Lift You UP Blog - Always there for You: 12/3/17

Friday, December 8, 2017

UPs and Downs in Life

Ups and Downs of Life

A very happy day to all of you,

On Dec 7, I was both shock and scared when I noticed a lot of blood in my toilet bowl after I passed the motion.

Immediately I contacted Hospis and the daycare centre, UMSC to seek advice on the matter.

After checking with the daycare I was told that my oncologist asked me to refer to my surgeon. He agreed with me to stop taking my medication pending advice from my surgeon.

However, I could not get an appointment to see my surgeon as he was in the operating theatre until 5 pm. Anyway, I managed to fix an appointment for the next day.

I also contacted my cell group for immediate prayers to stop the bleeding. Thank you, Lord, for answering our prayers. The bleeding has not occurred since that one time.

Thank you Hospis for your fast response to my call for help. Their mobile nurse proceeded to contact me and rendered me some advice.

Thank you, Lord, for granting me calmness and clarity of mind so that I can contact all the necessary personnel for help and advice.

I am so fortunate that one of my cell group friends is a friend of my surgeon. Bless him for sending a photo of my bleeding to the surgeon for a better understanding of my situation. Praise the Lord and those who helped me in one way or another.

Trust you have learned something useful,

With unconditional love,

James Oh

Thursday, December 7, 2017

PLAYING SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN SCALING UP

Playing significant role in Scaling up

Greetings from Petaling Jaya,

After I defer my refurbishment works, I can use the saved time to collaborate closely with KeepAble organisation to accelerate our progress. In addition, this is the appropriate time for me to speak to more Cancer community society to help my peers to have a better life. The voice is getting louder as I need to act speedily. While my editor is the midst of editing my book, Letting Go and Moving On, second edition, I better seek more interested collaborated parties to launch my books. Here, I can use this book to raise fund for these bodies.

With this, it will keep me busy until year-end and early 2018. Bear in mind of two festivals in these two months.

Not forgetting that I also need to start to pen my latest book, Cancer: Fear or Inspiration. After all, I have the appropriate title, table of contents ready for the book, the image for the book cover and the interested parties.

With the incoming speaking and training assignments, I strongly believe that I am going to have a busy schedule ahead.

Thank for your support that turns my dreams into realities. Thank Lord for sustaining me to take up new challenging tasks.

Cheers and look forward to hearing from you,

With unconditional love,

James Oh

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

PROPER FINANCIAL PLANNING

Proper financial planning

Greetings from Malaysia,

Thinking back I am very fortunate to have an adequate financial planning to cater for any contingencies.

At least I now have peace of mind to undergo my chemotherapy treatment as I had the foresight to purchase an insurance policy. This has helped greatly to reduce my financial liabilities. I am indeed greatly blessed by the Lord who has given me the foresight to possess good financial management skills. This is the most crucial time in my life as two of my children are in need of funds to pursue and complete their tertiary education. When they heard the shocking news that I had the big C.....they were worried and apprehensive.

I can’t blame them as I would not be able to conduct my training at all as I would be undergoing treatment. Then I will not be receiving any income as it is dependent on the training programmes that I am conducting. I brushed aside their worries and told them not to be afraid as my investment will see them through. Can you imagine how relieved they were to receive this comforting news? Yes, my dear children do not worry.

Your dad will make sure you fulfill your dreams.

Now they realised how important is financial planning. Life is full of uncertainties and we have to make sure that they are well covered so that life can carry on, as usual, should any unforeseen circumstances cropped up. I hope my dear friends and relatives that you have already enrolled in any policy that you deem sufficient to ensure you have adequate funds to protect you in case of any unforeseen circumstances. Therefore the first rule to remember is to spend what remains after your savings. Secondly to invest what you have saved to counteract the effects of inflation.

I hope that you will take note of what I have shared and to ensure you have adequate cover for any unpredictable events.

Thank you, Lord, for guiding and sustaining me throughout my journey. At least I have peace of mind to treat my illness as well as to able to take concrete action to ensure my dreams and missions are accomplished.

In view of the greater challenges ahead I need to develop and grow my existing business to cater for all my expected and unexpected needs.

I hope I can inspire those patients who are in the same boat as me to stay financially independent and not be heavily reliant on family members and relatives. To me, this is the biggest worry apart from the emotional aspect. Financial and wealth creation are my specialties.

Here I like to forewarn everyone not to indulge in gambling or get rich schemes as you may end up losing all your hard earned money.

Always remember habits die hard. Nurture the best practices and you never regret its results. Stay in control of your emotion and mind and everything will be fine once you acquire the appropriate know-how and thinking skills. All these have been my guidelines since I started my professional career. Thank you, Lord, for your mercies and for seeing that my family is well taken care of financially.

Cheers and hope you have learned something useful,

With unconditional love,

James Oh

Monday, December 4, 2017

SEIZING EVERY OPPORTUNITY

Seizing every opportunity

Very happy day to everyone,

Last Friday is a holiday to Malaysia as we celebrating Prophet Muhammad Birthday.

In my preceding post, I mentioned that I have enrolled for detoxification package at Alive Health Centre. Thanks to Shu Min for making a slot at 10:00 am appointment despite having the full appointment for the day due to the public holiday. A day after my chemo treatment.

At the time of writing, I have felt numbness of my left hand, it is a blessing that it does not deter me from writing. Even if it is on my right hand, it did not deter me from writing, but at a slower pace. Thank Lord for making impossible to I am possible. Impossible word is no longer in my dictionary.

Now, I am fortunate to have clarity in mind as what is my next course of action before this numbness spread to my other part of my bodies. Remember always stay ahead of your next challenges, then you will stay in control of the situation. It is also best practice to have back up plan if the matter is critical to you.

Remember of rule 20:80; where you just focus on the 20 % of the most critical matters of any project, you are actually taking good care of 80% of the entire project. Magic ?

Cheers and look forward to hearing from you,

With unconditional love,

James Oh

WALK MY TALK

Walk my talk

Very happy day to all of you,

In my preceding post, I mentioned that I was going to attend the preview of the Entrepreneur Masterclass by Vince Tan. Not only that I also signed up for the 3 days course hoping to incorporate what I have learned that is appropriate and suitable for my course, Entrepreneur Thinking Skills: Attain what You desire.

This is no coincidence but another divine appointment by the Lord. I must say everyone needs to update his knowledge from time to time especially using technology to scale up his business.

This is the current trend and everyone needs to keep abreast. With this, I hope to be able to lift up those who are interested to embrace new developments to overcome new challenges and to solve new problems.