Live your life. Deposit the experiences to your Bank. Withdraw them any time you need to draw the lessons or feelings that can fuel your passion. Gain interest by making good use of your experiences.
Live!
Invest now.
Secure the future—not only
yours, but even your descendants’.
Imagine yourself in a deathbed.
Cruel idea? Not really. It might even save you from thousands of regrets. If
you would look back on how you lived your life, would you smile or frown?
Now snap back to
reality.
Establish your own
bank! Your own bank of experiences, where you deposit your lessons learned,
failures, your dreams, your successes, what have you.
In your own Experience
Bank, be your own CEO. Be your own teller; your own ATM; and even your own
security guard.
Start monitoring your activities,
your life transactions. In this way you’ll be in auto-active mode. Because you
don’t want to be zero or in the red, yourself will naturally make activities
that will propel you to progress instead of getting stuck at where you are now.
Have you tried playing
a game on your phone or on the internet and you just suddenly get hooked on it
because you want to beat the best score? Same thing could work if you will consciously
monitor your life transactions.
Closing your eyes and
recall the week that was. Would you want to see a dark blank image or hear a
story on repeat each week? Of course not!
Start by refreshing
your heart and mind buttons. Just like in real banks, you also have to "know
your customer" or the KYC policy. Ask yourself what you want to achieve in life
(finish this course, invest in that business, travel to this continent, earn
that much…name it!). Then plot your personalized map or timetable on how and
when you will get them. Be realistic in setting your goals and timelines, and
be deliberate with your actions—short-term, medium-term, and long-term action
plans.
Go out of your nook! See
the world. Learn from people from various walks of life. Visit places. Have a
taste of different cultures and subcultures.
Your experiences and
your observations will inspire you in ways you do not expect and many useful
ideas will just pop out of nowhere. If you will constantly move and progress,
all these fruitful activities—simple and complex alike—will snowball and incur
interest that will make you a million-dollar worth person without spending
even a tenth of it.
If you have no money
to finance any activity, it’s okay! If you don't have a college degree, it’s
alright! In your own Experience Bank, your own CEO doesn’t care. You can still
become a client, an investor.
Even if you don’t have
money or don’t have a diploma, the world is so big and limitless, it can
offer you wide array of opportunities to fulfill your goal. You just have to be
determined to achieve your goal and be purposeful with your actions. Look around
you, do you know Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Henry Sy, Lucio Tan, or any drop
out or rags-to-riches in your place? Learn from them.
You see, your imaginations,
your experiences, and your generosity can grow your worth. By doing something,
you only gain, you never lose any.
I cannot tell how you
must live your life. You are your own boss, your own captain. You are your own
CEO remember? But what I can tell you with certainty and confidence is, you
can be victorious! You can be worth more than a million!
Just have a goal. Own it. Do something about it constantly.
Just have a goal. Own it. Do something about it constantly.
Your experiences are
priceless and cannot be stolen from you. They can even gain interest by putting
them to good use and sharing them with your kids, who can learn from them, or
even try or improve them, and pass them on to their kids to further improve
them.
Live your life.
Deposit your experiences to your Bank. Withdraw them any time you need to draw
the lessons or the feelings you had that can fuel your passion. Gain interest by making good
use of your experiences.
If you are the CEO, you have the say on how to grow your Experience Bank; remember, you are also the security
guard who has the duty to control what may be deposited and at what given time;
what may be withdrawn and when; and who may come with you in the bank.
To launch your bank,
get your pen and paper.
1. Make a Gratitude Notebook
Divide the page in halves lengthwise. On the left column, write the “Things I Am Thankful For” (at least
10 things that happened during that day). On the right column, write the “Things
I Am Thankful For (yes, same time, but these are the things that you claim to
happen and you feel that is happening already. Attract them, think of them, and
your body will naturally respond to get them). Do this daily to reinforce them.
2. Make a Timetable/Map to get to your
goals
By writing
down your goals or dreams, you have a clear picture of where you are now and you
can devise ways on how to get to your goal on a specific date. There may be many ways in skinning a cat, but be specific about your goals and timings. This timetable/map will serve as your guide, as your compass, in knowing where you are as you
progress towards your goals or dreams.
3. Keep a mini notebook with you
This will
serve as your bankbook. Whenever you
learn something, observe something, realize something, write it down. In time
you will need them. This bankbook will keep a record of your experiences, so
don’t hesitate to write down both the “ouch!” and the “wow!”, and the “no!” and
the “yes!”.
After mapping out your investment
schedule, just keep on moving whatever your mood is. Do not worry about your
future… just live where you are, your future starts now. Invest there, grow
from here.
“…your heavenly Father
knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and
all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about
tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.” ~ Matthew 6:32-34
“Fortune favors the
bold.” ~ Virgil
