Maximize Your Financial Life

I know, It doesn't sound like me at all. But somehow, today I'm just feeling to write something about my job, and about what I am trying to do.

I'm sure that everyone mostly, basically want to maximize their life in every aspects. To have a complete and balance life, people try to get the best they can get in social life, love life, religion, financial, hobby, and other aspects.

I won't talk about getting good friends or getting the love of your life here. I'm just gonna talk about one important aspect, financial.

Basically, I don't really believe that there is someone in this world can really live without money. Okay, forget about the monks, except you are one of them.

We are either gonna have kids to raise, gonna grow old and unable to earn money, gonna need funds to reach our dreams, to help our family, to help others, or any other concerns those need lots of money. That's why we have to work. People don't work hard for nothing.

Basically, people do two main things to maximize their financial. First, they do they best to earn money, and the second, they have to manage the money they have earned. But, in reality, people--especially in Indonesia--only do the best to earn money, and forget about the manage-the-money part. So, after hardly working their ass off for getting the money, they then waste the money for a short-term happiness. They spend most of the money, even mostly spend all the money. They buy unnecessary fancy outfits, they eat fancy food, they buy everything they want.

Don't get me wrong, it is not a crime to spend your own money like that. Of course you have to spend money for your basic needs such as food, clothes, internet, electricity, transportation, rite? And sometimes you also need to spend money for fancy thing you really need, or even you really 'want' without 'need'.
But, instead of spend all of your money, why don't you save some for your future, or at least for unexpected expense. We never know, rite?

There are two unwanted possibilities in life: the possibility of something we want to happen, doesn't happen; and the possibility of something we don't want to happen, happens.

I mean, let say, now you can really tell me that you don't need anything more; you are already satisfied with your life. Okay, I get it. Maybe you are single, have a well-paid job, or maybe wealthy parents those always support your financial needs, and maybe you don't have expensive needs yet.

But what about later? Who knows that one day you'd decide to have family? Who knows that one day you might have kids to raise, kids those always need well educations. Maybe someday you're gonna need to have your own house. Maybe someday you're gonna need to support your parents. Who knows?

Maybe now you can tell me that you don't need one million dollars, but can you promise me that you would not need one million dollars EVER?

So, what I am doing now, with my job and my own life, is managing to have future assets. I am trying to control my expense efficiently, and managing the rest of my income with good financial planning. I have my own trustworthy financial adviser. I always ask him to give me advises and also learn from him, and now I'm also going to take the financial adviser class, so I can be as good as my financial adviser and can satisfy my clients just as he always satisfy me.

I work in the best financial company, with the best financial planners, and manage my money and my clients money there with them.

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us." (Imagine by Lennon)

Success always for you guys!

Don't Rain on My Parade (Glee Cast Performance)

This is such a great inspirational song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUUsp3GIEIg

Wish the link can be opened.

The song is from a Broadway musical drama I guess. It is performed by Rachel Berry (Lea Michelle) in an episode of my favorite serial 'Glee' season 1.

The lyrics are very awesome and exactly describe my feelings right now.

These are the lyrics:

"Don't tell me not to live, just sit and putter.

Life's candy and the sun's a ball of butter.

Don't bring around a cloud to rain on my parade!

Don't tell me not to fly, I simply got to.

When somebody's got a spill, it's me and not you,

who told you, you're allowed to rain on my parade?

I'll march my band out. I'll beat my drum.

And if I'm fanned out, your turn at bat, Sir.

At least I didn't fake it.

Hat, Sir! I think I didn't make it.

But, whether I'm the rose of sheer perfection,

or freckle on the nose of life's complexion,

the cinder or the shiny apple of its eye,

I gotta fly once, I gotta try once
Can only die once, right, Sir?
Oh, life is juicy! Juicy as you'll see,
I'm gonna have my bite, Sir!

Get ready for me love, cause I'm a comer.
I simply gotta march my heart a drummer.
Don't bring around a cloud to rain on my parade!

I'm gonna live and live now!
Get what I want, I know how!
One role for the whole show bang!
One threw that bell will go clang
Eye on the target and wham!
One shoot, one gun shot and, Bam!

Hey, Mr. Arnstein..., here I am!
I'll march my band out. I'll beat my drum.
And if I'm fanned out, your turn at bat, Sir.
At least I didn't fake it.
Hat, Sir! I guess I didn't make it.

Get ready for me love, cause I'm a comer!
I simply gotta march my heart a drummer!
No....body no, no....body........ isss gonnaaaa... rain on myyyy... paaaa....raaaaaaade...!!"

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Whew!
What an awesome feeling, listening to that song, over and over again, during everything that happen to me lately.
I got chill to see Lea Michelle performing this song in her role as Rachel Berry in Glee.

My favorite part is "I'm gonna live, and live now; get what I want-I know how!"
That is so true!! And "I gotta try once, I gotta fly once, can only die once..."

I'm addicted to Glee's songs, especially the songs performed by Quinn Fabray (my favorite character in 'Glee'), Kurt Hummel, Noah Puckerman, and Rachel Berry. Well, of all the characters, I hate Rachel Berry the most because she is very annoying, but gotta admit, she's good in singing theatrical song. Only theatrical song. I also like Mercedes' voice. She's also great and have amazing voice.

Two days ago I was searching for 'Glee's videos on YouTube and I found, and watched, a video where Kurt Hummel sang 'I wanna hold your hand' by the Beatles. OMG!! I was crying!! I was suddenly just crying!
It was heart touching, breath taking, amazing performance. Especially because Kurt was singing that song for his beloved father. He has a father that love him so much, although the father was disappointed, knowing that Kurt is gay/

Father-child relationship always touch my heart. Father seems to always do everything to make the children happy, to make sure that the children are safe.

That kinda relationship keeps me thinking, "Even though I don't wanna get married, and I just wannabe single parent, but still, my children need to have a father." A father is very important for kids life, as important as mother. My father is the most important thing in my life. He always does his best to make his family happy, although we don't always realize it.

He did everything to give the best, for me, for my brother and sister.
Whew! I start crying now.

Ok. The article was about 'Glee', and now I start talking about my father. I think I have to stop now before I start writing about the my grandmother's first word as baby.

Oh! BTW, I'm planning of writing my memory about my precious dog in my other blog 'Everything about Astari'. I've been planning it for so long.

What am I Doing and Why am I Doing This?

*If you want to read this, please read this article completely, do not stop before you finish

I keep asking, what am I doing, and why am I doing this?
To be honest, to tell the truth, over and over again I kept thinking of this:

I have to stop this whole crazy insurance agent thing

Look at me;

White shirt, black skirt, and pantovels

A woman’s pantovels

This is not true.

This is not me.

This is… bullshit.

I’m not this… serious woman with working suite.

I’m not a serious-financial-planner kinda person.

I’m not a financial person.

I’m an artist.

I’m basically an artist.

I’m doing art.

I love to be free and making art works.

Not selling insurance to people who don’t even know why they buy it.

Every single day I walk on the street,

In this beautiful city with beautiful buildings

I always wish that I wore something casual.

Tank-top and shorts instead this crappy working suite

SLR camera on my hand instead of a handbag with the notebook inside

Even that I already wear my working suite,

people still notice that I’m not a financial planner

This hairdo can’t lie

My hairdo is such a mess; it grows against the gravitation

And I have no interest at all to do anything about that

Or, I mean, this

I don’t like this job, and can’t act like I do.

I just pretend that I like.

But pretending to be one can’t make you the one you pretend to be.

I’m an artist.

I’m silly and spontaneous.

I can’t act serious as a serious-financial-planner.

Some financial people are pretty funny.

But they’re funny in a way they make fun of person like me.

But wait!

The question is 'Why am I doing this?'

If I follow my ego,

I might leave this job and do something more fun.

I might just leave all my responsibilities.

I might just do what I wanna do.

But every time I feel like quiting,

There will always be some great people that remind me

again and again

of the reason, why am I doing this.

I have my own reason.

I believe in what I'm doing.

I believe that I am now doing something good.

I'm doing something to make people's live change.

I help people.

I believe that the information,

this information that I have to share to people everyday

is a very, very important information.

When somebody get some trouble

Financial, health, accident, critical illness

And they need lots amount of money

I probably couldn't help them.

But if I just push my ego away for a while

and use my precious time, just to share this useful information

I wouldn't have to help them when they got into trouble,

because they already help them selves.

By having insurance.

And even if I already told them to have insurance

and they just didn't wanna have it for some silly reasons,

it would not be my responsibility,

because at least I have done my job,

which is just to tell them the precious information.

So this is me, doing this thing that lots of time I don't like to do.

Maybe I hate to wear shirt and skirt.
Maybe I hate to wear women shoes.
Maybe my hair would not compromise.

But me, my self, is the most important thing in this business.
I have the reason to keep doing this.

For love, for people, for their family, then also for me and my family.