Yasser Khan | My Story

Back when I joined Intermet Marketing with CCPRO, I had ZERO prior experience in the field aside from casual research, done years earlier with a marketer friend.

What I was hesitant to undergo then, was a steep learning curve. What I did have back then was a keen desire for holistic personal development and total mind transformation, which have stayed with me to date. If you have read NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), you will know what I mean.

So now here I was, a total newbie in a totally new industry. When I learned during signing up for CCPRO that ‘No new skills learnt means no new money’ it fuelled the desire to overcome this hurdle ‘to get something I’ve never had before, I need to do something I’ve never done before.’, in the words of John Jackson.

Hence I COMMITTED myself totally and unreservedly to learning and growing, as I had Learnt earlier from a book by Donald Trump that your business only grows to the extent you do. I promised myself I was in it only for success, which was 7 figures long to me.

Here I enumerate my early struggles and provide valuable solutions later on.

1.Being a neophyte, my first month was a disaster.

I had no idea what I had to do, where I had to start, who I had to approach, what I had to buy or NOT to buy from the numerous advertisement clamouring for my attention and WALLET.

In a word, I had information overload.

So bad that I was paralysed. Sort of analysis paralysis.

Also, I had a real struggle with prioritising and managing myself in time, as I was in the midst of quitting a job I had no love for, and serious distractions at home, chief among them the One-eyed monster called the TV.

I had a real aversion to taking orders from people I had no respect for. I was simply too strong-willed and single-minded to work for others and always had clear goals of what I wanted to do, as opposed to them shoving things down my throat. I was relatively unpopular in all my jobs, due to my hatred of office politics and unwillingness to give my all to a job which paid only for my time.

And I never gave a damn for what everyone thought.

Or advised. Funny why everyone thinks he is entitled to give advice while I love to quote Benjamin Graham, ‘Much bad advice is given for free.’

About the TV, to say it was a distraction would be an understatement. I literally had to pluck my mind out from its hypnotic influence.

2.My biggest psychological struggle to date has always been the lack of emotional support from my entire family.

The odd one out, I always was viewed as a misfit, a weird type who was always chasing this unseen ‘thing’ called success. Often shot down in balls of flames from their condemnations, I was a caged being, raring to break-out from such an existence and teach my family the REAL meaning and feeling of being alive. Having nothing to show for my success except my ‘Millionaire’ mindset, I was ‘prophetically’ labelled frequently as a failure for life. I helplessly watched my siblings fighting over money and being poisoned by toxic mental weeds of hatred for the rich, of having poor money habits, of being ‘prepared’ for a j-o-b.

In short, they were being programmed to be ‘poor’ for the rest of their lives, right in front of my eyes. Funny none noticed it happening.

3.Several failed start-ups in my early years after finishing my college had left me disillusioned with the Singaporean education system and the trustworthiness of my friends.

Here, the education system only breeds employees, people who are content to be modern slaves to bosses and a ‘steady’ pay check. You get to hear the unions and bosses tussling over keeping wages the same, or worse, decreasing them at a time of record inflation.

I saw the drama unfolding every SINGLE day in the way my parents slogged it off. It seemed, all their worst nightmares were embodied in this entity called a J-O-B. They possessed no knowledge of having a better future by any other means than a job.

Trust is a huge, and I mean HUGE, and integral issue with me. That is an extension of my spirituality, and I allow it to run my life too. I learnt the hard way who to trust, who not to trust. Also, it can only be earned, never given. I myself was big on being responsible and trust, but had trouble gaining others’ trust, even online. At the opposite end of the spectrum, I have seen and met crooks with zero morals and scruples gaining others’ trust without much effort. So how do you gain trust?

Go to the next article, “My Story’s Solutions” for what happened next in my life.