February 2019

Things I am Grateful for Today

• Going to meet Miao at 56 for lunch. Can’t wait to catch up with him after I am done with the 1st half of the work.
• There’s a life group to attend to. Though today’s LG is quite mundane but I am glad I serve as Guitar Backup during prayers and Zy made for us cereals + milk
• Things don’t always go my way; I thank God that I can control my thoughts and emotions and not conform to whatever happens.

Journal

I thought February would be a good month but who knows at the very last day of February, Rakuten/Net-a-Porter decided to cut my commission of more than 60% in a single day. I delivered sales but they fail to leave up to the 6% commission they promised. This happened not once but many times throughout the year. I couldn’t take it anymore and decided to vent out by sending them a nasty email. The reason they gave was because of “Exceeded-Returns” whatever the heck that means.

I got 2 options now:

1. Pity myself and/or blame them all I want
2. Do something about it. Find a new source of revenue

Of course, I was upset initially. It is a lot of money! But I’m not gonna blame them anymore, I’m gonna do something about this and come back even stronger. Website traffic is doing fine. I am seeing a gradual growth. There’s still something to celebrate. The only thing I need now is monetize more. How? I have a few ideas in mind and fortunately I have already started to implement some of them.

Regardless of the outcome, I’m gonna chiong for the entirety of 2019. If I am gonna eat Oatmeal and Breads every single day, so be it! I believe that God will provide! I am just gonna take all of these as a learning curve to grow. Not just financially but emotionally and spiritually too.

Things I am Grateful for Today

• Finally we’re starting on Fall 2019 collection – Published the First Fall Collection today
• March 2019 will be a brand new month with lots of changes – Update all the categories – Hopefully we can open up both Bag Reviews and Makeup Reviews in March
• Gonna practice guitar more in March because I will start serving my first guitar session in April

Journal

I went out every day last week, today I finally got the chance to stay at home. Sometimes, it is good to go out to meet friends – some people love to go out everyday to party and whatnot – for me, I love to rejuvenate by staying at home and be alone sometimes. That’s how I recharge my battery.

I like that there’s a balance of going-out and staying-home.

I’m glad I did more than expected today. I am happy with myself! Gonna work hard tomorrow again – it’s the final day of February 2019.

Tomorrow after I am done with my usual daily work, I’m gonna focus on updating the Runway/Collection articles. I wanna increase searchability for that category ASAP. After which, I’m gonna focus on updating Watch.

Things I am Grateful for Today

• Completed The Third Door book – what an inspiring book. I’m gonna bash down The Third Door to achieve what I want in business too.
• Finally hit the 2k/day visitors mark yesterday (25th February) for H&R Boutique. Next I will focus on increasing user-experience to increase pageviews and return visitors.
• In exchange for a full-time job, Marisse chose to stay with us. I am happy to have her on our team. She is a talented writer.

Journal

It is discouraging to compare myself with others. Many of my peers are earning the 5 to 7 digit figures but I am still struggling with the 4. Greed and temptations crawled into my mind whenever I am comparing myself with others. I thank God that the comparing didn’t last long and I will learn to trust in His time and providence for me.

Starting from March, I will focus on editing previously published pages/posts to increase userability for the site. I hope I could get Sneakers, Runways, Watches done by the end of March.

Tomorrow I will work on editing the Designer Brands to text rather than images. I realized that images are loading quite slowly on mobile devises.

Things I am Grateful for Today

• Going to meet haoxiang for a beer later. Haven’t seen him in such a long time
• Appreciate that Joshua is keeping me accountable for praying every day
• Alex wants me to organize soccer again! I’m happy to organize one in-house in March – Let’s do it!

Journal

January is a brand new start. February is the month of updating sneakers. March will be the month of ‘Categorizing’ to increase searchability on H&R boutique. That has been a far cry to improve user-experience by categorizing articles/reviews to the appropriate field. March is gonna be an exciting month!

Met How Siang and the talk was great! It was a nice catch up. I am happy that Wilson and Clement are doing extremely well. The first time we met, we were just newbies in the IM world. Today, all of us are doing at least decently well. Can’t wait to meet up with Clement and Wilson soon.

I am tempted to do the fast and easy way to make more money but I know it isn’t a long term strategy therefore I will reject the notion and instead focus on what God has given me. It is slow and steady! Exactly the kind I wanna work on.

Things I am Grateful for Today

• Mum made Lemongrass + Honey drink
• Dad prepared dinner! Very delicious dinner with family
• There are 2 very interesting matches tonight at 10pm – Gonna head over to bk’s house to watch with the monkeys

Journal

Thank God for family, for friends, Life Group, for business. Had an awesome lunch with LG with the company of pastor Daniel and his wife. A great fellowship we had!

Gonna drive over to bk’s house soon to watch soccer with the monkeys! I am quite tired but since the matches are gonna start early, I’ll go.

Made a lot of changes to H&R boutique. I honestly do NOT know what to expect but we’ll see. By June we should know if what I am doing is right. If it’s right, result will be exponential. If it’s isn’t, result will be gradual. Either way, I win.