The truth about sharing

I run a Singapore-based company managing Infopreneurs. They are Strategists with deep expertise knowledge in their respective skills. We collaborate by branding, marketing and then enhancing their content, so that they can reach out to more people.

A few hours after I posted the training pictures of one of my Singaporean business partner on Facebook, I saw a comment that made my heart skipped a beat.

“If he claims to have retired at age 26, why is he still dressed in office uniform going around giving talks and lectures?”

Will you feel the same way too?

So, why would someone who has retired, still teach?

Why would a knowledgeable person share his lessons with others?

Let me try to see this comment from their perspective. If thoughts could lead to words, and in turn lead to action and habits, wouldn’t it therefore be essential to have the right understanding of any message that is being communicated?

1) WHY SHARE WITH ME IF YOU CLAIM TO HAVE TIME FREEDOM?

Don’t miss the woods for the trees! The main thing about sharing is really about idea generation!

George Bernard Shaw reportedly spoke about the multiplier effect of exchanging ideas. "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”

The exchange of ideas results in exponential growth.

I remembered when I was doing a marketing and business plan back in my undergraduate days. My team and I researched on the possibility of making a D-I-Y bear building shop. We were excited at the prospect of creating your own bears with love. Imagine giving your loved ones, something that you created yourself!

The marketing professor thought it was a good idea, and we scored well in that project. Then nothing happened for 4 years.

In 2006, Build-A-Bear Workshop™ reached our shores. Without us being involved! Ouch!

Ideas are plentiful. Building sandcastles in the air will amount to nothing if you don’t take action.

When a coach shares his ideas to people around him, he is gaining so much more in return! His strategies are made more robust. And it would benefit more people.

Gaining feedback from students, and participants would make the coach a better person. In other words, he learns as much as his participants!

Hence, a person with time freedom is capable of scheduling time thinking of useful ideas. He does not loaf and slacks all day.

When a person is able to look beyond the daily grind of life, he is able to better implement these ideas. With massive action, results can be achieved.

2) WHY SELL TO ME IF YOU CLAIM TO BE FINANCIALLY FREE?

Supposed you could make a choice to earn either $10,000 or $30,000, which would you choose? The typical man in the street would just choose ‘either/or’. A person equipped with a success mindset would choose ‘both’.

Why settle for only one sum when you can potentially make both sums?

Why must a person who has retired not continue to grow his wealth?

Warren Buffett is definitely financially free. But he is still working on his passion even till today – Wealth Management and Creation!

HOW DO YOU WANT YOUR LIFE TO WORK OUT?

We cannot prevent such thoughts from being manifested, because different people see things in different light. They interpret different events due to their bias, and limiting beliefs.

It may be difficult for you to change your current limiting beliefs. Unless you encounter a life-changing situation that compels you to have a paradigm shift in your thoughts. This may come from unexpected events such as the news of your spouse being pregnant; someone close to you passes away unexpectedly; you lose your job; you win an Olympic Gold medal .

But you can definitely change.

You just need to be aware of the flexibility of your responses. In other words, you can choose how to respond to the events that ‘pop’ up. What is truly important is how you measure these events.

The way you experience it, the way you measure and respond to it, will be the measure that it works in your life.