APE). We were just lucky because I discovered Feng Shui!  Plus I have another thing going for me. In _____, I told you that dreaming is great, actually, it’s fantastic! 👍👍👍 I encourage all readers out there to dream, and dream big as I said in ______.  Remember, a dream has no price tag, and there are no limits! The best thing about dreaming is that you can dream and dream and dream again! It is free, and you can dream whilst you are vacuuming the floor 🛋, or when you are feeding your baby 🍼, or when you are cooking a meal 🍳, or even when scrubbing that damn toilet bowl 🚽! Many a times when I feel overwhelmed by it all (of course I feel overwhelmed! I’m just an ordinary person!), my dreams set me free from the chains of life. When everything has to be done by either my hubby or myself, it’s really kind of depressing. Simply because if I don’t do it, there’s no one else to do it for me. In my case, I wonder why I have no maid, when most of my friends have one. I wonder why I got married? Is it to be stuck with all these housework, and looking after my big baby husband 👶. Well, in truth, that’s what he is! A big baby of a husband who happens to earn big money! ROFL! 😂😂 But being the sweet husband that he is, he would always say: “Darling, why don’t you leave all the housework till the weekend? We can do it together, and you won’t be so tired.” And of course, when weekend comes, sometimes he sleeps in a little more, sometimes he has work to catch up on his laptop, and more often than not, he is busy being the filial son! You know what it’s like, for many of us, weekends are our relaxation and family time, and I really don’t want to spoil his rest and filial piety by telling him to do housework. More on that later. But lucky for me, I know how to re-charge my tired spirit by dreaming. Remember I told you in ____ that I am a very good dreamer! So I rely on my dreaming when things get tough, and then I dream again when things get rough. Heck! Even when things are going well, I dream! LOL!  😆

But in addition to dreaming, you know what you have to do right? Yup, you are right! You have to take action. Unfortunately for me, as I said in ____, in my growing up years, and even as an adult, I did not have any role models that I could look up to in terms of ‘taking action’. I don’t know why, but I seem to be surrounded by ‘outspoken dreamers’. These are the people who dream a lot, like me! But somehow their taking action means that they THINK and they TALK of all the A-Zs of their dreams, what it entails, what it involves, the pros and the cons, and… well, that’s it! Mostly, I’m surrounded by all theory and all debate. Yak yak yak!!! 🗣🗣🗣 Honestly, what good is that? Whether it is talk with sound reasoning, or talk that is defeating, what use is talk, talk, talk? You actually need to take action. By this, I don’t even mean take a piece of paper and scribble down plans. I also don’t mean keying all sorts of financial scenerios into an Excel worksheet, and doing bombastic budgeting and forecasting. All these are helpful, yet totally useless in fulfilling your dream! You need to take action inside this real world! This world that we are living in! For example, let’s say I want to set up a shop selling premium ice-cream. Let’s see which of the following actions count in the real world, shall we?

See what I mean? I have come across people who are stuck in ‘planning phase’ for years! I’m not necessarily talking about setting up a business. It could be that the person is having marriage problems, and he/she tells me all sorts of plans about how he/she intends to fix the marriage problems. Or perhaps the person is stuck in a dead-end job, and he knows his only way out is to get more professional qualifications. So he says that he plans to upgrade his studies once he settles this issue, once he fixes that issue. And many years later, he is still stuck in a dead-end job, still complaining, still miserable and still PLANNING to enrol for night study classes!

I know that the process of planning, reviewing, budgeting, forecasting are important, but I much prefer if real action also takes place! Ideally immediately after these 4 stages. Why? Because too much planning could backfire on you! Of course, I’m not telling you to throw caution to the winds. What I’m saying is that when you dream, make sure that it is useful dreaming. Read my example of a good kind of dreaming in _____. Don’t waste your dream time hoping that some other eligible Prince 👑 (at the time when this blog was written, Prince Harry had just been taken by Meghan! 🙃) will come to Singapore, and he will be absolutely smitten by you (me), and I can marry him, and we live happily forever and ever. 💒 The End. 💏 Real life does not work like this! It is possible, of course, but highly improbable! You have a much higher chance of succeeding if you plant both your feet firmly on the ground, and you take steps to slowly but surely progress towards your goal. I’m a strong believer that slow and steady wins the race! It’s not because I’m not confident in myself, but if you move slowly, you are more likely to be able to fix things that crop up unexpectedly. Unless you have a team of manpower backing you, or you have access to loads of investment money, you should just plan a little, take a little action, plan a little more, take a little more action, plan further, take further action. Chug, chug, chug!!! 🚂 Slowly and surely, you progress onward, and that my dear reader, is my definition of “Do Something!” 🍻 

Finally, I want to tell you about throwing caution to the winds. I have come across people like this, and I tell you that we, as ordinary people, do not have the stomach for this. The only time you can throw caution to the wind is, if you are unmarried, if you are unattached, and if your family does not need your money for survival. For example, I have a friend who has a F&B shop selling takeaway pies. Concurrently, he is heavily invested in properties and other business ventures. Huge risk-taker this friend of mine! 😱When this venture runs short of money, he ‘taps’ onto his wide network of friends, and he borrows money here and there. $100 from him, $50 from her, $500 from them… then when the business venture makes some money, he pays back the ‘loans’. Then when there is cash shortage again, he borrows again! I don’t know how his wife feels, but I imagine that it is very stressful for my risk-taker friend to subject his wife and their 2 pre-school going kids to this type of roller-coaster way of living. As a person looking in, I don’t think that it is a very logical way of doing things for an ordinary family. What do you think, my dear reader? Has my risk-taker friend taken “Do Something” to a whole new level of insanity?! 🏁