Living a life with dreams fulfilled.

Do you ever have any dreams that you think you can fulfil but it just didn't happen years after years? No matter if it's about saving up a portion of your salary every month, or to read some books across for that year?

One of my unrealized dream for the last decade was to cut down my weight to an acceptable level and be healthy. I want to be able to fit into my favourite shirt and pant from almost all the shops I visit. I am sick and tired of walking all over the shopping district just to find out that no clothes in this building actually fits me.

But even with such disappointment, I still didn't manage to slim down, and all my exercise and dieting plan are just forsaken. Then I realise, no matter how much extortion and pain I felt, my procrastinating character still take precedent and stop me from being discipline on the plan I made.

One day, I made a discovery. I suddenly believe that just by thinking about the goals and dream is not enough, I must always be realistic about my goal, create a list of milestones or short term goals to reach my target. Furthermore, I need to be consistently motivated and be informed about the goal I had made so that it will not be forsaken.

With this suddenly sparked flashed across me, I convict myself to build a website to track my progress about this. And it was the born of http://blog.dreamcartographer.com/. Even tho it is a simple Blogspot blog, I manage to make some progress (little but better than the past) about my goal and will like to share it with the world. I will start to build a website to allow people to use my site to realise their dreams in realistic steps and slowly move toward it.

Hope this application will help anyone who are like me, a procrastinator that need a push to get things done.

Year 2015

As we are moving towards the end of 2015, let’s review what I had experienced this year and open my heart to embrace the year 2016.

The year 2015 is a year of anxiety and concern. I am always being slapped with different challenges on work, finance and family issues. Thankfully, there are a lot of happiness and hope floating around me every day. I will categorise these experiences by “What I’m proud of”, and ”What I need to learn”.

What I’m proud of:

I had picked up the necessary of forex trading on how is it traded, what are some of their strategies, and also learned about the term “Quantitative Trading.”

Bought my wife to Europe! (Germany, Switzerland, and France).

I managed to continue my startup journey thought-out this year.

I managed to read quite a handful of books this year

1. NodeJs
2. AngularJs
3. Starting with why
4. Everyone Communicates, Few Connect
5. The Gift of Imperfection
6. Don’t make me think
7. Discover Meteor

I managed to learn and develop using node js and mean stack architecture

I had renovated and moved into my new house! yea..

I bought my wife parent to Taiwan for a family trip.

I survived a year in my startup


What I need to learn:

Stop procrastinating and start doing. I had been procrastinating quite often in the year 2015, maybe it’s due to stress from work. I need to learn to focus on my job.

Learn more about quantitative trading as I had just scratched the surface.

Learn to connect with people, rather than being fake.


What I aim for in Year 2016

Every year, I always set unrealistic goals which I can’t possibly believe I can achieve. This year, I will start to make a down-to-ground check on each goal I had made to ensure I don’t make the same mistake. Here is the list I had created:

1. Read 7 non-fictions and 1 fiction book. Topics I aim for (Leadership, spiritual, People, Swift)
2. Brainstorm and create a plan on how to brand me. This will include setting my own website for jarebb.com, improve my LinkedIn profile and Facebook account. This also involves the thought-process on what should I continue to do? How can I get back my interest and etc.?
3. Write a blog post every month range from anything in my personal life to my work
4. Have my first baby!
5. Bring my parent to Perth for a holiday this year, but need to think of ways not to conflict with point 4.
6. Start my first investment portfolio. I had never really stepped into the investment market (except for my insurance). Most likely I will make my first forex trade this year.
7. Buy a mac mini for my master bedroom and living room
8. Reduce my weight to 80 kg. I had been saying this for many years, yet there is never a year I actually tried to do it. The year 2016 is the year.

Stopping my daily topography post

After some tries for couple of months, I think writing my daily todo list here in my blog doesn't help much in my daily routine. I would be better off just scribble notes on my writing notes and use it as a reference of the day. Hence, from today onwards, I will stop posting my daily routine here but this doesn’t means that I will stop posting my blog here. I will still input all my ideas and dream here for anyone who are interested.

Topography of the day [Day 24]

I didn't manage to do up any screens yesterday as there are quite an amount of supporting work we need to do. Furthermore, I had open up an IP address to point to our fbo demo site as calvin request for it. Today I will start on building the demo site modal popup and integrate with boss. Also, talk to guanghong on how is the progress.

Tasks

1. FBO: Admin translations. 
2. FBO Support - Due to launching of guider fx, I will need to allocate sometime for this.
3. FBO: Demo Site Modal popup UI Creation
4. SiiD screen creation - If I have time. 

Personal Tasks

1. Read up on quantitative trading
2. Do some testing using quantitative trading.
3. Come out with a blog post

Topography of the day [Day 23]

Continue the support for FBO as there are quite an amount of problems here and there. If I had time today, I will start building on creation of demo account

Tasks

1. FBO: Admin translations. 
2. FBO Support
3. -
4. -
5. -
6. -

Personal Tasks

1. Read up on quantitative trading
2. Help derrick do up his montage. Prepare something so that I can let him see the look and feel on sat.