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18 things on how to make the most of student life

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18 things on how to make the most of student life

Living the student life may be one of the most beautiful times for most of us.

This is the time that you don’t need to think too much about how to make a living, paying the bills, and a lot of named or un-named problems in life as when you graduate from University.

Therefore, let enjoy your student life and turn it into the best foundation for your future by choosing to do the right things that create beautiful memories for you as well as make you be grown in a positive way.

And the following list is 18 things that I did and love to recommend for you to do in your life, especially during years in the University that will help you to have the best memories and experiences in your early 20s.

1. Having your own goals

Doesn’t matter how big or small your goal is, but you need to own at least one for yourself. And this goal must start from your mind or your heart, not being impacted by outside factors.

For example, you have a goal to earn enough money to pay for your whole family vacation next summer, this is a great goal that you own by yourself.

But if you say that your goal is to complete all the tasks teachers give you a week before the deadline, it is not what I mention. Because it doesn’t something that you really want to do and can decide to do it or not. This is just a compulsory part of your Uni life, study, and submit the essay.

Your goals like your compass to show you the direction to go and focus on in your early 20s and make it be more meaningful for you.

2. Have your first love

If you already have a girl/boyfriend in your high school, you can ignore this one and move to the next one. But if you haven’t yet, your Uni life is the best time for you to start your first relationship.

It helps you to understand about another half of the world, create special feelings that you have never experienced before. Some of them are great, some that make you never want to mention again.

But life is the experience, and having a relationship is a kind of important experience that we all need to have, especially at the age of early 20s.

And one tip for you when having a relationship during this time is

Let quit ASAP if you feel stressed with it or your relationship ruins you with parties, spending money more, while don’t bring any positive values for you.

And choosing a good partner in your relationship will be the priority factor to decide if your relationship is healthy or not.

So, let carefully when choosing your partner.

3. Challenge you to stand on the stage and talk in front of many people

Have you ever stood on the stage and performed in front of many people before? Some of you did, but many never did it before.

I can totally understand this feeling when we are in high school, the people who can stand on the stage must be talented artists who can sing, dance or study very well that can stand there to make their own speech.

However, when you go to university, you don’t need to be outstanding to be standing on the stage.

What you really need is your brave.

Because at the University, we have dozen of activities per week, not just a few activities like in high school. And even in the class, you have group presentations when you need to present in front of a hundred of your classmate about the topics.

And by doing this, you are improving your confidence and public speaking skills. The factors that will play a vital role in your successful future in society.

4. Learn a new language and be fluently

This will help you to open many new doors for your career when you can speak an extra language.

For example, in my country, Vietnam, if you can speak English fluently, you can easily find a job in an international company with a salary starting at thousand dollars compared to just two to three hundred dollars per month if you start in a local company.

But you need to make sure that you really fluently at the language, not just the certificate or good score on it. Because in the business, people need the real conversations, not just good grammar and listening skill.

5. Having a part-time job to understand how hard money you make

If you were born in a middle-class family, you don’t really need to work to pay for studying fees in your University — This is a “luxury” that many people wish they can have, but they don’t.

But doesn’t matter you were born into a rich family or just a normal one, starting to earn your first dollars when you study in University should be on your “MUST TO-DO” list.

Because when you really start to earn money in your own way, from handy jobs as cleaning, delivering food to the jobs as a private tutor, PG(Promotion Girls)/PB (Promotion Boys),…you all learn valuable lessons for your life.

This kind of job for someone will even help them to pay for living fees, student loans, but just think about the life experiences and lessons you learn when you work, it already has own values that help you to grow and be a better person with more life experience than others.

6. Join in social activities and social clubs.

First of all, it will help you to have a lot of wonderful experiences in your student life when you get involved with others from social activities.

Later on, it also helps to build more social connections that will benefit your future.

If you have interested in sport, let join the sports club. If you feel interested in photography, let join the photography club,… Don’t limit yourself and think that you are not good enough to be a club member.

You just need to enjoy it, let join in and create great moments with your club mates with social activities.

7. Have trips with your friends.

Having a group of best friends in University and having trips together will create great memories for you when you think back about your student life.

At that time, you are young, energetic, and love to discover. You don’t need to worry too much about life and have a lot of time for yourself rather than for company projects, family issues, etc.

So, let plan with your best mates to create great trips together.

8. Leave out of your comfortable zone

Don’t limit yourself as you did in high school.

When you study at University, you are already over 18 and enough age to take responsibility for your life. And at that time, you have nothing to lose.

Any mistake you make will be known as a valuable lesson to grow you up. So let go out of your comfort zone and start to challenge yourself.

9. Living in the dorm

This is what I normally call “The Univesity Paradise” where you will live with your friends and can do a lot of crazy things together.

For many of us, when studying at the University means that we will move to another city to study. And living in the dorm is the best opportunity for us to grow when you will live with many other people.

Learning how to adjust yourself to live in a group is very challenging but it will help you to grow up rapidly.

10. Learn how to manage your money

You need to learn this lesson very carefully if you don’t want to have fun for the first two weeks of the month then eat noodles for the rest of the two weeks.

But this is a reality that happens with many students when they don’t know how to control their money, and feel happy to spend most of their money when they just receive it from parents for parties, shopping, eating outside,…

If you don’t want to face the same issue, you need to have your own money plan to know how much you can spend and what categories are you going to spend on.

It will help you to save a lot and don’t need to eat noodles all the time at the end of each month.

11. Don’t waste your time with parties, you don’t have that much free time, you just lack plans to do.

In your university life, you can easily receive a lot of party invitations all day long.

And when you feel like you have a lot of free time, because the lecturers at University don’t ask you that much homework as your high school teachers did, you will feel like you have more motivation to join in most of the party.

But let think carefully about it. Your time at the university is not that much freedom, it is just because you lack your working plan.

University life is the time when you self-learning and grow, nobody will control you strictly because you are already old enough to decide your life.

But these years are the most important years to build your strong or weak foundation for your success. It all depends on how you use your time.

12. Give 30 minutes at least per day for your family time

If you can live with your family, this is great.

But most of the students when going to University will move to another city to study. It means that they don’t have that much time with their family like before.

Therefore, spending at least 30 minutes per day to call back to your family is very important when it helps to maintain a good relationship between members of the family, update your day with parents, and not feel alone in the new city.

13. Be grateful for what you are having, doesn’t matter what

If you have good things happen in your life, that’s great. But if you have bad things happen and make you have a headache to solve the problems, let think it is your valuable lesson in life.

Being grateful for what you are having is the best way to help you always keep a positive mind and have more beautiful moments in the Uni years instead of just feeling boring and hating the things that happen to you.

14. Always remember your most important task is studying

Many of my friends when starting their university life, they just focus on earning money. Because they want to evidence for their parents that they are mature and old enough to do anything they want.

That’s great if you can earn money when studying at your university. However, always remember that your main purpose is studying, money is just an extra factor that makes your student’s life to be more interesting.

Because I saw many of my friends who focused on making money more than studying that leads to their failures in tests and need to study again twice for just one subject. Several of them when counting how much it costs for learning credits again, it is even more than the money they earned from their part-time jobs.

15. Figure out what you want to do when you graduate — having your own dream (not your parent’s dream)

Many parents want their children to choose the major, the University that they wished they can study before but they didn’t. This is a harsh reality that you can easily see in Asian countries and even in Western countries.

And if you choose the University and the major depends on your parent’s wishes without enjoying to learn. It will be very hard for you to be outstanding in what you are doing because it is not your dream, this is your parent’s dream.

When over 18, you are mature enough to decide what you really want and let listen to your heart and dream. Let show your parents your dream, and if you have enough brave and clear ideas for your dream, your parents can’t stop you and will slowly support you to do it.

16. Travel overseas to discover the world

To make the most of student life, traveling is the essential part. Let traveling overseas at least one time in your student life. This trip can be with your parents or your friends, whoever you love to go with.

Let go to discover the world, to see the difference between cultures, the beauty of new lands. This experience will help to enhance your knowledge, diversity, and understanding of the world rather than just watch through TV or the Internet.

Go and self-experience how beautiful and harsh the life is going on in different parts of the world.

17. Keep your body healthy with exercise and eating habits

When you are in high school, if you eat too many unhealthy foods, your parents will control you and ask you to eat more fruits, vegetables,…But when you are in University, anything you choose to eat will depend on you.

And if you just choose unhealthy foods like fast food, noodles, soft drink,…as they are cheap and convenient. You are ruining your health.

I saw many of my friends faced with stomach issues because of eating too frequently unhealthy foods and skipping meals. It leads to many health issues later on and the money they need to pay for the hospital could be more than the amount of money they need to have good and healthy meals during University life.

So, let being smart with your choice. Eating healthy to keep a healthy body rather than regret to waste money on medicines later on.

18. Believe in yourself

This is the last but also the most important habit that you need to self-practice every single day in your life, not just in the Uni time.

But the time at University is a very special period of time when you just start your own life and don’t have your family to stay with you.

You will live in a strange city, meet strange people, need to take care of yourself, and don’t have that much life experience before.

And “Believe in yourself” is a must-have habit that will help you to get over all the struggles in life. Because it will help you to support the belief that

After the tough time will be a good time, and if you never give up, you can achieve anything you want in life.

Final thoughts about how to make the most of student life.

The list can be longer, as I plan to write down 27 things list. But I choose to short it to focus on just 18 things that I believe are the most important for anyone to have the most of student life.

And the number 18 is also the age when most of us will start a new life at the university with a lot of excitement and many worries when the first time lives far away from our parents as well.

But when you finish this period of time and look back, you will see this time as one of the great times in your life, when you just grow enough to start to discover your world, and have a lot of passions, energy, and beliefs that no one can stop you.

When you choose the right habits and things to do, this time even becomes more grateful for yourself. And this list of “18 things on how to make the most of student life” will be a good guideline for you to start this journey.

Wish you have a great Uni life.

If you want to read more about personal development topics, let check it out at “Wiki Personal Development”.

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Thank you for checking this blog, I am also running a Youtube Channel @anthony lecturer. On this channel, I share a lot of insights and stories related to Business, Media & Marketing, Personal Finance & Self Development that you can

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5 Habits of Highly Persistent People That You Can Apply For YourSelf

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Highly persistent people normally be known as successful people. Because the people who can persistent with their goal help them to achieve whatever they want in life.

This is the belief I always keep in mind for years when I learned this lesson from many famous and super successful entrepreneurs such as Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, Gary Vee, Grant Cardone,…

They are my idols not only because of their success but also their working ethics. These people all believe that success will come when we have a great goal which makes us feel inspired to achieve every morning when we wake up and keep consistency to work on it until we can get it.

And I believe that in everyone, we all have our personal goals, the things that we really want to achieve in our lives in each specific period of time.

Someone can have big goals such as building electric cars, flying to the moon or building up the billion dollars unicorn company such as Elon Musk while someone’s goal just simply to have a happy family with a nice house, beautiful car, and a vacation per year.

We are all different in the way we set goals and choose what we want to pursue in life. But there is one thing we all in the common is

We all need to work hard and consistent with our goals if we want to make it come true.

If we don’t pay attention to the goals and put in the hard work to do it for weeks, months, or even years. We will never get it. But when we commit to ourselves that we will consistent on the goal, it’s doesn’t matter how long it will take for us, but finally, we will get it.

As Confucius used to say

“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”

But how to build up the persistent character to help us keep working harder and longer to achieve the goal is something we can learn together as common habits that anyone can develop.

No.1 habit of Highly Persistent People: Practice writing journal daily

This is the habit that personally, I did for years. And this is also the question that I heard from many of my friends when I share with them the way how I can keep focusing on achieving my long-term goal.

“Why practice writing journal daily can help to build the character of persistence?”.

This is because when you start to journal your day, you will see yourself in a clearer picture, plan out what you need to do in a day to achieve your ambitious goal later; and can write down how your feel during the time you chase your dream.

It helps in tracking your process better and fills up your mind with energy and positive thoughts when you read and write what you plan to do and what you did to achieve your ambitious goals.

No.2 habit of Highly Persistent People: “5s Habit” to remove the negative thoughts

“5s Habit” is what I name it. This habit means that I give myself free to come up with any new thoughts, both good and bad. Then I will give them a chance to survive for 5s. After that, I delete all the negative thoughts out of my mind and start to work on my tasks instead of keep thinking.

Let make a simple example that I normally need to use this “5s habit” in the morning. This is when I set the alarm to wake up at 5 a.m and feel so lazy, sleepy to wake up.

Just want to stay on the bed, turn off the alarm, and sleep for couple more minutes. This is the “bad thought” that normally happens in my mind. Especially during the winter in Melbourne, when the temperature is just around 1–7 degrees.

To be honest, I don’t want to leave my warm bed at 5 a.m.

But I need to because it is a part of my daily schedule that I write in the journal. And this is a bonus point why I always try to make the journal every single day. Because it helps me to plan my day ahead. And gives me the motivation every single morning to wake up early and start doing exercise or working on my projects.

As I know that the feeling of sleeping more feel minutes will be comfortable, but the feeling of missing the tasks of the day is very upset.

And the idea of 5s means I still can enjoy a little bit of time sleeping more. While 5s doesn’t mean too much time but it still can make my mind feel comfortable by getting a little bit more sleep. But in another part of my mind, it wakes me up after 5s because it wants me to have enough time to achieve the tasks in a day.

For you, you can start to apply this method “5s habit” to make your decision and reduce the lazy thoughts that appear in your mind.

The key point to success when you apply this habit is to follow your daily schedule.

Anytime you feel confused or lazy to do something, let look back to your daily schedule, give you 5s to hesitate before working on your established timeline.

By doing this, you can control your time better and keep the focus on the tasks that helps you to achieve your long-term goals.

No.3 habit of Highly Persistent People: The habit of “never give up”

If you decide to work on something, even just a small task, let make sure to complete it and on time.

Do you still remember “the tortoise and the hare story”? Do you remember the reason why the tortoise that walks very slow can win the tortoise, one of the fastest animals in this forest?

It is all from the attitude “never give up” of the tortoise. On your journey to achieve your goal, you are lucky that you don’t need to compete with “a hare” to decide who wins, who lost.

What you really need to do is just focus on the goal, keep working on it, and never give up as the way how the tortoise did in your childhood’s story.

And as the tortoise walks the very small steps, every time, to complete the competition. You also just need to practice the habit of “never give up” and work on all your daily tasks, from the smallest to the biggest, to really achieve your goal.

No.4 habit of Highly Persistent People: The sharing habits

The persistence character is not only build-up from your physical work but it also comes from your inner feelings. And when you decide to work on a goal that you know can take years for you to achieve, many times you will want to give up if you don’t have anyone to share with you the feelings you are having.

This is also the same feeling that happens to me when I set the big goals for life that require me to have a great persistent character and put a lot of hard work into it.

If you just keep all the feelings inside you, it will make you feel overwhelmed and exhausted soon if your project is a long-term game.

But when you have someone who you can trust to share your feelings, your purposes, and your goals. This person gives you more motivation to work on your goals because you know that now, there is someone else who is also known and looking for seeing you complete this goal.

Learn to share, but choose the right people to share with!

When you just keep all the thoughts in your mind without sharing them with anyone else, you can easily forget about the goals and quit it because you think that if you do or not, nobody knows or care.

And for me, I practice my “sharing habit” with my mother, with who I normally share all the big goals that I plan to do. She doesn’t judge me on what I dream or set as a goal, what she does is just listen to and motivate me. And for me, she is the best listener I ever have met, who plays a very important role in my life.

So let find someone who you can trust, such as your siblings, parents to share with them your goals as a method to help you have more motivation to “run on the marathon game” to achieve your goal.

This is what I did for the last 9 months, a new good habit that I build up for myself.

It means that you will create a map to track your whole process to achieve your goal. It will help to show you what you did or any big events related to this goal that happened to you. So you can self-evaluate how many percent of the process did you complete and how long you need to keep going.

Let make it becomes easier for you to imagine this example. Let think you have a goal to reduce 5kgs in the next 4 months.

It means you have roughly 120 days to reduce your 5kgs of fat. So you can make a map of 120 days steps (each day means one step) and use the highlight pen to highlight when every day passes and write down what is the biggest achievement you did on this day to help you go closer to your goal.

By doing this, it helps you to track your journey better and know what you should add, remove, or adjust to create a better result for your weight goal.

Final thoughts

These 5 habits are the ways to help you boost your mood, improve your ability, and keep your focus on the real goals while reducing the distraction. Therefore, these habits can be well-known as the vital roles in helping you to build up a persistent character.

And like many other good characters that you want to develop in life, the persistent character also takes time to grow. And by applying the appropriate methods and right habits, you can own this character faster than you can expect.

So, let start to add more good habits to practice in your to-do list from today to make the persistent character soon be your own.

If you want to read more about personal development topics, let check it out at “Wiki Personal Development”.

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Thank you for checking this blog, I am also running a Youtube Channel @anthony lecturer. On this channel, I share a lot of insights and stories related to Business, Media & Marketing, Personal Finance & Self Development that you can

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2 key elements I learn from BETA fish on how to become entrepreneur

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How to become an entrepreneur? This is you need the spirit of BETA to be a real entrepreneur.

A beta fish under the water, an entrepreneur who starts his own journey to build his business.

Two look like can’t be related to but actually are very connected.

When you look at an entrepreneur, you can see an image of a person who desires to turn his idea into a real business, to create something that brings value to the market.

A person who is very goal-oriented but normally goes alone on his own journey to achieve the goal.

And the more success he/she has, the more loneliness he/she can be.

While a beta, a combatant under the water, is also a kind of fish that is very competitive. If it finds out its goal — the rival, it will never stop to chase to attack until being the winner.

And it is also a kind of fish which is famous for living alone on its life journey (except when it needs to make birth for a new generation).

For me, as a person who starts my own entrepreneur journey for a year (not too long but also not too short), and having a passion for this kind of fish — beta. I recognized that between beta and an entrepreneur actually have a lot of common points that we can’t imagine.

And there are many lessons from the beta that an entrepreneur likes me (and you) can learn from it to achieve more success on our entrepreneurship journey.

1. The spirit of never quitting until you achieve your final goal.

If you have seen a battle of beta, you will see that the beta will never quit even if it has serious injuries (until the owner stops the battle to save its life).

This is the spirit of a real combatant and what a real entrepreneur needs to have.

Because being an entrepreneur means that you will start everything from zero. You take a new opportunity to work on but also have a lot of risks are waiting for you.

And if you easily quit because of the problems that happen to you during this journey, you hard to become a real successful entrepreneur.

For someone, their entrepreneur journey can be easier than yours, maybe they just need a few months to a year to establish and make the profits from their investment.

But for many entrepreneurs, the journey to make an idea to be profitable can take several years to start earning the first dollar.

And the spirit of “Never quit until wins” of beta is what you must have if you are having a big dream with your idea.

And in reality, there are more than 90% of startups failed in their first 5 years which one of the common reasons is the entrepreneur doesn’t have enough passion to follow his/her dream.

This absolutely can happen with you if you are an entrepreneur (or on the way to being) who has a great idea that made you feel excited for days. But when you think about a longer journey (can be years), you start to feel vague, nervous and have an unsure feeling.

And you must spend time for yourself to think if you can adopt that spirit of beta or not. If you believe you can, let keep going on your entrepreneur journey. But if you think you can’t, let be a staff who works from 9–5 instead of trying to be an entrepreneur.

Except in the case that you don’t have yet but you really passionate to learn about this spirit — the spirit of “Never quit until wins” from beta. You can start to learn and practice it first then start your entrepreneur journey.

Until you can own this spirit, you can feel confident to walk on your entrepreneurial journey. If not, keep working on it until you get it. Then, let startup.

2. Stick with your goal, but be ready to adapt to rapid changes in your environment.

I have a few betas at home and normally let them practice fighting around every two or three weeks.In the last couple of weeks, when I let my betas fight together, I also try an experiment with them to see how good “my combatants” perform. The idea of this experiment is I will let two of them fight together in a small bottle for around 5 minutes. Then I put both of them immediately in a bigger pot (5 times bigger than that bottle) to observe how they will fight in a bigger environment.

The result doesn’t make me disappointed.

My combatants just get less than 1 minute to familiar with the bigger pot before starting fighting again for up to the next 10 minutes (actually I need to stop them because betas already have injuries. And if I don’t stop them, they will fight until die).

It’s just a fun experiment to see how good my betas are without the idea to use for my story on medium.

And yesterday, when I thought about the entrepreneurship topic that I’m going to write about, the image of betas and the battle appear immediately in my mind.

This ability of beta in adapting to a new environment while keeping its focus on the battle makes me immediately connect with a very important character of the entrepreneur:

“Stick with the goal but can adapt rapidly with the change of the environment”.

Because when you are an entrepreneur, you start everything from zero while don’t know which way will be the best way to go or what can happen on the market for a small startup like you.

So if you don’t have the ability to adapt and change rapidly with the change of the environment, you are making your journey to be successful as an entrepreneur to be harder.

And in the study about the reasons why startups failed, two of the biggest reasons also related to the weak ability to adapt to the changes in the environment and business situation of entrepreneurs.

When you start up, your business is still very small and flexible to adjust.

Therefore, if you just try to keep a fixed way to approach the market and do your business in traditional ways, you will lose your advantage of flexibility as a startup.

However, there is one thing you always need to be fixed, this is your final goal for this business.

This is the soul of your company, the point that makes your company different and can create massive results later on.

Let remember about the beta, it always focuses on its rival and the battle even when it be rapidly changed to the bigger environment.

Final thought

There are many lessons from nature that we can apply to life and business.

The lessons from the beta fish are just a part of many lessons I learned from nature that help me to understand more about the life and the entrepreneur journey I’m going on.

You can just spend a few more minutes a day observing the environment surrounding you or even the life of your pet, you can find out many “Ah-ha” moments from nature for you to apply to the business and your life.

Like the lessons about entrepreneurship from beta fish, if I always try to make myself busy (a thing that most of the new entrepreneur tries to do) and don’t have just a few minutes to observe the betas, I will never find out the strong connection about them with the spirit of being an entrepreneur.

And if you ready to be an entrepreneur, let be ready to be a strong “beta” in this world.

If you want to read more about business topics, let check it out at “Wiki Business”.

P/s:

Thank you for checking this blog, I am also running a Youtube Channel @anthony lecturer. On this channel, I share a lot of insights and stories related to Business, Media & Marketing, Personal Finance & Self Development that you can

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What make apple value grows to $2 trillion dollars during the pandemic

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The apple value increases rapidly during the pandemic, and there are so many secret sauces that you can figure out from the business aspect for this case.

Source image: New York Times

Apple reaches $1 trillion in value in 8/2018, 42 years after its founding.

And at the beginning of the pandemic, the value of the company falls down to under $1 trillion in the middle of March before going to double to $2 trillion on Wednesday 19/08/2020.

Everything just happens in 21 weeks.

So actually, what happened that makes this company gain massive value during this tough time — in the middle of a pandemic — when thousands of other companies declared bankruptcy?

This is a big question that I wondered about myself a lot after I read the news about the value of Apple getting over $2 trillion last week.

And it encouraged me to do tons of research about this company and figure out 3 very interesting lessons about how this company can reach that big size to share with you in my Wiki Business blog series.

1. Diversity the Products

When you think about Apple, you have more than iPhone to talk about.

The company, founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, that have many decades of innovation with a lot of popular items as the Macintosh Computer, The iPod, Macbook, Ipad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, App Store, and even the streaming services for movies, news, and TV programs.

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The variety of products help this brand to build an ecosystem surrounding it. An extreme advantage that doesn’t many companies have and help the customers keep buying and using more frequently the products of Apple.

When I recognize this, I look back to my room to see what I have from Apple. And even I’m not tech-savvy, I see myself are using a lot of stuff from Apple and paid for this brand a lot.

From the iPhone that I used which Apple Store installed to the Macbook Air I use to work and entertainment, to the earphone from this brand, Ipad, and the Apple Watch. It looks like Apple covers most of the needs for me (and many people) from the working, entertainment, healthcare (with Apple Watch) demands.

This strategy makes the brand to be an integral part of many people, including me, and encourages our loyalty with the brand to be stronger.

2. Using stock buyback strategy

This is the strategy that Apple did for years when using its own money to buy its stocks.

Having $200 billion in cash with a net-cash balance (after debt) of roughly $100 billion, Apple is knowns as one of the companies that have the biggest cash piles in America that can use to play the game “buyback stock” that others smaller companies can’t do.

Following the NYTimes, from the time when the company reaches $1 trillion in value, it has “returned $175.6 billion to shareholders, including $141 billion in stock buybacks”.

And also “repurchased more than $360 billion of its own shares since 2012, by far the most of any company, and has announced plans to spend at least tens of billions of dollars more on Apple stock”.

It helps to reduce the risks of stocks falling down when the company can play a significant role as the stock buyer to maintain the stability of the stock price on the market.

3. The positive impact of COVID 19

The pandemic makes people value tech stocks higher than normal.

When the COVID 19 just exploded, Apple stock also falls down rapidly as a result of the global stock market being impacted (The S&P 500 dropped 7% in March) to lower than $1 trillion in the middle of March.

But Apple and many other big names such as Tesla, Amazon quickly gain value back when the investors expected more from the growth of these companies.

One of the key reasons is the demands of users for the apps, tech products, and digital/remote services increase rapidly during the quarantine time when everyone stays at home and just can connect with the world by the internet and online services.

Moreover, the lockdown from pandemics leads to thousand of Apple stores being virtual. It helps the brand can save a huge amount of money that needs to spend for locations, manager fees while just needing to focus on online retails.

For Apple, the pandemic actually brings more benefits rather than issues for this brand.

And the clearest evidence is just in 21 weeks, this brand already can increase its value double to $2 trillion dollars and become the world’s most valuable company

Take away from apple value lessons:

For me, after doing the research about the way how Apple works so well during the pandemic and grow the value rapidly.

There are several takeaway lessons that I can learn from Apple about how to build up a massive success, especially in the struggle time as this COVID 19 pandemic.

  • The diversity in products and services created an ecosystem for users.

  • The Buyback stock strategy.

  • COVID 19 impacts on the investment decision of investors (More demands on the tech blue-chip company that makes stock prices soared).

  • The reduction in physical stores helps to reduce fees while online retail to be more thrive.

This is a great example for any company to see the opportunity in a tough circumstance.

It means that if you have the right way to approach and a good strategy to develop and market, even the hardest time you face, you still can make it to be the most profitable time.

Disclaim: All the information here be collected from the news sources and analyzed based on the personal point of view of the author. This is just for information purposes only. If you want to use this information for making a decision on investment with this brand, make sure to ask your professional advisors before doing it.

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3 mindset methods to build a growth mindset & achieve goals

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3 mindset methods to build a growth mindset & achieve goals

These are the mindset methods to help you can build a growth mindset and achieve your dream goals more effectively.

Have you ever experienced the feelings that your goal always goes around in your mind? Whenever you go to work, have meals, workout, or even in your dream it also appears?

If it really happens to you, it means that your goal is becoming a part of your life. And your mind, your body wants you to admit it and work harder to achieve it.

And for me, whatever my goal is, if it appears in my mind all the time, I understand that this goal needs to be achieved.

However, there is a reality that, we normally have the goals that we feel over our ability to achieve at the beginning.

And somehow, we just “hope” that the goal can happen on a nice day, but deep in our souls, we never think that it can happen to us.

Because we feel like it is too great to be true.

And if you start at the bottom point, where you don’t have the family that can support you, don’t have knowledge, skills, and relationships that you think you need to have to make your goal come true, it makes the belief that this goal can really happen become smaller in you.

I totally understand this feeling, because I used to face it many years ago when I start my journey to be a content creator.

My content creator game started in my mind in 2017. However,

At that time, I didn’t know anything about digital marketing, video content, CPM, content creation process,…

But what I know is I want to learn all of them, and it must be from the top education in the world to help me have the best understanding about being a great content creator who can share the most valuable content for free to everyone by using the Internet.

This goal is really too ambitious for a boy who doesn’t know anything about digital content creation until 22 years old and doesn’t speak English as well.

But after I set this goal for myself, until now, this is 4 years.

And I finally graduated with my master’s of “Global Media and Communication” from the University of Melbourne, the №1 University in Australia, and the top 32 of the world.

Now, finally, I can create fluently digital content, from writing to video format, from optimized SEO to optimized Ads,…

For me, to be understood and do a good job in digital marketing, especially social media marketing in just 4 years is incredible, and be graduated from one of the best universities all over the world is my dream goal come true.

To achieve this goal, I went through a lot of tough times when I mistrust myself if I am good enough to learn in this field from the top University and can turn it into my dream career or not.

So I totally understand if you are having a great goal that you always dream about but also feel scared when you feel you are not good enough to get it.

And let be honest, to achieve whatever your goal is, the most important thing that I figure out to do is change “the mindset”.

Why is your growth mindset really important?

Because when you have the right mindset and the appropriate number of time, you can achieve whatever you desire to have in life.

Personally, these are 3 sentences that I addicted to using during the last 4 years when the first time I put my goal to be graduated from the top global university about the media and communication field.

I need to admit that these 3 sentences look very simple but when you remind it daily, as I do, in the morning just after waking up and in the evening before I go to bed, every single day.

It likes the hypnotism to change my mind and the way how I approach my goal rapidly that I never imagine that these simple sentences can create that big impact on my mind.

And I also have a strong belief that if you try to apply these sentences to your mind daily, you will see the massive impact on the way you think about your goals and help you to find better ways to approach them.

1. Understand mindset methods:

“You can do it. You just use 10% of your mental ability. Let boost it up”

This is the first sentence that I always remind myself firstly every day when I wake up.

Because I want both my conscious and unconscious mind to get this signal every day. So I can try to do more things to achieve my dream goals without the concern that maybe my brain has negative impacts because I use it too much.

Following the research of Harvard University, our brain has the unlimited ability and it can grow to be faster and work better when we train it daily.

Therefore, when trying to approach the tough goal, instead of thinking that this goal is too hard to achieve or impossible, let train your brain to start to work on it.

For me, I tell myself that I just use 10% of my brain as a way to encourage myself daily that I still haven’t fully discovered all my abilities to achieve my goal yet.

And in the old belief, it said that we just can use 10% of brain ability. However, from the recent declaration from the Harvard doctor study, there is no scientific evidence that our brain is used in 10%, it can be higher or lower, depending on the person.

But there is a reality that the brain’s ability is unlimited and if we use the right way to grow and develop it, we can make its capability to be better.

So instead of suspect about your brain ability, let talk to yourself “You can do it. You just use 10% of your mental ability. Let boost it up”, and spend the time to focus on achieving your goal instead.

2. Understand mindset methods:

Let be honest together. So many times I skipped my schedule because of laziness and feel uncomfortable working on it.

But the reality is if you want to achieve the big goal, like for me to study at the top University about the major I want to work later as my career, it all required us to put a lot of hard works into it. And laziness and uncomfortable can’t help you to achieve this kind of big goal.

As there are a hundred times I did pre-English tests, many self-education hours to prepare for interviews, and a lot of unnamed tasks I did for nearly a year to achieve this goal.

And when you stay in today to work on the things that can take you years to achieve the goal, the feeling of vague and tired is unavoidable, but you need to learn to get over all of these feelings.

And to stop worrying about the uncertain things that can happen in the future, let choose to live in the present. It means that every single day let always remind yourself that

“Let make all the tasks today done. That’s it!”.

This is one of the best mindset methods that helped me to just focus on the tasks I have on this day, and stop to think about the uncertain future.

Then, I feel enjoy the moments when I finish a day, look back in my journal, and recognize that all the tasks I need to do in a day be completed.

It creates fulfill feelings in my mind; as fuel for my inner engine to continue to run substantially toward my big goal.

However, completing all the goals on time is a big issue that many people can’t control. If you want to know more about the way you can save your time and make it more effective. Let check this blog “4 Simple Ways You Can Do Immediately To Protect Your Time”.

Let give yourself a maximum of 10 minutes a day to think about the future of complement.

Think about the positive impacts that will happen in your life when you can achieve your goal. Don’t focus on how hard it is to get the goal, just focus on the great and positive things that you can get.

This is the mindset method that helps me to refuel my energy when studying English and prepare the documents and certifications to get the entrance requirement for my master’s degree in “Global Media and Communication” at this University.

I still remember these days, I spend around 10 hours a day just learning English and preparing the documents, every single day for roughly a year. And if I said I enjoy it, not exhausted, it means I’m telling a lie.

The reality is very harsh when you need to spend so many hours doing tasks daily for the goal that you just can see the result after a year. And what I did during this time to feel more positive is think about what it will look like when I achieve this goal.

Normally, I spend around 10 minutes a day thinking about it.

Think about my opportunity to learn from the top educational environment in the world, think about the chance to meet and greet with a lot of interested people; and learn from the top experts in my field that help my dream to be a great content creator become true.

Although it is all about imagination at this time, it is super important for me because it gives me a lot of energy to continue my journey to achieve this goal.

As William Arthur Ward used to say:

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

So whatever your goal is, just try to imagine how it looks like when you get it. And always keep your mind to be positive about the ability you can achieve your goal. This will be the decisive factor for your goal to come true.

These three sentences I shared with you about the mindset methods are my great sources of input that I use daily to help me keep that positive vibes on my ambitious goals.

And it doesn’t matter how big your goal be if you can have the right mindset and a strong belief in yourself about it. Whatever you can dream of, you can get it.

The sentences I shared with you that can be used as a panacea for the mindset daily, to help you build the bigger and stronger belief from inside to chase your ambitious goals which can take you years to complete.

A strong mindset will be your fuel to help you run on this marathon journey.

Best wishes to you and hope that these mindset methods will help you to achieve your dream faster and make you live a better life.

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