But here’s bits of it:

It revolves around this: My Adventure Book, it’s a scrapbook of a little girl that follows her till her adulthood, old age till she passes away…One of the things that resonate with me from this was, she had a page titled : Stuff that I’m going to do. And following were empty pages which she intended to fill up with her big adventures & dreams. But life turns out differently, as how life always likes to do.

What a brilliant reminder to go after Stuff I’m Going to Do…(and will do!), and YET remember to treasure all the LITTLE TREASURES along the way. Coz sometimes don’t we have grand plans, and we impatiently wait for it to materialize…sometimes forgetting that treasures are aplenty, here and now?

I remember these words from Tenzin Kacho (formerly Emi Kiyosaki, yes, she is Robert Kiyosaki’s sis). She is now a Tibetan nun, involves in hospice work where she talks to people facing death.  Through it, she realizes the common regrets of dying people:

3 of man’s biggest regrets in life:

1. Regret that they didn’t lead their life (Mel’s understanding: Take the leap of faith to go after what I really wanted & believe in)
2. Regret that they didn’t forgive or love someone. (Mel’s understanding: Give, and don’t expect a return)
3. Regret that they didn’t speak out. (Mel’s understanding: Express yourself, be it love or forgiveness in your heart)

And to add to this, over a beery conversation last Friday (me, not her) with a dear friend, she told me: When you die, it’s irrelevant to argue over where to put the table, who is right, who’s wrong.

Someone asked me, are you afraid of dying? Of course everyone is afraid in one way or another. But my fear which is my biggest drive is this: ”I do not wish to realise when I die, that I had not lived “

Because, really, everything is irrelevant after you die.

1.7.09 1.49pm

Life: Rereading Rich Dad Poor Dad >10 years after I first read it…It’s not until my husband bought the book last month (I can’t imagine anyone never read it b4), that I was casually flipping thru it again. Then I found out…I thought I knew it then what all this is about. I thought that all the seminars I’ve been attending this 2 years gave the knowledge to me.

Well, it only DID recently. And I found that, there’s so many nuggets of wisdom in that book that I ‘GET IT’ now, not when I first read it 10 yrs ago.

I was critizing myself recently, that how can I read the book, and 10 years later, I’m still where i am!! (Yes, 10 years is THAT fast) But, it’s because I don’t fully get it then.

My fundamentals in financial education and mindset were screwed, blueprints were wonky.

Now, many of the words just jumped out to me, yes, I can relate to this, yes, i can relate to that. I’m like, omg, and this is 10 years ago that Robert Kiyosaki was talking abt it, I finally, truly get it. And finally I can see how much i have grown since that young, green chick 10 years ago whose dreams of finacial idenpendence were built on wobbly ground.

The recent Never Work Again seminar (unless you choose to) smashed a lot of my old beliefs that pulled me back. Yes, granted the seminar was business orientated, they are selling their seminars, but there’s also tremendous information & knowledge that shook my beliefs.

I’ll spare you the details, but I’ll leave you with this, if you can ‘get it’, you are fast forwarding your way to true success not solely and shallowed-ly measured by big house, big cars & Coach bags.

” First, you get FREE, then you get rich as a bonus”.

Comments & discussions welcome.