So as I write this I am 38,000 feet in the air, flying via Korean Air, reflecting on my experience, and planning my next career and life moves. At the age of 26, I’ve accomplished a good number of things in my life. For one, I can say that I am now a Professional Basketball Player after one season in the Mongolian Sprite League, I have traveled out of the U.S. to 3 countries, Russia, Mongolia and South Korea. I have traveled through and explored the city of Seoul and rode on the beautiful waters of Incheon. I have gone to the Country side of Mongolia and ridden on a Mongolian horse. I met a lot of beautiful Mongolian women. I have eaten Mongolian food, got accustomed to a totally new culture, lived on my own in a country thousands of miles away from Jersey and learned key phrases in the Mongolian Language. Life could not be better, yet I still want more as I have not achieved the athletic and financial goals that I have set out for myself.
So what’s next?
Well, I have to first train with Pro Basketball Trainer Hasan Ahad (who played Pro Ball for 7 years in China) in North Carolina to take my game to the next level so I can stand head and shoulders above my Mongolian Competition. I have to reach out to agents to close my next deal after the Super League this year. Regarding to business, I have to get laser focused on my sharing more inspiring and impactful Basketball blog posts with you all and create an online basketball video program that will help take your game to the next level. And waking up at 5 am will give me the much needed tine and energy to accomplish this task in 2015. There are 5 more months left this year, 3 of which without in-season distraction and I have to push harder than I ever have before. And a thought just popped into my head; Neil Patel (Founder of Quick Sprout) was right – it is best, at least for me, to write early in the morning because I right now I am fresh, energized with tremendous will power and inspired to share my story and experiences to inspire others to live out their dreams. Staying on the topic of dreams, I had a conversation with a fellow Korean Air Transit Tour Member name Michelle from Austrailia. Michelle now lives and teaches in Malaysia. And I asked her what does her friends and family think of her traveling expedition and she said they think she’s a hero living vicariously through her. And I said someday they’ll be able to travel too to which she said “no they won’t. Most can’t afford it”. But I said with an online business or some type of business they will be able to. Anything is Possible. And she says “I guess’. So right then and there, I saw that she was a “realist pessimist” but that is why I do what I do. I want to inspire people and let them know that anything they want is possible. They just have to dream enough times, work toward that dream and before they know it they’re life’s purpose is being fulfilled right in front of their eyes.
While on the boat in South Korea, I recorded a simple video and promised myself that I would be super successful one day. It almost brought me to tears while on that boat, because here I was a kid who emigrated with his family from Kathmandu, Nepal at 19 months old and grew up in a 1 square mile town called Hoboken living out his dreams of playing Professional Basketball and traveling the world, relaxing on a beautiful boat out on the Incheon River in Incheon, South Korea. Yes, I had dreams of this moment but I did not in my wildest dreams think that I would be doing this at such a young age. I was thinking more like when I am about 40 or 50. So, as I took some long deep breaths out on that boat I was overwhelmed with emotion, gratitude, hunger, ambition, love, fascination and excitement of what is to come; as the saying goes, “To whom much is given much is expected.” So as some people say, I am and really feel like “The Chosen One”. You can trace my success back to when I was a little baby, surviving the tragedy of putting both of my hands in a burning fire in Nepal with 3rd degree burns, to surviving the burns of hot tea accidentally poured on my forehead, to beating a severe asthma attack and being placed at St. Mary’s Hospital for 1 week, to winning multiple MVP’s and being selected to All-Star teams from Age 9 and up, making it to the Regional HoopShoot foul shot contest in Red Bank, NJ, winning almost every academic award in Middle school, starting Varsity Basketball and Soccer at St. Peter’s Prep, to excelling in my leagues at Rutgers and in Philipino leagues, to starting a business, to being recruited to 2 Semi-Pro Teams, to playing Professional Basketball and to traveling to 3 countries in 2015. “To whom much is given much is expected”. But it wasn’t all me and I know that. It was God blessing me with such a loving and supportive family, amazing talents, skills and abilities to excel in athletics and life. So I have be given all the tools to become super successful. It is now up to me to build on my successes and reach my Summit and beyond to contribute to society and inspire possibility.
Also, looking at the plethora of Mongolian and Korean businesses I could not help but admire their work ethic and desire to help their families. It was inspiring to see as a rising professional athlete and struggling entrepreneur because they’ve been around for 10-20 years and are still going strong with a smile on their face. So if they can do it so can I. Watching these people work 14-16 hours a day reminded me of my parents who owned and worked at our Convenient store in Hoboken for 17 years. So I vowed to work just as hard if not harder to make my mark in the most incredible time in history with the age of instant communication, technological advancement, buyer spending at an all time high and with the great possibility of becoming a millionaire or living out your dream by age 30.
So that’s pretty much it for now. I wanted to just share with you my experiences, thoughts and improved viewpoints on what it possible. My mind and success thermometer has expanded and will never go back to it’s previous form. I am eternally grateful for everything I have been given, have achieved and will keep working on my dream and improving the world every day that I am on this Earth. Thank you for reading and I hope this post inspired you enough to go out and make your dreams come true.
